Make your smaller home more livable with a new bath (The Marshfield Mail)
(ARA) – “Maximizing livable space” is how the American Institute of Architects (AIA) describes this new trend, a by-product of a down new-housing and real estate market.
Business news (Suburban Journals)
BUSINESS Express Medical Transporters, a for-profit, non-emergency transport company based in Missouri, recently opened its first Illinois location in Collinsville. Stephen McGoff and his son, Paul, are the entrepreneurs behind Metro East EMT, which serves all of Madison, St. Clair and Monroe counties.
Nixon cuts $125 million, proposes more cuts for future (Jefferson City News Tribune)
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon cut nearly $126 million in spending Thursday and proposed to dig even deeper by eliminating 1,000 state jobs, half the state's primary vehicle fleet and all state scholarships for students at private colleges.
US Fidelis owners fleeced firm, ex-CFO says (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Two years before US Fidelis found itself out of cash and unable to withstand a tidal wave of customer cancellations, the brothers who own the Wentzville-based company already had pulled more than $100 million out of it, according to a former top executive who kept the books at the time.
Dean Ponder named Bolivar’s kindest citizen (Bolivar Herald-Free Press)
Dean Ponder was recognized as the 2010 Kindest Citizen of Bolivar during the annual Kindness is Contagious banquet Thursday afternoon. The Kindness is Contagious program and Kindness Week are supported by a grant through Advocates for the Bolivar Community.