May 2010

University of Missouri Health Care has chosen to take on its own debt to build a new cancer treatment facility after the legislature once again failed to appropriate funds for the center. Following another legislative session in which state funds for the project were not made available by Missouri’s General Assembly, the curators of the

Smart phones have become wildly popular since Apple’s iPhone captured the hearts of people of all ages. My husband has an iPhone, my best friend has an iPhone, and one of my employees came to work last week and announced that her 80-year-old grandmother has an iPhone. Even I used to have a smart phone,

In a departure from its usual practice, the City Council opted not to reappoint one of the Planning and Zoning Commission’s most senior members. Nearly a dozen people applied for the two open spots on P&Z, one of the city’s most important commissions. Both commissioners whose terms had expired reapplied for their positions. Raman Puri,

It has been about a year since Columbia resident Mike Trom spoke with his former friend and neighbor Nathan Reuter, founder of Vertical Group LLC, formerly located at 3210 Bluff Creek Drive. The encounter between the two men at a hearing at the federal bankruptcy court in Kansas City was brief; it wasn’t much of

The flag welcoming IBM to Columbia, unfurled from the roof of Boone County National Bank’s Broadway headquarters Monday afternoon, put to rest many of the questions about the secretive effort to attract a huge employer to Columbia. The months-long initiative – dubbed “Project Tiger – to attract a high-tech business to the city concluded outside

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