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Music Maestro

Since 1980, Richard King has consistently lured famous and soon-to-be-famous artists to our little college town.
The Blue Note celebrates its 30th anniversary on July 30 with a Ninth Street concert featuring Snoop Dog and Ice Cube.

The future of local TV

A few weeks ago, KMIZ launched “ABC 17 News This Week,” a newsmagazine-style program based…

ESPN anchor’s golf tournament raises $30,000 for Food Bank

The inaugural John Anderson Celebrity Golf Invitational, held June 28 at the Country Club of…

Compactor developed by local firm turns plant waste into energy tablets

A Columbia company has built a compacting machine that transforms corn cobs, corn stalks and…

CI seed money reaping benefits

By Sean Spence & David Reed A local group of angel investors is helping fledgling…

KOMU expands news programming

KOMU 8 News has started airing a 9 p.m. newscast and an extended edition of…

Columbia, a musical proving ground

Although The Blue Note has been importing some of the biggest names in music to…

Capturing Columbia’s Cinema Century

From Haden Opera House to Hollywood Theaters, the city has a rich history of movie venues. Some marquees are long gone: the Airdome, Hippodrome, Elite and Star, the M Theatre and the Bijo Dream, to name a few. Several burned to the ground. The oldest survivor, the Missouri Theatre, is a fitting site for a local historian’s display of downtown movie venues going back 113 years and recalling a time when businessmen often spent their lunch breaks in Columbia’s “movie palaces.”

Bankers critique federal bill

Mid-Missouri bank executives believe some of the proposed federal banking regulations being debated in Congress…

Getting the Word Out: Miracles come in small packages

Do you believe in miracles? I do. I notice them every day in flowers blooming…

First State to keep Premier staff, locations

Premier Bank customers might initially notice little more than a change in signage after the…

Banking executives wary of writedowns

From the Editors of American Banker Almost half the banking sector’s top executives say it…