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ANTI-GRAIN BELT LEGISLATION COULD COME BEFORE MISSOURI Legislation that would effectively kill the proposed Grain Belt Express transmission line could come up on the floor of the Missouri Senate in the waning days of the legislative session — even though the Senate’s own version of the bill is stuck in committee.. Grain Belt, a high-voltage transmission line proposed by Chicago-based Invenergy, would carry 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy THREE MISSOURI COMPANIES MAKE LIST OF TOP 100 US Three Missouri companies are among the 100 best companies to work for in 2021, according to Fortune. Edward Jones, Veterans United Home Loans and World Wide Technology all made the magazine’s annual list.. The Great Place to Work Institute evaluated workplace environments by sending out confidential surveys to employees and assessing companies’ reactions to the challenges GAS TAX INCREASE ON ITS WAY TO GOVERNOR AFTER CLEARING The tax, if Gov. Mike Parson signs the bill, would take effect in five steps of 2.5 cents each starting Oct. 1. When fully implemented on July 1, 2025, the gas tax would be 29.9 cents a gallon and would add $337.5 million annually to the state road fund and $125 million for city and county governments to spend on local roads. MISSOURI MINUTE: ST. LOUIS COUNTY EVICTION BAN ENDS Hello, MBA readers, The end of an eviction moratorium in St. Louis County could create uncertainty for thousands of households in the area. A local group has identified about 7,000 households at risk of eviction as the local moratorium is lifted Monday. Although a federal ban on evictions was exten ‘WE JUST KEPT ROLLING’: EQUIPMENTSHARE EMPLOYEES’ EFFORT EquipmentShare chef Craig Hindelang and coworker Matt Bade noticed that many kids didn’t have lunch when the pandemic shut down in-person classes. So they decided to do something about it. They approached EquipmentShare's leadership about gathering funds to LESSON LEARNED: ‘I SEE EVEN MORE CLEARLY THE VALUE OF Lesson Learned: ‘I see even more clearly the value of mentorship’. Adrienne Stolwyk owns Monarch Architecture in Columbia. Her story, part of our Lesson Learned series, has been edited for length and clarity. I had been working at commercial architecture firms, pretty happily, for about the last 12 years. Throughout that time, I always

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MISSOURI MINUTE: STATE SEEKS LEGAL HELP OVER MEDICAL Good morning, MBA readers, The wait is finally over for nearly 1,200 applicants hoping to sell marijuana in Missouri. The agency in charge of the state's medical marijuana program has released its list of who gets to run a dispensary and who doesn’t. The list also includes the

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MISSOURI FACES TEACHER SHORTAGE AS WAGES, DEMANDS DRIVE Missouri faces teacher shortage as wages, demands drive educators away. Leigh Ann Zerr enjoys her work running an online business — she says the flexibility is a big perk — but it’s a far cry from the structured environment of the teaching career she left behind. “I always wanted to be a teacher,” Zerr said. “It seemed like a MISSOURI BUSINESS ALERT Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway announces she won’t run for re-election in 2022. June 4, 2021. Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent 0 Comments. Government State Top Picks. PARSON MOVES TO END FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT AID FOR OUT-OF Parson moves to end federal unemployment aid for out-of-work Missourians. Unemployed Missourians who are receiving federal payments to supplement their state benefits will lose that extra money after June 12, Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday. The state will stop paying the $300 per week supplement and stop issuing payments under

