Al Germond

It’s something so incredible; I wonder where I’ve been all these years. The news flash: Columbia’s City Council is considering two competitive proposals to allow advertisements on city...

My recollections about Columbia’s drinking water go back only a few decades, but it’s always seemed odd that a series of wells would be a sufficient source for...

Doesn’t there seem to be an abundance of vacant commercial buildings for sale or rent around Columbia these days? Based on my own “drive-by” survey (to borrow a...

KAB-278, the Columbia-Boone Joint Communications radio station, crackles with excitement on a weekend evening. Although not exactly the same as a “calling all cars” sequence in an old...

Many of us had such high hopes for the YouZeum, an interactive project that began as a “health adventure center” amidst discrete murmurings by skeptics who considered this...

Often what interests us the most is what we know the least about. This is certainly the case with our natural – some might say morbid – curiosity...

It’s been a long and productive run for five-term Mayor Darwin Hindman. Hindman grew up on Edgewood Avenue in the Old Southwest, the son of a University of...

It began with a call from David Lile, host of the Morning Show on News Talk 1400. A listener wanted to know when KFRU’s daily “Quickie Quiz” feature...

So, the population of Columbia has crossed the hundred grand mark, according to the latest official estimate. This is hardly news to those of us who’ve been tracking...

The debate rages about health care reform, and I am confused. From the Left, the Right, the Middle and perhaps some mysterious kingdom out yonder comes the debate,...