The Pitch’s Half-hearted Crime Research
In a recent interview with Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, The Pitch magazine tried its best to support the contention...
Apparently, Failing to Meet Promises Is Not a Violation of K.C. Subsidies Regime
In 2019, I wondered where those jobs were that Cerner promised to create in return for the subsidies handed to...
New AEI Report Challenges Gloomy Views of Worker Pay
Years ago I delivered testimony on the minimum wage to the Kansas City Council. After my remarks, a councilwoman asked...
Release Those Records, Kansas City!
According to documents received from Clay County through an open records request, the Royals suspended negotiations regarding a new stadium...
Kansas City’s “Source of Income” Housing Rule Is an Abuse of Government Power
A version of this commentary appeared in the Courier-Tribune. In an attempt to increase the supply of affordable housing in...
Kansas City Council Should Say November Oscar to Hotel Bravo
The developers of a luxury hotel proposed for downtown Kansas City are back seeking major tax subsidies for their proposal....
Tax Incentive Reform Getting a Fresh Look from Legislators, Too
My colleague David Stokes wrote recently in the The Star about Kansas City’s pivot toward local incentive reform, a move...
Tax Incentive Reforms Would Benefit Kansas City
A version of this commentary appeared in the Kansas City Star. Ulysses S. Grant was known to say that in...
Three Cheers for the Kansas City Council
The Kansas City Missouri City Council adopted three new ordinances to help restaurants during the pandemic. The ordinances make it...
Tax First, Provide Detail Later
Members of The Kansas City Star’s editorial board have lamented that the one-eighth-cent sales tax adopted by a citywide vote...
Show-Me Gets Results? PortKC to Refund Taxpayers
Back on November 4, I recommended Kansas City City Council members curtail the $6 million administrative fee that PortKC would...
USDA Deal Is Great for Port KC, Less Great for KC Taxpayers
The announcement that the USDA has chosen a location in Kansas City, Missouri was met with satisfaction by political leaders...
Kansas City Star Editorial Gets It Right on Tax Subsidies
Developers in Kansas City are asking for yet another subsidy, this time with a price tag of $63 million. One...
How Not to Study Economic Development Incentives
Economic development incentives are all the rage. And they aren’t all multi-billion-dollar packages to attract a new Amazon headquarters. Many...
Cleared for Landing – KCI and the Billion Dollar Terminal
The Kansas City Council’s Airport Subcommittee has recommended Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate as the developer for a new billion-dollar...
Running the Numbers on the KC Streetcar
Last Tuesday, Kansas Citians voted to effectively block future growth of the city’s streetcar unless and until city leaders can...
Important Background on the Airport Discussion
The Kansas City Star is reporting on efforts to revive the effort to build a new $1.2-billion single airport terminal....
How Bad Policy Survives
In modern politics, combatants like to paint those around them as evil or ignorant. The practice is as old as...
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...
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