The City of Kansas City, Mo. has been awarded approximately $4.9 million in grant revenue. They include: $62,568 to Missouri Americorps; $50,000 to Disparities Grants in Minority Health; $150,000 to Land and Water Conservation Fund; and $150,000 to Tobacco Use; ...
Read More »Colonnade Apartment Buildings Eligible For National Registry
The National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places program has approved the City’s multiple property cover document for historic colonnade apartment buildings. Kansas City’s colonnade apartment houses played a key role as the City’s dominant architectural building type that ...
Read More »Seventeen Candidates Have Filed For Missouri Presidential Primary
Seventeen presidential candidates filed to compete in the Missouri’s February 3 presidential primary before the November 18 deadline. “The Missouri primary is one of the first primaries after the critical New Hampshire and Iowa primaries and this creates a special ...
Read More »Real Estate Scammers Face Agency Crackdowns
Real estate purchasing opportunities remain strong. But so do the risks of being swindled, warn state and federal agencies as they increase efforts to stop scammers that prey on individuals looking for vacation property, an ultimate retirement spot or even ...
Read More »Maryland Jurisdiction Proper In California Lawyer's Fee Suit
A federal judge in Baltimore had authority to determine that a California attorney was not entitled to fees for approximately 400 hours of legal work allegedly done in connection with a class action suit, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Read More »New Law Firm Announced
Karen Halbrook and Denise Anderson have opened the law firm of Halbrook & Anderson, P.C. at 110 West 9th Street in the John Marshall Building. The firm specializes in employment law defense and represents clients throughout a five-state area. Halbrook ...
Read More »CB Richard Ellis Associate New CCIM Institute Treasurer
Oscar P. Peterson, CCIM, senior associate with CB Richard Ellis of Kansas City, was installed as the 2004 national treasurer of the CCIM Institute. The Institute, which has 16,000 members worldwide, confers the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation. Peterson assumed ...
Read More »City Employee Receives Award
Robert T. Jackson, manager of the Weatherization Program in the Department of Housing and Community Development for the City of Kansas City, Mo. recently received a National Recognition Award for Outstanding Leadership from the U.S. Department of Energy. Jackson was ...
Read More »KC Budget Receives Award
The City of Kansas City, Mo., has received a Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada Distinguished Presentation Award for its current fiscal year budget. The award represents the highest form of recognition in governmental budgeting and ...
Read More »Armstrong Teasdale Hires Attorney
Joshua M. Ellwanger has joined Armstrong Teasdale. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Kansas School of Law and his B.A. degree from the University of Northern Iowa. He is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department where ...
Read More »Committee Reappoints Three
Deana Ervin, Cynthia Larcom and Anne Lesser have been re-appointed to the Governor’s Committee to End Chronic Homelessness. The ten-year plan will allow Missouri to apply for federal funding to help make affordable housing and support services available to the ...
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