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4:28 pm
Mon March 25, 2013

Hydroponic Greenhouse To Grace KC Riverfront

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Greenhouse developers brought examples of produce-products to Kansas City City Hall.

This year the landscape will change dramatically along the banks of the Missouri River just Northeast of Kansas City’s downtown. A hundred thousand square feet of greenhouses are planned for growing produce for a local supermarket chain.

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6:00 pm
Thu March 21, 2013

Google Fiber & KC: A Complicated Pair

Google Fiber

What began as a lofty goal to increase access to high-speed Internet has become a reality with Google Fiber. However, questions about the methods behind implementing this service still remain.

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Business & Tech
11:25 am
Thu March 21, 2013

St. Louis Company May Have Answer To Ending Meth Labs

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Sudafed pills.

Not many of us are chemists.

Yet by removing one oxygen atom, average people in Missouri regularly are turning common decongestants like Sudafed and Claritin-D into the illicit drug methamphetamine. Nationwide those explosive mom and pop meth labs cost taxpayers more than $23 billion a year in health care costs, child endangerment and clean-up. 

But a St. Louis pharmaceutical company may have the answer.

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6:00 pm
Tue March 19, 2013

New Houses Shrinking By Request

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Sarah Susanka

As the economy drags, the size of homes is diminishing… and it’s by consumer demand.

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Central Standard
6:00 pm
Mon March 18, 2013

Cash Money Crew - Estate Planning

So are you planning to die? Are you ready for when you end up in the great beyond?  More to the point, what about your assets that don’t make the trip with you? Today on Central Standard, we’re talking about the not exactly uplifting, but nevertheless important topic of estate planning. Our Cash Money Crew is here and … you may not believe this ... but it’s not such a downer, really!  Financial planners will tell you that some good decisions now, now while you’re in the prime of life, can have an impact down the road: You can feel secure, live more comfortably now and through your retirement, and have an impact beyond your earthly years.

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6:00 pm
Sun March 10, 2013

From Steam To Diesel To . . . Natural Gas?

In the history of the locomotive, natural gas may prove to be as game-changing to the railroad industry in this century as diesel was in the last.  

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