Columbia Business Times Archive

The Heart of Missouri United Way kicked off its annual fundraising campaign this month and announced a slight increase in its goal, to $3.3 million. The donated money...

I think few of us would deny that private and public businesses are heading on a collision course with the cost of employee benefits. For years, the cost...

Bob Grove and Rodney Burlingame, partners of the newly formed Urban Properties LLC, have purchased a 19th century building at 904 Broadway and plan to complete its renovation....

In my last column, I set forth arguments against tax credits that are used to entice specific companies to locate in a city such as Columbia. The available...

Church steeples were the first of many man-made objects to rise above Columbia’s tree line. The latest of mankind’s doings to scrape the skyline is the oddly layered,...

Calculating health care reform’s impact on insurance cost The CBT asked Philip Naught with the Naught-Naught Agency in Columbia and Debra K. Mathes, a CPA and partner at...

A person would have to be a recluse not to realize the downturn in the economy during the past few years. As we started to look at Boone...

My Secret Garden is moving from Ninth Street, a half block north of Broadway, to the former location of Vespa at 823 E. Broadway. Ruth Lahue opened My...

The Heart of Missouri United Way kicked off its annual fundraising campaign today and announced a slight increase in its goal, to $3.3 million. The donated money will...