Tag: Subsidy
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Wichita forgivable loan action raises and illustrates issues
The granting of a forgivable loan by the City of Wichita to The Golf Warehouse raises issues of both economics and politics.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday May 9, 2011
Today: Airfares down in Wichita; Wichita City Council this week; Joyland topic of British tabloid; educational freedom to be discussed in Wichita; do you want to live in the world of Atlas Shrugged?; who are the real robber barons?
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Forgivable loan a test for new Wichita City Council members
This week three new members of the Wichita City Council have a chance to live up to — or not — their campaign rhetoric.
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Economic development incentives questioned at Sedgwick County Commission
Economic development incentives receive discussion at a meeting of the Sedgwick County Commission.
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Sedgwick County Commission to consider corporate welfare as economic development
The Sedgwick County Commission will consider embracing corporate welfare as its economic development strategy.
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Who benefits, loses from regulation?
Who benefits and loses from increased regulation of greenhouse gases?
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Cabela’s CID should not be approved in Wichita
Outdoor retailer Cabela’s will ask the Wichita City Council to create a Community Improvement District (CID) for its benefit. The city should not approve this transfer of taxation — recognized as a public function — to a private entity for its exclusive benefit.
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Wichita should reform its economic development strategy
The City of Wichita should seek to reform its economic development strategy, as Governor Brownback has proposed for the State of Kansas.
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Affordable Airfares audit embarrassing to Wichita
An audit of Affordable Airfares produced by the Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit is an embarrassment to City of Wichita elected officials and staff, the Kansas Regional Area Economic Partnership, and the Wichita State University Center for Economic Development and Business Research.
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Brinkmanship with jobs
Welcome to the new world of economic development — playing brinkmanship with job, writes Wichita state University’s H. Edward Flentje.