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St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell enters Missouri’s U.S. Senate race

1 year 10 months ago
Wesley Bell, who shocked the Missouri political establishment in 2018 by defeating a seven-term incumbent to become St. Louis County prosecutor, announced Wednesday he was running for U.S. Senate.  Bell, 48, served as a judge and public defender before being elected to the Ferguson City Council in 2015 — just months after a police officer shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown.  Three years later, he promised big changes after defeating the county prosecutor who had held the office since…
Jason Hancock

PGA Tour, LIV Golf agree to merge

1 year 10 months ago
A year after PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan called LIV Golf an “irrational threat” to the sport, the PGA Tour and LIV will be merging into a new for-profit entity. The merger comes after more than a year of tension between the Tour and the upstart backed by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund. The PGA Tour, based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, will appoint a majority of the board in the combined entity and hold a majority voting interest. The agreement brings together the commercial…
Timothy Gibbons

Virtual-first health plans: Faster, affordable care for your employees

1 year 10 months ago
Over the last several years, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri has been expanding access to care through telehealth, urging consumers to use this valuable tool as an entry point to care that is fast, easy and more affordable. In the early days of the pandemic, we worked with our care provider partners to rapidly meet the need for telehealth, which had become immediately necessary. As more of our care provider partners embraced the model of making virtual the first access point to care,…
Stephanie Vojicic

St. Louis County Council considers plans to repair, replace Lawrence K. Roos building

1 year 10 months ago
St. Louis County residents may need to vote on a new property tax in the upcoming election. It’s all to pay for a new St. Louis County administration building or the significant repairs to keep the current one. The St. Louis County Council just heard the latest round of proposals on Project Cornerstone to either repair or replace the Lawrence K. Roos County Government Building at 41 S. Central Ave. in downtown Clayton. “This L.K. Roos administration building, the police headquarters and the…
Laura Barczewski