We start this message as our Mom did in her first article for the Joplin Independent almost 15 years ago and we imagine she would have wanted nothing more than to still be healthy enough to help with its much needed editing. Unfortunately we're on our own, as Marilyn "Mariwinn" Taylor ...
California homeowner insurance profitability has been on par with the rest of the country over the past decade as measured by the direct simple combined ratio, but DSCR levels for 2025 in the state are expected to be at least as extreme as in 2017 and 2018 (when the state experienced back-...
The land that became the state of Missouri was part of numerous different territories, possessed changing and often indeterminate borders, and had many different Native American and European names between the 1600s and statehood. For much of the first half of the 1700s, the west bank of the ...
Marshall Field's, whose flagship was in Chicago, was anicon for the Windy City. Founded in 1852, the original store on State Street was once the largest in the world. The brand expanded and added more department stores all over the country. Eventually, through a series of sales to various...