Missouri
Today WalletHub released its ranking of the Top Big Cities to Live in for 2018, and Kansas City, Missouri didn't even crack the top 30. The City of Fountains instead came in at number 40 on this list, more than…
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Dan Schulte has made the move over to Aspen Funds. Aspen made the announcement Tuesday afternoon. Schulte was a senior vice president and general counsel at Waddell & Reed before heading to B12 Capital Partners as a managing director. He…
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The Missouri Department of Economic Development released their June 2018 jobs report today and it indicated a potential issue for construction. They note that since June of 2017, construction is the only industry showing a significant decrease in jobs, to…
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Park University is expanding once more, this time to Gilbert, Arizona. The University has been approved by the Higher Learning Commission and the Arizona State Board for Private Postsecondary Education to start classes in Fall of 2018. That fall term…
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The area's second-largest private company has a new Executive Vice President and new Senior Vice President. Scott Welman has taken over as the Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer for AWG. In addition to that move, AWG also announced…
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Neil Riddle has been chosen as the President of Black & Veatch Construction, Inc. (BVCI) the company announced this week. Riddle comes to BVCI from Caddell Power in Atlanta, Georgia, where he served as President and "had complete P&L responsibility for…
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Today, Governor Mike Parson signed House Bill 1796 which allows the creation of a special savings account intended to better prepare first-time homebuyers. It will go into effect on January 1, 2019. This bill allows taxpayers in Missouri to deduct…
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Kansas City will be the home for the 2022 National League of Cities City Summit, the organization announced this week. From November 16-19, thousands of city leaders, corporate partners and staff will come to Kansas City for seminars on policymaking…
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On Monday, Starbucks announced it would eliminate the use of plastic straws in its stores by the end of 2020—replacing them with single-use plastic lids instead. The trend is now reaching the Midwest as some local KC restaurants are also bucking the…
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The KCRise Fund has added two new Kansas City startups to its portfolio: Main Street Data and PayIt. Main Street Data is an agriculture data analytics company headquartered in Kansas City. They boast a web tool called Validator that aggregates…
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