Columbia Business Times Archive

The Environmental Protection Agency’s final regulations meant to clean up Hinkson Creek retained a mandate that stormwater flows be reduced by about 40 percent, but the agency added...

Pending expected approval by the Columbia City Council within the next few weeks, work will soon begin on an ambitious apartment project at the northwest corner of East...

Lorah Steiner, who orchestrated Columbia’s tourism development for a quarter century, began a recent CBT forum on a bittersweet note. “I’m leaving soon,” she said, a few weeks...

The UM Board of Curators voted Jan. 28 to increase tuition by an average of 5.5 percent across its four campuses. For MU, the increase will amount to...

One day, I might try my hand at movie making. I have a great idea: a Monty Python-style comedy about business networking. In this case, networking to me...

Recently, Gov. Jay Nixon recommended a 7 percent cut in the core budget of the University of Missouri. This cut follows two years of smaller cuts and a...

During the past decade, Columbia has realized economic success. Payroll employment increased by 16 percent, total establishments increased by 21 percent, and payrolls increased by 46 percent. These...

Then most dramatic swings in the local economy during the past eight years might be the housing construction market and, inversely, air transportation. The charts developed from CBT’s...

Things and people are changing at the city of Columbia. Although the wave of recent and pending departures by the city manager, finance director, fire chief, cultural affairs...

For the past two years, Corey Rimmel has juggled classes at the University of Missouri and the day-to-day operations of his business, Hot Box Cookies. Rimmel, along with...