May 14, 2010

Entering his fifth decade of practicing law and playing tennis, Skip Walther has reached the pinnacle of both his passions.
Walther, who was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 1979 and opened a law practice three years later, is well known in Columbia for a range of community involvement and his radio commentary on the Columbia Business Times’ Sunday Morning Roundtable on KFRU.

The MU School of Law was hit by a double dose of bad publicity this spring when its national ranking plummeted and tuition increased. However, Dean R. Lawrence Dessem said the law school’s reputation and recruitment abilities remain solid. U.S. News and World Report dropped MU’s law school from 65th in the nation to the

Trabue, Hansen & Hinshaw Inc., an engineering consulting firm, was named the Columbia Chamber of Commerce’s 2010 Small Business of the Year. Other finalists for the award were The Add Sheet!, Bucket Media, Designer Landscape and Midwest Computech. The award ceremony on May 7 at the Courtyard by Marriott, which 125 people attended, was part

Former Columbia Mayor Darwin Hindman was pedaling his one-speed bicycle back to Columbia from the Katy Trail’s 20th anniversary celebration in Rocheport when he recalled the early days of the trail development campaign. The first stretch of the trail linked Rocheport and Huntsdale, and Hindman, a key advocate in the area’s rails-to-trails movement, was trying

Wilson’s Fitness in the District 111 Orr St., 573-777-6700 The newest Wilson’s Fitness Center is scheduled to open in early December. Crews are renovating the lower level of the historic Berry Building at the northeast corner of Orr and Walnut streets that the fitness center is leasing. Meanwhile, the club has been signing up members,

Miss Lou’s Catering Willie Smith, owner of Magic Services cleaning company, started a catering company with a cousin who’s been a chef for nine years. Smith, a former MU basketball star, is handling the sales, and Walter Miller is doing the cooking. Miller’s experience includes work as the banquet chef at Boone Tavern restaurant and