Features

Early in its history, the Flat Branch area was Columbia’s primary commercial zone. Over time, it became a bustling industrial area with train traffic. But after the MKT...

Missouri may be the Show-Me State, but David James, a retired University of Missouri professor and former hotel manager, doesn’t believe Missourians show enough pride in their state....

Thirty years ago, a few University of Missouri-Columbia English professors made a brazen decision. They would start a literary review featuring original fiction, poetry and essays penned by...

Missouri has a shortage of doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists, a problem that is straining the health care system and is predicted to worsen during the next decade...

Business advocates, including a local bank president and a university administrator, are using an unflattering study of high-tech development to lobby for significant increases in state spending on...

Can it be profitable to run a nonprofit? According to IRS documents it can. Some mid-Missourians heading such operations earn six-figure salaries. Most of the highest-paid executives at...

Nanotechnology may seem like the stuff of science fiction, but in mid-Missouri, the field is quickly becoming recognized as a promising component of the area’s technology-driven economic development...

After viewing the four competing road construction plans for East Columbia, Doris Littrell, vice chair of the Timberhill Road Neighborhood Association, wanted a fifth choice: none of the...

The transformation of the Flat Branch area of downtown into a park is nearly complete, ameliorating the deterioration along the creek that had long been a source of...

As subdivisions continue to spread into rural areas, varmints like moles, mice and opossums that used to run wild in the pastures and woodlands are increasingly becoming unwanted...