Jacob Barker

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IBM site gets unusual stormwater variance

Carfax plans to build two rain gardens and an enormous basin to filter and contain stormwater that will flow off the roof of a 10,000-square-foot addition that will be built on a grass-covered lot next to the company’s headquarters.

Power Line extension plan jolts neighborhoods

Power line tension

Parking garage construction debt raises revenue questions

Parking Revenue

City leaders departing in trying times

Leadership Void

MU, city consider retirement system overhauls

The financial crisis has caused the University of Missouri System and the city of Columbia to consider revamping their pension systems.

Editor's Welcom

People my age don’t generally think about retirement. But with the University of Missouri and…

UM presses on in pension review

The UM System’s evaluation of its pension plan has entered the next step. UM President…

Richland Road back in front of P&Z

The Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission will take another look at developer David Atkins’ Richland…

City finance director leaving post

The upcoming departure of Columbia Finance Director Lori Fleming and City Manager Bill Watkins means…

IBM manager boots up service center

Inside IBM’s renovated building at 2810 LeMone Industrial Blvd. near the end of October, a couple dozen workers were carrying in new furniture, putting up white boards and checking computer equipment and electronics.

Solar film brightens 3M’s future locally: Plant expansion to create 120 jobs, revitalize factory

Finding parking at 3M’s manufacturing plant on Route B in Columbia is easy.
Inside, the production space is more than half empty. On both sides of one hallway, rooms the size of basketball courts were left vacant as the company scaled down US production of goods made cheaper overseas.

Hemingway's restaurant closes

Hemingway’s Wine and Bistro closed this week, an employee who answered the south Columbia restaurant’s…