July 2009

We are in the midst of a sustainability shift. Nearly everyone cares about the future of this planet and also about the people on it. But not everyone is willing to analyze and even enhance a positive “bottom line” regarding the sustainability practices of business. The triple bottom line (“people, planet, profit”) describes a range […]

The debate rages about health care reform, and I am confused. From the Left, the Right, the Middle and perhaps some mysterious kingdom out yonder comes the debate, polemics, shouting, anger, rage and downright orneriness that fuel the talkers and writers and the exponentially expanding blogosphere. It’s time to pause for a reasonable discussion about

Since last December, I have been nagging anyone who would listen – and some who would not – to consider a Fifth State Building Bond. I believe we should allow the voters to decide if Missouri should dedicate some of what taxpayers are already paying to a large-scale capital program. We could construct needed buildings

Poor little old West Boulevard; it’s appellation as a boulevard conjures up thoughts of anticipated grandness, harkening to the time when it was Columbia’s western boundary. Now West Boulevard is just another city street that happens to connect I-70 Drive Southwest to a real boulevard named Stadium. Chalk it up to poor city planning over