For Better Health Care Access, Pursue Interstate Licensing
Imagine you got a nasty cut that needed stitches while you were vacationing in Florida this summer. Apart from putting...
Streetcars: Suddenly a (Poorly Performing) Transportation Service
Despite consistently arguing that streetcars are economic development—not transportation—projects, transit advocates have recently claimed the Kansas City streetcar “really is...
Getting Less out of More: Kansas City’s Declining Tax Base
The use of incentives such as TIF and abatements appears to be eroding Kansas City’s tax base. In the chart...
Kansas City Streetcar Failing by Its Own Standards
On July 12, the Kansas City Downtown Council posted an item on its blog in which the Streetcar Authority marketing...
Fall Internships
The Show-Me Institute is pleased to offer internship opportunities for Fall 2016. Internships are open to current undergraduate and graduate...
Kansas City Losing Downtown Millennials
All the money Kansas City is pouring into downtown doesn’t seem to be working. At least, when it comes to...
A New School and Governance Model for the New School Year in Kansas City
In just a few weeks, a new public charter school is opening in Kansas City. The Kansas City Neighborhood Academy...
Patrick Tuohey Discusses KC Spending on KCPT’s Ruckus
On Thursday, June 24, the Show-Me Institute’s Patrick Tuohey appeared on Kansas City Public Television’s Ruckus to discuss spending in...
Tax Dollars and All That Jazz
Kansas City has spent millions of dollars on its 18th and Vine jazz district. How much more will taxpayers pour...
Is Kansas City Using TIF to Mask Policy Consequences?
The Urban Land Institute invited me to speak on a panel the other day to discuss Kansas City’s use of...
Is the Streetcar a Development Magnet?
Those who have followed the expansion of streetcars in Kansas City and across the country will know that the primary...
Kansas City’s Crocodile Tears over Blight
After the events of Ferguson, when it was discovered that the city had been using fines and court fees to...
Is Kansas City’s “Food Desert” a Mirage?
A “food desert” is an urban area devoid of grocery stores—thought to affect the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables...
The Infectious Optimism of Education Entrepreneurs
By disposition, I am an optimist. For a person of my particular predilections it is, to echo Dickens, the best...
The Infectious Optimism of Education Entrepreneurs
By disposition, I am an optimist. For a person of my particular predilections it is, to echo Dickens, the best...
Waiting for VanLoh
The last three years of Kansas City aviation policy is much like Samuel Becket’s play, “Waiting for Godot.” We the...
Kansas City Plans for Autonomous Buses
According to Startland, “Kansas City’s Home for Innovation News,” city leaders proposed a few ideas they would pursue if they...
Taxpayer Dollars and All That Jazz
The Kansas City Star reported over the weekend that the City Council will soon decide whether to spend more on...
The Streetcar’s Future Ridership
Almost every story about the newly opened Kansas City streetcar tells us that ridership is higher than expected, and indeed...
The Negative Impacts of Development Subsidies
The Kansas City Star’s Joe Robertson has written recently about the closure of the Kansas City office of the National...
