Inside IBM’s renovated building at 2810 LeMone Industrial Blvd. near the end of October, a couple dozen workers were carrying in new furniture, putting up white boards and checking computer equipment and electronics.
To give voters a quick primer for the election Tuesday, the CBT sent three questions to each of the candidates in the competitive state legislative races in Boone County. The 24th District seat covering southern Boone County is held by Democrat Chris Kelly, who defeated then-incumbent Ed Robb two years ago in a squeaker that
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On Nov. 2, Columbia residents on will have the opportunity to vote “yes” for our community and our kids. A “yes” vote on Proposition 1 to renew the Park Sales Tax will help our economy, community and quality of life. Regional Economic Development Inc. compiles a list of kudos. Most items on this list relate
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In about one quarter of the largest cities in the United States, city governments have implemented an earnings tax. Generally speaking, the tax base consists of income earned by people living in the city and wages earned by people working in the city or profits earned by those owning businesses in the city. In November
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Ask anyone if there is a difference between leaders and managers, and they will most certainly say yes. If you dig a little deeper and ask them to articulate this difference, they might run into some difficulty. The terms become a little foggy as the definition is reduced to a feeling based on previous encounters
Finding parking at 3M’s manufacturing plant on Route B in Columbia is easy.
Inside, the production space is more than half empty. On both sides of one hallway, rooms the size of basketball courts were left vacant as the company scaled down US production of goods made cheaper overseas.
Homecoming at the University of Missouri was a major tour de force. The exposure of the day’s events on national television programs viewed by millions of college football fans went a long way toward reducing national ignorance of our state university and the institution’s host city — Columbia. Two production teams from ABC-TV and co-owned
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