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Media Matters ; Deal On Transition Delay Comes with Compromise

Officially, the DTV transition still is set for Feb. 17. But it appears Congress is going to intervene and push back to June 12 the date that television stations must turn off their analog transmitters and broadcast digitally. On Thursday night, Sen. John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, announced a bipartisan compromise to the DTV Delay Act, introduced the previous week.

Grand Opening: New Business in Columbia ; Castlebride Couture

- Specialty:Wedding veils and headpieces - Owner: Kirstin Fox

Apartment Gets More Space but Fewer Rooms ; Chicago Couple Aims for Open Feel in Modernist Home.

CHICAGO - The problem with the Mies apartment that Defne Koz and her husband, Marco Susani, were eager to live in (and had just bought) was that they really didn't like the place. And no, that's not odd.

Street Talk ; Wilson's Facility Will Fill Downtown Fitness Gap

Downtown Columbia is getting a new fitness facility. Terry Wilson is opening a 13,000-square-foot outlet of Wilson's Total Fitness in the Berry Building at Walnut and Orr streets. Work on the facility began this week, and Wilson said he hopes to have it open in June.

Week in Review

City leaders skeptical of green sales tax break Though city leaders have overseen many projects to make Columbia a green community, they likely will pass up a new sales tax holiday to save some of another kind of green this April.

A Fascination with How Things Work

Robert Duncan's fascination with science is obvious - and contagious. During a meeting to discuss operations at the University of Missouri's Research Reactor, he used his necktie to identify elements used as radioisotopes for medical tests. The tie was adorned with the periodic table.

Public Record

Deeds of Trust The following information is compiled by Credit Bureau of Columbia based on information on file at the Boone County Recorder of Deeds office. Listed are the borrower, amount, lender and address when available.

Spiritual Life Calendar

Saturday Community United Methodist Church, 3301 W. Broadway, will hold contemporary worship at 5 p.m. The Rev. Kevin Shelton will begin the series "30 Days To Live."

The Tribune's View ; Higher Education

In the early days of the Nixon administration, politicians in Jefferson City discuss the future of higher education in Missouri. Speaking to lawmakers, university presidents argue the importance of higher education to the welfare of the state, bemoaning slippage in attendance among Missourians, particularly from rural areas. Missouri is in the bottom half of states in relative support for higher education - and for almost everything else. Many hereabout tout our low-tax, low-spend culture, re...

D.C. Power Shift Belies Media Mayhem

There is much irony in the fact that while liberals have won power in Washington big time, left-wing media are collapsing all over the place. In the past couple of weeks, the Seattle Post- Intelligencer, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the mother of all liberal publications, The New York Times, have issued SOS announcements. The Seattle paper will cease publication in March unless a buyer is found. Even though it can't pay its bills, the Post- Intelligencer should have been inducted into the...

Trib Talk

Jim Robertson, managing editor Call 815-1776 to contribute. "I was at the Mizzou-Colorado game and truly enjoyed watching the Tigers just stomp on the Buffaloes for their most lopsided victory since the Big 12 has started. But what I didn't like was that I was about 20 rows up courtside in the rich people's section because my friend got us tickets. We got really nice tickets, and there were so many kids there who weren't even paying attention to the game. It was like a day care. And when I'm ...

Obama Might Make Same Mistakes As Bush

Time to get to work. Let's heed the words of our new president and set aside childish things. Presumably that includes the $450 worth of designer Obama T- shirts that I got in return for a campaign contribution made two days before the election in a sudden panic that he yet might lose. That battle has been won, and the sight of the disgraced Dick Cheney being wheeled off the stage of history as Obama recommitted America to the vision of the founding fathers who, "faced with perils we can scar...

Church Volunteers On a Roll ; Wheelchairs Are Shipped to Needy.

A shipment of 168 Personal Energy Transportation vehicles just arrived in rural Cameroon, and Mel West - who started building the hand-cranked wheelchairs in his basement about 14 years ago - considers it a triumph of the ministry's mission. "Our goal is to provide PETs first for those that need it them the most, and those are often people way back in the boondocks that health services don't normally reach," West said. The shipment in August, thanks to a $2,500 donation and volunteers from th...

Marriage Licenses

The following people have applied for licenses in the Boone County recorder of deeds office: Benjamin Clifford Shipp, 24, of Columbia and Amanda Kay Bail, 24, of Columbia.

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 news brief yesterday incorrectly stated that Mark Miller of Mexico, Mo., who pleaded guilty to federal child pornography charges last year, was the owner of M&M Golf Cars. Miller was an employee of the business, and his father, Christopher Miller, is the business owner.

Drunken Driving Dispositions

- Lisa Ann Berry pleaded guilty and was given a suspended 60-day jail sentence. - Douglas James Fannin pleaded guilty as a persistent offender and was given a suspended three-year jail sentence.

Groups Push Clean Water Act Revival

The restoration of protection and regulatory enforcement for streams and wetlands under the federal Clean Water Act was the focus of a daylong "Waters for Wildlife" summit Thursday at Bass Pro Shops. Some 30 representatives of state and national conservation organizations met to discuss developing grass-roots support for legislation that would restore key provisions stripped from the Clean Water Act by a pair of U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Lawmaker Seeks to Cut Alcohol Tab for School Staffers

There ought to be a law against public school employees using district funds to purchase alcohol, a Kansas City-area lawmaker said. Rep. Tim Flook, R-Liberty, said that became clear in his hometown last year when an audit revealed Liberty School District administrators had spent thousands of taxpayer dollars on alcohol.

Unpaid Taxes a Disqualifer for Candidates ; `Oversight' Loses Judge a Place On Ballot.

An "embarrassing" oversight will keep Municipal Judge Richard Hicks' name off the ballot for the Hallsville municipal election in April, but Hicks is still eligible to run as a write-in candidate after paying an overdue real estate tax bill. Hicks said he was notified Thursday that his 2008 county real estate taxes were delinquent, which disqualified him from having his name on the April ballot.