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Streetcars Will Waste Your Money And Your Time

Streetcars Will Waste Your Money And Your Time

Jan 20, 2014

Paul Jacob writes in his blog This is Common Sense: Transportation scholar Randal O’Toole regales us with the fix that...

Giant Disappointment for Kansas City

Giant Disappointment for Kansas City

Oct 22, 2010

A City Council committee in Kansas City has tabled (aka, killed) a proposal that called for simply studying the idea of...

Kansas City Considers Private Involvement in Infrastructure Management

Kansas City Considers Private Involvement in Infrastructure Management

Oct 6, 2010

As I understand it, at their regular meeting tomorrow, Kansas City’s City Council will be deciding on whether or not...

Private Sector Can Help Kansas City Manage Its Public Infrastructure, Likely for Less

Private Sector Can Help Kansas City Manage Its Public Infrastructure, Likely for Less

Oct 6, 2010

The $2.5 billion settlement to improve the Kansas City sewer system has put the city well past the question of...

Kansas City to Take a Hard Look at How It Provides Services

Kansas City to Take a Hard Look at How It Provides Services

Sep 30, 2010

According to the Reason Foundation, New York Governor Mario Cuomo said about privatization, “It is not a government’s obligation to...

Well, We Can’t Let Just Anyone on the KC TIF Commission, Now Can We?

Well, We Can’t Let Just Anyone on the KC TIF Commission, Now Can We?

Sep 16, 2009

I am definitely with Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser on this one. The Star has the story here. The dispute...

New Airport Possibility for St. Louis and Kansas City

New Airport Possibility for St. Louis and Kansas City

Apr 20, 2009

I had pretty much spent the day researching airport privatization, with KMOX playing in my office (I love streaming radio),...

Ambulances Are a Very Big Deal

Ambulances Are a Very Big Deal

Mar 23, 2009

Kansas City is considering changing the way it operates its ambulances. Currently, they are managed by an independent entity, MAST,...

Anti-Light Rail Campaign in Kansas City

Anti-Light Rail Campaign in Kansas City

Oct 2, 2008

The Kansas City Star ran an article today about a new group that’s campaigning against the city’s light rail proposal....

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