Local number crunchers take promotional data to task and find serious miscalculation with local boosterism that seeks to drive policy decisions. Read more:
The Downtown Council's Fuzzy Math
On Friday, Kansas City's Downtown Council hosted its annual luncheon, titled "Downtown K.C. Smart City? Or The Smartest City?" If that makes you think the Council is more interested in boosterism than sound analysis, its "State of Downtown" report won't make you feel any better.
Numbers are scary. Numbers often tell us that what government proposes is just not possible. How does government respond? They tell us that we shouldn't overwork our little brains. After all, numbers are scary.
ReplyDeleteThe downtown council should be embarrassed to present numbers like these in a format like this. Lately it seems that all levels of government and quasi government organizations are simply trying to hoodwink the public.
ReplyDeleteJust look at the funding, Downtown Council gets most of their money from City Hall, it's like a perpetual motion scam machine. They just keep reinforcing one another with their bad ideas.
ReplyDeleteSad that anyone believes it.
Hipsters are stupid enough to believes sLIE’s lies so.....
ReplyDeleteGeezers are dumb enough to post on TKC all day & night so.....
ReplyDeleteShow me institute is a Bullshit libertarian front.
ReplyDeleteOf course downtown KC is rigging the numbers they get paid by the businesses to do promotion. They have even stopped funding the street sweepers to a large extent. That was the only decent thing that downtown KC Council ever did. Now it's just a marketing agency like about half the businesses working in KCMO.
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ReplyDeleteKinda like you 6:11 your're on here more than anyone.
Hey there HOMOSEXUALLY ABOUNDS TRANNY geezer hater , time to get nasty with you TRANNY GROIDS lover, let him / her / it take you home and make you sweat and moan , BITCH ¡!
ReplyDeleteFor millenials and hipsters, living a good life means getting buttfucked and sucking dick every day.
ReplyDeleteMillenials - Spoiled Entitled brats
ReplyDeleteGenX - The parents of these spoiled entitled brats.
Baby Boomers - the parents of the GenX who were so rediculious that their Kids (GenX) coddled their kids and created the Millenial. 2 generations who got it wrong and now we have ---Millenials
Makes no sense.
ReplyDeleteDowntown Council is operating under the pretense of:
ReplyDeletePROPAGANDIZE IT, AND THEY WILL COME
Thanks to The Show-Me Institute for peeling away the purposely opaque outer layer of lies on the State of Downtown onion.