Posted on Fri, Oct. 19, 2007
KC conference examines business on ‘NAFTA highway’
By RICK ALM
The Kansas City Star
Government officials and business executives from three nations today will wrap up a three-day conference in Kansas City aimed at doing business on the so-called NAFTA highway.

In remarks Friday to 140 people attending from Mexico, Canada and the United States, Mayor Mark Funkhouser said it was no coincidence that the North America Works conference was being held in Kansas City for the third consecutive year.

“Our … location is at the crossroads of North American trade,â€