Winners and Losers of Federal Tax Reform
Oh, to be a tax accountant these days. Being in the thick of the first tax season following the federal tax overhaul, they get to help all their business and personal clients sort out the new tax planning landscape. By now, you’ve probably looked into how the new tax changes affect you. Maybe you’ve cheered […]
A Capitol Conversation: Face to Face with Greitens
When I sat down with Governor Eric Greitens shortly before Christmas for a conversation about his first year in office, I expected that we’d air it in a half-hour special report in January, just before he delivered his second state-of-the-state address to Missouri lawmakers. I did not know then that KMOV-TV, in St. Louis, was […]
Hope and Despair
Columbia recorded its first homicide while the New Year was still very young. Not something to boast about. It’s a problem about drugs, as individuals — rivals and their gangs — spar with each other over the sale and distribution of a cornucopia of various controlled substances in the local marketplace. And so it goes […]
Angie Bass, President and CEO, Missouri Health Connection
1. What does the Missouri Health Connection do? Missouri Health Connection is a health information exchange, or HIE, which provides technology that allows health care providers to interoperate with one another, even if they use different electronic health record systems. MHC acts as the technology bridge that electronically connects health care providers, allowing access to […]
New Age of Recovery: Phoenix Health Programs
Here are things you don’t hear people say about sick people: I can’t believe that Mike can’t manage his cancer; he should have better self-control than that . . . Sharon was so reckless to get Alzheimer’s . . . John should be ashamed of himself for having that stroke . . . It seems […]
CYSK: Bennet & Kim Fallis
Kim and Bennet Fallis find love young and keep it for 27 years. How did you meet? Kim: We first met at eighth-grade cotillion. Bennet was a student a West Junior High, and I was at Jeff Junior High. Back then, you had a cotillion “dance card” you had to fill out to determine who […]
Strong Woman: Kelly DeLine
Bereaved mother endures tragic loss and strives to encourage others. Kelly DeLine, a 17-year employee of Shelter Insurance, talks about staying strong after a car accident took her son’s life in July of 2002 and how donating his organs helped soothe her grief. Age: 54. Years in Columbia: 13. Who or what has been your […]
Transformations: From Addict to Advocate
Gina Ridgeway Long leaves meth behind to be a mom. “It was like battery acid was eating my nasal cavity,” says Gina Ridgeway Long. “I was crying and screaming. Within 10 minutes, the burn was gone and that something that had been missing — I thought I had found it in drugs.” For Gina, that […]
Kerrie Bloss, Community Development Director, Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbia
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Matt Garrett, Interim General Manager and Director of Audience Development, KOMU
1. The term “fake news” is being thrown around a lot these days. So how does a member of the public really discern what’s fake and what’s not? Fake news is big concern with the public. Bogus stories can be circulated more quickly today because of social media. I contend that local media outlets are […]
Presbyterian Children’s Homes and Services: Transitioning from Foster Care
Foster care organizations do selfless work to keep countless children from homelessness. But those children grow up — and then what happens to them? Many young people transitioning to adulthood have families who are able and willing to help, but foster children don’t have this luxury. The National Institute of Health conducted a study on […]
TIF Approval Might Signal Change
Congratulations to the five members of the city council who shortly before midnight on Monday, December 4, summoned the courage to vote in favor of a tax-increment financing proposal to help build the second tower at the Doubletree Broadway Hotel in downtown Columbia. Fronting on East Walnut Street but connected to the existing tower, the […]