Welcome to Info Central. Find data about your area and links to helpful Web sites. More databases and links will be added regularly.
How does your home compare with other homes on your block, or homes across the city? Check these databases of home values in five metro counties based on those counties’ most recent appraisals. Click here.
You pay public employees’ salaries. Now you have an easy way to see how your tax money is spent.
A collection of databases presents salary information for Missouri and Kansas state employees, public employees of five Kansas City area counties and more. Click here.
Kansas parents liked the names Ethan and Addison for babies last year, while Missouri parents favored Jacob and Emma. Those babies’ names topped the list for most popular in the two states in 2007. The Social Security Administration recently announced the most popular names for both states and for the country. Jacob and Emily were the most popular names across America last year. Just type your child’s name in the databases to see its popularity or click "rank" to view the 100 most popular names in both states. For Missouri babies, click here. For Kansas babies, click here. To see 2007's most popular names nationwide, go to www.socialsecurity.gov. Type “baby names’’ in the upper-right search field.
Ever wonder how much money your favorite college coach makes? You can review contracts from Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri and UMKC. Click here
Check top local businesses from law firms to banquet facilities.
This database explores how students in area schools and other schools in Missouri and Kansas performed on tests given in spring 2007. www.kansascity.com/makingthegrade/
If you want to know what your city, county or state officials are doing, you have every right to ask. Both Kansas and Missouri have laws to make government accountable.
The Internal Revenue Service is looking for people in Missouri and Kansas who have refunds coming but whom the Postal Service couldn't find. Most of the refunds are for 2006. If you find your name on these lists, go to the IRS Web site, www.irs.gov. Click "Individual," then "Where’s My Refund?" Instructions will guide you.
