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Family keeps TMS Inc. growing

The Cashen brothers have kept the mechanical contracting company their father started stable and growing. His lessons endure today: Work hard, and carry no debt. The company runs on cash and has seen revenue more than double the past four years.

Maddox scores with experience

Intrust Bank Regional President Mike Maddox uses lessons from playing basketball at the University of Kansas and practicing law to put clients at ease and help their businesses. "People aren't going to give you business just because they liked you on a basketball team," he says.

Local experts examine Obama plan

Local employee-benefits experts laud the president-elect's plan for gradual changes, as opposed to sweeping ones, to the health care system. "They're building on the private health care system, not proposing to replace it, which I think is certainly the proper thing to do," says Tom Bowser, CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City.

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