There isn’t enough good news about economic development policy in Missouri. But a recent vote in Maryland Heights, just outside […]
New Royals owner John Sherman is giving interviews extolling the virtues of downtown baseball. In a recent story published on […]
The end of the year is the time for top-ten lists, top-story lists, and best-moments-of-the-year lists, to name a few. […]
The federal Highway Trust Fund (FHTF) is in jeopardy, and that could mean bad news for Missouri’s roads and bridges. […]
Back on November 4, I recommended Kansas City City Council members curtail the $6 million administrative fee that PortKC would […]
Imagine that today you are put in charge of running MetroLink. In your first day on the job, this is […]
For me, Christmas came early this year. On December 12, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released, […]
The holiday shopping season is the perfect playground for market forces. Voluntary exchange for mutual benefit (in other words, shopping) […]
Imagine you are in a car accident on New Year’s Eve. Like Jason Bourne in The Bourne Identity, you wake […]
When Congress updated No Child Left Behind (NCLB) with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015, many hailed the […]
After 13 months of operation, the Loop Trolley will be shutting down on December 29 due to a lack of […]
“Poor” is never the rating you want. Unfortunately, that’s what St. Louis got in a recent audit of the city’s […]
School test scores are a snapshot. If the test is a good one, it tells us how much a student […]
Having been granted $62 million worth of Missouri state subsidies, Waddell & Reed is asking for an additional $40 million […]
Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released its school report cards earlier this year in an attempt to […]
If you want to find out how Missouri students are performing, you might think you could go to the Department […]
On Tuesday, Show-Me Institute Analyst Graham Renz joined KFTK’s Marc Cox Morning Show to discuss the application submitted to the Missouri […]
No sooner had Show-Me Institute published “Some Positive Signs on Economic Development Incentives in Kansas City” than one of the […]
This Giving Tuesday, stand with us. Stand with us for today’s workers and tomorrow’s students, families, and innovators. Please join us […]
On this episode of the Show-Me Institute podcast, Dr. Susan Pendergrass speaks to Virginia Walden Ford. Virginia’s struggle to bring […]
