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The development of the new stadium and the next home of the Buffalo Bills broke ground on Monday, marking yet another milestone for major stadium projects helmed by Kansas City, Missouri based architectural firm Populous. The official groundbreaking of the…
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Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced on Thursday there will not be a Workers Compensation Fund assessment this year. Carriers, pools, and self-insured businesses will not be required to pay into the fiscal year 2024 assessment fund, thus reducing the…
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The amount of nonfarm payroll experienced a dramatic swell over the month of May, the Labor Department reported Friday. Both the public and private sector payrolls increased by 339,000 for the month. The job growth continued for consecutive 29 months.…
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Saint Luke's Health System and St. Louis-based BJC HealthCare collaborate to form an integrated Missouri-based health system according to the hospitals on Wednesday. As part of a non-binding letter of intent, both health systems hope to bring healthcare to more…
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The Kaiser Family Foundation compiled data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention information and the cause of death files in the year 2021, here is where Kansas and Missouri rank. Missouri just nudged its way into the top 16…
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Long COVID is a post-infection set of conditions an individual could feel after contracting COVID-19 and a new study could help identify symptoms past patients feel months or years later. The study published by JAMA and funded by the National…
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The City of Kansas City, MO., Aviation Department reported passenger data for April 2023 on Wednesday and shows a sizable increase. The total number of passengers for KCI in April was 905,881, an 18.8 percent increase when compared to April…
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The Kansas City Council last week voted—belatedly—to amend its contract with Facebook parent Meta by restoring goals for including minority- and women-owned businesses in the multi-billion-dollar Northland project. Still, it was too little, too late, says Joe Mabin, vice president…
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Q. The retail tailspin was pretty advanced well before the pandemic, which added to the challenges there. Do you get a sense that things are leveling off? A. I do think they have stabilized a bit, and we’re seeing that…
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The spring housing season will continue to be plagued by rising prices as shown by the new report from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index. The report, released Tuesday, showed on a national level home prices in March were 0.7 percent higher…
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