Missouri
Posted March 26, 2026 Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota today announced the creation of a task force that will be responsible for the future of the Truman Sports Complex. The establishment of the task force is the first step in…
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Posted March 26, 2026 Overland Park-based Constructive Engineering Design, Inc., has merged with consulting firm DeSimone Consulting Engineering. Founded in 1992 by Michael Farrahi, Constructive Engineering Design (CED) provides engineering services to the industrial, commercial and civic markets. The merger…
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Posted March 26, 2026 RubinBrown LLP has named Megan Knoblauch, who is based in the firm’s Kansas City office, as assistant managing partner of the firm. In addition to becoming assistant managing partner for the firm, Knoblauch will continue to…
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Posted March 25, 2026 The University of Missouri–Kansas City announced that Maria Meyers, the vice chancellor of commercialization and entrepreneurship, will retire and plans to find a successor to the role later this year. Following nearly 23 years with UMKC,…
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Posted March 25, 2026 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City announced it has received regulatory approval to affiliate with Highmark Inc., based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The two companies received regulatory approval to affiliate from the Missouri Department of…
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Posted March 25, 2026 Children’s Mercy has partnered with a Massachusetts-based biotechnology company to commercialize an oral therapeutic for dystonia and Parkinson’s disease. Children’s Mercy entered into a license agreement with Vima Therapeutics for the oral therapeutic in development, VIM0423.…
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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 March 24, 2026 Metrobloks, a data center developer, announced it is investing $1.4 billion in the City of Liberty to construct a new, state-of-the-art data center campus. The facility will span 568,800 square feet across three buildings at Old…
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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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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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