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Title: Jobs Stand the Test of Time
Description: Article in the Business Weekly about five jobs, although "old-fashioned," that are either still in demand or have made a comeback. They include typewriter repair; vinyl sound records as opposed to the newer CDs or DVDs; handmade sodas and shakes; photographic film development; and farriers shoeing horses.
Date: 2010-08-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Designing Kansas City
Description: Cover story about Ralph Ochsner, CEO of the 100-year old planning and landscape architecture firm Ochsner Hare & Hare. The firm works to revitalize small towns but is also well known for the designs of Loose Park, Ward Parkway, and the Legends.
Date: 2010-11-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: East Crossroads is Rising
Description: Article on the growing development on the east side of the Crossroads district, from Grand Boulevard to Campbell and Truman Road south to 20th Street. Attracted by the proximity to Downtown and affordable vacant properties, entreprenuers are establishing craft breweries, restaurants, coffee shops, event spaces, and other businesses in the area. Plans are in the works for improved parking as well as bike trails connecting to the 18th and Vine jazz district.
Date: 2015-02-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Introducing Kids to the Arts
Description: A main goal for Martin English, new director of Kansas City Young Audiences, is fund-raising. Young Audiences annually serves 178,000 youngsters with arts programs and instruction. English was executive director of Accessible Arts Inc., a nonprofit in Kansas City that works with arts and children with disabilities, from 2000 until he was hired with Young Audiences. He is also an adjunct professor at UMKC and a founding member of the Kennedy Center's Leadership Exchange in Arts & Disability and is chairman of Kansas Citizens for the Arts.
Date: 2009-07-19
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A Positive Power Force
Description: Profile on Inez Kaiser, a Kansas City civil rights activist known for her work in promoting the role of African-American women in business and community service. In the 1950s, Kaiser began her career as a home economics teacher in the Kansas City School District, but soon left to open a public relations firm. She later served on an advisory panel to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford concerning minority women in business, and started a chapter The Links Inc., an international service organization for pressional African-American women, in Kansas City. Kaiser celebrated her 95th birthday on April 28, 2013.
Date: 2013-04-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: A New Heritage of Frustrations
Description: Article summarizes the current state of the 18th & Vine Jazz District redevelopment plan and problems that have held back its progress. Emanuel Cleaver, Ollie Gates, Troy Schulte, and other interested parties are interviewed and provide their assessment of the longstanding and troubled project. The author states that a lack of appropriate planning, a lack of sufficient funding, and the existence of two independent agencies that oversee development projects, i.e. the Black Economic Union (BEC) and the Jazz District Redevelopment Council Corporation (JDRC), are the primary factors that have stunted development in the area. Plans to address these concerns from U.S. Representative Emanual Cleaver and Kansas City barbecue icon Ollie Gates are covered.
Date: 2013-11-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Longtime Children's Place President and CEO David Matson Steps Down in August
Description: Article describes David Matson's work as CEO of Children's Place, a non-profit agency that serves children in Jackson County. According to the article, Matson is credited with turning the agency around after it had some financial difficulties. Matson is due to retire from CEO at the end of the year.
Date: 2015-05-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Movies Are Returning to Main Street
Description: The AMC Mainstreet Theater is set for its grand reopening on May 1 after the company worked with Cordish Company, the developer for the Kansas City Power and Light District. The theater features a six-screen complex, a restaurant/lounge called the Marquee, digital posters and a flavor wall. The Mainstreet Theater originally opened in 1921 and became the RKO Missouri in 1949. Finally in 1960 it became the Empire Theater and eventually closed in 1985.
Date: 2009-04-17
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Air Force Brigadier General Carries on Granddad's Legacy
Description: Article is about a Brig. Gen. working at Whiteman Air Force Base who carries on the legacy of his grandfather who flew the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb used in war.
Date: 2015-05-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: One for the Books
Description: Article profiling 102-year old Martha Smith who in 1926 took a job at the Coal Creek Library in Vinland, Kansas, and 82 years later, still comes to work there. The Coal Creek Library was founded in 1859 and is "now the oldest continuous library in Kansas."
Date: 2008-08-30
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: First, He Had to Overcome
Description: Profile and interview with former Royals trainer Mickey Cobb. Cobb was born in Waycross, Georgia with infantile paralysis. He had difficulty learning to walk, but managed to fulfill his dream of becoming a major-league baseball trainer. Cobb was with the Royals from 1971 to 1990, working with players such as George Brett, Frank White, and Willie Wilson. He has written a book on his experiences, called "A Step and a Half."
Date: 2012-06-25
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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