At the University Club of the University of Missouri-Columbia, beverage director Rob Sanders likes to add a hint of mystery to the art of tasting wine. On the first Thursday night of the month, Sanders puts out about five bottles of wine covered in velvet drawstring bags on separate tables in the Reynolds Alumni Center. […]
General Manager, University Club & Catering AGE: 50 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Manage a team of professionals who run the University Club dining room and banquets and University Catering. YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: Just moved back to Columbia this month. We lived here in the late ‘70s while my wife and I were attending Mizzou. ORIGINAL HOMETOWN:
Internship, father-in-law help guide financial services exec on fast track to success Jeremy Patty was studying computer science at the University of Missouri when he began craving a career that dealt more with people and less with machines. So with the support a mentor, Patty applied for the college internship program at Northwestern Mutual Financial
This is what East Broadway in downtown Columbia looked like 40 years ago, shortly before the canopy went up. There were no regulations or even guidelines governing signage. What you don’t see are the alleys strewn with overhead wires, but that’s another point of—thankfully—vanished ugliness. No one can challenge characterizing the overbearing Lee Optical sign
My last several columns were somewhat cynical. In fact, some could argue that they were depressing. As a direct result, I am going to try to be a little more upbeat this time. Here are some things on my radar screen that have me excited about living in mid-Missouri. Maybe they’ll help answer the question,
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Public research universities are faced with the ongoing challenge of finding the best combination of funding sources to match their missions. The relative proportion of funding from the state, tuition and fees, services, gifts and endowments and granting agencies all contribute to the character and capabilities of the institution.By its very nature, the economic development
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City Council fails first significant visioning test On the same week that the Columbia City Council approved the choice of a consultant for the city’s visioning project, it took a vote that undermines the process. The council moved ahead with plans to design the reconstruction of West Broadway from Garth Avenue to West Boulevard, and
Amid the accolades our Daniel Boone Little League team earned by making it into the Little League World Series this year—a parade down Broadway, official recognition in the Missouri State House and Senate, and congratulations during Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals games—the local heroes recently sat as honored guests of T.K. Brothers Grill
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Brian Mann has Kansas and Missouri in his blood, even though he now lives in upstate New York. That legacy serves him well in a book about American politics quite likely to start interesting, and maybe productive, debates among its readers. “I grew up on the Kansas prairie, in Wichita and Augusta and Longton,” Mann
A national center promoting industrial energy efficiency has opened at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Funded by grant funds of about $1 million, including a five-year, $900,000 commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy, the MU College of Engineering Industrial Assessment Center will help small- and medium-sized businesses improve their energy efficiency and productivity, minimize waste
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