In many categories, Missouri has the lowest taxes in the country. The Morgan Quitno State Rankings 2010 book lists Missouri as: 47th-lowest in per capita taxes; 46th-lowest in corporate income tax; 40th-lowest in general revenue sales tax. Now Missouri has another record low. As of July 1, when South Carolina raised its cigarette tax to […]
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When business owners list the tactics in their marketing arsenals, too few include event marketing. Event marketing is a powerful tool, whether the businesses create their own events or participate in events hosted by others. Events provide a unique combination of advantages. They facilitate meaningful interactions with customers, prospects and referral sources; they can brand
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The Columbia Daily Tribune’s recent announcement that it will start charging people to read articles on its website has generated a tempest in the online community. Long anticipated, this Internet paywall will be watched closely from afar as well as right here at MU’s School of Journalism, the Reynolds Journalism Institute and by the newspaper’s
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The green and white paint is faded, and dead yellow pampas grass partially obscures the “Welcome to Columbia” sign along eastbound Interstate 70. The wooden sign between the Midway and Stadium Boulevard exits displays a decade-old population estimate: 84,531.
There are towering billboards flanking the door-sized welcome sign and competing for the attention of drivers whizzing by. A smaller adjacent sign names the businesses that covered the gateway project’s cost, including one that hasn’t been around for years, Ameritec Cellular
Power Lunch: Hinkson Creek and Stormwater
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The Columbia Chamber of Commerce has selected a keynote speaker for its annual Business Showcase. Jeff Beals, an author, commercial real estate broker and part-time college professor from Omaha, Neb., will talk about building a successful career through self-marketing. Beals is currently vice president of Coldwell Banker Commercial World Group, a commercial real estate company
Ben Bernanke, chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System (the central bank), recently announced another round of quantitative easing. By the end of the second quarter of 2011, the Fed intends to buy $600 billion of Treasury Department securities, especially those at the longer end of the maturity spectrum, to help
The “We Always Swing” Jazz Series and Columbia Access Television plan to co-produce a live telethon on Dec. 11 to raise funds for the two nonprofits. The “We Always Swing” Jazz Series, an organization dedicated to producing concerts and educating the public about jazz music, is in charge of the programming for the telethon, which
Carfax plans to build two rain gardens and an enormous basin to filter and contain stormwater that will flow off the roof of a 10,000-square-foot addition that will be built on a grass-covered lot next to the company’s headquarters.
