Show-Me Now! Public Dollars for the Edward Jones Dome?
Michael Rathbone notes that the St. Louis Rams may be moving to LA. Should St. Louis taxpayers offer to build...
Rams L.A. Bound?
According to the L.A. Times, Rams owner Stan Kroenke plans to build a new football stadium in Inglewood, California. If the...
An Idea for Kansas City Schools: Give Principals Power
Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) is seeking input from parents, school staff, and the community about how it might regain and...
Michigan’s Mamtek: Yet Another Reason Missouri Should Abandon Film Tax Credits
Apparently Missouri representatives failed to show at the annual Association of Film Commissioners International Show in Los Angeles. Jerry Berger...
Where Did That Money Go, Again?
Show-Me Living is one of the Show-Me Institute’s best resources for accessing public information about Missouri government expenditures. Questions about tax...
Regulation to Go
The Sunday edition of the Post-Dispatch ran an interesting story about the proliferation of food trucks in Saint Louis and...
Knowledge Is Power – But Only When You Have Choices
Apropos of my blog post about charter schools in New Orleans from last week, Katherine Mangu-Ward has an article in...
Teacher Union Advocates Get Schooled in Debate
Intelligence Squared is a public charity dedicated to providing a public forum for intelligent discussion on a wide range of...
Charters Shouldn’t Have to Copy Traditional Public Schools
Worrisome news from Los Angeles suggests that some public school districts are not the “melting pots” that education lore makes...
Cap and Trade Dangerous for Missouri
A cap and trade bill was narrowly passed in the House of Representatives on Friday afternoon. If passed in the...
Should Charters Take Over Traditional Urban Schools?
From this article in the L.A. Times, it looks like Green Dot has somewhat improved a troubled California high school....
Direct Democracy or Representative Republic: Which Do You Prefer?
I generally prefer the actions of a representative republic over those of a direct democracy. Yesterday’s Kansas City Star had a...
Histrionics
A journalist is convicted of espionage by a foreign nation after a short, secret trial. She starts a hunger strike...
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...
Metro’s Broken Promises Likely to Continue After Proposition M
Voters in Saint Louis County are being asked to approve yet another sales tax to fund transit on the November...
Keeping Tabs on Kids
It’s striking how many education reforms are gaining ground in the other cities while being completely ignored in Missouri. One...
Mmmm … Cake
With all due respect to my colleague, Sarah, the most ridiculous regulation imposed on the food industry comes from the...
A Great Development
Dave Roland beat me to it, but I was going to talk about the "Call to Oneness" article for addressing...
Regulating Fake Identities on the Internet
Here’s an interesting twist in the Megan Meier case. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles might charge the people who allegedly...
Choices for Drop-Outs
In an op-ed last year, I speculated that the high minority drop-out rate in St. Louis was caused by a...
