A Tale Full of Power & Light, Signifying Nothing
Kansas City leaders want to point to downtown as a great monument to government planning. Look at the revitalization, they...
Kansas City, Millennial Magnet?
In a previous piece, we examined some of the research dealing with millennials, where they choose to live and whether any...
Transit of the Future; You Read It Here First
“Futurist” Zack Kanter wrote for Business Insider that the coming autonomous, or self-driving, cars will reshape the U.S. economy. While...
The Myth of the Urban Millennial
The debate over what millennials want continues to rage in Kansas City and elsewhere. City leaders are spending gobs of...
Don’t Ban Tesla, Let It Compete
We wrote last year about the attempt of Missouri Car Dealers and their lobbyists to prohibit Tesla from directly selling...
Show-Me Now! National School Choice Week
This week is National School Choice Week. The Show-Me Institute participated in events in Kansas City and Saint Louis. James...
Kansas City, Meet the 325 Plan
The decreasing amount of funding available for state highway improvements has led the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) to plan...
Kansas City Embraces Baristanomics
Streetcars, entertainment districts, new airport terminals, Republican confabs, Super Bowls, creative-class millennials, and convention hotels all have grabbed headlines in recent...
Poorly Done EDC Survey Does Not Justify Massive Streetcar Expenditure
With the 2.2-mile, $100 million-plus Kansas City streetcar line now under construction, city planners and officials are busy attempting to...
Saint Louis Ridesharing Update: MTC Still Dragging Its Feet
Ridesharing has had a bumpy ride in the Saint Louis area. The Metropolitan Taxicab Commission (MTC) strictly regulates the number...
Level the Playing Field for Uber and Taxi Companies Through Deregulation
Kansas City, Mo., heavily regulates its taxicab industry. As we detailed before, the city limits supply (to 500 cabs), manages...
Kansas City Public Schools Embraces Charter Education
On Wednesday, the Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) Board of Education voted to submit an application to the Department of Elementary...
School Visit Series: A Charter School With a Goal
The South Building of Ewing Marion Kauffman School in Kansas City looks much more like a new academic building than...
School Choice, Let Me Be Me
Where did you go to high school? “The question” is as much a part of the Saint Louis identity as the...
Show-Me Now! School Choice: Let Me Be Me
At the end of this month, the Show-Me Institute will be sponsoring National School Choice Week events in Saint Louis...
Streetcars Continue to Fail
In September we highlighted the problems with streetcar cost overruns in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now it appears streetcar efforts are collapsing everywhere....
Riding to the Hounds of Corporate Welfare
Oscar Wilde famously defined foxhunting as “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.” His quip aptly describes a sport...
Map Series: VIII. The Kansas City Streetcar and Tax Abatements
The map above shows the route of the Kansas City Streetcar (under construction), as well as tax abatements enacted by...
Map Series: VI. Second Most Used Transportation Mode for Commuting in Kansas City, After Cars
The map above shows the second most used transportation mode for commuting to work in the Kansas City area census...
Urban Neglect: Kansas City and TIF
My colleague Michael Rathbone and I authored an essay titled “Urban Neglect, Kansas City’s Misuse of Tax Increment Financing.” In the essay we examined...
