The title of this blog entry should be spoken as if you were Johnny Cochran (R.I.P.). The Post-Dispatch is reporting […]
The special legislative session starts Monday in Jefferson City. I am very excited that one of the bills being considered […]
While spending the week at a seminar sponsored by the Foundation for Economic Education, I’ve repeatedly noticed the presenters tripping […]
I do my best thinking at night. At least, that is how I justified my late-night walk this week through […]
Thanks to everybody who listened to Audrey Spalding’s segment on KMOX this morning about discrepancies in the tax credit application […]
On June 7, 2010 staff members from the Show-Me Institute presented their thoughts on the best and worst bills of […]
Audrey Spalding, the Show-Me Institute’s public information specialist, will appear on The Charlie Brennan Show tomorrow, Friday morning, at 10:20 […]
Today, Show-Me Institute Research Analyst Christine Harbin appeared on the Sarah Steelman Hour radio show in Springfield, talking about tax […]
Yesterday, Combest linked to a story in the Post-Dispatch about a talk that former MoDOT director Pete Rahn gave in […]
I came across this St. Louis Business-Journal blog post from a week ago arguing that St. Louis should follow the […]
The Commonwealth Fund published a study comparing the health care system in America to the systems of six other developed […]
Show-Me Institute Research Analyst Christine Harbin will be on the Mike Ferguson show on Columbia’s 93.9 FM “The Eagle” at […]
Last Thursday, the governor cut $47 million from the state’s annual $600 million tax credit program. This program grants incentives to businesses […]
The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted some of the possible effects, including increased unemployment, of a bill on the governor’s […]
Let’s call it what it is: a handout, a freebie, a bailout. By rejecting automotive bailout funds in 2008 and […]
The city of St. Louis is debating a local legislative proposal that will, for the first time, impose a mandatory […]
Supporters for incentive programs, such as tax credits and tax increment financing (TIF), claim that businesses would not locate in […]
There was some classic rent-seeking behavior in the editorial section of the Post-Dispatch yesterday: An architect touts historic preservation tax […]
As I noted in my discussions of the Columbia SWAT raid, police often shoot domestic animals in the course of […]
The Washington Examiner has an excellent column by Timothy Carney about a subject that just drives me nuts: government using […]
