How Will the Convention Hotel Help Taxpayers?
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that the planned convention hotel in Kansas City does increase convention business. How...
What to Do With Vacant School Buildings
Public school systems are tasked with a tremendous responsibility. Not only do we expect them to educate our children, but...
Ridesharing: Game Changing for Carpooling and Transit?
As we’ve discussed before, carpooling is the second most popular way of getting to work in Missouri (behind driving alone)....
Convention Hotel Justification Built on Fiction
Kansas City Mayor Sly James has announced an effort, long discussed at City Hall, to subsidize a convention hotel downtown....
The Convention Hotel’s Tax Breaks and Gimmes
Reviewing the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the city of Kansas City and the developers who want to build a...
Kansas City’s Convention Hotel Memorandum
The City Council of Kansas City is considering subsidizing half of a $300 million downtown convention hotel adjacent to Bartle...
CEO Says Lack of Ridesharing in Saint Louis Is Embarrassing
Recently, Gabe Lozano, the CEO of a local tech company, called the lack of ridesharing (like Uber and Lyft) in...
Show-Me Testimony on Minimum Wage
This brief video clip shows my testimony before the City Council of Kansas City on an effort to raise the minimum wage...
Seeded With Tax Cuts, Kansas Harvests the Benefits
As first appearing in the Wall Street Journal: Liberals love to hate Sam Brownback, and for good reason. The Kansas...
Kansas City’s Poor Tax
In an effort to research the so-called food desert in Kansas City, I shopped around at some of the grocery...
Will HB 42 Hurt Alternative High Schools?
The Columbia Tribune reported that Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Peter Stiepleman and other superintendents across the state are telling Gov....
Private Buses: The Once (and Future?) Transit Option
Imagine you thought that there was a lot of demand for express bus service between two or three locations in...
Collaboration and Competition
On Friday afternoon, Ronald Garan Jr., a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and NASA astronaut, addressed about 40 students at a...
Kansas City Embarks on New Bad Idea
Kansas City government is going into the grocery store business near 31st Street and Prospect Avenue on the east side. According to the Kansas...
Millennials Prefer Suburbs . . . and Cars
If you live in Kansas City, you’ve doubtlessly heard breathless paeans to millennials from city leaders and how we must spend...
More Progress on Ridesharing in Kansas City
In the last year, Kansas City has been slowly but surely opening up to ridesharing companies. The city government’s initial...
An Idea for Better Transit in Missouri: Raise Fares
Public transportation in Missouri’s major cities is heavily subsidized; taxpayers cover more than 80 percent of total costs in Saint Louis and...
Taxing Smokers Does Not Show Support of Education
As first appearing in the Columbia Daily Tribune: These days there are a lot of calls to make people pay...
Everything Is Choice in Florida
When Missourians think of public school choice, they might think of charter schools or the school transfer law, which allows...
Tax Foundation: Missouri’s Sales Taxes Still Well Above Average
Last year, I wrote in Forbes about whether Missouri is a “low tax state.” (It isn’t.) I explored how Missouri...
