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The Last Thing Missouri Needs Is More Urban Planning

The Last Thing Missouri Needs Is More Urban Planning

Jan 7, 2025

A recent op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called for substantially increasing the power of urban planners in St. Louis and...

Building Height Limitations Are Unwise

Building Height Limitations Are Unwise

Apr 19, 2022

There is a controversy in Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza. A developer would like to build a nine-story building on...

More Evidence of Failures of CIDs

More Evidence of Failures of CIDs

May 21, 2021

The two sure things in life are said to be death and taxes. I might add a third (admittedly related...

More Hotels; Fewer Taxes

More Hotels; Fewer Taxes

Oct 21, 2019

Despite the fact that Kansas City just held an election in which the city’s profligate use of tax subsidies played...

Plugging the Port Hole

Plugging the Port Hole

Aug 29, 2019

A recent column by Dave Helling in The Kansas City Star called for Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas to challenge...

How Bad was the CDFA Study of Incentives in Kansas City?

How Bad was the CDFA Study of Incentives in Kansas City?

Sep 14, 2018

It was with great anticipation that I received the long-overdue study of economic incentives in Kansas City conducted by the...

Crosby Kemper III and Patrick Tuohey Discuss KCI and Country Club Plaza on Ruckus

Crosby Kemper III and Patrick Tuohey Discuss KCI and Country Club Plaza on Ruckus

Oct 27, 2017

The Show-Me Institute’s Chairman Crosby Kemper III and Director of Municipal Policy Patrick Tuohey appeared on KCPT’s Ruckus on Thursday,...

How Missouri’s Special Taxing Districts Promote “Legal Plunder”

How Missouri’s Special Taxing Districts Promote “Legal Plunder”

Jul 24, 2017

In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king. When it comes to Missouri’s rapidly proliferating...

Shocker! KC Developer Builds Building, Pays Taxes!

Shocker! KC Developer Builds Building, Pays Taxes!

Jul 17, 2017

In a sign of the times, Rob Roberts at The Kansas City Business Journal found it newsworthy that a developer...

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