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For years, textbooks and restaurant consultants have contended that menu item placement directly influenced how frequently customers chose certain dishes. Not so, according to two independent studies by...
To Mike Cooper, a riverside resident since 1981, the muddy Missouri River means business. As the owner of Cooper’s Landing—full-service marina, campgrounds, lodge, country store and live-music venue—his...
Manufacturing-friendly town adapts to change At first glance, California appears to be a typical small town in the rural Midwest. It has one stoplight, a central square with...
The Missouri legislature this year took incremental steps to help the state’s businesses—particularly smaller employers—provide health insurance coverage for workers. Gov. Matt Blunt said he plans to sign...
It’s not too early to reserve your spot for Wynton Marsalis’s winter concert. Tickets for the sure-to-be-sold-out Feb. 10, 2008, “Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis”...
Business Development Officer, The Callaway Bank AGE: 40 JOB DESCRIPTION: Responsible for developing new business relationships of all types and strengthening existing bank relationships within the Columbia/Boone County...
A typical week at work for Steve Twitchell is anything but typical. The tasks at Steve Twitchell Production can include anything from making a historical video for The...
At a recent meeting, a long and emphatic lament decried the treatment of the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri. Local sophisticates, Democratic minority leaders and select...
From rural one-room schoolhouses to sprawling university campuses, school security is a growing concern. Part of that concern is rooted in a lack of communication to outsiders. In...
Columbia Turf owner Bill McWilliams is not a spur-of-the-moment kind of guy, despite his low-key explanation about how he came to buy a lawn-care business from a couple...