Columbia Business Times Archive

When Stephanie and Jason discovered they would not be able to have a child biologically, they turned to Lutheran Family and Children’s Services to explore adoption options. “A...

Give until it feels good. The activity, advertising and commercialism of the holiday season are already upon us. In between reports about how dire our economic situation is,...

The Columbia Missourian The trouble with news is that so much of it is true. If I’ve said that before, my excuse for repetition is the recent headlines....

Starting your own business in a recession offers opportunities Often times, the monotony of punching the clock as someone else’s employee leads to day dreams of starting a...

As Columbia’s building boom fades into memory, some speculative developers who entered the market too late – and the bankers who loaned them money – have had to...

It’s not a comfortable subject. No one likes to discuss crime or fraud, particularly when it’s perpetrated in our own community. But Officer Jessie Hayden Pitman, advanced crime...

Missourians now have access to a resource that identifies which Missouri jobs are expected to be hot through 2016. The Missouri’s Hot Jobs report, available at www.MissouriConnections.org, provides...

Barbara Davis is sitting behind her desk at Great Southern Tiger Travel checking the roundtrip fares for Northwest flights on her computer when she suddenly becomes excited: prices...