January 30, 2018

Hope and Despair

Columbia recorded its first homicide while the New Year was still very young. Not something to boast about. It’s a problem about drugs, as individuals — rivals and their gangs — spar with each other over the sale and distribution of a cornucopia of various controlled substances in the local marketplace. And so it goes

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Policy: The City Budget

For the second year, the Columbia Chamber of Commerce has produced a local agenda intended to help direct and steer the policy discussion with our local leaders and elected officials. One of the agenda items is about the City of Columbia’s operating budget. The fiscal year 2018 budget approved by the City Council in September

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In Focus: PEDs in the Office

Over a dinner conversation with my husband’s extended family a few months ago, his cousin mentioned that another college student at MU had recently overdosed on Adderall in the library. He said they must have taken an “insane” amount to actually OD. I had questions: what is this stuff? How did the student get it?

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