Dr. Aaron Hedlund joins Dr. Susan Pendergrass on this episode of The Show-Me Institute Podcast. [avatar user=”aaron-hedlund” size=”thumbnail” align=”left” link=”https://showmeinstitute.org/author/aaron-hedlund/” […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the Kansas City Star. School choice legislation is under consideration in the Missouri […]
Albert Einstein once said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting […]
A version of this commentary was published in the Columbia Tribune. Tax-increment financing (TIF) is Missouri’s bad idea that refuses […]
Developers have asked the City of Boonville for a tax-increment financing (TIF) subsidy to “help” them build a new subdivision […]
Missouri’s low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) is a classic example of throwing good money after bad. The program—which provides $1-for-$1 […]
A new tax-increment financing (TIF) package is being proposed to subsidize a new, 400-home development in Boonville. As best we […]
A new tax-increment financing (TIF) package is being proposed to subsidize a new, 400-home development in Boonville. As best we […]
Last year, the Missouri Legislature passed a watershed law that established one of the first true interstate license reciprocity reforms […]
My colleague David Stokes wrote recently in the The Star about Kansas City’s pivot toward local incentive reform, a move […]
Interstate 70 and several important Missouri roads need to be replaced soon but the Missouri Department of Transportation claims it […]
If local governments can take your money, they should tell you how they’re spending it. And if they can’t or […]
One of the revelations of the coronavirus pandemic has been how important online town halls can be to the public […]
Regulatory action that allows restaurants to serve to-go cocktails is one step closer to becoming permanent. While this is obviously […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the Kansas City Star. Ulysses S. Grant was known to say that in […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the Columbia Tribune. When troubled or sickly aristocratic English youth needed a place to […]
I am an optimist at heart. In my world, the glass is half-full, usually—more than ever during the pandemic—with tonic […]
Missouri’s next budget will include Medicaid expansion, and the price tag is going to be enormous. Recently, the governor warned […]
Students and families are nearing the one-year mark of schooling in COVID times. For many, traversing this ever-shifting education landscape […]
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