South County Connector Is Opportunity For Transportation Innovation
The Show-Me Institute has long supported market-based solutions to infrastructure projects in Missouri, including using tolls to pay for new...
Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry Guilty of “Stealing” Missouri Jobs?
As appearing in the Springfield News-Leader on October 23, 2013: If “stealing jobs” were as bad as — and essentially...
You Can Call Them Buzzards, But That Makes Missouri The Carcass
Another day, another governor courting — or as some are saying, “trying to poach” — Missouri’s businesses. This time, it’s...
Blitz: Gov. Rick Perry To Visit Missouri And Run Ads Promoting Texas’ Business Climate
He’s already visited businesses in other floundering states — including Illinois, California, and New York — in an effort to...
Dismantling The Post-Dispatch’s Piece About Education (Part 4 of 4)
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board recently issued an opinion piece riddled with errors, faulty assumptions, and half-truths. This post...
The Best and Worst Run States . . . Where Missouri Ranks
24/7 Wall St., a financial news and opinion website, recently released its latest version of the best and worst run...
Why Enhanced Enterprise Zones Are A Bad Deal For Missouri Cities
Sometimes acronyms are designed to create a false impression. That is the case with Enhanced Enterprise Zones, or EEZs, which...
Lower Housing Costs, Less Urban Planning, and the Positives of 90 Municipalities in Saint Louis County
The Show-Me Institute is proud to release a new policy study by Wendell Cox, one of America’s foremost demographers and...
A Heavenly Deal?
Right now, if you are a St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan, you are probably in a state of shock, anger,...
High-Speed Rail in Missouri Is Snapshot of Government Delusions
Did you know that the building of a high-speed rail line across central Missouri will support more than 200,000 jobs,...
Don’t Nationalize Education
A number of educators, academics, and political figures recently signed a statement released by the Albert Shanker Institute favoring a...
Gov. Jay Nixon Should Take a Page From California’s Budget
I know, California is usually the last place policy wonks look for sound fiscal policy. But that doesn’t mean that...
Real School Choice Options Would Help to Narrow Educational Achievement Gap
This week, organizations across the country are holding events to celebrate National School Choice Week, so it’s worth taking a...
Needed: An Alfred Kahn for Health Care Reform
In the annals of progressive thought, there was a fleeting moment when Ted Kennedy, Ralph Nader, and other left-wing icons...
Missouri’s Public Pension Plans Need to Be Reformed to Maintain Solvency
Public pension systems across the country are falling apart before our eyes. The California Public Employees Retirement Security System (CalPERS),...
Paging David Ricardo
A few weeks ago, I testified at the Missouri Tax Credit Review Commission’s meeting in Columbia. I’d like to highlight...
Payday Loans vs. Loan Sharks
This old article from the Sacramento News & Review contains some interesting sentences about sub-prime credit: While the Chicago Outfit...
Disincorporation an Option for Struggling Cities
A story out of California discusses how municipal disincorporation is being considered by California cities under financial duress. Thankfully, Missouri...
Growth by State
Many variables affect a state’s economic growth, including public policy, natural resources, geographic location, business centers, etc. The large number of contributing...
Taxes and Sports: The Earnings Tax (Part One in a Series)
This is the first in what will be a series of posts on taxation and professional sports in Missouri written...
