Carfax has purchased four acres directly to the south of its data center in the Lemone industrial park and plans to build a 10,000-square-foot addition to house its growing operations. The company expects to hire 45-50 employees in the next three to five years, Vice President Gary Lee said Friday. The Carfax workforce has grown […]
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Since 1980, Richard King has consistently lured famous and soon-to-be-famous artists to our little college town.
The Blue Note celebrates its 30th anniversary on July 30 with a Ninth Street concert featuring Snoop Dog and Ice Cube.
*Power Lunch: Tech Transfer*MU Life Sciences Business Incubator, moving ideas from the lab to the marketplace
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From the Missouri Department of Agriculture Every Saturday from March through October, shoppers at the Columbia Farmers Market line up to purchase pork chops, roasts, ribs, bacon and other products from Jim and Deanna Crocker of Centralia. Halfway across the state, upscale St. Louis restaurants feature beef, pork, lamb and poultry produced by Greenwood Farms of Newburg. At a
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*Person You Should *Tad A. Johnsen, director of Columbia Water & Light, on work, the community and MU sports
*Construction Update*Buffalo Wild Wings hopes to gain more attention in its newly renovated space at the Rock Bridge Shopping Center.
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A few weeks ago, KMIZ launched “ABC 17 News This Week,” a newsmagazine-style program based in Columbia. It might not be a cash cow, but at least it’s less vulnerable to some of the new realities of the TV business. Take retransmission fees, which cable operators, satellite companies and telecommunications companies pay to local stations
The inaugural John Anderson Celebrity Golf Invitational, held June 28 at the Country Club of Missouri, raised $30,000 for the Columbia-based Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri, organizer Susan McNay said. Anderson, who anchors ESPN’s “SportsCenter” and co-hosts ABC’s reality show “Wipeout,” is a 1987 graduate of the MU School of Journalism. About 140
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*Construction Update*MERS-Goodwill store moves to a stand-alone facility, offers 15,000 square feet of retail space
A Columbia company has built a compacting machine that transforms corn cobs, corn stalks and other plant material into dense tablets that look like big hockey pucks and burn like coal. Ecologic Tech is an intellectual property licensing firm with seven employees located in an industrial building on McGuire Boulevard, around the corner from the
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