Columbia Daily Tribune

`Mompreneurs' Find Balance in Home-Based Businesses

Some moms choose to work full time. Others become full-time moms. Lately, a category in between is gaining popularity, even inspiring a new term: mompreneur.

Students Line Up for a Crash Course in Commerce

RALEIGH, N.C. - You don't have to have an MBA to know the value of basic business skills. Just ask Greg Shaw, 22, and the 54 other recent graduates of the Carolina Business Institute at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. These new biologists, psychologists and arts majors added the business course to their resumes before stepping out into the real world. Many think it will give them a competitive edge in the workplace. Some think such skills are necessary if they want to one day run th...

Slowdown Leaves Day Laborers at a Loss

MIAMI - Here, he waits - sometimes up to eight hours - in hopes that a passing pickup truck or van en route to a job site will stop and offer him work, even for a fraction of what he earned only a year ago. Day laborers such as Javier once powered South Florida's building boom. For almost three years, he worked six days a week, making about $100 a day on construction sites from Miami-Dade to Palm Beach. The work helped him rent an apartment, feed his family and send money back to his southern...

Your Office Coach ; Harassment Must Be Addressed

Q: My husband, "Jerry," works with three completely unprofessional women. They send e-mails about sex and try to trick male co-workers into viewing porn. One of their e-mails said "meet the new employees," then showed a bunch of strippers. I think these women enjoy embarrassing Jerry, who is very shy. They've said "it's funny to see him turn red." He says they get on his nerves, but I think he likes the attention.

County Commission Agenda

The Boone County Commission will hold its regular meeting at1:30 p.m. tomorrow in commission chambers of the Boone County Government Center at Eighth and Ash streets. PURCHASING

Second Thoughts

Second Thoughts includes corrections, clarifications and elaboration associated with Tribune news articles. When you see something that bothers you, call Managing Editor Jim Robertson at 815-1707. A story Monday about a two-vehicle crash that injured five people in Columbia incorrectly reported the ages of three of the crash victims. Chase Rawlings is 4, Jayden Rawlings is 5, and Raymond Rawlings is 9.

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City P&Z Agenda

The Columbia Planning and Zoning Commission will hold its regular meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the council chambers on the fourth floor of the Daniel Boone Building, 701 E. Broadway. The meeting is open to the public. ROLL CALL

The Tribune's View ; Economic Development

Few people recognize the huge economic boost construction of Callaway II would bring. The additional nuclear generator would cost more than $6 billion, employing perhaps 3,000 highly paid construction workers for five years and hundreds permanently to man the operation. Callaway II would be the largest project ever built in Missouri. This is not the only reason to expedite this project, but it's nothing to ignore.

Trib Talk

Jim Robertson, managing editor Call 815-1776 to contribute. "I took my daughter Saturday, June 28, to Oakland Pool. Whoever's in charge of that pool is not doing a very good job of cleaning it. The bottom of the pool was very dirty with worms, bugs and black insects all over it. It should have been vacuumed every day. The sides of the pool where the drain water runs had black mold all around it, and they should clean it up and get their act together and have it acceptable for people and kid...

Open Column ; State has No Right to Take Land to Pay Off Debt

Editor, the Tribune: Regarding 409 Circus Ave., I have decided that I will not vacate the property as I had agreed. I will fight for what my family has spent years to keep. How dare anyone feel that they can come and order the two properties, 409 and 411 Circus St., to be sold for a fraction of their worth to pay off state debt that is "owed" to the state for my brother, who has been receiving mental health treatment for years?

Open Column ; J-School Paper's Money Problems Need Explanation

Editor, the Tribune: As a University of Missouri School of Journalism alum, I'm a bit puzzled by the concern over the Missourian deficit. Didn't the school just receive a $31 million donation for the Reynolds Journalism Institute? If one stipulation of the donation was that none of the funds could be used to subsidize things such as the Missourian, that's fine, but someone ought to say so.

Open Column ; Bike Laws Against Reckless Riding Need to Be Enforced

Editor, the Tribune: I have the utmost respect for those who choose to ride bicycles. I have crisscrossed the country as well as Europe, parts of north Africa, India, Nepal and many other countries on a bicycle. I have spent up to five months living off my bicycle. I would never dream of subjecting pedestrians to a high speed fly- by on the sidewalk. Over the past seven years, I have witnessed a growing trend for people to fly up and down the sidewalks at high speeds. I have had to grab my ...

Open Column ; Keller Editorial Only Shows His Own Religious Ignorance

Editor, the Tribune: In the Rev. Bill Keller's editorial "Obama's acts dispute Christian claim," he applies the label "Christian" only to those whose beliefs accord precisely with his own label. Let us hope this is simply done out of ignorance.

Tribune Column ; Winning Medals at Games Can Be a Bruising Affair

Joe Crowson's 10-medal haul at the 2008 Missouri Senior Games was hardly more than another day at the office for the 80-year-old former University High School Cub. The only "downer" caused by all those medals was his wife's face. The 1946 U-High Uesta Queen, Jean Martin, who has been Mrs. Joe Crowson for the past 57 years, nursed a battered lip and skinned nose because of one of those medals - the silver one for second place in softball accuracy.

Wolfgang's Kitchen ; Fish Around for Some Summertime Fillets

We are beginning to reach that point in summer when I regularly start telling people they ought to be grilling fish. As the days get hotter, it sometimes seems as if big burgers, hot dogs and steaks take too long to cook for anyone to stand over a backyard inferno, and red meat, or even chicken, often feels just too heavy to digest at night when the temperatures hover around 100. Fish fillets are another matter. With flesh less dense than meat or poultry, they cook quickly, especially when yo...

Check the Salsa Aisle for Ideas with Kick

Your grocer's Latino foods aisle offers a bounty of weeknight cooking shortcuts. The most obvious choice is salsa, which can go on and in so many things, effortlessly adding tons of flavor. Spoon it over baked haddock or cod as well as baked potatoes with cheese. Or use it to spike pasta or pizza sauce.

Food Sleuth ; Potato Deserves More Respect in Harvard's Healthy-Eating Pyramid

When Linda Hezel saw Harvard University's new "Healthy Eating Pyramid," she gasped. "We've really lost our minds, haven't we?" she said. I agreed.

A Little Homemade Limoncello Can Add Some Zest to the Meal

Shelly Culver remembers her first taste of homemade limoncello liqueur. "We were at this tiny restaurant in San Francisco called Caffe Macaroni," she said. "We gave the chef so many compliments on his food, he broke out his stash and poured some for us. It was so clean, so crisp - just like drinking a liquid lemon drop."

Yes, You Can! ; Workshop Draws a New Crop of Interest in Canning

HORIZONTAL stand alone center start Adina Klima joined Vera Massey's home canning workshop last week because she wants fewer preservatives in the food she feeds her 2- year-old daughter, Ivy.