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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ralph Monaco, former Missouri State Representative from Raytown, announced his candidacy for Missouri State Senate, District 11. He will run as a Democrat in the August 3, 2004, Primary Election. This will mark the first election in the new District ...

Burns & McDonnell will team with MWH Americas, Inc. and the City in an effort to consolidate capital improvement project responsibility under the City Manager’s Office. The result will be an integrated team that will work with single points of ...

From tobacco, to questionable medications, and from consumer products to corporate corruption and workplace safety, class action lawsuits have increased in frequency and gained high-profile attention. In its purest form, a class action rule is designed to improve court efficiency ...

The University of Illinois settled a lawsuit for $2.3 million after a transplant surgeon blew the whistle on unnecessary liver transplant practices amounting to $1,001,645.39 in defrauded Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements at the university’s Chicago campus hospital, the U.S. Department ...

Where the renter of an automobile was not given a copy of the rental agreement, an exclusion to the insurance coverage in the agreement is unenforceable, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals held on November 19. Phillip R. Leverance was a ...

Gary Holcombe has been named theater professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Holcombe is an actor and singer who has appeared in roles on Broadway. He has also worked for ABC, PBS, HBO and Disney in television and firm.