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Since 1982, the City of Columbia’s Career Awareness Related Experience (CARE) program has provided summer jobs to Columbia’s high-risk youth. Administered through the Parks and Recreation Department, the...

The Columbia Public Schools recently participated in a friendly competition with Jefferson City Public Schools to raise a minimum of 50 cents per student by Veteran’s Day to...

The 1871 Great Chicago Fire happened on Oct. 9 and was blamed on Mrs. O’Leary’s hapless, and in hindsight innocent, cow. So, for the past 90 years, the...

Much like big mapping companies such as Google and Bing that help you view the world from the comfort of your chair, or Garmin that keeps you heading...

Research draws a clear link between engagement outside the classroom and improved student achievement. Recent numbers from Columbia Public Schools reveal more than 40 percent of high school...

Boone County Presiding Commissioner Ed Robb was an honorable gentleman who passed away less than a year after taking office and just when he was settling in on...

It’s been a great ride for some of us. I’m talking about a $22 million federal grant we’ve been burning through over the past three years that was...

Everything today is moving faster than ever. As Baptist minister Henry Emerson Fosdick said in the early 20th century, “The world is moving so fast these days that...

As debate proceeds about the upcoming city budget, Mayor Bob McDavid, to his credit, brooks no reluctance to work on ways to clot the flow of red ink...

It’s time to weigh in on the matter of so called “public” art and the simmering controversy over a law that requires artistically enhancing various city projects and...