Voices

For the past two years, higher education in Missouri earned a grade point average just above a D. If we were graduates searching for a job, employers wouldn’t...

Forty years ago, the city directory listed 227 S. Sixth St. as the address of the Campus Snack. I don’t remember much about that restaurant, but over the...

Worth noting are a couple of interesting segments last week during KFRU’s “Morning Meeting” while Renée Hulshof was guest co-host with Simon Rose. How refreshing to have a...

Sometimes I feel like a canary in a coal mine. That was the caged bird that used to be sent into the pits underground to make sure conditions...

The word libraried may not be in the dictionary, but that’s the term one KFRU caller came up with the other day to sum up his thoughts about...

Very few communities have evaded the demolition of historic buildings. Sometimes they’re deemed historic before the destruction, but most often the distinction is made sometime later when a...

When I need a good barometer of the nation’s economic health, I read the news reports. I talk to analysts. I track the leading economic indicators. But if...

The timing couldn’t have been better. The interaction of Missouri Finance Commissioner Eric McClure with a group of area bankers at the latest Columbia Business Times Power Lunch...

The past couple of weeks have been tough on the business community, with dire developments affecting what I consider to be a most important aspect-consumer confidence. Fates and...

The streamlining of Columbia’s construction permit process is a welcome development for the thousands of people engaged in that activity. Many of them have felt increasingly hamstrung and...