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Where is poverty in Columbia? If you looked, where would you find it? What would it look like? What about the poverty factors that aren’t easily visible? A...

The Passionate Newcomer Brandi Huebner – Owner, Eat Fit Go Brandi Huebner brought the franchise Eat Fit Go to Columbia in April of 2017 after working part-time as...

Design has always been a passion of mine,” says Jesse Bodine, president and co-founder of Scout & Nimble, an online home décor and furniture retailer. “When I was...

Personalize your palette like a pro. From a cold, grim landscape covered with ice and snow to the arrival of growth and warmth, spring is a breath of...

Carrie Gartner and Jonathan Sessions restore their 1920s craftsman bungalow. When Carrie Gartner and Jonathan Sessions began looking for their future home, they knew they wanted a house...

In December 2016, Amanda Jacobs posted a video to her personal Facebook page of her daughter counting out $100 bills onto a desk. Jacobs, vice president and asset...

Retirements are a big deal at Commerce Bank, but they’re an especially big deal when the person retiring is Teresa Maledy. Maledy started as a part-time teller with...

Debt can be a funny thing.   On the one hand, you probably need it in order to access some of life’s big-ticket items: going to college, upgrading...

  Small business loan counselor Liza Zimmerman says Columbia is “ripe” with opportunities for microloans, socially-conscious small loans that are a building block for many entrepreneurs. Zimmerman is...

Over a dinner conversation with my husband’s extended family a few months ago, his cousin mentioned that another college student at MU had recently overdosed on Adderall in...