Missouri
Lawmakers question security at Missouri Capitol
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers are criticizing Capitol Police for not being transparent enough during emergency situations.
A bipartisan panel of lawmakers told the chief of the Missouri Capitol Police Thursday they are concerned about their safety inside the statehouse. This comes after threats were made, but the General Assembly said it was not informed.
Now, members are calling for changes to the way the building is secured.
“These concerns stem from numerous occasions of threats, including bomb threats being made against the state Capitol building, without leadership in either body being notified,” Senate President Cindy O’Laughlin said during the committee hearing.
In one of their first hearings of the year, leaders of both chambers said they are troubled about the gap in information. Lawmakers said they want an immediate update on threats.
When asked if she feels safe in the Capitol, O’Laughlin said yes.
“We just want to let people know the things that do concern us, and we want to think that we’re well versed in what is expected for us and people who visit the Capitol,” she said.
Sen. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, chairs the Joint Committee on Capitol Security.
“Some people in the General Assembly and the staff have raised concerns and issues with that that have potentially hampered the capabilities of members and staff that would like to be efficiently and effectively able to perform and be a part of the solution and of the security apparatus of this building,” Brattin said.
In a letter signed by O’Laughlin and House Speaker Jon Patterson, R-Lee’s Summit, to Chief Zim Schwartze, they questioned why there’s only one entrance for visitors after the state paid for more than one metal detector.
“Members of the General Assembly and staff alike have been stopped from entering the building through certain entrances, while some members of the public are not even screened before entering the building,” O’Laughlin said.
The meeting comes on the heels of Monday’s governor inauguration. Schwartze said a security plan has been in the works for months.
“It is a very comprehensive plan, and we’ve been meeting regularly, as well as a lot of phone calls and a lot of emails, and a lot of information has been shared,” Schwartze said.
Under current rules, people who have a concealed carry permit are allowed to enter the Capitol with a firearm but cannot be in any legislative meeting rooms or in the House or Senate chambers.
The committee plans to meet again in the coming weeks.
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Downtown Columbia vacancy rate is healthy, new data shows
COLUMBIA — Columbia’s downtown commercial buildings continued a trend of vacancy rates under 5% in 2025, according to data from Plaza Commercial Realty.
“The vacancy rate … is a good measure of how the market is performing,” said Paul Land, the president of Plaza Commercial Realty. “So the lower the vacancy rate, the better the market is performing.”
The realty group began tracking vacancy rates downtown in 2016 after requests from groups leasing spaces downtown.
The year it started, the downtown vacancy rate was 1.78%. Those rates have made a slight trend upward, with a rate of 2.79% in 2017 and a 4.65% rate at the start of this year. While still under 5%, that means vacancy rates are two and a half times higher than they were nine years ago.
There are myriad reasons for that, Land said.
“Could be a very large property within the boundaries of the downtown that changes it by a percentage or two,” Land said. “Sometimes it could be explained by what’s on an upper or a ground floor, as ground floors are usually leased easier than upper floors.”
As for the year 2016, Land said that “was an extraordinary occupancy level being unusually low,” most likely being explained by Goodwill’s high school learning center on Fourth Street taking over a large space.
“It could be that leases were done on longer term basis in 2016 versus leases that became shorter in 2020 due to COVID and business disruption. It could be a movement of certain business uses like lawyers or financial institutions favoring the downtown area then and suburban locations now,” Land said. “I don’t know that I can pinpoint a single factor.”
A vacancy rate of under 5% means at least 95% of commercial space is occupied.
As for what types of businesses are downtown, Land said there’s “no question that’s changed.”
“Businesses go where they’re welcome,” he said. “Retailers go where the demographics are important to them, so changes that have occurred are reflections of changes in the community.”
“We have a lot more vape shops, which we get a lot of complaints about,” said Nickie Davis, the executive director of The District.
But Davis said it’s common to see an inflow of new businesses types in downtown Columbia.
“It’s very normal to see, like every three years, an influx of one type of business,” Davis said. “There tends to be … maybe five different types of those same businesses, and then one would end up eventually staying, sticking around while the other ones closed.”
KOMU 8 requested documents from the city and The District detailing what businesses have occupied downtown over the past decade. Neither have this data recorded.
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