Monthly Archives: June 2015

Originally established in 1998 as KC CREW, new chapter bylaws approving the name change were adopted at the organization’s annual membership meeting held on Tuesday, June 23. The Kansas City chapter’s membership represents nearly every discipline within commercial real estate including law, brokerage, leasing, property management, finance, title/escrow, development, engineering, architecture, construction and more

The extremely rainy May weather caused delays in homes under construction and is reflected in a slight decrease in permit activity throughout the metro area as the number of permits issued decreased from April’s total.  With 392 single family permits issued during May 2015, the year-to-date total for 2015 is now 1,715 for the eight county metropolitan area.

Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, II released a statement on two historic rulings from the Supreme Court: the decision to affirm the availability of tax credits under the Affordable Care Act to individuals in States with a federal healthcare exchange, in King et al. v. Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al.; and the decision to affirm the use of disparate impact claims under the Fair Housing Act in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs et al. v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. et al.

Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.) today passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, providing states relief from the EPA’s attempt to unilaterally regulate states’ electricity systems, and protecting Missourians from continued federal overreach that would raise utility rates for everyone

The bill would delay implementation of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules to limit carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants until after federal courts have an opportunity to rule on the controversial regulation. It also grants states the flexibility to neither submit nor adopt plans to comply with the regulation and would relieve states from fulfilling plans deemed to have a potentially “significant adverse effect” on consumers’ utility rates.

The Country's leading real estate agent safety trainer lives in Kansas City, MO. According to Tracey Hawkins, a former agent who has spent over 20 years traveling the country teaching real estate agents how to work safely, the rape of the agent in Rolla, MO, has hit close to home. Rolla is 3.5 hours from KC. She says the recent spate of crimes against agents nationally, proves that a key component is missing in agent training.

Hannon brings to CBIZ 30 years of experience in all areas of insurance, including sales, claims, property and casualty, life, health, employee benefits and risk management consulting. Prior to his employment at CBIZ, he worked as a commercial and personal lines sales producer for White, Grego & White Insurance Agency in Kansas City

More than 192,000 people took to Facebook and cast 6.2 million votes vying to bring a $25k grant to their neighborhoods. State Farm is proud to announce the top 40 vote-receiving causes that will receive the grants to improve their communities.

Millions of summers ago, Kansas City was beachfront property: oceans, rain forests, palm trees and giant ferns. Not to mention a strange array of giant creatures — mastodons, mammoths, grizzly-sized sloths — stomping through town. Fast forward to the start of summer 2015 when the Linda Hall Library opens a new exhibition — “Paleo Kansas City” — to invite visitors to go back three hundred million years to see the fascinating fossil remains of life when Kansas City’s home was on the paleoequator. Admission is free.

U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Mark Warner (Va.) today introduced legislation to reduce the number of underutilized federal properties, which could save taxpayers $9 billion over the next 10 years. U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Rob Portman (Ohio),

U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Mark Warner (Va.) led a bipartisan coalition of 11 Senators in introducing legislation to establish a new infrastructure financing authority to help states and localities better leverage private funds to build and maintain the nation’s outdated infrastructure

More than one in five school-age children in the U.S. live below the poverty line, according to the latest Department of Education report. In Missouri, that's nearly 22 percent of children under 18

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill this week joined a bipartisan coalition of nine Senators to introduce legislation to establish a new infrastructure financing authority that would help Missouri better leverage private funds to build and maintain the state’s outdated infrastructure, without the use of federal tax dollars.

Soon after U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill called on the Department of Housing and Urban Development to halt evictions on 12,000 Americans at risk of being removed from their homes, the agency announced that it would do exactly that, giving lenders a new option that could allow for widows and widowers to remain in their homes

According to the USDA, leaders from 34 countries gathered in Memphis for the 10th annual Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)* Rural Development Conference to discuss international strategies to address rural development in the 21st century. Topics discussed include, creating jobs, building infrastructure, expanding access to health care, and making diversified rural investments. The theme of this year’s conference “National Prosperity through Modern Rural Policy