The Gang that Couldn’t Plow Straight
There’s an old warning that “the plural of anecdote is not data.” But there sure are a lot of anecdotes...
Rising Concerns about St. Louis’s Teacher Pension Fund
KSDK recently ran a report on a topic familiar to Show-Me Institute readers: teacher pensions. The report, titled “Growing pension...
The City-County Line Remains a Barrier to a Good Education
KSDK has a great interview with Chester Asher, CEO of Northside Community School, a charter school in St. Louis. Northside...
Private Schools and the Making of Americans
There is a strange notion going around that public schools are the only place, or the best place, to inculcate...
$150 Million Incentive Package. 8,600 Jobs Paying $75,000 Each. State Income Tax of ~6%, Repaying the State … $39 Million?
Those jobs and salary numbers are according to what a legislator told KSDK Channel 5 News in Saint Louis last...
David Stokes Debates Sidney Watson About Obamacare
David Stokes, policy analyst with the Show-Me Institute, and Sidney Watson, a member of the Center for Health Law Studies...
Is St. Louis the next Detroit? (Not in my view)
As first appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on August 16, 2013: When the St. Louis Cardinals played the Detroit...
Is Head Start ‘Worth Every Penny’?
In light of a recent federal study, which concluded that the Head Start program does not have lasting benefits, there have...
Show-Me Discusses the Medicaid Expansion With Media All Across State
It has been a busy few days in the Show-Me office. Yesterday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced that his upcoming...
