The Environmental Protection Agency’s final regulations meant to clean up Hinkson Creek retained a mandate that stormwater flows be reduced by about 40 percent, but the agency added some breathing room. Columbia, Boone County and MU had vigorously opposed the proposed regulations known as a Total Maximum Daily Load and argued that it could cost […]
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Pending expected approval by the Columbia City Council within the next few weeks, work will soon begin on an ambitious apartment project at the northwest corner of East Walnut Street and North College Avenue. Trittenbach Development’s third downtown apartment project will bring hundreds of new residents into The District while developing one of the largest
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Lorah Steiner, who orchestrated Columbia’s tourism development for a quarter century, began a recent CBT forum on a bittersweet note. “I’m leaving soon,” she said, a few weeks before her new job in Florida begins, “but I have to tell you, I am so incredibly blessed to have marketed a destination that I think is
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The UM Board of Curators voted Jan. 28 to increase tuition by an average of 5.5 percent across its four campuses. For MU, the increase will amount to 6.5 percent, or $16 per credit hour for in-state students. The tuition hike requires a waiver from the state because it is higher than the inflation rate.
One day, I might try my hand at movie making. I have a great idea: a Monty Python-style comedy about business networking. In this case, networking to me means the good old-fashioned kind of networking, the real nose-to-nose kind. I can even envision a hodgepodge cast of characters for this movie, something like Dilbert meets
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Recently, Gov. Jay Nixon recommended a 7 percent cut in the core budget of the University of Missouri. This cut follows two years of smaller cuts and a generation of comprehensive underfunding. During the past decade, the Columbia campus has grown by more than 9,000 students — nearly 2,000 more than the entire current student
Then most dramatic swings in the local economy during the past eight years might be the housing construction market and, inversely, air transportation. The charts developed from CBT’s monthly economic indicators also illustrate the unemployment rate’s stubborn nature, stuck around 6 percent for two years now after doubling from the historically normal rate last seen in
