Subject: Small Business

• Still Foaming

  November 19, 2007

• Daily Briefs: No-coherent-theme Tuesday

  July 22, 2008

• 15 Bike Years

  April 2, 2009

• A Growing Concern

  Bob Schumm tells Douglas County Republicans: It's my party and I'll file if I want to.

  July 6, 2000

• Mountain Music Shoppe Seized by State

  For more than a dozen years, Jim Curley's Mountain Music Shoppe was an acoustic oasis in Johnson County; not just a place where people bought instruments but got together in picking sessions and attended intimate concerts by renowned folk musicians, from Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart to Tommy Ramone. The store was the center of a wide, local musical community. The shoppe is no more. This past Wednesday, Kansas IRS officials seized everything inside the store. Curley owed back taxes. He was wor

  January 9, 2009

• The Loan Arranger

  January 17, 2002

• Best Gathering to Infiltrate

  October 17, 2002

• Priest Collared

  March 27, 2003

• Wayward Q&A: Crackin' Nuts with Michelle Markowitz of Davey's

  Michelle Markowitz is the owner and proprietor of Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club, a Midtown entertainment institution. From Alejandro Escovedo and Freedy Johnston to goth DJs and burlesque shows, this family-owned operation has continued to host diverse local and touring acts and pour stiff drinks through the digital music explosion, a literal building explosion and the threat of a light rail running past the front door. Yesterday, to the sounds of the Grateful Dead, Michelle and I talked about iP

  February 4, 2009

• Exported Kobach

  August 2, 2007

• With all of his talk about the “middle class,” Congressman Sam Graves sounds like the idiot on Main Street

  January 22, 2009

• Vinyl Honor

  April 16, 2009

• KC's light-rail villains look poised to mount another attack

  June 26, 2008

• A Waldo Tradition

  June 19, 2008

• Fiesta On

  May 8, 2008

• Smoke Scream

  March 27, 2008

• As the World Burns

  August 10, 2006

• The Big Coverup

  Unless the courts say otherwise, this is the week the naked breast in Missouri goes bye-bye.

  August 25, 2005

• Primo Donnas

  The boys and girls at Blue Collar haven't let propriety -- or the Donnas -- keep them from music-merch success.

  January 20, 2005

• Best Addition to the Crossroads

  Coffee Girls

  October 7, 2004

• Gladstone Summertime Blues Festival

  Friday, June 20, at Oak Grove Park, 76th and North Troost.

  June 19, 2003

• This Bytes

  If they'd never met Joel Kocher, Bryan Heitman and Gabe Murphy still might have lost millions. But maybe it wouldn't have hurt so bad.

  June 12, 2003

• Sunny Delight

  John Sayles' latest transcends its talkiness.

  August 8, 2002

• A Sad Sad Song

  Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival organizers ran their event six feet under. Now a pair of upstarts might be trying to get over.

  June 27, 2002

• Nothing For Dinner

  Al Fleming is in charge of bringing new business to 18th and Vine. But he's inspiring some sour notes.

  May 2, 2002

• Clever Cleaver

  The former KC mayor hopes to clean up in Grandview with urban loans.

  April 4, 2002

• It Only Takes a Spark

  Mike Gouddou has gotten a fire going downtown, but the Kempers want to douse it.

  January 3, 2002

• Dead In Its Tracks

  The city may have derailed its own light rail plan.

  July 19, 2001

• Kansas City Strip

  Okay, you can change that billboard now.

  February 22, 2001

• Pay at the Pump

  Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed (Part 1 of 2).

  October 26, 2000

• The Naked Truth

  Lake Edun wants the Topeka Chamber of Commerce to take off its clothes.

  July 6, 2000

• The REAL deal

  A trade group works to bring REAL dollars to Lawrence.

  June 8, 2000

• Wheat State Pizza and Fresernos finalist for new small business of the year

  The Kansas City, Kansas Chamber of Commerce has announced the finalists (PDF) for its new small business of the year. Two out of the five finalists are restaurants.Wheat State Pizza in Strawberry Hill (612 N 5th St.), which, like all of the chain's stores, makes its dough from scratch is on the list. So is Fresernos, a family Mexican restaurant, which isn't actually in Kansas City, Kansas, but in Bonner Springs (220 Cedar St.).Common wisdom has it that 90 percent of restaurants fail within a yea

  May 7, 2009

• In rejecting real health-care reform, businesses don’t know what’s good for them

  August 6, 2009

• Shawnee council member rallies residents against Deffenbaugh

  When Kevin Straub was running for the Shawnee City Council in 2006, he took a $1,000 campaign contribution from Deffenbaugh Industries. But that, he says, doesn't mean he's in the pocket of the area's biggest trash hauler. Kevin Straub​Quite the contrary. In Shawnee, residents choose their trash hauler, signing up with one of the mom-and-pop outfits -- A-1 Disposal or Superior Disposal -- or the giant Deffenbaugh. Earlier this year, though, the city put together a task force to study new wa

  September 14, 2009

• Out Out

  October 15, 2009

• Rocking Independence

  November 5, 2009

• KC Chamber's green initiative gets a national nod

  ​When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce came out against federal legislation aimed at slowing global warming, Apple kicked its membership and Nike resigned its position on the board. But Partners for Livable Communities, a national smart growth and sustainable development advocacy group, suggested this week that local chambers aren't nearly so backwards when it comes to protecting the climate. A new report from the Washington, D.C., based group argues: There is a powerful -- and perhaps unexpect

  November 5, 2009