Farm to School and Nutrition Education
Today was the second USDA live Facebook chat. (Here are my comments on the first chat; the video is here.)...
Tough Call on Real Estate Transfer Taxes
Yesterday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch had a story about the effort by Realtors to pass an amendment to Missouri’s Constitution that...
SMI Releases New Study of Eminent Domain
On Tuesday, Sept. 15, the Show-Me Institute released a new study: “Gradual and Silent Erosions: How the Missouri Supreme Court...
Collective Bargaining Under the Missouri Constitution
As the Springfield News-Leader reports, Judge Michael Cordonnier of the Greene County Circuit Court handed down a very important decision...
Virtue and Government-Compelled Charity
Recently, several of my colleagues from Vanderbilt Divinity School sat in on President Barack Obama’s conference call, in which he...
More on the Education Funding Lawsuit
As Sarah has already noted, the Missouri Supreme Court yesterday brought an end to the lawsuit in which half of...
Going Above and Beyond
The St. Louis Beacon has a recent report about the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision that the state’s education funding formula...
Intriguing, Yet Frightening, Comment Over at Political Fix
Below is the full text of a comment from a blog post over at the Post-Dispatch‘s Political Fix blog. It...
A Good Use of the Line-Item Veto
Combest has a rundown of stories about Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget cuts. I think this is a excellent use of...
Q&A on the English-Language Amendment
A political science student contacted me this past week with some questions about the English-Language Amendment to the Missouri Constitution....
Keep Doing What You’re Doing
This quote from Rep. Mike Talboy captures my sentiments exactly: ”This is akin to us putting up an amendment to...
Initial Franklin County Charter Thoughts
So, the question of the day for me is: Why did the proposed Franklin County Charter fail? Now that I’ve...
More on Crazy Licensing Requirements in the Wall Street Journal
Last week, the Journal reported on a comedy troupe that’s being hounded by regulators. Today, there’s another article about regulators...
The Peaceful Transfer of Power
It’s official: Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States of America. The first African-American president in the...
Misery Loves Company
There is a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (link via Combest) about how states are pushing for a new...
Happy Bill of Rights Day!!
On this day in 1791, the United States ratified the first 10 amendments to its new Constitution. These provisions were...
Private Funding an Important Option for Missouri Highways
An economic crisis is an excellent time to question assumptions — some of which may turn out to have been...
I’ve Got Some Speech for You
The city of St. Louis is continuing its war against citizens’ right to express themselves. Having already told Jim Roos...
Cooperation, Not Legislation
Under the Missouri Constitution, no government agency can prohibit or punish people’s efforts to cooperate with each other as they...
Religious Beliefs Aren’t Special
Blogging about 120 miles away from me, in the Columbia office, fellow intern Audrey Spalding claims that we should offended...
