Cities tend to get established for various geographical attributes and the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers is a perfect example. River travel was among the earliest forms of conveyance in the discovery and settling of the American West. There is so much history to the part of our town we now call River Market, that it is hard to …
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Kansas City Law Firm Shares Do’s and Don’ts for Workplace Holiday Parties
Do’s and Don’ts for Workplace Holiday Parties With the holiday party season upon us, there are some legal considerations that should be observed when hosting or attending a holiday party in the workplace. While we don’t mean to dampen anyone’s holiday spirit, please keep the following in mind during this time of year: Photo Credit: Local 10 …
Kansas City Law Firm Provides Guide to the Best Holiday Lights in Area
Magruder Report: Kansas City Holiday Lights Displays If you are looking for holiday lights displays, look no further. Here is your guide to the best lights in the Kansas City area. Plaza Lights: The plaza lights have been illuminating Country Club Plaza since 1925, now with over 80 miles of lights and 280,000 multi-colored bulbs …
Kansas City Law Firm Looks Forward to the Arrival of Streetcars in 2016
Streetcars Coming and Going in 2016 It is anomalous that just as longstanding bar and restaurant, The Streetcar Named Desire, is closing its doors at year end, actual streetcars will start running past its current location. If you’ve noticed that construction on Main Street has made it harder to get around downtown, fear not, because it’s …
Kansas City Law Firm Talks Biofuels
Biofuels are produced through biological processes, such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion, rather than fuels produced by geological extractions of fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum, which come from prehistoric biological matter. Biofuels can be derived directly from plants, or indirectly from agricultural, commercial, domestic and/or …
Kansas City Law Firm Looks Back at Kansas City Treasures in City Planning from City Beautiful Architects to J.C. Nichols
Around the turn of the 20th century a national movement began, called City Beautiful. In an excerpt from "The City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City," William Wilson writes, "The City Beautiful movement was fundamentally important to Kansas City. It remade an ugly boomtown, giving it miles of graceful boulevards and parkways flanked by desirable …
