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Sabrina McDonnell was fresh out of college when she walked into Columbia’s First National Bank. Following in her mother’s footsteps, she applied for and received a teller position....

THE LITTLE WHITE CURSER sweeps over Mom’s face on the 20-inch monitor in a dark corner of the Miller’s Professional Imaging lab in Columbia. The wrinkles smooth out,...

THE TECHNOLOGICAL landscape is changing, and everyone is plugged in to watch it happen. Manufacturers are engineering ordinary appliances with Internet-accessing capabilities, and TVs are prepackaged with video-streaming...

ON THE EDGE OF CAMPUS, nearest downtown, a handful of buildings have been refashioned to house startup companies. Not a 10-minute drive away, a formerly shuttered industrial space...

THINK ABOUT THOSE JOB applicants you know will never fit in with your company: the negative Nancys, the over-the-top partiers, the Facebook boss bashers. Yet, they can easily...

WITH LESS THAN TWO MONTH before the main deadline in the deal that brought IBM to Columbia, the company so far is 142 jobs short of its commitment....

Missouri’s judicial salaries rank far below the national average, and it might be affecting the quality of those entrusted to interpret the laws that affect us all FORTY-FIRST....

THE LAW INDUSTRY is older than Homer’s Odyssey and came before the fault of Achilles’ heal, but for years the profession has stumbled into the Internet age. From...

As the right-to-work battle sluggishly carries on, the Business Times evaluates these labor laws and what they could mean if adopted in Missouri.   Right to work.Those three...