Government

Meet the winners of KC’s first grants for micro-businesses; $55K awarded to women of color

By Tommy Felts / April 12, 2024

A newly launched collaboration between entrepreneur support efforts announced Thursday its first batch of grant winners — positioning four Kansas City micro-businesses for greater success amid a near-universally challenging start for the year. “The first quarter of the year is hard for most businesses, and extremely hard for small businesses. This year was no different…

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KC’s year-old terminal just won four ‘Best Of’ industry awards; these businesses helped land the honors

By Tommy Felts / April 9, 2024

The retail and restaurant mix featured within the new terminal at Kansas City International Airport is being lauded by industry insiders who hail the experience curated by Vantage Airport Group as one of the best of its kind in North America. In the terminal’s first year of operation, its offerings earned four honors at AXN’s…

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Voters hand Royals, Chiefs a resounding defeat on sales tax that would’ve funded stadium projects

By Tommy Felts / April 3, 2024

Editor’s note: The following story was published by KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR member station, and a fellow member of the KC Media Collective. Click here to read the original story or here to sign up for KCUR’s email newsletter. [divide] The 3/8th-cent sales tax extension would have helped build a new Kansas City Royals stadium downtown as well as fund…

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Advocate knocks mayor for Troost renaming delay; calls slave owner tie KC’s ‘dirty laundry, reeking from the basement’

By Tommy Felts / March 28, 2024

Kansas City can no longer whitewash its history to pretend Benoist Troost — an early KC doctor, slave owner and the namesake for Troost Avenue — was anything other than a monster, said Chris Goode, pointing blame at Mayor Quinton Lucas for a stalled effort to change the east side corridor’s controversial name.  “There’s no…

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Starting a business in KCMO is too expensive, study says; here’s how the city can cut those costs

By Tommy Felts / March 21, 2024

Entrepreneurs in Kansas City, Missouri, face a higher cost of entry to the world of small business than their peers in St. Louis — or even just across the state line in Kansas City, Kansas, said Jennifer McDonald. “We look at things like how expensive it is to start a business, how complicated it is,…

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