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		<title>Who Wants Yogurt?</title>
		<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>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300639/2010/03/05/city-election-fundraising-update/</link>
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		<title>P&amp;Z recommends against new commercial zoning on Grindstone</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300631/2010/03/05/pz-recommends-against-new-commercial-zoning-on-grindstoning/</link>
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		<title>ALL YOUR ISP ARE BELONG TO US</title>
		<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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		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300629/2010/03/04/all-your-isp-are-belong-to-us/</link>
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		<title>City gets &#8216;ducks in row,&#8217; crosses fingers for federal money</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300626/2010/03/02/city-gets-ducks-in-row-crosses-fingers-for-federal-money/</link>
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		<title>New utility policies aimed at attracting data centers</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300621/2010/03/01/new-utility-policies-aimed-at-attracting-data-centers/</link>
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		<title>Top 5 reasons Columbia &amp; Google are good for each other</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300617/2010/03/01/top-5-reasons-columbia-google-are-good-for-each-other/</link>
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		<title>Wade leads in campaign contributions, McDavid makes big strides</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300613/2010/02/26/wade-leads-in-campaign-contributions-mcdavid-makes-big-strides/</link>
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		<title>TDDs get more harsh words from state auditor</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300610/2010/02/24/tdds-get-more-harsh-words-from-state-auditor/</link>
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		<title>New twist in Kroenke group, country club dispute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new twist in the effort to extend Conley Road from the Walmart shopping center through the Columbia Country Club to Business Loop 70. The Transportation Development District set up to fund the road extension project looks like it&#8217;s trying to get out of that obligation.
The Walmart property owners, known as TKG Conley Road [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.columbiabusinesstimes.com/300604/2010/02/19/300604/</link>
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