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Dec 31, 2024
Ingram’s annual Philanthropy Edition means far more to our team than an annual tradition. It’s a capstone in time to pay tribute to great individuals, families, companies and foundations deserving of recognition for their philanthropic giving and volunteerism. This is…
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Dec 31, 2024
In a season whose origin is credited to Divine intervention some 2,000 years ago, it appears that only a modern miracle will help Jackson County meet a looming Dec. 31 deadline. That’s the date by which it must commit to…
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Dec 31, 2024
On any given night, according to the City Union Mission, roughly 1,800 people are homeless in Kansas City. When progressive groups like KC Tenants “organize for safe, accessible, affordable housing,” they miss the more fundamental point: a house is not…
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Dec 5, 2024
It’s an honor and a privilege for this opportunity to share with you The Kansas Edition—Celebrating the Past 50 Years of Business. For years, we’ve published Destination Kansas, a contemporary assessment of the factors that make the Sunflower State an…
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Nov 12, 2024
If you are a Baby Boomer, as I am, “Millennials” and “Gen-Zers” are people you read about and then rail about. From a distance, the whole lot of them seem indulged, unmoored, and generally useless. Their primary contributions to the…
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Nov 12, 2024
If you’re a big-time Tom Clancy fan, the name of sub-skipper Bart Mancuso is forever etched in your pop-culture memory for a single line of dialogue. Responding to a sailor’s warning that a torpedo was closing in, he shot back: …
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Nov 12, 2024
Publishing a regional business magazine means focusing on, well, regional business. As a business owner in November of an election year, though, I don’t think I’m alone in sensing a cloud of trepidation over what’s coming, and out of my…
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Oct 11, 2024
Law firm executive Lisa Krigsten takes the reins of the Civic Council with twin goals of promoting equity and engagement of the business community. She won’t be directing day-to-day functions of the Civic Council of Greater Kansas City, but as…
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Oct 11, 2024
As grounded a university as any in America, even Purdue, famously dubbed in the late ‘60s “a hotbed of student rest,” has not had a right-of-center professor in a liberal-arts department since the days of Orville Redenbacher … and maybe…
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Oct 11, 2024
Nov. 1, 2015, is a very big day in Kansas City’s sports history. For the Kansas City Royals, it’s one of the two most important dates ever: The day they won their second World Series, completing a five-game rout of…
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