Al Germond

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DOWNWIND FROM A TRYING election cycle, amidst gasps of relief that it’s over, conservatives and many business people are frustrated and depressed in the aftermath. With more and...

SAY YOU’RE the decision-maker at a business located in Illinois. You alone — if the entity is larger, the stockholders and board of directors — are troubled by...

THE NUMBERS for the Columbia area’s burgeoning medical industry are ever changing and sometimes difficult to quantify. There are questions such as the number of practicing physicians, assistants,...

Bouncing across Missouri through Jonesburg in 1914 on the Old Trails Road would have been a ton of fun and adventure. Gas was selling for a few pennies...

Tax abatement, historic tax credits, tax increment financing, enhanced enterprise zones, transportation development districts in the stew with subsidies of various sorts are continuing to generate a ruckus....

The cash flow potential is incredible. “Beds” in the two-, three- and four-person apartment complexes shooting up across downtown Columbia are renting for north of $500 to $600...

To paraphrase one of the songs from Rogers and Hammerstein’s hit musical “Oklahoma”: “Everything’s up to date in Columbia. They’ve gone about as fer as they can go.”...

A couple of weeks ago, a warning siren in the neighborhood went off around 10 a.m. — a false alarm, as it turned out. The next day, the...

Blight … enhanced enterprise zones … 50 percent property tax abatement … eminent domain … Susette Kelo — all of these have been swirling around Columbia and stirring...

So, what did you pay for a gallon of gas today? Was it $2.99 … or maybe $3.05? Perhaps it was $3.09? Were you shocked at having to...