Thoughts on Gov. Nixon’s State of the State Address
The president’s State of the Union address is always filled with lots of pomp and formality. It’s the closest thing we...
Toll Possibilities for I-70 Rebuild
Recently, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) issued a report on the possibilities of using tolls to pay for the...
Who Pays When a Private Toll Road Goes Bankrupt?
We have written in support of financing highway improvements through public-private partnerships (PPPs) before, most recently in regard to the...
Tolls On I-70 Could Be Solution To Modot’s Funding Problems
Show-Me Institute Policy Researcher Joseph Miller writes in the Columbia Missourian: With the defeat of Amendment 7, officials are looking...
Trucks on Missouri’s Highways
The Show-Me Institute recently hosted a panel discussion on the future of transportation funding in Missouri. An audience member asked what...
Are Outdated Projections Driving I-70 Rebuild Plans?
With the defeat of Amendment 7, the transportation sales tax, the issue of how to fund Missouri’s statewide road system remains...
Saint Louis County: Does It Have Too Many Municipalities
Many municipalities in Saint Louis County, large and small, rely on fines that harm their populations to fund local government....
Tolling I-70: A Semi-Solution to MoDOT’s Funding Problems
With the defeat of Amendment 7, officials are looking for ways to fund Missouri’s highway system. MoDOT needs adequate funding,...
A Transportation Sales Tax Is Bad Policy For Missouri
As first appearing in the Southeast Missourian: In the 1929 Rose Bowl, the speedy Roy Riegel of the University of...
Are Missouri’s Highways And Bridges Crumbling?
Supporters of Amendment 7, the proposed 0.75-cent transportation sales tax, have increasingly begun to argue that Missouri’s roads and bridges...
Highway Robbery: Missouri Senate Passes Sales Tax Hike For Transportation
Yesterday, the Missouri Senate passed a bill that would use an increase in sales taxes to pay for transportation projects,...
Free Enterprise, Taxpayer Subsidies – Bass Pro Gets Best Of Both
As first appearing in the Springfield Business Journal on August 27, 2013: “Bass Pro Shops could only have happened in...
Warrantless Fears Of Tolling In Warrenton
Yesterday, I testified at the Missouri Blue Ribbon Citizens’ Commission on Transportation meeting in Hannibal. It was a good public forum:...
Papa John’s and The Case of the Over-Regulated Food Trucks
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the city has sent out new maps setting out where food trucks can set up shop...
Who Should Pay for Highways?
The Missouri Department of Transportation, MODOT, is looking into ways of funding necessary maintenance on the main east-to-west highway across...
Should Missouri Toll I-70?
Think about the difference in the taxes that property owners pay to fund local parks and the entrance fee your...
Ceux Subventionnes (The Subsidized Ones)
It is not our intention to be the Inspector Javert to the Jean Valjean of Winghaven, constantly chasing Paul McKee’s proposals...
Is Missouri Ready For Tolls?
This Missouri News Horizon story has some updated information on the Missouri Department of Transportation’s (MoDOT) proposal to institute tolling...
Local Government Inhibits Ice Cream Innovation
During the past few weeks, this sound has become familiar to many Missourians, particularly those who live on or south...
Anything Can Be Replaced With Something “Better”
Show-Me Daily writers have complained repeatedly about Saint Louis paying companies to move into the city. But in a new...
