May 2016

Active wear for summer!

  1.Var-City Muscle Tank, purple, $58, Lululemon 2.Energy Bra, purple, $48, Lululemon 3.Define Jacket, black, $118, Lululemon 4.Spiritual Gangster shirt 5.Pace Rival Skirt II **, black, $58, Lululemon 6.Pure Practice Pant, grey, $98, Lululemon 7.Namaste at the Beach Short, black & grey, $68, Lululemon 8.Run For Days Bra II, purple, $58, Lululemon 9.Tracker Short III, […]

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Job Point: On Point

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

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OTSCON: No Stopping Them

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

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Heading Underground

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

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Interrupted Transmission

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

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Socket: A Fibrous Future

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

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