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Missouri state treasurer removes ads on unregulated slot machines after grilling by lawmakers

2 years 4 months ago

State Treasurer Vivek Malek endured a bipartisan beatdown Tuesday as members of a House subcommittee spent two hours telling him it was a big mistake to put decals advertising the Unclaimed Property program on unregulated gambling machines. A few hours later, Malek gave in to demands from members of the House Subcommittee on Appropriations – […]

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Rudi Keller

Can Offsite Construction Technology Boost the Industry’s Productivity?

2 years 4 months ago
From Bluebeam:  Facing a myriad of pressures ranging from poor productivity to spiraling costs, the construction sector has in recent years been urged to embrace more modern methods of construction to deliver at pace new homes, commercial space, amenities and infrastructure. Among a series of recommendations in his groundbreaking 2016 report, “Modernise Or Die: Time […]
Kacey Crawley

Belle-Clair Fairgrounds Renovation to Start Soon

2 years 4 months ago
From Herald Publications:  Visible signs of a major renovation project upgrading Belle-Clair Fairgrounds in Belleville should be seen in the next few weeks as, if all goes as planned, the first step regarding preliminary work on the installation of a new roof on the Exposition Building at this location is expected to start sometime in […]
Kacey Crawley

Chocolate Production Facility on The Hill to Expand, Add Chocolate Café

2 years 4 months ago
From St. Louis Business Journal:  The owners of a chocolate factory on The Hill will expand their existing production space and open a chocolate café, after earlier this month acquiring a nearby building. The Abel family, owners of Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate Co. and Bissinger’s Handcrafted Chocolatier, around the end of 2022 began realizing that space […]
Kacey Crawley

90,000 Missouri kids are eligible for food aid they haven’t claimed that’s about to expire

2 years 4 months ago

Missouri families who haven’t claimed food benefits in a program launched during the height of the pandemic could lose out in the coming weeks unless they act quickly. Federal pandemic-era summer food benefits, referred to as P-EBT, were designed to help cover costs in summer 2022 but did not begin being disbursed in Missouri until […]

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Clara Bates

No One Cares That Bill Ackman’s Wife May Have Plagiarized; They Care About Ackman’s Hypocritical Double Standard

2 years 4 months ago
Earlier this year, we wrote about outspoken financier Bill Ackman’s threat to sue Business Insider over articles regarding accusations by the publication that Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman, had plagiarized parts of her dissertation years ago. The timeline and context of what happened here is important because Ackman continues to ignore it. Ackman got upset about […]
Mike Masnick