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
28 episodes
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, Oct. 9, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike take a look at a City of Columbia report on violence prevention that identifies a gap between “prevention” and “intervention;” report...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, Sept. 25, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike reports on a Boone County Circuit Judge’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order to the PulsePoint cardiology clinic that ba...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, Sept. 18, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike reports on the sale of properties off Broadway near Providence Rd. at the west entrance of downtown Columbia and the possible demolit...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, Sept. 11, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike reviews the police and fire spending in the city of Columbia’s fiscal year 2027 budget to set the baseline for future year contributi...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, Aug. 28, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike weighs in on the erupting phenomenon of AI videos on social media mocking Mayor Barbara Buffaloe in Columbia; reports on Boone Health...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, Aug. 21, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike reports on the downtown Community Improvement District’s request to the Columbia city council to consider an “urban camping” ordinanc...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, Aug. 15, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike has more on the Boone Health lawsuit against two of its former cardiologists who have opened a clinic in Columbia; reports on another...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, Aug. 7, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike covers the new Boone Health lawsuit against two of its former cardiologists who have opened a clinic in Columbia; reviews the Aug. 4 ...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, July 31, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike reviews the Aug. 4 election in Columbia, which includes the Proposition 1 sales tax increase, a race for the Ward 4 seat on the city ...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, July 24, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike tells you why voters passing the City of Columbia’s Proposition 1 on the Aug. 4 ballot may not be such a bad thing; has updates on mo...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, July 17, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike takes a hard look at the City of Columbia’s Proposition 1 on the Aug. 4 ballot that asks residents to pony up an additional one cent ...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, July 10, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike takes a look at the upcoming election on Aug. 4 and the impact it will have on Columbia. An open seat from the fourth ward gets fille...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, June 19, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike takes a look at how Columbia’s renewable-energy policy is running up against the harder reality of an electric utility that has to so...
CoMoBUZ Insider Briefing, June 12, 2026
Mike's quick, weekly no-nonsense look at civic affairs in Columbia and Boone County, Missouri. This week, Mike takes a look at how the City of Columbia spent a $3.2 million more to purchase energy from renewable sources than it would have had t...
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...