The CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing
The CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing is a weekly analysis of Columbia and Boone County, Missouri, civic affairs. It delivers clear reporting on the decisions shaping the community and the implications that matter most.
Episodes
14 episodes
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, June 5, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike shares some opinion about the city of Columbia’s failure to engage with the public before walking it into the need for a one-cent sal...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, May 29, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike takes a long look at the City of Columbia’s financial condition and how recent spending growth, utility indecision, public safety nee...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, May 22, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike explains the dustup between Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon and Secretary of State Denny Hoskins over Missouri’s newly-drawn congre...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, May 15, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike explains the threat of a lawsuit against the City of Columbia over the constitutionality of its revenue guarantees to airlines, takes...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, May 8, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike explains the Columbia city council’s two-week delay on a vote to place a sales tax increase on the August ballot; has an update on Bo...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, May 1, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike gets to the bottom of the story about the break-up between Boone Health and the Missouri Heart Center, has an update on Columbia Publ...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, April 24, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike discusses the city of Columbia’s use of revenue guarantees to airlines at Columbia Regional Airport, the city’s planned new one-cent ...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, April 17, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Columbia Regional Airport is growing much faster than expected, and that’s forcing city leaders to confront new costs, new staffing demand...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, April 10, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week it's another look at the break up at Boone Health between the hospital and its cardiologists with new documents and details, a review of th...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, April 3, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week it's an analysis of the break up at Boone Health between the hospital and its cardiologists, a final look at the race for the Ward 5 seat o...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, March 27, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week it's an update on the Ward 5 Columbia City Council election, including clips from interviews with both candidates, Boone County's proposed ...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, March 20, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week it's an update on Columbia's $500,000 plan to add private security "ambassadors" downtown, the city's struggle to regulate Airbnbs, a plann...