On Wednesday- The KANSAS CITY STAR's Kevin Collison reports on a local firm's preliminary plans for a new- 1000-room convention hotel downtown.
That hotel would require heavy taxpayer subsidies to be built and probably to operate- especially in today's depressed economy.
So in the KANSAS CITY BUSINESS JOURNAL- a story there tells of how 2 of the 3 credit-rating agencies have actually dropped the city's credit rating.
With tens of millions of taxpayer dollars already flying out the window to subsidize non-essential projects like the Power & Light and Jazz Districts and a several billion-dollar sewer reconstruction bill and other immediate ESSENTIAL city needs looming - CAN THIS CITY AFFORD FURTHER NON-ESSENTIAL FLUFF PROJECTS ?
City councilman Ed Ford- among other clueless city officials- STILL seem to think so....
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