Financial Adviser, Edward Jones AGE: 42 JOB DESCRIPTION: I evaluate and develop cost-effective, tax-efficient financial plans for my clients to meet their personal financial goals. I specialize in retirement planning, estate planning and college planning. YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: 23 ORIGINAL HOMETOWN: Born in Cape Girardeau; early grade school in Warrensburg; middle school in Maryville; […]
If Landon J. Albertson could package his secret to business success and sell it, the product might be called “Superior Work Ethic.” Its most recent manifestation, LJA Companies, formed at the end of 2006 to provide commercial financing for small- to medium-size businesses. “Our vision is to help facilitate—or inspire—business owners to obtain financing, working
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Some uneasiness is beginning to develop about several economically unsettling events we should all be paying attention to. Real estate agents have been grumbling for months about their weak market, including the number of unsold homes and properties and the increased average time it takes to make a sale—situations influenced by the area’s overall economic
Columbia must get accustomed to providing manufacturing incentives Read More »
By Lisa Margonelli, Doubleday, 325 pages, $26 The first gas station in the United States opened exactly 100 years ago. Since then, gas stations have become so commonplace around urban Columbia, rural Boone County and everywhere else that they seem nearly invisible. By 1920, about 15,000 gas stations existed. By 1930, about 124,000 operated along
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The Columbia City Council and the city manager need to get a divorce—or at least a lasting separation. Separation of powers is a defining principle of American democracy. Our city’s executive branch—the city manager and his staff—should be better separated from the legislative branch: the mayor and the city council. Viewing council meetings in this
It has been a long time since lawmakers have had the opportunity to provide tax relief for Missourians, but strong fiscal management over recent years has put our state back in the black and in the position to reinvest state revenues in the people who generated those funds — taxpayers. How will lawmakers decide to
Lawmakers hold power to help Missouri manufacturers compete Read More »
A bill has been introduced in the Missouri General Assembly under the guise of helping people who protect state parks. It would prohibit a lawful land use by adjacent neighbors. Essentially, they are attempting to have the government eliminate other peoples’ rights for a benefit that they perceive as more worthy. Now, let me translate.
A handful of industry professionals gathered Feb. 22 in Columbia to learn the latest in long-term care insurance for the business marketplace. The video training conference was hosted by the Central Missouri chapter of the Society of Financial Service Providers, a national professional organization of certified financial service professionals. The presentation offered information to help
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Many cities, including Columbia, actively enhance their community’s livability for retirees, the fastest-growing segment of the population. According to one recent report, a baby boomer, someone born between 1946 and 1964, turns 50 every 7.6 seconds. Coupled with this increase in the senior population is the fact that many of today’s retirees are more prosperous
Retirees boost local economy in workforce, housing market Read More »
The first wave of baby boomers turned 60 last year. It’s just the beginning of a dramatic shift in demographics and lifestyle that will create the largest senior citizen population this nation has ever known. For those who work in the retirement field, it must feel like their ship is about to come in. But
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