Al Germond

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From the Roundtable: Stormy seas await city and county government crews

Heading into winter, I have feelings that the next year or two are going to…

From the Roundtable: MU’s Homecoming game exposure nothing like its TV debut

Homecoming at the University of Missouri was a major tour de force. The exposure of…

From the Round Table: Thick skin among attributes for a suitable city manager

HELP WANTED: Midwestern 100K metropolitan community with research university seeks fiscally oriented city manager. Opening…

From the Roundtable: Community suggestions could help promote local tourism

A slight uptick in sales tax receipts somewhat brightens the local financial picture, though the…

Let’s hope the latest city skyline addition is no white elephant

Church steeples were the first of many man-made objects to rise above Columbia’s tree line.…

From the Roundtable: Could city budget shortfall lead to new taxes?

The numbers swim and dance before us in the most strenuous tome of the late…

Downtown development’s key players: MU, Columbia College

From the architect’s quiver comes the term charrette, meaning a collective effort to draw together…

From the Roundtable: Lessons unlearned: Theatre, YouZeum sinkholes sapped donor base

The recently announced — presumably temporary — suspension of activity at the Missouri Theatre Center…

The drawn-out demise of Columbia’s passenger train service

The last time I took a train to Columbia’s Wabash Station was in April 1969.…

From the Roundtable: MU lab explosion a reminder of experimental dangers

The recent explosion and fire in Schweitzer Hall on the University of Missouri’s white campus…

From the Roundtable: MU, and local economy, dodges realignment bullet

The college athletic conference realignment scenario that almost cascaded this month proved to be a…

From the Roundtable: Growing inventory of vacant property troubling for Columbia

Watching the claw of a backhoe nibble away at the old Cleeks building on the…