Gone Girl, Gone Jobs
Gone Girl brought a frenzy of excitement to the Cape Girardeau area and the state of Missouri, but was the...
Cape Girardeau Should Think Twice Before Establishing CID
As first appearing in the Southeast Missourian: Over the past two decades, Missouri has seen an explosion of new, alphabet...
Ambulance Service An Example Of Privatization’s Benefits
As first appearing in the Southeast Missourian on 10 Feb, 2014: When I was growing up, I regularly played golf...
Celebrating Mediocrity
The 2011 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress for vocabulary were recently released. Missouri once again ranked near...
Show-Me Institute On Missouri Radio
First Thoughts: If I owned a radio station in Mexico, Mo., I would play Wall of Voodoo all day long....
Legislators Who Opposed Corporate Welfare Receive Low Grades
The Missouri Chamber of Commerce has released its 2012 voting scorecard. State legislators are graded based on how they voted...
Missouri: Where the Women Are Strong, the Men Are Good Looking, And Every Teacher is Above Average?
Last week, Ben Barnes, a Show-Me Institute intern, wrote about the teacher tenure reform bill that Missouri legislators are considering....
Tomahawk Chop: Tax Credits On Block In Senate
Last night I was in Cape Girardeau, Mo., to talk tax credit issues. I noted that the Missouri Legislature could eliminate...
TIF is Everyone’s Education Problem
Remember the school district in Kansas City that is asking for a tax increase because of lost tax revenue? Show-Me Institute’s...
Just How Many Mamteks Are There?
After learning about the tax credit failure in Moberly that may cost the city millions, a TV station in Kirksville...
An Open Response to St. Louis Magazine Co-Owner Ray Hartmann
Yesterday, St. Louis Magazine co-founder Ray Hartmann wrote about how the Show-Me Institute has been raising questions regarding a proposal...
DED Awards $8 Million in Tax Credits to Developer Ruled Ineligible by Courts
In 2010, it appeared that the Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED) could sink no further. After all, the agency...
New Year’s Resolutions for Missouri Public Policy: From the Cutting Room Floor
My recent editorial, “New Year’s Resolutions for Missouri Public Policy,” ran in the St. Louis Beacon and the Joplin Globe,...
Surprise! Freely Given Away Taxpayer Money Attracts Criminals
As my colleague Christine Harbin mentioned yesterday, the Associated Press reported on Friday that the president of Hometown Innovation Team,...
I’m Tempted to Spend My Day on Missouri Case Net to See What Else Can Be Uncovered
The subsidized health care cooperative in Cape Girardeau that I recently discussed is back in the news. From an article...
Seventh Signature and the Bill is Free!
The governor will be jetting around Missouri over the coming week for ceremonial signings of H.B. 1311, the Autism Spectrum...
How Should We Pay for Transportation in Missouri?
Today’s Southeast Missourian asks the above question about Missouri transportation funding in an editorial (link via a certain Mr. Combest)....
Show-Me Institute Question of the Week
Readers, commenters, Missourians, lend me your keyboards. What do you think is the most heavily subsidized lifestyle: urban, suburban, exurban,...
Obstructing the Will of the People
Here at Show-Me Daily, we have long documented the efforts of the Missouri Municipal League to prevent this state’s citizens...
Cape Girardeau’s Wise Choice
Combest links to an encouraging article about the August sales tax holiday. I find it encouraging, because I don’t like...
