Medicaid Enrollment Continues to Climb
Over the past six months, Missouri’s Medicaid rolls have grown by 15 percent. There are now more than 975,000 Missourians...
Local Kansas City Area School District Sues Jackson County Health Department – for Good Reason?
Big government is once again picking winners and losers. This time it is in the form of enforcement of county-issued...
Are Teachers Essential or Not?
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, everyone was sent home—everyone except essential workers. Health care workers continued to take care of...
The Danger of an Equity Only Lens in Education
There is a danger in looking at life through only an equity lens. Kurt Vonnegut shows this exceptionally well in...
COVID Makes it Clear – We Need Educational Options
A universal system of public education would be easy if we all agreed on what it should look like. COVID-19...
Missouri Barely Managed Distance Learning. Here’s Why
Technology perpetually changes the way education is delivered. COVID-19 has accelerated a lot of these changes, with schools scrambling to...
Teachers Should Do Their Homework on the CARES Act
A petition, signed by over 20,000 educators, has been circulating on Facebook and other social media websites. It claims that the...
Other States Are Deregulating. Missouri Should Too
The COVID-19 crisis has led to rules and regulations being relaxed or even temporarily eliminated in states across the country....
About That Border War Truce . . .
Last fall, there was much rejoicing about the effort by Missouri Governor Mike Parson and Kansas Governor Laura Kelly to...
Embracing Telemedicine Requires Permanent Change
COVID-19 may be changing America’s health care industry forever. As hospitals and providers search for ways to safely treat patients...
School Start-Date Flexibility: A Short-Term Win for Local Control
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has provided school districts an opportunity to take back some autonomy over...
Three Cheers for the Kansas City Council
The Kansas City Missouri City Council adopted three new ordinances to help restaurants during the pandemic. The ordinances make it...
An Incentive Package for Tesla May Not Benefit Joplin
Tesla is in search of a site for a new manufacturing plant, and Joplin has put itself in the running...
What to Do About Medicaid?
The hole Medicaid has blown in Missouri’s budget is about to get bigger. Medicaid’s costs are expected to grow by...
More People Working from Home Means Less Earnings Tax Revenue
The earnings tax in Kansas City and St. Louis is a one percent tax on income not just for city...
An Idea to Address Missouri’s COVID Learning Loss
Missouri schools closed their doors in March and will not likely re-open them until this fall. This approach risks serious...
Another Fine Convention Hotel Mess
The New York Times recently published a story on the impact of the COVID-19 virus and the economic downturn on...
Rough Road Ahead for Missouri’s Budget
Recently, Governor Mike Parson signed the largest supplemental funding bill in the state’s history. In response to COVID-19, lawmakers approved...
Some Estimates on the Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business
A working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), authored in part by Dr. Ed Glaeser of Harvard...
More Policies to Fight COVID-19
Missouri is inching closer toward the peak of its coronavirus outbreak, and there is still work to be done to...
