Will Building the Convention Hotel Create Jobs?
Proponents of a new $311 million hotel claim that the project will create construction jobs. At a recent hearing...
Kansas City Obamacare Insurance Premiums Expected to See Double-Digit Hike
Earlier today I wrote about how government-backed insurance cooperatives around the country have begun to fail. The reason? Dollars and...
Denying Evidence, Denying Opportunity
Fewer than three out of ten students who enter Saint Louis' Sumner High School in ninth grade will graduate from...
What Kansas City Can Learn From the Royals
Everyone at the Show-Me Institute, especially those in the Kansas City office, offer our ecstatic if hoarse congratulations to the...
Hearing on the Kansas City Convention Hotel
On October 15, members of the Kansas City City Council heard from developers and supporters of a proposal to use...
The Urban-Rural Divide in MoDOT Spending
Recently, the Post-Dispatch reported on area residents who want to direct more MoDOT funding to urban areas. Specifically, a League...
The Risks to the City of the Convention Hotel Gamble
At the City Council's recent business session on the proposed convention hotel, proponents kept repeating that there was no risk to the...
Convention Hotel Field of Dreams
Proponents of a new downtown convention hotel are asking taxpayers to throw all of modern economic theory out the window—as...
Helping Charter Schools Get Buildings
The Citizens of the World charter school, slated to open next school year in Kansas City, is generating interest in...
Show-Me Institute on Ruckus
The chairman of the Show-Me Institute, Crosby Kemper III, appeared on KCPT's Ruckus on October 15 to discuss, among other things, the...
You will be made to care: Sex Ed Edition
Conservative columnist and radio host Erick Erickson coined the phrase “you will be made to care” to describe the tendency...
More Hotel Documents Predict a Doubling of Conventions!
The Kansas City government has been slow to release documents pertaining to the convention hotel. Just recently they released a...
The Convention Hotel’s Promised Occupancy Rates Are Suspect
A 2013 consultant’s report on the proposed convention hotel has some pretty rosy projections that are likely unrealistic. We have...
Allegiant Shows How Kansas City’s Airport Benefits from Low Costs
Recently, Kansas City International Airport (MCI) hailed the arrival of a new air service. The new airline, Allegiant, will operate...
Arch Ground Already Costing Saint Louis More than Promised
Recently, the Post-Dispatch reported that Great River Greenways, a regional, taxpayer-funded organization,...
Prompted by Regulators, Truman Medical Closes Psychiatric Emergency Room
Last month, Kansas City residents found out that Truman Medical Centers would be closing its Behavioral Health Emergency Department, "effective...
KCATA Makes Changes to Improve Bus Service
Kansas City's Northeast News reported on Tuesday that the Kansas City Area Transit Authority (KCATA) will be combining several bus stops in...
Saint Louis and Kansas City Enjoy Low Congestion, Commute Times
Recently, the Texas A&M Transportation Institute released a report on mobility in the nation’s urban areas, specifically focusing on congestion....
Aviation Administrator Still Denying Reality
Kansas City Aviation Administrator Mark VanLoh is struggling to cope with reality, it appears. In a recent video interview given...
New Los Angeles Charter School Plan Stuns
What do you do when you’re fed up with your city’s public school system? Most people might attend a school...
