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Seven Finalist Cities Chosen For Smart City Challenge

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The finalists are: Austin, TX; Columbus, OH; Denver, CO; Kansas City, MO; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR; and San Francisco, CA. announced its intent to award up to $10 million to the winning city to support electric vehicle deployment and other carbon emission reduction strategies. Source: USDOT. Allen’s Vulcan Inc.,

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FEATURE STORY: The Cultural Roots Of High-Tech Growth

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A white paper recently released by the Kauffman Foundation finds that Kansas City and other areas viewed as “new” startup high-tech hubs actually are benefitting from many years of nurturing a local culture of entrepreneurship. The top 10 cities in 2010 also ranked among the top 20 cities two decades earlier.

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FEATURE STORY: High-Tech Hubs Are Moving To Their Markets

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This means that new hot spots of tech innovation are springing up in places like Kansas City, the site of Google’s new high speed Google Fiber network, and Pittsburgh, a new hotbed for innovative tech start-ups. Greater Kansas City: Silicon Prairie. We’ve found this in Kansas City. Rick Perry in a statement.

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Remembering Josh Seidel

The Korte Company

Josh in his element had an ice-cold Busch in his hand, a smile on his face and a million ideas rattling around in his head. The closest suppliers were in Kansas City. He stood up in more weddings than you could count and was known as “the Swiss Army Knife” of friends. And when you called, he answered. He always answered.

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Curt Horstmann won’t sit still

The Korte Company

He’s worked everywhere from Kansas City to Rhode Island and even Hawaii. And these were all Angela’s ideas. Paul Church. That was a challenge I’ve never done before and turned out rather well.” Working for The Korte Company also expanded his horizons. In Oahu, he helped build the Kaneohe Bay Temporary Lodging Facility.

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Public or Private?

Business Facilities

The idea is that if economic development is structured like a business–with a governor as “CEO” and major business leaders as a “board of directors”–development decisions can be streamlined. One Chamber of Commerce VP said adoption of HB 2567 “could kill economic development in Kansas.”

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Major market centers in the region include: Memphis, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, New Orleans and St. Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. population.