other federal

ANTI-GRAIN BELT LEGISLATION COULD COME BEFORE MISSOURI Legislation that would effectively kill the proposed Grain Belt Express transmission line could come up on the floor of the Missouri Senate in the waning days of the legislative session — even though the Senate’s own version of the bill is stuck in committee.. Grain Belt, a high-voltage transmission line proposed by Chicago-based Invenergy, would carry 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy THREE MISSOURI COMPANIES MAKE LIST OF TOP 100 US Three Missouri companies are among the 100 best companies to work for in 2021, according to Fortune. Edward Jones, Veterans United Home Loans and World Wide Technology all made the magazine’s annual list.. The Great Place to Work Institute evaluated workplace environments by sending out confidential surveys to employees and assessing companies’ reactions to the challenges GAS TAX INCREASE ON ITS WAY TO GOVERNOR AFTER CLEARING The tax, if Gov. Mike Parson signs the bill, would take effect in five steps of 2.5 cents each starting Oct. 1. When fully implemented on July 1, 2025, the gas tax would be 29.9 cents a gallon and would add $337.5 million annually to the state road fund and $125 million for city and county governments to spend on local roads. MISSOURI MINUTE: ST. LOUIS COUNTY EVICTION BAN ENDS Hello, MBA readers, The end of an eviction moratorium in St. Louis County could create uncertainty for thousands of households in the area. A local group has identified about 7,000 households at risk of eviction as the local moratorium is lifted Monday. Although a federal ban on evictions was exten ‘WE JUST KEPT ROLLING’: EQUIPMENTSHARE EMPLOYEES’ EFFORT EquipmentShare chef Craig Hindelang and coworker Matt Bade noticed that many kids didn’t have lunch when the pandemic shut down in-person classes. So they decided to do something about it. They approached EquipmentShare's leadership about gathering funds to LESSON LEARNED: ‘I SEE EVEN MORE CLEARLY THE VALUE OF Lesson Learned: ‘I see even more clearly the value of mentorship’. Adrienne Stolwyk owns Monarch Architecture in Columbia. Her story, part of our Lesson Learned series, has been edited for length and clarity. I had been working at commercial architecture firms, pretty happily, for about the last 12 years. Throughout that time, I always

had

MISSOURI MINUTE: STATE SEEKS LEGAL HELP OVER MEDICAL Good morning, MBA readers, The wait is finally over for nearly 1,200 applicants hoping to sell marijuana in Missouri. The agency in charge of the state's medical marijuana program has released its list of who gets to run a dispensary and who doesn’t. The list also includes the

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MISSOURI FACES TEACHER SHORTAGE AS WAGES, DEMANDS DRIVE Missouri faces teacher shortage as wages, demands drive educators away. Leigh Ann Zerr enjoys her work running an online business — she says the flexibility is a big perk — but it’s a far cry from the structured environment of the teaching career she left behind. “I always wanted to be a teacher,” Zerr said. “It seemed like a AS PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM ENDS, SMALL BUSINESS After funding for the Paycheck Protection Program ended on May 28, small businesses are looking ahead after struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic. For many, the program was a lifeline as business dried up and customers became nervous to leave their homes and MISSOURI IS SITTING ON A HUGE BUDGET SURPLUS. BUT WITHOUT With three weeks before the new state fiscal year begins, top legislative budget writers think progress in discussions on medical provider taxes could allow Gov. Mike Parson to issue a call for a special session by the end of the week. Parson has said he will only issue the call if lawmakers can TECHSTARS KANSAS CITY UNVEILS NEW COHORT, INCLUDING FIVE Techstars Kansas City has unveiled the 10 companies of its latest cohort. The companies kicked off the three-month startup accelerator program Monday. The selected companies come from a variety of industries. Of the 10 companies chosen, 40% are BOEING TESTED AIR PURIFIERS LIKE THOSE WIDELY USED IN Aerospace giant Boeing tested two kinds of ionization technologies — like those widely adopted in schools hoping to combat covid — to determine how well each killed germs on surfaces and decided that neither was effective enough to install on its MISSOURI MINUTE: BOULEVARD BREWING NAMES NEW LEADER Hello, MBA readers, Missouri's attorney general has filed documents in the state's Medicaid expansion court case that contend the state has no responsibility to fund the health care program. Arguments in the case are scheduled for June 18, with a decision expected before ‘HUGE OPPORTUNITY’: KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN, CANADIAN The top executives for railroad companies Canadian National Railway and Kansas City Southern spoke together Thursday at the annual Strategic Decisions Conference hosted by investment firm AllianceBerstein. The virtual conference featured MISSOURI MINUTE: BLUES INCREASE ARENA CAPACITY FOR Hello, MBA readers, Missouri is one step closer to taxing online sales by out-of-state vendors. In the waning hours of the Missouri General Assembly's session on Friday, legislators sent a measure to Gov. Mike Parson that would enable the state to MISSOURI MINUTE: PAY CLIMBS FOR LEISURE, HOSPITALITY Hello, MBA readers, Workers in the leisure and hospitality industry across the U.S. made average hourly wages of $18.09 in May, higher than ever before and up 5% from January, according to the May jobs report. The increase could be indicative of national MISSOURI MINUTE: PARSON OKS PRESCRIPTION DRUG MONITORING Hello, MBA readers, College sports could see a seismic shift in the next couple months as multiple states plan to allow college athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness, a practice common in professional sports but long against collegiate rules. Missouri could

