By Executive Chef Aaron View, Les Bourgeois It’s a great time of year to eat local with the bounty provided by small farmers around Columbia. What better time to cook up some great local food paired with Missouri-made wines? The wines made in our area make great pairings with the products of the state because […]
As a busy mom, I continually look for dinner options that require less prep and shorter cooking time. However, I am also a creative person who loves to experiment with food. One of my favorite foods is pizza, but it was never a dish I felt I could make at home until I found fresh,
PROFESSION: Mary Kay Cosmetics; School of Health Professions Alumni Board AGE: 68 ORIGINAL HOMETOWN: New Melle, Missouri YEARS LIVED IN COLUMBIA: Since I graduated from Mizzou in 1969 with the exception of one year when I moved to Oklahoma FAMILY: I grew up in a small farm town with my older brother and younger sister.
The grass is always greener with faster Internet. Mediacom, the cable and communications provider for much of Columbia and Jefferson City, is introducing high-speed,1-gigabit Internet speeds to their residential network in mid-Missouri. Mediacom’s previous top residential speed was 150 megabits per second, and with 1000 megabits in a gigabit, the new service should be noticeably quicker. Mediacom
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Columbia’s fifth startup weekend closed over the weekend. The entrepreneurs started a handful of new businesses and exchanged even more great ideas! The first place prize, which comes with $2,000 in seed money and a package of startup resources, went to StaffedUp, a web platform for small and midsize businesses to recruit and compete for
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Two franchise-food favorites are adding locations in Columbia, roughly flagging either side of Broadway: CoMo’s second Noodles and Company opened on Conley Road, near Highway 63, over the weekend, and the city’s first (long-awaited) Chick-fil-A location opens on Wednesday at 305 N. Stadium Boulevard. The Conley Street location will be the first Noodles & Company
Georgie Faye’s Designer Shoe Rack only pays one employee: co-owner and president Brant Batson, a strong and friendly man with a trimmed beard. On weekday mornings, Batson drops his daughter off at Mill Creek Elementary and drives to the Broadway Shops to get the store ready for open. He stays until the store closes. Georgie
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In our February issue, we looked into how schools in Columbia, including MU’s Sinclair School of Nursing, were addressing a nursing shortage. Despite offering the tantalizing near-guarantee of a job upon graduation, Sinclair has had to find creative avenues for growth; the school’s state funding, like nurses, is in short-supply. The school’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program found success
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