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According to some reports, each year Americans spend about 7.65 billion hours filling out government-requested paperwork—a problem the U.S. government attempted to address in 2004 with the “Report...

By Neal Gabler, Knopf, 851 pages, $35 Neal Gabler’s biography of Walt Disney is not the first and probably will not be the last. But it is difficult...

John Kleindienst of Capital City Construction Co. didn’t know he was walking a high wire as the national economy rode the housing resurgence to prosperity this decade. He...

Missouri Boulevard’s dominance in the growth of Jefferson City’s commercial real estate market may end — in the next decade or sooner. When commercial property broker Greg Bowman...

When a campaign worker called Cynthia Schreen to place a radio advertisement, the sales director at Zimmer Radio Group had to turn down the request. After all, it...

The food pyramid suggests we eat five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. The hard sell comes in getting my two children to consume the recommended daily allowance....

Idaho potatoes, Wisconsin cheese, Florida oranges, Vermont maple syrup … and Missouri beef? This branding may not ring a bell yet, but if industry and government leaders have...

Monday morning quarterbacks can get loads of statistics on weekend college and professional games, but what about the parents and coaches closely following high school sports in Missouri?...

The chief executive of BJC Health Care says he’s disappointed that two Boone Hospital Center trustees are pushing to terminate BJC’s lease agreement, and he disputes their contention...

Long before anybody ever thought of calling it “The District,” city plans called for keeping downtown Columbia strong. Planning documents going back to at least 1935 talk about...