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...
Missouri Auditor Blasts Jackson County Anti-Crime Program
The Missouri State Auditor just released an audit of Jackson County’s Community Backed Anti-Crime Tax (COMBAT) Fund. It’s a doozy....
A Peculiar Solution for Ever-Increasing Water Rates
On June 2, residents of Peculiar, Missouri will vote on the sale of the City of Peculiar utility system to...
Should All Cities Automatically Get Federal Help?
It isn’t surprising that mayors across the country are concerned about the impact a largely shuttered economy will have on...
How Are School Districts Responding to COVID-19?
It’s about the third Monday since nearly every school building in the United States was closed, and yet most large...
Audit the Kansas City Water Department
Water rates in Kansas City may soon go up, according to two ordinances just passed out of the city council’s...
The Kansas City Budget Amid Coronavirus
The City Council of Kansas City is currently debating its 2020–2021 budget. Mayor Quinton Lucas had suggested some worthwhile cuts...
Charter Schools Can Help More Students Get to College
Charter schools in Missouri have demonstrated the ability to outperform traditional public schools, and yet it is nearly impossible to...
In Crisis, Supply-Side Healthcare Reforms Are Even More Important
By far the most important news story of 2020 has been the coronavirus, and for obvious reasons; it has the...
Tax First, Provide Detail Later
Members of The Kansas City Star’s editorial board have lamented that the one-eighth-cent sales tax adopted by a citywide vote...
Patrick Tuohey on KCPT’s Ruckus
Show-Me Institute’s Patrick Tuohey appeared on the latest episode of KCPT’s Ruckus to discuss the proposed KCMO budget plan, major...
Patrick Ishmael on KCMO
This morning, Show-Me Institute’s Patrick Ishmael joined Pete Mundo on KCMO-AM in Kansas City to discuss the potential impact of...
Good News on Housing Affordability in Missouri
Forget the Academy Awards, the 16th annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey has just been released! It has some great...
About That “Economic Impact Study” Conducted on Free Bus Service in Kansas City . . .
In a January 26, 2020 column for The Kansas City Star, the CEO of the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority...
Charter Schools and Civil Society in Kansas City
After a nine-month tour of America in 1831, French political scientist Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, a volume...
Prop 13 Comes to Missouri
California’s Proposition 13 was enacted in 1978 as a reaction against high property taxes and some dramatic increases in tax...
Why Does Missouri Make it So Difficult?
In Missouri, it may seem like school choice is only for Kansas City and St. Louis, since they are the...
Fare Free Public Transit? Not so Fast
A version of this op-ed was published by the Kansas City Star. Kansas City, Missouri, made news around the country last...
It’s Listicle Time!
The end of the year is the time for top-ten lists, top-story lists, and best-moments-of-the-year lists, to name a few....
Show-Me Gets Results? PortKC to Refund Taxpayers
Back on November 4, I recommended Kansas City City Council members curtail the $6 million administrative fee that PortKC would...
