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Deathblow to St. Louis Charter Schools?
10 Jun

Deathblow to St. Louis Charter Schools?

Posted by Michael Q. McShane School Choice

Saint Louis Public Schools are suing the state for 42 million dollars, claiming this money was improperly sent to charter […]

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Saint Louis Should Learn from MetroLink’s Disappointing Past
09 Jun

Saint Louis Should Learn from MetroLink’s Disappointing Past

Posted by Joseph Miller Transportation

Mayor Slay is talking up plans for a billion-dollar-plus expansion of Saint Louis’s light rail system, the MetroLink. This means that […]

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Waiting for VanLoh
09 Jun

Waiting for VanLoh

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Transportation

The last three years of Kansas City aviation policy is much like Samuel Becket’s play, “Waiting for Godot.” We the […]

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Kansas City Plans for Autonomous Buses
07 Jun

Kansas City Plans for Autonomous Buses

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Transportation

According to Startland, “Kansas City’s Home for Innovation News,” city leaders proposed a few ideas they would pursue if they […]

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Light Rail a Losing Proposition for Saint Louis
07 Jun

Light Rail a Losing Proposition for Saint Louis

Posted by Joseph Miller Transportation

As the Post-Dispatch recently reported, Mayor Slay is starting to throw his weight behind a long-awaited expansion of the MetroLink, […]

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Who’s Paying for $160 Million in Blues Upgrades?
06 Jun

Who’s Paying for $160 Million in Blues Upgrades?

Posted by Joseph Miller Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

The Saint Louis Blues had a very successful season, making it deep into the playoffs and just two wins short […]

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Taxpayer Dollars and All That Jazz
06 Jun

Taxpayer Dollars and All That Jazz

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Business Climate

The Kansas City Star reported over the weekend that the City Council will soon decide whether to spend more on […]

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Pensions Are Taking on Riskier Investments and Putting Retirees’ Money In Jeopardy
03 Jun

Pensions Are Taking on Riskier Investments and Putting Retirees’ Money In Jeopardy

Posted by James V. Shuls Public Pensions

A year ago, the Show-Me Institute released “Betting on the Big Returns: How Missouri Teacher Pension Plans Have Shifted to […]

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The Streetcar’s Future Ridership
03 Jun

The Streetcar’s Future Ridership

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Transportation

Almost every story about the newly opened Kansas City streetcar tells us that ridership is higher than expected, and indeed […]

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The Negative Impacts of Development Subsidies
02 Jun

The Negative Impacts of Development Subsidies

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Corporate Welfare, Subsidies

The Kansas City Star’s Joe Robertson has written recently about the closure of the Kansas City office of the National […]

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Making Sure Municipal Courts Are Not Tax Collectors
02 Jun

Making Sure Municipal Courts Are Not Tax Collectors

Posted by Jonathan Brown Courts

In recent sessions, the Missouri State Legislature has made great strides toward reducing the perverse incentives and effects of taxation […]

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Saint Louis’s Central Business District: The Heart of What?
02 Jun

Saint Louis’s Central Business District: The Heart of What?

Posted by Joseph Miller Business Climate

Last week, a murder a few blocks from the Saint Louis Convention Center turned attention toward both the safety and […]

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Evaluating the Kansas City Streetcar
01 Jun

Evaluating the Kansas City Streetcar

Posted by Patrick Tuohey Transportation

The Kansas City Streetcar opened to glowing and effusive praise from local media, some of it embarrassingly fawning. After all […]

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Session Notes: Ethics Reforms Get A Boost
01 Jun

Session Notes: Ethics Reforms Get A Boost

Posted by Patrick Ishmael Transparency

Despite a few flabbergasting legislative moments that threatened to blow it all up, Missouri's General Assembly eventually did pass a basket of important […]

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Some School Finance Common Sense from Deep in the Heart of Texas
31 May

Some School Finance Common Sense from Deep in the Heart of Texas

Posted by Michael Q. McShane Accountability

Last week, the Supreme Court of Texas handed down its decision in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Lone […]

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Session Notes: Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Fails Again
31 May

Session Notes: Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Fails Again

Posted by Patrick Ishmael Free-Market Reform

With the 2016 legislative session behind them, Missouri's legislature has once again rejected Obamacare's Medicaid expansion. Had it passed, the […]

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Uber Under Threat in Saint Louis
31 May

Uber Under Threat in Saint Louis

Posted by Joseph Miller Transportation

The Metropolitan Taxicab Commission (MTC), which regulates for-hire vehicles (mainly taxis) in Saint Louis City and County, has attempted to […]

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Education Savings Accounts Found Constitutional in Nevada
27 May

Education Savings Accounts Found Constitutional in Nevada

Posted by Michael Q. McShane School Choice

Last week, a Clark County judge threw out a constitutional challenge to Nevada’s landmark education savings account program.  The ACLU […]

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Know-it-all Government Undermines Growth and Jobs
27 May

Know-it-all Government Undermines Growth and Jobs

Posted by Andrew B. Wilson Economy, Regulation

With strict new rules mandating overtime pay for aspiring professionals and others in mid-level managerial positions, the Obama administration is […]

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Missouri State Parks Floating the Idea of Crowding Out Private Enterprise
27 May

Missouri State Parks Floating the Idea of Crowding Out Private Enterprise

Posted by James V. Shuls Business Climate

Small business owners are used to competition.  Most know who their main competitors are. They also know that if they […]

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