Couples You Should Know: Brent Beshore & Erica Beshore
*Couples You Should Know*Brent Beshore, Pure CEO; and Erica Beshore, Immunophotonics director of scientific communications
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June 2010
From the Roundtable: MU, and local economy, dodges realignment bullet
The college athletic conference realignment scenario that almost cascaded this month proved to be a close call for the Columbia area business community. Although the media generally ignored possible economic consequences of an upheaval, business and government leaders were sweating bullets over the future of the region’s economy if MU was left out of a
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Landmark, BCNB develop social networking sites
Two local banks have moved beyond their websites to serve Columbia’s virtual community. Landmark Bank set up a fan page on Facebook.com last July to foster new avenues of discussion with customers and other area residents, Marketing Director Rhiannon Trask said. Two weeks ago, Boone County National established a fan page for similar reasons, Senior
Guest Column: First step in Gulf oil crisis: Stop the leak, not advance legislation
The BP oil spill is an ongoing tragedy for the Gulf Coast region, its economy and the environment. Our first priority must be to stop the leak and do everything possible to preserve the livelihoods of those in the area. I feel strongly that BP must bear the financial burden for this disaster because hardworking
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County picks Wagner for hospital board
The Boone County Commission intends to appoint Bob Wagner, President and CEO of Columbia Insurance Group, to an open seat on the Boone Hospital Center Board of Trustees. The commissioners will make the appointment during their regular meeting on Thursday, according to an e-mail commission Secretary Jessica Sapp wrote to Columbia Business Times. The seat
Deal-making resumes at car lots
Fueled by newly acquired Nissan and a rebounding Ford, Joe Machens is in the driver’s seat of Columbia’s resurgent auto market. Car and truck sales at Columbia dealerships have increased by more than 16 percent for the first four months of 2010 compared with the same period the previous year, according to Missouri Department of Revenue data The local numbers mirror national sales, which also increased a little more than 16 percent, according to data from Autodata, a motor vehicle analysis firm based in New Jersey.
Editor’s View: With development debates on horizon, can city forestall acrimony?
A few days ago, I drove past the future home of IBM on LeMone Industrial Boulevard to catch up on the changing landscape. Construction workers were getting the industrial building ready for IBM to open in November, while around the corner road workers were getting close to finishing the Maguire Boulevard extension to Stadium Boulevard
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Steady Hand, Artistic Vision: Jewelry maker Andrea Jira
*Artist Profile*Jewelry maker Andrea Jira creates bold pieces from materials ranging from silver to bronze, glass and fabric.
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BBB opening local branch
The Better Business Bureau of Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois is opening a mid- Missouri branch at the Buttonwood Business Center in Columbia in mid-August and is interviewing applicants for the manager’s job on June 29 and 30. This will be the first branch office the BBB’s regional office, based in St. Louis, has opened
From the Roundtable: Growing inventory of vacant property troubling for Columbia
Watching the claw of a backhoe nibble away at the old Cleeks building on the southwest corner of West Boulevard and Worley Street brought back memories. It also brought up some concerns about commercial spaces. A few decades ago, a third of the area’s grocery sales passed through Nowell’s across the street while the Cleek
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