If there’s one thing Deborah Beste has learned in her 12 years at Phoenix Programs, Inc. she says, it’s that alcoholism and drug addiction cut across all social and economic lines. Beste heads the Columbia-based not-for-profit-agency, which has a $1.4 million annual budget and 50 employees and every year provides treatment to about 2,000 clients […]
If you had a crack team in charge of optimizing the efficiency and innovation of your business I imagine it might look a like this: Thomas Edison, my Grandma Georgie, Batman and Sacagawea. Not dissimilar to this composite is the team at the University of Missouri-Columbia Energy Management Department, efficiency experts who know what it’s
Trick question: It’s a truck. Take a close look around any major parking lot in the area. Ford, GM and Daimler-Chrysler dominate. The Big Three made two-thirds of all the cars, trucks and SUVs now owned in Boone County. The Ford F-Series pickup is the county’s most popular vehicle by far, according to a CBT
Term limits, regionalism, research fight tearing away Columbia’s political status. House Speaker Pro Tem Carl Bearden’s remarks signified an astonishing change in Missouri’s historic stance on higher education. The comments came after a Democratic Senate filibuster in March stalled Gov. Matt Blunt’s proposal to sell off Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority assets to finance a
