Our Downtown Wichita launched
As part of an effort to provide information about the Douglas Place project, a proposed renovation of a downtown Wichita office building into a hotel, Americans for Prosperity, Kansas has created a website. The site is named Our Downtown Wichita, and it's located at dtwichita.com. Many people, myself included, feel that this project -- with its multiple layers of taxpayer subsidy -- represents crony capitalism at its pinnacle. It's also the first project to come through Wichita's Project Downtown evaluation process, which represents new advances in centralized government planning in Wichita. As the site's motto says: "Limited government and free markets in Downtown Wichita benefit everyone. Centralized planning and crony capitalism benefit only a few." The Our Downtown Wichita site contains information about the many forms of public subsidy that…