by Bill Pollock | Aug 27, 2014 | Sports Features
According to a tweet from SportsBusinessNews’ Howard Bloom, the NHL plans to add four cities by 2017 with teams playing in Las Vegas, Seattle, Toronto and Quebec City. After Kansas City opened Sprint Center, they’ve tried to attract the NHL by hosting...
by Mike Lear | Jun 25, 2014 | News
Kansas City is no longer in the running to be the site of the 2016 Republican National Convention. The list of potential sites had been narrowed to four cities a month ago but that list has been trimmed again, and Kansas City didn’t make the cut. The finalists...
by Mike Lear | Apr 18, 2014 | Crime / Courts, News
The Jackson County Prosecutor has announced 18 felony charges stemming from 9 shooting incidents on highways in the Kansas City area against 27-year-old Mohammed Pedro Whitaker of Grandview. Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker has filed 9 counts of shooting into a vehicle...
by Bill Pollock | Dec 12, 2013 | Sports Features
Kansas City was the big winner. The NCAA announced site selections for 82 championships including prelim and final rounds for 2014-2018. Kansas City has the most selected site with 14, with Division II sports coming out strong. The MIAA Conference in partnership...
by Mike Lear | Nov 13, 2013 | News
Governor Jay Nixon has outlined his plan to end the shuffling of jobs across the Missouri-Kansas Border in pursuit of incentives meant for the creation of new jobs. Step one is for he and his counterpart, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, to put moratoriums on incentives...