The forms that the Census Bureau sends out aren’t directed at children, and when Census workers go door-to-door collecting information […]
Health Care Gets a Little Less Expensive
Here’s some good news for consumers: Schnucks is dispensing free prenatal vitamins to women with prescriptions. The offer builds on […]
New Study Says Film Production Incentives Don’t Incite Economic Growth
Yesterday on the Tax Foundation’s Tax Policy Blog, Joseph Henchman discusses Michigan’s filmmaker tax credit program. He asks many of […]
In an article about Missouri’s open enrollment proposal, the Post-Dispatch quotes the director of a Minnesota education center: “I don’t […]
Today’s Kansas City Star has a story by Brad Cooper about the efforts of the Missouri Transportation Alliance to generate […]
More About the Earnings Tax
The 1-percent earnings tax on Kansas City and St. Louis residents and workers has received a lot of press as […]
John Combest links to a fantastic editorial in the Jefferson City News-Tribune that compares the Race to the Top to […]
The Best News Out of Jeff City in Some Time
It does not get much more exciting than this in government (and I honestly speak here with no hyperbole or […]
Missourinet reports on the recent back and forth between supporters and detractors of a change in Missouri tax code. The […]
Real Tort Reform
It appears that the Missouri state Supreme Court may be poised to strike down the $350,000 cap on damages for […]
Columbia Shelter Reacts to Urban Chicken Proposal
The Central Missouri Humane Society is alarmed by a proposal to allow urban chickens in Columbia. It anticipates trouble caring […]
In the Race to the Top, Texas is prudently sitting on the sidelines. Texas’ education commissioner explains why it’s not […]
I learned from the Census Bureau’s advertising launch today that the bureau will be the top advertiser in the United […]
We have had a rather busy week or so in the media. More important than the past, though, is the […]
Fox4KC recently aired a story about how the governor’s proposal to increase the state sales tax rate will raise the […]
Jim Gallagher over at the Post-Dispatch had a nice column about the question of whether to license tax preparers, as […]
Regarding raw milk regulations, the Springfield News-Leader reports: Most commercial dairy producers are against the unregulated sale of raw milk […]
In a recent post, I commented on how I supported preventing felons from working as bail bondsman, but stated that […]
Political Correctness
A legislator in Washington state wants to rewrite laws that characterize poor children as “disadvantaged” or “at-risk,” so that they […]
The Drudge Report linked to a story from The Hill about the not-surprising admission that the new IRS commissioner does […]
