Sports enthusiasts are no stranger to the effects of a contract year. In hopes of landing bigger, better deals with teams – complete with fame and fortune – it is common for athletes to play to their...

Columbia was rated as the best-performing small city in 2013 by the Milken Institute, a Santa Monica, Calif., economic think tank. Columbia jumped up nine places from its 2012 ranking. Although the Milken...

Gov. Jay Nixon made a lot of promises last week. Among them were $278 million additional funding for early childhood, primary and secondary education, $22 million for a science and math initiative, $20...

Do you love freezing in your house? The threat of armed robberies? Having your number of daily guests regulated? Then Aspen Heights is the place for you. Over this past summer I, along with more than...

Finding an East Campus landlord who doesn’t suck is roughly analogous to finding Moby Dick. It’s a long, often-fruitless journey that leaves people obsessed and comes with the very real possibility...

Columbia is growing. MU’s population has grown in recent years, and more and more student housing developers are flocking to the city to take advantage of the growth before Columbia gets too full. The...

It seems the growing trend for teenagers is to bestow nearly all of their money, time and conversations onto one thing: music festivals. For those who have attended one in the past, this is no shocker....

If you didn’t live under a rock and had an Internet connection this summer, chances are you watched the Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black.” What you may not have realized, though,...

What do you do when a crucial character leaves your favorite show? Cry? Scream? Nervously attribute it to some kind of plot device? Or... commemorate and let go? “Community” may have had a funeral...

I don’t know what I was thinking. The terrible trailers for “I, Frankenstein” have been playing for months. It’s currently resting at an abysmal 5 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. On opening day, it...

**Madeline Ericson** _Friendly face in an important place_ You’d be wise to stop by the Wellness Resource Center. Not only can you find information on a variety of topics including alcohol responsibility,...