Jodie Jackson Jr.

Articles
A brief 3-minute walk along the north end of the historic Avenue of the Columns downtown, also known as Eighth Street, is all that separates the government headquarters...
Eighteen months ago, Columbia saw the possibility of two large companies building distribution centers or factories in the area: American Outdoor Brands and Aurora Organic Dairy. If the...
Students with free lunch plans vs. total student population: West Boulevard Elementary 320 / 345 Benton Elementary 295 / 318 Derby Ridge Elementary 437 / 471 Parkade Elementary...
Angela Drake is proud of her positions as law professor and attorney at the MU School of Law Veterans Clinic, but she beams especially bright at the title...
High-speed. Faster speed. Ultra-fast. Blazing fast. Supersonic. Okay, that last one is made up, but we thought it would be a trendy, cool way for an internet service...
Randy Cole makes snaking motions with his hands and arms to illustrate the zig-zag path the Columbia Community Land Trust has trekked in the quest to begin putting...
Nothing jolts us back to reality quite like the low-fuel light on the dashboard, when heart rate inversely reflects the gas gauge plummeting towards empty. Easy now. You...
Every morning, when team members start filing in for work at Carfax’s technology headquarters on Maguire Boulevard, one regular visitor stops by the human resources office to give...
Veteran newsman Scott Charton rues the dwindling number of locally- and family-owned community media outlets — those like the radio station that took a chance on him when...
Remember the traffic jam at the intersection of The Loop and Providence when Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen opened 16 months ago? The 62-seat fast-food eatery sizzled with 1,750 first-day...