Tag: Community Improvement Districts
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Cabela’s opening a reminder of failure in Wichita
Yesterday’s opening of a Cabela’s store in Wichita was celebrated as a great success, but the circumstances of the store’s birth should remind us of the failure of Wichita’s economic development strategies and efforts.
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Wichita’s high tax hotels
Community improvement district, or CID, taxes are often targeted at visitors to Wichita, and harm our city’s reputation.
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Job creation at young firms declines
A new report by the Kauffman Foundation holds unsettling information for the future of job growth in the United States.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday June 20, 2011
Today: CIDs to start collecting tax; Wichita City Council; Wichita’s riverside parks to be topic; Pompeo noted for opposition to opposition to energy spending.
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For Wichita, Save-A-Lot teaches a lesson
The announcement that a Save-A-Lot grocery store will proceed — contrary to the claims of developers and city staff who rely on their information — should provide a lesson that economic development in Wichita can and will happen without public assistance.
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In Wichita, corporate welfare not needed, after all
Announcement of a new developer proceeding with a Save-A-Lot grocery store project — without any of the subsidies Wichita approved — raises questions as to whether the city’s original offer of public assistance was genuine economic development, or just another instance of corporate welfare.
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Eastgate CID should not be approved in Wichita
Community Improvement Districts represent using the power of government for private benefit, and the Wichita City Council should not approve them.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday February 27, 2011
Today: Boeing tanker contract; Kansas Economic Freedom Index; elections this week; civility is lost on the Wisconsin protesters; help Wisconsin Governor Walker; Wichita city council.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday February 10, 2011
Today: Politicians’ Top 10 Promises Gone Wrong; Cabela’s to seek community improvement district tax, Kansas legislature website.
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Wichita again to bet on corporate welfare as economic development
The Wichita City Council may take action that promotes corporate welfare and the city’s economic development policy.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday January 16, 2011
Today: Wichita swoons over Boston attention; harm of expanding government explained.