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With lagging wage growth, local economy’s ranking plummets

The Columbia metropolitan area has dropped significantly since 1999 in a ranking of economic strength,…

Economic Outlook: Panelists bullish on construction market

News of national declines in real estate sales and new construction appears to be mirrored…

Downtown transition: Newly designated historic district undergoing facelift, tenant shifts

The Pen Point co-owner Holly Burgess has been part of the downtown scene for four…

Silencing the echo to conquer the generational divide

Do you sometimes feel that being a manager is like being a lone soul in…

Go ahead and indulge! Chocolate may help you get work done more quickly

According to some reports, each year Americans spend about 7.65 billion hours filling out government-requested…

WALT DISNEY: The Triumph of the American Imagination

By Neal Gabler, Knopf, 851 pages, $35 Neal Gabler’s biography of Walt Disney is not…

Builders, buyers adjust to slide in Jefferson City home sales

John Kleindienst of Capital City Construction Co. didn’t know he was walking a high wire…

Commercial real estate trend shifts in Jefferson City

Missouri Boulevard’s dominance in the growth of Jefferson City’s commercial real estate market may end…

Campaign-period political ads a boon for local media outlets

When a campaign worker called Cynthia Schreen to place a radio advertisement, the sales director…

Odd Jobs: “Strange Fruit Sunday”

The food pyramid suggests we eat five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. The hard…

Missouri beefs up its state product branding and marketing

Idaho potatoes, Wisconsin cheese, Florida oranges, Vermont maple syrup … and Missouri beef? This branding…

Site casts web over high school sports

Monday morning quarterbacks can get loads of statistics on weekend college and professional games, but…