Mike Martin

“Daddy!” I was in my office and my 8-year-old daughter Josie was calling me-almost screaming – from the bottom of the stairs. She ran up before I could...

“Happy families,” Leo Tolstoy famously said, “are all alike.” Though he never explained exactly what he meant, the great Russian author’s words have a truthful ring. Try to...

Crime, Lemone extension, the smoking ban. Not a day goes by without more feather-ruffling news from the soon-to-be-enlarged Daniel Boone Building. The Columbia Daily Tribune’s online news board...

On the heels of a dire report from MU Truman School economics professor Judith Stallmann about declining sales taxes, Boone County government has purchased yet another expensive downtown...

If I were conducting a business leadership seminar or a course in how to groom new leaders from within, an idea University of Missouri curators are considering, I...

When Billiards owner Phil Spudich recently called it quits after more than 30 years in business, he cited the smoking ban, telling local reporters he had “nothing to...

When local business leader Dave Griggs watches the Hominy Branch Creek flow past The Links, he may be seeing an apt metaphor for what’s happening to Columbia’s once-vaunted...

The Columbia City Council and the city manager need to get a divorce—or at least a lasting separation. Separation of powers is a defining principle of American democracy....

I was strolling down the long, wide alley that runs behind the businesses along Broadway and had a brilliant idea! Why not spiff up this alley—and others like...