The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting on the budget troubles in Florissant, the largest city in St. Louis County. Not […]
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall! To celebrate the historic event, the Washington University […]
On Friday, the state of Missouri surprised me. I’m used to long waits, unreturned phone calls, and copying fees whenever […]
I knew homeschoolers in Tennessee faced some restrictions, but I wasn’t aware that parents need a bachelor’s degree or their […]
This article in the Kansas City Star celebrates the Parents as Teachers Program, and the fact that it makes no […]
MoDOT Director Pete Rahn has received a well-deserved award from Governing Magazine for his work at MoDOT. I eagerly second […]
The Kansas City Star reports that on Sunday, the state’s Department of Revenue began enforcing a 4-percent tax on yoga […]
Nothing involves the combination of occupational licensing, the Second Amendment, civil rights, police and courts, free markets, and entrepreneurship quite like the bail […]
Worrisome news from Los Angeles suggests that some public school districts are not the “melting pots” that education lore makes […]
Today was the second USDA live Facebook chat. (Here are my comments on the first chat; the video is here.) […]
No school program epitomizes a childhood in the nineties like the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program (D.A.R.E.). I still have […]
A Wall Street Journal article explains how unusually rainy weather affects the corn and soybean harvests. Most crops aren’t dry […]
Matthew Kahn writes about safety precautions that can do more harm than good because they lull people into complacency: Child […]
At Cato@Liberty, Andrew Coulson discusses Charles Murray’s ideas about education. Murray advocates competition in education because he believes competing schools […]
If a successful, low-cost, cutting-edge school in Missouri were being shut down midway through the school year, leaving thousands of […]
The Missouri Budget Project recently wrote a special piece for the St. Louis Beacon about affordable health care, “What to […]
Today brought sad news for Laura Dekker: The Dutch court has forbidden her to set sail and extended state guardianship […]
I think not, but that’s what a poster from the New York City Health Department does. The poster, which is […]
Our Policy Pulse site has a good story with some detailed links to the recent budget cuts announced by the […]
You may well have noticed that we’re rapidly reaching the end of 2009, and yet we had not yet released […]
