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2012 As border war rages on, Kansas changes debate with steep cuts in small business and individual income-tax rates. Obama becomes the first president to win re election with an unemploy ment rate above 7.5 % Missouri Tigers win Big XII in basketball, tourney in their final year. Leave for SEC.

2013 Sprint emerges recapital ized after completing its merger with Japan-based SoftBank, which acquired roughly 78 percent of the telecom company for $21.6 billion. The Royals break a nine year string of losing sea sons; Chiefs become the first team in NFL history to start 9-0 after a 2-14 season.

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Cerner Corp. opens its twin towers in Wyandotte County, home to 4,500 employees, and acquires land for a sprawling campus in south Kansas City. Kansas City loses a pair of philanthropic legends with the deaths of Adele Hall and Marion Bloch.

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to turning out the vote than the Mis souri casino industry. The casinos want the people of Missouri to legitimize the hybrid phenomenon known as “boats in moats.” Specifically, Amendment 9 would permit casinos to operate in “ar tificial spaces that include water” within 1,000 feet of the main channel of either the Mississippi or the Missouri rivers. Voter approval would reverse a 1997 State Supreme Court decision to the contrary. 1999 JUNE Commitment to Commerce Reaches New Heights Technology, pending deregulation and mergers and acquisitions are forcing banks of all sizes to react to market condi tions. Greater efficiencies and improved products and services are the ultimate goal of the banks as they expand into oth er areas of financial services. Kansas City area banks are in a state of flux: Whether they’re one of the largest in the nation or smallest in the region. The future is any thing but certain. 2000 JANUARY Kansas City’s Dream Team Plans the Future for 2050 From a gathering of 14 people with widely diverse geographic, cultural and business-sector backgrounds came a vi sion of Kansas City in 2050. Among it’s pillars: A. “Kansas City has the stron gest suburbs in the country . . . and for this reason may likely never emulate the strong urban cores of Boston or Philadel phia. B. “Future economic development and infrastructure demands will be man aged by establishing a regional authority that will likely dissolve the influence of

city and state government as we know it today. C. “By 2050, we anticipate that government will become more intrusive in health care, if not providing the means, then certainly regulating the distribution of service for equality’s sake. D. “The im pact of freight moving through the mar ketplace will be immense.” E. The more it is analyzed, the more logical it appears that a metropolitan-wide Unified Gov ernment may prevail in our future.” 2001 If we pursue the opportunity we have been given, future generations will look back upon Sept. 11, 2001, not as the day when the World Trade Center collapsed, but as the day when America was reborn. The America (we) recreate will be a dif ferent place. We will not have lost our innocence. We’ll have lost our pettiness. And we will be a better nation because of it. 2002 On Tuesday, May 23, Ingram’s hosted the 17th of its forums in the Industry Out look series. The subject was the Kansas City School District. And the atmosphere, as expected, was more charged than any we had seen before. Never before have so many key people with so much collective knowledge of what is arguably America’s most notorious school district gathered for a public discussion—one that was in turn amusing, unsettling and invigorat ing. SEPTEMBER Restoration MAY The Future of the KC School District

away as South Africa and Ireland to learn more, and calls and letters have poured in from cities across the U.S. In each case, the question is the same: How did Kansas City pull it off? The object of this glob al curiosity is the FOCUS plan, Kansas City’s long-term blueprint for guiding the city deep into the 21st century. Painstak ingly developed over five years with the input of more than 3,000 volunteers, the plan, by all accounts, is the most com prehensive, citizen-driven strategic road map ever laid out by any U.S. city. FOCUS stands for Forging Our Com prehensive Urban Strategy and was de signed to replace the brief, 50-year plan sketched back in 1947 by local adminis trative legend L.P. Cookingham. Yellow-Brick Road ... or Not For some, Oz is a mythical land. For others, it is a $590 million theme park in search of a location in the Kansas City area. For those who believe in the latter, the scramble is on to make it a reality in their locale. According to Robert Kory, chairman and CEO of the Oz Entertain ment Co., site selection has been nar rowed down to three possible locations: just west of the planned Kansas Interna tional Speedway in Wyandotte County, at the abandoned Sunflower Ammo Plant in Johnson County and in north Smithville in Missouri. The decision is still up in the air as far as the Oz people are concerned. (Editor’s note 2024: As we know now, it didn’t happen. But the development story had a happy ending: In 2022, the Sunflower site was chosen for the largest development in the history of Kansas, the $4 billion Pana sonic Energy EV battery plant.) AUGUST Follow the

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