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Tort Reform 3: Final Judgment
09 Sep

Tort Reform 3: Final Judgment

Posted by David Stokes Courts, Economy

Hopefully, this will be my last post about tort reform for a while. Combest has a couple of KMOX links […]

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Trucks and Tolls and Stuff
09 Sep

Trucks and Tolls and Stuff

Posted by David Stokes Transportation

According to the Kansas City Star, Missouri has been approved to move ahead with a plan to install truck-only lanes […]

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Speech to Students
08 Sep

Speech to Students

Posted by Sarah Brodsky Education

I hope you had a good vacation; now it’s time to get in a straight line and listen to your […]

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Amtrak and High-Speed Rail
08 Sep

Amtrak and High-Speed Rail

Posted by David Stokes Transportation

There’s a nice article in the Kansas City Star discussing the improvements made to Amtrak service in Missouri. In fact, […]

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Why the Secrecy?
08 Sep

Why the Secrecy?

Posted by Audrey Spalding Property Rights

It took awhile to find in today’s paper, but the Post-Dispatch had a good article about developer Paul McKee’s $8 […]

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The Council on Women and Girls
07 Sep

The Council on Women and Girls

Posted by Sarah Brodsky Uncategorized

The Council on Women and Girls has a new website. It provides a list of council members, as well as […]

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Virtue and Government-Compelled Charity
05 Sep

Virtue and Government-Compelled Charity

Posted by Dave Roland Economy, Free-Market Reform, Taxes, Transparency

Recently, several of my colleagues from Vanderbilt Divinity School sat in on President Barack Obama’s conference call, in which he […]

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Health Care Is a Growth Industry
04 Sep

Health Care Is a Growth Industry

Posted by Sarah Brodsky Free-Market Reform

Robert Fogel explains why controlling health care costs is counterproductive: Expenditures on healthcare are driven by demand, which is spurred […]

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Education Reform, Property Taxes, and What the Post-Dispatch Got Totally Wrong
04 Sep

Education Reform, Property Taxes, and What the Post-Dispatch Got Totally Wrong

Posted by David Stokes Courts, Education, Taxes

There has been a great deal of discussion about property taxes in the wake of the state Supreme Court’s decision […]

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Districts Plan for Sept. 8 Speech
04 Sep

Districts Plan for Sept. 8 Speech

Posted by Sarah Brodsky Education

School districts across Missouri — in Columbia, Kansas City, Springfield, and St. Louis — are preparing for the president’s Sept. […]

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Sales Tax Holidays Have Little Effect
03 Sep

Sales Tax Holidays Have Little Effect

Posted by Sarah Brodsky Taxes

This is from a Wall Street Journal article about back-to-school sales: Despite sales tax holidays in several states designed to […]

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Could Missouri Be Helped with a Health Care Co-Op?
02 Sep

Could Missouri Be Helped with a Health Care Co-Op?

Posted by Stephen Feman Free-Market Reform

During the current health care debate, there has been a great deal of discussion about an option for a national, […]

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More on the Education Funding Lawsuit
02 Sep

More on the Education Funding Lawsuit

Posted by Dave Roland Courts, Education

As Sarah has already noted, the Missouri Supreme Court yesterday brought an end to the lawsuit in which half of […]

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Assignments for Sept. 8
02 Sep

Assignments for Sept. 8

Posted by Sarah Brodsky Education

As you’ve probably heard, the president will address public school children next week. I’m not bothered by the address itself, […]

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Missouri’s Ticking Pension Time Bomb
02 Sep

Missouri’s Ticking Pension Time Bomb

Posted by Josh Smith Taxes, Transparency

The front page article in today’s Post-Dispatch is about the underfunding of Missouri’s public employee pension programs. This is a […]

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“Buycott” for Organic Foods
02 Sep

“Buycott” for Organic Foods

Posted by Caitlin Hartsell Economy, Free-Market Reform

When John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, he hardly could have […]

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More on Local Food
02 Sep

More on Local Food

Posted by Sarah Brodsky Economy

There’s nothing wrong with people voluntarily eating produce that was harvested nearby. However, the locavore movement’s claims need to be […]

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Going Above and Beyond
02 Sep

Going Above and Beyond

Posted by Sarah Brodsky Education, Transparency

The St. Louis Beacon has a recent report about the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision that the state’s education funding formula […]

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Cash for Clunkers Refuses to Go Away
01 Sep

Cash for Clunkers Refuses to Go Away

Posted by Sarah Brodsky Transparency

Like a phoenix rising from its ashes, Cash for Clunkers will return this fall in the form of a rebate […]

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Tort Reform 2: Reform Schoolin’
01 Sep

Tort Reform 2: Reform Schoolin’

Posted by David Stokes Courts, Free-Market Reform

Today’s Kansas City Star has an excellent article about the debate over whether tort reform should be part of the […]

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