Archive for November, 2010
City finance director gives final budget briefing
Posted by admin on Monday, November 29th, 2010 Categories:
In a farewell address of sorts, Columbia Finance Director Lori Fleming gave the City Council one last overview of the budget Monday night before she heads south of the border to take a job with the U.S. Treasury Department in Honduras. Fleming, whose last day is Friday, has been Columbia’s finance director since 1995. In [Click Here]
Hertwig-Hopkins in running for Virginia city manager job
Posted by admin on Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Categories:
Columbia Assistan City Manager Paula Hertwig-Hopkins confirmed today that she was a finalist for the job of city manager in Charlottesville, Va. Media reports in Charlottesville said the City Council there had picked a new manager from three finalists, one of which is Hertwig-Hopkins. The council declined to disclose their decision to local media pending [Click Here]
UM’s change to student IP rights nets grant
Posted by admin on Thursday, November 18th, 2010 Categories:
The University of Missouri’s push to commercialize more intellectual property bagged it a $100,000 grant from the Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, one of the largest foundations in the country. The Kauffman foundation, which promotes entrepreneurship, awarded the grant to help MU advance student entrepreneurship. As part of the grant, the Reynolds Journalism Institute [Click Here]
Mediacom founder taking company private
Posted by admin on Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 Categories:
Publicly traded Mediacom Communications Corp., long Columbia’s largest cable operator, is likely to be bought by its Chief Executive Officer and founder, Rocco Commisso, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. Commisso values the company at $600 million and is offering shareholders $8.75 per share — 28 percent higher than the stock’s closing price Friday. What [Click Here]
Roots ‘N’ Blues study provides much needed benchmarks
Posted by admin on Monday, November 15th, 2010 Categories:
If you use the economic impact studies that Roots ‘N’ Blues ‘N’ BBQ Festival organizer Thumper Entertainment gave to the City Council in the summer of 2009, the popular Columbia event attracts no where near the crowds it used to. But if you look at this year’s economic impact study for what it most likely [Click Here]
Downtown drinking problems
Posted by admin on Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 Categories:
Even if you haven’t been downtown on a weekend at 1:30 a.m. recently, you probably still have some idea of the shenanigans that occur around that time. The Columbia Police Department knows all too well, and they’re trying to get that boozing between Thursday and Saturday under control. “Our primary problem downtown has been overservice,” [Click Here]
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