Voices

The debate rages about health care reform, and I am confused. From the Left, the Right, the Middle and perhaps some mysterious kingdom out yonder comes the debate,...

Since last December, I have been nagging anyone who would listen – and some who would not – to consider a Fifth State Building Bond. I believe we...

Poor little old West Boulevard; it’s appellation as a boulevard conjures up thoughts of anticipated grandness, harkening to the time when it was Columbia’s western boundary. Now West...

The GetAbout Columbia schemes seem to come in waves. The latest “experiment” in the otherwise laudable and ambitious $22 million project is destined to become an object...

Several hundred million analog television transmitters are now little more than scrap material. Television station engineers hit the “plate off” button last Friday, severing high voltage for the...

With revenues from sales taxes trickling into the city’s coffers at a slower pace – down by 3 percent this year – the balance between guns and butter...

Participants in the recent Chamber of Commerce retreat in Kansas City heard that economic conditions in the Columbia area now are essentially flat, with city and county sales...

Something we are increasingly proud of at the Columbia Business Times is our Power Lunch programs conducted periodically in that “room with a view” on the ninth floor...

The Broadway narrative is well known. The street that runs through the center of Columbia dates from the antebellum era when it was the Old Trails Road, is...

As the drumbeat of the economic downturn continues to sound, many organizations are taking measures – some more drastic than others – to minimize the negative financial impact...