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 […]
It all began with two people going from business to business — scrubbing, vacuuming, getting the job done. Fast-forward 35 years and those two people have maintained an established cleaning service for businesses throughout Mid-Missouri, leading 60 employees from their Columbia headquarters. Owners Rob and Susie Cason began cleaning buildings and homes as teenagers. Rob
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Retirements are a big deal at Commerce Bank, but they’re an especially big deal when the person retiring is Teresa Maledy. Maledy started as a part-time teller with the bank more than 37 years ago; last month, she announced that she’ll be retiring as CEO and chairwoman of Commerce’s central Missouri region. She’ll cede the
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Debt can be a funny thing. On the one hand, you probably need it in order to access some of life’s big-ticket items: going to college, upgrading your automobile, buying that first house, starting your own business, etc. On the other hand, if you take on too much of it without a clear plan
Small business loan counselor Liza Zimmerman says Columbia is “ripe” with opportunities for microloans, socially-conscious small loans that are a building block for many entrepreneurs. Zimmerman is a loan counselor at Justine Petersen, a St. Louis-based company that provides small loans to low- and middle-income entrepreneurs through a partnership with the Small Business Administration.
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Nearly one in three American adults has a criminal record listed in the FBI’s master criminal database. And a criminal record can prevent someone from obtaining employment. This pricey problem affects everyone. But the hiring is already too onerous, so adding more laws for employers to comply with is not the solution. Instead, we should
There are two things in the administration of Columbia’s city government that never should be allowed to happen again. No more marathon seven-hour city council meetings. No more uncontested races for mayor and city council positions. City council meetings have become the vexingly cumbersome theater of frustration, complication, bloviation, and angst. No wonder fewer and
1. What does your typical day look like? Oh, I wish there was such a thing! With hundreds of bankers across three states running three very different lines of business, every day is different from the one before it. I consider my job to be like that of an orchestra conductor: I don’t play the
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Oh, to be a tax accountant these days. Being in the thick of the first tax season following the federal tax overhaul, they get to help all their business and personal clients sort out the new tax planning landscape. By now, you’ve probably looked into how the new tax changes affect you. Maybe you’ve cheered
