Welcome to “Kensas City”: Barbie-Themed Streetcar Wrap Costs Taxpayers $25,000
Are the Underpants Gnomes running the Kansas City Streetcar Authority (KCSA)? Hot on the wheels—pardon, hot on the heels—of the...
Where Are the Kindergartners?
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on December 8, 2020. According to enrollment counts taken...
Yes, the Mayor’s Pre-K Program Is a Voucher
As Kansas City considers expanding pre-K on the April 2nd ballot, two things about the research should be made clear:...
Reconsidering Teacher Pay
Recently in the Springfield News-Leader, I argued that school districts should reconsider how they pay teachers. Most districts use a...
School Choice Criticism: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
On multiple legs of my commute this week I’ve heard parts of an NPR series on school vouchers. In general,...
What Can City Leaders Do To Grow A City? Not Much
Wendell Cox recently wrote a paper for the Show Me Institute titled, “Kansas City—Genuinely World Class: A Competitive Analysis.” In...
Not This Again
As I scrolled through my twitter feed this morning, a tweet from NPR jumped out at me: All I could...
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...
Are Property Taxes for Education Fair?
NPR has reported that property taxes make public education unfair because some school districts receive more property tax revenue than...
