Questions of Transit Efficiency Need to Include Both Costs and Benefits
What is the most efficient means of getting people from the place they are to the place they want to...
MetroLink, the Riverfront Times, and Freakonomics, Together at Last
The much-discussed Riverfront Times article about MetroLink from a few months ago is being discussed at the Freakonomics blog. If...
Upcoming Ballot Issues
With an election approaching, so I’ve heard, you might be interested in some of the ballot issues that always seem...
Charitable Tax Credits Provide Constructive Alternative to Prop. 1
This November, Saint Louis County constituents will vote on a new annual tax of one-quarter of a cent (1...
Ridership Estimates? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Ridership Estimates
Instead of providing my own commentary in this post, I’m going to let the following quotes from various sources speak...
The Fatted Gaffe
Yesterday, the Columbia Daily Tribune‘s publisher, Henry J. Waters III, ran an outstanding editorial about the importance of personal choice...
Radio Alert: Joe Haslag on Gary Nolan’s Show This Afternoon
The Show-Me Institute’s executive vice president, Joe Haslag, will be appearing this afternoon on The Drive with Gary Nolan, on...
Anti-Light Rail Campaign in Kansas City
The Kansas City Star ran an article today about a new group that’s campaigning against the city’s light rail proposal....
Light-Rail Systems Are a False Promise
Rail transit has become such an albatross around the necks of the American cities that have it that it is...
Disappointment, Bemusement, and Sadness
Disappointment because the innovative plan to finance our bridge repair program has been replaced. There is nobody to blame here...
Metro On My Mind, Still
After my post yesterday about Metro’s proposed Daniel Boone Corridor expansion, I was looking around the usual websites that a...
Why We Need to Tighten the Initiative Petition Process
The Kansas City Star has a write-up on a perfect example of why Missouri needs to tighten up the requirements...
Tennessee vs. Missouri: Taxes May Tip the Odds
Missouri nestles against eight states, so border wars of all sorts are common. Some are fun, such as this week’s...
Missouri Private School Regulations Make the Grade
The Friedman Foundation has graded all 50 states on how they regulate private schools. The states with the highest grades...
Show-Me Road Trip
I have recently returned from a two-week road trip through the rural parts of our state, where I was out...
Lobbying for More Government
There is a brief post in Prime Buzz today about the decision by the KC City Council to renew its...
More Steelman
Steelman fields another question of interest over at the Post-Dispatch: Brian R.: Urban decay and poverty is a problem that...
Strings (or, With State Dollars Come Bureaucracies)
This is a continuation of my prior post about the history of school finance in the United States. The adage...
Yet Another Example of Terrific City Planning
The Kansas City Star has a story on the failures of the planning process in Kansas City’s Beacon Hill neighborhood....
Developing the Core
Kansas City’s mayor, Mark Funkhouser, is likely to appoint a new task force to help develop the urban core, the...
