Regional
Good Friday dawned with some good news from the University of Kansas Hospital: After holding steady at 33 for several days, the census of patients for treatment of COVID-19 has dipped to 30. In a morning news briefing, medical director…
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Missouri Governor Mike Parson has closed schools in Missouri for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. The move follows a similar measure by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly back in March. Missouri schools are expected to continue to provide services…
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Kansas City has issued just under $27.79 million in improvement bonds that would make infrastructure repairs to City Hall, Liberty Memorial, street reconstruction in the City Market area and parking garages. A $9.1-million portion would also be used to fund…
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Overland Park-based Creative Planning has acquired Coe Financial Services, an RIA firm based in Wichita with $126 million in assets under management. The firm provides financial planning and investment-management services. Coe was founded in 1983 by managing director Richard Coe.…
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A new update on the Kansas City M&A market issued by one of the leading firms in that space confirms what most might have anticipated: That space today is much different than just a month ago. So concludes the leadership…
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As the nation’s banks continue to fine-tune the Paycheck Protection Program implemented by Congress to help avert layoffs during the COVID-19 crises, today looms as a key date in phase II of the $349 billion program. As of this morning,…
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Leslie Davis is the owner of True Peace Financial Solutions in Overland Park, Kan., an affiliate of Topeka-based AE Wealth, which has more than $7 billion in assets under management. She talked about challenges in the investment market right now.…
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A year that started on with a booming U.S. economy is now certain to include a recession. That’s the take-away from UMB Bank’s chief investment officer, KC Mathews, who has issued a 2020 economic forecast updated to reflect the impact…
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“The greatest financial relief we can give small and mid-sized businesses in this economic crisis is faster payment of their outstanding invoices—liquidity.” With that declaration, Kansas City’s Sandy Kemper, founder and CEO of C2FO, is calling for a different approach…
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has chosen a Florissant hotel for Missouri's first alternative medical site for patients suffering from mild COVID-19 symptoms. He said other sites are looking being looked at across the state for similar facilities. “Our hospitals and…
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