February 2011

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

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

During the past decade, Columbia has realized economic success. Payroll employment increased by 16 percent, total establishments increased by 21 percent, and payrolls increased by 46 percent. These data indicate two things: the average number of workers per establishment declined, and the average pay per worker increased. Based on these two facts, one might guess

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

For the past two years, Corey Rimmel has juggled classes at the University of Missouri and the day-to-day operations of his business, Hot Box Cookies. Rimmel, along with schoolmates Adam Hendin and David Melnick, launched the downtown business in October 2008 after Rimmel was inspired by a similar business near the University of Indiana campus.

Things and people are changing at the city of Columbia. Although the wave of recent and pending departures by the city manager, finance director, fire chief, cultural affairs manager and director of the Convention and Visitors Bureau might seem to be a ripple effect, in actuality, each departure can be attributed to uniquely personal circumstances.