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Historic KC Releases ‘Endangered’ List, Includes Plaza, Katz Drugstore

This year’s “Most Endangered Places List” from Historic Kansas City includes not only buildings such as the Katz Drug Store, but raises a red flag about the city’s most prized district, the Country Club Plaza. Each year, the city’s premier historic preservation group prepares a list of buildings and places that are threatened by shifting…

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Missourians Losing Big When it Comes to Cyber Crime

Cyber crime is surging, and Missouri suffered the largest average loss in the country during 2020.

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Renovated Lightwell Tower Brightens Downtown Office Market

By Kevin Collison The wall of live plants is flourishing, the tired 90s interior look gone, the contemporary art from the Haw Gallery is hung and the old pool table from the St. Louis Playboy club is racked and ready. lightwell, the $85 million overhaul of the former City Center Square office tower, is pitching…

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Bert Wire's farm sits behind the "Farms Not Factories" sign near Chillicothe, Missouri,

Missouri Eases Rules for Building CAFOs Despite Outcry About Potential Pollution

Missouri regulators on Tuesday eased the rules governing design of massive industrial hog facilities in a move critics claim was meant to help one controversial facility.

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Rochelle Walensky, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing

Surveys Say: People Ponder Life in a (Nearly) Post-Pandemic World

Three surveys conducted by data company Invisibly show that some attitudes about returning to pre-pandemic life have not changed significantly over the last 10 months.

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