Show-Me Newsletter: 2012, Number 1
In this issue: Fellow Andrew Wilson’s “New Year’s Resolutions” for the Missouri Legislature. A message from Executive Director Brenda Talent...
Attacks on Fair Tax Are Propaganda, Not Economic Analysis
The Coalition for Missouri’s Future, a group organized to oppose efforts to eliminate Missouri’s income tax and replace it with...
A Clear Vision of the Eye Exam Mandate
Before this body is a proposal that would renew a state mandate requiring optometrist or physician eye exams for incoming...
Testimony Before the St. Louis County TIF Commission on the Proposed Ellisville TIF
In theory, establishing a TIF district involves serious and impartial deliberation and calculus. A city intends to revitalize a part...
Kansas City Land Bank Proposal: Learning From Failures Of The Saint Louis Land Bank
Senate Bill 795 would create a land bank in Kansas City. Proponents have argued that, given the foreclosure crisis, they...
Missouri’s Tax Credit Crisis
Since the late 1990s, Missouri’s tax credit system has grown into one of the biggest burdens on the state’s annual...
Licensing Home Inspectors Will Not Benefit Missourians
There are few absolute truths in life, but we do have some. Death, taxes, gravity. If demand increases and supply...
Housing Affordability: The Saint Louis Competitive Advantage
The decade of 2000 to 2009 saw changes in domestic migration trends in America. These changes saw an increase in...
Legislators Should Seriously Consider the Failings of the Saint Louis Land Bank before Creating a Kansas City Land Bank
Saint Louis, the city where I live and work, is home to the oldest land bank in the United States....
