Missouri


Children’s Mercy Adding New Medical Office to Overland Park Campus

Posted December 10, 2025 Overland Park planning commissioners approved the final development plan for an expansion project at the Children’s Mercy Overland Park campus. The final development plans detail a 116,767 square-foot addition to the north side of the campus.… more

Creative Planning Acquires Marshall Financial Group, $900M AUM

Posted December 9, 2025 Creative Planning has acquired another RIA, this time in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with more than $900 million in assets under management. Overland Park-based Creative Planning announced the acquisition of Marshall Financial Group. The acquisition adds 19 employees… more

UG and American Royal Make New Agreement $375M Campus

Posted December 9, 2025 The Unified Government of Wyandotte County & Kansas City approved a reworked version of a $155 million STAR bond for the American Royal development near Kansas Speedway. The UG held its planning & zoning meeting on… more

Lee’s Summit City Council to Vote on $492M East Village Development Plans

Posted December 9, 2025 Updated December 11, 2025, at 3:17 p.m. The Lee’s Summit City Council could approve a $492.7 million development and its own tax incentives during a Tuesday meeting. The East Village project is a 130-acre mixed-use development… more

Assessing Baltimore: Lessons From the Rat Race

Quality of life and growth aren’t the same thing. The American’s media’s descent into pettiness and irrelevancy seemed to have reached terminal velocity in January 2017. Remarkably, though, it picked up a little extra speed in July, after the president… more

Jackson County: Is Anyone Listening?

More than a month later, I’m still steamed. But hey: I’m not alone. At last count, nearly 22,000 other Jackson County property owners had filed appeals of their 2019 property appraisals, which in many cases doubled, tripled or quadrupled from… more

Why Johnny Can’t (Be Bothered to) Read

High-school language-arts scores for boys continue to crater as masculinity-shaming efforts expand. Coincidence? In 1955, author Rudolf Flesch wrote a major best-seller simply titled, “Why Johnny Can’t Read.” The problem then, as Flesch saw it, was the failure of schools… more

Overland Park-based Cobalt MedPlans Sells to MDI NetworX

Posted December 3, 2025 Cobalt MedPlans, a business of Cobalt Health Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, has been sold to a healthcare solutions provider. MDI NetworX, a healthcare BPO and technology-enabled… more

KC Streetcar to Unveil $5M CPKC Pavilion

Posted November 19, 2025 The KC Streetcar Authority, Port KC and CPKC will unveil plans for the End of the Line Streetcar Station and CPKC Pavilion on Saturday. The $5 million End of the Line Streetcar Station and CPKC Pavilion… more

Kansas City Health Department Confirm Measles Exposure at MCI

Posted November 18, 2025 The Kansas City, Missouri Health Department announced it had found a confirmed case of measles earlier this month. The Kansas resident who tested positive for the disease was at the Kansas City International Airport (MCI) on… more