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		<title>Patience, please, as voter processing system goes paperless</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/8473/2010/07/23/patience-please-as-voter-processing-system-goes-paperless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Noren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you go to the polls for the Aug. 3 primary election, you might get the chance to experience our latest foray into taking technology to the polling places.
We’ve started implementing our new “EPollbook” voter processing system that will allow our poll workers to handle the check-in process electronically rather than through the paper precinct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The drawn-out demise of Columbia’s passenger train service</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Germond</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last time I took a train to Columbia’s Wabash Station was in April 1969.
I was one of the last incoming passengers on Norfolk and Western Train No. 37, due to arrive at Wabash Station from Centralia at 5.20 p.m. The only other people inside the old day coach were a conductor and one other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New names in leadership at Columbia Public Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maintaining quality leadership is a challenge to all businesses. Employees with years of service and experience retire or take on new opportunities and need to be replaced in a seamless manner. Effective organizations work to manage transitions as such shifts occur.
Columbia Public Schools is pleased with our new set of leaders for the 2010-11 school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Column: Meat inspection program preserves local option for consumers, producers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Sessions</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Issue 25]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Missouri Department of Agriculture
Every Saturday from March through October, shoppers at the Columbia Farmers Market line up to purchase pork chops, roasts, ribs, bacon and other products from Jim and Deanna Crocker of Centralia.
Halfway across the state, upscale St. Louis restaurants feature beef, pork, lamb and poultry produced by Greenwood Farms of Newburg. At a Mennonite country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Roundtable: MU lab explosion a reminder of experimental dangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Germond</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent explosion and fire in Schweitzer Hall on the University  of Missouri&#8217;s white campus reminds us that the practice of scientific research is fraught with risk.
The explosion on June 28 was caused by the ignition of hydrogen gas in a chamber used for working with bacteria, a Columbia Fire Department captain said. Three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City View: The healthy benefits of parks and recreation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Hood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1985, America has celebrated July as the nation’s official Park and Recreation Month. The National Recreation and Parks Association set this year’s theme as “Celebrate, Advocate, Recreate!”
As our local parks, trails, facilities and recreation programs are in full swing this summer, it’s a good time to reflect on how parks and recreation impacts our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Column By Heather Lutze: Expand by thinking global, acting local</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/8321/2010/06/25/guest-column-by-heather-lutze-expand-by-thinking-global-acting-local/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Lutze</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Issue 24]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many small-business owners think that to be successful, they must dominate the world. After all, their product is just as good for people in Ohio as it is for people in Missouri. But often the real business is right under your nose — right in your own backyard.
For many small-business owners, understanding the nuances of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>County View: Boone County’s modified food code shares burden</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/8298/2010/06/25/county-view-boone-county%e2%80%99s-modified-food-code-shares-burden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Pearson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once worked for a professor who grew up in Europe. He constantly complained about the pedestrian nature of American food. He said that the only good thing about American restaurants was that a person could go into almost any place and, though the food might be plain, “at least you don’t have to worry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superintendent’s View: The business side of the lunch table</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/8301/2010/06/25/superintendent%e2%80%99s-view-the-business-side-of-the-lunch-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Belcher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Issue 24]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine preparing a grocery list for 1.9 million lunches and 620,000 breakfast meals.
Columbia Public Schools does this every year.  An average of 10,323 students and adults eat school lunch each day. Because more than 36 percent of Columbia’s students receive a free or reduced-priced lunch based on family income, the school district is the main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Roundtable: MU, and local economy, dodges realignment bullet</title>
		<link>http://www.columbiabusinesstimes.com/8292/2010/06/25/from-the-roundtable-mu-and-local-economy-dodges-realignment-bullet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Al Germond</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The college athletic conference realignment scenario that almost cascaded this month proved to be a close call for the Columbia area business community.
Although the media generally ignored possible economic consequences of an upheaval, business and government leaders were sweating bullets over the future of the region&#8217;s economy if MU was left out of a major [...]]]></description>
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