Tag: Wichita Downtown Development Corporation
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Despite allegations, Wichita’s Dave Burk remains favored
Wichita developer David Burk remains in favor at city hall despite allegations.
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Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday June 1, 2011
Today: Transportation planning; Pompeo, Huelskamp ‘no’ on debt limit; This Week in Kansas; Kingman is the first; Legislature is through for season; Stossel looks at energy.
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TIF, a Wichita ‘tool,’ might be on the way out in California
Tax increment financing (TIF), a key component for the financing of the revitalization of downtown Wichita, might be on the way out in California.
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Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer: State of the City 2011
Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer delivers his 2001 State of the City address.
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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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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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Economic freedom at decline, across the U.S. and in Wichita
As government, both national and local, increases its intervention in markets and more decisions are made by politicians and bureaucrats rather than markets, wealth is lost.
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Wichita should reject Goody Clancy plan for downtown
Wichita should reject the plan for the redevelopment or revitalization of its downtown.
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For Wichita city government, open records are not valued
The City of Wichita decides again to be open and transparent on its own terms, and to not follow the Kansas Open Records Act.
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Wichita downtown plan focused on elite values, incorrect assumptions
Downtown Wichita planning is driven by elitist values and incorrect assumptions about the way people want to live.
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Downtown Wichita demographics not favorable
Are demographic claims made by Goody Clancy, Wichita’s downtown planning firm, real or imaginary?