There are a few mystery shops I shy away from; bikini waxing and root canals top the list. Automobile dealers also scare the bejesus out of me. My friends and family would be all too happy to sit you down and tell you tales of why I, a.k.a. the “crash princess,” never should have been […]
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Columbia’s radio market has had a shakeup, both in the latest Arbitron rankings and among the management personnel at Zimmer Radio Group and Cumulus Media, the two companies that own nine of the market’s top-10 stations. “It’s a crazy business, but it can be a lot of fun,” said Jerod Bast, who became the sales
Small businesses across the state may feel the positive repercussions of one of the final acts of the 2006 legislative session — the passing of House Bill 1827, which assists small businesses in providing health insurance for their employees. On July 14, Gov. Matt Blunt signed the group insurance bill into law in Springfield. It
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Gwen Robbins Executive Director, YouZeum AGE: 39 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: As executive director, I am responsible for administrative functions and operations, overseeing permanent and traveling exhibits, financial management and educational programming of the science center. YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: 1 ORIGINAL HOMETOWN: Bozeman, Mont. EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in speech communications from the University of Washington, Seattle.
It cost Mid-Mo Recycling $6,000 to find out whether individuals and companies are willing to recycle their old computers, monitors, televisions and other techno-trash. The company learned they were, to the tune of 39 tons that included 1,000 monitors. As an experiment throughout June and July, Mid-Mo Recycling waived its charge for taking computer monitors
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One look at the home-based office of INTERIORS by Decorating Den shows customers what they can expect from the interior-design franchise’s owners, Janet Chance-Hetzler and TammyBurgher. The team works out of Chance-Hetzler’s home in Lake Arrowhead Estates, an ornate 8,000-square-foot French Country manor built in Southern Boone County by Chance-Hetzler and her husband, award-winning builder
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On a scorching August afternoon, University of Missouri senior Beth Melenbrink lugged the last of her clothing and boxes into a Copper Beech apartment and took stock of her new surroundings. “It’s brand new and spacious, and there were plenty of apartments available,” Melenbrink said, explaining why she chose to spend her final undergraduate year
In the competition to develop city-owned land next to the Activity and Recreation Center, better known as the ARC, the Columbia Youth Basketball Association and a partner group have a definite home-court advantage. The city’s Parks and Recreation Commission, which is holding a public hearing on the four proposals on Aug. 17, endorsed the project
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You don’t have to wait for the Oct. 5 pub crawl to get your fix of the “We Always Swing” Jazz Series. Though the fund-raising Annual Downtown Columbia “Jazz, Wine and Beer” Pub Crawl marks the official start of the project’s 12th season, organizers have partnered with The Blue Note for a preseason event on
PhoneSmart answers call of busy self-storage companies A problem many Americans face is that they have too much stuff. Providing a place to stash all that stuff drives an $18 billion-a-year self-storage industry eager to fill its two billion square feet of rentable space. Tron Jordheim’s job is to help self-storage business owners fill that
