Clarification on Quote in Columbia Daily Tribune
This past Friday, MoDOT held a forum on future transportation funding in Missouri. It was a very worthwhile event, and...
Truthiness and School Choice
On Sunday, the Columbia Daily Tribune juxtaposed two columns on school choice: one by David Webber (which Sarah Brodsky already...
Webber on Public Schools
David Webber, a professor at the University of Missouri, makes some good points in an op-ed about school choice in...
Merit Pay for Teachers
Merit pay for teachers is on the horizon. With gratitude to Combest for the link, here’s an article in the...
Columbia News Coverage of Our Education Conference
The Columbia Daily-Tribune and the Columbia Missourian both had excellent articles in today’s editions covering the conference sponsored by the...
When High Schools Fail, Colleges Take Up the Slack
An editorial in the Columbia Daily Tribune calls for higher standards in K-12 education: UM President George Russell went around...
Be a Show-Me Institute Intern!
Today, we’re announcing our spring 2008 internship program. From the release: Interns at the Show-Me Institute Internship are involved in...
I Know Some People Can’t Fathom This, But …
There are actually some people left in America who don’t want government assistance! Per this Columbia Daily Tribune article (via...
A Taxpayer Fights for Answers
article in today’s Columbia Daily-Tribune profiles a taxpayer who’s taking action, getting involved in the process by which the Missouri...
Gov. Blunt Did the Right Thing
A letter to the editor in yesterday’s Columbia Tribune claims Gov. Blunt needs to repent for cutting Medicaid: With a...
I’ll Miss Rep. Bearden
It was announced yesterday that Rep. Carl Bearden is resigning from the Missouri House. As a person who wants to...
Housing Tax Credits Are Not Providing Housing
In today’s Columbia Daily Tribune, an op-ed piece discusses the problems with the Missouri Housing Development Commission’s state tax credit...
Recognition by the Columbia Tribune!
Strolling through John Combest’s page, I found a blog on the Columbia Tribune‘s website that acknowledges the work of the...
How Old is Old Enough?
A letter to the editor in the Columbia Daily Tribune suggests that we should allow people to serve as state...
Why I Am Happy and Optimistic Despite Ethanol Subsidies and Bad Laws
An editorial in the Columbia Daily Tribune deplores a new rule requiring ethanol to be mixed in with gasoline starting...
Missouri Term Limits
Yesterday in the Columbia Daily Tribune, columnist J. Scott Christianson had a few unpleasant things to say about an organization...
Missouri Bloggers on Show-Me Institute School Choice Survey Results
The study released Monday by SMI has been widely circulated in Missouri’s blog world. The state’s patron saint of blogging,...
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on “Ready for Change”
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on the just-published study I coauthored with Verne Kennedy of Market Research Insight: The survey...
Quality Jobs, Questionable TIFS, and Cameras, Cameras, Cameras
Over at the Columbia Daily Tribune they have a depressing article about the corruption of a bill to expand the...
Vouchers for SLPS
There’s an interesting op-ed regarding vouchers over at the Columbia Daily Tribune this morning. The author argues that one possible...
