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T-Mobile Simply Lies When Pressed About 9,000 Lost Jobs In Wake Of Sprint Merger

TechDirt 🕸
2 years 6 months ago
Former T-Mobile CEO John Legere repeatedly promised in print that the Sprint merger would result in a massive surge in new jobs. In a rambling missive that took aim at critics of the deal who predicted job losses, the former potty-mouth CEO proclaimed that critics were lying, and that the deal would be “job positive from day one” and […]
Karl Bode

Governor appoints 3 new members, including St. Louisan, to University of Missouri System Board of Curators

BizJournal 💲📰
2 years 6 months ago
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson appointed three new members to the University of Missouri System Board of Curators on Monday. Robert Blitz, Robert Fry and Jeanne Sinquefield must be confirmed by the state Senate before joining the board, which meets Thursday. They are not included in a list of nominations to be considered by the Senate’s Gubernatorial Appointments committee, which is scheduled to meet Wednesday morning. Ahead of these appointments, the board had two open seats and three curators serving…
Katie Gallaway

Missouri Senate committee triples funding for widening I-70 across the state

MoInd 📰
2 years 6 months ago

The proposed Missouri state budget grew by more than $2 billion Tuesday as the Senate Appropriations Committee dipped into the massive state surplus to widen Interstate 70 from Wentzville to Blue Springs. The committee also added hundreds of millions for other programs to the spending plan passed late last month by the Missouri House, either […]

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Rudi Keller

One state already has voted to ban TikTok. For Congress, it’s going to be much tougher

MoInd 📰
2 years 6 months ago

As TikTok has mushroomed to more than 150 million monthly U.S. users, so have warnings among both state legislators and members of Congress about its potential danger as a tool of the Chinese government. Dozens of states and the federal government this year banned public employees from downloading the popular app on their government devices. […]

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Jacob Fischler

Missouri’s initiative petition process is at risk

MoInd 📰
2 years 6 months ago

The initiative petition process, used by Missourians to independently check special interests and bring issues to the voters for 115 years, is under attack by our Missouri Legislature. The supermajority in the legislature, with no counterbalancing weight within their chambers, is leading the charge to undermine the initiative petition process. To carry out their scheme, politicians and lobbyists are […]

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Julie Allen

Labor exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children probed at U.S. House hearing

MoInd 📰
2 years 6 months ago

WASHINGTON — U.S. House members in a hearing on Tuesday questioned the head of a federal agency in charge of unaccompanied migrant children about multiple reports of their exploitation as workers in U.S. meatpacking plants and elsewhere. Republicans and Democrats on the House Oversight & Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs agreed that […]

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Ariana Figueroa