Download the Full Report Here A Free-Market Guide for Missouri Municipalities is a multi-part series by David Stokes, director of […]
When it comes to Missouri’s budget, what you see is not always what you get. Recently, as Missouri’s House of […]
Missouri currently has a very weak system of accountability for public school districts. Every spring, students take assessments under the […]
As part of the dramatic cuts at the U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration’s DOGE program, the entire […]
In 2023, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University released its third National Charter School Study. […]
As part of the ongoing saga of the 2023 Jackson County reassessment debacle, the Missouri State Tax Commission (STC) ordered […]
Susan Pendergrass and Dominic Pino, the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at the National Review Institute, discuss the current state of […]
My colleague David Stokes has written a good deal about an effort in Platte County to institute a sales tax […]
Missouri families are still waiting for access to open enrollment. The Missouri House recently passed House Bill (HB) 711, but […]
On Tuesday, Crystal City voters will decide whether to retain their district’s four-day school week (4dsw) or return to a […]
Are you ready for spring? It appears members of Missouri’s general assembly certainly are. Before lawmakers left Jefferson City for […]
The following letter appeared in the Kansas City Star. There is a proposal to sell the Sugar Creek water and […]
The Missouri Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 4 to address concerns about the state’s energy future. Much of the bill […]
Kansas City has offered billions in incentives to attract massive data centers from Meta and Google, hoping to secure long-term […]
In partnership with the WashULaw Federalist Society, the Show-Me Institute is pleased to present Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow and director of constitutional […]
The passage of Senate Bill (SB) 727 last year was an important step toward expanding charter access in Missouri, increasing […]
The Kansas City Star recently published a piece on investor-owned housing that seeks to raise the alarm on corporate landlords, […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the Examiner. It’s an obscure state law that every article about government and politics […]
I am a big fan of DOGE, MOGE, and whatever else they want to call any office that attempts to […]
What’s Happening in Jefferson City? Get the inside scoop on the Missouri legislative session and policies that could directly impact […]
