Unified Commissioner to speak at Membership Meeting Melissa Bynum, the At-Large Unified Commissioner from the First District, will be the featured speaker at the monthly luncheon meeting of Business West at noon Wednesday, July 20 at the offices of Real Living KC Realty, 2100 Hutton Rd. Melissa, who was first elected to the Unified Commission [...]
07-1522 Marshall The way Roger Marshall sees it, there are three main issues facing Americans today. They are inflation, inflation and inflation. That was the message the junior U.S. Senator from Great Bend delivered to members of the Congressional Forum who met Friday, July 15 at Davis Hall at Wyandotte County Lake. The Forum is [...]
Neighborhood watch leaders hear about human trafficking David Hopkins needs help. Hopkins, a detective with the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, made the plea for assistance at a meeting of the West Patrol Advisory Committee Thursday, June 23. Hopkins is assigned to human trafficking crimes; he made a plea to about a dozen leaders of [...]
Mike Murray was concerned about small business. That was obvious when he was President of Business West in 1990. That year Mike and Business West hosted a luncheon of commercial Realtors from Greater Kansas City at The Woodlands. Mike made it very clear to those who attended that there were considerable development opportunities in Western [...]
Katie Maderak remembered Katie Maderak always greeted you with a smile. I was saddened late last week when Katie’s daughter, Joan Maderak Meyers, telephoned to tell me of her mother’s death. Catherine Ann (Katie) Clark Maderak was 93 years old and died after about a two-week illness. Katie and her lifetime husband Joe were married [...]
These professional bankers at First State Bank & Trust, 10900 Parallel Pkwy., Kansas City, Kansas, are ready to serve you. They are (left to right) Samantha White, loan assistant; Chad Oehlert, mortgage banker; Kim Singleton, vice president and bank manager; Mariah Stover and Evan Isabell; customer service representatives; Paula Eveland, personal banker; and Paul Bush, [...]
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt (center) was the featured speaker Friday, March 18 at the Congressional Forum. Also attending were Kim Singleton and Murrel Bland of Business West. Derek Schmidt came to Wyandotte County prepared to comment on two very controversial pieces of legislation. Schmidt, the Republican Kansas Attorney General who wants to [...]
Views differ on elimination of sales tax on food Two views—one pro and the other con—were recently expressed in Kansas publications concerning the elimination of Kansas state sales tax on food. Bonita Gooch, the editor-in-chief of The Kansas Voice, a newspaper that serves the black community in Kansas, favors the elimination. Ron Smith, a lawyer [...]
Kansas Legislature to focus on Congressional Redistricting The main issue that the Kansas Legislature will face when its members meet for the 2022 session next month will be Congressional Redistricting. Members of the Legislative Committee learned this when they met Friday, Dec. 10 via ZOOM. The Committee is part of the Kansas City, Kansas, Area [...]
All Business West members invited to Connect the Dotte networking event All Business West members are invited to attend the monthly meeting of the Connect the Dotte committee at 8:30 a.m. the second Tuesday (Dec. 14) of each month at Rowe Ridge Vineyard and Winery, 11255 Leavenworth Rd. Complementary coffee and rolls will be served. [...]