In his quest to balance the budget, Gov. Jay Nixon has proposed cutting tax credits drastically: [Nixon’s economic development director […]
SMI on Public Radio Tomorrow
Tomorrow (Tuesday), I’ll be a special guest for the Legal Roundtable segment on Don Marsh’s “St. Louis On The Air” […]
The Riverfront Times blog points out that a judge in the local U.S. District Court has determined that St. Louis […]
Having a huge state budget deficit does have positive consequences, albeit few. One particular example is that the Missouri state […]
The Earnings Tax Is Still Bad, for All the Reasons We’ve Already Said
The Kansas City Star‘s website has a piece today by two Saint Louis University professors arguing against the repeal of […]
In an op-ed published today, the editorial board at the St. Joseph News-Press encourages Missouri’s legislators and leaders in economic […]
The core of this issue has already been argued on the eastern side of the state. A 2007 change to […]
On Feb. 18, the Show-Me Institute proudly presented featured speaker Dr. Jay Greene in conjunction with the Kansas City Public […]
An Opportunity for SLPS
Now that the Missouri Virtual Instruction Program has lost state funding and is charging tuition, it’s an opportune time for […]
Gov. Jay Nixon has proposed $120 million in cuts for the state’s Medicaid program. There has been a lot of […]
Advancing Saint Louis through Bad Economics
This morning at the office, David Stokes brought in a mailer he received from Advance Saint Louis urging him to […]
This is from a Columbia Missourian article about a campaign to identify respondents’ sexual orientation on Census forms: “The census […]
First Calorie Counts, Next Local Food Labels?
This essay on the Huffington Post sees calorie count mandates as the beginning of a “food revolution”: [T]his could be […]
Currently, home-schooled students cannot participate in high school athletics, but a bill before the Missouri Senate would allow them to […]
A Hebrew-language charter school is set to open this fall in New Jersey. Unlike the California “Hebrew-language” charter I recently […]
In an article in the Wall Street Journal today, Reed Albergotti writes that eliminating the salary cap on free agents […]
Those of you who become physically ill when you watch ads connecting Census participation and government funding might want to […]
State Government Employee Thinks the Private Sector Exists to Serve Him
There is a very weak letter-to-the-editor / small op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader today (hat tip to Combest) from someone with […]
The Census Bureau has created a map that allows you to track Census mail participation rates, which the bureau defines […]
Thus begins the AP story about the national calorie count mandate, which will force restaurant chains comprising 20 or more […]
