Critics and advocates of Missouri’s system of selecting appellate judges squared off in a panel discussion at the Missouri Bar’s annual meeting in Springfield on Sept. 27. The Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan, which has been adopted by numerous other states, is used to pick judges for the State Court of Appeals and State Supreme Court. […]
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More than 700,000 businesses change ownership in the United States each year. But not without significant research and planning. The decision to become an entrepreneur is a big one. Deciding to do so by buying an already existing company can seem even more daunting. Start by closely examining whether the prospective business is the right
A box full of phone cards sits under the counter at Alejandro Sánchez’s Columbia grocery store, Los Tres Hermanos. For the first time in seven years, he has not sold the weekly allotment of 1,500 cards. Sánchez looks tired as he talks about how business at his store on Business Loop 70 has plummeted since
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Ethanol fuels derived from corn do not provide a long-term solution to the energy dilemma we face today, a prominent energy author said recently at Westminster College. “Corn-based ethanol is not the answer,” said Paul Roberts, author of The End of Oil, answering a question from the audience after delivering the lecture on Sept. 26.
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The Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ Festival generated an economic impact of nearly $6 million in Boone County, according to University of Missouri economist James Kaufman. The festival, sponsored by Boone County National Bank to celebrate its 150th anniversary, was held Sept. 7–8, and organizers estimate that it drew 70,000 people to downtown Columbia. Besides
The indistinguishable laughs and shouts of a large crowd swept down the hall in Columbia’s Upper Crust Bakery one bright Sunday morning, as patisserie customers, real-estate aficionados and environmentalists gathered in the back ballroom to witness evidence that Columbia was at last building the Bear Creek Prairie project (BCP), Missouri’s first conservation community. Glossy orange-and-blue
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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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