Part 2: It Is Time To Close The Book On Aerotropolis
Last week, I noted that Aerotropolis is back in the legislative conversation as supporters try (again) to direct state subsidies to...
Kansas City Among The Nation’s Worst For Tourism Taxes
Long-time Show-Me Daily readers know that Kansas City is not exactly a tax haven. As the Kansas City Star‘s Yael...
Columbia Should Refrain From Raising Hotel Taxes
The late United States Senator Russell Long used to say that everyone’s ideal tax policy was, “Don’t tax you, don’t...
Dispute About Parking Stirs Up Trouble In The Ozarks
In case you have not heard, there is trouble brewing at the “Party Capital of the Lake of the Ozarks.”...
Show-Me Institute In The News
We had a very busy first week of October for op-eds at the Show-Me Institute. The Missouri Record ran a...
Lessons For Kansas City From The Chicago Teachers Strike
Who “won” the just-ended Chicago school strike and what are the implications for other large urban districts, including Kansas City...
Help Wanted: High-Performing Teachers Need Not Apply
As the Chicago teacher’s strike carries into its second week, many interesting facts are coming to light. We know the...
Who Is In It For The Kids, Teachers’ Unions Or Charter Schools?
In an impassioned address to the media, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis stated the reasons the teachers’ union would...
TIF Gives Cities An Unfair Advantage Over Other Governments
Would you like to be able to unilaterally take some of your neighbor’s money and spend it in ways that...
Privatization of Parking Meter Collecting was Worthwhile Change for Saint Louis
Saint Louis Alderman Fred Wessels has filed a lawsuit regarding Saint Louis City Treasurer Larry Williams’ privatization of the city’s...
Red Light Cameras Fail To Improve Safety In Kansas City
The Kansas City Police Department recently completed a study of the city’s red light camera program, detailed in the Kansas...
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,...
High-Speed Rail Supporters Are Just Making Things Up
Over at the St. Louis Beacon, high-speed spending (and rail) enthusiast Rick Harnish is just flat-out misleading people to get...
Aerotropolis: The Wrong Way to Get-It-Done
At his July 21 press conference at the Danforth Plant Science Center in Saint Louis, Gov. Jay Nixon did his...
A Starry-Eyed Proposal To Rescue an Airport and Revitalize a Region
In 1998, the airport authority in St. Louis approved the construction of a third runway at its 70-year-old airfield (the...
Visiting the Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field
There is no ballpark quite like Wrigley Field. Although I am a diehard Cardinals fan who passionately despises the Chicago...
On Aerotropolis and High-Speed Rail
Over the weekend the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a commentary written by Ripley Rasmus of the consulting firm HOK. In...
Air Cargo Expert Hammers Aerotropolis Plan in Industry Publication
And doesn’t pull any punches in doing so. Published in Air Cargo News under the headline “St. Louis Air Cargo—An...
The Next Big Handout: An “Aerotropolis” Near You?
The prospect of “Big Idea” economic development makes politicians do strange, contradictory things. On the stump, candidates rail against corporate...
Illinois Scrambles as Sears Looks for an Exit
Two weeks ago, I noted that our cross-border friends in Illinois had an economic mess on their hands. Unemployment’s high...
