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The Retail Wheel Spins On

Dad was late to work that morning. It was Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1950 when he and my mom got up early to take my brother and me over...

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CPS Will Never Be the Same

Each year, I like to thank my team for the work they do with a small gift. Last year, I relied on Zuni symbols, figurines carved from shell...

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Peter Stiepleman: Do the Math for Student Success

Last week, my fifth-grader son brought home a math assignment. My middle son and mathematics have a complicated relationship. He would say that it’s not at all complicated,...

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Double Down for MU

We’ll never get the whole story about what transpired during the recently concluded “times of trouble” at University of Missouri. The stormy fall semester is over and the...

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Advise and Consent

Enshrined under Article XI of the Columbia City Charter, the makeup of the city’s planning and zoning commission has seen service from hundreds of volunteers on what has...

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Peter Stiepleman: Constructing Successful Students

Every morning, long before the sun rises, I wearily make my way downstairs. And before I can prepare lunch for the boys and before I make my wife...

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#Como2Gaines

No person should have to start a business trip at 3 a.m. Nevertheless, that’s what I did. I grabbed my cup of coffee, checked to make sure I...

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Step Right Up

With a trio of local elections coming up next year, perhaps this would be a good time to reconvene the unofficial, perhaps fictitious Boone County Hot Stove Political...

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The Lone Voter

  Just when we thought the laudable efforts of a group of property owners to transform the sow’s ear of Business Loop 70 into the silk purse of...

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We Can Do Better

A season for traveling and seeing other places leaves us wondering how our own region stacks up to passersby. A recent visitor left us with some rather negative...