Features

*Role Reversal*Children help aging parents manage their money

*People You Should Know*Scott Wendling of HoB Commercial Realty Group speaks some Japanese, and HTML

*Business Profile: The Insurance Group*Longevity helps company understand Columbia commerce

*General Assembly*Boone County legislative delegation gets along for a change

Car and truck sales at Columbia’s dealerships plummeted in the first quarter of this year.…

*New Business Update*Belle, a women’s clothing store downtown, is one of many recent local business additions

*State of the City*Bill Watkins explains Columbia’s budget dilemma

*People You Should Know*Richard A. Blankenship was once invited to play baseball at MU

*EEW Runner Up Awards*Mark Dempsey and Mills Menser manage to launch new businesses in a deteriorating economy

*Health Care Setback*Sponsors of the health-care legislation see it as progress while other observers consider it a failure

*People You Should Know*Dave Mars, the city’s Energy Guy, makes solar devices for fun.

*Green Cleaner*Downtown Alterations moves to Peachtree Drive, adds dry cleaning service and changes name to French Laundry