Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO) articles from September 2000

Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO) archives from September 2000

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Street Talk Column.
September 27, 2000... Byline: Andrew Waters Sep. 27--BUFFALO WILD WINGS ROAMS INTO COLUMBIA: A Minnesota-based restaurant chain hopes to create a stampede of hungry sports fans to south Columbia. Buffalo Wild Wings plans to open a 6,700-squre-foot...

Missouri Opens New Stretch of Four-Lane Highway 63.
September 27, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Sep. 27--The completion of a major highway project was an irresistible attraction for the political set this morning, but it was the presence of a family that demonstrated the real stakes of the project. In...

Missouri Governor's Plan Offers State Help for 'Life Sciences'.
September 27, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 27--Gov. Mel Carnahan has thrown the weight of the state government squarely behind the "life sciences" -- one of the state's most profitable and controversial industries. Carnahan and the Missouri...

Pursuing Accreditation is Quite a Task for Some Missouri Schools.
September 27, 2000... Byline: Cory de Vera Sep. 27--Accreditation can be a stamp of approval, but parents shopping for schools must do some research to find out what it means. Columbia Independent School is seeking accreditation from the Independent...

Columbia, Mo., Private School Struggles a Bit in Third Year.
September 27, 2000... Byline: Cory de Vera Sep. 27--About half of the 60 students who enrolled in Columbia Independent School two years ago were no longer with the school when it opened for its third year this fall, principal Dee Corn estimates. Even the...

Columbia, Mo., Brings Its Web Site Up to Speed.
September 27, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Sep. 27--It was considered a test, a first swerve into the e-commerce lane of the information superhighway. A banner on the main page of the city of Columbia Web site reads: "Utility hook ups & disconnects. Click...

Former Fighter Pilot Faces Challenges Running Columbia, Mo., Airport.
September 26, 2000... Byline: B.C. Jones Sep. 26--When Bill Boston assumed command of the Air Force ROTC at the University of Missouri-Columbia, he planned to complete that three-year assignment, take another assignment for two years, then retire to his house...

University of Missouri, Columbia, Dedicates Biotechnology Center.
September 26, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 26--With fanfare -- and a noted lack of protesters -- University of Missouri officials and local politicians this morning dedicated the university's new $7.55 million home of biotechnological research....

Missouri Program Aims to Promote Growth in Biotechnology Industry.
September 26, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 26--Perhaps road signs welcoming motorists to the state will one day read: "Welcome to Missouri, the genetic engineering capital of the world!" That's the dream of many state officials, including Gov....

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Top Drawer Column.
September 26, 2000... Sep. 26--ONWARD & UPWARD: Kristin Davison has joined Columbia's Summit Travel as a travel consultant. Davison is a Sandals Resorts travel specialist and has attended the Hawaii Academy. She has been a travel agent for two years. She...

Columbia, Mo.-Area Lake-Prservation Coalition to Be Honored.
September 26, 2000... Byline: Karen Shugart Sep. 26--With little more than a month until Columbia residents vote on a controversial parks tax, groups promoting the city's purchase of the 111-acre Stephens Lake property are gearing up for a fight -- and its...

Women Find Calling as Auctioneers in Columbia, Mo.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Martha Brendel Sep. 21--On a sweltering August evening in a Cosmo Park picnic shelter, Terri Atterberry-Bell stands in front of a crowd of Columbia Realtors gathered for an annual barbecue and charity auction. Calm, cool and...

Columbia, Mo., Aviation Office Future Uncertain after Parent Firm Purchased.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 21--Employees at the local branch office of software company Engineering Animation Inc. are experiencing deja vu -- and it might not conjure up the most pleasant memories. Engineering Animation, based...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Top Drawer Column.
September 21, 2000... Sep. 21--ONWARD & UPWARD: Melissa Smith of MetLife Financial Services has earned the designation of associate financial planner. She assists her clients regarding investment, cash flow and risk analysis. In addition, she specializes in...

