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BioNexus KC is awarding $200,000 in regional grants to promote the One Health initiative, which aims to foster animal and human health innovation. Four researchers each will receive a $50,000 grant. The funding is part of a $750,000 grant that…
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The Kansas City VA Medical Center will not be receiving any COVID-19 vaccines during the first round of shipments. Now, local VA hospital workers and patients will have to wait weeks before the facility expects to receive its first doses.…
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The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine is taking a step to help ease the burden of rural physician shortages in Missouri. In a Wednesday news conference hosted by UMKC, the University made an announcement that it will expand…
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On the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recognized Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as the 2020 Presidential and Vice-Presidential winners. McConnell made a congratulatory announcement to the pair following a Monday…
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The Missouri labor market showed further improvement in November 2020. Employment, seasonally adjusted, increased by 17,400 jobs over the month. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased by 0.2 percentage points from October 2020 to November 2020, and the civilian…
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Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration endorsed the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna as safe and efficacious on Tuesday. The statement arrives just a day after the first doses of a competing vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech were delivered…
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Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas called on the Jackson County Circuit Court to extend and expand a moratorium on evictions in a letter Tuesday sent to the county’s presiding judge. Lucas asked Presiding Judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit…
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A continued surge in home prices nationwide is contributing to some of the largest gains in home equity not seen in six years, since 2014. Price appreciation has also pulled 370,000 borrowers out of negative equity since the third quarter…
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A brief recession seen in the U.S. economy for Q1 and Q2 nonetheless kept confidence up among realtors when it comes to potential short sales. In a national survey of over 5,000 active real estate agents by Real Estate Bees,…
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An increase in those seeking services through local nonprofit Veterans Community Project has further fueled the organization's $10 million capital campaign for a Veterans Navigation Campus facility. Funds acquired through the campaign are said to be used to expand and…
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