Whole Foods Market co-founder and CEO John Mackey recently “spoke up to defend free markets,” as a Wall Street Journal […]
Greater St. Louis Inc. has just released the results of its year of discussions with community members about how to […]
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on December 8, 2020. According to enrollment counts taken […]
WATCH: A Virtual Town Hall on a Blueprint for Missouri
The Show-Me Institute’s 2021 Blueprint: Moving Missouri Forward presents 15 policy ideas covering issues ranging from education to health care, from public […]
Readers of this blog have seen me write before about the Missouri Department of Transportation’s (MoDOT) estimate that roughly $745 […]
Arizona voters recently approved a proposition to impose a 3.5 percent surtax on high-income individuals and joint filers to increase […]
Earlier this year, Missouri took a huge step forward by allowing licensing reciprocity. But there are still problems with occupational […]
It’s Time to Act
We are facing an educational crisis that we know very little about. Research tells us that the “summer slide” is […]
This fall, Missouri public school districts scrambled to create plans to deliver education to families that needed virtual instruction and […]
Virtual Town Hall: A Blueprint for Missouri
Join us on Tuesday, December 8 at 11:00 AM as Show-Me Institute researchers unveil the 2021 Blueprint for Missouri during […]
Missouri is still dealing with COVID-19, and the hole in the state’s budget is only getting deeper. Last week, the […]
The Normandy School District might be getting its first charter school. That is, unless a coterie of local functionaries scupper […]
What About the other 80 Percent of Missourians?
About 30 percent of Missourians, age 25 and older, have a bachelor’s degree or higher. It’s estimated that about 60 […]
What is an Education Savings Account (ESA)?
Click here to see how Education Savings Accounts could work in Missouri.
SMI Podcast – Bad with Money: The Decline of Financial Literacy in America
On this episode of The Show-Me Institute Podcast, Dr. Susan Pendergrass is joined by John Pelletier. They discuss the lack […]
Missouri’s roads are more than just a convenience—they’re an economic asset. According to the most recent data from 2011, roughly […]
Multnomah County, Oregon Should’ve Called St. Louis Before Making This Mistake
Multnomah County, Oregon, which contains the city of Portland, recently approved a local income tax increase to fund tuition-free preschool. […]
Developers are asking for millions in tax subsidies for a redevelopment project with the hopes of fixing St. Louis’s “Delmar […]
A version of this first appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Missouri’s road maintenance funding is on a road to […]
Amidst the hardship and disruption of the coronavirus pandemic, the rise of telemedicine has been a small silver lining. Shortly […]
