Columbia Business Times Archive

It’s not too early to reserve your spot for Wynton Marsalis’s winter concert. Tickets for the sure-to-be-sold-out Feb. 10, 2008, “Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis”...

At a recent meeting, a long and emphatic lament decried the treatment of the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri. Local sophisticates, Democratic minority leaders and select...

From rural one-room schoolhouses to sprawling university campuses, school security is a growing concern. Part of that concern is rooted in a lack of communication to outsiders. In...

For Columbia, Gov. Matt Blunt’s 17-month-old plan to cash in assets of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA) and fund construction at public universities ended not with...

Despite occasional drizzle, Columbia’s first Artrageous Friday gallery crawl proved a boon for downtown businesses. Last Friday night, bustling crowds of art lovers packed more than a dozen...

(Tigress Press, 2005). What’s it like inside the head of a serial killer? Slipping, by Columbia author Barri L. Bumgarner, shows you in gripping and disturbing detail. If...

The health hazards of second-hand smoke (SHS) are now recognized by every major health and science-based organization in the United States. The ordinance for Columbia was shaped after...

It is said that Columbia has no need for “experts” to guide its future development. Citizens can perform that function in a so-called “visioning” process. But what is...

The tragedy at Virginia Tech is a wake-up call. It reminds all of us how fragile and brief our lives really are. One nut can really mess up...

Newz Group expanded into its 10th state this spring with the acquisition of the Colorado Press Clipping Service. The company, which moved into bigger office space in northern...