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
If you’re like most people, in the last 24 hours, you’ve used more than half of the top 20 engineering achievements of this century – in just one day! And your life was undoubtedly touched in some way by the balance. As categorized in A Century of Innovation: 20 Engineering Achievements that Transformed Our Lives,
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Uncommon carriers by John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 248 pages, $24 Reviewed by Steve Weinberg The business of America is business, and when author John McPhee writes about business, he does it unlike anybody else. Uncommon Carriers in the 27th book by McPhee, otherwise best known for his nonfiction features in The New Yorker
When talk first surfaced more than a decade ago about dismantling the downtown canopy, most of the building owners were vehemently opposed to the idea because they knew they’d have to spend big bucks to restore building façades hidden since 1958 by Broadway’s concrete monstrosity. What’s worse, in some cases, owners could have created faux
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MU finds another way to dispose of outdated computers: Sell them on eBay There’s more to eBay than getting good buys. For the University of Missouri-Columbia, it’s a way to sell some of the 100 to 150 computers tossed aside each month on campus. The large number of discarded computers stems from two facts: MU
The fast pace of building projects in Columbia, along with the expansion of city government building projects, is straining the Department of Public Works staff, and the director is asking for more manpower. When you consider all of the engineering involved in building the systems for roads, sewers, water, gas and electricity, as well as
Dreaming of that perfect job? At Hockman’s Tae Kwon Do, 21 Conely Road, that job belongs to Mike Witt. I arrive at 2 p.m. Wednesday, when his day starts. Sounds perfect so far, right? Witt, a fourth-degree black belt, has agreed to show me what it takes to be a tae kwon do instructor. Because
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