Columbia Business Times: Do you believe Columbia’s economy in 2008 will grow at a faster, similar or slower pace than in 2007? Erdel: Because 2007 was slower than anticipated, I think 2008 will be about the same. It will be a year when the real estate marketing continues to be a challenge and Columbia […]
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As the population gets older and larger, in number and in girth, Boone Hospital Center and the University of Missouri hospitals expect by 2010 to be treating several thousand more patients per year and to have started major building projects to expand their space for beds, treatments and parking. The hospitals also face challenges
The first time I flew into Columbia in 1963, one landmark that stuck out in Columbia’s skyline was the Water & Light Department’s power plant on Business Loop 70. At the time, the electric plant included a series of low-slung buildings of different vintages topped by several stubby smokestacks. On the east side was
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President, Tracy Arey Real Estate AGE: 46 JOB DESCRIPTION: Real estate sales and development, new home construction. YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: 21 ORIGINAL HOMETOWN: Born in Creston, Iowa, and then moved to Forest City, Okoboji, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls, Carroll and Cedar Falls, Iowa, before moving to Columbia, Mo. EDUCATION: I graduated from Linn Mar
“Christmas came early around these parts this year.” At least that’s how an older gentleman from Chillicothe expressed it after Missouri beat Kansas at Arrowhead Stadium. I really like football. But football in itself is not interesting unless you can identify with a team. It’s not hard to identify with the current version
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Crime, Lemone extension, the smoking ban. Not a day goes by without more feather-ruffling news from the soon-to-be-enlarged Daniel Boone Building. The Columbia Daily Tribune’s online news board boasts a dozen topics bashing city government. Even Mayor Hindman last week received Eagle FM radio talk show host Gary Nolan’s “Hamburger of the Week”
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A young professional stopping to drop off a donation at Upscale Resale might just find herself becoming a shopper as well. Such a fate befalls many area residents who clean out closets and cabinets to donate items to area thrift stores during the holiday season. Window displays such as Upscale Resale’s—a Ralph Lauren gold-glittered
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The United States is a giving nation. In 2006, according to the Giving U.S.A. Foundation, individuals and businesses donated nearly $300 billion to charity, more than the gross domestic product of all but 33 countries. Eight in 10 American consumers say that support of charitable causes helps earn their loyalty to a store
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Gov. Matt Blunt announced this month that he will ask the General Assembly to allocate $31.2 million from the 2008 supplemental budget to provide for the construction of a new Ellis Fischel Cancer Center. Leaders in the legislature indicated they also support the allocation University of Missouri Health Care’s construction plans call for the
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It’s tough to operate a public transit system—especially if your buses won’t function. That’s the challenge facing Linda Yaeger, executive director of the Columbia-headquartered transportation service OATS Inc. In a typical year, Yaeger would expect to replace 100 to 125 (or 20 percent) of the 600 buses that OATS uses to transport nearly 30,000
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