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		<title>Love &#8216;em or Leave &#8216;em</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300652/2010/03/15/love-em-or-leave-em/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Schmitter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week I had one of those days that would have been better spent staying in bed. Not because I was ill, but because it seemed everything that could go wrong did.  It culminated with my cable being out and my 3 year old daughter having a bit of a meltdown because she couldn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Wants Yogurt?</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300644/2010/03/11/who-wants-yogurt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Schmitter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent session on Twitter, I came across an opportunity that piqued my interest and I felt it just had to be shared with the business community of CoMo.  Thanks to Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog for bringing this to my attention. You might wish to follow him on Twitter: @danec
If you are an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City election fundraising update</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300639/2010/03/05/city-election-fundraising-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*Correction: In a previous version of this post, I incorrectly reported the amount of in-kind contributions to Fourth Ward candidate Sarah Read. The correct amount is below.
OK, last week I posted a pretty incomplete campaign finance report for mayoral candidates Jerry Wade and Bob McDavid. Since then, I&#8217;ve managed to make the time to rummage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>P&amp;Z recommends against new commercial zoning on Grindstone</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300631/2010/03/05/pz-recommends-against-new-commercial-zoning-on-grindstoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Planning and Zoning Commission had different ideas than the Planning Department Thursday night, diverging from staff&#8217;s recommendation and voting against a proposed rezoning on Grindstone Parkway across from the Walmart center.
The request by Red Oak Investment Company, owned in part by Hugh Stephenson and his son Ted Stephenson as well as Robert Smith, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALL YOUR ISP ARE BELONG TO US</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300629/2010/03/04/all-your-isp-are-belong-to-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wendling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columbia Missouri has a message for the nation:
1.12.12 25.15.21.18 9.19.16 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 3.15.12.21.13.2.9.1
#CoMOflashmob
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		<title>City gets &#8216;ducks in row,&#8217; crosses fingers for federal money</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300626/2010/03/02/city-gets-ducks-in-row-crosses-fingers-for-federal-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A public hearing for an extension of Discovery Parkway from U.S. 63 to the intersection of New Haven Road and Rolling Hills Road got support from the council and representatives of MU&#8217;s South Farm complex Monday. The problem is there&#8217;s no money to pay for it.
As City Manager Bill Watkins explained, the public hearing was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New utility policies aimed at attracting data centers</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300621/2010/03/01/new-utility-policies-aimed-at-attracting-data-centers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City Council&#8217;s passage of two ordinances that would help offset utility costs for huge power users brought Columbia a little bit closer to landing a new data center at the Ewing Industrial Site.
&#8220;We think we will see in the foreseeable future a data center locate in Columbia,&#8221; City Manager Bill Watkins said at Monday&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 5 reasons Columbia &amp; Google are good for each other</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300617/2010/03/01/top-5-reasons-columbia-google-are-good-for-each-other/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Wendling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a buzz going around Columbia about Google&#8217;s competition. They are choosing a small number of communities to install fiber optic communication lines throughout the community. It came to my attention that most people read that as &#8220;so&#8230;they&#8217;re going to give me faster internet?&#8221; The short answer is yes, but that is a side effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wade leads in campaign contributions, McDavid makes big strides</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300613/2010/02/26/wade-leads-in-campaign-contributions-mcdavid-makes-big-strides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the release of Mayoral candidate Bob McDavid&#8217;s first campaign finance report today, we now have an indicator of how the race between him and Fourth Ward Councilman Jerry Wade is shaping up.
Only those two candidates have reported any contributions or expenditures with the Missouri Ethics Commission. I&#8217;ll be updating this post after I make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TDDs get more harsh words from state auditor</title>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300610/2010/02/24/tdds-get-more-harsh-words-from-state-auditor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Barker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Missouri State Auditor&#8217;s office released its third comprehensive audit of Transportation Development Districts Wednesday. Each audit since the first, conducted in 2006 by then-State Auditor Claire McCaskill, has been critical of the districts. State auditor Susan Montee&#8217;s office again raised concerns that professional services (i.e. legal counsel, engineering and bond underwriting) were not competitively [...]]]></description>
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