Hy-Vee Wants to Give the Heave-Ho to a CID
The grocery chain Hy-Vee is suing the city of Lee’s Summit over the creation of a Community Improvement District (CID)....
And Then There Were Three: Blue Springs Joins Jackson County Property Tax Lawsuit Party
First it was Lee’s Summit and Independence initiating legal action against Jackson County for the county’s uneven and hamfisted property...
20 Missouri Districts Get the Green Light to Try New Assessment System
New beginnings are in the air in Missouri. Some families are sending their children off to college for the first...
20 Missouri Districts Seek Exemption from the Missouri Assessment Program
At the most recent state board of education meeting, 20 school districts requested a federal waiver to be exempt from...
Lee’s Summit Is Generous to a Fault
A bad idea doesn’t get better with age. Bad ideas aren’t wine, jeans, or your high school memories. The tax...
Lee’s Summit School District Wants $40,000 to Show What It’s Teaching Kids
As readers know, over the last few weeks we’ve made public records requests to schools and districts across the state...
Back for More Handouts
Government handouts can be a slippery slope for some developers—once they get one, they just ask for more and more....
Many Missourians Are Moving . . . To Missouri
If you live in a rural community in Missouri and it feels like your neighbors are moving away, you might...
If charter schools are ruining education in Missouri, more please!
The Kansas City and St. Louis school districts saw two of the largest gains in the country in their graduation...
Another Push for Rail Transit in Kansas City
Recently, Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders announced that the county had received a $10 million federal grant to buy just...
Half Percent Tax Cut, 100 Percent Gimmick
When I caught wind yesterday that a “deal” was afoot between the Missouri governor and a senator to reduce Missouri’s...
Mirror Mirror, Who Is The Highest Paid Of Them All?
Yesterday, the Missouri Auditor’s office released its audit of the Lee’s Summit R-VII School District. Relatively speaking, it was a...
The School Funding Shell Game
Many proposals are being floated around Jefferson City to fix the student transfer issue. Some of the proposals are no...
Lee’s Summit And The Road Not Taken
The Lee’s Summit City Council voted overwhelmingly to end its consideration of Enhanced Enterprise Zones (EEZs). This is a good...
Democracy Alive And Well In Lee’s Summit
On May 23, the Lee’s Summit Enhanced Enterprise Zone (EEZ) Advisory Committee held a public meeting to collect feedback on a...
Lee’s Summit EEZ: A Solution In Search Of A Problem
As published in Lee’s Summit Journal: In 2006 and again in 2010, Money Magazine cited Lee’s Summit as one of...
The Reality of Tax Appropriation Via Bailout Sets In
Chrysler’s full-page thank you advertisement to American taxpayers has provoked an unintended reaction. As for the price of the ad,...
