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“Sell” Them on the Issues

The calls are beginning to go out. It happens every time a local issue appears on the ballot. In this case, high-placed city officials have been calling people...

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Hope for Progress?

Few were surprised when voters statewide rejected Amendment Seven that would have increased sales taxes three-fourths of 1 percent to fund a variety of transportation infrastructure improvements. So...

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A Reason for Growth

It’s somewhat amazing that it’s taken more than 30 years to replace the parking lot at the northeast corner of 10th and Broadway with a four-story apartment house...

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Show-Me Where We’re Headed

Three recent developments say a great deal about Missouri’s economic future and the direction this state is headed. First, Toyota is moving its corporate headquarters from Torrance, California,...

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The media landscape of 1985: an exciting ride

Many things we take for granted today simply weren’t around in 1985. Cellphones and Dick Tracy-like miniature devices, the Internet, flat-screen TVs, inexpensive computers, the social media explosion...

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Loftin joins tiger territory

The early reports about Dr. Richard Bowen Loftin, the incoming 22nd chancellor of the University of Missouri, have been good. Sixty-four-year-old Loftin comes to us from Texas A&M...

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Building Up? Or Holding Back?

Now just another university dorm, 50 years ago the eight-story Manor House apartment building at 306 Hitt St. was strictly off limits for most students. This was the...

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Downtown Development Pause

Some were not surprised to learn that the complex web of largely buried downtown utility infrastructures — water, electric and sewer — is about to be overwhelmed if...

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The JFK Assassination: Fifty Years Later

Fifty years ago, you couldn’t buy a mixed drink in Columbia, Blue Laws closed stores on Sunday and the city of some 40,000 was nothing like it is...

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Amusement parks hold promise for Columbia

Although the Columbia Parks and Recreation Department and an equally abundant number of privately funded recreation venues are lauded in general for what they provide, the theme and...