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Hometown Yuletide

A  Solstice Tablescape Featured image above, left to right: wooden console table, Adam Swofford; pitcher, Dakota Parkinson, artist-in-residence at Access Arts; beeswax candles, Jacques Laboile, Bonne Femme Honey...

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Restaurants Reimagined

As the co-owner of Pizza Tree, along with her husband, John Gilbreth, Amanda Rainey has a deep and personal understanding of how COVID-19 forced restaurants to pivot, adjust,...

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Building a Stronger Community

Backed by a talented and committed team of 86 employees who work day in and day out to support Columbia’s most vulnerable residents, Randy Cole stepped up to...

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Taxes & the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has seeped into every aspect of American life, from death to, inevitably, taxes. The pandemic prompted a host of economic stimulus programs, extended and enhanced...

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Work Where You Play

“We work where we play,” American Outdoor Brands CEO Brian Murphy says, motioning towards the various animals mounted on the walls of their three-year-old building in Columbia —...

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Banking on Columbia

It is July 1865.  The Civil War ended in April. The first public university west of the Mississippi River, the University of Missouri, is 26 years old. On...

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The Talent Gap

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic noticeably impacted the national and local labor market across all industries, the health care, construction, manufacturing, and skilled labor markets were feeling the...

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Impact COMO 2021

This past year continued to provide unexpected opportunities for innovation in the ways our local nonprofits cared for our community — and the volunteers, staff, executive directors, local...

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Not An Island

“I’m always in walk mode,” says Chris Cottle, walk manager for the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Missouri Chapter, “so when you get into the client services, programs, and reflecting...

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Combined Efforts

Many of the 142 Columbia-area nonprofits focus on poverty and social services. We can’t write about all of them, but we can highlight three important — and three...