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On Thursday afternoon at about 3:45 p.m., Tracy Westbrook arrives for her shift. A bail bondsman for many years, she started driving for Taxi Terry’s in November 2012....

On the long gray tarmac, a handful of metallic planes glint against a white sky fifteen minutes south of Columbia. “That one belongs to a bank, and that...

On Feb. 12, minority business owners gathered with city officials to discuss problems facing minority-owned businesses in Columbia. The luncheon, sponsored by the Columbia Business Times, aimed to...

Tiny River Brewing Co.’s Old Town Porter, Tall Grass Brewing Co.’s Buffalo Sweat and even Shocktop’s Wheat IPA have, for now, made it on Tom Bradley’s elusive list....

When Kristi Ray boarded a 50-seat Delta plane at Columbia Regional Airport (COU), the well-connected executive vice president for the Columbia Chamber of Commerce expected to see at...

Scraps of paper cover the top of Mike Brooks’ U-shaped desk. Regulation books and bright folders of notes and presentations peek out from underneath the mass. Two books...

Billy Goat Chips: St. Louis Originally a product of the kitchen at Billy Goat Restaurant & Bar, these chips’ demand was so great that owners Rob Lyons and...

They say that if you choose a job you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. Perhaps that’s the secret to Amy and Mike Monahan’s success...

When Columbia’s first McDonald’s opened at 205 Business Loop, customers would walk up to the storefront and order their burgers and fries under the golden arches. At that...

Jumping in ahead of the craze, Dustin and Austin Stanton have carved out their corner as the nation’s largest producer of free-range eggs Driving to the Stanton Brothers...