For years now, city leaders have pushed for a $1.2 billion new airport terminal, first proposed by former Aviation Department […]
In an article last week about the impact of the recent election on state policy, The Wall Street Journal came […]
When my mother was young, she decided to knit herself a sweater with her favorite flower, a daisy, on it. […]
After nearly a decade of failing to achieve state accreditation, Riverview Gardens School District achieved provisionally accredited status, which will […]
Last week the Post-Dispatch reported on a proposed $130 million luxury tower in the Central West End, to be named […]
Bill DeWitt III, President of the St. Louis Cardinals, let the city know he was “ticked off” when he heard […]
One of the first tenets of free-market thinking is that nobody owes anybody else a job – much less a […]
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The climate is so-so, there’s no nearby ocean or mountain range, and the metro area population has climbed only modestly […]
We often use this blog to criticize city leaders for their bad ideas. City leaders rush to spend public funds […]
When it comes to the workings of the government, the more transparency the better. Missouri’s Sunshine Law is intended to […]
The 2017 Blueprint: Moving Missouri Forward presents 15 policy ideas covering a broad ranges of issues – from education to healthcare, from […]
Saint Louis City Mayor Francis Slay wants to spend $2.2 billion on a new north–south MetroLink line, originally reported at […]
Supporters and opponents of tax subsidies disagree over one key question: Do the jobs and economic activity generated by a […]
President-elect Trump has talked a great deal about the need for massive and widespread infrastructure spending. Many people agree that […]
Planning for retirement is no small task, and when news comes that a public pension plan is in financial trouble, […]
On Friday, 41 Action News in Kansas City did an in-depth report on the issue of Right to Work and its […]
Slate, a left-leaning news site, considers the implications for transit of Trump’s naming of Elaine Chao to head the Department […]
This Tuesday Indiana state officials announced that a Carrier manufacturing plant located there would not shut down after all, despite […]
Sometimes we want something so badly we’ll tell ourselves just about anything in order to get it. Psychologists and philosophers […]
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, public welfare and healthcare state spending have become the largest contributors to […]
