General Motors Corp. told dealers Monday it plans to raise prices on 2009 models by an average of 3.5% despite a tough market that is forcing the automaker to cut production and discount its 2008 models
Big-city mayors told Congress on Thursday that they are overwhelmed by the infrastructure needs of their regions and cannot maintain well-functioning water systems, roads and rail networks without more federal help.
Today's younger generation is under attack from an unlikely source: news it can't adequately process
Severe storms that rolled across Arkansas early Friday killed at least seven people, including a teenager crushed by a tree while she slept in her bed
The curtain will be pulled back Tuesday afternoon on Boston College quarterback Matt Ryan, the top passer in the 2008 draft pecking order. Ryan will work out in Chestnut Hill, Mass., on the same day another Miami/Atlanta/Kansas City candidate, Virginia defensive end Chris Long, goes on display in Charlottesville.
A series of embarrassing incidents on federal property across the country, including the theft of a trailer of surveillance equipment from an FBI parking deck, is being blamed on budget cuts at the agency charged with securing federal grounds.
PHOENIX -- The six-man 2008 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame did a great service Saturday to some of the rank-and-file deserving souls who'd been backlogged behind some of the top players of this generation.
Everyone knows a good diet is important for long-term well-being. But a new study shows that it's also crucial for good health today
Where can you grab a cold beer from the company keg when the clock strikes four? Where can you take in a yoga class during your lunch hour? And where can you do laundry for free?
Hats off to the Hawklets of Rockhurst (Kansas City, Mo.) for taking home their Class 6 state championship last weekend.
General Motors Corp. told dealers Monday it plans to raise prices on 2009 models by an average of 3.5% despite a tough market that is forcing the automaker to cut production and discount its 2008 models
Big-city mayors told Congress on Thursday that they are overwhelmed by the infrastructure needs of their regions and cannot maintain well-functioning water systems, roads and rail networks without more federal help.
Today's younger generation is under attack from an unlikely source: news it can't adequately process
Severe storms that rolled across Arkansas early Friday killed at least seven people, including a teenager crushed by a tree while she slept in her bed
The curtain will be pulled back Tuesday afternoon on Boston College quarterback Matt Ryan, the top passer in the 2008 draft pecking order. Ryan will work out in Chestnut Hill, Mass., on the same day another Miami/Atlanta/Kansas City candidate, Virginia defensive end Chris Long, goes on display in Charlottesville.
A series of embarrassing incidents on federal property across the country, including the theft of a trailer of surveillance equipment from an FBI parking deck, is being blamed on budget cuts at the agency charged with securing federal grounds.
PHOENIX -- The six-man 2008 class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame did a great service Saturday to some of the rank-and-file deserving souls who'd been backlogged behind some of the top players of this generation.
Everyone knows a good diet is important for long-term well-being. But a new study shows that it's also crucial for good health today
Where can you grab a cold beer from the company keg when the clock strikes four? Where can you take in a yoga class during your lunch hour? And where can you do laundry for free?
Hats off to the Hawklets of Rockhurst (Kansas City, Mo.) for taking home their Class 6 state championship last weekend.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The buzz around here may be about Saturday's Kansas-Mizzou football game, but there was some pretty good college hoops on the docket at the CBE Classic, which was played at the new downtown Sprint Center. I enjoy coming to these two-day events because it gives me a chance to see good teams play twice in person.
Bennett Packaging of Kansas City, my 120-employee firm (bpkc.com), is in an underground industrial park. Many of them can be found in and near Kansas City. They were built into caves created during the 1950s when miners removed limestone to use in the construction of Interstate 70. They intentionally extracted the rock in a way that left huge rooms with thick, roof-supporting limestone pillars. Developers poured concrete floors and began renting out the space at attractive rates.
Five drivers to watch this Sunday at Kansas Speedway, the third race in the Chase:
The housing boom may have ended, but even at its peak, it left legions of low-income, working families worse off in its wake.
A federal judge temporarily blocked a new Missouri abortion law Monday after Planned Parenthood said the law would harm women by dramatically reducing the clinics available to provide the procedure.
Kansas City was the first stop on what you might call the "Setting Expectations Tour."
U.S. economic activity expanded further in June and early July, the Federal Reserve said Wednesday, as slower housing markets contrasted with improvements in manufacturing and commercial real estate.
As part of the "Life After Work" special, CNN.com asked its readers about their post-retirement years. Here is a selection of the responses, some of which have been edited for length and clarity:
It's the sort of promotion you might expect from a pizza delivery chain, not a U.S. hospital system.
Celebrate Dad with the latest high-end meats, cured and cut by small companies.
NFL thoughts of the weekend, from the home office in Montclair, N.J.
The fine people of Kansas City are used to looking hard for something good in their baseball team. The Royals have lost 100 or more games four times in the past five seasons. They've been better than .500 exactly three times since 1990. They haven't set foot in the postseason since '85. Finding something -- anything -- good in all that takes some practice.
