Deflate-gate in Saint Louis: Air goes out of a plan for a new subsidized football stadium
In stimulating tourism, trade, and economic growth, the Roman Coliseum may be the world’s only sports stadium that has repaid...
Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport, Still Taxiing
2015 was, at first blush, a good year for Lambert Saint Louis International Airport (STL). Passenger levels are up, the...
Here’s How Missouri’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Would Work
A proposed law could expand educational opportunities for students with disabilities in Missouri by allowing families greater flexibility in how...
Allegiant Shows How Kansas City’s Airport Benefits from Low Costs
Recently, Kansas City International Airport (MCI) hailed the arrival of a new air service. The new airline, Allegiant, will operate...
Student Loan Default in Missouri
Like many twenty-somethings, I am kept up at night—not by noisy neighbors, but by my student loan debt. I’ll be...
School Choice in Missouri: The Power Rankings
Football season is upon us, and while I’m cautiously optimistic about the Chiefs this year, I’m really looking forward to...
Income and Money Flee Missouri
Earlier this year, Michael Rathbone and I published an essay examining migration trends for Missouri. We reported that over the...
White House Report Is the Same Tired Medicaid Message, but Newly Packaged
Last week the White House released a report titled, “Missed Opportunities: The Consequences of State Decisions Not to Expand Medicaid.”...
Beware Medicaid Expansion, Even If It Is Billed as Reform
As first appearing in the Columbia Missourian: “Beware the Greeks bearing gifts” is one of the better-known sayings in...
A Choice for Timothy
Timothy Farr wasn’t born deaf. As a baby, he contracted meningitis, and soon after he lost the ability to hear....
Everything Is Choice in Florida
When Missourians think of public school choice, they might think of charter schools or the school transfer law, which allows...
Tax Foundation: Missouri’s Sales Taxes Still Well Above Average
Last year, I wrote in Forbes about whether Missouri is a “low tax state.” (It isn’t.) I explored how Missouri...
Florida Story Shows Risk of Conflating Medicaid Waivers With “Block Grants”
Earlier this week I was asked by the Kansas City Star for my thoughts on a Medicaid expansion proposal being marketed...
Touching Testimony on Florida’s Education Savings Account Program
Over the past couple of years, I have written numerous times about Education Savings Accounts (ESAs). I have shown how...
When Will Missouri Lawmakers Hear a School Choice Bill?
Last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a headline declaring, “Plenty of talk, scarcity of answers when it comes to...
Should Missouri Use an A Through F System to Grade Public Schools?
The practice of grading organizations using an A through F grading scale has been utilized by many types of industries....
Missouri Charter School Law: A Soup Sandwich for Military Families?
The Show-Me State forbids charter schools from opening in non-urban, accredited school districts, unless they are sponsored by the district...
Education Savings Accounts Are Good For Kids
On Feb. 24, the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger published an editorial supporting the establishment of education savings accounts (ESA) in the Magnolia...
Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry Guilty of “Stealing” Missouri Jobs?
As appearing in the Springfield News-Leader on October 23, 2013: If “stealing jobs” were as bad as — and essentially...
You Can Call Them Buzzards, But That Makes Missouri The Carcass
Another day, another governor courting — or as some are saying, “trying to poach” — Missouri’s businesses. This time, it’s...
