Monthly Archives: May 2015

Lora and Michael Gallion were lifelong renters and living on a fixed income. The only houses the couple could afford were run-down spaces that were almost uninhabitable.

EPA has selected the communities of Kansas City, Mo., and St. Louis to receive a total of $900,000 in grants from the Agency’s Brownfields Program to assist with the environmental assessments of contaminated brownfields properties, a key step in paving the way toward their cleanup, redevelopment and sustainable reuse

Sun Cedar is turning traditional business thinking on its head. This small company from Lawrence, Kansas, is a response to “unemployable” individuals and other folks in transition, who deserve a chance to rebuild their lives. The company hires only those who can’t find employment elsewhere due to the stigma of homelessness or a criminal record. “We’re not giving upon these folks,” explains Shine Adams, CEO of Sun Cedar and a professional worker in social services.

The city of Granby, Mo., has agreed to an administrative civil settlement with EPA that requires the city to take a series of actions by July 2018 to correct a series of violations related to the operation of its wastewater treatment facility.

Senior SafeHome Evaluations is launching June 1st - Kansas City's first and sole premier service for senior home evaluations. Our customized analysis is designed to enable senior citizens to live in their homes for as long as possible, rather than turning to an institutional setting as they age.

Today, the House Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) held a hearing to examine the Rural Housing Service.

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today slammed the failure of Republican leaders in Congress to reauthorize highway funding and other long-term infrastructure projects, calling the alternative short-term fixes a “Band-Aid on a cancer.”

Today, the House Financial Services Housing and Insurance Subcommittee Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-03) held a hearing to examine the cost and benefits of changes to the real estate settlement process, specifically the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure rule being finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)

Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (MO-4) and the House have approved legislation she co-sponsors requiring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw their proposed rule defining and expanding the scope of waters protected by the Clean Water Act. The Regulatory Integrity Protection Act – H.R. 1732 – would require the EPA and the Corps to develop a new rule, working with local governments and citizens, to classify Waters of the United States and clarify who has jurisdiction

United Country Real Estate – the nation’s leading lifestyle, small city and rural real estate company – is celebrating its 90-year anniversary during May, the month the firm was established in 1925. Founded by Roscoe Chamberlain in Kansas City, Mo., the company began looking for ways to advertise local properties nationally long before television and the internet. United Country changed the real estate industry forever by producing the first national real estate catalog to expose local small city, town and surrounding properties for sale on a much broader scale, regionally and nationally.

Lee & Associates, one of the largest national commercial real estate providers with regional expertise, has closed the $25,400,000 investment sale of two retail buildings located in the Big Bend Crossing shopping center of Crestwood, Missouri, a St Louis suburb. The buildings, located at 10244 & 10248 Big Bend Road were occupied by long-term tenants, Sam’s Club and Hardee’s, at the time of the purchase

Today the House of Representatives voted on Congressman Jason Smith’s language to bar the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using any funds to implement the damaging Waters of the United States rule. The language was included in H.R. 2028, the FY2016 Energy & Water Appropriations bill, which passed the House 240-177.