Eighty years is a long time. Long enough for businesses to change names, for neighborhoods to grow past their old boundaries, for the children of founding volunteers to become grandparents themselves. Leaders retire. New ones step in. The problems facing Columbia and the surrounding region rarely look the same from one decade to the next. […]
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Dozens of software engineers from across the United States and Europe gathered in mid-Missouri on July 16-17 with a singular, frustratingly simple mission: to make software stop breaking. The “Software Should Work” conference, a two-day independent event held at the historic Tiger Hotel in downtown Columbia, opened with a call to return to foundational engineering
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Deputy Director, Boone County Age 38 Armed with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from Lindenwood University and MU, respectively, Kristin Cummins was well prepared to do good in the world. And she found a place to do it at the Boone County Community Services Department, where she now manages more than 50
