Columbia Mayor Bob Coble used his last State of the City address Thursday night to make one last push for the project that has come to define the final years of his tenure: USC's Innovista research campus. Coble framed the success of Innovista in the context of Columbia's assimilation into what he calls the "knowledge and green economy" - a vision of Columbia that moves away from economic dependence on state government jobs and more toward the creative minds of young professionals who can build private businesses. Read more....