Director of communications for the city of Columbia, Missouri. Beatles, Tolkien & Lewis, Cowboys & Mizzou. The road goes ever on…
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Mizzou fans, look all the way to the right
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If you excel in media relations, internal communications and related areas, check out our open Communications Supervisor position below. @CoMoGov is a great place to work, and our Communications Department is just getting started!
The City of Columbia is hiring! City employment comes with an excellent compensation package including medical, dental and vision insurance, paid time off, education and retirement benefits and more! View up-to-date salaries and job descriptions at ayrs.io/ZWfuyM
ALT A hiring graphic for the City of Columbia. Open positions include Communications Supervisor, Computer Support Technician, Utility Customer Service Supervisor, Police Officer, Equipment Operator, and more!
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This is the Russian Way of War. It is the embrace of a grim miasma of terror, destruction and death where the ends - despite being totally unachievable - justifies any means.
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I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
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Check out the Columbia Missourian's article on Proposition 1.
👉 Read more: ayrs.io/x1kKwc
ALT Visual graphic with a police badge and firefighter's helmet to spread awareness and information related to Proposition 1, which will be on the August 4 ballot. More information can be found at OneForeSafety.org
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The City of Columbia has launched a new informational website to help residents learn more about Proposition 1, which will appear on the Aug. 4, 2026, municipal election ballot.
Learn more and explore the information at como.gov/prop-1-general-sale…
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Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach
On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives:
The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work.
He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others.
After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach.
Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end.
He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha.
When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.”
Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.
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Some people argue that keeping an open-mind makes it easier to believe in conspiracy theories.
But we found the exact oppposite in our newest paper.
Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants around the world
In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
This paper was led by @philipparnamets @moral_psych and @Robert_M_Ross
This story by @caityweaver is somehow both crusty and pillowy, in equal measure. Five stars! theatlantic.com/magazine/202…
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Sky full of stars.
Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.
ALT A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
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Today's the day.
Fueling of the Artemis II Moon rocket is underway.
Full coverage of the crewed lunar mission begins at 12:50 p.m. EDT (1650 UTC). Check out ways to watch: nasa.gov/ways-to-watch/
ALT A graphic indicating NASA's Artemis II live events and the platforms that they will be streamed on. Credit: NASA
I’ve been a space nerd since my earliest childhood when the Apollo program was still going, and I can’t wait for the Artemis II to launch and bring humanity back to moon orbit. Godspeed to the astronauts!
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#Mizzou faculty members expressed strong satisfaction with their workplace, according to a new survey conducted with Harvard University's Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.
Read more: brnw.ch/21x0UIO
ALT The Columns and Jesse Hall.
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Gov. Kehoe to speak at MU about agricultural issues | Click the image to read the story komu.com/news/gov-kehoe-to-s…
As she often does, Beth nails it here. Friends - IRL friends that we hang out with - are vital.
