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Can the KC Public Library Revive Its Golden Age?

2 weeks ago | ingrams.com | Jack Cashill

The Kansas City Public Library actually had a Golden Age. From the years 2005 to 2020, no public library in America did more to enlighten and entertain all of its patrons than did Kansas City’s. Unfortunately, the library fell harder and quicker than the Kabul airport. If the library now has any educational value, it is to remind taxpayers of the dangers of institutional capture.
Is Working From Home Really Working?

1 month ago | ingrams.com | Jack Cashill

Embedded in the title above are two distinct questions. The first question, a personal one, is whether those who work from home actually do any productive work. The second question, a communal one, is whether working from home works to improve the culture and the economy. My answer is “sometimes” for Question 1 and a hard “no” for Question 2. My concerns were reinforced on a wintry 1-degree morning in mid-February when I heroically left my cozy home and drove through the snow to my office.
Beyond the Classroom

1 month ago | ingrams.com | Joe Sweeney

Several of my colleagues have developed unique publications designed to educate high-school students and their parents and counselors of educational options available after graduation. There was a time, not long ago, when not considering a college education, at least an associate’s degree, was pretty rare, at least in business circles. I believe the pandemic and labor shortages caused a trajectory unlike any we’ve seen are compelling students to pursue the trades.
Lessons Learned From Washington

2 months ago | ingrams.com | Joe Sweeney

Between the time he left office in 2021 and Jan. 20 of this year, President Trump had a fair amount of time to both observe governmental dysfunction and prepare for reclaiming his position in the White House. Last June, his debate with Joe Biden tore down the curtain that had helped hide from Americans the reality that their president was not mentally or physically fit to lead. I was certain then of the ensuing outcome of the election and anticipated sweeping changes upon the transfer of power.
In Health Care, Meritocracy Is on the Road to Recovery

2 months ago | ingrams.com | Jack Cashill

Watching Pete Hegseth navigate his Senate confirmation hearing as Secretary of Defense earlier this month, I was startled by the directness of his testimony. Hegseth boldly proclaimed his intent to create “a Pentagon laser-focused on war-fighting, lethality, meritocracy, standards, and readiness. That’s it. That is my job.”His presentation had me wondering, what exactly was the “job” of the health-care establishment?
More Than Football

Feb 3, 2025 | ingrams.com | Joe Sweeney

We serve the interests of business owners and executives in multiple ways here at Ingram’s. Among them: Gathering data on regional companies, covering of emerging trends and important developments in key industry sectors, providing expert guidance on relevant issues through our guest commentaries.
So Why Exactly Did Johnson County Turn Blue?

Feb 3, 2025 | ingrams.com | Jack Cashill

In the fall of 2020, a Montreal TV crew came to Kansas to assess the “blue wave” that was reportedly about to submerge the state. Although I live and work in Missouri—and have since I moved here late in the late 19th century (or so it seems)—I was among the people they chose to interview. I suspect the Canadians got my name out of Thomas Frank’s unlikely 2005 bestseller, What’s the Matter with Kansas.
A Sunflower Salute

Dec 5, 2024 | ingrams.com | Joe Sweeney

It’s an honor and a privilege for this opportunity to share with you The Kansas Edition—Celebrating the Past 50 Years of Business. For years, we’ve published Destination Kansas, a contemporary assessment of the factors that make the Sunflower State an ideal location to live, work, raise a family and own or operate a business. This issue takes a deep dive into history that created those conditions.
Yes, Virginia, There Is Life Before 30

Nov 12, 2024 | ingrams.com | Jack Cashill

If you are a Baby Boomer, as I am, “Millennials” and “Gen-Zers” are people you read about and then rail about. From a distance, the whole lot of them seem indulged, unmoored, and generally useless. Their primary contributions to the culture, as far as I could see, were safe spaces, cry rooms, and bespoke pronouns. I despaired for the future. And then I met my cousin Tyler—not “met” in the flesh but on Facebook. And “cousin” is a bit of a stretch as well.
The Art of Living Entrepreneurially

Oct 11, 2024 | ingrams.com | Jack Cashill

As grounded a university as any in America, even Purdue, famously dubbed in the late ‘60s “a hotbed of student rest,” has not had a right-of-center professor in a liberal-arts department since the days of Orville Redenbacher … and maybe not even then. Redenbacher graduated from Purdue in 1928 with a degree in agronomy. If he took a liberal-arts course beyond comp 101, it is clear no professor discouraged his entrepreneurial ambitions. Indeed, he went on to become the John D. Rockefeller of popcorn.