This month’s edition of the Soulard Renaissance has a very well-written article arguing for a ban on public smoking. (The […]
There’s a great piece on the Washington Post website about improving health care at the federal level. Among the wonderful […]
Over at the New York Times, Harold O. Levy, former New York City schools chancellor, outlines “Five Ways to Fix […]
CAFOs are a major issue in rural Missouri. They are probably the main reason why some rural counties are interested […]
Caroline Hoxby, Ph.D., the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University, spoke about "The Promise and Performance […]
More and more states are taking action to rescue children from failing public schools. From a WMGT article: Parents will […]
While I have written recently about one aspect of corporate welfare, the St. Joseph News-Press has a story today that […]
The pension problems in Springfield were discussed in depth in the Wall Street Journal the other day. Richard C. Dreyfuss, an […]
As Milton Friedman pointed out in Capitalism and Freedom, teachers have a lot to gain from a competitive education market. […]
It would have been impossible to predict in advance how the Missouri General Assembly finally decided to distribute the stimulus […]
Jonathon Braden at the Columbia Daily Tribune‘s Homeroom blog reports on Sylvan Learning Center closings in Columbia and Jefferson City. […]
Or, at least, someone doing marketing for them has read the writing on the wall. I just watched the elementary […]
The Columbia Missourian has an op-ed from the Show-Me Institute’s Joe Haslag and David Stokes. It addresses the question of […]
Public education didn’t work for me. The schools I attended were “great,” or so I’m told. My elementary and middle […]
Over at Cato@Liberty earlier today, Andrew Coulson commented on how school choice is becoming an increasingly post-partisan issue, as politicians […]
Two more articles about what makes an earmark, what defines pork, and when are they justified, are in the Missouri […]
I’ve heard good arguments on both sides of the term limits debate. The opposing side contends that voters should be […]
Combest links to an encouraging article about the August sales tax holiday. I find it encouraging, because I don’t like […]
Missouri is one of four holdouts from the coalition to draft national education standards. I’m glad Missouri hasn’t signed on. […]
This op-ed defends green jobs subsidies with the argument that the resulting jobs are sustainable. In a sense, it’s right. […]
