Overland Park Considers Adding Tolled Lanes to Expand Highway
Drivers on U.S. Highway 69 in Overland Park near Kansas City are about to see some market-based transportation policy in...
Missourians May Lose Their Homes Because of State-Supported Loans
As reported by ProPublica’s Jeremy Kohler and Haru Coryne, more than 100 homes with PACE loans in metropolitan Kansas City...
Skepticism Is Warranted on Missouri/Kansas Border War Truce
A lot of people around the country have cheered a recent agreement by the governments of Missouri and Kansas to...
Thank You to the Urban League of Greater Kansas City
I remain grateful to the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, and to its president Gwen Grant, for including my...
Taxes for Thee, But Not for Me (Part 2)
Over two years ago, Show-Me published a piece about how Missouri corporations such as Burns & McDonnell advocate for higher...
Opportunity Zones?
A recent Business Journal story examined Opportunity Zones, a new program created in the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act....
KC’s economic development study parroted exactly what the city wanted
The following commentary also appeared in the Kansas City Star. Businessman John Wannamaker famously quipped, “Half the money I spend on...
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...
Tourism: When Kansas City Is Not Kansas City
Eyebrows were raised at the claim by Kansas City’s tourism board, VisitKC, that Kansas City has over 25 million visitors...
