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Questioning Credit
Posted On: March 5, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Questioning Credit COLUMBIA - Credit card companies are cashing in on policy changes and consumers might not realize it. Heath Lauseng works for the University of Missouri Office ... Read More...
Downtown Merchants Debate Improvement Tax
Posted On: March 2, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Downtown Merchants Debate Improvement Tax COLUMBIA - A proposal to beef up Columbia's downtown business and beautification efforts has business owners taking sides. Downtown Columbia businesses have used a Special Business ... Read More...
Understanding Unemployment Numbers
Posted On: February 27, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Understanding Unemployment Numbers JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri unemployment is drastically up from last year. The January 2009 rate is at 8 percent but this time last year it was ... Read More...
Workers Want More Information
Posted On: February 26, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Workers Want More Information COLUMBIA - Finding ways to cut back means Mid-Missouri Mental Health might become part of University of Missouri Health Care. The state plans to cut the ... Read More...
Dairy Woes
Posted On: February 26, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Dairy Woes BOONE COUNTY - Local dairy farmers are searching for answers after their low profits so far in 2009. John Denbigh, the farm manager at the Foremost ... Read More...
Rally not enough to spur health care expansion
Posted On: February 26, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Rally not enough to spur health care expansion JEFFERSON CITY — Hundreds of people rattling pennies in plastic piggy banks rallied Wednesday at the Capitol for expanded government health care. Republican lawmakers responded ... Read More...
Mental Health Care Handover
Posted On: February 26, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Mental Health Care Handover COLUMBIA - Nearly 200 jobs are on the line if a budget cut proposed by Gov. Jay Nixon moves forward. Nixon wants to cut the jobs ... Read More...
Historic warehouse sees new life
Posted On: February 25, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Historic warehouse sees new life COLUMBIA — Kenny Greene remembers when trains pulled up to Wabash Station next to the Berry Building on Walnut and Orr streets to unload and ... Read More...
Restoration Rally For Medicaid
Posted On: February 25, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Restoration Rally For Medicaid JEFFERSON CITY - Advocates gathered at the capitol to gain support for new Medicaid plans. In 2005, former Gov. Matt Blunt cut Medicaid funds. These cuts ... Read More...
Controversy Over Missouri Stimulus Package Funds
Posted On: February 25, 2009
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Comments: No Responses Controversy Over Missouri Stimulus Package Funds JEFFERSON CITY -  Governor Jay Nixon is all for the federal stimulus package, but his second in command has reservations. Wednesday morning Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder ... Read More...