Columbia Business Times Archive

DSL: Digital Subscriber Line DSL is a high-speed connection that transmits digital data over telephone wires. Although there are several kinds of DSL, most homes and small businesses...

JEFFERSON CITY – Missouri payroll employment in May was unchanged from the revised April level, on a seasonally adjusted basis, at 2,788,800 jobs. Seasonally adjusted employment increased...

Several restaurants under development downtown are planning to open shortly before mid-August when thousands of college students return to school in Columbia. Travis Tucker, owner of Bleu,...

The McDonald’s restaurant on the University of Missouri campus owned by Mark and Kate Mehle will stay open another three years. The owners had said previously that...

Proactive solutions to problems with office interiors will save business operators many headaches and lots of money. Nowhere is this truer, in my experience, than where ergonomics are...

A popular television game show pits adult contestants against a group of fifth-grade students to quiz their knowledge on such subjects as geography, history and math. More often...

The challenges of these somewhat tenuous economic times are not lost on the U.S. Small Business Administration, the federal agency charged with assisting the nation’s entrepreneurs with information,...

The Association of Missouri Mediators, an independent organization, has opened a statewide office in Jefferson City and hired Randy W. Hoerschgen as the executive director. In the newly...

MU law professor Richard Reuben is trying to use his expertise in dispute resolution and his background as a journalist to promote better coverage of conflict in the...

In front of a judge, polemical power is an asset for a lawyer. But when personal disputes arise between lawyers, with personalities and training geared toward winning arguments,...