Kansas City Schools Adopt CEE-Trust, Sort Of
In January 2014, Joe Robertson, of the Kansas City Star, wrote the following about the CEE-Trust proposal for Kansas City public...
Five Good Reasons To Reject New KCI Terminal
Having labored an entire year, the airport advisory group that Kansas City Mayor Sly James appointed has brought forth a...
The Math Does Not Add Up For Murky Kansas City Streetcar Deal
In a previous post, we commented on how officials from Kansas City and the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) are hammering...
Kansas City’s Murky Streetcar Deal Goes Public
During the last couple of weeks, we have commented about the developing story of the closed-door dealings between Kansas City...
The Wisdom of Devoting 27% of Transportation Funds to Streetcars
We have commented before on the possible deal between MoDOT and Kansas City officials to spend an incredible 27% of...
Don’t Forget the Streetcar is Bad Policy
The $500 million Kansas City streetcar expansion plan is back in the news. With the August 5th election on the...
Vetoes, Vetoes, And More Vetoes
There has been a lot of consternation in the Missouri Legislature about Gov. Jay Nixon’s vetoes and withholds (withholds differ from...
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...
Beware The Jabberwock (And Downtown Streetcars)
In an iconic episode of the TV cartoon The Simpsons, a Music Man-type salesman convinces the town of Springfield to...
Kansas City To Spend 27 Percent Of All Regional Transportation Funds On Streetcar
In a recent article, the Midtown KC Post reported that Kansas City officials reached an agreement with the Missouri Department of...
Tell Taxpayers Where Their Money Went
The Republican Party has eliminated Kansas City as a potential host city for the 2016 convention, and with it went...
Want Better Teachers In High-Need Schools? Fix Pensions
What if instead of busing students from failing school districts to accredited ones, we bused great teachers from accredited schools...
Thank Obamacare: Buchanan County, Mo., Tops List For Insurance Rate Hikes On Men
Last year, Forbes published a story about how much insurance rates were expected to rise across the country because of Obamacare....
Lake Of The Ozarks To Waste Sales Tax Monies On Passenger Rail
As Missourians consider whether or not to vote for a transportation sales tax, localities and regions are writing up their...
Sweetness And Power & Light
I want to follow up briefly on the pieces recently published in The American Spectator and here on the blog about...
Kansas City’s War On The Future
With all the political rhetoric floating around Kansas City, one would think the city is embracing high technology and forward-looking,...
Shopping For Schools At EAGLE College Prep
More than a year ago, I sat down with Suzanne Johnson and Matt Hoehner to discuss the charter school they...
Missouri’s Conservatives: Resolved to be Irresolute
As first appearing in the Columbia Tribune: Winston Churchill chided the British government for inaction at a time of growing...
Shock: Transit Supporters Discover Sales Tax Will Go To Roads
This week, in expectation of new revenue from a proposed statewide sales tax, the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) voted to...
Show-Me Now! Red Tape: No Fare for Lyft, Uber
The Show-Me Institute’s Director of Local Government Policy, David Stokes, talks about the regulatory capture that taxi cabs enjoy in...
