Al Germond

This is a story I’m going to call “Jack’s Three Miracles.” Among the small group that gathered in Bethel Park on May 6, 2001, to celebrate Jack’s second...

I recently wrote about severe weather and how over the years the greater Columbia area has been largely immune from such windy disturbances as the EF-5 tornado with...

By now, the word is out that a major overseas enterprise balked at opening a facility here because our air transport connections didn’t meet the company’s requirements. Although...

The Good Friday tornadoes that passed through St. Louis with, incredibly, no reported deaths reminds us of how far we have come watching and warning the public about...

While watching our state’s highways crumble and hearing the widespread calls for budget cutbacks, Gov. Jay Nixon has come up with a pothole of a plan. The governor...

As much faith as I have in the wise and collective wisdom of our elected officials, I’m disappointed by their recent decision to select an out-of-towner to be...

That headline sums up the recently concluded five-year performance of Bill Watkins in the hot-bird seat as Columbia’s city manager. It wasn’t too many months ago that most...

It’s official: 108,500. That’s the number of people who were living in Columbia in April last year when Census Bureau workers canvassed the city. Wow. That’s a growth...