The Southeast Missourian continues a long-standing tradition today with the 1995 installment of its Progress Edition. This year's theme is Business and Industry.

New and remodeled businesses, entrepreneurs who have made a novel idea work and families who have continued their businesses for over three generations are featured in the six-section, 66-page Progress Edition.

The edition includes more than 50 stories and more than 100 pictures. To allow for the extensive undertaking of printing such a large section, the Missourian went to press two hours early on Saturday. Today's paper is one of the most fact-filled and weighty issues of the year.

Hot topics at any area coffee shop get leaders of their respective communities revved up for a new day. If you want to know who the top 65 employers in Southeast Missouri are, check out the first section of the Progress Edition.

If the new bridge route is on your mind, there are stories devoted to road construction to tell you what is going on now and what is in store for the future.

Perhaps you are a sports fan and want to know how the Southeast Missouri State Booster Club is faring. Or maybe you want to know what effect the baseball or hockey strikes had on local retailers.

All of that and more is at your fingertips in today's Progress Edition.