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A Sober Look at Development Subsidies
25 Jan

A Sober Look at Development Subsidies

Posted by Graham Renz Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

Marketing professionals and politicians alike will tell you that framing is everything. A half-carat diamond ring looks huge if you […]

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Hands_Rice
24 Jan

MOSERS Wisely Reconsiders Past Assumptions

Posted by Michael Highsmith Public Pensions

In elementary school I learned about the power of compounding from a book titled One Grain of Rice. The story […]

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A Developer’s Market
24 Jan

A Developer’s Market

Posted by Graham Renz Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

The Delmar Loop is one of the most vibrant areas in the Saint Louis region. It’s even been listed as […]

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Retooling Missouri’s Economic Engines
23 Jan

Retooling Missouri’s Economic Engines

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Municipal Policy

Dave Helling at The Kansas City Star recently wrote a piece about how Kansas City and St. Louis might fare […]

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Want to Improve Mizzou? Look East
23 Jan

Want to Improve Mizzou? Look East

Posted by Michael Highsmith Accountability

Last fall, at the same time the University of Missouri announced the first decline in enrollment in 15 years, Purdue […]

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When Bad Policy Won’t Stay Dead
20 Jan

When Bad Policy Won’t Stay Dead

Posted by Graham Renz Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

We’re far from Halloween, but some really scary things are already rising from the dead—in particular, the effort to subsidize […]

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Tax Credit-Funded Scholarships Can (and Do) Save Money
20 Jan

Tax Credit-Funded Scholarships Can (and Do) Save Money

Posted by Michael Q. McShane School Choice

Momentum is building here in Missouri for a private school choice program. This is great news, as families in Missouri […]

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Kansas City, King of Corporate Welfare
19 Jan

Kansas City, King of Corporate Welfare

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

Good Jobs First, a “national policy resource center for grassroots groups and public officials,” publishes what it calls its Subsidy […]

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Gov. Greitens Makes School Choice a Priority in State of the State Address
19 Jan

Gov. Greitens Makes School Choice a Priority in State of the State Address

Posted by Emily Stahly School Choice

On Tuesday night, Governor Eric Greitens gave his first State of the State Address and talked about some important issues […]

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Convention Center Renovations: Picking Winners and Losers with Taxpayers’ Money
18 Jan

Convention Center Renovations: Picking Winners and Losers with Taxpayers’ Money

Posted by Graham Renz Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

Plans to renovate the Edward Jones Dome and America’s Center, which together serve as Saint Louis’s convention center, are resurfacing […]

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Tuohey on Ruckus
13 Jan

Patrick Tuohey Discusses New Legislative Session On KCPT’s Ruckus

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Business Climate

On Thursday, January 12, the Show-Me Institute’s Patrick Tuohey appeared on KCPT’s Ruckus to discuss the new legislative sessions in […]

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The ‘Price’ of Doing Business
13 Jan

The ‘Price’ of Doing Business

Posted by Andrew B. Wilson Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

As first appearing in the American Spectator: As someone who ran his own business for many years, I am aware […]

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Is This What Full Accreditation Looks Like?
13 Jan

Is This What Full Accreditation Looks Like?

Posted by Emily Stahly School Choice

On Tuesday morning, the Missouri Board of Education voted unanimously to grant full accreditation to the St. Louis Public School […]

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Will Missouri Transportation Policy Catch up with the 21st Century?
11 Jan

Will Missouri Transportation Policy Catch up with the 21st Century?

Posted by Graham Renz Transportation

Missouri is one of five states without comprehensive ridesharing legislation on the books or pending approval, which places the Show-Me […]

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Kansas City and St. Louis in Bad Financial Shape
10 Jan

Kansas City and St. Louis in Bad Financial Shape

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Budget and Spending

Marc Joffe, Director of Policy Research for the California Policy Center, has rated the largest 116 U.S. cities according to […]

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Prospects Bleak for MLS Proposal-and That’s a Good Thing
10 Jan

Prospects Bleak for MLS Proposal-and That’s a Good Thing

Posted by Michael Highsmith Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

Public funding for a Major League Soccer (MLS) stadium has been a hot topic in Saint Louis over the past […]

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Who is Betsy DeVos?
09 Jan

Who is Betsy DeVos?

Posted by Michael Q. McShane School Choice

This morning, Education Next published a long-form profile I wrote on Betsy DeVos, President-Elect Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Education. […]

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Conservatives on Campus: A Vanishing Breed?
09 Jan

Conservatives on Campus: A Vanishing Breed?

Posted by Emily Stahly Accountability

If I were to ask you to estimate the ratio of liberal to conservative professors on college campuses across the […]

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A Critical Review of the SC STL Proposal
06 Jan

A Critical Review of the SC STL Proposal

Posted by Michael Highsmith Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

“Game-changing” projects that require taxpayer assistance have become the norm in Saint Louis, as public subsidies are granted to wealthy […]

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Kansas City’s Intermodal Strength
06 Jan

Kansas City’s Intermodal Strength

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Municipal Policy

The announcement a few months ago that Amazon would be opening a fulfillment center in Kansas City, Kansas was great […]

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