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For Columbians whose experience in dance audiences has been limited to viewing annual performances of The Nutcracker by tulle-bedecked amateur or out-of-town troupes, the term “ballet” has just...
After more than two decades in the commercial door business, Bob Drainer and his two partners recognized the sound of opportunity knocking when they heard it. Exactly 25...
The Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) is continuing its efforts to enhance services to the employers and entrepreneurs who call Missouri home. Under the leadership of Gov....
I recently spent about a week in Savannah, Ga., at a great conference on economic development. Our hotel was right on the Savannah River and, thus, on the...
News of national declines in real estate sales and new construction appears to be mirrored in Columbia and Boone County. However, statistics provided by panelists at the Third...
The Pen Point co-owner Holly Burgess has been part of the downtown scene for four decades, since her family took over the half-century-old store she now runs on...
According to some reports, each year Americans spend about 7.65 billion hours filling out government-requested paperwork—a problem the U.S. government attempted to address in 2004 with the “Report...
By Neal Gabler, Knopf, 851 pages, $35 Neal Gabler’s biography of Walt Disney is not the first and probably will not be the last. But it is difficult...
John Kleindienst of Capital City Construction Co. didn’t know he was walking a high wire as the national economy rode the housing resurgence to prosperity this decade. He...
Missouri Boulevard’s dominance in the growth of Jefferson City’s commercial real estate market may end — in the next decade or sooner. When commercial property broker Greg Bowman...