Business Beat: February 15, 2012

This week: State representatives agree Missouri needs to find better ways to get more jobs in Missouri. Plus, how a disease laboratory in Kansas has citizens worried.

Kansas political leaders and top officials at Kansas State University support a plan to bring the nation's premier agricultural disease laboratory to the K-State campus. But many people remain uneasy about bringing dangerous pathogens into the nation’s heartland.

Missouri could do more to match the skills of its workforce to the needs of employers, according to two State Representatives.