University of Missouri-Columbia Director of Access and Urban Outreach Co-Chair, Columbia Vision Committee AGE: 53 JOB DESCRIPTION: As director of Access and Urban Outreach, I work to foster a college-going culture among groups that are underrepresented on college campuses. This includes minorities and others from under-resourced communities. I am responsible for summer programs and pre-college […]
Jeff and Jade Hockman, partners in Hockman’s ATA Black Belt Academy, have the kind of ying and yang relationship that helps businesses make wise decisions when it comes to taking risks. The brothers from Centralia opened their first martial arts studio in south Columbia in 1994 and later moved the operation to the West Broadway
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“I am wary of Greeks even when they are bringing gifts.” – Laocoon Substitute “governments” for “Greeks” in this warning from the story of the Trojan horse, and those should be the watchwords for citizens to follow whenever accepting federal government grants—because we know nothing of subsequent conditions they may attach to such largesse. It
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If you are a baseball fan—even a St. Louis Cardinals fan—the fact that a team with 83 wins, the lowest total in the history of the sport, captured the Fall Classic has to make you wonder: Just what the heck just happened, anyway? Most mid-Missourians are happy, of course, that the near-hometown team nailed the
Who would have thought a year ago that President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address would admit to our nation’s “addiction to oil” and mention agriculture — even suggesting switchgrass — as part of our new energy supply? We are now experiencing a major change in the country’s thinking about our reliance on
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An issue has arisen about which I have found no dissenters. Nary a soul laments the close of the 2006 mid-term elections. In my estimation, not a single person was unaware an election was held Nov. 7. Candidate races, along with constitutional proposals and citizen referendums, provided a bounty for newspapers, radio and TV. Blogs
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While late in coming, there has been a groundswell of support in the community for terminating the lease between Boone Hospital Center and BJC Health Care, a management firm representing the amalgamation of three well-known St. Louis-area hospitals: Barnes Hospital, Jewish Hospital and Christian Hospital. Newspaper editorials, several colloquia of community residents and the overall
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If Washington politicians want a lesson in how people from different parties can work together for the common good, they ought to visit Boone County during an election. As a first-time election worker last week, I was struck by how well the system worked at the polls. Republicans and Democrats had a job to do,
Monday morning quarterbacks can get loads of statistics on weekend college and professional games, but what about the parents and coaches closely following high school sports in Missouri? To fill this need, Area Sports Plus is stepping up to the plate with a new Web site. Created by IDP Group, the site will provide daily
We’ve become so accustomed to the Internet that it can no longer be considered a new frontier. Within the last 10 years or so, most of us have made e-mailing a daily habit (or vice) and we’ve learned to turn to the Web for the same information we used to get from the phone book
