Arianna Parsons wants to help consumers do more to help the environment than turn off unnecessary lights. She wants to help shoppers put their money where their beliefs are and get businesses to go green. Parsons plans to launch mygreencities.com, a website with a searchable geographic database, in a month and add a similar iPhone […]
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Tax credits have been in the news a lot lately. First, the state of Missouri offered IBM $28 million or so in tax credits. Next, the state legislature, in a special session, approved a bill providing tax credits to induce Ford Motor Co. to continue operating its Claycomo plant. Proponents of tax credits make two
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The numbers swim and dance before us in the most strenuous tome of the late summer — the 600-page budget for the city of Columbia. It’s certainly not a selection for the library’s One Read community reading program. The proposed fiscal 2010-2011 budget includes an occasional nip about funds squirreled away in various untouchable accounts,
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