Kansas City Streetcar’s Economic Development Claims Just Seem Silly
We wrote recently about NextRailKC’s poorly compiled and even more poorly considered claims of economic development resulting from the streetcar. NextRailKC...
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Inexcusably, Medicaid Expansion Proposal Omits More Than $1 Billion In New State Costs
The leading “Medicaid Transformation” proposal in the Missouri House purports to deliver a Medicaid expansion that effectively makes the state money....
State Audit Recommends Sunset Of Historic Preservation Tax Credit
You saw the original, and now here’s the sequel. Just weeks after producing an excellent report on Missouri’s Low Income...
The Effects Of A Minimum Wage Increase
On Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a letter from scholars at the Show-Me Institute arguing that raising the minimum...
Raising The Minimum Wage Will Cost 500,000 Jobs
The Show-Me Institute has talked a lot about the negative effects of raising the minimum wage. In his two policy...
Missouri Leading On At Least One Health Care Reform
Earlier this month, I had the honor of presenting at this year’s State Health Policy Summit, a meeting that the...
Metrolink Mistake? Just Spend More
St. Louis officials have announced a plan to use $1 million dollars to build low income developments near Metrolink stops....
On Transit, Kansas City Looks Backward
Subject to a possible contract rebid, Kansas City’s political leadership seems on the brink of accomplishing something that has eluded...
Looking For (Broad) HealthCare.Gov Pricing For Missouri? We Have It
Downloaded directly from HealthCare.Gov. The easiest way to sort through this information is by holding CTRL-F and inputting your county....
HealthCare.Gov Now Delivering . . . Incorrect Plan Pricing
This morning, CBS reported that a new feature on the Affordable Care Act website allows users to get quotes for...
Federalist Society To Explore Dodd-Frank On Oct. 14 In Clayton
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is probably one of the more contentious pieces of legislation to...
From The Jaws Of Defeat: Volunteer Health Services Act Veto Overridden
It was a wild ride at the Missouri Legislature’s veto session last night, but as far as I can tell,...
Opposing Tax Cuts, Supporting Bigger Government, And The Wisdom Of Milton Friedman
Few economists of the 20th Century had as wide and substantive an impact on the political discourse as Milton Friedman....
No Soup For You: Nixon Wants ‘Project-by-Project’ Tax Cuts, Not Tax Cuts For All
It’s always remarkable to see politicians who are against general tax relief exalt the arrival of businesses attracted . ....
It Is Hip To Be Square
Kansas City leaders have sacrificed much at the altar of cool. But arguably the coolest thing to happen to the...
Lee’s Summit And The Road Not Taken
The Lee’s Summit City Council voted overwhelmingly to end its consideration of Enhanced Enterprise Zones (EEZs). This is a good...
Remember That Residents Are Customers
One of the reasons I shop on Amazon almost weekly is because of the company’s impeccable customer service. (I also...
Do Not Mandate The Middleman
I have nothing against middlemen nor beer distributors. In fact, I rather like beer distributors. I intend to consume their...
Part Three: The Smallness Of The Potentially ‘Hip’ Core
Last week, Kevin McDermott of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s Political Fix blog wrote briefly about the “hip development” debate we...
This Land Is My Land
Where I grew up, private neighborhood streets were rare. None of my friends lived on gated streets, and city plows...
