Some Good News for Kansas City and St. Louis
For years, many who sought to excel in a creative or professional field headed to the coasts. Cities like New...
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...
The St. Louis Demographic Decline: One Explanation Among Many
Most St. Louisans I know are die-hard fans of the city they call home. Maybe it’s because we are blessed...
Is a Scooter Ban the Answer in Saint Louis?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a piece on Tuesday morning titled “With scooters gone, St. Louis police say weekend was...
Honey, I Shrunk the City
It’s not exactly news that the City of St. Louis and the region as a whole have been losing population...
Want Better Electricity Prices? Be More Like Illinois
One of the benefits of a cross-border rivalry is the ability to learn from your competitor (with Missouri sometimes learning...
We’re Not in Last Place—We’re Not Even in the Race
The release of the 2020 Census Bureau numbers brought bad news: The St. Louis Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has dropped...
Should Missouri Mandate Biodiesel?
Should the Missouri Legislature require all diesel fuel sold in Missouri be blended with corn and soybean oil? A bill...
Some Promising Numbers About Millennials in Kansas City. Maybe.
William Frey of the Brookings Institution just published a report entitled “How migration of millennials and seniors has shifted...
Reform Missouri’s Mandatory Minimums
In the 80’s and 90’s, politicians from both parties wanted to be tough on crime. A favored tool was stripping...
How Would Missouri Fare in a Global Trade War?
You might think that as a Midwestern state, Missouri would be less exposed than most other states to damaging repercussions...
Done: Missouri Becomes 28th Right to Work State
After years of trying, Missouri’s legislature has passed and our governor has signed SB19, Right to Work, into law—the product...
Kansas City and St. Louis in Bad Financial Shape
Marc Joffe, Director of Policy Research for the California Policy Center, has rated the largest 116 U.S. cities according to...
A New Agenda for Cities Must Come from Cities
Recently, Kansas City, Missouri’s mayor, Sly James, wrote in The Hill that America needed a new agenda for cities. No...
Report: Saint Louis, Kansas City *Not* Among Most Cost-Friendly Cities for Business
Recently, the Post-Dispatch prominently published an article claiming that, “St. Louis is among the top 10 most cost-friendly cities to...
Lackluster Outlook for Saint Louis in 2015
The PNC Financial Services Group provides economic forecasts for those areas in which it has a significant business footprint. The...
Please Convince Me: The Pros and Cons to Raising Property Taxes in Columbia
As first appearing in the Columbia Daily Tribune: This November, many Columbia residents will be concerned about whether the football...
Aerotropolis Revisited
Many Missouri residents remember the ill-fated effort to create a China Hub at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The plan, dubbed...
In Case There Were Any Doubts About The ‘Growth Corridor’ We’re In, Here’s Another Data Point
Today, Show-Me Institute Research Fellow Rik Hafer wrote in the St. Louis Beacon about a recent CNBC business survey and how...
False Pride: Missouri’s Governor Shouldn’t Be Boasting About “Low” Unemployment
As first appearing in the Weekly Standard on July 7th, 2013 (a slightly different version ran in the July 14th...
