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...
