The Kansas City Star Is Right
A recent Kansas City Star piece excoriated the Missouri Senate for its behavior and failure in the recently concluded legislative...
Kansas City Star Editorial Board Gets It Half Right
In a recent column, The Kansas City Star editorial board bemoaned the instinct of Mayor Sly James to be opaque...
Taxes in Kansas City: Still Too High, Still Unfair
Kudos to Kansas City Star editorial board member Dave Helling for his recent column on taxes in Kansas City, and...
Kansas City Star Editorial Board Gets Subsidies Wrong Again
The Kansas City Star editorial board published the following in a piece on the earnings tax on January 28: A spokesman for the...
User Fees Are A Better Way To Fund State Roads
In his latest Kansas City Star column, Dave Helling argues that it might be correct that everyone should pay for Missouri’s highways...
You Can’t Take The Public Out Of Public Airports
In an Oct. 14 Kansas City Star article, Kansas City Aviation Department Director Mark Van Loh railed against government policy and...
2013: A TIF Odyssey
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is marching onward in Missouri. Today’s Kansas City Star has a great editorial on a proposed...
Both Kansas City Star and Kansas City Airport Question Aerotropolis
The Star‘s editorial board writes that the Aerotropolis tax credits, which would heavily subsidize warehouse and facility construction near the...
It’s That Time of Year Again
In a Kansas City Star article, Steve Everly reminds us that Missouri’s annual green tax holiday is coming up: Beginning Monday,...
Should We Raise Taxes to Fund Road Improvements?
Today’s Kansas City Star has a story by Brad Cooper about the efforts of the Missouri Transportation Alliance to generate...
Tort Reform 2: Reform Schoolin’
Today’s Kansas City Star has an excellent article about the debate over whether tort reform should be part of the...
CREDO Charter Study: Missouri an Outlier
The St. Louis Beacon and Kansas City Star both have stories about a recent study from Stanford University’s Center for Research...
Another Reason to Dislike the Stimulus Plan, As If You Needed It
When you send politicians blank checks of money that they are just supposed to spend for the sake of spending...
Ridership Estimates? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Ridership Estimates
Instead of providing my own commentary in this post, I’m going to let the following quotes from various sources speak...
Close Call for Missouri’s Renewable Energy
An article from today’s Kansas City Star details the close call faced by the group Missourians for Cleaner and Cheaper...
Politicking Revisited
A legislator responds to the addendum(s) added to his teacher pay bill (see my previous post) in today’s Kansas City...
A Diverse Opinion
There is an op-ed in this morning’s Kansas City Star opposing Ward Connerly’s grassroots-based Missouri Civil Rights Initiative. Many so-called...
The Coronation of Big Corn
An editorial in this morning’s Kansas City Star details some of the negative consequences of Missouri’s new ethanol fuel standards,...
Tax Credits Don’t Always Create Jobs
An article in today’s Kansas City Star discusses the rewritten economic development bill, which was just approved in the special...
Supplying Prices on Demand
Yesterday’s Kansas City Star ran an article about congressional legislation that "would make it a criminal offense for gas prices...
