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For the infrequent flier who will be traveling for the holidays, here’s a tip: Keep Stacy Stuerke’s experiences in mind. Stuerke, a road warrior who works in sales for a big global firm, flies in and out of Kansas City International Airport’s Terminal B, the busiest of the three terminals. It is being renovated, and the construction means usually no parking is available at the adjacent garage by midweek.
If you have the gumption to read the House health care bill, you’ll find the words “employer” or “employers” 369 times.* Now take a look at the accompanying box …
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Sprint launch the Sanyo Incognito messaging phone Nov. 30 — Cyber Monday. The phone, featuring a glow-through hidden QWERTY keypad, will be sold online at Sprint.com.
After months of bargaining that included informational pickets, about 2,400 of the area’s hourly AT&T Inc. employees are under new contracts. Members of Communications Workers of America approved a four-year agreement last week that covered 27,000 workers in five states, including Missouri and Kansas. About 1,650 of the AT&T Southwest employees are in the Kansas City area.
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When even Wal-Mart would rather remodel than build new stores, you know it’s a tough time to be a developer — in Kansas City or anywhere else. Throw in an extremely tight lending environment, retailers struggling to survive and, if somebody does want to expand, a glut of vacant commercial real estate space undercutting new projects and you might as well follow Clay Sublett’s advice.
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Quaint downtown Parkville might have quivered a bit when shiny new shopping centers began to open nearby. And while some small business left for these greener paved pastures, other local entrepreneurs have settled in with offerings that are draws in themselves.
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To all of the numbers churned out in the debate over the nation’s health care system, add one more glaring statistic: 4 million. That’s the number of college students estimated by a recent study to be uninsured.
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In this column last week, hirers told what bugs them the most about job applicants. Yep. I got feedback. Job hunters asked for fair time to say what they don’t like about the way prospective employers are treating them.
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