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Diane Stafford

Moms long for time flexibility

There’s an e-mail circulating about the working mom who says, “I’m tired. I’m going to bed” — and then does dozens of house, family, pet and work preparation chores on the way.

Cityscape

Leawood company reinvents the hardware store

A new Leawood-based company plans to open a new hardware store concept in Overland Park. SWC Hardware is taking over the 30,000-square-foot former Price Chopper store in the Nall Hills Shopping Center at 9628 Nall Ave., hoping to open in early fall.

Chris Lester

McCain, Clinton just pandering by suggesting gas-tax holiday

Let’s do a gas-tax holiday. That will solve our problems at the pump. Brilliant! All I can figure is that presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton must have been swilling Guinness before deciding to endorse a summertime federal gas-tax holiday.

Kevin Collison

Everything’s up to date in … Omaha

Anyone who thinks Kansas City has gone about as far as it can go when it comes to revitalizing downtown should take a little trip upriver to Omaha.

Jason Gertzen

UMKC expects brighter days for research

As these things go in the high-tech realm, $50,000 isn’t necessarily a large pot of money.

Jennifer Mann

Honoring a man who shaped a generation

In 1926, Herb Valentine and Earle Radford each headed off to kindergarten at Bryant Elementary School, met in Miss Wally’s class and became instant friends.

Rick Alm

Topeka cheats Kansas tourism

This is National Tourism Week. Please send your condolences to the Kansas tourism industry. Hoteliers, attraction promoters and others in the long-suffering Sunflower State thought this would be the year Kansas lawmakers finally would wake up and smell the tourism coffee. It didn’t happen.

Paul Wenske

A guide to how new credit card rules could affect you

Proposals by federal bank regulators would zap questionable credit card practices. But while consumer advocates say the proposals are good first steps to rein in abusive tactics, card issuers bristle they will drive up costs and make credit less available.

Dan Margolies

KU grad at center of Office of Special Counsel tempest

Ironic that Scott J. Bloch gave a lecture at Washburn University in 2006 titled “Is There a Fourth Branch of Government? Independent Agencies and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.”

Randolph Heaster

Labor-Management Council honors two for service and leadership

Executives at two local construction firms were recognized recently at the annual dinner of the Labor-Management Council of Greater Kansas City.

Steve Rosen

Get your high schooler’s finances ready to head off to college

If you’re the parent of a soon-to-be high school graduate who is charting a course to college, congratulations are in order.

Julius Karash

Workshop calls attention to rural health-care crisis

COLUMBIA | The talk about problems in our nation’s health-care system keeps getting louder, but there are gaps in the conversation.

 


Rick Alm
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Randolph Heaster
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Steve Rosen
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Kevin Collison
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Julius Karash
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Joyce Smith
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Mark Davis
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Chris Lester
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Diane Stafford
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Jason Gertzen
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Jennifer Mann
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Bob Unell
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David Hayes
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Dan Margolies
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Paul Wenske
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