Business growth, infrastructure, labor unions, Hunter Lake among topics discussed
Springfield needs to create a more “business-friendly” permitting process for construction and improvement projects, and the city should spend more of its money to fix streets, sidewalks and sewers, mayoral candidate Misty Buscher said at a Jan. 25 debate with incumbent Mayor Jim Langfelder. “We need to streamline our services in city hall,” Buscher, 52, the elected city treasurer for the past almost eight years, said at the mayoral candidate debate at the Hoogland Center for the Arts…