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A drop in housing inventory has swept the nation, impacting some regions more than others. In Kansas City, the significant and mostly unpredictable drop in inventory has bumped prices up in the area, total inventory in the metro dropping the…
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Longtime Kansas City resident and Head of Community Banking at U.S. Bank, Mark Jorgenson, announced plans to retire at the end of 2020. Jorgenson's announcement follows 39 years of work in banking including the last four years serving as Head…
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AMC Theatres said Tuesday ongoing challenges in the industry could leave it without cash as soon as the end of 2020. The Leawood-based company made the announcement in a filing Tuesday to the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the filing,…
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Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas met with the community a town hall Monday for his Reform Project KC initiative. Lucas plans to host a series of community meetings which he hopes “will guide Kansas City’s ongoing work to build a safer community…
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A Friday decision by the Missouri Supreme Court finalized the ruling by a lower court that absentee and mail-in voters in Missouri will be required to have their ballot notarized, supporting the verdict that the fear of contracting COVID-19 is…
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Extended unemployment benefits from federal government end in Missouri due to economic recovery The U.S. Department of Labor's unemployment Extended Benefits program came to an end in Missouri due to unemployment rates dropping in the state, the state's labor department…
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Kansas City voters on the Kansas side of the metro will need to register to vote by tomorrow’s deadline, Tuesday, Oct. 13 if they have not already done so. The deadline applies to all forms of voting whether by mail,…
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The Missouri Department of Economic Development and the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development approved over $1 million in grants and tax credits for three organizations through the Workforce Training Initiative. “Workforce development has always been a focus…
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A database error on Missouri's COVID-19 dashboard resulted in an "incorrect inflation" of cases and the appearance of more than 5,000 coronavirus cases being reported in a 24-hour time span, according to the Department of Health and Senior Services. The…
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The former AK Steel site, bought and currently owned by Port Authority of Kansas City (Port KC), has received millions in funding for redevelopment from the U.S. Department of Transportation. A total of $9.88 million in grant funding has been given…
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