Accountable, Understandable, and Comparable
There are so many things that go well together during the Christmas season. Faith and family, sweet potatoes and those...
The Data Center Debate Continues in Festus
Amidst great debate, a city commission in Festus recently moved forward with plans for a new data center development. Festus...
Is Consumer-Regulated Electricity Going Worldwide?
Electricity demand from data centers is exploding. This surge has spurred an intense buildout of new generation capacity, as businesses...
Weighing Consumer Regulated Electricity to Meet Energy Demand Growth
The Missouri Legislature recently passed Senate Bill 4 to address concerns about the state’s energy future. Much of the bill...
What to Make of Big Tech’s Pivot to Nuclear
The American nuclear industry is making headlines seemingly every week, with developments in construction, innovation, legislation, and regulation. Recently, there...
Health Care Price Transparency in Missouri: Part One
What makes health care so different than any other thing you might shop for? Well, it’s different in that you...
Missouri Helps Microsoft Advertise With Dignity
If a software company announced that it would teach, for free, tens of thousands of people how to use its...
Technological Double Standard
When online schools in Oregon used technology to compete with traditional districts, legislators responded that the virtual schools shouldn’t accept...
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...
Missouri in Relatively Good Standing
Last week, I was introduced to the Tax Foundation’s Tax Freedom Day report. Aside from being an educational visualization of...
New Tax Estimator Compares Rates Throughout Missouri
Today, the Show-Me Institute released a new interactive tax estimator, "Show-Me: The Taxes." Here’s more: Nobody likes to pay taxes,...
City Manager on Hot Seat in Kansas City
Did you know that Kansas City is one of the largest cities in the United States that has a city...
