The Columbia Heart Beat

COLUMBIA, Mo 10/18/18 (Beet Bite) -- Horrors!

Columbia City Hall fighting power outages and basement sewer backups, just like people all over Columbia? 

Aging central city infrastructure and shoddy construction city officials compare to "the stuff you see in student apartments" waylaying that tower of power? 

The same problems plaguing that $35 million behemoth so many other Columbia residents put up with? 

What if?   What would a story about that look like?  A horror story, just in time for Halloween, complete with a new demon:  "pop up" floods -- the interior version of flash floods near leaking ceilings and faulty sprinkler systems.

"I hate to admit it, but poor-quality construct...

COLUMBIA, Mo 10/17/18 (PSA) -- The idea of a next Bach, Beethoven, or Mozart may seem strange in a world of pop music that rarely gets closer to its classical counterparts than Rock Me Amadeus or the occasional sampling job .

COLUMBIA, Mo 10/16/18 (PSA) -- A campaign that raised over $150,000 in 100 days has qualified Columbia-based KOPN radio for an additional $70,000 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

The non-profit radio station raised roughly $170,000, and will receive the CPB grant in 2019.

"We were expecting to be notified of whether we would receive the grant in November, but they called and let us know we will," said KOPN general manager Sean Spence .  " It is pretty exciting."

The fundraising effort started in June, when CPB notified the station of their grant eligibility if they raised $300,000 by the end of the 2018  fiscal year .

"That left just over one hundred ...