Voices

Doesn’t there seem to be an abundance of vacant commercial buildings for sale or rent around Columbia these days? Based on my own “drive-by” survey (to borrow a...

KAB-278, the Columbia-Boone Joint Communications radio station, crackles with excitement on a weekend evening. Although not exactly the same as a “calling all cars” sequence in an old...

Last Thursday, the Joint Columbia/Boone County Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on the Northeast Columbia Area Plan Draft. This is a proposed plan for the area around...

Many of us had such high hopes for the YouZeum, an interactive project that began as a “health adventure center” amidst discrete murmurings by skeptics who considered this...

Often what interests us the most is what we know the least about. This is certainly the case with our natural – some might say morbid – curiosity...

It’s been a long and productive run for five-term Mayor Darwin Hindman. Hindman grew up on Edgewood Avenue in the Old Southwest, the son of a University of...

Over two years ago, America was on the brink of an unusually severe economic downturn. In the months that followed, the effects of the subprime housing crisis, which...

It began with a call from David Lile, host of the Morning Show on News Talk 1400. A listener wanted to know when KFRU’s daily “Quickie Quiz” feature...

So, the population of Columbia has crossed the hundred grand mark, according to the latest official estimate. This is hardly news to those of us who’ve been tracking...

We are in the midst of a sustainability shift. Nearly everyone cares about the future of this planet and also about the people on it. But not everyone...