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Of Power and Glory

Sep 28, 2026
This year marks the 11th annual Ingram’s 250, which began with an A-ha! Moment at our Alliance of Area Business Publishers Summer Conference in 2015. My good friend and then-publisher of D-CEO, Josh Schimmels, presented a concept he and his… more

The Hallucination Tax on the Bottom Line

Sep 28, 2026
One of the few advantages of pushing retirement age—and admittedly, it is a very short list in my case—is that you possess sufficient memory to recognize when a revolution is running ahead of its own brakes. I am reminded of… more

The One AI Conspiracy That’s More Than a Theory

Sep 28, 2026
Having written a few books on genuine conspiracies, I have a keen eye for the counterfeit. Many such theories string a few anomalies together and call it a day. What gives a conspiracy theory credibility is an identifiable logic, what… more

Riding the Growth Rocket

Jul 27, 2026
We’ve paired this annual Corporate Report 100 edition, ranking and recognizing fast-growth companies based in this region, with the theme of wealth management, banking and financial services for decades, and for very good reason: Companies go through cycles, and nearly… more

What Does Progress Look Like?

Jul 27, 2026
The wave of organized opposition spreading across the Kansas City metro—from Peculiar’s preemptive ban in 2024 to this year’s dust-ups with Independence’s tax-abatement fight, Gardner’s withdrawn proposal, Edgerton’s hold, Jackson County’s moratorium, the gathering pushback in Leavenworth County—has produced some… more

OK, I Was Wrong About the World Cup

Jul 27, 2026
The conversion came quickly. I was driving south on Main Street toward the Country Club Plaza when I heard a ruckus coming from Mill Creek Park, site of the erstwhile J.C. Nichols Fountain. “What are they protesting now?” I asked… more

Kansas City International

Jul 1, 2026
The chants came in Dutch and Spanish, in Arabic and German, in the universal language of grown men weeping when their team’s run ends on foreign soil. For more than a month, Arrowhead—the FIFA-decreed “Kansas City Stadium” for the duration—is… more

The Mirage of the Algorithmic Answer

Jul 1, 2026
There is a quiet seduction taking place in the modern executive suite, one wrapped in the flawless logic of the spreadsheet and the high-tech promise of predictive analytics. Across the Kansas City region, whether it’s in finance, commercial real estate,… more

Americans Will Find Socialized Medicine Hard to Swallow

Jul 1, 2026
Two summers ago, on Election Day in France, I was doing some editing and intermittently checking the (discouraging) French results when I heard French being spoken outside my lakeside cottage in western New York. It seemed oddly coincidental that my… more

Challenging Recovery and Hope for Future Support

Jun 3, 2026
I sit down to write this month’s column after a series of sleepless nights and back-to-back major building fires at our Lake of the Ozarks restaurant, Pebble Bay Club Grill. More about this catastrophic experience in a moment. This column,… more