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Public Utilites
The power exercised for the public |
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Mary Birch. Only in a city like Overland Park could the president of the Chamber of Commerce have genuine influence, but Birch has worked this job long enough and well enough to know how to get things done. After all, Sprint did not move to OP by accident. Bishop Raymond J. Boland. Secularists can overlook the souls saved and the good deeds done, but the Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph runs one of the two or three biggest school districts in the region so much more effectively and efficiently than the KC public schools that it is shocking to compare results. Archbishop James P. Keleher. Keleher, the head of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, has emerged as a major force in the pro-life movement as well as a spiritual and educational leader. Marjorie Kaplan. The still youthful Kaplan moves into her tenth year as superintendent of the Shawnee Mission School District. That she recently received a new three-year contract from the school board suggests just how effective a job she has done in this keenly observed role. Martha Gilliland. Since arriving in Kansas City, the new chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City has been stressing higher education, lifetime learning and the partnerships the university can build in the community. She has a lot of partnership building to do to overcome the university's rough relationship with its neighborhood. Most are glad to see this post now filled. Richard W. Brown. Brown, the president and CEO, has helped make Health Midwest the most powerful force in healthcare between Chicago and Denver. His clout, however, could not derail the inexplicable prosecution of two of his executives and two associated physicians. Charles Carlsen. It is due in no small part to Carlsen's energy that arguably the area's most influential college is a community college. When they name the major drag in Kansas City after UMKC we'll take that back. Carlsen has served two decades as the president of Johnson County Community College. |
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