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Scott Lakin put his three kids through college and, at 51, is headed back to school himself. The former director of the Missouri Department of Insurance and former state legislator enrolled in the executive MBA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Bloch School of Business.
Recent area retail/restaurant closings include: •The Northland’s Cafe Italia, at 8603 N. Oak Trafficway, closed after more than 17 years of operations.
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Asian stock markets followed Wall Street sharply higher Tuesday, invigorated by fresh hopes for improved bank earnings and signs the regional economy is recovering.
Four months after opening OfficePort KC in the Crossroads Arts District, Shaul Jolles is finding there’s a good market for entrepreneurs needing cheap space to set up shop. He’s filled 46 “ports” of his venture at 208 W. 19th St. with monthly tenants, all happy to have a place to work complete with a snail-mail address and state-of-the-art telecommunication service, and now has opened an adjoining space, called JavaPort, which costs even less.
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Union officials are hoping another big regional group of AT&T workers re-entering bargaining this week will spur progress toward a new contract. Nearly 3,000 area members of the Communications Workers of America have been working under the terms of a contract that expired more than three months ago as talks have continued. Items that have prolonged the talks include wages, health benefits and work rules. The company is seeking concessions in some of those areas, particularly in medical benefits, according to both union and company officials.
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For those of you not exhausted by the last few weeks’ expectoration of Michael Jackson trivia, here’s one more datum to file away: Los Angeles County Superior Judge Mitchell Beckloff, the judge who is overseeing Jackson’s probate proceedings, is a local boy.
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When you post your resume on Internet job boards — and you must if you’re looking for work — you may want to keep your name and contact information confidential. If you don’t care who knows you’re job hunting, then don’t worry about it. But if you’re still working and want to job hunt without your current employer knowing about, then heed this advice.
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The debate over health care insurance reform pounds away like a throbbing headache. The pain becomes most intense when you focus on the projected cost of a comprehensive plan from the Congressional Budget Office: $1.6 trillion over 10 years. But play along with me while I administer an analgesic.
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Poor, poor, California. It gets no respect. The recent Rodney Dangerfield of states has become the butt of jokes for its decision to pay IOUs instead of cash.
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The air was warm and the sidewalks were packed on a recent Saturday afternoon when a woman driving a black Mercedes pulled alongside a couple in a red Corvette. “Don’t cut me off ever again,” shouted the woman, who sneered at the other driver and seemed ready to run through an intersection of pedestrians that included my son and two teenage friends.
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