Report

In this issue:

• Education expert Dr. Jay Greene speaks in Kansas City.
• A message from Rex Sinquefield about a recent essay he cowrote with Jack Naudi about the structural differences between income taxes and sales taxes.
• An article about the Show-Me Institutes efforts to educate Missourians about the distortionary effects of income taxes.
• A look at how the institute's scholars continually fight the battle for freedom.
• A piece about the Show-Me Institute's book club, and its weekend spreading free-market ideas at a science fiction convention.
• A summary of recent media coverage and interviews.
• An article about the institute's recent Missouri blogosphere conference.
• An article about how Show-Me Institute scholars testify before legislators in Jefferson City.

In this issue:

• An article about the lectures and forum luncheons that the Show-Me Institute is sponsoring throughout Missouri.
• A message from Jason Hannasch about a new Policy Pulse news coverage contest.
• A look at the institute's free-market book club.
• A message about how you can double the value of a donation to the Show-Me Institute.
• An overview of "Government in Missouri," a new study by policy analyst David Stokes.
• A summary of recent legislative testimony and radio appearances by Show-Me Institute scholars.
• A profile of new board member Gerald Reynolds.

In this issue:

• A review of recent Show-Me Institute policy studies.
• A message from Jim Forsyth, of the board of directors, about how economic freedom and the entrepreurial spirit are the real driving forces behind widespread prosperity.
• A look at Beverly Gossage's recent trip to attend a Cato Institute health care summit in Baltimore.
• A profile of the Show-Me Institute's research director, Joe Haslag, who also works as an economics professor at the University of Missouri–Columbia.
• An overview of the Show-Me Institute's groundbreaking education funding conference in October.
• Briefs about how the Show-Me Institute has made recent appearances in the Wall Street Journal and the Heritage Foundation's quarterly magazine The Insider.

In this issue:

• A new study proposes that the Missouri income tax be phased out by 2020
• The Show-Me Institute releases a pair of studies proposing a 10-year phase-out of the earnings tax in Saint Louis and Kansas City, respectively.
• Education scholars and activists speak at several Show-Me Institute events in Kansas City and Saint Louis.
• Vice president Jason Hannasch makes the case for education reform in Missouri.
• We remember Milton Friedman, the twentieth century's greatest advocate of individual liberty.
• Sarah Brodsky argues that Missouri's so-called "homeowner's bill of rights" enriches real estate brokers at the expense of homeowners.

In this issue:

• A look at the Show-Me Institute's new staff members and Columbia facilities.
• A message from Joseph Haslag, executive vice president, about development tax credits.
• A profile of the Peabody Journal of Education issue devoted to reprinting seven Show-Me Institute studies.
• An article about the institute's new economic policy speaker series.
• A feature about "Show-Me: Living," an online set of interactive tools that provide practical information about Missouri government.
• A look at two new policy studies, about transportation in Missouri and the state's judicial selection plan, and a new case study about the economic impact of the E-10 ethanol mandate.