Missouri’s Public Pensions: Worse Than They Appear
The unfunded liabilities of the state’s public pensions are an economic ticking time bomb, which the state is obligated to...
Public Employee Pensions in Missouri: A Looming Crisis
Missouri and around the country, elected officials, taxpayers, and financial markets have expressed concerns about the financial health of defined...
Restructuring Hearing Instrument Specialist Requirements Would Benefit Missouri
One of the methods by which current practitioners and their respective licensing boards limit competition within their field is through...
Corporate and Pass-Through Income Taxation: Time for Reform
Missouri is not doing well economically. For the past decade, the state has fallen behind its sister states in economic...
Missouri Should Avoid Implementation of the Common Core
First, I will discuss the arguments that supposedly support adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and demonstrate why...
Missouri Transportation Infrastructure Funding
Many elected officials and state transportation voices are proposing a bond issue to fund significant transportation infrastructure investment in Missouri....
Missouri’s Bonding Future
It is easy to see why bonds are attractive; the influx of revenue allows favored projects to be financed while...
Saint Louis Public Administrator Should Be Appointed
The question in the proposed change is whether or not the public administrator of the City of Saint Louis should...
Occupational Licensing – The House Professional Registration And Licensing Committee
There are few absolute truths in life, but we do have some: death, taxes, gravity. If demand for a good...
