When I ask veterans coming home from the battlefield or long deployments what they miss most or want to do first, their answers are often similar: spend time catching up with family, eat a big home-cooked meal, relax and enjoy some down time. But soon after, their thoughts turn to finding new careers back in […]
Heading into winter, I have feelings that the next year or two are going to be pretty rough ones for the city of Columbia and Boone County. The local governments are sailing through the waters of arguably the worst recession since the Big One of the 1930s, and there are more than a few icebergs
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Terry Woodruff knew the poke from his business partner was coming halfway through Steve Sweitzer’s sentence.
The old high school buddies were bantering while posing for a photograph when Sweitzer began to ask, “Can you PhotoShop some…”
The Columbia Chamber of Commerce selected the 30 members of the 2011 Leadership Columbia program. Co-chairs of this year’s Leadership Columbia class are two previous graduates of the program, Craig Brumfield of Callaway Bank and Lindsay Young Lopez of Columbia College. A program of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce and the Fair Missouri Foundation, Leadership
The Junior Achievement program launched this school year in Columbia will easily reach its goal of involving 2,000 students in after-school and in-school economic education and will expand to the high schools in January, the regional coordinator said after a dedication ceremony. More than 75 people and about 150 students attended the ribbon cutting at
Saigon Bistro, a Vietnamese restaurant owned by veteran businesswoman Jenny Lam, is scheduled to open next week at 912 E. Broadway. Lam owned four restaurants in Texas before coming to Columbia with her husband, MU Professor Henry Nguyen, and owned Glamour Nails and Alterations Unlimited in the Shoppes at Stadium before getting back into the
Football games and formal attire don’t usually go together, but they did when the Diamond Night fundraiser took place on the same night as the Missouri Tigers game against Texas Tech. Guests watched the game on a giant projection screen after dinner and held an auction during breaks in the game on Nov. 6. Proceeds
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On Veteran’s Day, VA Mortgage Center.com employees and Habitat for Humanity volunteers were to gather for a dedication ceremony in front of the house at 901 Wrigley that the company helped fund and build for a local veteran. VAMC teamed up with Show Me Central Habitat for Humanity to select a veteran, Chris Ruff and