become one

MISSOURI AMONG STATES SET TO ALLOW COLLEGE ATHLETES TO WASHINGTON — A seismic shift will rock college sports next month, when a handful of new state laws go into effect allowing student athletes to make money off their personal images. It’s been against the rules governing collegiate sports for student athletes to make a profit off their name or image MISSOURI BUSINESS ALERT Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway announces she won’t run for re-election in 2022. June 4, 2021. Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent 0 Comments. Government State Top Picks.

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ANTI-GRAIN BELT LEGISLATION COULD COME BEFORE MISSOURI Legislation that would effectively kill the proposed Grain Belt Express transmission line could come up on the floor of the Missouri Senate in the waning days of the legislative session — even though the Senate’s own version of the bill is stuck in committee.. Grain Belt, a high-voltage transmission line proposed by Chicago-based Invenergy, would carry 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy MISSOURI MINUTE: ST. LOUIS COUNTY EVICTION BAN ENDS Hello, MBA readers, The end of an eviction moratorium in St. Louis County could create uncertainty for thousands of households in the area. A local group has identified about 7,000 households at risk of eviction as the local moratorium is lifted Monday. Although a federal ban on evictions was exten PARSON MOVES TO END FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT AID FOR OUT-OF Parson moves to end federal unemployment aid for out-of-work Missourians. Unemployed Missourians who are receiving federal payments to supplement their state benefits will lose that extra money after June 12, Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday. The state will stop paying the $300 per week supplement and stop issuing payments under

other federal

LESSON LEARNED: ‘I SEE EVEN MORE CLEARLY THE VALUE OF Lesson Learned: ‘I see even more clearly the value of mentorship’. Adrienne Stolwyk owns Monarch Architecture in Columbia. Her story, part of our Lesson Learned series, has been edited for length and clarity. I had been working at commercial architecture firms, pretty happily, for about the last 12 years. Throughout that time, I always

had

‘WE JUST KEPT ROLLING’: EQUIPMENTSHARE EMPLOYEES’ EFFORT EquipmentShare chef Craig Hindelang and coworker Matt Bade noticed that many kids didn’t have lunch when the pandemic shut down in-person classes. So they decided to do something about it. They approached EquipmentShare's leadership about gathering funds to ‘A DECADE-LONG TRAIN WRECK’: AFTER LUMBER PRICES HIT Many people who have recently looked to add a deck to their house, renovate their kitchen or build a new home likely noticed how expensive the price of building is. The reason: In late summer, lumber prices were the highest they have ever been. And even though those prices have started to fall, it’s MISSOURI FACES TEACHER SHORTAGE AS WAGES, DEMANDS DRIVE Missouri faces teacher shortage as wages, demands drive educators away. Leigh Ann Zerr enjoys her work running an online business — she says the flexibility is a big perk — but it’s a far cry from the structured environment of the teaching career she left behind. “I always wanted to be a teacher,” Zerr said. “It seemed like a WE GROW KC SUMMIT TO SHOWCASE CITY’S OPPORTUNITY ZONES TO Investment is a two-way street that can have a positive impact on both investors and community residents, according to Dianne Cleaver, president and CEO of Kansas City's Urban Neighborhood Initiative. A new event — the We Grow KC Opportunity Zones Investor Summit taking place Wednesday and Thursd MISSOURI BUSINESS ALERT Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway announces she won’t run for re-election in 2022. June 4, 2021. Jason Hancock, Missouri Independent 0 Comments. Government State Top Picks.

