TOP DRAWER
A listing of the honorable, noteworthy, new and what’s ahead for businesspeople in Columbia.

PC INFO
Self-publishing software can give work pro look
By SCOTT A. MAY
For a small business on a tight budget, marketing from the desktop can be both challenging and rewarding. This week, we’ll look at a few good resources that will make this task less daunting.

Missouri city gets busy signal collecting taxes
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - It seems that a name, after all, isn’t everything.

State drought wide-ranging despite rains
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) - Recent rains lowered the severity but did little to reduce the extent of drought, as more than three-quarters of Missouri counties continue to face drought conditions.

Raising these animals really gets their goat
VERSAILLES (AP) - A recent daylong seminar in Versailles brought nearly 50 goat enthusiasts for an informational class on raising the animals.

Feds deflate Midwestern wind farms
Knight Ridder Newspapers
CHICAGO - The federal government has stopped work on more than a dozen wind farms planned across the Midwest, saying research is needed on whether the giant turbines could interfere with military radar.

Ethanol plants, farmers riding demand boom
COON RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A tractor-trailer rig rumbles into the Tall Corn ethanol plant. Corn pours from openings in its belly to bins underground, where conveyor belts and buckets haul it to gleaming steel silos rising 13 stories above the Iowa plain.

Flash, hard drives race toward future
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Bill Healy held the future in his pocket.

Rising worldwide metal prices entice thieves
DENVER (AP) - Thieves have been stealing copper for years as prices have risen, mostly an expensive nuisance. Now they are targeting aluminum products, and experts say safety is at risk as everything from light poles to highway guard rails are disappearing.

Bernanke jolts markets
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hints by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke of still more interest rate increases sent stocks tumbling for a second day today on Wall Street, where investors had hoped for a pause in the Fed’s long credit-tightening campaign.

Online consulations might be just what the doctor ordered
The Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. - When Tamara McCartney’s chronic sinusitis flared up this year, she knew she needed a prescription antibiotic.