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Mark Timberlake’s voice changes inflection when he describes his vision for the Orr Street Studios, a warehouse converted into art studios and gallery space. Timberlake acknowledges that he...

The top floor of the Berry Building was scorching hot when John Ott gave a tour of the red-brick warehouse at the northeast corner of Walnut and Orr...

For Scott Atkins, owner of Atkins Investments, restoring the old Hamilton-Brown Shoe Factory is a project that has proven to pay off. His father, Tom Atkins, bought the...

In 1919, Prohibition went into effect. Women were granted the right to vote. Here in Columbia, Broadway bustled with a few Ford Model-T cars and plenty of mule-drawn...

In spring 2006, Callaway Bank CEO Bruce Harris was feeling sluggish and wanted to make fundamental improvements to his health. Specifically, he wanted to lose weight, reduce his...

Insurance Insight In today’s turbulent business climate, can your organization ignore risk management? Every organization must consider risks seriously, whether you are a two-person shop or a major...

From the air, Ashland’s boundary is beginning to resemble a runway. It’s a fitting shape, considering that the newly annexed tracts, mostly fields and forest, stretch to the...

An infamous dive bar called The Shack burned down under mysterious circumstances on Halloween 1988, shortly after the University of Missouri-Columbia bought the property on which it stood,...

If you’re not worried about it, you should be Do you know that 70 to 80 percent of security compromises are caused by insiders? Information technology (IT) security...

Columbians may not remember that the city launched its own space program in the 1960s. Of course, our space program had nothing to do with rocketry. It was...