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Kansas City, Missouri, voters will elect a new mayor and city council next month. But it's a lesser-known ballot measure that could have a bigger effect…
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Segment 1: With only three weeks left in the regular legislative session there are still major issues to be addressed.From asking Missourians to vote…
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Twenty years ago, the stretch of Belton along U.S. Highway 71, now Interstate 49, looked a lot different than it does now. Only a few major retailers had…
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Segment 1: Municipal leaders discuss the local issues their communities are grappling with, and the current events in Kansas City they're keeping an eye…
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A $63 million boutique hotel that backers say would be the most luxurious in the metro is being proposed across Wyandotte Street from the Kauffman Center…
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Hulu is casting the pilot for a TV show called "Kansas City," which will be filmed in Atlanta, Georgia. The concept for the show is dystopian. According…
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Another member of the Kansas City Council has entered the crowded race for mayor in 2019. Councilwoman Alissia Canady, who represents the city’s 5th…
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Segment 1: How tax increment financing helps blighted neighborhoods.Last week, we heard arguments opposed to tax increment financing, a tax abatement…
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Seg. 1: Arguments Against Tax Increment Financing. Seg. 2: Meet The Volunteers At A Suicide Hotline.Segment 1: What is tax increment financing, and what are its drawbacks?Tax increment financing districts, known as TIFs, have been a significant tool in…
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Much of Kansas City’s economic development over the past few decades is thanks, in part, to tax breaks given to developers by the city. The shops at Zona…
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Kansas lawmakers, increasingly skeptical that tax breaks deliver economic wins, looked closely this week at economic incentive programs.Senators on the…
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Across America, gentrification is pricing people out of the communities they grew up in. Today, we look at alternatives to avoid raising the cost of…