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Title: A New Frontier
Description: Photos, map, and article about the continuing and managed growth of urbanization in Johnson County, Kansas suburbs, especially along 119th Street, with shopping centers, residences, and coordinated automobile traffic along I-435, I-35, and Highway 69, etc.
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Art of It All
Description: Photos and article about public art and artists of Kansas City, including the Avenue of the Arts, sculptures at the Poindexter Garage, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Johnson County Community College, and murals at Bartle Hall and Southwest Boulevard.
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: No Problem
Description: Photo (of executive director Carol Sutter) and description of the Center for Management Assistance at 600 Broadway, a 21-year-old technology-based business solutions company.
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Crossroads: Manor Man Signaled Good Bread
Description: Photo and history of the Manor Bakery in Westport, delivering bread door-to-door with "Manor Men" and horse-drawn wagons.
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kemper to Kemper
Description: Photos and biographical article about the competition and relationship of "cousins Jonathan Kemper, chairman and CEO of Commerce Bank, and R. Crosby Kemper III, chairman and CEO of UMB Bank." Also history of the two local banks, etc.
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Lloyd Hill: Applebee's Competes for Dollars and Diners in the Restaurant Business
Description: Photos, interview, and biographical article about Lloyd Hill, "chairman, CEO and president" of Applebee's restaurants since 1998. Discussion on the competitive restaurant industry and Applebee's being started in Atlanta and later being "based in Kansas City."
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Business, Neighborhood Opposition Defeats Light Rail for Kansas City
Description: Kansas City residents voted overwhelmingly last month to kill a $793 million light rail system in a contentious election that pitted city hall against the major chamber of commerce and some neighborhood leaders. The city-backed plan won just 40% of the vote, passing in most precincts adjacent to the 24-mile proposed route and failing just about everywhere else in the 317-square-mile city.
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine

Title: Beyond a Calling
Description: Photos and biographical article about Lucile Bluford, 90-year-old African American "editor and part owner of 'The Kansas City Call' newspaper" since 1955. Native of North Carolina raised partly in Kansas City and joining the Call's staff in the early 1930s, becoming "one of the most prestigious journalists in Kansas City history."
Date: 2001-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

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