Partners Sam Collins and Cricket Osborn met in Chicago and have been together for about three years. They spoke about the somewhat chaotic start to their relationship and their decision to choose love over fear.
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Incumbent Barbara Buffaloe held on to her seat Tuesday night.
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Foster, who fended off a challenge from Ron Graves, said the city's biggest challenge going forward is managing growth.
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Both will be sworn in at the Columbia School Board meeting Monday.
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The two measures that did not pass were in Gravois Mills and Hallsville.
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Many smaller Missouri cities elected new mayors Tuesday night.
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Instead of circles to fill in or chads to punch out, voters in towns such as Hallsville and Hartsburg were faced with blank lines.
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It's a "ready-to-use therapeutic food" that's had remarkable success in treating malnourished kids. The State Department says it's still available. Factories and field workers have a different view.
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Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.
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Pope Francis will be buried in St. Mary Major church, not Saint Peter's Basilica, in a break with tradition.
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For the first time in many years, Mid-Missourians will soon be able to access abortion care at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, even though no procedures are scheduled for this week.
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Invest STL recently piloted a program called “Rooted: Cultivating Black Wealth in Place,” which aims to help long-term Black residents in St. Louis build wealth and stay in the neighborhoods they already live in.
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Scott Shelton has lived in St. Louis his entire life, and he has firsthand experience with rent hikes and gentrification in the neighborhood where he grew up. He hopes Invest STL’s Rooted program can help keep Black residents in their homes.
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Franky Karmen is one of about a dozen local designers taking part in this year's annual Walking Art Fashion Show at Orr Street Studios in Columbia! Ronecia Duke, co-founder of Soul Sessions COMO, a sponsor, says this event is free and open to the public. February 17, 2025
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Room at the Inn, which welcomes about 100 guests per night, provides resources for unhoused people in Columbia.
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Behind the scenes, Columbia's boards and commissions provide the city council with information to make decisions about issues such as staffing, discrimination and affordable housing.
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