Voluntary Open Enrollment Means No Open Enrollment
They say the best defense is offense. Perhaps the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has gotten that...
For More Affordable Housing We Need More Housing, Period
St. Louis, at least relative to other cities, is not facing a housing affordability crisis. In fact, a 2024 study...
Honey, I Shrunk the City
It’s not exactly news that the City of St. Louis and the region as a whole have been losing population...
MSA Growth in Missouri
The start of a new year is a great time to reflect on the past and make resolutions for the...
Feds Find KC Streetcar Deficient
On July 24, the Federal Transit Administration issued a triennial review of Kansas City, Missouri, and its FTA-funded projects, namely...
Kansas City’s Airport: A Monument to Political Ego
Kansas City has an effective and efficient airport. There is no reason why Kansas City cannot continue to meet the...
Important Background on the Airport Discussion
The Kansas City Star is reporting on efforts to revive the effort to build a new $1.2-billion single airport terminal....
An Informed Public: Poor Policy’s Worst Enemy
For the time being, it seems that plans to tear down Kansas City International Airport (MCI) and build a $1.2...
Report: Saint Louis, Kansas City *Not* Among Most Cost-Friendly Cities for Business
Recently, the Post-Dispatch prominently published an article claiming that, “St. Louis is among the top 10 most cost-friendly cities to...
Pope Francis Is Visiting a Catholic School. Maybe You Should, Too
Today, Pope Francis will visit Our Lady Queen of Angels school in East Harlem in New York City. It will...
Kansas City Streetcar Advocates Argue Expensive Streetcar Not Country’s Most Expensive
Recently, an article in the Kansas City Star reported that the cost of the city’s two-mile streetcar line is par...
The Risks of the New Convention Hotel
Despite being midsized in both population and convention business, Kansas City was rated among the top five cities in high travel taxes....
Ditching City Hall: A Kansas City Development Story
Kansas City has a low population density for a city its size. How low? According to the Census Bureau, Kansas...
Does Kansas City Need Rail Transit?
After downtown voters rejected a taxing district for the expansion of Kansas City’s streetcar, rail proponents are looking for a...
An Open Letter To Streetcar Supporters
At the recent meeting of the Kansas City Save the Trolley Trail, supporters of an expanded streetcar system dismissed assertions from the Show-Me...
Kansas City’s Ghost Of Streetcars Yet To Come
Just as with the airport, another ghost of Christmas Future is visiting Kansas City, this time regarding streetcars. According to The Wall...
Kansas City Charter Changes
Kansas City is going through a charter review process. The Show-Me Institute recently submitted testimony about the charter. My points...
Not All Airport Bonds Fly
The Branson Airport, derided by Kansas City’s City Council Transportation Committee Chairman Russ Johnson as a stealer of market share from...
Show-Me Hits (May 25)
In the press: St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Childhood Poverty is Indeed a Problem in Missouri, but Big Government Programs Aren’t the...
Let’s Not Follow Cincinnati’s Lead On Airports
The Kansas City Business Journal recently published an article about the effort to tear down Kansas City International Airport (MCI)...
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