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KC Carryout Challenge Serves Help to Restaurants During Pandemic

Hungry to help the more than 300 restaurants, bars, coffee shops and other purveyors of food and drink in greater downtown? The Downtown Council has launched a three-month campaign beginning today called the KC Carryout Challenge that’s hoping to spur more business for the Covid-threatened industry. “After the holidays, it’s always a tough time for…

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Hospital operating room.

Violence in the Emergency Room

Health care workers are the victims in about half of all workplace assaults, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Emergency room workers are especially vulnerable, and the pandemic is making it worse.

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Broadband fiber

Gigabit Internet is Coming to Rural Missouri and Kansas

Hundreds of thousands of Missourians and Kansans could be getting gigabit internet speeds in coming years thanks to the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund.

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KC Wellness Club Brings New Age Healing to Downtown

By Kevin Collison Heath Wessling didn’t exactly take the path you’d predict for someone who considers his Kansas City Wellness Club the center for New Age healing in downtown. A native of rural Iowa, Wessling was all business when Cerner, the giant healthcare tech firm, hired him in 2001 to work in management information systems…

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Dads Against Crime

A community activist has formed Dads Against Crime to lend support to fathers of murder victims.

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