Al Germond

A Windy Prospect

Wind — one of the gifts of nature. A provider of electric energy was first…

A City Forecast Amid Change

Props to John Glascock, PE, who has hit the ground running as acting city manager.…

Opinion: The Expansion is Coming

2025? 2025! I predict that 2025 will be the year when the new, improved version…

Opinion: The Call for Full Disclosure

The call for a municipal performance audit costing upwards of a million dollars won’t go…

Forget the competition

Whether the City of Columbia decides to — or is allowed to — lease some…

Back in the Mud

MoDOT recently unveiled its “325 Plan” for Missouri’s 34,000-mile network of bridges and highways the…

The babble of noisy rhetoric

It’s old news by now, but the outcome of two municipal propositions in last month’s…

Hope for Progress?

Few were surprised when voters statewide rejected Amendment Seven that would have increased sales taxes…

A Reason for Growth

It’s somewhat amazing that it’s taken more than 30 years to replace the parking lot…

Downtown Development Pause

Some were not surprised to learn that the complex web of largely buried downtown utility infrastructures — water,…