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With all due respect to the pope, no other economic system has ever produced the blessings that flow from capitalism. In Congress, during his historic visit, Pope Francis spoke eloquently about fighting “poverty and hunger” and creating and distributing wealth.…
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A great meeting starts with a detailed plan. Let’s do lunch! Well, OK, but let’s do lunch the right way. Too often, salespeople think that getting a lunch appointment is the victory, and don’t concentrate on building rapport and the…
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It’s time to pay serious attention to health-care insurance reporting requirements. The Affordable Care Act continues to impose costs and complexity on employers. All but the smallest businesses are bracing for the first round of complex tax reporting required by…
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Dairy Farmers of America, the Kansas City region's largest private company as measured by annual revenues, marked the start of construction on its new Wyandotte County headquarters with a beam signing at Sporting Park. “As we experience continued growth, it’s more…
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From full-service heavyweights who rank among the nation's largest law firms to bantamweights slugging it out in various legal specialties, the Kansas City region boasts an impressive array of transactional and litigation talent to support the needs of businesses and…
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The seeds of entrepreneurship in the Kansas City region have been planted early, as this years class of 20 in Their Twenties demonstrates. These young business owners and executives, hailing from sectors as varied as commercial realty, banking, non-profits, advertising,…
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Ultimately, it came down to this: What kind of state does Missouri want to be? Attendees at the Missouri Economic Development Assembly held at St. Louis Union Station on Sept. 3 addressed that from the perspectives of employers, educators, policy…
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With the EPA’s regulatory bomb on U.S. utilities that rely on coal to generate electricity, the cost of doing business here is headed up. Congressional bills that run past 1,000 pages, and the legislative processes that produce them—as with the…
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Is indeed a good offense, especially when it comes to data security. It’s a lesson that some larger law firm executives have already mastered. But a lot more are at risk of getting schooled. Back when most current managing partners…
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We were pleased to host the Missouri Economic Development Assembly in St. Louis on Sept. 3 for a long-overdue discussion of the state’s opportunities for business growth and challenges to the same. And we were pleased by the turnout of…
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