State and Local Government / Transparency

Where’s the Blight?

By Audrey Spalding on Jun 29, 2011

Show-Me Institute intern Bruce Stahl and I went to Del Taco to see just how bad the property was. After all, city officials have blighted, and re-blighted, the property.

The flying saucer–shaped property seems fine to us. It has an operating business, with many customers. Are city officials just blighting Del Taco in order to award tax subsidy?

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