What is “downtown?”

The Downtown Columbia Leadership Council, created by City Council in March, has been given the surprisingly complex charge of determining what constitutes downtown Columbia. The group, which is still trying to find its feet after just two meetings, has to set geographic boundaries for downtown development efforts and develop strategies and concepts for that development.
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If the development process is broken, how can it be fixed?

About a month ago, I had no idea what I was getting myself into when Sarah and I went to our editor, Scott Swafford, with the idea for a series on growth and development in Columbia. Now, with the last article done, I know. It is a complex concept full of intricacies, and there are [...]

Water concerns

There was an excellent response posted to the article written by C.J. Trent and me about elevated THMs in Columbia’s drinking water: 
So the current reading is three parts per billion below the standard, and the 2007 reading was three parts per billion above. In other words, it’s basically at the federal standard (most of which [...]