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Oct 6, 2025
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2025 In the late 1990s, I co-hosted a talk show on KMBZ radio. Although our show was not about sports, if we saw Kansas City Star ace sportswriter Jason Whitlock leaving the sports talk show in the adjoining…
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Oct 6, 2025
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2025 If there’s one constant in the business climate, it’s the certainty of change. And as we close out this month, a trio of significant developments from Washington demands the attention of every business leader in the Kansas…
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Oct 6, 2025
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 2025 Anyone familiar with our content over the years knows we’re big on milestones here at Ingram’s. There are good reasons for that. In our coverage of business, for example, companies that go from startup to anniversaries of…
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Aug 1, 2025
PUBLISHED JULY 2025 The Corporate Report 100 ranking of the KC area’s fastest-growing companies began in 1986, just a few years after I started working with a great friend, then and now—Mike Rainen at Rainen Business Interiors. RBI had a…
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Aug 1, 2025
PUBLISHED JULY 2025 Well, the grand high poohbahs of regional transit planning have proffered their latest long-range vision for how we’ll get around 25 years hence. Well, you, anyway—I don’t expect to be burning oxygen by then. The good news?…
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Aug 1, 2025
PUBLISHED JULY 2025 Not since Chinese potentate Xi Jinping visited San Francisco two years ago has a city undertaken so shameless a makeover as Kansas City is undertaking right now. As the city prepares for the 2026 FIFA World Cup…
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Jul 7, 2025
It began, innocently enough, with this: “Hey, honey: I’ve got a great idea! Let’s build a waterfront resort!” Searching for the correct words here, but from there, it’s safe to say that things became … interesting. A year after opening…
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Jul 7, 2025
We at Ingram’s are occasionally criticized—unfairly, I’d argue—for being Pollyannas in the face of hard economic data and disturbing headlines. Cheerleaders for the business community, the complaints go. Let’s dispel that. Here are some things that worry me. Should probably…
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Jul 7, 2025
For a complex series of reasons, Kansas City no longer produces famous people the way it once did, and famous people no longer command the universal attention they once did. There is nothing local citizens can do about the latter…
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May 27, 2025
We’re 15 years into our Ingram’s 100 ranking of the region’s top private companies, and for anyone wondering about the health of the regional economy, there’s some encouraging news: Nearly half of this year’s Top 100—47, to be exact—experienced year-over-year…
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