The first college for women west of the Mississippi was founded here, as was the first state university west of the river. The first journalism school in the world calls Columbia home. This time, according to Kevin McDonald, MU’s vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity, and equity and the UM System’s chief diversity officer, it’s the […]
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In an August board meeting this year, it was decided that the nonprofit formerly known as Youth Empowerment Zone would be renamed COMO Youth Works in an effort to re-energize the brand and reinforce the organization’s mission. “We are proud to be a grassroots nonprofit, born out of a need first identified by Almeta Crayton
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Next year, there will be a new business off the Loop behind media and interactive agency True Media. The new company, RADaR, has been housed inside True Media’s office for almost two years. What was created as a service for True Media’s clients has grown into its own business, and it now needs its own
1. What’s your background? I attended the University of Central Missouri from 1975 to 1978. After graduation, I managed my family’s lumber yard in Mexico, Missouri. Through the next few years, I held progressively larger leadership roles: salesman for MidCity Lumber and manager for a True Value hardware store. In 1983, I opened two stores,
Years lived in Columbia/Mid-Missouri: I moved from Boston to Columbia when my partner accepted a job at the University of Missouri. We thought we’d be here for a year, but we fell in love with this community, and here we are nearly 20 years later. Original hometown: I grew up in Holmdel, New Jersey, 30
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