“Taco heaven,” a term coined by Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, is a spot-on description of the Fuzzy’s experience. Located downtown on Ninth Street, at first glance Fuzzy’s is your regular, run-of-the-mill, brightly painted taco shop. But on a second look, it’s clear that Fuzzy’s is nothing of the sort. My Fuzzy’s experience started with a […]
Job description: I’m the vice president for finance and chief financial officer for the University of Missouri System, which means I have responsibility for the university’s $3.0 billion budget. I oversee the university’s endowment and retirement trust fund, budget planning and development, treasury, investment, accounting, procurement, facilities planning and design, real estate, internal audit, human
Nellie Boyd has been visiting Bubblecup Tea Zone since she was in high school. The experience, she says, always goes something like this: she stands in line, perusing the menu and wondering what exotic new brew she’s going to try. Then, once at the register, she orders her regular: classic milk tea. Every single time.
It has now been 45 years since Missouri adopted its Sunshine Law, which obligates government agencies and officers to give the public access to most public records and public meetings. No government official can legitimately claim to be ignorant that the Sunshine Law imposes this obligation. And yet when Missouri’s state auditor, Nicole Galloway, recently
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While delayed briefly by the need to deal with his personal scandal, Governor Eric Greitens refocused on politics in late January with a two-day state tour to announce his plan to cut individual and corporate tax rates by an estimated (by his office) $800 million. “This tax plan puts working families first, and it’s a
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“If you had told me 25 years ago, when I was still working as a corporate lawyer in London, that I would be living in the middle of Missouri running a book festival, well my first question would’ve been ‘Where’s Missouri?’” laughs Alex George. But by 2003, George’s path led him to set up an
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In December 2016, Amanda Jacobs posted a video to her personal Facebook page of her daughter counting out $100 bills onto a desk. Jacobs, vice president and asset manager at Jacobs Property Management, was purchasing an $8,600 car in cash, so her daughter was helping her. Jacobs, a certified Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University instructor
Food Bank David Coil, Gina Gervino, Paula Fleming, and Marty McCormick will begin serving on the board for The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. Coil is the executive vice president of Coil Construction. Gervino is senior vice president and general counsel at Columbia Insurance Group. Fleming has more than 15 years of executive
Food Bank David Coil, Gina Gervino, Paula Fleming, and Marty McCormick will begin serving on the board for The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. Coil is the executive vice president of Coil Construction. Gervino is senior vice president and general counsel at Columbia Insurance Group. Fleming has more than 15 years of executive
Food Bank David Coil, Gina Gervino, Paula Fleming, and Marty McCormick will begin serving on the board for The Food Bank for Central and Northeast Missouri. Coil is the executive vice president of Coil Construction. Gervino is senior vice president and general counsel at Columbia Insurance Group. Fleming has more than 15 years of executive
