St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) articles from July 2004

St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) archives from July 2004

Lambert Field airport business park begins to take wing in St. Louis.
July 30, 2004... Byline: Eric Heisler Jul. 30--A much-discussed idea for a $400 million business park with 12,000 jobs near Lambert Field is about to be tested in the private sector. Planning for the 600-acre industrial and office park has been led...

Maryland Heights, Mo., drug-benefits manager offers details of probe.
July 30, 2004... Byline: Mary Jo Feldstein Jul. 30--Illinois is part of a multistate investigation of Express Scripts Inc.'s business practices, a probe that appears similar to ones at its big rivals, the company said Thursday. Express Scripts has...

Missouri new-car dealerships continue contract talks with mechanics.
July 30, 2004... Byline: Gregory Cancelada Jul. 30--More than 60 new-car dealerships on the Missouri side of the St. Louis area and mechanics represented by the International Association of Machinists were locked in negotiations Thursday night. Their...

Energy commission approves Ameren's $2.3 billion buy of Illinois-based utility.
July 29, 2004... Byline: Jack Naudi Jul. 29--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave its blessing Wednesday to Ameren Corp.'s proposed $2.3 billion purchase of Illinois Power Co. of Decatur, Ill. St. Louis-based Ameren signed a tentative...

Charter Communications agrees to changes, settles inquiry.
July 29, 2004... Byline: Jerri Stroud Jul. 29--Charter Communications Inc. won't be able to give employees bonuses for boosting its subscriber list, nor will it set budgets based on analysts' forecasts under a consent agreement with the Securities and...

Twenty states investigating practices of drug-benefit firm Express Scripts.
July 29, 2004... Byline: Mary Jo Feldstein Jul. 29--Twenty states are investigating the business practices of Express Scripts Inc., a Maryland Heights company that manages prescription drug benefits for 50 million Americans, the company said Wednesday....

Kansas City, Mo., plant to make Ford hybrid SUVs.
July 29, 2004... Byline: Sara Shipley Jul. 29--Soon, drivers won't have to give up their SUVs to have "environmentally friendly" cars. Next week, the Ford Motor Co. will begin producing the world's first gasoline-electric hybrid sport utility vehicle...

Week's second wave of MyDoom-related worm attacks strikes Internet.
July 29, 2004... Byline: David Sheets Jul. 29--A second wave of computer security attacks made possible by an electronic worm that hobbled thousands of Web sites earlier this week is now striking the Internet. Security analysts say the latest version...

Battlefield needs make St. Louis defense unit Boeing's fastest-growing wing.
July 28, 2004... Byline: Tim McLaughlin Jul. 28--Cutting through the fog of war in Iraq and Afghanistan has emerged as Boeing Co.'s fastest-growing business. Boeing's St. Louis-based defense business generated nearly two-thirds of the company's...

Web site auctions on eBay can be a thief's best friend.
July 28, 2004... Byline: Heather Ratcliffe Jul. 28--In another day, a larcenous housecleaner with stolen goods to sell might have tried his luck at a pawnshop or secondhand store. Even if police recognized the loot, they might not have much of a trail to...

St. Louis loses appeal in suit against gun industry.
July 28, 2004... Byline: William C. Lhotka Jul. 28--The power of the Legislature trumps the power of a city, the Missouri Court of Appeals said Tuesday in throwing out St. Louis' lawsuit seeking to make firearm makers pay money for the social cost of gun...

Charter will make phone service available this year.
July 28, 2004... Byline: Jerri Stroud Jul. 28--Charter Communications Inc. will make telephone service available to 1 million of its customers by year's end, but it doesn't expect the service to be a major growth engine in the near term, Chief Executive...

Anheuser-Busch has always had success with ad campaigns on radio.
July 28, 2004... Byline: Gregory Cancelada Jul. 28--With the number of "Real Men of Genius" radio advertising spots about to exceed 100, what other jobs can Anheuser-Busch Cos. mock? Mr. Wimpy Radio Advertiser won't be one of them. Though many...

Prices of high-tech gadgets continue to fall through back-to-school period.
July 28, 2004... Byline: David Sheets Jul. 28--Perhaps you haven't noticed the decline in technology prices, but put yourself in Noel Dunn's place. Just back from six months overseas, the Texas native was browsing at the Ultimate Electronics Inc....

St. Louis-based drug information firm opens British research center.
July 27, 2004... Byline: Rachel Melcer Jul. 27--John McAlister, president and chief executive of Tripos Inc., on Monday welcomed a prince to the newest part of his company kingdom: a state-of-the-art chemistry research center in Bude, England. The...

Strong recent job growth brings Missouri close to 2000 employment levels.
July 27, 2004... Byline: Eric Heisler Jul. 27--Several months of impressive job growth have put Missouri close to its peak employment mark set in mid-2000. In fact, if Missouri can equal in July the number of jobs it added in June, it will reach that...

St. Louis chool tries feng shui approach to business.
July 27, 2004... Byline: Tina Shah Jul. 27--Linda Binns opened a training school for two reasons: to spread the knowledge of feng shui in St. Louis and to give direction to people like her who wanted to earn a living through the ancient Chinese art form....

Two teams say they'll compete for X Prize.
July 27, 2004... Byline: Eli Kintisch Jul. 27--Eight years after the conception of the space race in St. Louis, the $10 million Ansari X Prize has a viable contender ready to compete for the purse. Burt Rutan's Mojave Aerospace Ventures plans to launch...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Repps Hudson column.
July 26, 2004... Byline: Repps Hudson Jul. 26--WILL BABY BOOMERS RETIRE WITH A BANG OR JUST A WHIMPER?: Who knows what's going to happen when the baby boomers begin retiring in large numbers in about seven years? Some prognosticators say we Boomers,...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch David Nicklaus column.
July 4, 2004... Byline: David Nicklaus Jul. 4--LOWER YOUR STOCK-MARKET EXPECTATIONS BUT DON'T PANIC: Usually, investors are said to fear the unknown. Recently, they have been nervous about the known. The quarter-point increase last week in...

Boeing's airliner output rises; St. Louis-built Navy jet deliveries soar.
July 3, 2004... Byline: Tim McLaughlin Jul. 3--Boeing Co.'s deliveries of commercial jets rose slightly in the first half of the year compared to the year-earlier period while deliveries of St. Louis-built F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets increased 20...

Pfizer settles false advertising lawsuit for $60 million.
July 3, 2004... Byline: Trisha L. Howard Jul. 3--Pfizer Inc. said Friday that it has reached a $60 million settlement in an Illinois class-action case that accused the company of falsely marketing the diabetes drug Rezulin. The preliminary...

Small Business Administration won't change rules for government contracts.
July 2, 2004... Byline: Shera Dalin Jul. 2--The U.S. Small Business Administration has dumped proposed rules that would have made it harder for some small firms to compete for federal contracts. The SBA announced Wednesday that it was abandoning the...