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ANTI-GRAIN BELT LEGISLATION COULD COME BEFORE MISSOURI Legislation that would effectively kill the proposed Grain Belt Express transmission line could come up on the floor of the Missouri Senate in the waning days of the legislative session — even though the Senate’s own version of the bill is stuck in committee.. Grain Belt, a high-voltage transmission line proposed by Chicago-based Invenergy, would carry 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy MISSOURI MINUTE: ST. LOUIS COUNTY EVICTION BAN ENDS Hello, MBA readers, The end of an eviction moratorium in St. Louis County could create uncertainty for thousands of households in the area. A local group has identified about 7,000 households at risk of eviction as the local moratorium is lifted Monday. Although a federal ban on evictions was exten PARSON MOVES TO END FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT AID FOR OUT-OF Parson moves to end federal unemployment aid for out-of-work Missourians. Unemployed Missourians who are receiving federal payments to supplement their state benefits will lose that extra money after June 12, Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday. The state will stop paying the $300 per week supplement and stop issuing payments under

other federal

LESSON LEARNED: ‘I SEE EVEN MORE CLEARLY THE VALUE OF Lesson Learned: ‘I see even more clearly the value of mentorship’. Adrienne Stolwyk owns Monarch Architecture in Columbia. Her story, part of our Lesson Learned series, has been edited for length and clarity. I had been working at commercial architecture firms, pretty happily, for about the last 12 years. Throughout that time, I always

had

‘WE JUST KEPT ROLLING’: EQUIPMENTSHARE EMPLOYEES’ EFFORT EquipmentShare chef Craig Hindelang and coworker Matt Bade noticed that many kids didn’t have lunch when the pandemic shut down in-person classes. So they decided to do something about it. They approached EquipmentShare's leadership about gathering funds to ‘A DECADE-LONG TRAIN WRECK’: AFTER LUMBER PRICES HIT Many people who have recently looked to add a deck to their house, renovate their kitchen or build a new home likely noticed how expensive the price of building is. The reason: In late summer, lumber prices were the highest they have ever been. And even though those prices have started to fall, it’s MISSOURI FACES TEACHER SHORTAGE AS WAGES, DEMANDS DRIVE Missouri faces teacher shortage as wages, demands drive educators away. Leigh Ann Zerr enjoys her work running an online business — she says the flexibility is a big perk — but it’s a far cry from the structured environment of the teaching career she left behind. “I always wanted to be a teacher,” Zerr said. “It seemed like a WE GROW KC SUMMIT TO SHOWCASE CITY’S OPPORTUNITY ZONES TO Investment is a two-way street that can have a positive impact on both investors and community residents, according to Dianne Cleaver, president and CEO of Kansas City's Urban Neighborhood Initiative. A new event — the We Grow KC Opportunity Zones Investor Summit taking place Wednesday and Thursd AS PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM ENDS, SMALL BUSINESS After funding for the Paycheck Protection Program ended on May 28, small businesses are looking ahead after struggling to stay afloat during the pandemic. For many, the program was a lifeline as business dried up and customers became nervous to leave their homes and MISSOURI IS SITTING ON A HUGE BUDGET SURPLUS. BUT WITHOUT With three weeks before the new state fiscal year begins, top legislative budget writers think progress in discussions on medical provider taxes could allow Gov. Mike Parson to issue a call for a special session by the end of the week. Parson has said he will only issue the call if lawmakers can BOEING TESTED AIR PURIFIERS LIKE THOSE WIDELY USED IN Aerospace giant Boeing tested two kinds of ionization technologies — like those widely adopted in schools hoping to combat covid — to determine how well each killed germs on surfaces and decided that neither was effective enough to install on its MISSOURI MINUTE: BOULEVARD BREWING NAMES NEW LEADER Hello, MBA readers, Missouri's attorney general has filed documents in the state's Medicaid expansion court case that contend the state has no responsibility to fund the health care program. Arguments in the case are scheduled for June 18, with a decision expected before ‘HUGE OPPORTUNITY’: KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN, CANADIAN The top executives for railroad companies Canadian National Railway and Kansas City Southern spoke together Thursday at the annual Strategic Decisions Conference hosted by investment firm AllianceBerstein. The virtual conference featured MISSOURI MINUTE: PAY CLIMBS FOR LEISURE, HOSPITALITY Hello, MBA readers, Workers in the leisure and hospitality industry across the U.S. made average hourly wages of $18.09 in May, higher than ever before and up 5% from January, according to the May jobs report. The increase could be indicative of national MISSOURI MINUTE: PARSON OKS PRESCRIPTION DRUG MONITORING Hello, MBA readers, College sports could see a seismic shift in the next couple months as multiple states plan to allow college athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness, a practice common in professional sports but long against collegiate rules. Missouri could

