After hearing about Show-Me Institute research finding that the city of Saint Louis was turning down almost one out of […]
Last Friday’s St. Louis Business Journal reports that movies will soon return to downtown St. Louis more than eight years after […]
The Missouri Democratic Party has announced that it will be launching an initiative petition to reduce the number of state […]
Free-Market Field Trip: Food Truck Edition – Stay Tuned!
It was sunny and in the 70s yesterday — I couldn’t picture a better day to grab a cupcake and […]
In 2010, no fewer than four different people tried to buy 2925 Union Blvd., the building pictured below. During an […]
In the second half of this short 1967 video about the first personal computer in Britain, the narrator describes how […]
Subsidizing Exports Will Do More Harm Than Good for Missouri
China already imports free-marketpolicy analysts from Missouri. State lawmakers want to turn Saint Louis into an international cargo hub. Sounds […]
Voters in Saint Louis and Kansas City will soon vote on whether to retain their respective city earnings taxes. What’s […]
False Advertising? Missouri’s Corporate Income Tax Rate Is the 16th-Lowest – Not the 5th-Lowest
There’s a factual error in the advertisement for Missouri that I highlighted recently. The ad says “5th lowest corporate income tax rate,” […]
Show-Me Institute scholars and analysts have been activily involved in debates about the earnings taxes in St. Louis and Kansas […]
Good News For People Who Want to Buy Vacant City Property
What a difference a few months make. The Saint Louis Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) held its monthly meeting today, and […]
While lawmakers in the Show-Me State want to hike the cigarette tax rate, lawmakers in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and […]
Call it “the smoker’s dilemma”: Everyone knows that smoking kills, but a habitual smoker may be convinced that he requires […]
Off the Track
The governor has announced that Missouri will seek additional funding for high-speed rail. This is, in my opinion, a very […]
As I flew back from vacation, I stumbled upon a full-page advertisement for Missouri in my in-flight magazine. Although I […]
Why Spend More Than $400 Million to Subsidize Warehouse Construction?
From today’s Post-Dispatch: “St. Louis’ dreams of becoming a gateway for Chinese air cargo are going to need some more […]
Now that I have my eyes open for food trucks, I see them nearly everywhere I go! While I was […]
A study (non-gated, working version) in the latest Journal of Labor Economics shows that students attending charter schools are significantly […]
Call it “the smoker’s dilemma”: Everyone knows that smoking kills, but a habitual smoker may be convinced that he requires […]
Yesterday, the Missouri Watchdog ran an article by Brian Hook about the State Small Business Credit Initiative, which will make […]
