Oops! Sorry About Demolishing Your Property
Albert Munoz, who works as a mechanic and a construction worker, bought a 2-story building in Kansas City, Kan., in...
Since 2005, Jackson County Land Trust Has Sold More Than 1,700 Properties
During a hearing of Senate Bill 795, a bill to create a land bank in Kansas City, the sponsor, Missouri...
Legislators Are Ignoring 40 Years Of Failure
The Kansas City Star reports that a bill to create a land bank in Kansas City is one step closer...
Tax, Trolley and Folly: Kansas City Proposal Trundles Ahead Despite Opposition from Local Businesses
Last year I wrote about a proposal to build a new streetcar that would travel along Main Street in Kansas...
Passport Scholarship Program Is Good For School Choice
In 2010, the Missouri Supreme Court held in Turner v. School District of Clayton that state law requires unaccredited school...
Land Banking Is No Miracle
On Wednesday, Julie Porter wrote in the Kansas City Star that a land bank could help return vacant city property...
A Gift? Or A Liability?
Kansas City officials announced today that Bank of America will be giving the city 75 vacant properties. The bank may...
Why Does Kansas City Need a Land Bank?
The failed Citadel Development in Kansas City. What would such a development spearheaded by a land bank look like? Photo...
Donnybrook: Audrey Spalding Once Again on KETC
Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Audrey Spalding returned to Saint Louis local roundtable discussion show Donnybrook on February 9, 2012. Among...
Standstill Part Two?
Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Audrey Spalding is in Jefferson City today to give testimony about land banks. The state legislature...
Is Franklin County Violating The State’s Blaine Amendment?
A recent article on emissourian.com questioned whether a Franklin County program violates the Missouri Constitution. Franklin County has and continues to...
Dough for the Dome
The St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission (CVC) just released its proposal (estimated price tag: $124 million, with the St. Louis...
Red Light Cameras Fail To Improve Safety In Kansas City
The Kansas City Police Department recently completed a study of the city’s red light camera program, detailed in the Kansas...
School Reform: Have We Reached The Boiling Point?
Parents continue to demand solutions to failing schools in Missouri. As an example, five Saint Louis firefighters recently sued three...
Private School Choice and the Turner Decision
It is serendipitous that the Missouri Legislature has gone back to work this month, just in time for the kick-off...
Independence Privatizes Its Bus Services
I saw this excellent story on Tony’s Kansas City. Independence, Mo., is privatizing bus and transit services within the city. The Independence...
Doing the Same Things Over and Over and Over . . .
After a 2011 chock full of tax credit disaster stories, one would think the last thing Missouri politicians would suggest is the creation...
Should Missouri Toll I-70?
Think about the difference in the taxes that property owners pay to fund local parks and the entrance fee your...
Another Way To Keep Score?
In a league as competitive as the NFL, it serves a team well to gain any advantage available. In Major League...
The Gateway City, The ‘Possibility City,’ And Hope For The Future
The guard is changing at Saint Louis’ regional chamber of commerce, the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA)....
