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A Sunflower Salute

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… more

Yes, Virginia, There Is Life Before 30

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… more

In a Data-Driven World, It’s GI/GO

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: … more

Electile Dysfunction

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… more

When Leaders Lead

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… more

The Art of Living Entrepreneurially

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… more

World-Class Kansas City: Life is Better in KC When the Royals Win

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… more

Heating Up in the Kitchen

Jul 30, 2024
My brothers Rob and John were among a few who had our hand in opening a restaurant a couple years before we bought Ingram’s in the mid-90s. Sweeney’s Shamrock Cafe & Pub was to be located in the former Sutera’s… more

My Appetite for This Change Is Almost . . . Nil

Jul 30, 2024
That time of year again when the weather in Missouri and Kansas takes on blast-furnace dimensions. For fans of college athletics, though, it’s a time of hope: In football, especially when players assemble for training camp, and every one of… more

The Rise and Crash of the Creative Class

Jul 30, 2024
For more than 20 years, I moderated a monthly business roundtable for Ingram’s. In the early years of this century, one subject that surfaced with regularity was the need for Kansas City to recruit and nurture a “creative class.” The… more