When Kilgore’s Medical Pharmacy decided to create a community garden for the kids at Nora Stewart Early Learning Center, Kilgore’s co-owner Ann Bromstedt thought tomatoes would be a great first crop. But that’s a hard sell to preschool kids.
“We asked them what they wanted to grow, and all of them said strawberries,” Bromstedt said. “I suggested tomatoes, but a lot of them turned their noses up at that.”

Although the recession has caused an unprecedented squeeze in city revenues, there is a bright spot: The slowdown in the private sector has created intense competition among construction companies and is driving down costs for the city’s biggest projects.

One thing is sure about the health care legislation being crafted in Washington: The overhaul, even if modified to pass a Senate now lacking a Democratic supermajority, will affect virtually every citizen and shake up health care markets large and small.
In Columbia, with two major hospitals, many specialty care providers and a growing senior population, the reform’s impact on the local economy looms large.

The proposed connection of Conley Road to Business Loop 70, which would pass through the…

Tucked away in the economic stimulus bill is a section providing a 30 percent tax…

When Jim Alabach, director of leasing for the Kroenke Group, opened bidding on the initial construction of Hy-Vee stores at the old Wal-Mart sites in Broadway Marketplace and the Rock Bridge Center, three of the five competing contractors were from St. Louis