Economy & Business

St. Louis and St. Louis County will share in hundreds of millions in the settlement of the lawsuit over the Rams leaving St. Louis.

A St. Louis Fed economist says economic recovery from the pandemic has propelled demand for consumption, and it will take time for prices to even out.

New York-based Alden Global Capital is offering to buy Lee Enterprises, which owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Omaha World-Herald, the Sioux City Journal and other newspapers around the Midwest.

Last year, COVID-19 pushed the persistent problem of healthy food access toward crisis levels. The number of meals provided by The St. Louis Area Foodbank, which serves 14 Missouri counties and 12 in Illinois, increased by 53% to nearly 53 million between June 2019 and June 2021, data from the nonprofit show.

The Missouri Public Service Commission wants to see all of Spire’s communications about the pipeline with customers since this summer.

Unlike some states, Missouri doesn’t have a process laid out for homeowners to amend racially restrictive covenants. But some lawyers passionate about the issue are helping homeowners amend them and pushing for lawmakers to do more.

Residents, business owners and stakeholders from seven neighborhoods are working with the nonprofit Missouri Main Street Connection to rethink the commercial corridor between the Delmar Loop and Kingshighway.

The covenants, widely used in the early- to mid-1900s, shut Black St. Louisans out of white neighborhoods for decades and had long-lasting impacts on communities. Many homeowners have no idea these legal documents still are associated with their deeds.

Lawmakers and EV companies, like Rivan Automotive, say the provisions in the new law are the next step in promoting Illinois as "the Silicon Valley of EVs."

TIAA-CREF invests heavily in farmland, so it paid a university to research it.