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Dec 29, 2025
I believe we’re in an era that is considerably more challenging for many non-profits, if not most, to effectively operate. Limited resources must go towards services and core needs, yet communicating the need for assistance is essential to amplify messaging…
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Dec 29, 2025
If you’re still scratching your head about how November’s mayoral election turned out in New York, you can stop. The reasons for electing an avowed socialist to lead the nation’s financial capital should now be clear to anyone not willfully…
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Dec 29, 2025
Driving into my office one December morning and growing weary of Christmas music, I channel surfed my way to an extraordinary conversation. In just 15 minutes, most of them spent in the McDonald’s drive-through line, I found myself reflecting on…
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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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