Voices

You can live a full, well-cultured life in Columbia. We have multiple festivals: True/False Film Fest, Roots N Blues N BBQ Music Festival, Citizen Jane Film Festival, Unbound...

As someone who calls Columbia home, I spent years hiding the fact that I hadn’t ever been to True/False Film Fest. Bringing that secret up was like telling...

In every election cycle, there are lawmakers who watch from the sidelines. They wait for their own terms of office to come to an end and feel relieved...

It would appear to be a thankless job. Wanted: a city manager for a highly-rated, diversified community of medium size in America’s heartland. Great place to live and...

What is it about our downtown, The District, that is so f-ing awesome?! Specifically, what is it about these downtown businesses that make them feel like home when...

It was destined to fail — Proposition D, the motor fuel tax increase proposal. And it did! Missouri continues to carry the ignominious honor of having the nation’s...

When I first visited MU, one of the things that struck me about the campus was its beauty. The entire campus is a diverse botanical garden, with beautiful...

If you’re like a lot of readers, your eyes — and ears — now hurt from the endless stream of tribal political rhetoric that defined the 2018 campaign...

Dreaming of and planning for the food production possibilities on The Loop. It was foodie heaven—a large commercial kitchen full of chefs bottling sauces and packaging meals. Across...

The summer of our political discontent is over, and Missouri voters will soon decide who sits in the U.S. Senate and who audits the state’s books. They will...