The release of the scores from the 2015 MAP test a few weeks ago has brought with it new discussion […]
Pro football is great entertainment, but building a new stadium with hundreds of millions of dollars from the public is […]
As my colleagues David Stokes, Michael Rathbone, and Joe Miller have chronicled for years, community improvement districts (CIDs)—a type of […]
Back in April I noted that the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) was mulling significant changes to the way that cities and […]
In Missouri, once a union becomes the “exclusive representative” for a group of public employees, that union remains in power […]
Ronald Reagan once said that Americans "should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added." […]
By most academic measures, the Show-Me State usually performs near the middle of the pack, rarely cracking the top 25 in […]
The Saint Louis Board of Aldermen met yesterday to discuss a modified proposal that would have raised the city’s minimum […]
Last month I talked with a restaurant owner who told me that a sizeable increase in Saint Louis’ minimum wage […]
Millions of Americans buying insurance in the Obamacare marketplaces could be in for a rude awakening when 2016 rolls around. […]
College towns are typically bastions of liberalism, and Missouri’s uber-college town of Columbia is no exception. Columbia Tribune reporter Rudi Keller even […]
Recently, the Saint Louis Business Journal reported that Koman Group, a real estate developer, plans to add to two apartment […]
Happy National Employee Freedom Week! The American Association of Educators (AAE), a freedom-promoting alternative to the National Educator Association (NEA) […]
The Nevada Treasurer’s Office has been flooded with applications from parents seeking to use the state’s new Education Savings Account […]
Automation is likely to become more and more prevalent as time goes on, and the fast-food industry is likely to be […]
Kansas City will hire a new superintendent this year. How will that change education in the city. Show-Me Institute Director […]
Recently, Moody’s, a prominent credit rating group, downgraded Saint Louis’s debt rating. While the changes are nothing drastic (and the […]
One of the core purposes of the Show-Me Institute is to promote transparency at all levels of government. We think […]
Earlier this month, I wrote about an emerging trend in school choice policy: course access programs, which allow students to […]
It’s employee freedom week. That means groups around the nation are educating employees about freedoms they have to opt out […]
