Royals May Stay at Kauffman Amid Stadium Inertia
A new story by Kansas City Business Journal’s Thomas Friestad suggests a growing likelihood that the Kansas City Royals will...
Kansas City’s Data Center Boom: Another Costly Gamble
Kansas City has offered billions in incentives to attract massive data centers from Meta and Google, hoping to secure long-term...
KC’s Corporate Welfare: JE Dunn’s HQ Renovation Gets Public Support
Thomas Friestad of the Kansas City Business Journal writes that JE Dunn Construction has secured public incentives through Port KC...
Kansas City Must Learn Lessons from Cerner Failure
The recent Kansas City Business Journal report about Oracle drastically reducing its Kansas City workforce in the former Cerner offices...
An Open Letter to Waddell & Reed Employees
Dear Waddell & Reed employees, I read with interest a story in The Kansas City Business Journal that your company...
The Great GASB
Three cheers for The Kansas City Business Journal for writing about the costs to taxpayers of economic development subsidies offered...
KC Convention Hotel Still Coming Up Short?
A piece in The Kansas City Business Journal suggests that the efforts of Mike Burke and his development partners to...
Shocker! KC Developer Builds Building, Pays Taxes!
In a sign of the times, Rob Roberts at The Kansas City Business Journal found it newsworthy that a developer...
Kansas City Hires Fox to Watch Henhouse
According to the Kansas City Business Journal, the City of Kansas City has approved contracting with the Council of Development...
The Crown Center Blight Expansion Is Bad Policy. Period.
The City Council of Kansas City just voted 10 to 1 to declare some asphalt parking lots and grass fields...
How a Cheap Airport Helps Kansas City
The Kansas City Business Journal just published some good news for Kansas City: On Tuesday, Allegiant Air announced it will start...
Streetcars Still Don’t Create Economic Development
Yesterday, we detailed the ever-shifting claims of streetcar proponents about the economic benefit of streetcars. Numbers have ranged from $750...
Streetcar Costs Balloon in Charlotte
Austin Alonzo at the Kansas City Business Journal reported that Kansas City is tabulating up the cost of the failed streetcar...
Streetcars Aren’t Good Economics or Transit
Back in October 2013, Kansas City Councilman Russ Johnson said that the whole point of streetcars was to spur economic development, not transportation....
Blame Canada Washington!
Austin Alonzo, of the Kansas City Business Journal, recently reported that Kansas City Mayor Sly James argued that a door-to-door public outreach...
Op-ed: Excessive Regulation, Not Lyft, Needs To Stop Operating in Kansas City
Last Friday, my op-ed about Lyft and Kansas City’s absurd taxicab ordinances appeared in the Kansas City Business Journal. For...
Next Wednesday: A Public Discussion About Kansas City International Airport
As the Kansas City Business Journal reported, Kansas City’s City Council recently passed an ordinance that requires a public vote...
Let’s Not Follow Cincinnati’s Lead On Airports
The Kansas City Business Journal recently published an article about the effort to tear down Kansas City International Airport (MCI)...
A Victory For Taxpayers: Kansas City May Privatize Airport Shuttle Service
Via Tony’s Kansas City, some very good news on the privatization front. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Kansas...
Excellent Op-Ed About Corporate Welfare in the Kansas City Business Journal
Friday’s Kansas City Business Journal had a terrific piece about the problems with corporate welfare and economic development in Missouri,...
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