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Adventures in Advocacy

Jen Lee Reeves learned early on not to make assumptions about her daughter, Jordan. Jordan, now 14, was born with a left arm that stopped just above the elbow. Jen was the first one to notice. The doctor said Jordan was fine, and from the very beginning, her family knew, indeed, that Jordan was born […]

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What’s New in Downtown?

Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield Music Center  MU recently completed phase one of a new building for the school of music, with a grand opening and ribbon cutting of the Sinquefield Music Center on February 1 of this year. They began teaching classes there at the beginning of the past spring semester.  “The current music program

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Show Your True Colors

Pride is about the celebration of all the beautiful identities in the LGBTQ+ community, which is accompanied by an array of various expressions. We all know the iconic rainbow Pride flag that represents the gay communities around the world, but Pride flags go beyond this rainbow-striped symbol. Each sector of the LGBTQ+ community is represented

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and the sky is mostly clear with some wispy clouds.|A woman in a red plaid shirt celebrates with raised arms after hitting a target in an axe-throwing venue. The target with an axe is visible behind her

What’s New on the North Side?

The Boone County Fairgrounds The City of Columbia introduced legislation at the April council meeting to accept the transfer of the fairground property north of town from Boone County. The transfer was approved at the council meeting in early May.  The transfer officially gifts the 135-acre site — which has been the subject of much

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Miss Sophia

“We have people who are hurting, and I’m seeing it out of my front door. I cannot sit down and I won’t sit down; I have to do whatever it takes.” When Sophia Smith pulls into her Currituck Lane driveway on Columbia’s north end, the neighborhood kids keep an eye on her. If she heads

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