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Missouri’s Andrew Bailey was reportedly a finalist to be Donald Trump’s US attorney general

5 months 1 week ago
For a few hours on Wednesday, Republican Andrew Bailey was considered among the frontrunners to be nominated as President-elect Donald Trump’s next U.S. attorney general. Just a week after winning his first full term as Missouri attorney general, Bailey reportedly spent time with Trump at Mar-a-Lago interviewing for the job, according to numerous sources close to the attorney general and multiple media reports. But by Wednesday afternoon, Trump made his choice official, and it wasn’t Bailey.…
Jason Hancock

Schnucks amending big change it made to all self-checkouts

5 months 1 week ago
Just nine months after Schnuck Markets instituted a controversial new policy across each of its stores, the St. Louis-area grocer appears to have lightly loosened the policy. Shoppers who visited Schnucks over the past week may have noticed a change to the signs surrounding the stores' self-checkout areas. Multiple people in the St. Louis subreddit posted pictures of the signs that once warned customers that they could only self-checkout 10 items or less changed to 15 items or less, some with a…
Hunter Bassler

Filming of 'Spaghetti Wars' on The Hill takes advantage of Missouri's remaining film tax credits

5 months 1 week ago
If you walked past one of The Hill's beloved delis Tuesday, it may have looked a little different. It's being transformed into part of the set for "Spaghetti Wars," a new food competition TV series being filmed in the neighborhood. Local showrunners are taking advantage of Missouri's tax incentive to make their dream production in their backyard. Showrunner and director Tim Breitbach moved to Southampton 18 years ago from California, bringing his entertainment work closer to home. "We love…
Annie Krall

Appeals court rules counties cannot stack Missouri marijuana taxes

5 months 1 week ago
A panel of Missouri appellate judges ruled Tuesday that the constitution’s “plain, unambiguous” language means cities and counties cannot stack marijuana sales taxes. The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District’s decision reversed a lower court’s ruling in May that allowed both Florissant and St. Louis County to impose a 3% sales tax on marijuana products. That resulted in customers at the Florissant-based dispensary Robust Missouri 3 LLC paying a total sales tax of 20.988% — a 14.988%…
Rebecca Rivas and Rudi Keller

GOP lawmaker cites abortion comments in push to replace incoming Missouri House speaker

5 months 1 week ago
In the days before Missourians voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution, incoming House Speaker Jon Patterson declared lawmakers should respect the people’s choice, whatever the outcome. Now, with abortion set to become legal in Missouri, Republican Rep. Justin Sparks of Wildwood is mounting a long-shot challenge seeking to block Patterson from the top leadership position in the Missouri House, arguing that he is not up for the job of defending anti-abortion values. “On…
Anna Spoerre

Missouri’s $1.4B cannabis market outpaces states with older programs

5 months 2 weeks ago
In less than two years of selling legal recreational weed, Missouri’s cannabis market has grown to $1.4 billion — outperforming states with a longer history of marijuana legalization like Arizona, Colorado and Nevada. “Those are mature marketplaces, and you are surpassing them,” said Laurie Parfitt, CEO at LKP Impact Consulting. “Missouri is doing amazing things, and we expect tremendous growth in this market going forward.” Parfitt gave a year’s overview of Missouri’s cannabis…
Rebecca Rivas