The Loop Trolley appears stuck in an endless loop of delays. It was recently announced that the opening of the […]
Kansas City Mayor Sly James is working on a proposal for a sales tax increase to fund expanded pre-K education. […]
Good policy doesn’t have to be complicated. That’s the lesson we should take from the way Michigan legislators took on […]
By next week, the Missouri State Board of Education should be up and running again. They’ve got plenty of business […]
University City officials seem far too eager to give away taxpayer dollars to developers who are hardly in need of […]
For decades, Missourians have been paying hundreds of millions in special sales taxes they all too often had no clue […]
Richard Florida is an urban studies theorist who promoted the idea that the creative class would drive urban renewal and […]
On May 31, Show-Me Institute CEO Brenda Talent appeared on KETC’s Donnybrook to discuss the fallout from recent events in […]
Six years ago, Michael Rathbone and I coauthored a paper that looked at Missouri’s corporate income tax, assessed its problems […]
Are economic development incentives worthwhile? Abundant research from all over the country says they are not. Kansas City leaders disagree, […]
Marching to the beat of your own drummer is all good and well as long as you know where you’re […]
Does it really matter who’s running a school district? Put another way, is paying top dollar for a superintendent a […]
Harvard economist and Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Edward Glaeser appeared at Saint Louis University on May 9, 2018 as part […]
On December 1, 2017, the Missouri State Board of Education went into a closed session and ousted Commissioner Margie Vandeven. […]
If school districts can levy taxes, then taxpayers should be able to see exactly how the money is being spent. […]
In the last few days, several Missouri editorial boards have published pieces bemoaning the income tax cuts passed by the Missouri legislature, […]
With apologies to The Rolling Stones, I write today about the Missouri Legislature’s passage of HB 1460. The bill would […]
State Lawmakers have cut income taxes for Missourians with a bill that now heads to the desk of Governor Eric […]
It took a roundabout way to get there, but the House (last night) and the Senate (today) passed Senate Bill […]
Do you remember January of 2016? Adele’s Hello was displaced by Justin Bieber’s Sorry at the top of the Billboard […]
