Employment levels at 3M’s manufacturing plant on Paris Road in Columbia have fluctuated periodically since the plant opened 37 years ago, and plant manager David Robinson said the decision to cut 200 hourly jobs and 40 salaried positions in the coming months has nothing to do with the cost of local operations or the local […]
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As if the Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ Festival earlier in the month didn’t do enough to endear Boone County National Bank to the community, last weekend BNCB hosted a celebration of the visual arts as well. In conjunction with the 2007 Columbia Festival of the Arts, BNCB and the Columbia Art League sponsored the
High grain prices help corn farmers, hurt livestock farmers and consumers Terry Hilgedick, a farmer from Hartsburg, owns what appears to be one of the modern gold mines of mid-Missouri. Just calculating income from the 750 acres he plants in corn—assuming average September prices with typical Missouri yields on his irrigated, river-bottom tract—he will have
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