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Digital Device Dependency

Understanding the dangers of our internet world. The internet offers an infinite landscape of ever-changing information, stimulating the brain’s reward system much like sugar, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, gambling,...

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Eclipse: Making the Most of the Experience

A look at the weekend’s events and the best places to view. Wednesday, August 16 Family Fun Fest: Mad About Science 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Cosmo Park, free...

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Women Who Ride: Mid-MO Lady Riders

Local bikers experience what the rest of us only fantasize about. The 23 members of the Mid-MO Lady Riders motorcycle group are as diverse as the bikes they...

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Women Who Ride: Sylvia Donnelly

Local bikers experience what the rest of us only fantasize about. The year was 1967 — the Summer of Love — and in a small town near Ann...

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Women Who Ride: Sandy Thompson

Local bikers experience what the rest of us only fantasize about. When Sandy Thompson was 40, she gave little thought to motorcycles. She couldn’t have imagined that less...

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What’s So Special about a Solar Eclipse?

Local sources shed light on the upcoming celestial “darkness.” photos by Keith Borgmeyer In about two minutes and 30 seconds, you can listen to half of Bonnie Tyler’s...

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Women Who Ride: Betty Houston

Local bikers experience what the rest of us only fantasize about. Betty Houston grew up watching her older cousins ride motorcycles. “Guy cousins,” she points out. “I didn’t...

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Best Laid Plans: The Next Era in Zoning Codes

In 1931, the academic journal Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science published an article called “History of Zoning.” It was an ironic title; the...

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What’s Going on in There? COMO’s Mysterious Buildings

You know how it makes you crazy when you drive by a building in Columbia and have no idea what it’s used for? CBT took to the streets...

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A Guiding Hand: Columbia’s Mortgage Lenders Lead the Way

As much fun as it is to discuss such matters on a Friday night out with friends, nothing gets your heart pumping and your blood pressure soaring quite...