Features

Some of Columbia’s most innovative business owners and PR professionals weighed in on some simple, inexpensive ways your company can increase and capitalize on your brand awareness. Be...

Veteran newsman Scott Charton rues the dwindling number of locally- and family-owned community media outlets — those like the radio station that took a chance on him when...

After more than 20 years as an entrepreneur, Amos Angelovici knows a little something about the process of nurturing an idea all the way from conception to launch....

Get ready to grab some popcorn. The second of Columbia’s annual film festivals will be underway near the end of October, bringing with it independent films often unavailable...

Scott Swafford started in journalism 27 years ago, when he was a video rental clerk at The Video Castle, in Kirksville. Nobody in town had a VCR yet,...

Remember the traffic jam at the intersection of The Loop and Providence when Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen opened 16 months ago? The 62-seat fast-food eatery sizzled with 1,750 first-day...

With the success of “on-demand” companies like Uber and Airbnb, entrepreneurs are riding the wave of a sharing culture. Hundreds of online services now allow people to quickly...

It was a weird transition for Doug Nichols. From banking to beef. Upon completion of his ag business degree at MU in 2001, Nichols left Mid-Missouri and moved...

In mid-July, Steve Barton and Bruce Tiejema, of Dana Incorporated, toured the automotive manufacturing company’s 176,000-squarefoot plant in Columbia. Barton, the environmental health and safety manager for the...

The Boone County Fair has moved around a lot in the 182 years since its inaugural celebration. Fairgrounds of yore have been casualties of urbanization, gradually nudged further...