Features

Fueling the Economic Engine

ON THE EDGE OF CAMPUS, nearest downtown, a handful of buildings have been refashioned to…

The Facebook Background Check

THINK ABOUT THOSE JOB applicants you know will never fit in with your company: the…

Filling the Gap

WITH LESS THAN TWO MONTH before the main deadline in the deal that brought IBM…

Judges: A Penny For Your Thoughts

Missouri’s judicial salaries rank far below the national average, and it might be affecting the…

Adapting to a New Age

THE LAW INDUSTRY is older than Homer’s Odyssey and came before the fault of Achilles’…

10 Notorious Embezzlers

Labor and Politics

As the right-to-work battle sluggishly carries on, the Business Times evaluates these labor laws and…

Invisible Hand

The burgeoning of two Columbia churches IT’S A SULTRY SUMMER DAY, and attendants in orange…

Vani$hing Act

No company is immune to the occasional sideways employee, siphoning corporate funds. But stories of…

Rebirth of the Loop

True Media transforms the old Commerce Bank building on Business Loop into a unique office…

Preserving Columbia

Historic preservation doesn’t just preserve aging structures in Columbia — it also creates and sustains jobs.

Do No Harm

As the drought continued in August across 78 percent of the United States, the USDA…