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Frontier Wealth Management, a Kansas City-based investment advisory firm, has jumped into the St. Louis market. In a news release this afternoon, Frontier announced the acquisition of AHM Asset Management, saying the St. Louis firm meshed with its own client-service…
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If you’re looking for a seat to Tuesday’s gathering of business leaders, educators and work-force experts on Tuesday morning at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, you’re in luck: They’re still available. The fifth annual Greater KC Economic and Workforce Summit…
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Euronet Worldwide, the global electronic-payments processor based in Leawood, has announced plans to raise as much as $392 million in through an offering of convertible senior notes. The offering is expected to close on Wednesday, with Band of America Merrill…
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If you miss your connection during a peak period when Downtown Kansas City's streetcar line beings operations, you won't have to wait long to catch another. The Kansas City Streetcar Authority's Board of Directors has approved a preliminary operating schedule that calls…
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The magic carpet ride on which the Royals carried our community for the last 30 days came to a quiet end last night as the Giants won the seventh and deciding game of the 2014 World Series by a 3-2…
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City planners in Overland Park will have scheduled a Nov. 10 review for a request by EPC Real Estate Group to build 200 luxury apartments and a modest amount of retail space near the city’s Downtown. The development group, less…
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Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former President George W. Bush, will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2014 American Business Women's Association's National Women's Leadership Conference, which convenes Thursday at the Overland Park Convention Center. The former first daughter is now…
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Kansas City-based Populous, the global sports design firm, is leaving its mark on the world’s premier name in horse racing as part of an upgrade at Churchill Downs Racetrack in Louisville. The track’s owners, in announcing the project today, said…
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I have always thought that Major League Baseball's use of the All-Star game to determine home field advantage for the World Series was one of the dumbest ideas ever. Today I've determined it's pure genius. So thank you All-Star MVP…
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Home building through the first nine months of the year reached its highest point since the real-estate crash of 2007, according to new statistics from the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City. Through September, builders secured 6,294 permits in…
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