Eric Morris recently wrote a post for Freakonomics that attempts to evaluate some of the proposed benefits of a high-speed […]
On Monday, eight Midwestern governors met in Chicago to sign a memorandum of understanding by which they committed to a […]
Last night at the Cardinals game, a friend of mine and I discussed the bottle deposit law. It came up […]
It is always dangerous to talk before you have all the facts, as a certain person sharing a beer today […]
Yesterday morning, I (along with a number of other Show-Me Institute staffers) attended a talk by Newt Gingrich, hosted by […]
This morning, six employees of the Show-Me Institute and one of our regular book club attendees found ourselves among 200 […]
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published a letter to the House majority leader regarding a proposal to establish a […]
I have a lot of problems with the wording of this headline. Don’t get me wrong — I love KMOX […]
The recession has dominated economic news of late. As with any downturn, there is an opportunity now to reevaluate the […]
Almost precisely one year ago, I wrote about how some Missouri cities were dedicating your taxpayer dollars to preserve the […]
This weekend, the Columbia Business Journal ran a tremendous article (part one of what looks to be a series) discussing […]
When I first glanced at the title of Bill Schrier’s latest blog post, “Gray, Not Green, Technology,” I thought he […]
James McWilliams, author of Just Food, discusses in a recent issue of Forbes magazine how the practice of buying local […]
Over at Mises Daily, Art Carden revisits the harmful effects of minimum wage laws and cites a Show-Me Institute study […]
I was in Washington, D.C., yesterday to hear a presentation by Wendell Cox at the Heritage Foundation. His presentation centered […]
Over at our Policy Pulse portal, staff reporter Audrey Spalding has published several recent articles about education issues in Missouri. […]
The Panama City Renaissance School blog links to an article in the Las Vegas Sun about same-sex public education. The […]
I was blessed with a pretty good memory, especially for words and numbers — less so for faces. So when I […]
John Combest recently posted a couple of articles about Better Courts for Missouri’s attempt to change the Missouri Plan, the […]
This chapter of Liberating Learning describes the political process of education reform. In a nutshell, new practices like merit pay […]
