Regional cooperation can be difficult.
 

The Illinois unemployment rate climbed again last month, reaching 11 percent for October.
 

Doubts are being voiced about creating a new tax to pay for improvements in the oldest part of Hannibal.
 

It in a little over five months, Hannibal will stage its second annual spring cleanup.

A natural gas pipeline that stretches for almost 1,700 miles and runs through the Hannibal region has been completed.
 

Next spring, the Missouri Department of Transportation will resurface almost 14 miles of U.S. 61 in Pike County.

As the price of gold continues to climb, it’s having a negative impact on at least one Hannibal jeweler.

For years, people with bad teeth have invested in fillings made of gold. Now with the price of gold through the roof, people are realizing that practice has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase “putting your money where your mouth is.”

Nobody was suggesting Friday that Don Willis and Robert Stevenson will be inseparable during the month of December, but more often than not the two will be together as Willis, the outgoing general manager of the Hannibal Board of Public Works, brings Stevenson, named Friday Willis’ successor at that position, up to speed.

Robert Stevenson is a newcomer to Hannibal. However, the Board of Public Works’ new general manager has a strong sense of the organization’s history.