Kansas City: Grabbing the Pension Bull by the Horns?
Kansas City has recently begun to confront its future pension crisis. The issue is captured succinctly in the following quote...
Maybe They Should Try Drive-By Assessments in Jackson County
Last week, the Kansas City Star ran an excellent story on radically higher property assessments in Kansas City. The key...
Grandview Passes Hotel Tax
Residents in the Kansas City suburb of Grandview have just voted in favor of levying a 5 percent tax on...
Light Rail Heavy on Taxpayers’ Wallets
I’ve lived in St. Louis for 19 years now and I’ve used the area’s light rail system ten times …...
On Aerotropolis and High-Speed Rail
Over the weekend the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a commentary written by Ripley Rasmus of the consulting firm HOK. In...
Green Acres, We Are (Not) There!
If you lived in an alternate universe where Eva Gabor got her way over Eddie Albert, your version of the...
Eco-Devo Mad Libs: So, Are 5,000, 29,000, or 37,000 Jobs Being Saved or Created With “Aerotropolis”?
This is one of the biggest supposed selling points of spending $300 million on warehouses, and yet apparently none of...
Missouri Privatization Roundup
There has been a great deal happening on the issue of privatization throughout our state. Tony’s Kansas City has been...
“You Smell a Rat That’s Wrapped in Week-Old Fishpaper”
This morning, KMOX’s Charlie Brennan interviewed air cargo expert Michael Webber, who earlier this week gave a scathing review of...
Air Cargo Expert Hammers Aerotropolis Plan in Industry Publication
And doesn’t pull any punches in doing so. Published in Air Cargo News under the headline “St. Louis Air Cargo—An...
We’re Not in Kansas Anymore
On Wednesday, June 1, the Kansas City Star reported that Applebee’s will receive tax breaks to move its headquarters from...
A ‘Hotel California’ for Bartle Hall
For classic rock fans, the Eagles’ ballad “Hotel California” brings with it the surreal image of a roadside inn populated...
ICYMI: My Talk With 98.1 FM KMBZ’s Chris Merrill about Kansas City’s “Hotel California”
I had a great time talking with KMBZ’s “Voice of Merrill” yesterday. If you missed it, you can listen to...
Tune In to 98.1 KMBZ FM at 10:00 a.m. on Monday: In-Studio With “Voice of Merrill”
I’ll be visiting KMBZ’s Chris Merrill after the weekend’s out to talk about Kansas City’s plan to build a new...
Blueprint for a Blunder: Why Kansas City Should Quash Its Convention Hotel Plans
Kansas City wants another hotel for its convention center. Nobody wants to pay to get the project started, except …...
Testimony on the ‘Aerotropolis’ Bill
On April 20, 2011, the Missouri Senate Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee heard testimony from the public about...
Designed to Fail
George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux wrote a post earlier this week describing a hypothetical world in which groceries are...
Who Am I? What Is the Show-Me Institute? And a Thank You to Hot Air
For long-time Show-Me Institute readers and supporters, my name is Patrick Ishmael. This month, I joined the institute as a...
A Five-Year Plan for the Earnings Tax
Voters in Kansas City and Saint Louis have clearly stated their desire to maintain those cities’ earnings taxes. Macroeconomic municipal...
Funny Violation (Possibly) of the Sunshine Law in Greenwood
Greenwood, Mo is a suburb of Kansas City with an amusing example of a legal disclaimer run amok on its...
