On Thursday, December 21, the Show-Me Institute’s Patrick Tuohey appeared on KCPT’s Ruckus to discuss the latest twist in the Kansas City […]
On December 21, Show-Me Institute CEO Brenda Talent appeared on Saint Louis Public Television’s Donnybrook to discuss cuts to Saint Louis County’s budget, […]
I’ve written here before, skeptically, of the plans to address the so-called food desert on Kansas City’s East Side. Specifically, […]
In the lead-up to the November vote on tearing down Kansas City International Airport’s terminals and building a new $1.2 […]
In contrast to this Columbia Missourian story about the NoMORedTape regulatory reform project, I take a much rosier view of how […]
As its details became clearer, we talked a lot over the least few weeks about the policy ideas that underpin […]
A while back a colleague at UMSL approached me in the hallway. In a joking manner she asked, “Hey, why […]
A lack of clarity regarding how the City of Saint Louis manages taxpayers’ money has pushed some residents to demand […]
Paul F. Byrne, a professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas—who has examined tax increment financing (TIF) use in Missouri […]
For the past several months, Kansas City’s Planning, Zoning and Economic Development Committee has been considering regulations relating to short-term […]
Today marks the 76th anniversary of the attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor. As we remember this day […]
Much to the consternation of public education officials, the State Board of Education voted to remove the commissioner of education, […]
Are government regulations blocking the path to growth and job creation? This year, Governor Eric Greitens signed Executive Order 17-03, […]
CodeHS, a California-based company, announced a new initiative called Code Missouri that will bring computer science and coding classes to […]
A little over a month ago, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that two administrators from Riverview Gardens filed separate lawsuits […]
Imagine that you suffer from a heart condition that requires daily monitoring of your resting heart rate, blood pressure, and […]
The Nirvana fallacy often gets in the way of policymaking when, as Voltaire described, we let the perfect become the […]
Americans readily accept two opposing ideas about the first Thanksgiving – one bright and highly idealized, the other grey and […]
On Monday, November 20, Show-Me Opportunity’s Mike Ferguson appeared on ABC St. Louis KDNL’s The Allman Report to discuss the cuts to Missouri’s […]
