Voices

A Bipartisan Look Forward

The April 5 municipal election confirms Columbia’s continued drift to the political left and, like…

It’s Not Over Yet

That an untenured assistant professor of communications can cause the University of Missouri so much…

A Calm Between Storms

For months, it seemed like the bad old days of the ’60s and ’70s had…

The Retail Wheel Spins On

Dad was late to work that morning. It was Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1950 when he…

Double Down for MU

We’ll never get the whole story about what transpired during the recently concluded “times of…

Advise and Consent

Enshrined under Article XI of the Columbia City Charter, the makeup of the city’s planning…

Step Right Up

With a trio of local elections coming up next year, perhaps this would be a…

The Lone Voter

  Just when we thought the laudable efforts of a group of property owners to…

We Can Do Better

A season for traveling and seeing other places leaves us wondering how our own region…

Rewriting History

There will apparently be little satisfaction for some of us about the fate of Boone…

A Road to the ‘Metropolis of Medicine’

I think the last thing anyone thought Columbia would need is another hospital, and yet…

Historic…Or Nostalgic?

One begins to believe it’s envy or jealousy that brings out all the opposition to…