Editor's Briefing: A raider targets a KC company but the community sleeps

The storyline drips with business drama. It has an activist shareholder swooping in from New York. It has a target that’s worked to be a leader in its communities. And it has a threat to leaders of the company to change or face pressure to sell. The only thing this story doesn’t have, apparently, is your interest. Elliott Management Corp. recently went public with its pressure campaign on Kansas City-based Evergy Inc. The activist made public a letter of its demands of the utility’s executives.…