Annika Merrilees
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Business reporter at The Sacramento Bee. Former business reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
St Louis, MO
Joined December 2016
Some personal news: Today is my last day at the Post-Dispatch. Reporting for @stltoday over the past five years has been an adventure and an honor, and St. Louis has been a wonderful home. Next, I’ll be heading back to northern California to cover business for @sacbee_news .
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--> Boeing wants to build a new aerospace program in St. Louis County, add 500 jobs It would be one of the biggest defense projects in the #STL region's history via @annie3mer & @kelseylandis
https://t.co/no2oSSHHZm
stltoday.com
The deal, if approved, would give Boeing half off on the project's real and personal property tax over 10 years in exchange for the new jobs and investment.
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ICYMI, DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, Mo. will no longer be a Level II trauma center. The story has been updated with a few new details about a state regulation that will help determine what happens next. https://t.co/kEfAAGLuZ5 via @stltoday
stltoday.com
SSM Health is reducing the trauma services provided at DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton. The move will leave north St. Louis County without a designated trauma center.
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Great story on a potential solution to boost rural health care: "We’re not here to replace or duplicate home health. The overarching goal is to fill gaps, not to replace current care.” ✍️ @annie3mer
https://t.co/a5syb1fgPR
stltoday.com
More and more Missouri agencies are starting community paramedic programs, in an effort to keep people from getting sick enough to need the ER.
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A shift in strategy is prompting @Centene $CNC to dump nearly 1M square feet of office space in the St. Louis region - an insane amount of #CRE for the #STL market to absorb My latest w/ @annie3mer:
stltoday.com
Centene brought an abrupt end to its plans for an East Coast headquarters, stunning local leaders there but pleasing Wall Street.
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Big news from @annie3mer: More than 2,000 St. Louis Boeing workers won't be striking after all https://t.co/ZnDmIwCiH9 via @stltoday
stltoday.com
St. Louis-area Boeing workers approved the company's contract offer on Wednesday.
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Another busy day of flood coverage with @annie3mer and @PDPJ:
stltoday.com
For the second time in four days Thursday, the St. Louis region was pounded with torrential rain that led to flash flooding, road closures and water rescues.
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New from @ByDanaRieck: Nurses pack courtroom as judge denies bond for SSM DePaul stabbing suspect https://t.co/xS810U29Rs via @stltoday
stltoday.com
About 40 people, many wearing scrubs, packed a courtroom as the paramedic who was stabbed by a patient last week told the court about her experience.
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After hospital stabbing, SSM DePaul nurses say they’ve long called for better security https://t.co/78n7bXtJZM by @ByDanaRieck & @annie3mer
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The latest on the office space front: SSM Health seeks new headquarters as St. Louis companies weigh office needs https://t.co/2FrTBCbMus via @PostDispatchbiz
stltoday.com
For companies across the region, all options are on the table — downsizing, expansion and maintaining status quo, executives and real estate experts say.
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Cora Faith Walker, a top St. Louis County official and former state lawmaker, dies at 37 https://t.co/fixX3jxm9K via @stltoday
stltoday.com
Cora Faith Walker, of Ferguson, represented the city and other parts of north St. Louis County in the Missouri Legislature from 2017 to 2019, when she became policy director for
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During crush of COVID cases, St. Louis struggles to reach residents who test positive https://t.co/ngJ9193K2G via @stltoday @annie3mer
stltoday.com
Several residents said the St. Louis Health Department didn't contact them for more than a week after their positive test, and, in some cases, 10 days later.
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St. Louis area sees record COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations story by @annie3mer & @NassimBnchabane
https://t.co/bQYwMfALrb via @stltoday
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St. Louis COVID-19 patient numbers on the rise, pandemic task force warns https://t.co/xgsbSwPcfp via @stltoday @annie3mer
stltoday.com
Omicron a cause for concern, but area doctors urge people to be "prudent" and take precautions against the still-dominant delta variant.
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Missouri reports thousands of previously unreleased COVID-19 deaths, infections https://t.co/peNDz3JqmB via @stltoday @annie3mer
stltoday.com
The state also reported cases after vaccination or prior infection — cases remarkably rare, most common among those with underlying health conditions.
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St. Louis, St. Louis County to reinstate mask mandate https://t.co/LvnseeiDls via @stltoday
stltoday.com
Masks will be required, including for those who are vaccinated; opponents at the state and local level are vowing to stop the renewed mandate.
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As the region’s vaccination effort goes small, residents in some St. Louis neighborhoods still left behind @kodacohen @Kirkman
https://t.co/0m9xzyHpgp via @stltoday
stltoday.com
Health agencies across the region are working steadily to get residents vaccinated. But they're finding some corners of the region stubbornly difficult to reach.
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1,600 COVID-19 vaccine appointments available Thursday across St. Louis County https://t.co/nKTjIhvJAN via @stltoday
stltoday.com
There are appointments available at sites in Eureka, Bridgeton, University City and Ferguson.
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