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Columbia’s oldest and youngest residents soon could be sharing space. Fund-raising goals have neared the halfway point for Missouri’s first intergenerational daycare center, a planned 21,000-square-foot structure that...

The health care we enjoy today helps us live longer. But a recent study from the University of Pennsylvania reveals that we aren’t feeling particularly great. And the...

Performance appraisals valuable only if they are conducted properly Most of the organizations with whom I consult have some version of a performance appraisal process. Many have a...

With two newcomers, P&Z commission faces overhaul Jeff Barrow, acting chairman of the Planning and Zoning Commission, was only half joking when he answered the question on...

It’s not too early to reserve your spot for Wynton Marsalis’s winter concert. Tickets for the sure-to-be-sold-out Feb. 10, 2008, “Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis”...

At a recent meeting, a long and emphatic lament decried the treatment of the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri. Local sophisticates, Democratic minority leaders and select...

From rural one-room schoolhouses to sprawling university campuses, school security is a growing concern. Part of that concern is rooted in a lack of communication to outsiders. In...

For Columbia, Gov. Matt Blunt’s 17-month-old plan to cash in assets of the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA) and fund construction at public universities ended not with...

Despite occasional drizzle, Columbia’s first Artrageous Friday gallery crawl proved a boon for downtown businesses. Last Friday night, bustling crowds of art lovers packed more than a dozen...

(Tigress Press, 2005). What’s it like inside the head of a serial killer? Slipping, by Columbia author Barri L. Bumgarner, shows you in gripping and disturbing detail. If...