Following Nick’s lead, I would like to add my own soapbox commentary on election-day voting rights. Over the past week, […]
The Webster-Kirkwood Times has some commentary on Senate Bill 711, which would eliminate the property tax loophole that allows taxing […]
In honor of Tuesday’s presidential primaries here in Missouri, I’ll be running a bit of a series this week related […]
MIdwives make an appearance in the Kansas City Star: What if hospitals are overwhelmed by casualties, disease or infection? Many […]
We have discussed the St. Louis County trash collection proposal numerous times on this blog, and I have officially run […]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article today on how the decline in home values may or may not result […]
The debate with Sol Stern over education reform has taken a poetical turn. Andrew Coulson parodies the Pirates of Penzance […]
All apologies to Robert Frost for the title, but the rest of the Show-Me Institute staff is in the process […]
I respectfully, yet strongly, disagree with my colleague Dave Roland’s post yesterday on changes to the initiative petition/constitutional amendment rules […]
The Kansas City Star‘s Prime Buzz blog yesterday had a couple of posts criticizing our recent light rail study‘s use […]
Some Missouri legislators apparently think that the citizens of this state have too much say in the laws that govern […]
There’s a discussion of KIPP’s drawbacks and merits in the comments section of the Talk of the Day blog. One […]
Normally, if you had a sentence that contained the words, "Bridges," "score," "(MS)NBC"and "high(ly)," one would assume you were talking […]
This issue of Forbes examines education reform, and KIPP charter schools make a prominent appearance with an essay by Mike […]
Since the Regional Economist is one of my favorite publications, I wanted to add my own two cents on Eric […]
When citizens pass an initiative referendum, judges or elected officials should use the greatest of caution in exercising their […]
It’s official: Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) charter schools are coming to St. Louis: The announcement today from the San […]
One of our scholars, Michael Pakko, has a piece looking at the economic effects of smoking bans in this month’s […]
Last year we released a case study on the privatization of the county’s pharmacy services. With the release of the […]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a very thoughtful editorial this morning (link via Combest) about the Bellefontaine Habilitation Center in […]
