KC’s Corporate Welfare: JE Dunn’s HQ Renovation Gets Public Support
Thomas Friestad of the Kansas City Business Journal writes that JE Dunn Construction has secured public incentives through Port KC...
K.C. Subsidies Stop Making Sense
I’m reminded of the Talking Heads song Once in a Lifetime when reading about yet another scheme to subsidize more...
Kansas City Must Learn Lessons from Cerner Failure
The recent Kansas City Business Journal report about Oracle drastically reducing its Kansas City workforce in the former Cerner offices...
John Sherman’s Proposed Entertainment District Is Bad for Everyone Else
John Sherman, the owner of the Kansas City Royals, said in an announcement the other day: I believe in my...
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Pay for Your Own Stadium
Yesterday I wrote about an interview I did with KMBC 9 on the Royals’ latest announcement that they had new...
Should Five Percent Appear Too Small…
The Beatles famously sang the above lyric in their song Taxman. It comes to mind because, believe it or not,...
What I Saw at the TIF Hearing
Anyone who has been paying attention to the Show-Me Institute over the past few years knows that our analysts are...
The Power & Light District Still Hasn’t Delivered
On Ruckus last week we discussed the city’s debt and its profligate spending on the Power & Light District downtown....
TIF Doesn’t Create Jobs
Paul F. Byrne, a professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas—who has examined tax increment financing (TIF) use in Missouri...
