Just like school years come and go and spring fades into summer, controversy over how we fund our schools has […]
Dan Colgan, longtime superintendent of the St. Joseph public schools, has been sentenced to one year and one day in […]
Last week I posted a comparison of output in Missouri to that of the United States. The bottom line is […]
The Urban Land Institute invited me to speak on a panel the other day to discuss Kansas City’s use of […]
It was a vintage if ill-advised display of firmness. A quarter of a century ago, Margaret Thatcher threw the British […]
Recently released data on the output of goods and services showed that Missouri’s economy barely grew in 2015. While the […]
Those who have followed the expansion of streetcars in Kansas City and across the country will know that the primary […]
Last week, a federal judge in Denver refused to expand the Douglas County school voucher program to include religious schools. […]
After the events of Ferguson, when it was discovered that the city had been using fines and court fees to […]
A “food desert” is an urban area devoid of grocery stores—thought to affect the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables […]
Recently on this blog, my colleague Mike McShane highlighted a fascinating post from Chad Aldeman of Bellwether Education Partners. Using […]
When it comes to state pensions in Missouri and bad news, the hits just keep on coming. Last week, Bellwether […]
St. Louis is considering a billion-dollar plus expansion of its light-rail system, the MetroLink, but is the burden to taxpayers […]
Here at the Show-Me Institute, we have harped, for years, on the unsustainability of Missouri’s pension system. We do this […]
This Thursday, representatives of the Missouri State Employees Retirement System (MOSERS) and the Public School Retirement System (PSRS) will meet […]
Churchill called courage the “first” of the virtues. In the garden of good and evil, it is the one virtue […]
By disposition, I am an optimist. For a person of my particular predilections it is, to echo Dickens, the best […]
By disposition, I am an optimist. For a person of my particular predilections it is, to echo Dickens, the best […]
Airports across the country are experiencing longer security lines, but is there a solution? Yes. Several U.S. airports, including Kansas […]
Unions in Idaho and Wisconsin have filed federal lawsuits claiming that employees who don't want to be in their unions […]
