Al Germond

With the approach of the Christmas season, as strings of holiday decorations appear, Columbia, like most places, is turning into a veritable “city of light.” I look forward...

Another structure was added to Columbia’s roster of empty buildings recently when Everett’s restaurant wound up its affairs, taking with it another stream of sales tax revenue. While...

Senator Chuck Graham still has time to take the honorable action and admit that he had too much to drink when he ended up in the hands of...

I am worried. I am worried about Columbia’s future as well as the destiny of the region and the state as well. I consider it my business as...

I shudder whenever anyone talks about employment and job security in the electronics industry. With an interest in the history of electronics, I may have been among the...

Hardly a weekend passes in Columbia without some burst of activity—even in the dead of winter, when events such as the True/False Film Festival take place—and that’s a...

Wading into the Great Controversy over where Columbia’s fourth high school should be placed, I have to say that the tentative decision to build where corn now sprouts...

There was a fillip of good news the other day about some new business activity here, but the media shied away from the banner headlines that used to...

Figuring out how to fix West Broadway is like treating a festering sore that just won’t heal. We all know the patient needs attention. But the city seems...

Plenty of us have been having our “fun” now that the city of Columbia has begun talking about putting a roof of grass on the City Hall annex...