Our own policy analyst and Show-Me Daily blogger extraordinaire Justin Hauke had a letter to the editor published in today’s […]
Juicing the Issue
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met yesterday for the second inning of its finger-pointing, denial-giving, not-talking-about-the-past examination […]
When Homer Tourkakis set up his dentistry practice 20 years ago in Arnold, Mo., he never dreamed that the city […]
Missouri Supreme Court to Decide Whether Cities May Continue to Abuse Eminent Domain
During the five years between December 2002 and November 2007, dozens of cities acting without a constitutional charter used […]
The New York Times ran an op-ed in yesterday’s edition describing the negative effects of increasingly earlier start times for […]
I see on the Ethical Society’s website that they just had a program presented by Free the Midwives and showed […]
Today, the Show-Me Institute released a new policy study, "The Fiscal Effects of a Tuition Tax Credit Program in Missouri," […]
I wrote last week about St. Charles’ proposed ban on "indecent, profane, or obscene language, song[s], entertainment, literature, or advertising." […]
Here’s an interesting twist in the Megan Meier case. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles might charge the people who allegedly […]
After the General Assembly last week introduced legislation to prevent another sub-prime mortgage crisis in Missouri, the Kansas City Business […]
The General Assembly is out to "protect" consumers once again, this time from unscrupulous mortgage brokers. I’ve written before about […]
I usually leave comments about the educational field to the other bloggers, what with their ivory-tower smarts and all, while […]
State of the State
The 2008 legislative session kicked off yesterday, and among the General Assembly’s initial priorities are increases to minimum teacher salaries […]
While the growth of the federal government gets most of the attention from people who care about things like that, […]
There is an op-ed in this morning’s Wall Street Journal by Robert Reich President Clinton’s former Secretary of Labor […]
“&#$* No!”
If you ever find yourself in a bar in St. Charles, you’d better watch your mouth. Despite a recent study […]
Missouri Political News Service has a story on the decision by Judge Callahan in Cole County to throw out the […]
Well, it is pretty much official. The final test has been passed (this morning’s commute) and the traffic nightmare that […]
The Coronation of Big Corn
An editorial in this morning’s Kansas City Star details some of the negative consequences of Missouri’s new ethanol fuel standards, […]
Here’s an article about a private school in St. Louis that is using my favorite math curriculum, Singapore Math. For […]
