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Although the Columbia City Council is braced for hours of testimony during a public hearing tonight on a proposed smoking ban, it’s unclear whether the council will vote on the matter.

Buildings in the Columbia Public School District are in pretty good shape, but the learning environments are “impaired” because of crowding and the use of temporary, or trailer, classrooms, according to an educational adequacy study that will be presented to the Columbia School Board tonight.

The city budget for fiscal 2007, which passed Sept. 18, originally included an increase in electrical connection fees for home builders whose projects involve extending the city’s power grid.

Access and affordability are the latest buzz words among higher-education policymakers and officials.

The Planning and Zoning Commission passed a proposed ordinance that would regulate the size of lighting fixtures and the amount of lighting allowed to be used on commercial properties.

With the release of two brochures, a parent group intends to ease the search for public school information.

JEFFERSON CITY — Like pumpkins before Halloween, October is ripe with negative politics in an election season. Yet something seems peculiar about the criticism arising in the state auditor’s race.

If a proposal from Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings’ Commission on the Future of Higher Education becomes a reality, in five years the government’s largest need-based student financial aid program could cover 70 percent of average state tuition, up from its current 44 percent.

WASHINGTON — Candidates in Missouri’s hotly contested Senate race clashed Sunday over the congressional page sex scandal and the war in Iraq, with the Democratic challenger saying House Speaker Dennis Hastert should quit.

LUBBOCK, Texas — This was the kind of win programs point to as a stepping stone on the way to achieving something great.

ST. LOUIS — Standing on a folding chair in a raucous clubhouse, Albert Pujols sprayed champagne in every direction. Teammates, even owners, got soaked. No one was immune.

After an errant pass, Melinda Wrye-Washington ran far out of bounds and dove, extending her right arm to keep the ball and the possession alive.

The Missouri soccer team lost its fifth straight Big 12 Conference game on Sunday, falling to No. 13 Oklahoma State, 2-0. The loss dropped the Tigers to 8-6 for the season and 0-5 in conference play.