Columbia Business Times Archive

A site selection consultant brought in by Columbia Regional Economic Development Inc. says Columbia is poised to take advantage of the international boom in biotechnology, but the city...

I recently spent about a week in Savannah, Ga., at a great conference on economic development. Our hotel was right on the Savannah River and, thus, on the...

I have never met a business owner who wasn’t interested in growing his or her business. Even those who are stretched because they are growing too fast recognize...

Just downhill from the football stadium on Providence Road, under a big white tent, a group of high-level University of Missouri boosters stood around talking about the Big...

If you are a baseball fan—even a St. Louis Cardinals fan—the fact that a team with 83 wins, the lowest total in the history of the sport, captured...

Who would have thought a year ago that President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address would admit to our nation’s “addiction to oil” and mention agriculture...

An issue has arisen about which I have found no dissenters. Nary a soul laments the close of the 2006 mid-term elections. In my estimation, not a single...

While late in coming, there has been a groundswell of support in the community for terminating the lease between Boone Hospital Center and BJC Health Care, a management...

If Washington politicians want a lesson in how people from different parties can work together for the common good, they ought to visit Boone County during an election....

We’ve become so accustomed to the Internet that it can no longer be considered a new frontier. Within the last 10 years or so, most of us have...