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Diane Stafford

Full-time workers deserve more than poverty-level income

When restaurants use chalkboard menus so they can change fast-rising prices easily, I understand why the nation’s lowest-wage workers need a raise.

Chris Lester

Feds, housing industry have always been in bed together

There are times in the money-and-how-it-makes-us-behave department when your scrivener simply shakes his head and laughs. This approach is particularly helpful when the world financial system wobbles toward the edge of the abyss.

Jason Gertzen

A helping hand for high tech

High-tech entrepreneurs promise to bring a much-needed boost to the regional economy, but they often can use a hand getting their businesses started.

Jennifer Mann

Author hooks up with Kelly Russell

When Stefan Mumaw, the senior art director at Kelly Russell, and his wife were ready to ditch Southern California, they unrolled a map of the U.S. and started drawing circles.

Steve Rosen

The waiting can be the most educational part

Sometimes, being old school can be cool. In this case, I’m thinking about an old-fashioned savings tool that could be just the thing to teach children how to deal with growing up in an instant-gratification society.

Mark Davis

Despite much indecisive data, pessimists look for recession

Pessimists have been analyzing the recession for months. Even Wall Street officially landed its bear market.

Cityscape

Bice Bistro will serve Italian cuisine three ways for Power & Light District

The first thing to know about the latest restaurant to open in the Kansas City Power & Light District: Bice is pronounced BEE-chay.

Kevin Collison

Sculptor finds a spot to Stretch

The sculptor Stretch is living up to his name again by expanding the boundaries where artists are urban pioneers.

Rick Alm

Digital age proves troublesome for Kansas Lottery

I don’t trust computers. Never have. Probably never will. They crash. They freeze. They fail. They even have an annual convention for it. The third annual Computer & Human Error conference was held in New York several months back. I imagine those conventioneers all wear paper bags over their heads.

Dan Margolies

Law firm Spencer Fane Britt & Browne focuses on being better, but not bigger

Just about the only sizable law firm in Kansas City that doesn’t seem to be interested in a merger nowadays is Spencer Fane Britt & Browne.

Randolph Heaster

At local auto plants, summer has been busy

Extended breaks are usually the norm for domestic vehicle manufacturers this time of year. But production schedules for local plants have turned topsy-turvy amid the slow economy and growing demand for cars.

 


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Jason Gertzen
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