Factory jobs incentive passes House, moves to Senate

An incentive program to lure more manufacturing jobs to Missouri and to help the state keep the jobs it has passed the House Thursday on a 134-to-17 vote. The bill now moves to the Senate. Rep. Jerry Nolte (R-Gladstone) says Missouri must compete with other states...

Nixon proposes fund to help bio-tech companies

Governor Nixon outlines a major economic development proposal at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis and an animal-health company in Kansas City. He gave a preview at the Missouri Biotechnology Association meeting at the Lake of the Ozarks. Nixon...