ANALYSIS: Business agenda advancing in Missouri

Sunday, March 27, 2011 | 4:02 p.m. CDT

JEFFERSON CITY — Frustrated by a perceived lack of success at a Missouri Capitol that professes job creation as its top goal, more than a dozen representatives from businesses began meeting last summer to develop a winning strategy for 2011. Over the several months that followed, they winnowed their shared goals to six initiatives that were among the least likely to immediately harm the state's feeble finances.

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