Republican efforts to change the rules for initiatives and administrative delays that force petitioners to go to court spurred former Gov. Jay Nixon to return to political action, he said Tuesday.
During an online town hall for the No Labels organization, Nixon referred repeatedly to legislation that would make it more difficult to gather signatures and pass voter initiatives as well as recent Missouri court cases.
Nixon, a Democrat who was governor from 2009 to 2017, last week was named ballot…
Downtown business leaders write that while there are plans underway to implement permanent traffic calming measures on city streets, it has all taken too long when simple measures like the installation of speed humps would make it less fun to joy ride.
Kathleen Ratcliffe, Steve O’Loughlin, Brian Marsh, Jacob Hopper and Theona Simbrat
The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report Wednesday on the Greyhound bus crash that left three people dead and 14 others injured in Madison County, Illinois.
According to the report, a bus carrying 21 people from Indianapolis to St. Louis on westbound Interstate 70 exited onto the ramp to the Silver Lake Rest Area in Highland, Illinois, and collided with three tractor-trailers parked on the right shoulder at about 1:50 a.m. on July 12.
The exit had a posted speed limit…
An Alton, Illinois, trial attorney and his wife in June put up for sale the historic Olin Mansion, a 32-acre property that overlooks the Mississippi and Illinois rivers, for $8.45 million.
The new hotel, a conversion of historic Downtown West building to contemporary art space, will open alongside two new restaurants and a swim club with membership open to the public.
Wells Fargo Advisors, the St. Louis-based brokerage unit of Wells Fargo & Co., continues to make leadership changes because of restructuring and retirements.
The quickly growing bakery and café chain — with its U.S. operations based in New Jersey — will open its first store in the St. Louis region next summer.
Copeland, the climate technologies business recently spun out of Ferguson-based Emerson Electric Co., has again added to its C-suite as it builds out operation as a standalone company.
Fiber broadband is spreading across the country like a rapidly expanding network of tree roots, passing under more communities every day.
Fiber providers reached 7.9 million additional homes in the U.S. in 2022 — the highest annual deployment ever, according to the Fiber Broadband Association’s most recent survey of providers. There are now 68 million fiber broadband passings in the U.S., 13% more than a year ago and 27% more than two years prior.
The association expects even higher levels…
The Serving Our Communities Foundation on Tuesday launched the Food City project to help create a more inclusive, sustainable food ecosystem in the St. Louis area, according to a news release. The project serves budding food entrepreneurs, farmers, food policy and direct service organizers, educational institutions, social enterprises and nonprofit initiatives.
Serving Our Communities is a foundation and social enterprise launched by the Marson family.
In 2020, the Marson family sold their company,…
SoutheastHEALTH, a health system based in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, has signed an agreement to become part of Chesterfield-based Mercy's health system, the organizations announced Tuesday.
The sale of the company's assets comes after the St. Louis County Circuit Court last year put the company in receivership, following a lawsuit brought by one of its investors.
The Maryland Heights-based brewer is looking for solutions to get through its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, with officials saying the “optimal solution” would be to sell the building and brewery collectively to the same buyer.
Demolition is continuing for a pair of office buildings at a prominent Downtown West corner, which will make way for a new $120 million development with two hotels.
Defender Pharmaceuticals said Monday it has entered into an exclusive license agreement with part of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command to develop and commercialize eight vaccines for tropical diseases.
In April, Quarles & Brady announced it had hired Sarah Sise as a partner in the Labor, Employment & Benefits Practice Group. Like Travis Kearbey, she previously was a partner at Armstrong Teasdale and is working remotely for Quarles from her St. Louis area residence.
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging an Iowa newspaper publisher violated customers’ privacy rights through information sharing with Facebook.
The Iowa-based newspaper chain Lee Enterprises (Nasdaq: LEE), owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is facing a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it has shared readers’ personal information, including the videos they watch on Lee websites, with Facebook in violation of federal law. Lee had sought to have the case dismissed,…
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