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Rescue Innocence strives to end human trafficking

Community, Nonprofit Spotlight

Human trafficking has the guise of a Third World problem, concentrated only in poverty-stricken countries where freedom is easily compromised, but organizations across the globe are working to show the issue isn’t just prevalent overseas. Locally, the nonprofit Rescue Innocence, officially operating since May 2012, strives to raise awareness and promote prevention of human trafficking […]

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Downtown Development Pause

Columbia Business Times Archive, Community, FYI, Voices

Some were not surprised to learn that the complex web of largely buried downtown utility infrastructures — water, electric and sewer — is about to be overwhelmed if the accelerated pace of downtown development, some of it high-rise in nature, is allowed to continue. These alarms represent the opportune time for broad reviews of citywide infrastructure amidst growth that’s both enviable and vexing. Until the recent

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Movers and Shakers: December

Movers and Shakers, Working

Craig Riordan: Boone County National Bank hired Riordan as vice president of commercial landing to focus on business development and relationship management for BCNB’s business customers. Riordan has six years of previous lending experience. Dr. Jacob Quick: Quick, chief resident physician in the University of Missouri School of Medicine’s Division of General Surgery, was honored

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