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Dana Brodeur, disability resource consultant at Mercy, has spent the past 25 years fighting for the inclusion of people with disabilities at Mercy and has implemented numerous programs to do so.

"Despite my best efforts and probably a year and a half of networking, I couldn’t get anybody to hire me into this industry," said Kirk McDonald, portfolio manager and senior research analyst, quantitative for Clayton-based Argent Capital Management.

Senior human resources manager Bonike Akinsanya has made it her passion to advance diversity, equity and inclusion in the design profession —initiating the hiring of a dedicated diversity, equity and inclusion officer and establishing workplace support groups for women, minorities and LGBTQ+ staff at the St. Louis-based architecture firm.

Statistics don’t have faces.   While statistics about the number of homeless veterans in the United States are staggering, they do not show the people

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EDWARDSVILLE — It’s official, Madison County‘s Plum Street property is sold. “In real estate, it’s never sold until it’s closed,” Chairman Kurt Prenzler said. “The sale isn’t official until the deed is conveyed On Tuesday, Prenzler signed the closing paperwork on the nearly 14 acres at Madison County Title Company. In February, The Staenberg Group, a multi-state development company with offices in St. Louis and Denver – offered $3.86 million for the county-owned property at the intersection of Illinois 159 and Governor’s Parkway. The company was the sole bidder on the land the county put up for sale in January. The county board approved the sale in March. The company paid the property’s appraised value. The company is also developing the nearby Orchard Town Center in Glen Carbon. Prenzler said the county wanted to sell the site so it did not have to maintain it, and to eliminate the county’s liability.

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ST. LOUIS - A video of a home in Lake St. Louis continues to go viral across the area even after it was posted in April of 2021. The video posted to TikTok on April 14, 2021 by KBuild takes viewers through the building process of the five-bedroom home in just 37 seconds. It has [...]

The conditions that led to a shortage of baby formula were set in motion long before the February 2022 closure of the Similac factory tipped the U.S. into a crisis.

Jason Brandl is human resources director at CBD Kratom, among the largest privately owned cannabis and kratom retail chains in the U.S., where he's put a focus on diversity and work-life balance.

Deven Strauther was shot while trying to rob the former Robinson Jewelry store in St. Louis in 2019.

Mary Nguyen and Kristin Liu follow in mother's footsteps with the Kitchen, serving fine Chinese and Vietnamese fare.

Gridlock in the Missouri Senate doomed issues that the GOP should have used its supermajority to accomplish, Gov. Mike Parson said Wednesday, pointing specifically at legislation targeting transgender students and banning critical race theory in schools. In an interview with KFTKs Mark Reardon, Parson lamented that the legislature spent so much time and effort this […]

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The $500 million proposal was approved by lawmakers after they approved a state budget with more than a $1 billion surplus

Amateurs and fromagers alike can say cheese this weekend at the first annual Missouri Artisan Cheese Festival. Hosted by the McKelvey Vineyards (8901 State Highway YY, 573-459-6123), the weekend festivities will include a “cave to table dinner” on Friday, May 20, at 6:30 p.m.; a market featuring Missouri cheesemakers on Saturday, May 21, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and a laid-back grilled cheese and live music event on Sunday, May 22, from 2 to 5 p.m. The festival will include over 50 varieties of cheese from Missouri cheesemakers as well as the artisans themselves to educate diners and attendees.

THE CONVERSATION - The conditions that led to a shortage of baby formula were set in motion long before the February 2022 closure of the Similac factory tipped the U.S. into a crisis . Retailers nationwide reported supplies of baby formula were out of stock at a rate of 43% during the week ended May 8, 2022, compared with less than 5% in the first half of 2021. In some states, such as Texas and Tennessee , shortages were over 50%, which has prompted parents to travel long distances and pay exorbitant sums of money to grab dwindling supplies of formula for their babies. News that the Food and Drug Administration and Similac-maker Abbott have reached a deal to reopen the formula factory in Sturgis, Michigan, is welcome news for desperate parents, but it will do little to alleviate the shortage anytime soon. This is in no small part because of the very nature of America’s baby formula industry. I research and teach supply chain management , with a special focus on

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Deb Ayres, senior vice president of human resources at Lindenwood University, led faculty and staff leaders in an analysis of performance standards which, once set, were incorporated into each job description. Through collecting and analyzing data, self-evaluation scores, and performance feedback, leaders were better able to utilize the talents on their teams.

Some of the best inventions come from trying to fill a specific need. That’s true for Andrea Lampert, vice president of people at Perficient Inc., who wasted no time expanding the number of women and people of color in the global digital consultancy firm.