September 27, 2016

How to Get Certified as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise

This article appeared in print as part of “The Smaller Bidder.” MBE/WBE Certification Minority- and woman-owned businesses can get a boost from state and federal programs intended to help them compete for and win government projects if they’re registered as a minority business enterprise, a woman business enterprise, or a disadvantaged business enterprise. Projects using […]

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Love Your Library: DBRL’s March to the Future

Features

Ten minutes before 9 a.m. on a hot and humid summer morning, dozens of patrons wait patiently outside the Daniel Boone Regional Library to start off their day. When it’s time, the doors open, and the crowd heads in and then off to the various areas of the building to work on various things —

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Buchroeders Jewelry: Diamonds are Forever

Celebrations, Working

Mills Menser grew up in the diamond business. His father, Michael Menser, purchased Buchroeders Jewelers from the Buchroeder family in 1971. Mills purchased the company in 2007. One hundred and twenty years after its creation in 1896, almost everything about Buchroeders has evolved, a trend Mills plans to continue. “Average is a failing formula now,”

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Diversity Awareness Partnership: Dialogue on Diversity

Community, Nonprofit Spotlight

When Veterans United’s manager of diversity and inclusion programs, Loreli Wilson, first took her position, she searched for larger diversity programs to connect with across Columbia. She was surprised to find none. What would eventually become Columbia’s Diversity Awareness Partnership originally started as an initiative by professionals, like Wilson, from VU, Shelter Insurance, and MU.

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Maly Commercial Realty: Developing the Dream Team

Business Update, Working

For the past three years, Otto Maly’s focus has been to increase Maly Commercial Realty’s commercial development market share in Columbia. His strategy? Assemble a team of real estate professionals with individual expertise and relationships that span the Columbia and national markets. That cross-section of experience has been the linchpin of the company’s gains in

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Dream Chasers: Minority Business Owners Thrive

Features

Nickie Davis makes a distinct impression. She’s comfortable in her own skin; her turquoise corkscrew curls accent her sense of individuality and her desire to empower others to express who they are. A hometown girl, Davis immersed herself in Columbia’s fashion scene early on, working for Gap, Natural Groove, Blackberry Exchange, and Swank before launching

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CBT’s Political Insider

Features

Election day is coming up. To get you prepared, CBT is sharing our notes on the candidates running for local and state office.

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Swallow Hall, MU Campus

Flashback

Named for George Clinton Swallow (1817-1899), MU’s first professor of geology, chemistry, and agriculture, Swallow Hall was designed in 1892 and constructed in 1893. Swallow was also the first dean of the college of agriculture and the first state geologist of Missouri. The name was retained even after the biology and geology schools relocated buildings.

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Briefly in the News: October

Briefly in the News

VU’s New Digs Veterans United recently leased the 15,000-square-foot Museao building at 3500 Buttonwood Dr. Veterans United also leased an 82,000-square-foot building at 1500 Vandiver Dr., which is owned by Vaughn Prost of 1500 Vandiver LLC, providing Veterans United their 15th office in Columbia. Veterans United has over 1,550 employees in Columbia and over 2,000

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Briefly in the News: October

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