Area College Submits Alternate Plan for Columbia, Mo., Lake Development.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 21--A proposed development plan for the Stephens Lake property paints a future of 111 acres of new retail, office and residential space off of East Broadway and Old 63 if Columbia cannot successfully...

Columbia, Mo., Disabled Group Home Falls Apart at the Seams.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Cory de Vera Sep. 21--A duplex built for disabled adults with the help of city financing and government tax credits began falling apart just a few weeks after occupants moved in. The foundation of the home located at 1608...

Gore Daughter Heckled on Campaign Trail in Columbia, Mo.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Sep. 21--Her words were largely overshadowed by the actions of protesters, but Karenna Gore Schiff still managed to get her message out yesterday. Schiff gamely plowed through her address to MU students yesterday...

Missouri Health Care System Tries to Bail Water from Sinking Ship.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 21--In its continuing attempts to cut the flow of red ink, the University of Missouri Health Care system is moving inpatient care and surgical services from Ellis Fischel Cancer Center to University...

Columbia, Mo., Council Wrestles over Funding Options for Housing Project.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Sep. 21--The decision last night wasn't about how much money the Columbia Housing Authority would get to help install fire sprinklers. No, that was already decided by the time supporters unrolled their petition...

Columbia, Mo., Land Dispute Erupts as Contestants Threaten Lawsuit.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Sep. 21--The contentious Windy Point debate has reached a new level of divisiveness, with an attorney threatening a lawsuit if the proposal isn't approved and a county commissioner last night accusing the...

Missouri University Bumps Salary of Highest Official by 24 Percent.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 21--The University of Missouri Board of Curators bumped president Manuel Pacheco's salary by nearly $50,000 in July -- in part to make MU's administrative salaries more competitive with peer...

New Development Aids Insidious Spread of Urban Sprawl in Columbia, Mo.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 21--The shopping center at Providence Road and Nifong Boulevard on the southern fringe of town is the epitome of modern suburban architecture. There are two enormous supermarkets, enormous parking lots...

Missouri to Experiment with Utility Deregulation.
September 21, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 21--Missouri is heading into the uncharted seas of utility deregulation, and the stormy weather could affect every resident and business in the state. Like many states, Missouri is experimenting with...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Street Talk Column.
September 19, 2000... Byline: Andrew Waters Sep. 19--STEPHENS COLLEGE FINALLY IS UNLOADING the former Union Planters Bank branch property on Broadway near College Avenue. Papa John's International has a contract to purchase the land for a new pizza...

Columbia, Mo., Tax Could Pay for More Police Officers.
September 15, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Sep. 15--There might be money for three to five extra police officers if voters pass the Nov. 7 parks tax, Columbia city manager Ray Beck said this morning. In a city council work session last night, Beck told the...

Columbia, Mo., Holiday Inn Auctioned Off to Texas Holding Company.
September 15, 2000... Sep. 15--A Texas bank holding company took possession of the former Holiday Inn East-Holidome, now called the Columbia Dome Hotel, during a public auction yesterday to satisfy an outstanding loan on the property. Mark Stumm, a spokesman...

University of Missouri Hospital Takes New Names to Emphasize Health Care.
September 15, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 15--With an ad campaign costing more than $100,000 waiting in the wings, University Hospital officials are ready to launch a new brand name for the hospital and its affiliates. The University Health...

Columbia, Mo., May Give Housing Authority Money to Renovate High-Rises.
September 15, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Sep. 15--Columbia city manager Ray Beck recommended last night that the city loan money to the Columbia Housing Authority, which is seeking funding for sprinkler systems in Paquin Tower and Oak Towers. The...

Missouri Program Gives Funding to Businesses to Train Employees.
September 15, 2000... Sep. 15--A new state program to help companies train employees in Missouri will bring more than $230,000 to employers in the Mid-Missouri area. The Customized Training Program, which will give more than $7 million to companies around the...

