MetroLink wants $2 billion for a North-South expansion line, but ridership continues to decrease. Could this money be better spent?
Here’s a fun hypothetical. Imagine you own a burger joint, but you only have one grill, no one to work […]
No, I didn’t relinquish my title as Director of Education Policy at SMI to become the Institute’s new food critic, […]
Tonight at 7pm the Chesterfield City Council will meet and open the floor to public comment regarding the construction and […]
The difference between winning and losing a political race can come down to a handful of votes. Every vote counts, […]
Parents naturally want the best schools for their children. In Saint Louis and Kansas City, this leads many parents to […]
Recently, Kansas City, Missouri’s mayor, Sly James, wrote in The Hill that America needed a new agenda for cities. No […]
In 2015, an average pound of coffee cost about $4.70. Now imagine if, over the next nine years, the price […]
If you had to guess what Missouri’s most valuable export was, what do you think it would be? Beer? Cars? […]
Recent economic data reinforces an old story: Missouri’s economy is not expanding fast enough to substantially raise its citizens’ income. […]
One of the biggest problems with American health care has been the fragmentation of our health insurance market. Long before […]
And no, the headline isn't an exaggeration. As reported in the Riverfront Times, four University of Missouri researchers blinded a […]
Show-Me Institute analysts have written for years about the economic research on—and the damaging effects of—mandating a higher minimum wage […]
Last week we published a blog post in which we explained how Kansas City’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) benefits from […]
2,373 students. That is the difference between last fall’s and this fall’s enrollment at Mizzou. It is worse than what […]
Everyone knows the expression “stubborn as a mule.” More than a tired cliché, however, that is a doltish misperception, foisted […]
Last week Clayco CEO Bob Clark made a guest appearance on KTRS to discuss the Centene expansion being proposed in […]
Last summer, the Kansas City Star tried to defend the city from the charge that it overpaid for its 2.2-mile […]
File this under the grass isn’t always greener. The San Francisco Chronicle revealed last week that the University of California–Berkeley […]
Missouri has the lowest cigarette tax in the nation, but with two ballot initiatives coming up this November, that might […]
