Morning Minutes: Rising egg prices in KC, Kander takes on Obama
Here are this morning’s top business headlines from across Missouri:
Restaurants, grocers see egg prices soar due to bird flu
Early last month, Roxanne’s Cafe in Parkville was paying $17.55 per 15 dozen eggs. The price tag this week for that same number of eggs? $42.85.
Kander challenges Obama’s policies in St. Louis Chamber talk
Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in 2016, took aim at some of the practices of President Barack Obama, distancing himself from the Democratic president’s policies in a speech Thursday to the St. Louis Regional Chamber.
KC mayor James speaks out against payday lenders
Kansas City Mayor Sly James teed off on the payday loan industry Thursday during an event aimed at ending predatory lending.
H&R Block joins effort to root out tax fraud, identity theft
Against the backdrop of massive growth in tax return fraud and identity theft, Kansas City-based H&R Block and others in the tax industry joined with the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday in announcing a new plan to address those financial crimes.
Slice of downtown St. Louis gets first taste of gigabit Internet
Occupants of a handful of downtown St. Louis buildings have had a chance in recent weeks to sign up for broadband Internet service 16 times faster than the standard cable offering. It’s a service that Arch Fiber Networks, the company providing the connection, says could be a major economic boon to the area.
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