Kimberly Beck has had an impressive career in social services in the St. Louis area for nearly 25 years. Beck, a licensed professional counselor, is currently the executive director of The Salvation Army Midtown Service and Treatment Center, where she has helped raise $2.5 million in grants and donations.
The St. Louis Business Journal has extended the nomination deadline for its annual 40 Under 40 Awards, which celebrate young professionals making a difference in the St. Louis region.
The new nomination deadline is Friday, Aug. 12, and you can submit your nomination here.
In November, the Business Journal will introduce a new class of 40 young professionals who are making their mark on the St. Louis business scene. To be eligible for the 2022 program, a candidate must be under 40 years of age…
Gov. J.B. Pritzker, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and other officials announced $21 million in funding for the city of Cahokia Heights.
The $21 million in funding will go towards supporting and improving infrastructure projects within the area of Cahokia Heights.
The funding includes $9.9 million going towards investment in the rehabilitation or replacement of many lift stations, sewer line repair, and slip lining for the city's main trunk line.
These repairs will help with sewer…
The former assistant police chief wrote to a federal judge on behalf of John Collins-Muhammad, one of three city officials indicted by the feds in June on corruption charges.
The 170,000-square-foot expansion will allow a larger production of grab-and-go snacking and breakfast items, the company said. The first of seven new production lines is expected to begin operations this fall.
The St. Louis Sports Commission's longtime president, Frank Viverito, will retire at year’s end, with his successor to come from within the nonprofit organization.
A union previously rejected a proposal in which Boeing would have made a 2% contribution to employees' 401(k) plans, plus a 100% match on the first 10% of an employee's contribution. Here's what changed, and what was ultimately agreed.
Impossible Sensing, a St. Louis-based startup developing sensing technology to explore space and the ocean, has named a new CEO and recently relocated to a larger local headquarters.
A San Francisco-based startup that provides technology to help companies and organizations use artificial intelligence has opened a new office in Downtown West that will house 215 employees, a figure expected to more than double in coming years.
Mary Elizabeth Coleman, currently a Missouri state representative in the 97th District, bested Jeff Roorda and two other challengers in the race to be the Republican candidate for Missouri state Senate's 22nd District, which lies entirely in Jefferson County.
Coleman is running for the seat being vacated by incumbent Paul Wieland, a term-limited Republican not running for reelection.
Coleman took 35% of the vote to Roorda's 24%. Roorda, most recently business manager for the St. Louis Police Officers…
St. Louis voters passed a pair of propositions Tuesday to increase funding for public schools and increase the fines for people caught illegally dumping.
Proposition S and Proposition F both passed in the city of St. Louis with more than 80% of the vote Tuesday.
Prop S
Proposition S would allow the St. Louis Board of Education to borrow $160 million to fund a wide range of repairs and renovations in the Saint Louis Public School District, including security system upgrades, lead removal and ADA…
Benson Hill (NYSE: BHIL) has inked a deal to source cooking oil for grocery chain Schnuck Markets, as the Creve Cover-based food technology firm seeks to expand commercialization of its newly created soybean-based cooking oil brand.
Incumbent Sam Page beat back a challenge from attorney Jane Dueker in the Democratic primary for the office of St. Louis County executive, putting him a step closer to a full four-year term.
Page won 63% of the vote, with Dueker taking 36%, according to St. Louis County results.
In the Republican primary for the office, Katherine Pinner won a major upset over state Rep. Shamed Dogan. Pinner will face Page in the Nov. 8 general election.
Page, county executive since 2019, made his reelection race…
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-St. Louis, on Tuesday defeated primary challenger Steve Roberts, virtually ensuring her reelection this November in the heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District.
Bush got 69% of the vote. Roberts had 26%.
Roberts, a moderate challenger, had appealed to voters by claiming that Bush's controversial votes — against the federal infrastructure bill and defense spending, for example — had cost the district. Bush countered that she brought $1 billion in federal relief…
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt took the Republican U.S. Senate primary Tuesday, in a bid to fill the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Roy Blunt. Trudy-Busch Valentine, meanwhile, won the Democratic primary.
The massive project would rank with the new $1.7 billion National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency campus as one of the largest-ever federal infrastructure investments in the St. Louis region.
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