Networking is integral to every business. You use networking, in part, to find new clients, which is imperative to sustaining cash flow. But how do we as business professionals encourage inclusive practices as we network and connect with people in our community who identify under the rainbow of LGBTQ identities? The LGBTQ community is becoming […]
In my last piece for CBT, I spoke about how companies can improve their hiring practices to be more inclusive. After hiring practices, the next thing to think about is how to cultivate an inclusive culture in your company. There are many ways one can create a positive culture for LGBTQ individuals. I’ve listed below
Dear Editorial Staff: The April 2019 article “A Promising Property,” on the derelict Ameren lot, was a much-needed, informative primer on a decades-long blight in our neighborhood. Thank you for devoting the time and space to reanimate the progress in the public’s eye. The businesses, residents, and board of directors of the North Village Arts
You know they want it all. “They” being the city of Columbia and “all” referring to the controversy-laced southeast corner of where East Broadway intersects with Providence Road. Where it all began, if you please. We are past the city fathers’ foolish stupidity in spurning CVS — a chain of drug and convenience stores —
When it comes to interviewing practices, many business owners are aware of what questions they’re legally allowed to ask, but they don’t always know what questions they’re asking that may make potential employees uncomfortable, especially those in the LGBTQ community. The fact of the matter is that the LGBTQ community is growing. According to Gallup,
Wind — one of the gifts of nature. A provider of electric energy was first demonstrated in 1888 when Charles Brush installed a wind turbine electric generator to power the lights and appliances in his Cleveland home. In the current stampede to reduce carbon emissions and combat global warming, power from the wind has been
Well, let’s be done with it. Erase the word “interim” from their titles and formally make John D. Glascock, PE, Columbia’s next city manager and confirm Lieutenant Geoff Jones as the next police chief of the Columbia Police Department. There, I said it. Quit fooling around with out-of-town consultants, because this is just another case
Props to John Glascock, PE, who has hit the ground running as acting city manager. He’s listening to, talking to, and renewing the confidence of those who serve the city while wondering about their jobs and where the city was headed. The easy part for this former public works director will be ministering to and
It would appear to be a thankless job. Wanted: a city manager for a highly-rated, diversified community of medium size in America’s heartland. Great place to live and raise a family, educationally advanced, with a strong medical presence and numerous other stabilizing factors to shout about. What in the past would have been a plum
It was destined to fail — Proposition D, the motor fuel tax increase proposal. And it did! Missouri continues to carry the ignominious honor of having the nation’s second lowest tax on motor fuels. Our state legislature, influenced and driven by a cabal of narrow-minded, special-interest lobbyists, has consistently spurned the annual opportunity to hike
