Jodie Jackson Jr.

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Featured Mr 340 Participants Paddle On Missouri River In Kansas City

Racing Against Themselves 

Considering his almost intimate connection to the Missouri River, it’s difficult to imagine a time…

Featured Columbia Farmers Market

(Re)Discover: Columbia Farmers Market and CCUA

The Columbia Farmers Market and Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture (CCUA) at 1769 W. Ash…

Featured Blue Winged Teal Flock In Flight Eagle Bluffs Dennis Smarr

COMO’s Fauna From A to Z

A coyote suddenly appears. Or was it already there, stealthily entering your subdivision under the…

Featured Art In The Park

(Re)Discover COMO: Art in the Park, Hindman Junction, “Blind” Boone Home

Art in the Park    Art in the Park, which began in 1959, is one of…

Featured Rocheport Tunnel

(Re)Discover COMO: First Fridays, Finger Lakes State Park, Rocheport Day Trip

First Fridays    Food, art, music, more art, more food, a family- and kid-friendly atmosphere. And…

Featured Ccua Schoolhouse Grasshopper Sculpture (1)

What’s the New Buzz at Columbia’s Agriculture Park?  

Late winter sunlight bathed the still-new insect sculptures at the Columbia Agriculture Park at Clary-Shy…

crowd gathered in a art studio for the Featured Unbound Book Festival Event

(Re)Discover COMO: Unbound Book Festival, Museum of Art and Archaeology, and Capen Park

Unbound Book Festival   Did someone say, “Book festival?” Even better? “FREE” book festival.   The 10th…

Featured Covid Icu Nurses Reflecting On Pandemic Experiences

COVID Reflections

People didn’t believe that COVID was real and that so many people lost their lives…

The Columbia, Missouri City Hall building, highlighted by high, pillowy clouds against a blue sky.

Murphy and Heath Challenge Buffaloe for Mayor’s Seat

Incumbent Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe faces three challengers in the April 8, 2025, municipal election.…

True False Movie Goer Wearing True False Glasses

(Re)Discover COMO: True/False, Heritage Trail, and the Gateway

African American  Heritage Trail   Columbia’s African-American Heritage Trail is a two-mile walking trail in central…

Featured A Researcher Using A Microfilm Machine

Missouri’s ‘Unofficial’ State Historian is Retiring

At 76,700 square feet, the stately building at the corner of Sixth and Elm streets…

An illustrtion shows a Bucees sign replacing a column on the Mizzou Quad.

They’re Coming!

Trader Joe’s (true), Costco (apparently not),and Buc-ee’s (nope). It turns out that the No. 1…