The U.K.’s Daily Telegraph has compiled a list of the 100 most influential American conservatives and liberals, releasing 20 names […]
MSBA Blog Disappears
Where did the MSBA blog go? Its old address, blog.msbanet.org, is now being redirected to www.msbanet.org, and there’s no blog […]
The Kansas City Star’s Prime Buzz online column (link via Combest), which thank goodness is free to access […]
In Defense of Usury
I’ve written before on the negative consequences of anti-usury laws targeted at Missouri payday lenders. An op-ed in yesterday’s Wall […]
In response to "Trashy Quotes," posted by Justin Hauke: I agree that the trash district plan for unincorporated areas of […]
Quibbles and Bits
In addition to David Stokes’ criticisms of the otherwise excellent West End Word piece about Rex Sinquefield and the Show-Me […]
Tim Woodcock of the West End Word (link via Missouri Political News Service) wrote a very thorough and detailed article […]
The Columbia Daily-Tribune and the Columbia Missourian both had excellent articles in today’s editions covering the conference sponsored by the […]
Innovative Charter Schools
I’ve discussed how more charter schools could help bring down the dropout rate in St. Louis. Now I see by […]
The MSBA blog is at it again, bashing the Show-Me Institute I mean, writing about "religion." What these posts […]
The Show-Me Institute is today co-sponsoring a conference about issues associated with public school finance and educational adequacy lawsuits. The […]
Slow News Day
While my colleagues are blogging about beauty pageant winners, the Desperate Housewives TV show, and Panera Bread, I thought I […]
The Arch City Chronicle links to two stories, one from Detroit and one from DC, on issues of interest to […]
The Beer Theory of Civilization, which is an actual theory in which I believe wholeheartedly, has taken a giant step […]
Desperate Houseblog
Perhaps Ron Paul really is having an impact. Last night on Desperate Housewives (which my wife was watching while I […]
Trashy Quotes
I’m not going to discuss the merits/drawbacks of the new St. Louis Country solid waste disposal proposal, but I will […]
Boston Bread Co.?
Panera Bread has announced that it may relocate its corporate headquarters from St. Louis to Boston when its corporate leases […]
As was widely expected, last week a circuit court judge denied several school districts’ claims of constitutional entitlement to […]
We often hear about escalating health care costs, and policymakers debate what the state should do about it. Here’s some […]
Mass Transit Tax Proposal takes form of: half-cent sales tax increase (or perhaps a caterpillar?). St. Louis County voters likely […]
