When City Leaders Aren’t Concerned, Taxpayers Should Be
In a recent story in The Kansas City Star about cost overruns for the downtown convention hotel, Steve Vockrodt wrote:...
Why Is RideKC Entering The Electric Scooter Market?
It was a pleasant surprise to see a new company enter the burgeoning electric scooter market in Kansas City. However,...
Fining Businesses for Convenience?
It was just this April that Missouri finally made its vehicle-for-hire regulations hospitable to transportation network companies (TNC) like Uber...
Was the Transfer Program Poorly Designed?
In the early 1970s the Ford Motor Company designed the Pinto. In addition to being extremely ugly, the Pinto was...
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...
The Best Bargain I Ever Made
As first appearing in the September 30, 2013, print edition of The Weekly Standard: Though I never met the man,...
Is St. Louis the next Detroit? (Not in my view)
As first appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on August 16, 2013: When the St. Louis Cardinals played the Detroit...
At Least We Are Transparent About Our Cronyism In Missouri!
The Pew Center on the States has published a review of the transparency of state tax incentive programs. Some Missouri...
The Road To Prosperity Is Paved With . . . State Tax Incentives?
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon loves awarding tax incentives. So much so that in April, a road was named after him,...
