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Boeing Acquires GKN Saving Hazelwood Factory and 550+ Jobs

1 year 2 months ago

This article originally ran in The St. Louis Post Dispatch on April 26, 2024. Boeing’s defense arm announced Friday it has reached a deal to buy a key supplier, saving a north St. Louis County factory that had threatened to wind down operations by the end of the year but which Boeing said was critical to the production of its […]

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Jasmine Thomas

Fair St. Louis Is Now Celebrate St. Louis — And They've Booked the Urge

1 year 2 months ago
July 4th fireworks will be back at the grounds of the Gateway Arch National Park this summer, and after a one-year hiatus, the music is back, too, with the Urge and other bands set to play throughout a day of celebration. But the day's festivities are no longer Fair St. Louis. This time, the news comes from Celebrate St. Louis, a new name for an old entity.
Sarah Fenske

Millions were booted from Medicaid. Insurers that run it gained Medicaid revenue anyway

1 year 2 months ago

Private Medicaid health plans lost millions of members in the past year as pandemic protections that prohibited states from dropping anyone from the government program expired. But despite Medicaid’s unwinding, as it’s known, at least two of the five largest publicly traded companies selling plans have continued to increase revenue from the program, according to […]

The post Millions were booted from Medicaid. Insurers that run it gained Medicaid revenue anyway appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Phil Galewitz

Missouri Legislature Aims to Loosen Child Labor Laws

1 year 2 months ago
A push to eliminate Missouri’s requirement for children under 16 to obtain official work permits before they can begin a job could be debated by the House this week.  In order to work in Missouri, 14 and 15 year olds must obtain a certificate issued by their school, with information from their prospective employer about the details of the job as well as parental consent and age verification. The child’s school, or if they are homeschooled, a parent, must review that information to ensure it’s in line with state laws that restrict the kind of work children can do and their hours.
Clara Bates

Discovery CEO Zaslav Gets A Big Fat Raise Despite Being Terrible At His Job

1 year 2 months ago
By now we’ve well established that this particular series of media mergers — which began with AT&T’s doomed acquisition of Time Warner and ended with Time Warner’s subsequent spin off and fusion with Discovery — were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived by man. The pointless saga burned through hundreds of billions in […]
Karl Bode