So Glad You Could Join Us . . .
It’s hard to see the chalkboard from the back of the class. When you’re not even in the room, it’s...
Fall 2018 Internships
The Show-Me Institute is pleased to offer internship opportunities for Fall 2018. Internships are open to current undergraduate and graduate...
Film Tax Credits: Facts and Fiction
Over the weekend, the St. Louis Post Dispatch published a piece about yet another Missouri-based television program that is being...
If Business Owners Want a More Skilled Workforce, They Shouldn’t Forget about Charter Schools
Last week in Columbia, business and education stakeholders expressed their concerns over the preparedness of Missouri’s future workers. As part...
How Well Are Missouri Cities Run?
Not so well, according to the personal finance website WalletHub in their “2018’s Best- & Worst-Run Cities in America” article....
Gratuitous “We Told You So” on KCI Airport Vote
City leaders were surprised to learn the other week that things were amiss with planning the new airport terminal. As...
Who Runs the KCPD?
Mayors in Kansas City long have complained about a lack of control over the police department. But the truth is...
City Chooses Highest Bidder to Conduct Economic Development Analysis
While we wait for the city’s report on economic development incentives, over a year late at this point, we thought...
Trump vs. Harley-and the World
In its own words, the Trump Organization is “the world’s only global luxury real estate super-brand,” with five- and six-star...
Millennials *Still* Prefer the Kansas City Suburbs
For years, census data demonstrated that people are eschewing urban settings for the suburbs. Then, for a while, some urbanist...
Delayed Opening of New KCI and Sales Taxes To Fund Pre-K
On Thursday, June 21, the Show-Me Institute’s Patrick Tuohey appeared on KCPT’s Ruckus to discuss the delayed opening of Kansas City’s new airport,...
The Asterisk in Streetcar Reporting
Bill Turque over at The Kansas City Star wrote the standard piece on this week’s streetcar extension vote, and gave...
A is for Absent
Being financially responsible—keeping a close eye on your bank balance and even your credit score, for example—isn’t always pleasant. Being...
Are Sales Taxes to Fund Pre-K a Good Idea?
Kansas City Mayor Sly James is working on a proposal for a sales tax increase to fund expanded pre-K education....
Kansas City Dodged the #HQ2 Bullet
Richard Florida is an urban studies theorist who promoted the idea that the creative class would drive urban renewal and...
Where Is That City Report on Economic Development?
Are economic development incentives worthwhile? Abundant research from all over the country says they are not. Kansas City leaders disagree,...
On Superintendents and Their Districts
Does it really matter who’s running a school district? Put another way, is paying top dollar for a superintendent a...
The Government Shouldn’t Mandate a “Living Wage”
On the last Monday of the legislative session, almost 90 people were arrested in downtown Jefferson City for blocking a...
Tourism: When Kansas City Is Not Kansas City
Eyebrows were raised at the claim by Kansas City’s tourism board, VisitKC, that Kansas City has over 25 million visitors...
The Most Unkindest Tax of All
We’ve written a great deal about the various forms of taxation in Missouri. Some taxes are too high, some may...
