The KFRU Business Spotlight
Brian Schaeffer, Fire Chief. Columbia Fire Department. New recruit class of 13. City Council approves new policy to align with the Boone County Office of Emergency Management. Station/apparatus update.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- February 7th & 8th, 2026. Columbia Fire Department Chief Brian Schaeffer joins us this week to talk about the latest at CFD. Recently, a new recruit class of 13 graduated. Some moved on to their EMT training while the rest moved into their new assignments across the cit…
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Jill Schlude, Police Chief. Columbia Police Department. Active start to 2026.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- 1/31 & 2/1, 2026. This week Chief Jill Schlude from the Columbia Police Department joins us to talk about numerous topics. First, Jill tells us it's been an active start to 2026 with a gun fired inside Dick's Sporting Goods, a murder as a Facebook Marketplace deal went …
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Chip Jones, PE. Executive VP, Operations, Emery Sapp and Sons. I-70 Improvement - Rocheport to Columbia.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- January 24th & 25th, 2026. Chip Jones, PE, the Executive Vice-President for Operations for Emery Sapp and Sons, joins us to talk about the I-70 Improvement project from Rocheport to Columbia that was recently awarded.to ESS. This is a 13 mile stretch of Highway 70 from t…
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Brian Toohey, CEO-Columbia Board of Realtors. Looking back at 2025. Looking forward to 2026.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- January 17th & 18th, 2026. Brian Toohey, the CEO of the Columbia Board of Realtors joins us. We take a look back on the best things and the worst things about 2025. We also look ahead to 2026 and what to expect in terms of housing prices, interest rates and more. Also…
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Ted Farnen. Columbia Missourian columnist. Former host of Columbia Today on KFRU. Former State Representative.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- January 10th & 11th, 2026. This week Ted Farnen joins to talk about a variety of things including his latest journalistic foray into being a columnist for the Columbia Missourian. He talks about his second piece that covered the "median" laws that the Columbia City Counc…
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Nick Knoth, COMO Vanguard Owner/Editor. David Lile, COMO Vanguard Podcast Co-Host. New podcast coming in January 2026.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- January 3rd & 4th, 2026. Happy New Year!!! This week we talk with Nick Knoth and David Lile. Nick is the owner and editor and producer of COMO Vanguard, a new subscription information service that covers the Columbia City Council meetings, along with some special repor…
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Kip Kendrick, Presiding Commissioner, Boone County. Looking back at 2025 and looking forward to 2026.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- December 27th & 28th, 2025. Kip Kendrick, the Presiding Commissioner of Boone County joins us. We look back at the most positive things, according to Kip, for 2025. We talk 9-1-1 Center's radio upgrade for the entire county, the Sheriff's Regional Training Center, the …
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Barbara Buffaloe. Mayor, Columbia City Council. Looking back at 2025. Peering ahead to 2026.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- December 20th & 21st, 2025. Mayor Barbara Buffaloe joins us this week for out annual "Year-End" conversation. We start with a recent highlight for 2025 as American Airlines will soon begin offering flights out of Columbia Reginal Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina. T…
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Lily White Boyd. Columbia Chamber Interim President-CEO/VP of External Affairs. Transition. What's ahead.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- December 13th & 14th, 2025. Lily White Boyd, Interim COE/President of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce joins us this week. We talk bout the transition happening at the Chamber as the search for a permanent President/CEO in underway after Matt McCormick left to move to Fl…
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Dave Baugher, President. John Ott, Vice-President. Premier Marketing. Their place in the history of 100 years of KFRU.
KFRU Business Spotlight -- December 6th & 7th, 2025. Dave Baugher and John Ott join me this week for a look back at a significant period in the life of KFRU as it celebrates its 100th birthday in 2025. Dave Baugher was the President and John Ott the Vice-President of Premier Marketing Group, the…
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