Abatement Advisory Board Declines to Catch a Falling Star
It’s been a bad few days for the Kansas City Star. Last week, the Kansas City Business Journal reported that the Star was seeking a 15-year...
A History of Kansas City’s Convention Pursuits
Consultant suggests convention-center expansion. Expansion disappoints. Consultant suggests 1,000-room hotel. No one questions consultant about previous suggestion. Instead, city officials...
Back in the USSR
The Kansas City Star published a piece this weekend that examined the impact on caterers of the proposed convention deal....
Golden Parachutes for Bureaucrats
Joplin Superintendent C. J. Huff announced his retirement last month despite his contract expiring in 2018. A sunshine request from the Joplin...
The Streetcar’s Economic Development Shell Game
Despite the fact that all serious economic research on streetcars indicates that they do not drive economic development, Kansas City streetcar...
Charter Schools Are Not the Enemy
As first appearing in Education News: We all love to have enemies; not real enemies, just the kind that make...
Convention Hotel Justification Built on Fiction
Kansas City Mayor Sly James has announced an effort, long discussed at City Hall, to subsidize a convention hotel downtown....
Kansas City Embarks on New Bad Idea
Kansas City government is going into the grocery store business near 31st Street and Prospect Avenue on the east side. According to the Kansas...
Shocker! Airlines Want to Keep Costs Down
It was gratifying to read reports in the Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Business Journal that Southwest Airlines...
KC Spending Still Doesn’t Add Up
We were delighted to see the Kansas City Star step forward recently to decry the fast growth of city spending: Kansas...
In Praise of So-Called Leaderless Drift
Dave Helling of the Kansas City Star writes in a column on the upcoming elections titled, “Springtime KC Voters Still...
Righting the Wrongs of the Power & Light District
One of the reasons Kansas City is on the hook financially for so much on the Power & Light District is...
Florida Story Shows Risk of Conflating Medicaid Waivers With “Block Grants”
Earlier this week I was asked by the Kansas City Star for my thoughts on a Medicaid expansion proposal being marketed...
VanLoh Just Wants a New Terminal
You don’t have [all the information] yet. We don’t even have it yet. I know what I want because I want a...
The Star Responds to Show-Me Daily Post
We were gratified to learn that members of the Kansas City Star editorial board read our humble blog. In a...
A Tale Full of Power & Light, Signifying Nothing
Kansas City leaders want to point to downtown as a great monument to government planning. Look at the revitalization, they...
Remembering Pearl Harbor
As first appearing in the Kansas City Star and the American Spectator: A surprised and outraged Franklin D. Roosevelt called...
More Streetcar Boosterism from the Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star recently revealed an interactive report on $1.7 billion in existing and possible new developments in downtown...
Star Survey Results Actually No Surprise at All
The Kansas City Star‘s Yael Abouhalkah seems surprised that voters in the Star‘s unscientific online survey rejected the question, “Should taxpayers...
Where Is Kansas City’s Recovery?
Whither Kansas City? According to local media outlets, the city is clearly on this rise. Millennials are moving downtown, residential developments...
