December 23, 2025 Despite Missouri's Effort to Keep Them, Kansas City Chiefs Moving to Kansas Anyway January 12, 2024 Royals Officially Probably Staying in Jackson County January 4, 2024 The 2024 Session Begins October 9, 2023 For new stadium, Royals appear committed to a public financing method others avoid September 26, 2023 Royals Put Off Stadium Decision Another Month August 25, 2023 Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Pay for Your Own Stadium August 24, 2023 Show-Me Talks Royals Stadium Move on KMBC June 29, 2023 Kansas City's Courtship of the Royals Is Getting Awkward May 25, 2023 30 Car Break-ins, Fewer Airbnb, and More MoLeg May 25, 2023 "The Kansas City Royals of North Kansas City"? June 7, 2022 Part Three: Does Kansas City Have an Affordable Housing Problem? June 2, 2022 Part One: Does Kansas City Have an Affordable Housing Problem? April 8, 2022 Podcast: Raises for Teachers, Billions for Meta, and a New Stadium for the Chiefs March 31, 2022 Hail to the Chiefs! And Pay for Your Own Stadium March 28, 2022 So Meta: New KC Data Center Heavy on Tax Incentives, Light on Jobs June 29, 2020 Dear Mr. President: No More State and Local Bailouts April 2, 2020 Missouri Must Declare a Policy War on Coronavirus and Win February 25, 2020 Serious TIF Reform May Be in the Cards in 2020, With A Tweak February 18, 2019 AOC Is Right: Amazon's Jobs Aren't Worth $3 Billion In Corporate Welfare February 15, 2019 New York Shouldn't Have Offered Amazon $3 Billion. No One Should Have. September 27, 2017 Ballparks of the Ozarks Land Foreclosed On After Two Year Odyssey May 19, 2017 Break Missouri's Utility Monopolies December 9, 2016 Are We Paying Some Developers to Develop Less? December 2, 2016 The Indiana Carrier Deal: State Cronyism Shouldn't Be Nationalized October 26, 2016 Regarding the American Royal's Move to Kansas August 24, 2016 Developer Reportedly Ends Project After LCRA Vote June 28, 2016 Regarding Centene's Outrageous Corporate Welfare Demands May 25, 2016 Session Notes: TIF Reform Gets Approval, But More Needs To Be Done May 12, 2016 TIF Reform Legislation Races Into the Homestretch, But the Clock Is Ticking March 23, 2016 Kansas City Star Defends Corporate Welfare, Again February 24, 2016 Hail to the Chiefs? City Includes Arrowhead on List of Urban Core Successes August 27, 2015 Big News: Accounting Board Beefs Up Tax Abatement Disclosure Requirements August 24, 2015 Tax Man Cometh: Obamacare Subsidies Pose Risk for Millions of Tax Filers June 8, 2015 In Kansas City, A Bad Idea Checks-In Again May 11, 2015 Lambert Officials Admit: Market for Cargo "Disappeared" Post-Aerotropolis May 7, 2015 Is Ballparks of the Ozarks Swinging for the Tax Incentive Fences? April 13, 2015 Tax Incentives: How Much Money Do Governments Give Away? March 20, 2015 Mark Your Calendars, Kansas City and St. Louis: Michael Cannon is Coming to Town June 4, 2014 Sweetness And Power & Light May 12, 2014 Tesla, Car Dealers and Milton Friedman: The Problem of Protectionism and Cronyism February 17, 2014 Aerotropolis By Any Other Name December 6, 2013 The Sorry State Of The Professional Left In Missouri October 24, 2013 Looking For (Broad) HealthCare.Gov Pricing For Missouri? We Have It September 25, 2013 Emerald Automotive Still Seeking The Green April 26, 2013 Part Five: The Smallness Of The Potentially 'Hip' Core April 25, 2013 Part Four: The Smallness Of The Potentially 'Hip' Core March 27, 2013 Part Two: The Smallness Of The Potentially 'Hip' Core March 25, 2013 Part One: The Smallness Of The Potentially 'Hip' Core February 18, 2013 Three Ways Bad Public Policy Hurts Missouri February 8, 2013 Quality Jobs Program: A Closer Look February 5, 2013 Part 2: It Is Time To Close The Book On Aerotropolis December 10, 2012 Soon-To-Be Kansan Company Gets $5 Million to Move A Half Mile December 5, 2012 Why Wasn't the Blanchette Bridge Preserved? . . . Asks the Devil's Advocate December 3, 2012 VIDEO: The New York Times Covers the Kansas City Border War August 31, 2012 On Commissions And The Fountainheads Of Reform August 24, 2012 Kansas City Adds Single Measure To November Ballot June 13, 2012 Banning Beer? In Saint Louis? April 20, 2012 Papa John's and The Case