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Benson Hill, a Creve Coeur-based ag tech firm, announced Friday that co-founder Matt Crisp "has agreed to resign" as CEO, effective immediately.

The BLS released its estimate of total worker compensation for Q1 today. This includes both wages and benefits. Here's where pay is highest and lowest: The nationwide average for private industry workers is $41 per hour. It's significantly higher for public workers ($58), union workers ($54), and big companies ($59). Adjusted for inflation, total compensation ...continue reading "Total worker comp in Q1 is highest in San Francisco, lowest in Miami"

Kansas’ largest electric utility – also a major supplier in western Missouri – has drastically scaled back its plans to add more clean energy over the next decade and will keep open its oldest coal plant for years longer. Two years ago, Evergy announced plans to retire the Lawrence Energy Center by the end of […]

The post Evergy slashes planned renewable energy additions, proposes more natural gas appeared first on Missouri Independent.

It’s renewal time again, and this time the snooper squad is facing unprecedented push back. Sure, a lot of it is politically motivated, what with the post-Trumpians still getting high on their own “deep state” supply. Even as opportunistic as they are, they still have a point: some of their own have been subjected to […]

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Soul sensation Brian Owens will play a special St. Louis show, “Duets with Dad,” at the Touhill Performing Arts Center (1 Touhill Circle) on Father’s Day at 6 p.m.  In 2013, Owens and his father, Thomas Owens, released a smash-hit cover of Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come,” which garnered nearly 100 million views on YouTube.

One (1) winner will receive a family-four-pack (4) of tickets to see 'Beauty and the Beast' at the Muny in Forest Park.

Stephen Pearcy, lead singer of Ratt, talked to Favazz about playing the KSHE Pig Roast in 2010, the forthcoming Ratt box set, his upcoming show in STL, and more!

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Fleetwood Mac’s classic tune “Don’t Stop” is featured in a new short film for Greenpeace, which was executive produced by 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen. Variety reports the song’s writer, the late Fleetwood Mac…

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To boost low levels of literacy in St. Louis, six summer camp organizations will be adding an hour of literacy activities each day

"Everyone that has gotten on board is enthusiastic, they're eager to get to work and get back on track," Gabe Gore said.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis (BGCSTL) recently celebrated its annual Recognition Ceremony at Edward Jones Headquarters.

Pretenders have released the second single off their upcoming album, Relentless.  The latest is the album’s closing track, “I Think About You Daily,” which features Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, who provided the string arrangement and…

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ALTON - On Thursday, June 15, the Old Bakery Beer Company hosted the second Proud Market to showcase work by local LGBTQ+ and ally artisans. The event also served as a fundraiser for Alton Pride and the Metro Trans Umbrella Group, two local LGBTQ+ organizations. “It’s a lot about just being supportive of the people who are around us, our friends and our family members and team members and other people in our community who, especially in recent years, have been threatened and attacked,” Lauren Pattan, vice president and operations manager of The Old Bakery Beer Company, said. A variety of vendors were in attendance. Candles, earrings, paintings, pottery and clothing were popular sales items. Charlie Witzel, who owns CBJeeBees , was at the Proud Market selling hand-painted patches. Witzel noted that they were originally anxious about coming to the event because they hesitate to leave St. Louis and go to smaller towns in the current political climate.

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Steve Huffman, the CEO of Reddit, has decided to just keep on talking. After his disastrous AMA helped inspire more subreddits to join a 48 hour blackout, and his dismissal of the protesting subreddits as something not worth paying attention to resulted in many subreddits extending their protests indefinitely, Huffman apparently thought it would make […]

What’s the difference between building clean energy and paying for it to be built? With billions in tax breaks at stake, the distinction is becoming more important to parse.