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  • Kansas City Business Journal announces CFO of the Year honorees

    The recession has made for rough sailing for many businesses over the past few years, but some have had exceptional CFOs to help steer them through it. Those are the executives the Kansas City Business Journal will recognize as CFO of the Year. The awards program, now in its sixth year, honors the Kansas City area's top financial executives. Applicants were judged for their contributions to ...

  • Social Media Matters Amys Baking a lesson in what not to do

    Amys Baking Co., a bakery and bistro in Scottsdale, Ariz., received quite a bit of attention on countless social media platforms and in the media recently and not for good reasons. The resulting word-of-mouth firestorm was enough to fill, well, this column with social media, crisis communications and plain ol business lessons. Mass media like TV can amplify and broadcast your business problem. ...

  • SoftBank Dish continue to wrangle for Sprint Clearwire

    The four-player mess Sprint Nextel Corp., SoftBank Corp., Clearwire Corp. and Dish Network Corp. thats been dominating wireless news lately hasnt let up as the parties continue to wrangle for control of one or the other. Sprint (NYSE: S) recently sweetened its offer for Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) by 14 percent in its best and final offer, but that has failed to sway opponents, raising ...

  • Kansas Senate giveth taketh away on taxes

    Kansas Republicans in the Senate signed off on a bill maintaining a sales tax set to sunset, cutting income taxes and lowering a food sales tax, the Lawrence Journal-World reports. The Senates colleagues in the House, however, adjourned without addressing the Senate plan, sending the Kansas legislative session into extra time, The Topeka Capital-Journal ...

  • Tech roundup Google inquiry iPhone urinalysis the Amazon paradigm

    Get caught up on the days biggest tech news: The feds have cranked up a new antitrust investigation into how Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) handles its advertising sales, Reuters reports. Google seems to be following the lead of online e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), getting into the business of selling industrial and B2B goods, The Wall Street Journal reports. Will wonders never ...


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Movie Review

Henry Fool

Have you ever met someone who can talk for hours and never actually say anything? A stream of words flows from the mouth, all of which sounds grandiose, weighty, and far reaching in deep, metaphorical importance, and yet semantically the entire tirade is meaningless? This is essentially a summation of the titular character of "Henry Fool," the arrogantly intellectual antihero at the center of Hal ... ...

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  • Top of the List General Contractors

    This week, the Kansas City Business Journal ranks the areas top general contractors based on 2012 local billings. See the top 5 >> For the full list, subscribers can take a look at the print edition of the Kansas City Business Journal. The list also includes 2011 local billings, number of employees, areas of specialty, top local executives, and a re-ranking based on revenue. (Subscribers, click ...

  • Bank lobbyists arent leaving financial reform to chance

    Bank lobbyists looking to ease the financial burden of government regulations are taking matters into their own hands, writing the legislation for lawmakers in Congress to advance, The New York Times reports. The lobbying campaign shows how Wall Street has rallied in Washington in the three years since Congress passed the Dodd-Frank legislation, the report ...

  • ACAs unexpected consequences may turn backer into opponent

    Unions helped President Barack Obama push for passage of his landmark Affordable Care Act, but now they worry that an unpredicted consequence of the law could cost workers health benefits, The Washington Post reports. Unions plans already are complex, unique and more expensive than other plans, and the ACAs provisions have added to that cost, the report says. That may tempt some small employers ...

  • McCarthy adds office in Kansas City

    McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has increased its presence in the Kansas City market with two nearby construction projects underway and an announcement earlier this spring of a new downtown office. According to REJ Blog, McCarthy now has more than $1.4 billion worth of construction underway in the region. Two major projects for McCarthy include work on a $80 million National Bio and Agro-Defense ...

  • Local school board president ousted

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The president of the Hickman Mills School Board was ousted during a meeting Thursday night. In a surprise move, the board voted to remove Breman Anderson 4-3, and elected board member Eric Lowe as the new president. When Anderson found out voting on leadership changes had been added to the agenda, he was hesitant to move forward. The board voted 4-3 to proceed with the new ...

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