The Yankee’s third baseman Alex Rodriguez has a 10-year, $275 million contract — surely he has enough to pay his […]
Hog Tied
Kansas City’s Pitch has a detailed account of a legislative town hall forum in northern Missouri regarding the issue of […]
Changes to Utility Financing Regulations Necessary for Cleaner, More Efficient Energy
In his State of the State address, Gov. Jay Nixon suggested that all systems are go for work to begin […]
In this talk, given in Columbia on Feb. 7, 2011, columnist Bob Roper makes the case that the increased influence […]
Economist Jeff Milyo begins this talk debunking popular notions of campaign finance with the following true/false quiz: True or False? […]
Missouri Public Workers Are Paid Much More Than President of Labor Union Claims
Wisconsin isn’t the only state that’s talking about labor issues these days. In an editorial that ran in the Springfield […]
Facts Are Facts: The City Has Refused to Sell a Great Deal of Its Property
Alex Ihnen of nextSTL has reviewed my research of Saint Louis’ Land Reutilization Authority (LRA). The LRA is the city’s […]
On Oct. 4, 2010, Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Dave Roland, now with the Freedom Center of Missouri, spoke in Columbia […]
Have you seen the “You Paid For It” series on Fox 2 news? In this series, a reporter highlights examples of […]
A New Hope
Over the weekend, I attended the 2011 International Students for Liberty (SFL) conference in Washington, D.C. Although I have participated […]
The Time for Wishful Thinking Is Over
For years, Saint Louis officials have engaged in virtual hand-to-hand combat with the U.S. Census Bureau over the city’s population. […]
The other day, Combest linked to an AP story about added privatization opportunities in state government. The story focused on […]
Last night, Channel 4 aired reporter Craig Cheatham’s investigation into why the city of Saint Louis was rejecting offers to […]
The Saint Louis Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) owns more than 9,000 parcels of land, and the agency’s purpose, according to […]
At the Show-Me Forum in Columbia on Feb. 7, political columnist Bob Roper gave his assessment of the 2010 midterm […]
Why Not Sell City-Owned Vacant Property?
I appeared on the McGraw Milhaven show on KTRS AM this morning, discussing my research on the city of Saint […]
Gov. Jay Nixon wants to make Missouri a green state. According to an article in the Missouri Watchdog, the governor […]
Because most of the nation is focused on recent union issues in the Badger State, many people might overlook the […]
Why does the city of Saint Louis hold so many vacant homes and properties without selling most of them? How […]
John Payne, a Show-Me Institute research assistant, discusses his recent commentary about Albert Pujols’ contract negotiations with the Cardinals. Payne […]
