Several state lawmakers this year have filed legislation that excludes groceries from state and local sales tax. But municipalities say the tax is an important revenue source for vital services.
ST. LOUIS -- Firefighters responded to reports of a fire at just before 2:30 a.m. at the Anheuser Busch Brewery in Soulard. Ameren crews were also on the scene. Firefighters were able to put it out. No word on any injuries or the cause of that fire.
ST. LOUIS -- The 126-year-old St. Augustine Church, located in North St. Louis, is slated for demolition following a string of fires, with the latest occurring just last Monday. This marks the third fire at the former Catholic church within a span of two years. The cause behind this recent blaze remains unclear. St. Louis [...]
Ben Poremba’s Bengelina Hospitality Group opened a second location of AO&Co. at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) at 3750 Washington Boulevard in Grand Center in early March. The new AO&Co. serves coffees from Quarrelsome Coffee, loose leaf teas from Firepot Tea, and a menu of salads and sandwiches featuring items from Poremba’s other restaurants, including Olio and Deli Divine. Poremba says the idea to bring AO&Co. to CAM came about partly thanks to his business partners’ long-term involvement with the museum.
Playwright Arthur Miller is considered one of the 20th century’s great American dramatists, and the pointed and heartbreaking All My Sons is arguably his most profound work. Set just after the end of World War II, the drama examines culpability and the true cost of war while raising questions about our collective responsibility to each other. The New Jewish Theatre’s riveting production captures all the tension and searing pain of the story with a naturalistic approach that finds understated grace in an untenable truth.
Earlier this year, a nonprofit research center determined that in just the past six years, the tax breaks given to developers have cost St. Louis city and county public schools more than $260 million. While the tax increment financing, or TIF, districts granted by the city have become less common in recent years, many developers have shifted to tax abatements instead. NorthPoint Development, a Kansas City-based commercial real estate developer, recently applied to the St. Louis Development Corporation for tax abatement on a property halfway between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and the Grove district.
ST. LOUIS -- The steady light to moderate rain has come to an end for the St. Louis region, leaving behind one to two inches of welcomed rainfall. An isolated spot shower can’t be ruled out through sunrise Tuesday morning. Clouds will linger through the day. It will be breezy and cool, with temperatures hanging [...]
Beauty school has made its way to incarcerated women at the St. Louis County Justice Center. The aim is to address recidivism with hot tools and clippers.
A container ship lost power and rammed into a major bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday, causing the span to buckle into the river below and plunging a construction crew and several vehicles into the dangerously cold waters.
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