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Missouri childcare

Missouri

Missouri voters reject ballot measure to help childcare providers

(MissouriNet) -- Missouri has a critical shortage of affordable childcare providers and an attempt to help them to keep their doors open has failed. Missouri voters soundly rejected a ballot measure Tuesday that would have allowed the state legislature to pass a property tax exemption for childcare providers. Once the votes were tallied, about 55% of voters opposed the plan, while 45% supported it. The proposal covered licensed and unlicensed providers who are registered with the state, including in-home childcare. […]

todayAugust 7, 2024

Advantage Solutions

Business News

Advantage Solutions to move HQ to St. Louis

ST. LOUIS -- A Fortune Top 1000 company will soon call Missouri home. Advantage Solutions, a marketing company based in Irvine, California plans to relocate to St. Louis County in the first quarter of 2024. According to St. Louis Business Journal, Company CEO Dave Peacock expects there to be up to 40 people working at the new location in Clayton. Peacock told KMOX Radio in St. Louis that the area has a lot of good things going on. “For us […]

todayOctober 12, 2023

Illinois gas Missouri

Business News

Gas prices dropping in Missouri

(Missourinet) -- Gas prices in Missouri are heading in the right direction, according to AAA Missouri. The average price for regular-unleaded in the Show-Me State is $3.58 a gallon – that’s nine cents a gallon lower than it was a week ago. But $3.58 is still higher than Missouri’s average price a month ago, $3.51 a gallon, and higher than it was a year ago, $3.36 a gallon. Missouri’s average price is still lower than the national average of $3.83 […]

todaySeptember 27, 2023

Missouri autonomous tractor

Missouri

University of Missouri gets Midwest’s first autonomous tractor

COLUMBIA, Mo. (Missourinet) -- A brand new all-electric, self-driving tractor has been unveiled at the University of Missouri. The Monarch MK-V tractor is the first of its kind in the Midwest. Jianfeng Zhou is a professor in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at MU. He said the tractor makes use of sensors and cameras to collect images and store that data. “So it has a driver option,” he said. “We can have someone sit in it and […]

todaySeptember 21, 2023

phone Missouri

East Central Missouri

New dialing system coming to 573 area code in Missouri

(Missourinet) -- Beginning in 2024, all local calls within Missouri’s 573 area code will have to be placed using the full 10 digits of your phone number. A new overlay 235 area code is being created because there weren’t that many available phone numbers left, according to Scott Rupp with the Missouri Public Service Commission. “This has happened in multiple different parts of the state,” said Rupp. “It’s constantly happened around the country. So many digits, you can only change […]

todaySeptember 19, 2023 2

Missouri porch pirates

Missouri

Missouri law to crack down on porch pirates

JEFFERSON CITY (Missourinet) -- A new Missouri law criminalizes porch pirates – those who steal packages and other mail left on porches. State Rep. Adam Schwadron (R-St. Charles) sponsored the piece included in a public safety package. “A lot of people, it’s not just items that they may need, but they’re items that they desperately need, such as medication that are being stolen, that are being delivered," Schwadron said. "And this just helps protect people and their property.” A ceremonial […]

todaySeptember 8, 2023

Lions Chiefs

Football News

LISTEN: Nothing “Super” about Chiefs’ first game

(MissouriNet) -- The Kansas City Chiefs sure looked like they could have used Travis Kelce and defensive tackle Chris Jones, but they’re not out there and the reality is Andy Reid needs the rest of the team to step up and it didn’t happen in the season-opening 21-20 loss to the Detroit Lions. Hear from Reid, Patrick, and Nick Bolton on this segment of Show Me Today.

todaySeptember 8, 2023

Mizzou Drinkwitz

Missourinet

Can Drinkwitz lead Mizzou to a winning record?

Mizzou won four of its last six regular season games in 2022 and was the only team to play CFP National Champion Georgia in a one-score game in the regular season (L, 26-22). Head Coach Eli Drinkwitz has led Mizzou to a bowl in each of his first three seasons, only the second coach in school history to do so along with the late Warren Powers (1978-84). However, the Tigers have never finished with an above .500 record under Drinkwitz […]

todayAugust 31, 2023

UPS

Missouri

No management pay raises in UPS deal

ST. LOUIS (Missourinet) -- Member voting on a tentative UPS deal for union workers wraps up Tuesday. Tentative changes include a bump in pay for full- and part-time workers – $21 per hour for new and existing part-time hires and delivery drivers will get $49 per hour. There’s also the other side of that coin – non-union supervisors and managers who are not part of that deal. Chris Tongay with Teamsters Local 688 in St. Louis said he has heard […]

todayAugust 21, 2023

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