Features

The Nexus of North American Trade

In the lexicon of industrial real estate, it’s called velocity, and it refers to the rate of increase in square footage of a given class of property across a marketplace. And in the Kansas City region, when it comes to… more

Why Kansas City?

Consider this: Bloomberg Businessweek ranked Kansas City among the top few of the 50 Best American Cities. Travel and Leisure ranked Kansas City at No. 3 on its America’s Favorite Cities list. Policom Corp. ranked Kansas City No. 8 on… more

2016 Best of Business Kansas City Awards

Go Ahead: Discriminate      Thanks to America’s decades-long descent into the dark waters of political correctness, the concept of someone practicing what we call “discrimination” has come to evoke immediate—and often unpleasant—reactions from the masses.     But let… more

The 2016 Corporate Report 100: The Kansas City Area’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies

   Let’s see how well you know the history of fast-growth companies in the Kansas City region. Thirty-one years ago, this magazine rolled out a feature called the Corporate Report 100 (Which made sense, as feature titles go, since this… more

The Bust in the Boom

In December 2008—the same year that the oldest members of the Baby Boom generation became eligible to file for early Social Security retirement benefits—the board of governors for the Federal Reserve Bank responded to that autumn’s financial crisis by dropping… more

Access Ability

If you look around, you can see the face of health-care delivery in the Kansas City region changing right before your eyes. It might be with a Mosaic Life Care’s gleaming medical offices and lifestyle-wellness centers in the Northland, or… more

Eating Our Seed Corn

 First, the optimistic view: Earlier this year, Wendy Guillies, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, declared that after a long period of stagnation and a stubborn decline in business creation, the U.S. economy was poised for a new era… more

Ingram’s 2016 Election Guide

Missouri Governor’s Race Takes Center Stage INGRAM’S PROVIDES WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR THE NOVEMBER ELECTION In its obsession with Kansas politics in general and its Ahab-like pursuit of Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback in particular, The Kansas City Star—much… more

50 Kansans You Should Know

The heart of Kansas isn’t a person, place or thing: It’s the collection of people who make it work. No state has a population density greater than . . . New Jersey. (Guess it’s good that their No. 1 at… more

2016 Icons of Education Luncheon

What makes an Icon of Education? Not longevity alone, though some of this year’s honorees have been at the practice since 1968. No, it’s more than that: It’s part passion, part call to serve, part intellectual curiosity and part executive… more