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Mission Impossible and Nuclear Energy: President Trump’s New Executive Orders

Mission Impossible and Nuclear Energy: President Trump’s New Executive Orders

Jun 19, 2025

A version of the following commentary appeared in the Springfield News-Leader. While I will avoid any spoilers, the new movie,...

Let’s Grow Missouri, Literally

Let’s Grow Missouri, Literally

Nov 13, 2024

We often talk about growing Missouri in abstract ways. We want to grow the economy, grow the tax base, grow...

“Did You Get My Cheez Wiz, Boy?”

“Did You Get My Cheez Wiz, Boy?”

Jan 23, 2024

Early in the classic film The Blues Brothers, Elwood takes his recently paroled brother, Jake, back to his Chicago apartment....

Corruption Allegations: Disappointing but Hardly Surprising

Corruption Allegations: Disappointing but Hardly Surprising

Jun 14, 2022

A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. In 1977, the Chicago Sun Times newspaper bought...

Columbia Repeals Ban on Trash Roll Carts, Repeal of Ban on Dancing and Proms Is Next

Columbia Repeals Ban on Trash Roll Carts, Repeal of Ban on Dancing and Proms Is Next

May 24, 2022

Both Prohibition and the classic film Footloose (the original, obviously) teach us the lesson that banning popular things is generally...

EV Charging Stations Don’t Need Mandates to Succeed

EV Charging Stations Don’t Need Mandates to Succeed

Feb 8, 2022

Elected officials who want to put more electric vehicles (EVs) on the road face a Catch-22. Drivers won’t buy more...

Earnings Taxes and St. Louis’s Catch 1%.

Earnings Taxes and St. Louis’s Catch 1%.

Apr 12, 2021

A version of this commentary was published in the St. Louis Business Journal. As voters in the City of St. Louis...

St. Louis City’s Earnings Tax Is Not the Lowest in the Country

St. Louis City’s Earnings Tax Is Not the Lowest in the Country

Apr 1, 2021

The earnings tax was one topic of conversation during a recent forum for St. Louis mayoral candidates. During the forum,...

Who’s Driving the Bus on School Openings?

Who’s Driving the Bus on School Openings?

Feb 16, 2021

Students and families are nearing the one-year mark of schooling in COVID times. For many, traversing this ever-shifting education landscape...

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