St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) articles from February 2001

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO) archives from February 2001

Businessman Files Suit Against Former St. Louis-Based Bank.
February 21, 2001... Byline: Terry Hillig Feb. 21--Businessman John Connors is blaming the former Magna Bank and its officers for financial woes that led to his bankruptcy. In a $300 million suit filed Tuesday in circuit court in Edwardsville, Connors says...

Continental Asks Delaware Judge to Postpone TWA Takeover Bid.
February 21, 2001... Byline: Cynthia Wilson Feb. 21--A U.S. bankruptcy judge in Delaware will hear Continental Airlines' objection today to the debtor-in-possession financing and bid procedure order favored by Trans World Airlines and American Airlines for the...

Ford Ships New Explorers from St. Louis Plant.
February 21, 2001... Byline: Al Stamborski Feb. 21--Any day now, Ford Motor Co. will start shipping its long-awaited redesigned Explorer to dealers from its plants in St. Louis and in Louisville, Ky. Thousands of the sport utility vehicles are lined up...

St. Louis Hospital Hopes to Reopen under New Ownership.
February 21, 2001... Byline: Jerri Stroud Feb. 21--Normandy Hospital could reopen under new ownership within six months, a Missouri health department official says. National Health Care Investments Inc. of New Orleans took over the hospital's suspended...

Shareholder Bails Out Creve Coeur, Mo., Communications Company.
February 21, 2001... Byline: Peter Shinkle Feb. 21--Savvis Communications Corp., the high-speed Internet service provider with headquarters in Creve Coeur, said Tuesday it has enough cash to survive at least eight more weeks, thanks to a $20 million infusion...

St. Louis DaimlerChrysler Plants Dodge A Bullet.
February 27, 2001... Byline: Al Stamborski Feb. 27--The two DaimlerChrysler plants here have dodged the bullet again. The Germany-based company announced on Monday the second half of its turnaround plan. The world's fifth-largest automaker will set aside...

St. Louis Design Software Firm Quietly Moves Headquarters to Cypress, Calif.
February 27, 2001... Byline: Peter Shinkle Feb. 25--When Unigraphics Solutions Inc. of Maryland Heights announced Wednesday that it had changed its name to UGS and adopted a new business strategy, the engineering software maker also quietly changed its primary...

Growing St. Louis Suburb Development Has a Lot to Offer Residents, Businesses.
February 27, 2001... Byline: Charlene Prost Feb. 25--Three years ago, wild turkeys, quail, a few eagles and other winged creatures living on a poultry research farm roamed a wooded, 1,200-acre wilderness alongside Highway 40 in O'Fallon, Mo., known today as...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Your Money Column.
February 27, 2001... Byline: Jim Gallagher Feb. 25--Sandra Guthrie says she was booted out of her job just seven days before she would have qualified for retirement health benefits. "I feel betrayed," said the Belleville woman. "I had over 30 years with...

Large Downtown Real Estate Package Grabs Attention of Would-Be Buyers.
February 27, 2001... Byline: Charlene Prost Feb. 25--An attempt to sell an unusually large package of a dozen or so partly empty, historic buildings in the Washington Avenue loft district for $37.5 million is grabbing the attention of some would-be buyers, the...

Retailers Begin Reporting Tell-Tale Earnings of Sluggish Holiday Season.
February 27, 2001... Byline: Chern Yeh Kwok Feb. 25--One week into retailers reporting their earnings, and they're showing the scars of a sluggish holiday season. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. posted a modest 4.5 percent quarterly growth in net income. Home Depot...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch At-Work Column.
February 27, 2001... Byline: Elizabeth Freeman Feb. 25--NAME: Danny Stevens. AGE: 28. JOB: Counselor and sports psychology consultant for Sports and Family Inc., a business he co-founded, along with the Sports and Family Foundation. The business began...

St. Louis County, Mo., Considers Bonds to Promote Location of New Data Center.
February 28, 2001... Byline: Phil Sutin Feb. 28--St. Louis County is considering issuing $74 million in taxable industrial revenue bonds so the Edward Jones financial services company can build a data center near West Port Plaza in Maryland Heights. The...

Iron Workers Union Elects St. Louis Worker to Presidency.
February 28, 2001... Byline: Philip Dine Feb. 28--WASHINGTON, D.C.--Iron worker Joe Hunt's first job was as an apprentice in 1962, putting reinforced steel in a new apartment building on Skinker Boulevard at the west end of Forest Park. Monday, the native...

St. Louis Medical Society Names a New President.
February 28, 2001... Byline: Deborah L. Shelton Feb. 28--During a 40-year career in medicine, Dr. Nathaniel H. Murdock has had a foot in two worlds--one black and one white. And he's climbed--seemingly without effort--to the top of both. In January,...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch David Nicklaus Column.
February 28, 2001... Byline: David Nicklaus Feb. 28--It was a simple question, but for Frank Foster, it illustrated how racism still exists in today's business world. Foster runs Trinity Cos., a software firm in Chesterfield that had $5 million in revenue...

Missouri Report Suggests Utilities Disclose Wholesale Natural Gas Prices.
February 28, 2001... Byline: Gargi Chakrabarty Feb. 28--Missouri's utility companies should be required to disclose the wholsesale price and volume of their natural gas purchases, Attorney General Jay Nixon said Tuesday. Nixon was in St. Louis to release a...