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Ford to Invest $95 Million in KC, Adding 1,100 Jobs

Ford Motor Co. announced this morning that it would invest $95 million to establish a third shift at Kansas City Assembly Plant, increasing production of the Transit van series--a move the company says will add 1,100 union jobs at one… more

Powerhouse Real-Estate Firms Join Forces

      United Real Estate's Dan Duffy, left, and Scott DeNeve of Platinum Realty   United Real Estate Group announced this morning that it had acquired Overland Park-based Platinum Realty, creating a national realty powerhouse with nearly 20,000 agents… more

COVID Hospitalizations Fall to Pandemic-Era Low

Much to the relief of beleaguered health-care providers, the numbers of people hospitalized with COVID-19 hit something of a milestone this week, falling below 100 for the first time since all 27 regional hospitals began reporting data to the Mid-America… more

Meta Goes Mega With KC Data Center

Meta Platforms, the company most everyone on the planet still knows as Facebook, announced today that it would spend $800 million to occupy nearly 1 million square feet of space in a Northland data-center complex. Company officials, along with state… more

Trepp: CMBS Delinquencies Break 17-Month Decline

The rate of delinquencies in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities increased in December, breaking a 17-month string of declines that began after the worst of the COVID-19 downturn took hold in early 2020. According to the commercial realty analytics firm Trepp,… more

IRS Raises Mileage Rates for Business

The Internal Revenue Service has issued its 2022 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business, charitable, medical or moving purposes. The agency issued a news release that said, effective this week,… more

Hospitals on Edge as COVID-19 Admissions Soar

Just weeks after staving off the surge of pandemic-driven admissions that began in the summer, area hospital officials are again experiencing the systematic stress of soaring patient counts as the COVID-19 fall surge continues. The University of Kansas Hospital, the… more

Intouch Group Acquisition a Done Deal

The acquisition of Intouch Group, one of the Kansas City region's most successful entrepreneurial ventures over the past generation, has been completed, the Overland Park company and its new parent, Chicago-based Eversana, have announced.  The deal, for a reported $950… more

Lee Norman Resigns as KDHE Secretary

Lee Norman, the Kansas City-area physician who served as Gov. Laura Kelly's point lead for Kansas throughout the pandemic, has resigned from his cabinet post as head of the Department of Health and Environment.  Norman, a longtime physician and former… more

Coping With COVID: U.S. Down-Trend Levels Out

Since peaking at 308,000 new cases on January, and driving that week's rolling 7-day average for new COVID-19 cases to more than 256,000 a day, the nation has seen a sharp reduction in new infections. By early March, the rolling… more