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Missouri's microbusiness marijuana license program is meant to boost opportunities in the industry for businesses in disadvantaged communities. Three companies — one from Michigan, one from Arizona and one from Missouri — appear connected to 43% of the applications.
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After voters legalized recreational marijuana in November 2022, dispensaries licensed to sell medical products began selling to anyone over the age of 21 in February 2023. The state also rolled out the first round of a new social equity license program, which has posed some hurdles.
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Canning — once a necessity so families could have fruits and vegetables through the winter — has turned into a hobby. A look at how canning evolved from the home to factories, and why people are returning to the practice.
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Missouri's minimum wage will increase in the new year to $12.30 an hour, a $0.30 increase. Meanwhile, Kansas and 19 other states still pay minimum-wage workers the federal rate of $7.25 an hour.
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The Kansas City Current have demonstrated that women's professional sports can turn a profit. Will a new volleyball franchise add to the momentum in 2025?
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Students are learning about aquaponics and hydroponics at Ranken Technical College in Troy, Missouri. Nearly double-digit growth is expected in the indoor farming industry over the next decade, but high energy costs remain a challenge.
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Oklahoma lawmakers offered Panasonic a $698 million incentive package and funded $145 million in site improvements for an electric vehicle battery plant near Tulsa. The company said the decision won't affect its promised $4 billion factory in De Soto, Kansas.
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Since Missouri began recreational-use cannabis sales in February, the industry has averaged $117.8 million overall sales per month. Experts expect cannabis sales to increase at the end of the year — and even into Dry January.
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Dale and JoAnn Romano recently opened Nana's Tiny Town on Main Street in downtown Spring Hill, offering a hands-on children's play center that's designed to look like its own, child-sized main street. It's next door to their other store, the nostalgic ice cream parlor Pop's Sweet Shop.
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The Kansas City Chiefs are vying for their second straight Super Bowl win, but something could stand in their way: themselves. Plus: Small towns in Kansas are using AI to better understand their economic outlook and attract more businesses and people.
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With 53,000 square feet of merchandise and food, Buc-ee's opened its first Missouri location Monday in northeast Springfield just off of I-44. Local officials say the massive convenience store will become a destination on its own.
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Communities in western Kansas are trying a new AI tool to help them target economic growth and hopefully fight long-term trends of population loss.