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A Future for Columbia Skies

DOWNWIND FROM A TRYING election cycle, amidst gasps of relief that it’s over, conservatives and many business people are frustrated and depressed in the aftermath. With more and...

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Show Us New Business

SAY YOU’RE the decision-maker at a business located in Illinois. You alone — if the entity is larger, the stockholders and board of directors — are troubled by...

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Justice is Not for Sale

THE NONPARTISAN Court Plan has been working for Missourians for 72 years by taking politics out of the courts and focusing on the qualifications and experience of judges....

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How Amendment 3 Will Help

AMENDMENT 3, the proposal to make changes to the Missouri Plan to enable Missouri citizens to exercise more accountability over judicial selection, is not a radical change from...

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Columbia’s Medical Hub

THE NUMBERS for the Columbia area’s burgeoning medical industry are ever changing and sometimes difficult to quantify. There are questions such as the number of practicing physicians, assistants,...

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An Economic Solution

Education is not a social issue. It is an economic one. Investing in education is, hands down, the best forward-looking solution for our state’s and our nation’s economic...

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The Bridge To Good

When I was a student at Rock Bridge High School, attending college was not optional; it was my destiny. I’m the son of college professors, and my parents...

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Save Missouri’s Highways

Bouncing across Missouri through Jonesburg in 1914 on the Old Trails Road would have been a ton of fun and adventure. Gas was selling for a few pennies...

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The Troubles with EEZ

The Enhanced Enterprise Zone in Columbia is a bad idea. The necessary conditions for it to help the city’s economic development do not exist, leaving Columbians with higher...

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In Pursuit of Business

Tax abatement, historic tax credits, tax increment financing, enhanced enterprise zones, transportation development districts in the stew with subsidies of various sorts are continuing to generate a ruckus....