The Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City (EDC) seems unable to provide meaningful assistance to city leaders regarding economic development […]
Missouri and Missouri cities have ranked poorly in several business and policy rankings. Missouri’s position relative to other cities and […]
My colleague Patrick Tuohey and I recently had the pleasure of presenting our research on special taxing districts (like CIDs and […]
Over the last few years, I have talked at length about the importance of choice in health care. One of […]
Defined-benefit pension systems are essentially promises. The government promises a specific benefit to beneficiaries when they retire. You would think […]
Following the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), there was […]
Show-Me Opportunity (SMO), in conjunction with the Show-Me Institute (SMI), promotes liberty and free-market solutions to the problems facing Missouri, […]
Jim Spencer at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune recently wrote about U.S. Senate opponents of short-term medical (STM) plans attempting yet again […]
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Back in 2015, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported that a proposed Community Improvement District (CID) in Columbia was drawn to […]
Missouri students have a college readiness problem. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) reports that in 2017, just […]
My colleague Elias Tsapelas has produced a lot of excellent research on Medicaid over the last few months. And this […]
The share of Missouri’s budget consumed by Medicaid just keeps growing. According to the state’s Medicaid agency (page 10), the […]
It’s been more than a year since Missouri legislators passed House Bill (HB) 1413 into law, which at the time […]
Last December I had the opportunity to have a radio debate with two supporters of Medicare for All, which (in […]
Writers at the Show-Me Institute have been railing against the subsidy culture of Kansas City for years. A wide range […]
On November 7, Patrick Tuohey joined the panel on KCPT’s Ruckus to discuss voters overwhelmingly deciding to change the name […]
Late this summer, we announced that the Show-Me Institute was going to court to compel the state’s Office of Administration […]
The St. Louis Business Journal recently published details of a report that placed St. Louis in the top ten “untapped […]
Despite dire financial trouble and warnings that it may be forced to cease operations this month, it now appears that […]
When is blight not really blight? Apparently, when tax incentives are involved. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the St. […]
