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The deals expand the Creve Coeur-based packaging company's position in the beverage packaging market, deepens its position in the aluminum can sector and grows its Canadian footprint, officials said.

If you're feeling a little spicy and need something new to watch this week, Steve’s Hot Dogs (3145 S Grand Boulevard, 314-932-5953) will be featured this week on the Cooking Channel’s Food Paradise.

The episode premieres at 9 p.m. and will then stream on Discovery Channel, Food Network and the Travel Channel. Titled “Feeling Hot Hot Hot!” the episode “will focus on two of Steve's recipes and the restaurant-to-restaurant collaborations that have made Steve's a local icon,” according to a press release.…

Emily Hernandez pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of entering or remaining in a restricted building.

In June of 2020, Mike Shadwick and Meredith Gibbons-Shadwick took a leap of faith and opened Honey Bee's Biscuits + Good Eats (www.honeybeesbg.com) as a food stall in the Kirkwood Farmers' Market. Now, less than two years later, the pair are getting ready to put down roots not far from where it all began.…

The site at the North County Recreation Complex will expand testing capacity by 1,000 tests per week.

Funding, not legal authority, has been the real issue preventing a stronger response from City Hall when owners fail to maintain historic properties.

Investigators looking for a cause are leaning toward accidental, police say.

Gov. Mike Parson wants lawmakers to act by Feb. 1.

This story was originally published by the Missouri Independent.


Amending Missouri’s open records law to permit government agencies to withhold more information from the public — and charge more for any records that are turned over — is among Gov. Mike Parson’s priorities for the 2022 legislative session.

Among the changes, which were outlined in a presentation to Parson’s cabinet that was obtained by The Independent through an open records request, is a proposal to allow government agencies to charge fees for the time attorneys spend reviewing records requested by the public.

Such a change would reverse a recent Missouri Supreme Court ruling against Parson’s office that found attorney review time was not “research time” under the Sunshine Law and thus could not be charged.

The presentation, which was prepared for a Nov. 10 meeting of Parson’s cabinet, included slides on the legislative goals of Parson, who was referred to as “G57.”

The slide on proposed Sunshine Law changes dubbed the proposals as “Good Government” reforms and described the changes as ones that would “benefit political subdivisions, the legislature and state government.”

But transparency advocates say the changes would diminish the public’s ability to hold public institutions accountable.

“If they succeed in accomplishing this wish list of changes, it will make it incredibly difficult and expensive for Missourians to get access to information about what their government is doing,” said Dave Roland, director of litigation for the Freedom Center of Missouri, a libertarian nonprofit that advocates for government transparency.

Kelli Jones, spokeswoman for the governor, did not respond to a request for comment.

‘Important to him’

A handful of bills have already been filed for consideration during the 2022 legislative session that touch on various changes outlined in Parson’s cabinet presentation.

State Rep. Bruce DeGroot, R-Ellisville, once again filed legislation that aims to shield constituents’ email addresses and telephone numbers from public disclosure if they were submitted for the sole purpose of receiving newsletters or other alerts.

The bill, which was passed by both the Senate and House last year, was ultimately vetoed by Parson, in part, due to a subsequent court ruling related to the Sunshine Law and provisions related to the Office of Child Advocate’s authority that were added later in the session.

This year’s bill includes many previously proposed provisions, but it also includes new measures that DeGroot said were proposed by Parson’s office over the summer.

“I really liked the House version last year,” DeGroot said, “and then the governor came to me, and obviously, this was something that was important to him.”

DeGroot said it’s not his intent to have information hidden from the public. He hopes the bill will lead to a conversation on finding a “happy medium” between information being made accessible without overburdening government agencies.

“We have to have good investigative reporting going on on government, and that’s healthy, in my opinion,” DeGroot said.…

(AP) — St. Louis-based Centene Corp. has reached a $21.1 million settlement with New Hampshire over the inaccurate reporting of pharmacy benefit services cost, that state’s attorney general said Friday. …

Mississippi Nights was a St. Louis nightclub that featured live music. It was open from 1979 to 2007. Mississippi Nights stood at 914 1st Street, on Laclede’s Landing. Originally a country venue, it is primarily remembered as a rock club,

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More Covid-19 testing will be available in St. Louis and St. Louis County beginning Monday. On Sunday, the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, in coalition with the city of St. Louis' Department of Health and other public health entities, announced they would start appointment-based testing from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday at 1408 N. Kingshighway Blvd. The drive-thru originally was scheduled to start Monday but officials told KSDK they needed more time for “planning purposes.” “Covid-19…