KCUR Finally Confronts the Reality of Fare-Free Transit
On Monday, KCUR carried a piece by NPR’s Joel Rose exploring fare-free buses in New York City, using Kansas City’s...
Sun Fresh Failed Because of Subsidies, not Despite Them
On August 12, KCUR ran a story with the headline “A troubled Kansas City grocery store has closed, despite $18...
Platte County Commission Decision Not to Levy Taxes Upheld in Court
My colleague David Stokes has written a good deal about an effort in Platte County to institute a sales tax...
Documents Give Conflicting Numbers on the Cost of a New Stadium
The other day I asked in a post about the missing Populous report about Kauffman Stadium. I still don’t have...
Where Is That Populous Report on Kauffman Stadium?
On November 9, 2023, Kansas City public radio (KCUR) reported: According to a report released by Populous in 2022, a stadium design...
Arguments for a New Stadium Fall Apart Like Bad Concrete
Leaders of the Kansas City Chiefs held a press conference on Wednesday to unveil their plans for the Truman Sports...
Welcome to “Kensas City”: Barbie-Themed Streetcar Wrap Costs Taxpayers $25,000
Are the Underpants Gnomes running the Kansas City Streetcar Authority (KCSA)? Hot on the wheels—pardon, hot on the heels—of the...
Part One: Does Kansas City Have an Affordable Housing Problem?
Kansas City has long been the crossroads of the United States. Once a frontier outpost in the 1800s, the region...
Don’t Worry, We’re All Confused
You know a good report card when you see it, and the recently released annual performance reports (APR) for Missouri...
Criminal Justice Reform Getting Attention in Missouri
The Governor laid out a number of important priorities in his State of the State address, which my colleague Scott...
Jazz Museum Hits A Sour Note
The American Jazz Museum in Kansas City is a failure, as is the entertainment district in which it resides. It...
Lower Taxes, not Streetcars, Drive Development
In a piece last month from KCUR titled Planned Streetcar Extension Spurs Redevelopment Of Midtown Kansas City Hotel, the author...
Ouch–Missouri Individual Health Insurance Premiums To Rise by Double Digits in 2018
Over the Labor Day holiday, the state released next year’s Obamacare health insurance rates for Missourians in the individual market,...
Taxpayers’ General Obligation Bond Gamble
With an $800 million infrastructure bond package likely to go before voters in April, Kansas City Mayor Sly James recently...
Kansas City’s $800 Million Animal Shelter?
For months Kansas City has been talking about issuing an $800 million general obligation bond, backed by increased taxes, to...
Taxpayer Dollars and All That Jazz
The Kansas City Star reported over the weekend that the City Council will soon decide whether to spend more on...
From a Kansas City Charter School to the Ivy League
For the first time in its history, University Academy (UA), a charter school in Kansas City, had a student accepted...
Is there evidence of a “teacher exodus” from Kansas?
If you take the media’s account of the state of the teaching profession in Kansas seriously, you’d think that there...
Kansas City’s Debt
KCUR does a nice job of rounding up a few projects such as the Sprint Center and Kemper Arena that...
Kansas City’s Streetcar Continues To Undercut Busses
Last year we learned that the Kansas City Area Transit Authority (KCATA) was spending money on the streetcar that was...
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