Business Profile: Company’s team approach encourages healthy living
*Business Profile*Longitudinal Health teaches healthy living to patients and employees.
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November 25, 2009
Children’s Hospital consolidates
Dr. Timothy Fete was working as associate chairman at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis when MU offered him the job of directing its Children’s Hospital.
Fete said the “hook” that helped lure him to Columbia was MU’s decision last fall to expand and consolidate all of its pediatric operations — now housed on two floors of University Hospital and in about a dozen other facilities — and move them to Columbia Regional Hospital. It will be one of 50 free-standing children’s hospitals in the country and the only one in mid-Missouri.
Fairgrounds menagerie attracting more visitors
*Country Fairgrounds*People, pets and livestock, with monster trucks for good measure
Guest Column: East Columbia annexation plan must include cost estimates
If you were not at Old Hawthorne on Nov 17, you missed an important meeting. This was the first in a series of stakeholders’ meetings for the East Columbia Area Plan But, let’s be honest. Why should you care? Here’s why: The ECAP covers 25 square miles (16,000 acres) that the city is opening up
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Holiday Morale Boosters
Maybe this year the company gala event is canceled because of tight budgets, but don’t cut out all of the fun. It is possible to have holiday festivities on a smaller scale with your employees. They need to know that, in spite of economic cut backs, their employers still acknowledge the season to boost team
South Providence Plaza
Location: Green Meadows Road and Carter Lane, a half-block east of South Providence Road Description: Professional and medical office building: 7,200 square feet on main level, 7,200 square feet on lower level. A dentist has leased 2,400 square feet. Owner/Contractor: Steve Wendling Architect: Connell Architecture Broker: Scott Wendling Timeline: Construction began in September and will
Smart Thinking: Stop whining, and start winning
*Smart Thinking*When business practices aren’t working, it’s time for a new strategy.
Soapbox: At year’s end, time to reflect, question and prioritize
Each fall grants us the opportunity to exhale a long sigh after a harried year, take stock of the past several months and look forward to the next year. From a business point of view, 2009 is a year many will be glad to see take its place in the history books. Commerce, tax revenues
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City View: Introducing: The City’s Office of Neighborhood Services
*City View*Office of Neighborhood Services will strengthen Columbia neighborhoods.
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From the Roundtable: Get out; Columbia is allowing ads on city buses?
It’s something so incredible; I wonder where I’ve been all these years. The news flash: Columbia’s City Council is considering two competitive proposals to allow advertisements on city buses. There’s no denying the growing acceptance of municipal transit, aided and abetted by the modernization of the buses and the snappy reincarnation of the old Wabash
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