This week's episode of Business Brief looks at a new Kansas City bar featuring women's sports as part of a rising market nationwide. Listen at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts.
Missouri Business Alert
Internet News
Columbia, MO 583 followers
Your source for Missouri’s top business news.
About us
Missouri Business Alert is a digital newsroom that provides the top business news from across the state of Missouri. The publication aims to keep the state’s business decision makers informed about the stories important to them. Missouri Business Alert is a property of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. It is managed by professionals and staffed by university students. The publication was founded in January 2012 by Randall Smith, the Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the University of Missouri. Smith is Editor-in-Chief of the site, which officially launched in July 2013. In order to avoid perceived or real conflicts of interest, the news and advertising operations of Missouri Business Alert are maintained as separate operations. Our goal is complete transparency; our success will be credibility with the public.
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http://missouribusinessalert.com
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- Columbia, MO
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- 2012
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- Business News, Politics, Missouri, Economic News, Financial News, Columbia, Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, Business, News, Political News, and Digital News
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Employees at Missouri Business Alert
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Lorah (Slaton) Lackland
Assistant Professor at Missouri School of Journalism | Director of Marketing at Missouri Business Alert
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Ryan Collins
Staff Reporter at Missouri Business Alert
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Zoie Brown
Journalist
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Ian Laird
Reporter for Missouri Business Alert and Tutor for Mizzou Made Academics
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There is a stark division on immigration between the 2024 presidential candidates. At stake are the futures of undocumented immigrant workers, who have underpinned the agriculture industry for decades, as they face deportation or a pathway to citizenship. Story via Investigate Midwest
Deportations, raids and visa access. How the presidential election could alter life for immigrant farmworkers.
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson announced a joint task force between the Missouri Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Control and Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office that will help get unregulated psychoactive cannabis products off of shelves. Story via KBIA
Task force, database to track unregulated psychoactive cannabis sellers
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Immunophotonics, a local biotech startup, won the St. Louis regional finals of the Startup World Cup. Immunophotonics is developing a drug that supplements treatments for cancerous tumors to make the body better at fighting future cancer. CEO and co-founder Lu Alleruzzo explained that the drug is delivered into a tumor already killed by an existing medical technique, like radiation. Immunophotonics now moves on to compete against the winners from the other regional semifinals in cities worldwide for a $1 million investment prize. Story via St.Louis Public Radio
Immunophotonics wins Startup World Cup's St. Louis regional with cancer-fighting drug
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For the third time, Missouri lawmakers have tried to remove Planned Parenthood from the Medicaid program. In 2022, the GOP-controlled legislature passed a budget law that was later struck down by a county judge. Currently, Planned Parenthood is challenging the law, but in the meantime, it is trying to figure out how to continue care for low-income patients in case it’s permanently removed from Medicaid.
Planned Parenthood pivots, seeks solutions as Missouri cuts Medicaid reimbursements
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The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is asking for over $174 million in supplemental funding for this school year. This comes after receiving $1 billion less in appropriations compared to the previous year. Story via Missouri Independent
Missouri education department says state funding for school year is $100 million short
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What’s the difference between intoxicating hemp products and intoxicating marijuana products? It has to do with the THC content, or the psychoactive component. Hemp and marijuana are terms the government uses to distinguish between the part of the cannabis plant that can get you high when smoked – that’s marijuana – and the part that can’t — that’s hemp. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has stated he will run intoxicating hemp products out of Missouri. Story via Missouri Independent
With Missouri regulations in flux, what’s the difference between hemp and marijuana?
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The Dub, Kansas City’s first bar devoted entirely to women’s sports, is set to open by the end of 2024. Owners Monica Brady and her wife Rachel Glenn have been hosting pop-up bar takeovers around Kansas City for months, generating buzz for a concept that’s already seen tremendous success in Portland, Minneapolis and Seattle. "It’s often hard to find a bar playing women’s sports even during major championships," Glenn said. The Dub will play only women’s athletics. Story via KCUR
Kansas City’s first-ever bar devoted to women’s sports set to open by the end of 2024
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Hire Henry, a St. Louis-based company, uses AI robots to instruct lawn mowers to cut the grass themselves. It hopes to provide customers a break from the elements with its autonomous lawn care robot. Co-founder and CEO George Holmes said in a release, "Our autonomous software and combined AI models remove workers from the hot sun and makes the job incredibly easier.”
St. Louis startup takes the human element out of lawn care with autonomous robots
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The national unemployment rate for August dropped to 4.2% from 4.3% in July, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Job gains in August were higher than in the previous two months, but it fell short of the 165,000 median projection of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.
US employers add 142,000 August jobs, fall short of projections
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