Royals May Stay at Kauffman Amid Stadium Inertia
A new story by Kansas City Business Journal’s Thomas Friestad suggests a growing likelihood that the Kansas City Royals will...
Let Kansas City Be Kansas City
For our summer vacation, my daughters and I made a 4,000-mile trek through the desert southwest to San Diego and...
Report: Saint Louis, Kansas City *Not* Among Most Cost-Friendly Cities for Business
Recently, the Post-Dispatch prominently published an article claiming that, “St. Louis is among the top 10 most cost-friendly cities to...
Flood of ESA Applications Demonstrates Demand for Choice
The Nevada Treasurer’s Office has been flooded with applications from parents seeking to use the state’s new Education Savings Account...
How a Cheap Airport Helps Kansas City
The Kansas City Business Journal just published some good news for Kansas City: On Tuesday, Allegiant Air announced it will start...
School Choice and Bullying
‘If I went here, I would have enjoyed learning,’ said a prospective parent at the New City School in the...
Nationwide Convention Business Declining
There is little doubt that once the coming elections are over Kansas City leaders will start pushing for a convention...
Gotta Spend Money To Make Money?
My mom and I went to Las Vegas not long after I turned 21. I cannot remember why we chose...
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...
Keeping St. Charles Safe From Hot Dog Vending Chaos
The denizens of Missouri’s first capital can rest easy tonight, knowing that the effort to subject them to hot dog...
Branson and Its Fancy New Airport
USA Today follows up on the recent New York Times story about the new private airport in Branson. It is...
Metro Transit Funding Raises Difficult Questions
Saint Louis area officials have long struggled over how to fund the mass transit system. In the November elections, county...
Overturning Light Rail a Good Decision for Kansas City
When citizens pass an initiative referendum, judges or elected officials should use the greatest of caution in exercising their...
Kansas City Counts on Gambling for Parking, Art, Self-Esteem
Gambling revenue is to government what masturbation is to single 20-somethings — just a reliable thing to fall back on...
Wonder Twins Powers, Activate: Mass Transit Vote!
Mass Transit Tax Proposal takes form of: half-cent sales tax increase (or perhaps a caterpillar?). St. Louis County voters likely...
I’m Running as Fast as I Can
The other day, I noticed an article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about rankings of the world’s 30 "fast cities"...
This Is The Best Idea I Have Ever Had…
A short time ago, Maurice wrote about how a proposal to dramatically increase the cigarette tax in Illinois might drive...
Reliability Engineering for Property Rights
On May 24, the Springfield News-Leader published an editorial about eminent domain, highlighting the fact that Ozark, a town outlying...
