Susan Pendergrass speaks with Andy Smarick, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, about a recent U.S. Supreme Court case that […]
A friend called me the other night. Fox4KC had just aired a story about the opening date of the latest […]
On August 20, Show-Me Institute Director of Municipal Policy David Stokes submits testimony to the Missouri House of Representatives Special […]
On August 12, KCUR ran a story with the headline “A troubled Kansas City grocery store has closed, despite $18 […]
One of the most notable policies in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) is the establishment of the first-ever federal […]
State Tech in Linn bills itself as “Missouri’s premier technical college, dedicated to providing hands-on, industry-driven education that prepares students […]
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Braxton Steele, intern at the Show-Me Institute and student at Missouri State University, about his summer […]
Missouri’s Medicaid enrollment is up by almost 400,000 recipients since 2019, but how many of those newly on the rolls […]
Chesterfield, which is poised to be the largest city in St. Louis County, is attempting to get into the commercial […]
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Shaka Mitchell, senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, about how a new federal scholarship […]
I’ve been writing a lot lately about the poor performance of Missouri’s schools; for recent examples, see here and here. […]
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Dr. Jim Wyckoff about how national test scores, especially for the lowest-performing students, began falling well before the pandemic and what states can do to reverse the trend.
I’ve highlighted the progress St. Louis has made in reducing crime in recent blog posts. The improving data are positive […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When one thinks of no-show political jobs in Missouri government, […]
In The Power Broker, Robert Caro’s legendary biography of Robert Moses, Caro describes how Moses was fully capable of getting […]
The first step toward finding a solution is admitting there’s a problem. It’s been obvious to anyone who’s been paying […]
The violent crime statistics in the cities of St. Louis, Kansas City, and Springfield tell a much different story today […]
The Washington Post just published a story on the failure of the taxpayer-subsidized Sun Fresh grocery store on the corner […]
Susan Pendergrass is joined again by Elias Tsapelas, director of state budget and fiscal policy at the Show-Me Institute, for […]
Ready or not, big changes are coming to Missouri’s Medicaid program. Earlier this month, President Trump signed the “One Big […]
