Voices
Dear Anne, I read that the Department of Labor is changing the definition of exempt or non-exempt employees, how much they can make, and work with paying overtime....
Figures released recently by the U.S. Census Bureau estimate Columbia’s population is now 119,109, making it Missouri’s fourth largest city and the fastest growing metropolitan area in the...
“Come Josephine in my flying machine. Going up she goes! Up she goes!” – Fisher & Bryan, 1910 Written in the early days of “aeroplanes” and aviation,...
The most important item on the City of Columbia’s “to-do” list of municipal projects is the construction and development of a new terminal facility at Columbia Regional Airport....
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin Franklin never envisioned the Internet, which would allow consumers to purchase...
The April 5 municipal election confirms Columbia’s continued drift to the political left and, like the county it is a part of, the overwhelming dominance by what, in...
Almost three score and ten years ago (no kidding), Columbia voters discarded the political party system and adopted a council-manager form of government. In 1949, we were categorized...
That an untenured assistant professor of communications can cause the University of Missouri so much grief remains the centerpiece of the ongoing drama at Old Mizzou that just...
For months, it seemed like the bad old days of the ’60s and ’70s had returned to the University of Missouri campus. Starting in 1965, Old Mizzou was...
The story I am going to relate to you is really a parable. It speaks of a rite of passage, but its purpose is to do something even...