This article originally ran in St. Louis Business Journal on May 28, 2024. An industrial gas supplier is planning a $70 million expansion in St. Louis, a move it says will add more than 30 jobs. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. will invest more than $70 million to expand its manufacturing and logistics center in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Growing product […]
This article originally ran in St. Louis Business Journal on May 28, 2024. An industrial gas supplier is planning a $70 million expansion in St. Louis, a move it says will add more than 30 jobs. Air Products and Chemicals Inc. will invest more than $70 million to expand its manufacturing and logistics center in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Growing product […]
This is a bit of a hyperlocal story, but the LA Times today writes about the horror of flying in and out of LAX: Alexa Woodward arrived in California for the first time and was immediately lost. Outside Los Angeles International Airport, she and a friend tried unsuccessfully to order an Uber. The hum of ...continue reading "Come on, LAX isn’t all that bad"
While artists like Billy Joel, Michael Jackson and Tina Turner have had Broadway musicals written around their songs, it doesn’t sound like you’ll ever see one featuring the Bon Jovi…
While “AI” (language learning models) certainly could help journalism, the fail upward brunchlords in charge of most modern media outlets instead see the technology as a way to cut corners, undermine labor, and badly automate low-quality, ultra-low effort, SEO-chasing clickbait. As a result we’ve seen an endless number of scandals where companies use LLMs to […]
Color is everywhere and, with the innovative Nix Mini 2, you can now capture and recreate it anywhere you go. This compact, portable, and highly sophisticated device is designed for those who find color inspiration in everyday life. Now, you can harness the power of technology to bring color into your creative, professional, or personal […]
The U.S. Department of Justice and the owner of a Festus pain management clinic reached a civil settlement Tuesday over allegations the owner submitted doctored claims to Medicare and Missouri Medicaid.
The proposal, which would require voter approval, would require operators of Airbnbs, VRBOs, and similar rentals to pay $1.50 per rented room per night.
County Council Chair Shalonda Webb wanted County Executive Sam Page to testify at a hearing over long-delayed federal pandemic relief money owed to St. Louis County nonprofits. No one showed.
Inflation all but disappeared in May according to the latest figures from the BLS: Headline inflation dropped to 0.07%—zero for all practical purposes—and core inflation dropped to 2.0%. Inflation in services also dropped, coming in at a very respectable 2.4%. That's good news since services inflation has been stubbornly high. On a conventional year-over-year basis, ...continue reading "Inflation rate drops to nearly zero in May"
Transplant organizations say a 98-year-old man may be the oldest American to ever donate an organ. Orville Allen lived a lifetime of service as a World War II and Korean war veteran and a longtime educator in rural Missouri.