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BizNext 7 things you need to know 05.24.13
St. Louisans will celebrate the National Day of Civic Hacking with Random Hacks of Kindness Saint Louis, a weekend hackathon June 1-2 at the T-Rex that encourages community involvement for the betterment of St. Louis. The Password Protection Act, a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday, would make it illegal for employers or potential employers to ask for you social ...
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McCarthy adds office in Kansas City
McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has increased its presence in the Kansas City market with two nearby construction projects underway and an announcement earlier this spring of a new downtown office. According to REJ Blog, McCarthy now has more than $1.4 billion worth of construction underway in the region. Two major projects for McCarthy include work on a $80 million National Bio and Agro-Defense ...
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Budweiser Black Crown boosts beer sales
Beer sales in dollar terms inched up 1.5 percent. Despite a tough few months for the beer business, overall sales in dollar terms inched up in May, due in part to the new upmarket Budweiser Black Crown's introduction to consumers. According to Nielsen data, volume of beer sold in the four weeks to May 11 dropped 0.6 percent, but sales in dollar terms were up 1.5 percent, boosted by Black ...
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Larry Conners attorney preparing for lawsuit
Larry Conners Larry Conners' attorneys are gathering the necessary documents for a lawsuit on the heels of Conners being fired from KMOV. Conners' lawyer, Merle Silverstein, sent a letter to KMOV asking them to "carefully preserve and not destroy" all papers relating to Conners' employment and termination, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The letter to KMOV President and ...
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Southwestern Illinois judge probed by feds
Federal prosecutors are preparing at least one drug possession charge against 20th Circuit drug court judge Michael Cook. The charge is believed to be associated with the death of one of the countys associate judges, Joseph Christ, whose body was found March 10 in the Cook familys hunting lodge near Pleasant Hill, Ill. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, cocaine was found under Christs ...
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Margin Call
An intense, focused dramatization of one moment at the beginning of the 2008 global financial meltdown, J.C. Chandors Margin Call arrives on the heels of numerous documentaries that have attempted to show in grand fashion how toxic assets, bad mortgages, and shady dealings brought ... ...
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Covidiens board gives green light to MNK
Mallinckrodt President Mark Trudeau Covidien's board has approved the spin off of Mallinckrodt as a separate public company, which will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'MNK.' As part of the spinoff, Covidien shareholders will receive one share of Mallinckrodt for every eight shares of Covidien they hold. That distribution is slated to occur on June 28, and ...
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City moves city-county economic partnership forward
The St. Louis Board of Alderman advanced a bill Thursday that would create a new economic development agreement between the city and county. The agreement would bring together 10 employees from the city's St. Louis Development Corp. and 30 employees from the Economic Council of St. Louis County in one office based in Clayton. Bill sponsor Alderman Fred Wessels told St. Louis Public Radio ...
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Soccer fans kick in $2 million to St. Louis economy
Manchester City may have beat rival Chelsea 4-3 last night at Busch Stadium, but it appears the city of St. Louis will come out as the big winner. Brian Hall with the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission told KTVI the soccer game last night was the equivalent of a first round playoff game that draws some 46,000 fans downtown. He said those fans spend between $1.5 million to $2 ...
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Denny Hamlin takes Coca-Cola 600 pole with record lap
(AP Photo/Mike McCarn) Denny Hamlin climbs from his car after qualifying for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Thursday, May 23, 2013. Hamlin won the pole position for the ...
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Servia team preparing for final race of 2013
When Oriol Servia arrived at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and heard the slogan, he thought it was intended for him.Indy 500 or bust.For Servia and his team, Panther DRR, it's actually more fitting given that Sunday's race isn't just the biggest of the season for this team, it's an all-out battle for survival."My girlfriend has been (living) in Costa Rica the last five ...