Annika Merrilees
Business Reporter at The Sacramento Bee
Business reporter at The Sacramento Bee. Former business reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | Annika Merrilees
Over the next two years, the closure of Blue Diamond’s historic midtown plant will cost Sacramento a major employer, and empty a 50-acre, century-old manufacturing site in one of the city’s central neighborhoods. But the move, a Blue Diamond official said Friday, is necessary to protect California almond farmers. Though Blue Diamond’s label is sold in grocery stores around the world, it operates as a cooperative, owned by its growers.
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1 week ago |
modbee.com | Annika Merrilees
Blue Diamond Growers, the Sacramento-based almond cooperative, plans to wind down operations at its historic midtown plant and transfer most manufacturing to sites in Turlock and Salida over the next two years. The company said the move would bring manufacturing closer to many of its farmers and members, and running those operations out of the C Street facility — a landmark in Sacramento for more than a century — has become inefficient.
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | Annika Merrilees
This is a developing story; check back with sacbee.com for updates. Blue Diamond Growers, the Sacramento-based almond cooperative, plans to wind down operations at its historic midtown plant and transfer most manufacturing to sites in Turlock and Salida over the next two years.
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | Annika Merrilees |Mathew Miranda
Sacramento labor and housing advocates pushed back this week on a financing package to develop infrastructure in the Railyards, arguing that the city hasn’t bargained hard enough for affordable housing or union agreements — and that the deal comes as the council is expected to finalize budget cuts and fee increases.
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2 weeks ago |
sacbee.com | Annika Merrilees
Sacramento-area Democrats are attempting to convince voters that Congressional Republicans’ proposed budget bill will hit their health care and their wallets. Reps. Doris Matsui and Mike Thompson convened a group of local experts and officials for a hearing-style discussion Friday at West Sacramento’s City Council chambers, and called upon them to explain the hits they expect to see to residents’ health care and social assistance programs, should the proposed budget cuts pass.
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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 .
RT @StephKukuljan: --> Boeing wants to build a new aerospace program in St. Louis County, add 500 jobs It would be one of the biggest defe…
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