Tag: Michael O’Donnell
Wichita taxicab regulations likely to impede progress
The Wichita City Council will consider new taxicab regulations that, city hall hopes, will improve tax service in Wichita. But the regulations create high barriers to entry that stifle entrepreneurship and market competition, likely dooming the program to fail.
Wichita decides to join sustainable communities planning
The City of Wichita has decided to embrace centralized government planning.
Kansas and Wichita need pay-to-play laws
In Wichita, campaign contributions made to city council candidates often are not about supporting political ideologies — liberal, moderate, or conservative. It’s about opportunists seeking money from government. Pay-to-play laws can help control this harmful practice.
Kansas needs pay-to-play laws
In Wichita, campaign contributions made to city council candidates often are not about supporting political ideologies — liberal, moderate, or conservative. It’s about opportunists seeking money from government. Pay-to-play laws can help control this harmful practice.
Market solutions best for Wichita
Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer wants to double down on economic development strategies that have produced very little good.
Carl Brewer: State of the City for Wichita, 2012
Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer delivers his State of the City Address for 2012.
Wichita TIF: Taxpayer-funded benefits to political players
It is now confirmed: In Wichita, tax increment financing (TIF) leads to taxpayer-funded waste that benefits those with political connections at city hall.
Wichita City Council sets hotel tax election date
Discussion of setting an election date provided another example reinforcing the realization that Wichita has a city council — with the exception of one member — that is entirely captured by special interests.
Open records, rights of Kansans disrespected at Wichita City Council
A meeting of the Wichita City Council reveals that the city does not care about open and transparent government, despite the claims of leaders such as Mayor Carl Brewer.