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John Sherman’s Proposed Entertainment District Is Bad for Everyone Else

John Sherman’s Proposed Entertainment District Is Bad for Everyone Else

Feb 22, 2024

John Sherman, the owner of the Kansas City Royals, said in an announcement the other day: I believe in my...

Cherry-picked Data Can’t Hide the Truth about Missouri’s Workforce

Cherry-picked Data Can’t Hide the Truth about Missouri’s Workforce

Aug 10, 2023

A version of the following commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A couple of weeks ago CNBC released its...

SMI Podcast: Lessons From The Last Economic Recovery

SMI Podcast: Lessons From The Last Economic Recovery

Mar 11, 2021

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Downtown Baseball? Show Us the Research

Downtown Baseball? Show Us the Research

Jan 7, 2020

New Royals owner John Sherman is giving interviews extolling the virtues of downtown baseball. In a recent story published on...

Metro Ridership Trending Down in 2015

Metro Ridership Trending Down in 2015

Dec 22, 2015

Earlier this year, we talked about how, contrary to the hopes of many Saint Louis regional planners, there is no...

No Need To Throw Taxpayer Money Down The Well

No Need To Throw Taxpayer Money Down The Well

May 9, 2013

Last year, at the height of the drought in Missouri, I wrote about Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s Executive Order authorizing...

Episode II: Attack Of The Dome

Episode II: Attack Of The Dome

Mar 2, 2012

The Edward Jones Dome saga continues. I previously blogged about this topic and there is a new development. It seems...

Poverty and Health Care in Missouri

Poverty and Health Care in Missouri

Feb 8, 2010

Last year, the American Journal of Medicine included a disturbing story about bankruptcy in America. In that study of five...

Budget Deficits and Speeding Tickets

Budget Deficits and Speeding Tickets

Jan 7, 2009

The Post-Dispatch had a great story yesterday about a recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that...

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