Owner keeps comics coming
By GREG MILLER of the Tribune’s staff
Michael Matthews didn’t expect to work in a comic shop, but when Rock Bottom Comics needed more help, the store decided to promote fanboys.

FUNNY BUSINESS

STREET TALK
Moe’s Southwest Grill sizzles on Ninth Street
By KEVIN COLEMAN of the Tribune’s staff
It’s the battle of the burrito.

GRAND OPENING: NEW BUSINESS IN COLUMBIA
The Beloved Brew Coffee Company

Treasury head supplied new age of economics
By BRUCE BARTLETT
The recent death of former Sen. and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen brought forth many laudatory obituaries. Most concentrated on his long career in Texas politics and chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee. But for my money, the most important thing he ever did was during his chairmanship of the Joint Economic Committee.