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It used to be harder to argue that there are vulnerabilities in the Columbia economy. After all, we were being listed in national magazines as having the lowest...

Landing a business executive to preside over the state’s only Land Grant university may be controversial today, especially in the academic community, but I believe great things are...

The first time I flew into Columbia in 1963, one landmark that stuck out in Columbia’s skyline was the Water & Light Department’s power plant on Business Loop...

Plans for improving Interstate 70 seem to have settled on an expansion of the existing interstate from the current four lanes to six lanes and later to eight...

With the approach of the Christmas season, as strings of holiday decorations appear, Columbia, like most places, is turning into a veritable “city of light.” I look forward...

Another structure was added to Columbia’s roster of empty buildings recently when Everett’s restaurant wound up its affairs, taking with it another stream of sales tax revenue. While...

Senator Chuck Graham still has time to take the honorable action and admit that he had too much to drink when he ended up in the hands of...

I am worried. I am worried about Columbia’s future as well as the destiny of the region and the state as well. I consider it my business as...

I shudder whenever anyone talks about employment and job security in the electronics industry. With an interest in the history of electronics, I may have been among the...

Hardly a weekend passes in Columbia without some burst of activity—even in the dead of winter, when events such as the True/False Film Festival take place—and that’s a...