All Vacuum Care 3709 Providence Road, Suite D (573) 443-1500, www.allvacuumcare.net All Vacuum Care is opening a second location at 3709 Providence Road, Suite D (three doors down from Panera Bread). The original store is located on Range Line Street, across from the former location of Everett’s Restaurant. Both are owned by Randy Peterson. The […]
Casablanca Kabob House 501 Elm St. 442-4883 www.casablanca-grill.com Aziz El-Tayash closed Casablanca in Nifong Square earlier this winter and plans to open another Mediterranean restaurant with the same name in February at the northeast corner of Fifth and Elm streets. El-Tayash, a Columbia native, said the south-side restaurant, which operated for 11 years, was “a
The seasonal marketing mega-drama continues. This time of year, we have many clients and potential clients call and ask, “Do I need to advertise in the phone book?” Now we all know the physical book is becoming harder and harder to throw our marketing dollars into. People are turning to online sources to make their
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The economic downturn had a delayed impact on some public sectors, which held steady during the actual recession but had to reduce employment last year because of funding cuts. The public school system shed 12 percent of its workforce, and the state jobs based here fell about 7 percent. The county and the Post Office
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3406 N. Moreau Road, (573) 239-4235, www.mygreencities.com A local online company founded on Earth Day 2010, My Green Cities, has widened its net. Owner Arianna Parsons’ original goal was to register 100 locally owned, independent businesses in Columbia that operate with sustainability in mind. So far, she’s signed up about 110 local businesses, along with
Grants for growing: It takes more than compost to turn a former parking lot into a sustainable community garden. It takes green dollar bills and a systematic change to make a former parking lot a community garden. A new garden at the Columbia/Boone County Department of Health and Human Services is funded by a PedNet
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While watching our state’s highways crumble and hearing the widespread calls for budget cutbacks, Gov. Jay Nixon has come up with a pothole of a plan. The governor has applied for nearly a billion dollars in federal funds for various dubious passenger rail projects. The Nixon administration is seeking federal funds spurned by several other
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Rost Inc. reopened its retail operation, Superior Gardens, this spring after moving the inventory from its previous outlet near the southern end of Old Highway 63 to the northwestern corner of the city where its company operations are based. Rost said it has a much larger selection of plant material and products to choose from,
