Missouri State Treasurer's OfficePill boxes, salad tongs and a lint brush: Who would ever leave such treasures in a safe deposit box ? It's that time of year again: The Missouri State Treasurer's Office is trying desperately to clean out its vault full of unclaimed loot. (These are items that folks have abandoned in bank safe-deposit boxes.)And oh, the treasures that turned up this year: a Mark McGwire baseball card, an old can of baking powder and a lint brush!$100 Unreal bucks to anyone who ca
The news keeps getting worse for Missouri's Parents as Teachers, the model early education concept founded here in 1984 and now duplicated in 3,000 programs across the nation and in eight other countries. Last year, state legislators cut $3.4 million in funding for Parents as Teachers for this fiscal year. Last month, Governor Jay Nixon cut another $4.1 million in state funding for the agency in the 2011 fiscal year. And finally, last week, the governor said he was going to withhold another $
