When Leslie Collins said she planned to write a story about Kansas City being considered for the new Hyperloop transportation system, I almost vetoed the idea.

While the idea of an evolutionary high-speed system was interesting to me, I didn’t think it would appeal to a big portion of our business audience.

Boy, was I wrong. The story, “New transportation system: KC to St. Louis in 23 minutes,” generated more traffic (you know, sometimes you can’t avoid the pun) than anything I can remember…