Gov. touts interest-free bonds at Mo. school

TRENTON, Mo. -- Gov. Jay Nixon is touting a north-central Missouri school district as one making good use of interest-free bonds from the state for taxpayer-saving improvements. Nixon on Tuesday visited the Trenton School District to detail the work being funded by $1.6 million in bonds the district received earlier this year from $162 million in available bonds he announced at the time. Nixon says the bonds are upgrading and expanding school sites, creating jobs and, in Trenton's case, saving district taxpayers roughly $800,000. The governor is to make a similar appearance today at Truman High School in Independence, Mo.