City and developers struggle to maintain adequate wastewater systems. The banks of Flat Branch Creek are carpeted in the springy remains of chewed up trees. Along 4,500 feet of the MKT Trail, next to the creek, a corridor was recently carved out in preparation for a major overhaul to one of the city’s oldest […]
Architect Jennifer Hedrick does some of her best work with Post-its. A principal at Simon Oswald Architecture, Hedrick led the year-long design and documentation phase of the South Providence Medical Center for MU Health Care, which opened in January 2015. One of the unique phases of the project involved building mock-ups of the exam rooms
In 1965, Missouri senators Stuart Symington and Edward V. Long made a $9,000 donation to the Columbia Cosmopolitan Luncheon Club to support a new program teaching men and women how to, respectively, repair Pepsi cases and iron clothes. Today, the program supports nearly 500 members of the Columbia community as Job Point: a nonprofit community
In eastern Boone County, at the intersection of two quiet roads, sits a white warehouse. It’s austere for the most part, an outbuilding of sheet metal next to acres of open farmland. The intertwining streets are called Richland and Rangeline, two fitting names for this mid-Missouri swath of rural panorama. The facility, however, is anything
This story appeared in print in conjunction with “Interrupted Transmission.” One of the many questions surrounding the power lines project in south Columbia has been about undergrounding — the process of burying electric lines below the ground to avoid electromagnetic fields and tall, unappealing steel poles. Could the transmission lines be buried? Could parts of it
It’s been nearly a decade since the city first announced the need for electrical transmission lines in south Columbia. The fight keeps heating up. Eighty feet high, 8-foot circumference, steel pole. Three thick cords of wire, stretching and sagging slightly over the course of 500 feet. The cords connect with another pole, 80 feet
Missouri-based telephone and internet provider grows its fiber network. From dial-up to DSL to fiber, Columbia’s Socket leads innovation in the state of Missouri. Since 1994, the telecommunications company has connected residents of over 400 cities across the United States with top-of-the-line and evolving internet, phone, and television while providing their 20,000 customers with individual
Doctor Kristin Oliver has taken sports medicine to a new level. Oliver completed her residency at University Hospital, followed by a sports medicine fellowship with the Columbia Orthopaedic Group, and even received a master’s degree in public health along the way. She and her two partners in St. Louis started taking care of athletes with
Without Columbia firm Environmental Dynamics International, something wouldn’t smell right in China. That’s because their products are used in what happens to be the world’s largest wastewater treatment system, handling more than one billion gallons of sewage a day in that country. Chuck Tharp is the chairman and co-founder of EDI, a designer and manufacturer
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Wash. Dry. Fold. Doing laundry is a regular part of our lives. Whether separating that bright red shirt from our white tees or throwing jeans in the cold cycle, it’s a routine that takes a good chunk of time during the week. Yet compared to a local laundry service tucked behind Lemone Industrial Boulevard,
