Al Germond

Figures released recently by the U.S. Census Bureau estimate Columbia’s population is now 119,109, making it Missouri’s fourth largest city and the fastest growing metropolitan area in the...

The most important item on the City of Columbia’s “to-do” list of municipal projects is the construction and development of a new terminal facility at Columbia Regional Airport....

The April 5 municipal election confirms Columbia’s continued drift to the political left and, like the county it is a part of, the overwhelming dominance by what, in...

That an untenured assistant professor of communications can cause the University of Missouri so much grief remains the centerpiece of the ongoing drama at Old Mizzou that just...

For months, it seemed like the bad old days of the ’60s and ’70s had returned to the University of Missouri campus. Starting in 1965, Old Mizzou was...

Dad was late to work that morning. It was Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1950 when he and my mom got up early to take my brother and me over...

We’ll never get the whole story about what transpired during the recently concluded “times of trouble” at University of Missouri. The stormy fall semester is over and the...

Enshrined under Article XI of the Columbia City Charter, the makeup of the city’s planning and zoning commission has seen service from hundreds of volunteers on what has...

With a trio of local elections coming up next year, perhaps this would be a good time to reconvene the unofficial, perhaps fictitious Boone County Hot Stove Political...