The Missouri Attorney General’s Office has hired a former actor turned legislative assistant to teach government officials how to comply with the Sunshine Law. Tom Durkin, the office’s public education director, will travel the state giving presentations and seminars to ...
Read More »8th Circuit upholds 18-month sentence enhancement
A Jamaican national who more than once entered the United States illegally gets to stay in this country a while longer — in federal prison. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week affirmed the sentence imposed on Barrington ...
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Blakesley joins Spencer Fane Scott Blakesley has joined Spencer Fane Britt & Browne as a partner and leader of the firm’s Kansas City estate planning group. Blakesley’s practice involves all areas of estate planning and trust and estate administration, including ...
Read More »Napier : There’s a business buried on my desk
Where is my desk? A pile of piles, a stray highlighter, a cute penholder that looks like two books, an old coffee cup with a cute kid on it, a water bottle half full — or is it half empty? ...
Read More »Woolner: Handcuffed Madoff jailed without full disclosure
However satisfying the click of handcuffs snapping onto Bernard Madoff’s wrists and the knowledge that he’ll never again be free, his guilty plea marked only a beginning. The thousands of investors who lost billions of dollars to his Ponzi scheme ...
Read More »‘No deal’ Republicans map disaster of own making
Republicans are headed for a political disaster of their own making. As bad news about the economy gets ever worse, the party of growth, markets and business is opposing every effort by President Barack Obama to shorten the recession and ...
Read More »Private equity needs some fixing before it’s too late
Bankers, regulators and politicians are behind the curve. They are like workers rushing to clear up a car crash armed only with aspirin and Band-Aids: too late on the scene, and not able to do much when they get there. ...
Read More »Mexican trucks get pulled over by Democrats in Congress
The vision of Mexican 18-wheelers trucking goods across the U.S. has, well, run out of gas. Hit the brakes. Broken down. At least some safety advocates hope so. The Senate is close to passing a catch-all government spending bill that ...
Read More »After Yale, Pakistani depicts kept women, many scams
It’s always fun to read about the rich. To tell stories about the poor, the desperately poor, without making us feel we are turning the pages dutifully takes talent. “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” a debut collection by a Pakistani-American ...
Read More »Amazon’s new Kindle is best book reader available
When it was released in late 2007, Amazon.com Inc.’s original Kindle electronic book reader turned a lot of heads and, eventually, a whole lot of pages. The much-loved product redefined ebook readers, and was perpetually out of stock. So what ...
Read More »Taxpayers billed $211 million in auction-rate failure
From Carnegie Hall in New York to the Los Angeles bus and subway system, American taxpayers are paying investment banks millions of dollars in fees for bond auctions that never happened. State and local governments will spend about $211 million ...
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