At a City Council meeting last Thursday (8/18), a group of rail activists presented what were once secret plans for […]
The quotation above, attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi, might make a good motto for Kansas City’s Economic Development Corporation […]
Every year, the policy journal Education Next polls a representative sample of Americans about their views on education issues. Their […]
Steve Foutch is a Kansas City real estate developer who, at least before today, was pursuing taxpayer support to build […]
David Martin over at The Pitch has a great piece about how the positive economic impacts of a Chiefs training […]
Last week, I offered a “Mythbusters”-style blog on the (mistaken) belief that charter schools suspend students at higher rates than […]
Mark Twain is credited with the saying, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what […]
In a recent Post-Dispatch column, Tony Messenger called for an ‘AND’ approach to transit planning in the St. Louis region. […]
The problem with bad public policy is that it often sounds like good public policy. These ideas have enough of […]
For our summer vacation, my daughters and I made a 4,000-mile trek through the desert southwest to San Diego and […]
Kansas City hasn’t been the friendliest place for ridesharing/transportation network companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft. Although regulators in the […]
I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t like recess. As a former elementary school teacher myself, I can tell you that […]
What if we told you that the state is cutting welfare checks to people who are living out of state, […]
At 7:00 pm tonight Chesterfield City Hall will be hosting a Council meeting to discuss, among other things, the extension […]
One of my favorite books as a child was If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. “If you give a […]
If you haven’t already, please read my colleague Mike McShane’s piece, “Teacher pensions have a math problem.” Mike does a […]
As I scrolled through my twitter feed this morning, a tweet from NPR jumped out at me: All I could […]
St. Louis-based Centene is the largest managed care provider in the United States, and they're looking to expand with two […]
Back on January 1, 2011, the Monarch Fire Protection District (MFPD) and the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF) Local […]
On Monday Clayton City Hall found itself filled to the brim with citizens hoping to attend a public hearing regarding […]
