Mercy Health is on a buying spree. Mercy completed its acquisition of SoutheastHealth in Cape Girardeau, Mo in January, and a month later it announced a plan to acquire Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Pittsburg, Kansas.
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Business leader and owner of Van Luven Enterprises from Chesterfield, Missouri
The ban on flavored nicotine and tobacco products under consideration by the city council in Kansas City (MO) will lead to a laundry list of unintended consequences
The city council in Kansas City (MO) took the first step this month towards banning flavored smoke-free products, including nicotine pouches and e-cigarettes, that millions of Americans have turned to as a better option than continuing to smoke cigarettes.
Poplar Bluff, a city in the Missouri Bootheel, has just over 15,000 residents.
When the opioid crisis was first designated a public health emergency back in 2017, it marked the beginning of a concentrated effort to reduce the number of opioid overdose fatalities and the overall rate of usage for opioids in general.
History shows that banning flavored tobacco and nicotine products has little positive impact and instead results in a long list of negative consequences.
As a local Jewish woman of St. Louis County, I am disgusted; I am afraid. There is no simpler way I can say it.
A few weeks ago, a Federal Judge in Missouri ruled in favor of the Security Industries and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and struck down two regulations imposed by the Missouri Securities Division.
The Missouri Attorney General’s recent lawsuit against the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) effort to cap the rates prisons and county jails charge for phone calls rests on a misguided argument
Northeast Missouri is home to more than 150,000 folks who do their jobs, raise their families, and make do with what they have, which is not a lot.