No, A Medicaid Expansion Would Not Be ‘Medicaid Reform’
On Wednesday, the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) and the Missouri Chamber of Commerce held a press conference touting a report...
Not happy with the results?
Type your search again
Transforming Vacant Land
Usually, food on trains is nothing to brag about. A quick Google search showed that Amtrak actually has a chicken...
Soon-To-Be Kansan Company Gets $5 Million to Move A Half Mile
Earlier this year I told you the story of Teva Neuroscience, which announced that it would be moving fewer than...
Time Is Money
Is the Saint Louis Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) backsliding? About a year ago, former Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Audrey Spalding...
Crowd Surfing! I Mean, Crowdfunding!
Officials in Kansas City, Mo., are using an exciting new way to fund civic projects that minimizes government’s power in...
On Commissions And The Fountainheads Of Reform
One of the first books I read in my introduction to the liberty movement was Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, the...
So Long, Missouri
Today is my last day at the Show-Me Institute. Beginning in July, I will be working for the Mackinac Center...
Michigan’s Mamtek: Yet Another Reason Missouri Should Abandon Film Tax Credits
Apparently Missouri representatives failed to show at the annual Association of Film Commissioners International Show in Los Angeles. Jerry Berger...
Sorry, Film Directors: Taxpayers Should Not Have To Pay For Your Luxury Hotel Rooms
Film director Jennifer Lynch told KSDK Channel 5 that Saint Louis is the perfect place to shoot her film, “A...
Episode IV: A New Dome (They Might As Well)?
The St. Louis Rams’ counter-offer to the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission (CVC) has just been released. You can...
Revisionist TIF History From Columbia’s City Manager
The Columbia Missourian has published an overview of the statewide use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF), a development subsidy that...
Proposed Franchising Law A Convoluted Mess
As a lawyer whose job here includes reading laws and legislation much of the day, there are few things that...
Power & Light District Gets A Wall Street Journal Feature, With Predictable Results
For our regular readers, the fact that the Kansas City Power & Light District (P&LD) is hemorrhaging taxpayer money is no...
Papa John’s and The Case of the Over-Regulated Food Trucks
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the city has sent out new maps setting out where food trucks can set up shop...
Another Company Leaves Missouri For Kansas; Time To Stop The Madness
The Kansas-Missouri border war has led to yet another tax incentive-fueled move. The big winner this time? Teva Neuroscience, which...
Reminder: Health Care ‘Reform’ Law Raises Costs On Young People
Next week, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA,)...
Three Strikes?
Major League Baseball’s Opening Day is approaching so let me start with a baseball analogy. In the Triple Crown of...
A Free Speech Win In Saint Louis
St. Louis resident Jim Roos, in front of the offending sign. Photo by the Institute for Justice. Good news for...
Do Missouri Legislators Hate Snooki?
As a sunburn-prone person who rarely watches MTV, I am not exactly a big fan of Jersey Shore. But, I...
Clumsily Lurching Towards Comprehensive School Choice In Missouri?
The Kansas City Star has reported a delay in the lawsuit between five suburban school districts and the Kansas City...