Missouri Nuclear Regulatory Officials Visit Workers at Columbia Reactor.
September 15, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 15--Investigators for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission visited MU again last week, this time apparently to interview employees of the research reactor. Two recent incidents at the MUResearch Reactor...

Columbia, Mo., Park Project Receives $50,000 Donation.
September 15, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Sep. 15--The project to turn a downtown eyesore into a gateway for hikers got a boost this week with a $50,000 donation from the Heinkel Charitable Foundation. The money will help fund the second phase of the...

Kraft Foods Gets Hearing on Missouri Case over Composting.
September 15, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Sep. 15--JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.--A Columbia company seeking state tax credits enlisted the help of a Democratic legislator yesterday to break through a wall of silence from state agencies. At the request of Kraft...

Boone County, Mo., Commissioners to Rule on Zoning for Development.
September 15, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Sep. 15--Despite a last-minute revision, the Boone County commissioners will take up the hotly debated Windy Point development at a public hearing next Tuesday. The commissioners yesterday decided the proposal...

Columbia, Mo., Council Approves Airport Fee Increase.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 12--The city council has approved a new charge for airline tickets at Columbia Regional Airport, and the city advisory board that handles airport affairs has set the wheels in motion to get the fee in...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Street Talk Column.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Andrew Waters Sep. 12--Streetside Records has found a new home. Randy Davis, president of the St. Louis-based chain, signed a lease yesterday to move into a new building under development by the Columbia Cemetery Association...

Transportation Business Owner Also Runs Osage Beach, Mo., Diner.
September 12, 2000... Byline: B.C. Jones Sep. 12--Brent DeMoss, best known as the off-again, on-again owner of Tiger Air Express, has a newly acquired distinction -- successful restaurateur. During his recent hiatus from control of the transportation...

Negotiations Set for Talks on Columbia, Mo.-Area Hospital.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 12--Early negotiations on the future of Boone Hospital Center will begin next week -- in St. Louis and behind closed doors. Out-of-state consultants, hospital attorneys and top brass from BJC Health...

Medicare Cuts Hurt Rural Missouri Hospitals, Association Says.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Sep. 12--Medicare cuts have left most Missouri hospitals in financial danger, a Missouri Hospital Association official said today. Six state hospitals have closed recently, and several more have had to cut back...

Columbia, Mo., Council Pans Study of Lake Property.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 12--A local attorney and anti-tax activist's suggestion that an outside party conduct an environmental assessment of the Stephens Lake property before the November election isn't popular among Columbia...

Missouri University Reactor Director Is Under Fire Because of Accidents.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Sep. 12--A scientist who retired recently from the MU Research Reactor said today that two accidents at the reactor earlier this year are due to ineffective management and could have been avoided. Bill Yelon,...

Developers Decry Push for Wider Sidewalks in Columbia, Mo.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Sep. 12--A debate over 1 foot of sidewalk width pitted developers against those who want to see a more "walkable" Columbia at last night's Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The proposal, tabled until...

Group Joins Push for Sprinklers in Columbia, Mo., Residential Buildings.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Sep. 12--As a home health-care nurse five years ago, Mary Hussmann remembers checking up on a patient at Oak Towers when a small fire broke out on the bed. "I took a bucket of water and poured it over the bed and...

Columbia, Mo.-Area Tire Stores Scramble to Meet Recall Demand.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Sep. 12--Though Ward McKnight owns a white Ford Explorer with tires that are part of a nationwide recall, he isn't too worried. The owner of McKnight Tire Co. feels confident enough, he says, to take a road trip...

University of Missouri Curators to Hear Proposals to Improve Communication.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 12--University of Missouri administrators said this morning that clearing the lines of communication between professors and their students is more complicated than ensuring each side is speaking the same...

Columbia, Mo., Council to Consider Rules to Protect Water Quality.
September 12, 2000... Byline: Kathleen McLaughlin Sep. 12--Well past the line between the city and the county, Bearfield Road crosses another border. A rise in the blacktop defines the edge of the Gans Creek watershed, the "bowl" that surrounds the creek,...

Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo., Street Talk Column.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Andrew Waters Sep. 7--It's the kind of job an architect dreams about. The Conservation Nature Center in Cape Girardeau is so exciting for architects at Peckham & Wright Architects that principal Brad Wright said they're up...

Football Season Means Busy Time for Columbia, Mo.-Area Communications Firm.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Sep. 7--Clyde Lear eyeballs the problem with a nervous grin. It's a little ironic that the former radio gearhead-turned-entrepreneur-turned-head of Learfield Communications -- a company that broadcasts news,...

Columbia, Mo., Council Gives Developer Final Go-Ahead for Work Near Watershed.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Sep. 7--The long, strange trip of developer Don Stohldrier came to an end at last night's Columbia City Council meeting. "I think it's time we let this man get on with his business," said councilwoman Donna...

NAACP Encourages Columbia, Mo., Blacks to Participate in Dollar Days Event.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Tim Higgins Sep. 7--The local NAACP is encouraging black people in Columbia to make all their purchases this weekend using either $2 bills or Susan B. Anthony dollars. The annual Black Dollar Days -- promoted by the National...

Columbia, Mo., Attorney Seeks Pollution Tests on Lake, Property.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 7--Local attorney and anti-tax activist Bill Samuels isn't known for hard-line environmental stances, but he's taking a stab at being green. Samuels, who is organizing a campaign to defeat a proposed...

Columbia, Mo.-Area Commissioner Votes Against Development Proposal.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Cory DeVera Sep. 7--Presiding Boone County commissioner Don Stamper called the proposed plans for Brookfield Estates well thought-out, but he voted against it. He joined Southern District commissioner Karen Miller last night...

Fitness Facility Proposes Sale to Columbia, Mo., Officials.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 7--Fine Family Fitness and Sports Development has closed its doors before completing its first year of business. The future of the facility is unknown, but owner Mark Fine has proposed that the city buy...

Missouri Hospital Goes Overseas to Solve Staff Shortage.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 7--The shortage of nurses in Missouri and the nation has forced hospitals to come up with some creative ways to fill positions. One Mid-Missouri hospital has gone all the way to the Philippines to find...

Numbers are Down, But Pride Is Up at Boonville, Mo.-Area Military School.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Cory De Vera Sep. 7--BOONVILLE, Mo.--What they might have lost in student body, they've made up for in pride. Kemper Military School opened the academic year yesterday with 103 boarding students enrolled in seventh through...

Multinational Timber Firm Says Missouri Mill Will Remain Open.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 7--Willamette Industries denies it will close its chip mill in Missouri despite a number of indicators that point toward the possibility that the multinational timber company will pull up stakes. The...

Press Conference in Columbia, Mo., Concerns Patients' Bill of Rights.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Sep. 7--In their eagerness to piggyback on the efforts of vice president Al Gore, a pair of local legislators admit they went a step too far yesterday in criticizing Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Working with a Gore...

Trust Hires St. Louis Appraiser for Columbia, Mo.-Area Lake Property.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Pierrette J. Shields Sep. 7--With a tax issue already slated for the November ballot, an appraisal is lined up to help give voters an idea how much the property that they might end up buying is worth. The Trust for Public...

Magazine Drops Missouri University's Value Rank from No. 1 to No. 17.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Josh Flory Sep. 7--Easy come, easy go. The University of Missouri's reign as the country's best higher education value went up in smoke this morning faster than old Academic Hall, when U.S. News and World Report issued its...

Missouri University Students Embrace New Drinking Rules.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Brian C. Kaller Sep. 7--When MU officials proposed a policy more than a year ago that would ban drinking at fraternity houses, students called it harsh and predicted it would harm the Greek system. But significant changes to the...

Columbia, Mo.-Based Design Team Wins International Web Site Award.
September 7, 2000... Byline: Christopher Leonard Sep. 7--MBS Textbook Exchange won international recognition this month for a Web site it developed to help professors gain access to information about textbooks. The Faculty Center Network site --...