Nominations are now open for the 20 Under 40 class of 2019! 20 Under 40 honors role models under the age of 40 who have demonstrated leadership in our community and who are successful in their chosen fields.We use your nominations to narrow down the nominees to a group of 40. The chosen nominees will […]
In my last two pieces, I’ve discussed the police department’s community policing efforts and the national push for officers to be the guardians of our community. But there are times when an officer needs to be a warrior. For example, in the past two years, the U.S. has experienced both the largest school shooting and
Many of us try to keep our work separate from our family life. But for three local families, that isn’t the case. The Rost, Spry, and Kinser families enjoy combining their work with their family members. Not only do these families work alongside their loved ones on a daily basis, but they also run the
It’s the quiet that entices Greg DeLine out of bed at 2 a.m. As the ever-demanded owner of DeLine Holdings, his days are spent managing a steady stream of communication, working through daily challenges, and wringing out the best of his collection of more than 10 businesses. The possibilities for distraction don’t exist when the
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For more than 25 years, foster children in Mid-Missouri have found a safe place to grow up at Coyote Hill Christian Children’s Home in Harrisburg. Whether the children come from abusive or neglected home lives or they’re part of a larger sibling set that makes them more difficult to place in a traditional foster home,
Can Missouri Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe keep his new title? At this writing, he’s up one round to none. Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem has tossed out a legal challenge to Kehoe’s appointment brought by the Missouri Democratic Party and individual plaintiff Darrell Cope, of Hartville. Beetem said the plaintiffs lacked legal standing. Beyond
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On November’s ballot, voters will decide on increasing the tax on motor fuel by a total of 10 cents over four years, raising the tax from its current 17 cents per gallon to 27 cents per gallon. The proceeds of the tax are intended for the operations of the Missouri Highway Patrol and road construction
This past November, the City of Columbia proposed a use tax. Small business owners advocated for it; voters appeared confused by it; city officials tried to explain it. In the end, it failed. “It’s really a difficult thing to explain. A use tax — what’s a use tax?” says Richard Sheets, deputy director of the
Columbia is among the healthiest cities to own a business due to a varied network of resources — many available at no cost — offered to business owners. Some of the resources, like the Columbia Chamber of Commerce and REDI, are already familiar to most small business owners. Others, like the Missouri Small Business and
The passage of Proposition A on the August primary ballot would have included Missouri in the list of states with a right-to-work law. The proposition, however, was doomed from the moment petition bearers began spreading out in force across Missouri a year ago trying to get signatures. Their spiels to the public were confusing but
