Longtime readers are familiar with the wide array of transparency projects that the Show-Me Institute has undertaken over the last […]
We have long said that if the government can take your money, it needs to account for it, and whether […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the Courier-Tribune. In an attempt to increase the supply of affordable housing in […]
Municipal annexations have been back in the news. An unincorporated area near Manchester (in St. Louis County) overwhelmingly rejected that […]
A version of the following letter appeared in the Oakville Call. There has been much discussion in this newspaper and […]
The simplest thing Missouri can do to improve the decision-making process for tax increment financing (TIF) is move the responsibility […]
K-12 enrollment in Missouri’s public school system has been falling for more than a decade. Today, Missouri has about 30,000 […]
I’ve been working up the strength to write about Missouri’s absolute thrashing of Tennessee a month ago. My colleague, Elias […]
Between now and the start of the legislative session, all of my blog entries, social media posts, radio interviews, holiday […]
It’s nothing new that Missouri’s state government has a spending problem, but as we head into 2024, there’s fear that […]
For the past several years, the Missouri Secretary of State has partnered with the Hunt Institute to host the Missouri […]
On November 30, Show-Me Institute hosted a virtual town hall on the future of supply-side economics beyond the legacies of […]
For the past several years, the Missouri Secretary of State has partnered with the Hunt Institute to host the Missouri […]
On December 7, 2023, Brenda Talent joined Mike Ferguson in the Morning on NewsTalkSTL to discuss the 2024 Blueprint: Moving […]
Download the 2024 Blueprint for Missouri here On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, the Show-Me Institute hosted a Virtual Town Hall […]
Recently, the commissioner of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) announced that she would be departing her […]
The Missouri high-school football playoffs have me feeling sentimental about the “good ole days” of Friday night lights. While we […]
Jackson County residents voted on adopting a “use” tax last week. Use taxes are simply sales taxes on goods you […]
An interesting vote took place last week in St. Louis County. A large unincorporated area in the southwest part of […]
In the spring 2022 assessments, just 13.4 percent of the students in St. Louis’s traditional public schools scored on grade […]