A gunman suspected of wounding a police officer shot and killed two people and wounded at least two others at a shopping center in Kansas City, Missouri, before being gunned down by police, authorities said Sunday.
1. 2006 underachievers: Prior to the 2006 campaign, two middle America cities were abuzz with optimism. Both Cleveland and Milwaukee boasted young, exciting teams that were coming off encouraging seasons in '05. Hopes and dreams quickly came crashing down, though, as both teams vastly underachieved and finishing below .500.
Do airlines play fair when it comes to dealing with delays?
LESS THAN A YEAR AFTER MOVING INTO HER new 2,100-square-foot house in Lenexa, Kans., Susan Sabin has strung up lemon lights in her front window. The lemons, she says, go perfectly with the home's m...
Less than a year after moving into her new 2,100-square-foot house in Lenexa, Kans., Susan Sabin has strung up lemon lights in her front window.
Last week we reviewed the 20 teams that failed to make the playoffs and chronicled their impending offseason issues. Here's a look at the first-round playoff losers and the topics they face in 2007:
Year in and year out, the NFL playoffs are such compelling theater because the games seldom go to script. We should know by now to expect the unexpected, and to brace for surprise in every 12-team bracket. The Chiefs at Colts wild-card playoff opener at Indianapolis on Saturday was merely the latest case in point.
Envisioned as a "park like" bedroom community on the outskirts of Kansas City more than 100 years ago, Overland Park has gone from quiet hamlet to burgeoning suburb to the second-biggest city in Kansas, with more than 160,000 people spread over 57 square miles. A third of Fortune 500 companies have offices in the area, including Sprint-Nextel, which employs 14,500 locally. Good jobs continue to lure more young people here.
Kansas City came of age during America's westward expansion and rose to prominence as a meatpacking center. But today in this leafy Midwestern city, which straddles both Kansas and Missouri, you'll find some of the world's finest jazz and barbecue, stunning art deco and Mediterranean-inspired architecture, and more than 200 ornate fountains. And that's just the beginning.
Two years ago, when Toni Lapp bought a three-bedroom, 1 1/2 bath house in a neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, the divorced mother of two figured this wasn't the last house she'd own.
What do a cheesecake chain, an online broker, a green energy company and a medical software firm have in common? They are among 49 U.S. companies that hit a special milestone last year: $1 billion in annual sales.
"We're not married, but we wouldn't need a legal agreement to talk about money." --Britney Lasater (with Edward Vandergucht), Paris
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or if you belong to that cohort yourself -- you probably already know all too well that Generation X, as it's often called, just doesn't respond to the same carrots and sticks that motivate its elders.
White lights sparkle on a crisp winter night, illuminating the city with a cozy glow. Shoppers pause from the bustle to drink it all in -- the twinkling lights, the gathering dusk, and the way the air buzzes with the holiday spirit.
Beware of that over-friendly real estate agent or buttoned-down appraiser. They may be nothing more than scam artists.
Big Fed chief Alan Greenspan has a lot on his mind this week.
More than four years after her headless body was found, a child known nationally as "Precious Doe" has been identified, and her mother and stepfather face murder charges in her killing, authorities in Kansas City, Missouri, said Thursday.
Even though Maribeth Jones works at a hospital, the Kansas City woman doesn't have health insurance.
I'm a 25-year-old college grad who's built up some savings by living at home for a couple of years and then renting cheap. I started a Roth IRA three years ago and have contributed the max every year, but all my money sits in a money market account that earns a measly 2.1 percent.
I plan to give my daughter $30,000 to help her pay off some debts and buy a new car. I have heard that I can give away only $11,000 a year to anyone without having to pay taxes. Is there a way I ca...
There is a long-standing Hollywood fantasy about how to succeed in American politics. From Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to Bulworth, the story is the same: the hero is liberated when he breaks free from political convention and starts speaking from the heart. In the old days, Mr. Smith fought political bosses. Nowadays the bosses are political consultants. Senator Bulworth?in Warren Beatty's 1998 film?is liberated after deciding to commit suicide while watching his re-election ads.
Dave Savchetz had a normal office job once, but he didn't much like it. Savchetz, 50, has spent most of his life inside automobile factories, and today he is the plant manager at the Ford factory i...
It's a well-worn but revealing bit of auto-industry lore: When Ford Motor ruled the business in the early years of the last century--during one six-year stretch, it didn't bother advertising--Henry...
Steak house chain Ruth's Chris serves a great steak. The top-quality meat develops an appealing crust in the high-temperature broilers (designed by the late Ruth Fertel herself) and is served on a ...
Steak house chain Ruth's Chris serves a great steak. The top-quality meat develops an appealing crust in the high-temperature broilers (designed by the late Ruth Fertel herself) and is served on a platter of sizzling butter, making for a sensationally rich and tasty meal.
