STAFF PICKS: A petition to rescind the blight decree, saying goodbye to a ragtime legend

There's a lot of content on ColumbiaMissourian.com, and we can't expect the average reader to consume every last morsel of it. Still, we fear some of the stories from this week that you need to know about might have been overlooked. So we've compiled a list of recent stories we think you could benefit from reading, including a petition by the Citizens Involved and Invested in Columbia to overturn the Columbia blight decree and the life story of Columbia ragtime legend Robert Ault, who died Saturday at the age of 63.