The Kansas City Streetcar Advisory Panel Is Just For Show
The panel appointed to advise Kansas City Mayor Sly James about the best route for the southern extension of the...
Ask Not For Whom The Bell Clangs
It clangs not for thee, according to Kansas City Mayor Sly James. If you are reading this, the streetcar is...
Kansas City Airport Officials Decide To Do Their Job
In an agreement emanating from the Kansas City City Council, according to the Kansas City Star: Aviation officials and the eight...
Yes, Kansas City Government Uses Airport Funds
Some members of the Kansas City mayor’s airport advisory group spent the end of their Feb. 11 meeting hand-wringing about...
Columbia Says No To A TIF
There was very big news out of Columbia, Mo., Monday night. The Columbia City Council shot down a large Tax...
Kansas City Streetcar: Tax Now, Answer Questions Later
Kansas City Mayor Sly James told a meeting of streetcar opponents a couple of weeks ago that the effort to...
Separate Facts From Straw Men In Debate About Kansas City Airport
A recent editorial published in the Kansas City Star asks the people of Kansas City to separate facts from emotion...
Education’s Magic Wand
Nobody likes to fail, and when it comes to failures in our education system, the education bureaucracy thinks that no...
Privatization: Airport Possibilities
The Show-Me Institute recently released a case study called “Government Privatization in Missouri: Successes, Risks, and Opportunities,” by David Stokes....
Missouri Privatization Documents
The Show-Me Institute has released a comprehensive project about privatization efforts in Missouri. This project documents the wide variety of...
An Open Letter To Streetcar Supporters
At the recent meeting of the Kansas City Save the Trolley Trail, supporters of an expanded streetcar system dismissed assertions from the Show-Me...
Super Bowl Lessons For Kansas City Transit
With Clay Chastain’s partial victory in the Missouri Supreme Court this week, his plan for a 24-mile light-rail system for...
On The Airline Industry, Don’t Trust The Airlines, Just Listen To A Consultant
The Kansas City Star recently published an article airing the views of a consultant group, Frasca & Associates. Frasca attacked the...
MCI’s Competitiveness Harmed, Not Helped, With New Terminal Plan
Two weeks ago, Southwest Airlines gave a presentation to the Kansas City Airport Terminal Advisory Group about the proposed $1.2...
Kansas City’s Charter Change
Last week, the Kansas City City Council decided against two charter changes that the mayor had proposed and political groups...
Keep Bike Shares Self-Supporting
With more than 2,000 users in its first few months of operation, the Kansas City bike share program has had...
Streetcars Are Not Economic Development
Over the weekend, KCPT’s current events program Rukus (starts at 4:33) quoted a Show-Me Institute blog post (Streetcars Will Waste...
The School Funding Shell Game
Many proposals are being floated around Jefferson City to fix the student transfer issue. Some of the proposals are no...
Streetcars Will Waste Your Money And Your Time
Paul Jacob writes in his blog This is Common Sense: Transportation scholar Randal O’Toole regales us with the fix that...
Spending Money Kansas City Doesn’t Have On Streetcars It Doesn’t Need
Optimistically anticipating that their initial 2.2-mile downtown streetcar line will be a resounding success, Kansas City planners are proposing a...
