December 2006

John Kleindienst of Capital City Construction Co. didn’t know he was walking a high wire as the national economy rode the housing resurgence to prosperity this decade. He had tried to build eight houses a year — six custom homes already under buyer contract and two spec homes that he sold on the open market. […]

Missouri Boulevard’s dominance in the growth of Jefferson City’s commercial real estate market may end — in the next decade or sooner. When commercial property broker Greg Bowman looks for future growth in Jefferson City, he turns east, toward the side of town long overlooked for both residential and business development. “The East Side is

When a campaign worker called Cynthia Schreen to place a radio advertisement, the sales director at Zimmer Radio Group had to turn down the request. After all, it was 3 p.m. on the afternoon of the election. “It’s been the biggest I’ve ever seen,” Schreen, a 20-year veteran of the industry, said of this year’s

The food pyramid suggests we eat five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. The hard sell comes in getting my two children to consume the recommended daily allowance. So far I’ve found that two things help widen their culinary horizon: 1) telling my 9-year-old son the end result of eating asparagus and 2) a tradition

Idaho potatoes, Wisconsin cheese, Florida oranges, Vermont maple syrup … and Missouri beef? This branding may not ring a bell yet, but if industry and government leaders have their way, we’ll soon see a definite identity for the agricultural product from Missouri. The Missouri Branded Beef Initiative, supported by Gov. Matt Blunt and a committee