The Petition for Tobacco Tax Increase was touted as a tax increase on smokers, but it really would be an unfunded mandate on all taxpayers. The proposed amendment would create two new programs: one to provide health care services to poor patients and another to supplement the fees paid to doctors by Medicaid. These programs […]
After the Columbia City Council finally succeeded in wrapping up its business for its Sept. 18 session around 3 a.m., I was convinced that there should be rules for mandatory midnight adjournment, regardless of what’s going on. Since city councils have the proclivity to pass all sorts of rules for us to follow, maybe it’s
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Realtor Bob Walters believes many people agree with his assessment that downtown Columbia lacks adequate housing, and he hopes they share his vision of a skyline dotted with new four-story buildings featuring loft apartments on the upper floors and businesses in the bottom floors. “The only things we lack downtown are a full grocery store
With its golf course complete and real estate sales under way, the Community of Old Hawthorne is blossoming quickly. Lots are now for sale in the east-central area of the community, according to RE/MAX Boone Realty, the exclusive selling agent for the residential portion of the development. A special section in the northwest part of
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Greg Harmon exudes pure enthusiasm when talking about his new real estate investor network. “We already know how to get there and how to do it,” the real estate agent and property developer says. “I provide a whole different inventory.” Known in mid-Missouri as a foreclosure expert, Harmon is open about the opportunities his Web
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Nearly 40 years ago, when my mother decided to take a break from nursing, she was persuaded by a local Realtor to earn her real estate license and join his firm. I didn’t see the symmetry between nursing and real estate then, and I don’t really see it now, but she thought it was a
The opening of University Hospital 50 years ago supposedly put to rest a long-simmering battle between Columbia and Kansas City as to which city would house Missouri’s four-year medical school. But the issue surfaced again in 2003, when the curators brought up the idea of moving the medical school to Kansas City as a hypothetical
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After Teresa Snow teaches her four children — two sets of twins — their home school lessons in the morning, she’s ready for a break. For her, that’s driving from Columbia to Jefferson City and working from 3:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. at KRCG-TV as an anchor. “Work is the easiest part of the day,”
Rigors of home schooling make anchor job seem like child’s play Read More »
Do you own an iPod or know someone who does? Have you ever seen anyone on a plane, in a gym or at the mall with wires coming out of their ears? Unless you live a cloistered life, you probably answered “yes” to at least one of these questions. Digital audio/video players such as the
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Terry Lloyd was hired in 1970 as a seamstress for the State Farm Insurance Co. — a seemingly strange job to hold in a company selling car and home insurance. That was in the pre-computer days at the company’s old location, a building opened in 1956 at Interstate 70 and Stadium Drive on land then
