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Mr K finalist reveal: Meet the 10 contenders for KC Chamber’s Small Business of the Year

admin — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:19:13 +0000

The KC Chamber just announced the 10 finalists for its prestigious 2025 Small Business of the Year honor — setting the stage for a two-month campaign for selected entrepreneurs that ends this summer with one company crowned the Mr. K Award winner.

‘I Was 24 and Working Illegally’

admin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:00:05 +0000

Photo: Courtesy of Keith McNally

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Ideem locks in $2.4M seed round for trust tech spinout driven by Toby Rush, startup veterans

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:00:15 +0000

The Ideem team has a clear vision for how to make two-factor authentication easy and invisible for users, serial tech entrepreneur Toby Rush said, noting an early investment round will help the rapidly emerging startup double-down.

The Secret Chains of New York

admin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:48:18 +0000

Photo: Courtesy of Izakaya Seasun

At nine o’clock this past Sunday, K-pop melodies and blue Hawaiian highballs filled the dining room at Izakaya Seasun in Nomad. A quoted 60-minute wait became 30 minutes, spent in a lobby with a kitschy fake hot spring puffing clouds from a fog machine and cartoon cats posing with beer and sake on a backlit banner.

Mayo Clinic research: Missouri startup’s VR tech can help calm patients’ pre-surgery jitters

admin — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:30:51 +0000

A recent study from the renowned researchers at the Mayo Clinic suggests a dose of virtual reality can help reduce pre-op anxiety in older patients undergoing their first open-heart surgery — and their findings come after testing with technology from Columbia, Missouri-based Healium.

The Most Surprising Pastrami in New York

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:05:21 +0000

Photo: San Wei

I am always happy to take credit for discovering a new restaurant through hard-won reporting methods like canvassing a neighborhood in bad weather, scanning social media for hours, and starting impromptu conversations with a lot of strangers.

Y’all Street Is Open for Business

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:36:23 +0000

The Town Fire

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000

‘Innuendo And Rumor Stories’: VA Secretary Collins Blasts Media Hacktivist’s Anti-DOGE Hatchet Job

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:21:35 +0000

First, it was ABC’s Martha Raddatz. Then, it was CBS’s Margaret Brennan. And now, Military.com’s Patricia Kime is the latest member of the propaganda press to get a well-deserved scolding from the Trump administration for masquerading her left-wing activism as reporting. The moment came during a newly released sit-down exchange between Kime and Veterans Affairs […]

How an east side community garden gives Ruby Jean’s namesake her storybook ending as juice brand goes national with Whole Foods

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:44:25 +0000

While market expansion for Ruby Jean’s harvests the big headlines, Chris Goode’s grassroots health initiatives are staying firmly planted in Kansas City’s east side, the juice brand’s founder said — announcing plans to launch a one-acre community garden this spring on Wabash Avenue.

Budding out just blocks from where Goode grew up, the Ruby Jean’s Garden will provide free, fresh produce to community members in exchange for small acts of “sweat equity,” like helping to plant crops, pull weeds, or attending educational workshops in what is historically a food desert, he said.

What Do Post Malone and President Bush Have in Common? A Denton Leather Craftsman.

admin — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0000

My City Made a Change to Its Trash Pickup Service. So Why Am I So Sad?

admin — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 21:16:59 +0000

Meanwhile, in Texas: Someone Put a Seat Belt on That Horse!

admin — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Chatterbox speaks the language of reluctant learners: games featuring global cast of AI tutors

admin — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 02:56:25 +0000

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro.

The Black Pantry’s new retail-coffee spot is far from copy and paste, owner says; offers fresh taste of Good Karma

admin — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 02:16:30 +0000

A new store on Gillham Road fuses retail and coffee culture, creating what Brian Roberts calls an “elevated Black coffee space” that moves beyond the transactional nature of traditional coffee shops.

“I like my store concepts to be a representation of me,” Roberts told Startland News.