Dianna Borsi O'Brien

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Solar power business heating up

Vaughn Prost’s newest company, Missouri Solar Applications LLC, got its start through a conversation with an old college friend who headed Dow Chemical’s research on solar electric shingles

How to save energy without really trying

It turns out that I’m going to be saving a whole lot of energy and money. I didn’t plan it; all I wanted was clean windows.

Local website guides consumers to green businesses

Arianna Parsons wants to help consumers do more to help the environment than turn off…

Give me your best pitch

Pitch Slam

Merger transforms accounting firm, move in works

Firm in Transition

Capturing Columbia’s Cinema Century

From Haden Opera House to Hollywood Theaters, the city has a rich history of movie venues. Some marquees are long gone: the Airdome, Hippodrome, Elite and Star, the M Theatre and the Bijo Dream, to name a few. Several burned to the ground. The oldest survivor, the Missouri Theatre, is a fitting site for a local historian’s display of downtown movie venues going back 113 years and recalling a time when businessmen often spent their lunch breaks in Columbia’s “movie palaces.”

Grant to move MU docs digital

Grant Savage, head of the University of Missouri School of Medicine Department of Health Management…

Take a tour; help others

There’s one very special kitchen that isn’t on the Kitchens in Bloom tour, yet it’s…

City chicks: What's happened since the backyard birds became legal?

*Urban Chicks*Since the ordinance passed, backyard chickens adjust to city life, owners and neighbors adjust to them.

Jeff MacLellan: The Man Behind the Numbers

So much for the small talk. When I finally got to sit down with Jeff MacLellan for an interview, I casually mentioned that for someone recently retired, he’d been pretty hard to catch. Had he been out of town?
No, he answered. He had prostate cancer, and he’d been in the hospital having his prostrate removed.
That’s Jeff MacLellan: straightforward, honest, not one to mince words.

"Man, It Feels Good to be a Banker"

So you think bankers are boring? Check out Landmark Bank’s rap videos on YouTube, and…

Notable Properties

John Ott said he was happy to hear that the Berry Building was named to this year’s historical Notable Properties list, but that wasn’t his goal when he set out to bring the old building back to life.