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Large new commercial development in the works

Posted by on Monday, January 25th, 2010 Categories:
If a rezoning proposal manages to wind its way through the city government, Grindstone Parkway could become an even more prominent commercial hub. Red Oak Investment Company is applying to rezone 25 acres from agricultural to planned commercial on the south side of the street across from the Walmart. It would be one of the [Click Here]

McDavid gets business establishment backing

Posted by on Monday, January 25th, 2010 Categories:
Which candidate for mayor has the backing of Columbia’s business establishment? Boone Hospital Center trustee chairman Bob McDavid, almost exclusively, according to the list of people who signed petitions to put candidates’ names on the April ballot. (Here’s a link to the Missourian Web site with the transcribed lists: http://thewatchword.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/candidate-petitions-have-some-familiar-names/ Sid Sullivan got Planning & [Click Here]

P&Z plans to crack down on late zoning requests

Posted by on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Categories:
With some huge projects on the Planning and Zoning Commission’s plate — the East Columbia Area Plan and the Comprehensive Plan to name a couple — they’ve opted to add one more: revising the commission’s bylaws to keep zoning requests from being changed at the last minute. “This has been a burr under our saddles [Click Here]

Columbia gets mentioned at U.S. Conference of Mayors

Posted by on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 Categories:
Columbia and Mayor Darwin Hindman got a shout-out Wednesday from First Lady Michelle Obama during the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C. During a speech she gave on preventing obesity, which she called “one of the biggest threats to the American economy,” she singled out six cities and their efforts to fight it. “It’s [Click Here]

Proposed change to city charter nothing but talk

Posted by on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Categories:
A proposed change to the city’s charter giving the City Council more power over the city manager’s hiring decisions fizzled out Monday night, but not without first attracting some of the usual suspects of city activists. The motion would have asked voters yet another question on the April ballot about changing the city’s charter. This [Click Here]

Visioning: light at the end of the tunnel

Posted by on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Categories:
The Columbia Vision Commission gave its first report to the City Council on the draft implementation report of the city’s visioning process Monday night, something of a milestone in the long-running process to gather citizen input on the direction of the city. Commission Chair Dan Goldstein stressed the “living nature of the document,” and said [Click Here]

Nixon once again calls for campaign finance limits

Posted by on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 Categories:
When Gov. Jay Nixon’s office announced a conference call on ethics legislation, it wasn’t unreasonable to expect that the first-term governor would call for campaign finance limits. After all, Nixon has been an advocate for the limited system for quite some time. He has commonly cited his experience arguing for limits in front of the [Click Here]

Killer Tofu

Posted by on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 Categories:
It doesn’t take too much time lurking around the Missouri Capitol to notice gobs and gobs of food at almost every turn. It’s type of thing that would make Oliver Twist faint with pleasure. OK, that analogy may be hyperbolic. But on an almost daily basis while the General Assembly is in session, lobbyists and [Click Here]

UM Hospital gets hit by governor’s budget cuts

Posted by on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 Categories:
The big news out of Jefferson City last week involved Gov. Jay Nixon’s announcement of more budgetary cuts made in the face of declining state revenues. As noted in a story for the CBT, the cuts included the elimination of hundreds of state government positions. But the restrictions totaling roughly $204 million also included cuts [Click Here]

The TSA has a blog, and other nonsense

Posted by on Friday, October 23rd, 2009 Categories:
So I’m on ‘vacation’ right now, down in South Carolina visiting some family (Vandals please note there is a flock of Hobos with knives guarding my home). I got here through Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. On the shuttle from the parking lot, I happened to meet a nice couple taking the same flight as me, on [Click Here]

CBT Business Calendar: The Week Ahead

Posted by on Monday, October 19th, 2009 Categories:
In Jefferson City this afternoon, Gov. Jay Nixon, Columbia Mayor Darwin Hindman and other public officials will take part in the dedication of a new renewable energy  project. Landfill gas from the Jefferson City Landfill is captured and piped to the generation facility next to the City Correctional Center, where it is used to generate [Click Here]

Columbia Business Community: The Week Ahead

Posted by on Monday, October 5th, 2009 Categories:
Should the city use federal funds to build a bike boulevard on the northeastern edge of downtown? That’s one of the big questions the city’s elected officials and administrators will answer this week. The City Council will consider the bike boulevard proposal during the public hearing segment of its meeting tonight at City Hall. The boulevard [Click Here]

McCaskill forum stirs health care passions

Posted by on Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Categories:
The fight over altering the nation’s health care system made a stop yesterday in Jefferson City. Federal legislators have been wrestling with legislation that would make big changes to the way health care works in this country. The most talk about plan includes setting up a government-run program that would provide health insurance to potentially [Click Here]

Zweifel sets up shop at State Fair

Posted by on Thursday, August 13th, 2009 Categories:
Most people typically pick up a corn dog or a funnel cake when tranversing around the Missouri State Fair. But state Treasurer Clint Zweifel is offering up something completely different – unclaimed assets. Zweifel announced yesterday that his Unclaimed Property Division will set up shop at the Sedalia extravaganza. It will be open from 10 [Click Here]

Nixon taps Kansas City attorney for Highway Commission

Posted by on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 Categories:
Gov. Jay Nixon appointed a Kansas City attorney to replace car deal Mike Kehoe on the state Highways and Transportation Commission. Nixon appointed Stephen Miller to the board that oversees transportation issues percolating around the state. He replaces Kehoe, who resigned earlier this summer to pursue a state Senate bid. According to a press release [Click Here]
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