Tag: Wichita city government
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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.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday February 9, 2011
Today: ACLU leader to speak in Wichita; information added to KansasOpenGov.org; “The Citizen” launches; economic development in Wichita explained; limits on state agency advertising proposed; Wichita lame ducks to take junket.
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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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Tax increment financing: TIF has a cost
Supporters of tax increment financing, or TIF, claim that it has no costs. This is true only if one ignores their secondary effects and economic reality.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Sunday January 16, 2011
Today: Wichita swoons over Boston attention; harm of expanding government explained.
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In Wichita, who is to plan?
Wichita government planners liken their planning process to that of individuals and businesses. but as Ludwig von Mises explains, the analogy does not hold.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Tuesday January 11, 2011
Today: Legislature website still down; treasurer to ask for more information; Wichita CID proposals delayed; Longwell on citizen knowledge; State of the State tomorrow; this week at Sedgwick County Commission; changes to Kansas campaign law recommended.
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In Wichita, two large community improvement districts proposed
More Community Improvement Districts in Wichita indicate a sales tax increase spreading across the city, and a city government captured by special interests.
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Wichita’s vision, by the urbanist elites
Randal O’Toole explains some of the reasons why urbanist elites seek to impose their vision on others through government.
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Government is not business, and can’t be
As Wichita begins its implementation of the plan for the revitalization of downtown Wichita, stakeholders like to delude themselves that the plan is “market-driven,” that the city will make prudent use of public “investment,” and that the plan’s supporters really do believe in free markets after all.
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North Dakota TIF video reminiscent of Wichita
Tax increment financing (TIF) is the subject of a video presentation that is eerily cognizant of the situation in Wichita.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Monday December 27, 2010
Today: This week at Wichita City Council, Kansas schools’ unspent funds, Which Brownback will govern, Rapidly rising costs at Kansas Universities criticized, States and their pension problems, Airport security found lacking.