Kansas
The University of Kansas has announced a $5.4 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The grant, awarded to the Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center, will provides support for the…
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Two of the biggest public companies in the Kansas City region area are poised to become one considerably larger organization: Shareholders of Topeka-based Westar Energy have agreed to sell the company to Great Plains Energy, parent of Kansas City…
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Bats Global Markets, Inc.— operator of the second-largest stock exchange in the U.S., as well as the largest stock exchange and trade reporting facility in Europe—has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by CBOE Holdings, Inc., the holding…
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The University of Kansas has announced that Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, the school’s 17th chancellor, will step down in summer 2017. The university also said that details of the search process for Gray-Little’s successor will be shared in the coming weeks.…
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Yahoo! released a statement today confirming an information theft “associated with at least 500 million user accounts.” The company also reported that that the “information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014” attributing the theft to a “state-sponsored…
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A consulting group specializing in air service development has determined that conditions in Topeka might be ripe for a return of passenger flights to Topeka Regional Airport, which hasn’t seen passenger flights since 2014. According to the study by Sixel…
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The KCRise Fund—an initiative of the KC Rising effort to fully realize the Kansas City region’s economic potential—announced today that it has closed on an initial $10 million in commitments from area investors. KCRise was established, “as a solution to…
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While saying “the case for an increase in the federal funds rate has strengthened,” the Federal Reserve announced today that it will not make a rate change at this time. The Federal Open Market Committee, which is charged with setting…
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Kansas is one of 21 states joining in lawsuit filed today against the Obama administration. The suit challenges the U.S. Department of Labor’s new “Overtime Rule.” The suit was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Nevada Attorney General…
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Penton, a New York-based information services company with offices in Overland Park is to be acquired by the business intelligence company Informa. Penton is being sold by MidOcean Partners and Wasserstein & Co. for $1.56 billion.
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