Insurance companies market themselves as calm, steady and always there when calamities strike. During the past year, they’ve had to maintain that composure while watching their profits eaten away by an extraordinary number of natural disasters and one of the century’s worst economic maelstroms. The Midwest, where Columbia’s three largest insurance companies do most of […]
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*Centerspread*CBT’s guide to the 3rd Annual Roots ‘N Blues ‘N BBQ Festival.
*Home Energy Conservation*Tom O’Connor shows how to drastically reduce electric bills.
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*Power Lunch: Economic Development*Government and industry leaders discuss Columbia’s business climate.
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Members of student-founded group lose (and earn and trade) their marbles From MizzouWire Members of the student-founded online bartering group Columbia Exchange Circle swap virtual “marbles” instead of money to exchange services and goods. Call them optimists. Call them innovators. Faced with a gloomy economy and increasingly impersonal personal interactions, some MU students have found
*Energy Stars*Homeowners tap incentives to increase home energy efficiency.
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Boone Hospital Center’s new patient tower will go beyond helping patients — it will care for the environment, too. BHC is integrating “green” project design, materials and policies into the construction of the tower with the intention of becoming one of the first hospitals in the area to meet LEED Green Building Rating System standards
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It’s been a long and productive run for five-term Mayor Darwin Hindman. Hindman grew up on Edgewood Avenue in the Old Southwest, the son of a University of Missouri physical education professor who served for awhile as the dean of men. Hindman was a member of the MU Class of 1955 and the Beta Theta
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