Wednesday, May 12 – Ramesh Ponnuru: The Case for a Conservative Economic Agenda

Posted on Apr 30, 2021
Corporate Welfare
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May 5, 2021
PACE Loans Are Out of Line
A decade ago, Missouri created the Property Assessment Clean Energy (PACE) loan program to help homeowners and businesses get loans for clean energy improvements to their property. A PACE loan […]
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Economy
May 4, 2021
Are Occupational Credentials the Answer to Educational Polarization?
As a scholar of education policy, three related facts have troubled me recently: Fact #1: Our economy and society are increasingly bifurcating along educational lines. Fact #2: People with bachelors’ […]
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Economy
May 3, 2021
Missouri’s Population Growth Is Still Lagging
The U.S. Census Bureau just released its updated state populations from the 2020 census, and the results were not good for Missouri. Over the past decade, Missouri’s population grew by […]
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Corporate Welfare
Apr 30, 2021
If at First You Don’t Succeed . . .
Try, try again, right? Unfortunately, that seems to be the motto developers are using with the Crestwood Plaza mall site. New developers are seeking tax-increment financing (TIF) and other taxpayer […]
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State and Local Government
Apr 29, 2021
Jackson County Assessment Facts, Part 3
This is the third in a series of posts on assessment practices in Jackson County, Missouri. It comes a mere 8 years after the first two posts. (My time in […]

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State and Local Government
Apr 29, 2021
Missourians May Lose Their Homes Because of State-Supported Loans
As reported by ProPublica’s Jeremy Kohler and Haru Coryne, more than 100 homes with PACE loans in metropolitan Kansas City and St. Louis are at risk of being sold at […]
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Economy
Apr 28, 2021
Should Missouri Mandate Biodiesel?
Should the Missouri Legislature require all diesel fuel sold in Missouri be blended with corn and soybean oil? A bill passed by the House and currently in the Senate would […]
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Corporate Welfare
Apr 27, 2021
Tides Turning Against TIF?
Public support is growing for efforts to protect local funding from bad tax-increment financing (TIF) deals, but will the elected officials of Boonville listen? In the April 6th election, voters […]
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Education
Apr 27, 2021
SMI Podcast: What We Got Wrong About School Reopenings with Andy Smarick
Andy Smarick joins the podcast to discuss his recent piece in The Dispatch titled What the Narrative on School Reopenings Has Missed. Andy Smarick is a senior fellow at the Manhattan […]
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State and Local Government
Apr 27, 2021
Is it Time to Merge Two St. Louis County Police Departments?
On Tuesday, April 27, David Stokes, Director of Municipal Policy for the Show-Me Institute, joined The Mcgraw Show on The Big 550 KTRS  to discuss push back from a local […]
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Economy
Apr 23, 2021
How Are We Recovering? (Part 1)
The economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has been much more rapid and robust than people initially predicted. It’s possible that memories of the slow rebound from the Great Recession […]

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