Earlier this month, voters in Albuquerque, NM resoundingly defeated a bond measure that would have financed a $50M soccer stadium. The plan would have used…
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For-profit colleges have been around for a long time. During the Obama administration, they garnered a lot of negative attention for their ability to generate…
In terms of higher education housing, the current discussion focuses on The Dorm at University of California Santa Barbara. Charlie Munger, a Berkshire Hathaway Vice…
For the last several days, I’ve written about the chronic inability of public sector administrators to properly manage public funds. When a financial problem occurs,…
For the last few days, I’ve looked at different municipal projects that have underperformed for one reason or another. (There’s always a reason, by the…
In 2004, the City of Independence, MO approved The Falls at Crackerneck Creek, a taxpayer funded retail development. Independence owns the facility, and rents space…
Earlier this week, MLive reported on the Grand Haven Community Center, and its reliance on the city’s general fund. Every year, the City of Grand…
Kansas City will use $4.2M from the city’s General Fund to prop up the T-Mobile Center, the city’s multipurpose arena. The funds will pay for…
Texas higher education officials announced last week that undergraduate university enrollment in that state exceeded community college enrollment for the first time in two decades.…
For the last couple of days, I’ve been writing about WCC’s lack of risk management capabilities. Managing risk is absolutely essential in for-profit ventures. WCC…