Steak house chain Ruth's Chris serves a great steak. The top-quality meat develops an appealing crust in the high-temperature broilers (designed by the late Ruth Fertel herself) and is served on a platter of sizzling butter, making for a sensationally rich and tasty meal.
Last year the second most popular museum exhibit in the world wasn't an Old Master but a young subject: "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," featuring dresses from the former First Lady's w...
Some people believe in hard work, others in democracy, still others in marriage. I believe in chicken. I especially like chicken out--in these settings, to be precise:
American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, Mo. 816-474-8463; www.americanjazzmuseum.com. Listen to recordings by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker or sit in on twice-monthly lectures by li...
America is no place to age gracefully. Of course, basketball players, dancers, and fashion models are finished young; mathematicians and chess players peak early too. So do construction workers and...
Beef or pork? Slathered with sauce or dry-rubbed with spices? No matter how your ribs are prepared, gnawing the meat off the bone remains one of the most pleasantly primal eating experiences around...
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Released on the heels of its historic 1970 run at Max's Kansas City club in New York City, the Velvet Underground's final studio album, Loaded, showed a group walking a fine line between greatness ...
WHEN YOU'VE GOT IT, FLAUNT IT. AND MUTUAL FUNDS HAVE got it--flashy returns following a year when stocks shot up 37.5% and bonds 18.5%. Now comes the flaunt. Thanks to those numbers, many publicati...
Defense cutbacks that shrank AlliedSignal's Kansas City division 59%, to 3,300 employees, have forced the manufacturer of nuclear weapons components to diversify into a new industry: breeding kille...
Political conventions can give a strong kick to a city's economy, which helps explain why the nation's leading metropolises are actively vying for the 1996 gatherings. The Democratic field has alre...
Shades of the early '80s. Back then, brokers and planners rang up their wealthy clients at year's end to get 'em into high-write-off tax shelters, many of which crashed and burned after tax reform ...
With high fixed costs because of their expensive fleets, airlines have always been highly cyclical, soaring to profits in strong economies and nosediving in recessions. In fact, the three U.S. majo...
Forget what you learned in Physics 101. When it comes to college costs, what goes up just keeps going up. Tuition soared 126% during the 1980s, more than twice as much as the consumer price index, ...
The foundation of Perot's wealth is Electronic Data Systems, which he sold to | General Motors in 1984 for $2.5 billion. His personal share of the sale: $1.4 billion. Later GM paid him an additiona...
When FORTUNE set out to find America's best cities for business this year, a trend was unmistakable: Cost has become far more important than it was in the Eighties. What companies want in a city ha...
Rankings on access to quality labor and on pro-business attitude come from Moran Stahl & Boyer's survey of executives in America's 50 largest metropolitan areas. A rank of 1 is best, and 50 the wor...
How can America spend more per capita on health care than any country on earth, and still be the only developed nation that leaves about 15% of its population uninsured? How can U.S. companies cont...
CHANGING human behavior is like reshaping concrete. The material is stubborn. Over the past couple of decades government agencies as well as corporations and private foundations have spent billions...
Managers: Are you worried that the folks in purchasing never talk to those in distribution or that senior people don't know juniors? Think about starting a corporate chorus. More than 50 FORTUNE 50...
Members of Meeting Planners International, an association of 10,000 people who plan conventions, conferences, seminars, and the like, should be toasting each other with champagne this month when th...
MORE THAN EVER, where you are determines how you do. Pity the poor fool with ) his headquarters in some mean-streets town, where office costs are out of sight and only the reckless venture out afte...
Among the saddest of moments when selling a house is watching the real estate broker strut off with his commission of 4.5% to 7%. But now you can turn $ instead to a growing network of brokers arou...
IT IS OF NO SMALL significance that poverty is suddenly returning to the forefront of the American consciousness. Perhaps it is mostly a comment on the immense power of our media-age Presidents to ...
EDITOR- IN- CHIEF Jason McManus CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER J. Richard Munro PRESIDENT AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER N. J. Nicholas Jr. VICE CHAIRMAN Gerald M. Levin EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Richa...
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AS THE SERVICE SECTOR continues to outshine manufacturing, as tomorrow's technology replaces today's, U.S. cities are fast learning to adapt. Some have emerged from the process as veritable boomtow...
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You enter the travel agency to book a budget weekend trip, but the agent won't even talk to you until you pay a $20 service charge. When you express vague interest in a South Seas jaunt later in th...
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As underboss and comptroller of the Kansas City mob, Carl DeLuna felt immense concern for his fiduciary responsibilities. ''Toughy,'' as he is known, called his meticulous record keeping ''doin' th...
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Sir: I'm in charge of the newspaper satire department of Pravda. So, as distinct from . . . the author of your review, I know something about the situation with regard to ''criticism from below'' i...
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