“Government should be transparent. Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing.”— Barack Obama, Memorandum […]
On the heels of my post about the excellent lecture series going on in Kansas City, I would be remiss […]
This post is belated, but I feel that people should know about the fantastic message offered last week at an […]
This is the part of the session where things happen fast and furious. You might think our job here at […]
When I checked out the Post-Dispatch‘s website today, I fully expected the top stories to include President Barack Obama’s visit yesterday. Nope. […]
Critics of parental choice in education sometimes claim that poor people will be taken advantage of in a market system. […]
Maybe that title is a bit of an exaggeration, given that there are plenty of opportunities for rent seeking in […]
This column is a few days old, but it is still poor enough to warrant criticism. The Star‘s Steve Penn writes […]
I read this article about the proposed smoking ban in Clayton with dismay. I know, lots of places have smoking […]
I’ve received a request to blog about a Chicago Tribune article, “Arne to Illinois: Shape Up,” specifically this quote from […]
Public schools spend a lot of money and face little competition — a rent-seeker’s dream. So, it’s no surprise that […]
Andrew Coulson of Cato responds to the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) data here. The picture is bleak. […]
The most appallingly horrible proposal in recent history might be coming to Missouri, which makes it even worse. The Kansas […]
Bob Compton at Two Million Minutes is blogging about education in New Orleans. Like Compton, I’m impressed by New Orleans’ […]
There are two sides to every story. Here’s what Kit Bond says about government incentives for green jobs: “It sounds […]
Edspresso links to this American Thinker essay about the causes of student achievement. The author, Robert Weissberg, contends that choice […]
The first is by David Nicklaus. He responds to the argument that immigrants take Americans’ jobs with this reasoning: In […]
Neal McCluskey comments on a KIPP charter school in New York that is being forced to let its teachers unionize: […]
I’m amused by this editorial in the Kansas City Star. It laments the fact that police in Missouri and Kansas […]
This is a scary follow-up to my last post on exotic animals. Missouri has almost no regulations about owning large […]
