Recently added articles from Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO):
City pushes growth costs to developers: Fee increase opens age-old debate.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Kat Wingert Oct. 2--After approving a plat to add 152 residential lots in the north part of town last night, the Columbia City Council came to a reoccurring issue of business: deciding who pays for the costs of growth. Council members voted unanimously to ...
History at play in alley name game.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Kat Wingert Oct. 2--When it comes to alleys in downtown Columbia, Fourth Ward Councilman Jerry Wade wants more than just five names. At last night's Columbia City Council meeting, Wade made a motion to direct the Historical Preservation Committee to revisit ...
Private sources about 9 percent of loans at MU: Larger appropriations finance need-based grants to students.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Abraham Mahshie Oct. 2--In the struggle to pay for college, some expanded loan and grant programs are helping students fend off the need to look to private lenders. Even so, $12 million, or about 8.8 percent, of student loans at the University of Missouri-Columbia came ...
Obituaries.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Obituaries Charles Lee Barnum, 83, of Columbia passed away Monday, Oct. 1, 2007. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, at Collier Funeral Home in Louisiana, Mo., with visitation from 11 a.m. until time of service ....
Topsy-turvy weekend shuffles Big 12 deck: North Division race appears wide open.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Dave Matter Oct. 2--With the Big 12 Conference turned upside down by Saturday's double stunner, has the league's balance of power shifted northward? Missouri players like to think so. The Tigers were idle on Saturday, but that didn't stop them from sharing ...
Missouri completes 2008 class: Juco forward picks MU over Arkansas.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Steve Walentik Oct. 2--Mike Anderson had been awaiting a phone call from Keith Ramsey for two weeks, ever since the highly regarded junior college forward visited Missouri on Sept. 14-15. Anderson's phone finally rang yesterday evening, when Ramsey told the ...
Bruins' Harrison hopping happy: New serve technique serves libero well.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Matt Nestor Oct. 2--Rock Bridge senior libero Alex Harrison's "hop-footer" serve will be subject to ridicule no more. Harrison, who learned the jump serve at an offseason camp in Nebraska, has slowly been working it into live matches. With the Bruins on the ...
Three new West Nile cases logged: Boone County is showing a big increase in virus this year.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Sara Semelka Oct. 2--Three Boone County men are the most recent victims of West Nile virus, bringing the total number of cases reported in the county this year to eight. Boone County is still in the midst of this year's mosquito season, but confirmed West Nile cases ...
Leads not promising in search for monkey.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: T.J. Greaney Oct. 2--One woman with a red pickup had a monkey at a gas station in Lebanon, Mo. Another kept a monkey over Labor Day weekend at a campground in Newburg. A third woman with a monkey was reported Friday at the Good Samaritan Center in Jefferson City. ...
OPINION: Warrantless wiretaps: Rethinking is in order.
Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Henry J. Waters III Oct. 2--On our op-ed page today -- next door to the right -- we publish an article by former National Security Council Senior Director Philip Bobbitt, who now labors as a professor at Columbia University. Darn it, Bobbitt makes me ...
Corrections.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Oct. 1--A photo caption in yesterday's Ovation section incorrectly said the Euclid Quartet had competed in the Plowman Chamber Music Competition. They were the featured guest artists for the Plowman Inaugural Gala Concert in 2006. To see more of the Columbia Daily Tribune, or to ...
Fire evacuates employees.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Joe Meyer Oct. 1--A two-alarm fire broke out this morning at the Gates Rubber Co. factory in southeast Columbia, generating a major emergency response to one of the city's major industrial areas but apparently no injuries. Firefighters responded at about 11 ...
Writer fights stigma of mental disorders: Youths' drug use often masks illness, he says.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Sara Semelka Oct. 1--After being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 16 and hospitalized for trying to take his own life, Ross Szabo now tours the country speaking to students about breaking down the stigmas surrounding mental illness. Szabo, who has a ...
OPINION: War and peace: Too big to contemplate.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Henry J. Waters III Oct. 1--The largest subjects often are ones we routinely ignore. Consider war and peace, about as large a subject as one could contemplate. My own simple-minded conclusion: War is inevitable, ubiquitous and eternal. Stock market investors ...
Obituaries.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Oct. 1--Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Obituaries William Harrison Bates, 86, of Columbia died at home on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007. There will be no funeral services per Mr. Bates' request. Mr. Bates was born April 27, 1921, in Lexington to Worth and Faye ...
Rift widens on design rules: Neighborhood defends added regulation.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Kat Wingert Oct. 1--Tom Atkins, owner of Atkins Inc. and several commercial properties, fully supported the North Central Columbia Neighborhood Association's idea to create an urban overlay district to preserve the character of homes in the area. He even helped raise ...
Biffle sputters to victory lane: Edwards ends rough week with wreck.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Byline: Steve Walentik Oct. 1--KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- A wild day of racing came to an end yesterday when Greg Biffle, low on fuel, coasted across the dimly lit finish line under caution at Kansas Speedway to take the checkered flag in the NASCAR Nextel Cup LifeLock 400. ...
Forever creative: Columbia artist Bob Bussabarger's new show opens this week with a reception today.
Sep 30, 2007 ... Byline: Sara Agnew Sep. 30--Bob Bussabarger was a small boy the first time he took a lump of clay into his hands and gave it shape. His mother's wrapping paper became the son's canvas, and he took to the blank side with imagination and color. Before long, adults ...
Mark Nii Hylton.
Sep 30, 2007 ... Byline: Annie Nelson Sep. 30--Mark Nii Hylton stopped painting faces on the African figures that often appear in his acrylic paintings because he realized it gave the viewer a freedom to assign the figure a mood, an expression -- creating a different painting for each viewer. ...
Arts take center stage: More than half of vendors at 16th annual festival are newcomers.
Sep 30, 2007 ... Byline: Joe Meyer Sep. 30--The 16th annual Columbia Festival of the Arts kicked off yesterday in downtown Columbia with live entertainment, special events for children and dozens of artisans selling their wares. Festival goers could buy anything from dream catchers to ...