The major difficulty in reforming health care in this country is that most of us want improved health outcomes, but […]
I realize that I may sound like a broken record on the subject, but I’d like to alert our readers […]
A few weeks ago, I testified at the Missouri Tax Credit Review Commission’s meeting in Columbia. I’d like to highlight […]
It’s over. The nanny state is through the looking glass in St. Louis County. To take a cue from Neil Young: […]
In a St. Louis Business Journal editorial, the chief operating officer of a development company praises low-income housing tax credits […]
The Kansas City Star’s editorial board wrote recently that the city should deal with vacant houses and buildings more aggressively, […]
Apropos of my post about income taxes last Friday, two columns that ran over the weekend dramatically illustrate the downsides […]
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal ran an editorial by economist Art Laffer about the negative impact of state income […]
Show-Me Living is one of the Show-Me Institute’s best resources for accessing public information about Missouri government expenditures. Questions about tax […]
As I understand it, at their regular meeting tomorrow, Kansas City’s City Council will be deciding on whether or not […]
Yesterday, in a rural part of northwestern Tennessee (fairly close to Missouri), a fire department refused to put out the […]
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed last March requires insurers to spend at least 80 to 85 percent […]
You may have noticed the statewide hubbub about the so-called “Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act.” I’m starting to wonder how […]
The $2.5 billion settlement to improve the Kansas City sewer system has put the city well past the question of […]
Mike Guzy, who currently writes for the St. Louis Beacon and formerly wrote for the Post-Dispatch, is a very talented […]
The Kansas City Star recently wrote that the city should step up its efforts to deal with more than 12,000 […]
If you’re like me, you too have spent the past few months eagerly awaiting the release of a certain academic […]
On Monday, the Show-Me Institute will host another Show-Me Forum in Columbia, at which I will present a talk called […]
Transportation expert (and sometimes Show-Me Institute author) Randal O’Toole wrote an editorial for USA Today about the folly of huge […]
According to the Reason Foundation, New York Governor Mario Cuomo said about privatization, “It is not a government’s obligation to […]
