August 20, 2010

“Big city broadband. Rural reality.” That’s how Socket Telecom is touting the fiber-optic network it’s set to build in central Callaway County and a sliver of eastern Boone County.
This month the US Department of Agriculture awarded Socket a $16.6 million grant and a $7.1 million loan under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Within the next 90 days, Socket will use that money to start building a fiber-optic network capable of serving more than 3,000 homes and businesses.
In the process, Socket will change as a company.

Let me start by saying I am not a golf warrior. In fact, I’ve never understood why people like to golf. You walk around hitting a little ball with a club and try to get it to drop into a tiny hole in the middle of a big field. Then you pick up the little

Originally, Manjula Narasimhan just wanted to keep her daughter occupied. Now, the after-school teaching program she used with her daughter has become so popular that she plans to open a second Kumon Math and Reading Center soon in Jefferson City. Narasimhan, coordinator of the Kumon Center in Columbia, said the program might be a good

H3 Studio’s urban planners, hired by the city for $60,000, conducted an intensive week-long planning exercise known as a charrette.

The Alzheimer’s Association estimates there are 110,000 elderly residents in Missouri with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, and that number will increase by 9 percent in the next 10 years. Recently, there have been several research breakthroughs reported in academic journals, including one finding that a spinal fluid test can be 100 percent accurate in

Facing a housing shortage on campus, the University of Missouri has for the third year in a row leased units at two privately owned apartment complexes to provide nearly 600 extra rooms for students. As classes begin next week, university officials anticipate housing the largest class of  freshmen on record. The apartments available for MU

From the architect’s quiver comes the term charrette, meaning a collective effort to draw together ideas about a given project from a diverse group of individuals. H3 Studio, a consulting firm hired by the city, recently concluded a charrette for the development of two areas of downtown. The urban designers are fine-tuning their report, which