Kansas City Star Suffers Tax Fighter Sunday Fact Check

For those who don't know the newspaper game . . . Here's a simple fact about the dying industry: 

If there's any money to be made printing news, Sunday is the only day it happens. 

Accordingly, here's a dead-tree report we skipped over today because it didn't provide much value to readers:  

"Major construction projects and expansions stretching from Hospital Hill to the Country Club Plaza are set to transform Kansas City’s health care, arts and sports venues." 

Great but it's nothing really "new" and didn't push the discourse forward.

However . . . 

Later in the day we noticed this . . .

KANSAS CITY'S TOP TAX FIGHTER TORE APART NEWSPAPER COVERAGE FOR TRAGIC FINANCIAL OMISSIONS!!!

Here's a quick recap and a social media quote that readers might not have seen . . .  

"Today's Star rounds up five big KC projects: the Royals ballpark, Children's Mercy, the Symphony venue, the Nelson-Atkins expansion and UMKC's arts center. Not one mention of public financing. That's a significant omission.

"The Royals/Crown Center project: $600M in city TIF and bonds, plus state money. The Symphony's CEO says its new venue will use "limited public funding." Children's Mercy says its $1B tower will be funded through "private-public investments."

"The Nelson-Atkins' last expansion used state-issued tax-exempt bonds, $105M still outstanding. And UMKC is a public university whose Conservatory last sought $48M in state bonds plus $7M from KC before a 2017 veto." 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

KC Policy Expert Patrick Tuohey on X: "Readers deserve to know who's paying."

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