Stifel Nicolaus reaches settlement on investments
Monday Dec 28 | via Myrtle Beach Online
Financial services firm Stifel Nicolaus & Co. has reached an agreement with Missouri and other states that will speed up the buyback of auction rate securities from individual investors. Comment?
Stone County finds septic tank solution
Sunday Dec 27 | via Springfield News Leader
There's only so much the Missouri Department of Natural Resources can do to prevent the flow of untreated sewage seeping into Missouri's lakes and riverways. Comment?
Tuesday Dec 22 | via Southeast Missourian
A new program offering property tax relief for homeowners was announced Dec. 18 by the state of Missouri. Comment?
Missouri to spend $35M to spur housing
Monday Dec 21 | via KMBZ-AM Westwood
A Missouri Housing Development agency has approved a $35 million plan to spur housing. Comment?
State to offer new home-buying incentive
Friday Dec 18 | via Columbia Daily Tribune
The Missouri Housing Development Commission today approved a plan in which Missouri families making less than $98,000 a year who buy a home in 2010 would receive a reimbursement to cover $1,250 of their property tax bill. Comment?
Doubts on Regulation and Renewal Hang Over Wall St.
4 min ago | via The New York Times
After staging one of the most remarkable comebacks in business history - because of taxpayer lifelines and other support from Washington - the giants of the banking industry are entering a new phase of the postbailout period. Comment?
Local: Hundreds of trend-setting laws take effect today
24 min ago | via Fresno Bee
Hammered by a housing downturn that contributed to the state's budget crisis, California is boosting protections for home buyers and punishing brokers who mislead borrowers and steer them into costly loans. Comment?
10 min ago | via FloridaToday.com
A string of exploding investment bubbles that started with the dot-coms and ended with mortgages and oil dominated the years from 2000 to 2009. Comment?
A year to remember: Top 10 local news stories of 2009
11 min ago | via Reading Eagle/Reading Times
Reading Eagle editors selected these stories as the most significant of 2009. Reading becomes distressed - officially 1 . Studies since the 1990s warned Reading it was facing a financial fiasco. Comment?
12 min ago | via Highlands Today
ONE: Economic woes multiply SEBRING The Great Recession exacerbated idleness for a second year in 2009 with falling home prices and greater unemployment, bankruptcies, foreclosures and poverty. Comment?