Lieutenant Governor Mike Kehoe (R) addresses 500-plus professionals at Missouri’s 2022 highway safety and traffic conference in Columbia (September 27, 2022 photo courtesy of Mr. Kehoe’s Flickr page) More than 500 transportation, law enforcement officers and other professionals from across Missouri are hearing alarming statistics about traffic fatalities during the 2022 highway safety and traffic conference in Columbia. The three-day …
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CVB: Columbia hotel rooms are virtually sold-out on Saturday
Columbia’s Convention and Visitors Bureau is located in the Walton building on Providence (2022 file photo courtesy of the CVB’s Megan McConachie) Columbia hotel rooms are at a premium this weekend, due to Mizzou’s football game against #1 Georgia, the defending national champions. The Bulldogs travel as well as any football team in the nation, and Columbia Convention and …
Read More »(AUDIO): Jefferson City Mayor Tergin discusses East Capitol Avenue and food insecurity on 939 the Eagle
The issue of dilapidated and aging homes along Jefferson City’s East Capitol Avenue has been controversial. Some residents want them preserved, saying they are historic. Others say they are an eyesore and that Jefferson City Police have to remove people from vacant buildings. Mayor Carrie Tergin sees opportunity in those homes. She joined us live on 939 the Eagle’s “Wake …
Read More »Safety and license plate readers are topics at Missouri transportation conference in Columbia
The massive I-270 construction project in north St. Louis County’s Hazelwood and Florissant is one of MoDOT’s largest projects in Missouri (September 12, 2022 file photo courtesy of the governor’s Flickr page) Hundreds of people are expected to be in Columbia for the next three days for Missouri’s 2022 highway safety and traffic conference, which opens Tuesday afternoon at the …
Read More »Multi-million dollar bank project highlights enormous growth near Columbia’s Discovery Parkway
Columbia Chamber of Commerce ambassadors help cut the ribbon on FSCB’s new multi-million dollar branch in southeast Columbia (September 26, 2022 photo from 939 the Eagle’s Brian Hauswirth) An area business leader who’s the local president of Missouri’s ninth-largest bank predicts that several thousand residents will soon be living in an area of southeast Columbia near Discovery Parkway and Highway …
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