St. Louis Should Eliminate Its Economic Development Agencies
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. In July 2010, Missouri politicians joined the state’s...
Springfield Should Eliminate Its Economic Development Agencies
A version of this commentary appeared in the Springfield News-Leader. In July 2010, Missouri politicians joined the state’s economic development...
Supreme Court Reins in Federal Bureaucracy in EPA Case
One of the first things most kids learn about American government is that it has three branches: the legislative, the...
The Missouri School Rankings Project
UPDATE as of March 12, 2025, MoSchoolRankings.org now has the latest 2023–2024 performance data for every Missouri school and district—plus...
The Biden Infrastructure Bungle
Following on the heels of its $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, the Biden administration just unveiled another multitrillion-dollar spending plan, this...
Don’t Repeat Mistakes from the 2009 Stimulus
Missouri has a rocky history when it comes to transparency and federal relief. A 2011 audit of how Missouri spent...
The Myth of “Free” Medicaid Expansion
How do you pull the wool over taxpayers’ eyes in making a financial obligation totaling more than $2 billion disappear...
Missouri’s Report Card and ESSA Requirements
Event Details: Missouri has spent more than $6 billion in 2019 on public education. Do we know what we are...
Yes, the Cost of Medicaid Has Exploded
This week the St. Louis Post-Dispatch penned an article about whether the cost of Missouri’s Medicaid program has “exploded.” The paper...
Arise and Shine, Missouri lawmakers: You Have Nothing to Lose but a Long History of Bad Performance.
What’s wrong with you, Missouri lawmakers? Why so weak and feckless? This is your conscience calling. I speak to all...
Education Department to Revisit Title IX Guidelines for Sexual Assault Investigations
On Friday, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos rescinded a “Dear Colleague” letter that the Obama administration had issued in 2011...
Repealing a Mountain of Regulation with This One Simple Trick
Last week, the U.S. Senate voted 50-49 to strike hundreds of pages of regulations drafted by the Department of Education...
Regulatory Reform Emerges as Major Issue, Nationally and in Missouri
It’s been an active first few weeks for President Donald Trump, and the new Administration’s prompt engagement of the United...
Will Streetcar Funding Dry Up?
Slate, a left-leaning news site, considers the implications for transit of Trump’s naming of Elaine Chao to head the Department...
The Dismal Recovery
The “recovery” of the last seven years remains the worst in postwar American history. Average gross domestic product (GDP) growth...
Like an Exploding Cell Phone, Obamacare Should Be Replaced
The last few months have been pretty devastating for the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act." Shortly after United and Aetna...
Know-it-all Government Undermines Growth and Jobs
With strict new rules mandating overtime pay for aspiring professionals and others in mid-level managerial positions, the Obama administration is...
A Well Intentioned Disaster: A Presentation on the Merits of Common Core State Standards
The following is taken from a presentation given by Show-Me Institute Distinguished Fellow of Education Policy James Shuls on February...
A Tale of Two Taxes
If you drive in the Show-Me state, you pay two gas taxes—one of 18.4 cents per gallon to the federal...
Obamacare Cronyism: Where Does the Bureaucracy End and the Insurance Industry Begin?
When the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written in 2010, much of it was negotiated behind closed doors with...
