Let Market Guide Us To Prosperity In ’14
As first appearing in the January 7, 2014, Columbia Daily Tribune: Here are five market-oriented resolutions for a more prosperous...
Ballot Initiative Lets Motorists Off Hook
In Sunday’s Columbia Daily Tribune, my editorial, “Ballot Initiative Lets Motorists Off Hook,” made the case that user fees, and...
Ballot Initiative Lets Motorists Off Hook
As first appearing in the Columbia Daily Tribune on 24 November, 2013: Imagine ordering the usual for dinner at your...
False Pride: Missouri’s Governor Shouldn’t Be Boasting About “Low” Unemployment
As first appearing in the Weekly Standard on July 7th, 2013 (a slightly different version ran in the July 14th...
Education Saving Accounts: What Are They?
On Sunday, the Columbia Daily Tribune published an op-ed I penned and I would like to expand here on one...
Online Learning: When More Is More
In higher education, distance learning has been around for a very long time. In fact, the University of London began...
How Many Administrators Are Needed To Run One University System?
Anyone who has spent time at a bureaucratic agency (think DMV) can attest to the frustration and wasted dollars. Bureaucratic...
Tax Increment Financing and Columbia, Missouri
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is Missouri’s bad idea that keeps coming back and refuses to die. Despite TIF’s documented failures,...
EEZs Are An EZ Path To Corporate Welfare
In a very funny 1983 episode of “Family Ties,” the father, Steven Keaton, reads an FBI file describing his mild...
Oh Well, It Will Be A Thin Report: The Mamtek Hearings
A Missouri House committee heard testimony Wednesday from the soon-to-be former director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development (DED),...
Show-Me Institute Seeks Spring Interns
SAINT LOUIS – The Show-Me Institute announced its spring internship program today. Interns at the Show-Me Institute Internship are involved...
Making Sense of the Midterm Elections
At the Show-Me Forum in Columbia on Feb. 7, political columnist Bob Roper gave his assessment of the 2010 midterm...
“We Ran From It the First Time We Saw It”
The above is a direct quote from a potential investor about a stalled development project in northern Boone County. The...
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),...
Where Are the Promised Jobs and Economic Activity?
Last May, IBM received $28 million in state tax credits and $3 million in incentives from the local government to...
Columbia: The (Subsidized) Silicon Valley of the Midwest?
From an article in the Columbia Daily Tribune: To bring a potential 120 new jobs to Columbia, the state has...
Extending Prison Terms Beyond Prison Walls
Most of the people reading this blog entry have never been a felon, and hopefully they never will. For many...
The Governor’s Revealed Preference
According to his biography: Governor [Jay] Nixon has put forward an agenda to make government more efficient, effective and responsive...
Ain’t Nobody’s Business if You Do
The Columbia Daily Tribune published an article about the opposition to SB 586, a bill on Gov. Jay Nixon’s desk...
I Take Your Bank Before I Pay You Out
By now, it’s old news that state and local governments awarded IBM a $31 million incentive package to persuade the...