of the Over-Regulated Food Trucks April 2, 2012 Department of Economic Development Responsive Documents: Norwood Hills Country Club March 30, 2012 Place Your Bets: Proposed Aerotropolis May Be Funded In Part With Casino Tax Revenues October 28, 2011 Laws of Supply and Demand At Work in Game 7 Ticket Pricing October 26, 2011 The End of Aerotropolis? October 13, 2011 Department of Economic Development Focus Newsletters (2001-2009) October 7, 2011 Aerotropolis and the Climate for Substantive Tax Credit Reform September 26, 2011 Aerotropolis: Special Session Legislation - House Version (September 9, 2011) September 22, 2011 US-China Chamber President 'Doesn't See Significant Economic Value' in Midwest China Hub September 19, 2011 SLU and Mizzou Economists Weigh in on Aerotropolis Jobs Estimates September 19, 2011 Department of Economic Development Organizational Flow Chart (2011) September 14, 2011 Will the Missouri House "Ram" $300 Million of Aerotropolis Cash Back Into the Bill? September 14, 2011 The State Constitutional Question: Are the Aerotropolis Tax Credits Even Legal? September 13, 2011 Video: Senate President Pro Tem Discusses Changes to Aerotropolis Bill September 10, 2011 Facebook and Twitter Users Can Comment Directly at Show-Me Daily September 9, 2011 Talking Aerotropolis: Audrey Spalding with Greg Knapp on KCMO, Patrick Ishmael with Mark Reardon on KMOX September 7, 2011 Aerotropolis Debate with Ray Hartmann on Charlie Brennan's KMOX Radio Program September 6, 2011 'It Wasn't Their Money to Begin With': KMOV Special Report Rips RCGA, Aerotropolis September 5, 2011 China Hub Document: "We need someone, not a government agency, to make things happen" September 4, 2011 What's Wrong with Aerotropolis: Airplane Optional? September 3, 2011 An Aerotropolis Intensity Gap? September 2, 2011 Wow: RCGA Suggests "Aerotropolis" New Warehouse Building Requirement May Go Bye-Bye September 2, 2011 Aerotropolis: Special Session Draft Legislation (August 31, 2011) September 2, 2011 A Starry-Eyed Proposal To Rescue an Airport and Revitalize a Region August 31, 2011 And the Job Guesstimates Resume: RCGA Now Says Aerotropolis Will Bring 32,000 Jobs to Saint Louis August 29, 2011 Has the Public Records Runaround Begun? August 25, 2011 Aerotropolis: Aerostrata "Six (6) Month Progress Report," July 2010 August 24, 2011 Aerotropolis: The End of the Beginning August 18, 2011 What's Old Is New Again? "New Building" in Aerotropolis Legislation May Not Actually Mean "New Building" August 17, 2011 In July 2010 E-mail to NCBE, Tyson Executive Saw "Very Little Opportunity" in Beef Export Plan August 15, 2011 Hey National Center for Beef Excellence, Where's the Beef? August 12, 2011 What's Wrong with Aerotropolis: Paid Not to Fly? August 10, 2011 Aerotropolis: China Hub Responsive Documents, Part 4 August 10, 2011 Aerotropolis: China Hub Responsive Documents, Part 3 August 10, 2011 Aerotropolis: China Hub Responsive Documents, Part 2 August 10, 2011 Aerotropolis: China Hub Responsive Documents, Part 1 August 9, 2011 Post-Dispatch on Aerotropolis: "Those goods don't actually have to be flown by plane..." August 5, 2011 What's Wrong with Aerotropolis: Grounded Beef August 5, 2011 Unknown Party Slips New-and-Improved Tax Credit Handout into Aerotropolis/Eco-Devo Legislation July 25, 2011 'Where's the Beef?' A Reminder That American Beef Products Are Ineligible for Export to China July 11, 2011 'Aerotropolis': A Raw Deal for Missouri July 8, 2011 On Aerotropolis and High-Speed Rail June 29, 2011 Lambert Director Misrepresents Missouri's 'Aerotropolis' Bill June 28, 2011 Green Acres, We Are (Not) There! June 23, 2011 The Next Big Government Handout: 'Aerotropolis' June 23, 2011 Rebuilding, Not Rebranding June 21, 2011 Eco-Devo Mad Libs: So, Are 5,000, 29,000, or 37,000 Jobs Being Saved or Created With "Aerotropolis"? June 16, 2011 "You Smell a Rat That's Wrapped in Week-Old Fishpaper" June 15, 2011 Air Cargo Expert Hammers Aerotropolis Plan in Industry Publication May 21, 2011 A 'Hotel California' for Bartle Hall May 19, 2011 The Next Big Handout: An "Aerotropolis" Near You? May 5, 2011 Blueprint for a Blunder: Why Kansas City Should Quash Its Convention Hotel Plans