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Jan 23, 2024
Each January, we list and profile companies celebrating significant milestones, and through the years I would periodically say to myself, “We’ll be there someday.” We’re a bit behind those celebrating centennial or older anniversaries, but we’re glad to be among…
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Jan 23, 2024
Outsiders have a hard time taking seriously a town whose name seems to have tumbled out of a Laura Ingalls Wilder novel, but, lo and behold, in November, Prairie Village witnessed one of the most eye-popping elections in recent memory.…
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Jan 23, 2024
Remember the “Smart City?” That was the phrasing you might have heard a lot about back in 2016 when City Hall was touting its efforts to become—no kidding—the World’s First Smart City. To further that ambitious goal, the city created…
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Dec 18, 2023
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.” So St. Paul tells us in the opening line of 1 Corinthians 13, likely the…
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Dec 18, 2023
Microsoft at 10 cents a share in 1986 (it’s $370-plus now), Amazon at eight cents in 1997 (now $147-plus), Tesla at $1.22 in 2010 (now north of $243)—just a few line items in a long list of misses in my…
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Dec 18, 2023
Therese Miller was a childhood friend and she married a soon-to-be-great friend in St. Louis by the name of Rich Greene. Rich and his Dad operated the Richard Greene Company and they were active members of St. Clement Parish. We…
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Nov 28, 2023
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2023 It’s a marker of how mind-numbingly stupid, infinitely gullible, and deeply brainwashed younger generations of journalists are that our local newspaper can publish an article, as it did this summer past, attributing the rail warping on the…
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Nov 28, 2023
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2023 This marks the 30th year since Ingram’s organized and showcased the merits of extraordinary women in leadership roles. Some may take for granted the recognition-oriented nature of this publication, but one must remember that excellence should be…
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Nov 28, 2023
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2023 Twenty years ago this fall, the wildly successful author/producer Michael Crichton spoke at the famed Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. As a topic, he was asked to address the most important challenge facing mankind. The challenge he…
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Nov 1, 2023
PUBLISHED OCTOBER, 2023 “For years, the naysayers put up a big fight against a new airport terminal in Kansas City, Missouri,” TPG’s Zach Griff gushes in his guide to the new KCI. “They liked the convenience of the original facility,…
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