Kansas

Between the Lines

So Why All The Hysteria About Kansas Schools?If you set aside the emotional issues that underpin the debate, the numbers and facts completely reframe the discussion.OK, let’s start this essay with a quiz: Who makes more, the departing superintendent of… more

KCP&L Parent Will Buy Westar Energy, Kansas’ Biggest Utility, for $12.2 Billion

  Great Plains Energy, the parent company of Kansas City Power & Light, announced this morning that it had reached an agreement to acquire Topeka-based Westar Energy, the largest utility in Kansas, for $12.2 billion in cash and stock, including… more

Amazon Will Snap Up Giant Spec Building at LPKC

Anyone following construction of the massive 822,000-square-foot Inland Port XIV building at Logistics Park Kansas City--the largest ever built on a spec basis in this market--might have thought that a state-of-the-art distribution center like that would have had Amazon.com written… more

D.H. Pace Adds Carolina Company to Its Stable

     Olathe-based D.H. Pace Co., maker of commercial and residential overhead doors and entryways, announced today that it had acquired Wade Door Services of Charlotte, N.C., and was moving that operation to the nearby suburb of Pineville, NC.     D.H. Pace… more

Netsmart Gets New Owner in $950 million sale

Netsmart Technologies, one of the region's Top 100 private companies, based on revenues, has a new owner and an expanded mission: The Overland Park-based provider of IT products for behavioral health-care providers is being sold for $950 million to a… more

Roots of the Family Tree

The successful family-owned company has a special place in the world of business. The premise is simple enough: “My family is the most important thing to me, so why not spend every day with the people I love most, working… 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

Sales: Love It or Leave It. Literally.

No love, no relationship—and no sale. Do you love sales? Do you love what you do? Do you love your product? Do you love your company? Do you love your customers? These are not questions I pulled out of the… more

A Greater Kansas City

Inside this month’s edition, you’ll find an intriguing—and uplifting—report on the changing nature of Kansas City’s ecosystem for entrepreneurship and innovation, especially within the technology sector. It’s a measure of how, and how much, the regional economy is changing around… more

2016 Icons of Education

Masters of EducationBefore they enter a regional work force more than 1 million strong, young people from across the two-state region—indeed, from across America and around the world—make their way through the educational systems in Kansas and Missouri, from K-12… more