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 […]
I’ve been remiss in pointing out this article at The American by our former editor, Tim Lee, about how eminent […]
A Tax Activist Is Born
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a story today, via Combest, on St. Louis County’s newly born property tax reform group, […]
Public School Successes Exist; You Just Have to Know Where to Look
While the MSBA was too busy attacking the competition to notice this, I found a public school success story. Governor […]
The MSBA is blogging away … telling us about the successes of public schools in Missouri, right? Well, not quite. […]
Not really, but I like the image. Dr. Homer Tourkakis’ fight to keep his dentistry practice going at the location […]
Watch for Falling Taxes
A front page article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal detailed (and criticized) Wal-Mart’s aggressive accounting methods, designed to minimize its […]
MSBA Joins the Blogosphere
I see, by way of Combest, that the Missouri School Boards’ Association has started a blog. One of its stated […]
Liberty Should Consider Privatization, Not Tax Increases for Utilities
Liberty, Mo. (Clay County), is considering raising utility fees, aka taxes, on its citizens as part of its 2008 budget. […]
Along with David Stokes, I had the pleasure of attending two all-day sessions training Missouri broadcasters how to use the […]
On October 17, Judge Richard G. Callahan rendered a decision in the case brought by many of Missouri’s school districts […]
Regular readers of this blog know that I like to include references to literature in the titles of my posts. […]
