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Is your business eligible for the federal health insurance tax credit? Here's how to calculate

Ninety-two percent of Missouri small businesses may be eligible to receive the federal Small Business…

Marathon buys August Systems

Marathon Building Environments has purchased August Systems, a home electronics company, from Bridgid Miller. Marathon…

What’s Your Plan?

Our world is built on systems. To stay in good working order, everything successful has…

Mr. Goodcents restaurant opens

Mr. Goodcents Subs & Pastas opened this month in the Broadway Bluffs commercial center at…

Columbia’s Insurance Industry

When economists and industrial recruiters talk about Columbia, they invariably point out that the local…

United Way increases fundraising goal

The Heart of Missouri United Way kicked off its annual fundraising campaign this month and…

The cost of employee benefits

I think few of us would deny that private and public businesses are heading on…

New owners to complete Broadway building renovation

Bob Grove and Rodney Burlingame, partners of the newly formed Urban Properties LLC, have purchased…

Tax credits tied to productivity can solve information problem

In my last column, I set forth arguments against tax credits that are used to…

Let’s hope the latest city skyline addition is no white elephant

Church steeples were the first of many man-made objects to rise above Columbia’s tree line.…

CBT Q&A: The Pulse of Local Business

Calculating health care reform’s impact on insurance cost The CBT asked Philip Naught with the…

Government partnerships help community in hard economic times

A person would have to be a recluse not to realize the downturn in the…