become one

AMC SEES STOCK SOAR AND FALL AS IT RIDES REDDIT WAVE When 22-year-old Anthony Hugo first invested in AMC in February, he and his fellow Redditors were hoping to push the stock price over $8. On June 2, the price hit the moon at $72.62. The meteoric rise of Leawood, Kansas-based AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. MISSOURI AMONG STATES SET TO ALLOW COLLEGE ATHLETES TO WASHINGTON — A seismic shift will rock college sports next month, when a handful of new state laws go into effect allowing student athletes to make money off their personal images. It’s been against the rules governing collegiate sports for student athletes to make a profit off their name or image

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ANTI-GRAIN BELT LEGISLATION COULD COME BEFORE MISSOURI Legislation that would effectively kill the proposed Grain Belt Express transmission line could come up on the floor of the Missouri Senate in the waning days of the legislative session — even though the Senate’s own version of the bill is stuck in committee.. Grain Belt, a high-voltage transmission line proposed by Chicago-based Invenergy, would carry 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy PARSON MOVES TO END FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT AID FOR OUT-OF Parson moves to end federal unemployment aid for out-of-work Missourians. Unemployed Missourians who are receiving federal payments to supplement their state benefits will lose that extra money after June 12, Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday. The state will stop paying the $300 per week supplement and stop issuing payments under

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MISSOURI MINUTE: ST. LOUIS COUNTY EVICTION BAN ENDS Hello, MBA readers, The end of an eviction moratorium in St. Louis County could create uncertainty for thousands of households in the area. A local group has identified about 7,000 households at risk of eviction as the local moratorium is lifted Monday. Although a federal ban on evictions was exten ‘WE JUST KEPT ROLLING’: EQUIPMENTSHARE EMPLOYEES’ EFFORT EquipmentShare chef Craig Hindelang and coworker Matt Bade noticed that many kids didn’t have lunch when the pandemic shut down in-person classes. So they decided to do something about it. They approached EquipmentShare's leadership about gathering funds to LESSON LEARNED: ‘I SEE EVEN MORE CLEARLY THE VALUE OF Lesson Learned: ‘I see even more clearly the value of mentorship’. Adrienne Stolwyk owns Monarch Architecture in Columbia. Her story, part of our Lesson Learned series, has been edited for length and clarity. I had been working at commercial architecture firms, pretty happily, for about the last 12 years. Throughout that time, I always

had

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ANTI-GRAIN BELT LEGISLATION COULD COME BEFORE MISSOURI Legislation that would effectively kill the proposed Grain Belt Express transmission line could come up on the floor of the Missouri Senate in the waning days of the legislative session — even though the Senate’s own version of the bill is stuck in committee.. Grain Belt, a high-voltage transmission line proposed by Chicago-based Invenergy, would carry 4,000 megawatts of renewable energy PARSON MOVES TO END FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT AID FOR OUT-OF Parson moves to end federal unemployment aid for out-of-work Missourians. Unemployed Missourians who are receiving federal payments to supplement their state benefits will lose that extra money after June 12, Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday. The state will stop paying the $300 per week supplement and stop issuing payments under

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MISSOURI MINUTE: ST. LOUIS COUNTY EVICTION BAN ENDS Hello, MBA readers, The end of an eviction moratorium in St. Louis County could create uncertainty for thousands of households in the area. A local group has identified about 7,000 households at risk of eviction as the local moratorium is lifted Monday. Although a federal ban on evictions was exten ‘WE JUST KEPT ROLLING’: EQUIPMENTSHARE EMPLOYEES’ EFFORT EquipmentShare chef Craig Hindelang and coworker Matt Bade noticed that many kids didn’t have lunch when the pandemic shut down in-person classes. So they decided to do something about it. They approached EquipmentShare's leadership about gathering funds to LESSON LEARNED: ‘I SEE EVEN MORE CLEARLY THE VALUE OF Lesson Learned: ‘I see even more clearly the value of mentorship’. Adrienne Stolwyk owns Monarch Architecture in Columbia. Her story, part of our Lesson Learned series, has been edited for length and clarity. I had been working at commercial architecture firms, pretty happily, for about the last 12 years. Throughout that time, I always

had

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