Turn onto Wilkes Boulevard from College Avenue and you’ll quickly see why North Central is called the city’s most diverse neighborhood. Bocomo Bay adult entertainment store is next to the offices of Sheep Breeder and Sheepman Magazine, which is next to the Heartland Cremation and Burial Service. Across the street there’s a block of modest […]
Rick McGuire, the University of Missouri’s head track and field coach since 1982, is well known for helping coaches motivate athletes at the collegiate, national and international levels. But his techniques apply to the board room as well as the locker room. One of the few NCAA coaches who is also a graduate professor, McGuire
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The North Central Columbia Neighborhood Association’s proposed development ordinance is the third neighborhood overlay district plan presented to the city, but it’s by far the most ambitious and controversial. An overlay district lets neighborhood groups add a layer of regulation to the restrictions that zoning rules impose on development. The city passed an ordinance in
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Dissatisfied with traditional newspaper classified advertising and having experienced similarly disappointing results with eBay transactions, two Columbians decided to launch a Web site catering exclusively to local buyers and sellers. After months of development and overcoming inaugural glitches, Finditcomo.com is now experiencing rapid growth. Co-founders Jeff Niedens and Darren Baldwin devised the Web site idea
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Representatives of 12 counties surrounding Columbia and stretching down to the Lake of the Ozarks have agreed in principle to form a business-led organization that will promote economic development throughout the region. Missouri CORE Partnership is the group’s name, and the acronym stands for Connecting Our Regional Economy. The clever moniker, and a logo that
Building Columbia’s early-stage investment infrastructure has been a top priority of the local business community since the 1980s. Today, as mid-Missouri moves toward a technology-led economic development strategy, the capital and formalized financial structures may be finally coming together. Members of Centennial Investors are preparing to fund their first company since the Columbia Chamber of
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Executive Vice President, Columbia Chamber of Commerce AGE: 41 JOB DESCRIPTION: I am responsible for working with the emerging needs of Columbia. First and foremost will be working in the areas of governmental affairs, economic development and our regional efforts. YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: I lived here for four years, from 1988-1992. When I returned
I shudder whenever anyone talks about employment and job security in the electronics industry. With an interest in the history of electronics, I may have been among the least surprised when 3M recently announced it would lay off 240 “flexible electronic assembly” workers in its plant at 5400 Paris Road. This news represents a huge
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Skip Walther, who has been practicing law in Columbia for 22 years, says his election as vice president of the Missouri Bar Association comes during a challenging time for the organization. Gov. Matt Blunt and Republican members of the General Assembly plan in January to renew their efforts to change the way judges are chosen
Innovation requires agility, and small businesses are agile. That’s why small companies hold three times as many patents as their larger, corporate counterparts. And it’s why our entrepreneurs are the true keepers of our nation’s competitive intellectual property. The bad news is that many businesses have intellectual property and have taken no steps to protect
