As BioSTL’s director of workforce strategy, Justin Raymundo is exactly where he wants to be.
Since joining BioSTL in 2021, Raymundo has led the innovation hub’s strategic efforts around developing and retaining bioscience talent locally.
Raymundo began his career at Monsanto, where he held roles focused on corporate responsibility and international partnerships. He began his tenure at the agriculture giant as an intern while studying at Webster University. Before joining BioSTL, Raymundo…
A man was assaulted downtown Tuesday afternoon, and fired a shot from his gun, as he and a woman were walking near the 700 block of Market Street, police said.
Chesterfield-based homebuilder McBride Homes and others have agreed to a $16.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit that alleged McBride executives acquired significant parts of the company without notifying or compensating its employee-owners.
CHICAGO — Governor Pritzker today urged President Joe Biden and the federal government to ensure that Illinois receives federal funding that reflects its growth of 250,000 residents, lifting the state’s population to more than 13 million for the first time in its history. Illinois’s population was undercounted by roughly 2% in the 2020 census. The adjusted Census results show an increase in Illinois’ population as people move to the state in pursuit of expanded economic and employment opportunities. “Illinois is growing, and our federal funding should reflect that reality,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “Nearly 250,000 Illinoisans—the majority of whom are from historically disenfranchised and underserved communities—were not represented in the Census results. That’s why I have urged President Biden and the federal government to ensure that the local communities of Illinois receive the federal dollars they are entitled to—and
ST. LOUIS - Nearly half of small businesses in the St. Louis metropolitan area and the state of Missouri have had trouble recently trying to hire new employees, according to a new study from HelpAdvisor.com.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a bipartisan letter to President Joe Biden, both of Illinois’ U.S. Senators - Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) - joined several other senators from across the country and political aisle to ask Biden to expedite the addition of Sweden and Finland into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Sweden and Finland recently announced their intent to join NATO, according to the senators’ letter. The senators wrote that the addition of Sweden and Finland into the alliance would send a “clear message” to enemies of NATO, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. “As Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has proven, NATO, along with our democratic partners around the world, is more united than ever in opposition to the illegal acts of war waged by President Putin,” the senators wrote in the letter. “Expanding NATO to include Finland and Sweden will send a clear message to Vladimir Putin, and any
A $73 million apartment building would be constructed at a Forest Park Southeast site previously granted a property tax abatement for office and retail, if officials approve.
Former Blue Öyster Cult bassist Joe Bouchard has released a second advance track from his forthcoming solo album, American Rocker, a melodic rock tune called "In the Golden Age" that…
First responders and volunteer searchers gathered Tuesday at Glencoe City Park off Highway 109 in Wildwood, and just down the road from the Al Foster Memorial Trailhead. They were there to search for Carol Schulte, who St. Louis County police say went for a hike Monday morning and never returned.
St. Louis-based Fulfill Food & Beverages recently notched $1 million in annual sales — largely due to the popularity of its Karviva (formerly Karuna) prebiotic smoothie and juice beverages. Founder and CEO Angela Zeng talks about the company and her entrepreneurial journey.
Phone records show Sheena Greitens didn’t talk to Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell “or any person working for these men” in the weeks before she made explosive allegations of child and spousal abuse against Eric Greitens, her attorney said Tuesday. Sheena Greitens’ call logs and text messages for the period Feb. 1 through March 22 were […]
The problems with copyright have been a subject of coverage here at Techdirt since the beginning, and for most of that time it has been largely a non-partisan subject. At the moment, however, that isn’t so much the case thanks to Josh Hawley’s war with Disney, which has created a situation where some copyright reform […]
FiveThirtyEight recently asked a panel of 2,000 Americans what issues worried them the most. The answer was inflation, which is pretty predictable these days. But I'm more interested in how much Republicans and Democrats disagree about things. In the case of inflation, 42% of Democrats thought it was a top worry while 65% of Republicans ...continue reading "What do Americans disagree about the most?"
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