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Jodie Jackson Jr.

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Editor-in-Chief | COMO Magazine and COMO Business Times

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

  • Sponsored by Columbia Convention and Visitor's Bureau

African American Heritage Trail Columbia’s African-American Heritage Trail is a two-mile walking trail in central Columbia with dozens of historical markers highlighting Columbia’s Black community. The trail is...

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Missouri’s ‘Unofficial’ State Historian is Retiring

At 76,700 square feet, the stately building at the corner of Sixth and Elm streets borders the University of Missouri-Columbia campus and the eastern edge of downtown Columbia’s...

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They’re Coming!

Trader Joe’s (true), Costco (apparently not),and Buc-ee’s (nope). It turns out that the No. 1 source of “news” about the next big retailer coming to Columbia is none...

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Editor’s Picks: Coming Up in COMO

Latin dance party, ‘Freund at Fifty,’ and the next Talking Horse New Play Festival Dia De Los Muertos  Celebrate Dia De Los Muertos (The Day of the Dead)...

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Calling All Lords and Ladies 

Bridgerton Ball redux promises transport to ‘a night of Regency.'...
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Off the (Smart)phone

New Columbia Public Schools policy seeks to mitigate distractions....
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The Human Cost of Policing

Chief Schlude forecasts an end to CPD’s ‘staffing slump.’...
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Affordable Housing Coalition Pursues Solutions and Action

Affordable housing. What do those two seemingly simple words mean together? The saying, “If you ask one hundred people, you’ll get one hundred different answers” seems to aptly...

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20 Under 40 Realtors & Real Life

When disaster struck, Megan Walters had to break the heartbreaking news to new homeowners who were packing up a truck for their move to Columbia. An out-of-nowhere storm...

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Shrouded in Sh@me and $ecrecy

The desperate and sometimes tragic stories of teens caught up in internet sextortion scams continue to play out nationally — and locally — at an alarming rate. Last...