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
Come September, Sacramento’s marquee Farm to Fork Festival will merge with Terra Madres, an Italian food festival, as it makes its full-scale Sacramento debut. At Visit Sacramento’s annual State of Tourism event Wednesday, President and CEO Mike Testa described the change as a necessary risk in the name of growing the region’s culinary reputation. “Visit Sacramento’s farm and fork festival will step out of its comfort zone on Capitol Mall,” Testa said.
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1 week ago |
sacbee.com | Annika Merrilees
Visit Sacramento, the region’s tourism bureau, announced Wednesday that four chefs from an eclectic mix of local restaurants will lead the Tower Bridge dinner, an annual fundraiser for a separate festival that draws tens of thousands of people to Sacramento.
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2 weeks ago |
sacbee.com | Annika Merrilees
The University of California Health system is approaching the deadline to reach a contract with Blue Shield of California, to keep care in-network for a large group of patients, including many state workers. Some patients received notices that their UC providers may go out-of-network, should the health system and insurer fail to reach a deal. Both parties said they are continuing to negotiate, and want to reach a new agreement before the current contract expires on June 30.
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2 weeks ago |
sacbee.com | Annika Merrilees
Some Northern California patients may lose coverage at Sutter Health, if the hospital system fails to reach a new contract with Aetna in the coming weeks. The health system and the insurance giant are in talks for a new agreement to cover a group of commercially insured patients. The current contract ends June 30. Aetna said in a statement that if the groups can’t reach a deal by then, most Sutter facilities and providers will be out of network for the insurer’s commercial health plan members.
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2 weeks ago |
sacbee.com | Annika Merrilees
UPS will cut two shifts at a West Sacramento warehouse, putting 355 workers at risk of layoff. The company said that though the night and twilight sort shifts will end in mid-July, the facility — located at 1380 Shore Street in West Sacramento — will remain open.
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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