Jefferson City Residents Should Be Skeptical of Conference Center Project
A version of this commentary appeared in the News-Tribune. On November 4, Jefferson City voters will decide on a proposal to...
Springfield Voters Should Be Skeptical About Convention Center Claims
A version of this commentary appeared in the Springfield Business Journal. On November 4, Springfield voters will decide on a proposal...
Royals May Stay at Kauffman Amid Stadium Inertia
A new story by Kansas City Business Journal’s Thomas Friestad suggests a growing likelihood that the Kansas City Royals will...
Part Four: Does Kansas City Have an Affordable Housing Problem?
(You can read part one, part two, and part three in this series here.) In the previous blog post in...
The Kansas-Missouri Border War Isn’t Over
A version of this op-ed was published in the Columbia Missourian. Missouri and Kansas are no strangers to border conflict....
Overland Park Considers Adding Tolled Lanes to Expand Highway
Drivers on U.S. Highway 69 in Overland Park near Kansas City are about to see some market-based transportation policy in...
Follow-up on Kansas City Population Trends
The other day we published a post about some Brookings Institution data suggesting the Kansas City was doing well with...
Some Promising Numbers About Millennials in Kansas City. Maybe.
William Frey of the Brookings Institution just published a report entitled “How migration of millennials and seniors has shifted...
Millennials *Still* Prefer the Kansas City Suburbs
For years, census data demonstrated that people are eschewing urban settings for the suburbs. Then, for a while, some urbanist...
Tourism: When Kansas City Is Not Kansas City
Eyebrows were raised at the claim by Kansas City’s tourism board, VisitKC, that Kansas City has over 25 million visitors...
A Minimum Wage Increase and the Unintended Consequences for Kansas City
Members of the City Council are at odds over how to increase the minimum wage—through city ordinance or statewide petition....
School Choice for Those Who Can Afford It
An affordable home in a good school district is something of a holy grail for young families looking for a...
KC Convention Hotel Estimates Are Notoriously Wrong
Right now, leaders in Kansas City, Missouri, are eager to build a convention hotel downtown. But there is precious little information available....
The Kansas/Missouri Economic Border War, In A Graph
Via the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, who does it look like has been winning the battle lately? Stay above...
Another Missouri Company Leaving for Kansas, Citing, in Part, Kansas City’s Earnings Tax
Tax. Policy. Matters. We make this point all the time, but if skeptics needed another real world example to hammer...
Another Company Leaves Missouri For Kansas; Time To Stop The Madness
The Kansas-Missouri border war has led to yet another tax incentive-fueled move. The big winner this time? Teva Neuroscience, which...
A Race to the Bottom
The Kansas City area made big news, but not in a good way. According to the latest data, the Kansas...
Trade Codes and Rent Seeking Are Hot in Missouri Tonight
St. Louis County, the city of St. Louis, and Kansas City are all seeing examples of preferred legislation for favored...
Is There Such a Thing as a “Utility Player” in Government Service?
I don’t know the answer, but there certainly could be. For those of you — including our intrepid editor —...
