Evaluating the Kansas City Streetcar
The Kansas City Streetcar opened to glowing and effusive praise from local media, some of it embarrassingly fawning. After all...
Long Security Lines? Not at MCI
The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) has been telling travelers to expect longer lines at the airport this summer. Lines at...
Session Notes: TIF Reform Gets Approval, But More Needs To Be Done
In a victory for good governance, the Missouri legislature passed important tax increment financing (TIF) legislation, which I wrote about at...
Be Like Kansas City-Avoid the TSA
Frequent fliers: get ready for a long summer. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has told the public that it will...
MCI Is the Envy of its Peers
The effort to issue $1.25 billion in debt to tear down and rebuild Kansas City International Airport (MCI) is on...
Films Can-and Do-Get Produced without Government Handouts
Unless you're an avid fan of independent films, you may not have heard about the premier of a movie titled...
Kansas City’s Food Desert Folly
We’ve already written in this blog that the evidence that new grocery stores affect consumer fruit and vegetable consumption is...
First New Catholic School in KC in 80 Years
The Diocese of Kansas City is opening a new school next year. That’s the first new Catholic school in Kansas...
St Louis Rolls Out Mow to Own Program
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay recently announced a “Mow to Own” program to help the city rid itself of vacant...
An Informed Public: Poor Policy’s Worst Enemy
For the time being, it seems that plans to tear down Kansas City International Airport (MCI) and build a $1.2...
The Crown Center Blight Expansion Is Bad Policy. Period.
The City Council of Kansas City just voted 10 to 1 to declare some asphalt parking lots and grass fields...
Moving Forward on MCI
Given the significant opposition from the public and likely from members of the City Council, Kansas City Mayor Sly James...
Kansas City Airport Ballot Measure Halted
Kansas City has decided against a ballot measure that would have financed the demolition and rebuilding of MCI airport. Patrick...
Our Lady of Hope, Indeed
For the first time in 80 years, the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph is opening a new Catholic school in...
From a Kansas City Charter School to the Ivy League
For the first time in its history, University Academy (UA), a charter school in Kansas City, had a student accepted...
Kansas City’s Tech Inertia
In the State of the City speech in late March, Mayor Sly James outlined his vision for an innovation economy...
Shake-Up at KC Aviation Department
After first announcing that Kansas City’s Aviation Department Director Mark VanLoh was being “replaced,” The Kansas City Star reissued their...
What to Make of the Kansas City School Board Elections
The results are (finally) in. After over a week of vote counting—all of the candidates were write-ins because no candidate...
Kansas City: Missouri’s Economic Albatross
In January, Kansas City Mayor Sly James testified before the Missouri legislature, saying, It’s a bleak future without the Kansas...
The Great Urban School District That Wasn’t, but May Be Soon
What if I told you that you could have access to nearly unlimited resources, the counsel of top experts, and...
