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...
The Negative Impacts of Development Subsidies
The Kansas City Star’s Joe Robertson has written recently about the closure of the Kansas City office of the National...
Kansas City’s Food Desert Folly
We’ve already written in this blog that the evidence that new grocery stores affect consumer fruit and vegetable consumption is...
Did the Missouri Senate Sacrifice the Rights of Minorities for Union Executives?
The legislature failed to override the Governor’s veto of paycheck protection. The bill will not become law. The override came...
Shake-Up at KC Aviation Department
After first announcing that Kansas City’s Aviation Department Director Mark VanLoh was being “replaced,” The Kansas City Star reissued their...
KC Fire Union Donates to Pro-Tax Campaign the Day after Winning Deal
The Kansas City government bowed to the fire fighters union last week, agreeing to a major increase in spending on...
Kansas City Star Defends Corporate Welfare, Again
Yael Abouhalkah of the Kansas City Star blogs today in defense of the earnings tax and against my call to curb cronyism in Kansas...
How Would You Pivot From the Earnings Tax? Let Me Count the Ways
The Show-Me Institute has argued again and again that earnings taxes have hurt economic growth in St. Louis and Kansas...
Kansas City’s Taxes Aren’t “Relatively Low”
Last week our friend Dave Helling at the Kansas City Star wrote about the upcoming earnings tax fight, and on many...
Kansas City Star Worried over “Bullying” from Uber, Lyft
The Missouri legislature is currently considering statewide regulation for ridesharing companies, like Uber and Lyft, which would pre-empt local regulations in...
Kansas City Star: Do As We Say, Not As We Do
The Kansas City Star has a fever, and the only cure is more anti-tax cut blogs. This time the Star's...
Is There “Right to Work” for Missouri’s Government Union Members?
I get asked all the time whether Missouri has “right to work” for its government employees. The answer is an...
Kansas City Star Editorial Board Gets Subsidies Wrong Again
The Kansas City Star editorial board published the following in a piece on the earnings tax on January 28: A spokesman for the...
The Risks to the City of the Convention Hotel Gamble
At the City Council's recent business session on the proposed convention hotel, proponents kept repeating that there was no risk to the...
Aviation Department Withholds Information from the Star
On September 11, The Kansas City Star Editorial Board called on the Aviation Department to end the practice of issuing free parking passes...
Kansas City’s Property Tax Abatement Problem
Just the other day, an unsigned Kansas City Star editorial considered the near future for the new Kansas City Council: Supporters of universal...
Kansas City’s Debt
KCUR does a nice job of rounding up a few projects such as the Sprint Center and Kemper Arena that...
New Study Shows Benefits of Union Transparency
A new study from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy looks at the ways private-sector unions disclose financial information in...
Rank Hypocrisy from the Kansas City Star?
On July 10, 2015, the Kansas City Star editorial board bemoaned the state of mental health care in Kansas. Of...
Kansas City Streetcar Advocates Argue Expensive Streetcar Not Country’s Most Expensive
Recently, an article in the Kansas City Star reported that the cost of the city’s two-mile streetcar line is par...
