From the Royal Blue Columbia Police Department pullover and various police badges strewn across her desk, it’s easy to conclude that Shelly Jones works for the CPD. But she doesn’t drive a police car to work, chase criminals or carry a nightstick. She doesn’t even work in the department’s downtown red-brick fortress. Yet, she is a […]
Got glass It’s only natural that Veterans United chief storyteller Sarah Hill discovered she’d been chosen to test out google glass via Twitter. The eyeglasses-type technology, which enables wearers to ask for directions, take pictures and videos and provide language translation, will be released to only a few thousand people. Hill, who has more than
My cover is blown. A commercial for the Boone County Fire Protection District flashes across the screen of a tv in the PRIME Lab’s testing room. The camera follows a fire hose up to a flaming garage door with intense, melodic music in the background. A message appears on screen: “What would you do without volunteers?”
A young man from Mexico, Mo., leaves his hometown job selling real estate to travel the country as a band tour manager. The gamble pays off. Ten years later, after working with impressive groups such as U2, he’s producing music videos and documentaries in Los Angeles. But then the man reinvents himself. Having never worked for
Five years ago, Jim Spencer left his heart and established career in San Francisco. After pioneering ask Jeeves, one of the world’s first popular search engines, he decided to retouch base with his roots in the Midwest. Packing his bags, he headed east, eager to breathe life into his vision of a video news production
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Glass brimming with red wine clink over rounds of congratulations. Jazz piano from the stereo system melts into the background chatter, a group of men in tan suits pose for a quick snapshot, then turn to the table set with hors d’oeuvres and dessert platters. Welcome to Dak Dillon’s biggest party on paper he’s been planning
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The drone poised at Broadway and Providence Road is ready for a bird’s eye tour of Columbia’s 4th Ward. The excursion starts its sweep over Old City subdivisions, whose legacies often go back a century. The flight then moves west and southwestward over less thickly settled, more suburban areas lying within a few miles of the Missouri River Valley. With a recent election in mind comes a
