The Ads in Favor of the New Royals/Chiefs Sales Tax Are Misleading
On February 29, I sent the following email to the general managers of four television stations in Kansas City: On...
A (Tweaked) Clean Slate Bill Offers an Important Opportunity for Criminal Justice Reform
Over the past few years, the Clean Slate Initiative has picked up steam in state capitols around the country. What...
Raise a Toast: Missouri Three-Tier Speech Prohibition Struck Down
While it remains an issue of generally low public awareness, Missouri’s three-tier alcohol regulatory system is one that the average...
Supreme Court Rules Against Agency Fees in Janus
For the legal eagles out there and the laypersons just curious to take a look at the decision, you can...
David French on Free Speech
On October 11, National Review Institute Senior Fellow David French was at Washington University in Saint Louis to deliver a...
The Supreme Court Can Put a Nail in the Anti-Catholic Coffin
This week, the United States Supreme Court will hear a case out of our own backyard that wrestles with a...
The Mandatory Bar Goes to Court
To practice law, prospective attorneys typically have to pass a Bar exam and, after passage, maintain a membership in what’s...
Free Speech Under Fire at Colleges and Universities
Churchill called courage the “first” of the virtues. In the garden of good and evil, it is the one virtue...
Why We Joined Rebecca Friedrichs’ Fight
Historically, the Show-Me Institute has rarely joined lawsuits or amicus briefs in Supreme Court cases. But this week, along with...
Opting-In, Opting-Out – And Burdens On Free Speech
Last year, I wrote at Hot Air about an important free speech case that the U.S. Supreme Court had just handed...
Missouri House Bill Would Tax ‘Violent Video Games’
When I was in high school, I played a game called “Counter-Strike,” a first-person shooter game that allowed you and...
A Free Speech Win In Saint Louis
St. Louis resident Jim Roos, in front of the offending sign. Photo by the Institute for Justice. Good news for...
Occupation as Aggression – And Public Theater
What does it mean to ‘occupy Wall Street,’ “occupy KC,” or occupy any one of dozens of other cities. Plainly,...
Using Your Property to Criticize Us for Taking Your Property? You’d Better Believe That’s Illegal
On Wednesday, lawyers from the Institute for Justice will argue before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Saint...
Supreme Court Considers Education Tax Credits
The Supreme Court is revisiting the use of tax credits as a mechanism for funding education, and whether religious schools...
Who Can Revoke a Liquor License?
There has been a controversy during recent months surrounding three downtown Saint Louis night clubs whose rowdy patrons have been...
Your Government, Your Editor
The Riverfront Times blog points out that a judge in the local U.S. District Court has determined that St. Louis...
Missourians Can Combat the Political Influence of Moneyed Interests
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that the First Amendment does...
Nursing Favoritism
Combest pointed out this morning that the Post-Dispatch has run an article about the state auditor’s concern about the city...
Campaign Finance, Again
As if to follow up my blog post from last week, the Post-Dispatch ran an editorial today highlighting the pervasive...
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