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…
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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…
Hudson Valley Community College plans to grow its Malta campus with a $12.5M expansion. But it doesn’t plan to issue bonds or seek taxpayer support…
Ottumwa, IA might possibly be best known as the hometown of Corporal Radar O’Reilly in the movie-and television franchise, M*A*S*H. Next week, Voters there and…
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…
Yesterday, I wrote about WCC’s revenue generation plans and why they’re unlikely to benefit the College. In short, public-sector entities know very little about managing…
The current WCC Administration believes that “mixed use development” will be a key revenue stream in future years. To show how serious they are about…