April 2, 2010

Small Business of the Year nominees revealed

The finalists for the Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business of the Year award will be announced during the Business Conference and Showcase’s mixer. Last year’s finalists were Advanced Vision; Peckham and Wright Architects; PS: Gallery; and Trabue, Hansen and Hinshaw Inc. Midway Electric Inc., another of the finalists, walked away with the award during the

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My time as Boone County treasurer: A body bag, a bag of cash and other surprises spanning four decades

“How did you get involved in politics?” That’s a question I was often asked during my years as county treasurer, a career with lots of responsibility and fun as well as moments when I asked myself, “What’s going to happen next?” My initiation to politics happened on the afternoon of April 9, 1976. I had

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City studying infrastructure cost-sharing

The debate over the fair balance of public and private contributions to Columbia’s infrastructure is about to be renewed. The city is in the early stages of recruiting a taskforce to study infrastructure costs, a subject picked as a top priority by stakeholders participating in the city’s lengthy visioning process. The visioning implementation report puts

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