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Financial Planning

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Harris-Stowe, Fontbonne Notch Worst Student Loan Default Rates Locally

    A bad economy has sent many college grads into default on their student loans.​Nationally, the rate of former college students defaulting on their federal student loans shot up this year -- with 8.8 percent of borrowers now in default as opposed to just 7 percent last year, according to the U.S. D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Lee Enterprises Gets Another SEC Warning -- Stock Faces Delisting

    Lee Enterprises has loads of debt -- but the company's current market value has dipped below $50 million.​Lee Enterprises -- parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Arizona Daily Star and a number of other smaller newspapers -- has been warned a second time in as many months that it cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2011

    SLU Sues U.S. Department of Education

    Financial aid forms don't always tell the whole story, according to federal statute​Has the U.S. Department of Education pulled a bait-and-switch by demanding that Saint Louis University fork over $2.8 million in student loans paid out by the government fifteen years ago? That's what administ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    University of Missouri, Other MO Colleges, Hit By Veterans' Lawsuit

    War is hell; trying to pay for college tuition in Missouri ain't all that easy either.​A group of military veterans is suing trustees at the University of Missouri, Southeast Missouri State University and the Moberly Area Community College, alleging that the universities systematically overcharged ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Time to Drug Test that CEO

    While the real dialogue on DailyRFT today could be found on a post about the efficacy of red-light cameras in saving lives, the most succinct and humorous comment of the day came in response to a post about a bill allowing welfare recipients to be drug tested. Commenter "AN" had this to say: So seri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    How Easy Is It to Get Into Webster University? Inmate Gets 23 Bogus Students Accepted Via Internet

    Suddenly worth a lot less.​Yes, Webster University is a fine school. It's nothing like University of Phoenix and other so-called "diploma mills." Webster U. has standards. It rigorously screens its students and selects only the best and brightest. [Insert sound of record scratching here.] Yesterda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Local Musicians' Union Thwarted in its Plot to Undermine Kansas Show at Family Arena

    The Musicians' Association of St. Louis has threatened to protest Saturday night's Kansas concert at the Family Arena in St. Charles because the band chose to be accompanied by the Truman State University's student orchestra instead of professional musicians. This is all part of a charitable endeavo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Governor Nixon Cuts College Scholarship Programs

    Image source​In a further attempt to balance the state budget, Governor Jay Nixon cut the Access Missouri Scholarship program by $50 million, leaving a comparatively-paltry $33 million in the program's coffers. Access Missouri is the state's only need-based scholarship program, which provides ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Wash. U. Prof Joins Obama and Lady Gaga on Time's Most Influential List

    Image sourceA Time artist's rendering of Michael Sherraden.​Although, according to various stupid media-generated lists, St. Louisans/Missourians are ugly and stressed and spend too much time sitting in traffic and have few job prospects, we now have one thing to be proud of. Or, rather, one p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Ballot Initiatives for Local Police Control Cruise Through Administrative Hoops

    Wikimedia Commons​Lawyer Brad Ketcher has had three ballot-initiative petitions pertaining to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department approved by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, her office announced yesterday.Ketcher is a political operative who led the successful 2008 ballot initiative to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    What to Expect When You're Expecting Economic Recovery

    Dorothea Lange, courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum​In an interesting piece in the October Atlantic, Benjamin Schwarz surveys a collection of books about daily life during the Great Depression in an attempt to glean some lessons from the past about what we can exp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Lee Enterprises to Post-Dispatch Employees: We Need A Big Pay Cut

    Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Post-Dispatch Parent Co. Suspends 401(k) Contributions

    Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2008

    Closing: Blue Water Grill

    Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2008

    Live in the Past

    At least for a weekend

  • Calendar

    January 16, 2008

    Money Hubble

    At least for a weekend

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 24, 2003

    Best Gadfly

    Tom Sullivan

  • News

    August 27, 2003

    Blood Money

    If Charlie Webb had hidden his money under his pillow, he wouldn't be in the red. Instead, he trusted banks.

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 26, 2001

    Best Mexican Deli

    La Tropicana Market

  • News

    April 12, 2000

    Olive's Treasure

    A retired stenographer has stashed away a fortune, but her life story is fading fast

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