Is This How Trust Is Regained?
After voters rejected implementing a local use tax in November, the Columbia City Council made it their mission to win...
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TechNet Companies: Want More Education Funding? Then Pay Your Fair Share.
In a recent opinion column, Linda Moore, the president and CEO of TechNet, a “national, bipartisan network of technology CEOs...
Broadway Economics
The Broadway Inn is convenient for all the universities in Columbia, and its owner wants to build a $20 million...
Is TIF Failing the “But-For” Test?
Tax-increment financing (TIF) is a development subsidy program abused all over Missouri, and especially in Saint Louis. See exhibit A:...
No, the City Does Not “Drive a Hard Bargain”
Do you smell that smoke? It’s from the hole your money is burning in the pockets of Saint Louis City...
Straight Talk on Kansas City’s Incentive Reform
In 2014, Mayor Sly James said that “Now is the time to start a conversation about the appropriate level of...
Subsidies in St. Louis, Part 2: Economic Development Blunders
City officials, developers, and corporate welfare proponents have touted the benefits of development incentives like tax-increment financing (TIF) to taxpayers...
Subsidies in Saint Louis: Part 1
What would you think if your city officials had gambled with nearly $1 billion in taxpayer dollars? What would you...
Rolla Considers TIF Plan
In January, the Phelps County TIF Commission began a series of public hearings to foster discussion about bringing the Westside...
