Springfield Takes Its Time Hiring a City Manager
Springfield is undergoing a lengthy process to hire its new city manager. There is nothing wrong with that. This is...
What to Make of Big Tech’s Pivot to Nuclear
The American nuclear industry is making headlines seemingly every week, with developments in construction, innovation, legislation, and regulation. Recently, there...
Centene Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
There are numerous flaws in the ongoing subsidy-driven economic development strategy employed in Missouri. In this post, I want to...
So Meta: New KC Data Center Heavy on Tax Incentives, Light on Jobs
Three years ago, I wrote in The Federalist about Amazon’s decision not to establish a New York City headquarters in...
There Oughta Be A Law: If Walmart is Essential, Small Retailers Are Too
As the coronavirus pandemic accelerated this spring, governments across the country clamped down dramatically on businesses and associations of all...
Hoping for the Best with the Internet Sales Tax
Last year Show-Me Institute writers discussed the possibility of Missouri imposing a new tax for online purchases, but there was...
USDA Moves to Kansas City, Gets Incentives
Alex Muresianu of Reason wrote recently about the USDA moving 550 positions from the Washington, D.C. area to the Kansas...
New York Shouldn’t Have Offered Amazon $3 Billion. No One Should Have.
This week Amazon announced that it was scrapping its plan to establish a “second headquarters” in New York. The company’s...
Missouri’s Biggest Cities Spend $100 Million Annually Just to Give Away Money!
An excellent story in the St. Louis Business Journal points out that according to a recent study by the Milken...
