The funky mayor of Kansas City appears to understand that political patronage and city hall featherbedding are the ways of […]
Local governments throughout Missouri continue their neverending quest to lure favored businesses and keep the chosen ones they already have […]
I’m all for preventing drunken driving, but I don’t think scarlet-letter license plates are going to solve the problem. Here […]
Voters in the state of Florida will have the opportunity to eliminate a provision of their constitution that (according to […]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board is certainly capable of surprises, and this morning’s editorial about Amtrak is one such […]
Amazon.com, the world’s largest Internet retailer, recently announced its intention to sell wine through its online marketplace, a venture that […]
There’s an interesting article in the Star today about the proposal for a shared, regionally built jail for the Kansas […]
Thanks to Janese Heavin’s excellent coverage on her Class Notes blog, I’ve been keeping an eye on the drama surrounding […]
An editorial in the Southeast Missourian (link via Combest) compares the proposed sales tax holiday to cough syrup: A statewide […]
We’ve been very proud at the Show-Me Institute to be at the forefront of HSA reform in Missouri. The “new […]
I’d like to apologize for the title, first off, as I really don’t like the word "deadbeat" — but the […]
There is such a thing as too much milk, even if it does a blog good, so I’ll move on […]
My colleagues have done an excellent job of demonstrating the unconstitutionality and general craziness of the proposal to forbid labeling […]
The St. Joseph News-Press has a report today (spotted via John Combest) about two bills before the General Assembly that […]
Mr. Combest has the link to a St. Joseph News-Press story on an absolutely ludicrous idea that combines the worst […]
I should be more careful about what I say on this blog, because when I make crazy suggestions, people take […]
The nation was stunned in 2005 when the United States Supreme Court ruled that the United States Constitution allowed the […]
To combat childhood obesity, school districts across the country have adopted ever-more-draconian measures to ensure that students are provided with […]
Frenchtown, a historic French quarter of St. Charles, is the latest challenger of spurious eminent domain abuse. In 2006, the […]
The Kansas City Star continues its thorough coverage of the budget situation in KC with a clarifying and honest article […]
