Destination USA
Posted September 2, 2025 The De Soto Planning Commission has approved preliminary plans for a 126-unit mixed housing project. AA Land Devco LLC, submitted plans for a multi-family development dubbed Countryside Farms. The development would be located south of 95th…
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Posted August 28, 2025 Academy Bank announced it has opened its first branch location in Arkansas, expanding its footprint in the state’s Northwest region. The bank’s first location in the state of Arkansas is located at 4301 South JB Hunt…
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Posted August 28, 2025 Updated August 28, 2025, at 10:44 a.m. The Retirement Planning Group has successfully closed an acquisition of Michigan-based First Financial Advisors, Inc. The acquisition is valued at $300 million. First Financial is a dual wealth management…
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My Dad spent his boyhood in the central Kansas railroad town of Herington, a thriving burg at the time, with a population of about 4,500 in the 1930 census. When the uncle who raised him died in 1971, the town’s…
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Posted August 27, 2025 HCA Midwest Health announced Patrick Rafferty is the new chief executive officer at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence. Rafferty took on his new role effective in July. He most recently served as the CEO of Overland…
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Higher education has not covered itself in glory in recent years. The headlines are replete with tales of rising costs, falling enrollments, and university presidents needing “context” to decide whether anti-Semitism is a bad thing. Although my wife and I…
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Posted August 26, 2025 Port KC announced that a $100 billion data center campus is planned to be built in the Northland. The proposed data center campus will be located on 379 acres of land within KCI 29 Logistics Park,…
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Posted August 26, 2025 Updated August 26, 2025, at 12:39 p.m. The De Soto City Council has approved a development project for a new data center building near the Panasonic plant. During the City Council meeting on Thursday, voted to…
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The Valentine’s Day mass shooting that tarnished a citywide celebration of the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVIII victory prompted Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves to declare afterward: “I’m angry at what happened today. The people who came to this celebration…
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Posted August 26, 2025 Westlake Ace Hardware has announced it plans to acquire two new locations in Kansas. Westlake has agreed to acquire Olson’s Ace Hardware and its two Kansas locations at 1318 West 8th St. in Coffeyville and 200…
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