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The young patrons of Déjà Vu Comedy Club, equipped with increasingly sophisticated cell phones, digital cameras and iPods, had managing partner Matt Istwan concerned. How hip was the...

What’s your favorite flower? Mine is the lilac. During my childhood, each year after spring cleaning my mother and I filled the house with lilac bouquets. It was...

The Columbia Regional Airport held an open house on Oct. 5, the first day of service for the new airline, Mesa Air Group’s Air Midwest, which operates flights...

Media reports might lead you to believe our civic organizations rarely get along, but nothing could be further from the truth. One of the best examples of cooperation...

The opening of University Hospital 50 years ago supposedly put to rest a long-simmering battle between Columbia and Kansas City as to which city would house Missouri’s four-year...

After Teresa Snow teaches her four children — two sets of twins — their home school lessons in the morning, she’s ready for a break. For her, that’s...

Do you own an iPod or know someone who does? Have you ever seen anyone on a plane, in a gym or at the mall with wires coming...

Terry Lloyd was hired in 1970 as a seamstress for the State Farm Insurance Co. — a seemingly strange job to hold in a company selling car and...

During the last few decades, quality assurance has taken many forms, including Six Sigma and Total Quality Management. A bit of history about Six Sigma: Similar to many...

When Frances and Greg Vadner opened Riversong Spa and Salon in Jefferson City in 1998, it was the area’s only day spa. Today, it is one of several...