University of Missouri Kansas City News

Peter Levi, who retires Dec. 31 as president of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, will join the Kansas City law firm of Polsinelli Shughart as of Jan.

An all-star academic team will work together to improve Kansas City-area schools.

Jeannette Nichols is the 2009 Kansas Citian of the Year, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday night.

Here's another interesting piece from Randall Wray, the economics professor from University of Missouri-Kansas City .

A Bloomfield attorney has announced a bid for the Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney seat that is up for election next year.

AN INTERVIEW WITH ZACK SHAFRAN: Tech opportunities in unlikely places. AS A KID GROWING UP IN KANSAS CITY, Mo., Zack Shafran fell in love with the concept of investing -- or, rather, with the idea that someone would want to send him checks every quarter for doing nothing.

Troy Schulte once was city manager of the town of Marengo, Iowa, population 2,500.Now he finds himself in a much hotter seat in a much bigger city.On Thursday he was named acting city manager in Kansas City by a one-vote margin in an angry and chaotic City Council meeting.

Kate Bornstein leans back in her chair, legs spread, teal-painted fingernails and tattooed hand partially covering the girly design on her baby-tee top.

The band Diverse consists of students from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

As the shortage of primary care doctors in the United States continues to grow, the industry looks for practitioners to fill the gap.

The "Time to Get it Right" reports have provided a valuable blueprint for getting the region's leaders focused on higher education and life sciences over the last five years.

Rita Marie Cain, University of Missouri, Kansas City, has published "Embedded Advertising on Television: What Would Don Draper Do?" Here is the abstract.

Many children with chronic kidney disease who show normal blood pressure readings at the doctora s office have high blood pressure when tested at home, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology .

A person does not start a theater and run it for 25 years without a serious devotion to the craft.

Scott Roeder confessed Monday to killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, saying he had no regrets because "pre-born children were in imminent danger." In a 20-minute phone call from the Sedgwick County Jail, Roeder told the Kansas City Star that he believed shooting Tiller saved lives.

Mr. Contract with America Newt Gingrich is in Kansas today and tonight, speaking at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics on the University of Kansas' campus.

Come join the fun at University of Missouri, Kansas City for the Sally Ride Science Festival.

Kansas Citys reliance on public charter schools has placed it fourth among U.S. cities in the percentage of students being taught in them.This year the city has 29 percent of its public school children enrolled in charters operating inside the boundaries of the Kansas City School District.

In an episode of the Seinfeld TV show, Kramer complained that his new romantic interest had the jimmy legs.Shes throwing off my whole sleep, he said, and then demonstrated by raising one leg and juddering it in the air.Turns out that the likelihood of having jimmy legs or restless legs syndrome, as doctors call this sleep disorder can vary greatly ...

Groups from across the Show-Me State are set to discuss climate change Wednesday night in Washington.