Pernicious: St. Louis Goes Forward with Minimum Wage Hike
On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, the Missouri State Supreme Court upheld Saint Louis City’s right to raise its minimum wage....
Kansas City Streetcar Has First Crash
It was only a matter of time. During a test run, the Kansas City Streetcar collided with its first parked...
Killing the Golden Goose: How Walmart’s Left-Wing Critics Destroy Job Creation
Under three different CEOs, Wal-Mart has done all kinds of somersaults to appease left-wing critics. In 2005, Lee Scott set...
Stand Up KC Organizes Misguided Fast-Food Worker Strikes in Kansas City
A group called Stand Up KC is organizing strikes at fast food restaurants in Kansas City. The organization believes that...
Incentivizing Unemployment
Automation is likely to become more and more prevalent as time goes on, and the fast-food industry is likely to be...
The 411 on a CID in the B70
Some business leaders in Columbia want more attention for their slice of town. To do that they are getting together...
On a Scale of 1-10, It’s 15
Dollars an hour, that is. There is a continuing push in Saint Louis and other cities throughout the country to improve the...
Crossfit Creates Jobs
This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week. It is a time to celebrate the innovators and job creators who, simply put,...
Hot New Argument for Tax Breaks in Kansas City: Abate My Taxes, Or I Just Might Build a QuikTrip
Taxpayer-subsidized apartments or $1 buffalo chicken hot dogs? How will I ever decide? (Emphasis mine.) Read what David Martin wrote...
Law to Expand Health Coverage Limits Health Coverage
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed last March requires insurers to spend at least 80 to 85 percent...
Payday Policymaking
Consider: There are more payday loan storefronts in the United States than there are McDonald’s and Starbucks outlets combined. Also...
Free Market for Farmers’ Markets
There’s an interesting editorial in the Kansas City Star written by somebody who was revolted by a front page photo of...
The Power of Saying “No”
When we were still dating, my wife once said to me: “I don’t like to be told ‘no.'” “No” is...
Sacred Bus Stops
Katy Steinmetz’s latest column is, as you would expect, thought-provoking. The topic: corporations buying naming rights to New York subway...
Would You Like a Comfortable Retirement With That?
MSNBC has a nice article — with a real focus on St. Louis, no less — about the very generous...
Regulating Restaurants
There are myriad proposals out there to create onerous new regulations, but this one takes the cake: :In New York...
Decline and Fall of an Incentive Program
I wrote last month about a school district that rewards good grades with meals from McDonald’s. Now McDonald’s has ended...
Rewarding Kids
Here’s a public-private partnership not everyone is happy about. A Florida school district is teaming up with McDonald’s to reward...
The Perfect Nexus of Things I Can’t Stand
Tiny little municipalities, red-light cameras, and policing for profit have found each other, just like chocolate and peanut butter finally...
