You know it’s getting weird when Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser is the voice of reason concerning the burgeoning economic warfare within the metropolitan area between Kansas and Missouri.
Although more than a few people think the disarray that the mayor created within the city’s economic development agencies helped make Kansas City particularly vulnerable, he is right in wondering why local civic organizations haven’t been raising Cain on the topic.
“Where is Missouri? Where is regionalism? Where are the civic and business groups that claim to have Kansas City’s interests first?” Funkhouser asked a couple of weeks ago when The Star first reported that Kansas was dangling a $50 million incentive package to lure AMC Entertainment out of downtown.
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Author: KEVIN COLLISON
