Hopefully, this will be my last post about tort reform for a while. Combest has a couple of KMOX links […]
According to the Kansas City Star, Missouri has been approved to move ahead with a plan to install truck-only lanes […]
Speech to Students
I hope you had a good vacation; now it’s time to get in a straight line and listen to your […]
There’s a nice article in the Kansas City Star discussing the improvements made to Amtrak service in Missouri. In fact, […]
Why the Secrecy?
It took awhile to find in today’s paper, but the Post-Dispatch had a good article about developer Paul McKee’s $8 […]
The Council on Women and Girls has a new website. It provides a list of council members, as well as […]
Virtue and Government-Compelled Charity
Recently, several of my colleagues from Vanderbilt Divinity School sat in on President Barack Obama’s conference call, in which he […]
Robert Fogel explains why controlling health care costs is counterproductive: Expenditures on healthcare are driven by demand, which is spurred […]
Education Reform, Property Taxes, and What the Post-Dispatch Got Totally Wrong
There has been a great deal of discussion about property taxes in the wake of the state Supreme Court’s decision […]
School districts across Missouri — in Columbia, Kansas City, Springfield, and St. Louis — are preparing for the president’s Sept. […]
This is from a Wall Street Journal article about back-to-school sales: Despite sales tax holidays in several states designed to […]
During the current health care debate, there has been a great deal of discussion about an option for a national, […]
As Sarah has already noted, the Missouri Supreme Court yesterday brought an end to the lawsuit in which half of […]
Assignments for Sept. 8
As you’ve probably heard, the president will address public school children next week. I’m not bothered by the address itself, […]
The front page article in today’s Post-Dispatch is about the underfunding of Missouri’s public employee pension programs. This is a […]
When John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, he hardly could have […]
More on Local Food
There’s nothing wrong with people voluntarily eating produce that was harvested nearby. However, the locavore movement’s claims need to be […]
Going Above and Beyond
The St. Louis Beacon has a recent report about the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision that the state’s education funding formula […]
Like a phoenix rising from its ashes, Cash for Clunkers will return this fall in the form of a rebate […]
Today’s Kansas City Star has an excellent article about the debate over whether tort reform should be part of the […]
