Empowerment Scholarship Accounts: How Parents Could Spend Funds
Recently, I wrote about a proposed law that could expand educational opportunities for students with disabilities. The Empowerment Scholarship Account...
Here’s How Missouri’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Would Work
A proposed law could expand educational opportunities for students with disabilities in Missouri by allowing families greater flexibility in how...
Latest economic data paints same picture: Missouri in bottom half of states
The Bureau of the Census recently released its 2014 American Community Survey (www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/). Based on two key measures—income and education—Missouri...
School Choice in Missouri: The Power Rankings
Football season is upon us, and while I’m cautiously optimistic about the Chiefs this year, I’m really looking forward to...
A Choice for Timothy
Timothy Farr wasn’t born deaf. As a baby, he contracted meningitis, and soon after he lost the ability to hear....
Education Savings Accounts Are Good For Kids
On Feb. 24, the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger published an editorial supporting the establishment of education savings accounts (ESA) in the Magnolia...
Missouri’s Ticking Pension Time Bomb? Will the Money be There?
Those who follow this blog are aware of the Show-Me Institute’s interest in Missouri’s 130-plus public pension systems. Tens of thousands of...
Attorney General Chris Koster Should Join the Multistate Health Care Lawsuit in Florida
When they passed Proposition C last August, Missourians demonstrated their overwhelming opposition to the federal health care reform law. They...
Hydropower on the Mississippi
Sunday’s Post-Dispatch had a great story about expanded interest in hydropower along the Mississippi River. New technology is making it...
“Innovative Schools”
Mississippi’s state legislature is revising a bill that, if passed into law, would allow some traditional public schools to convert...
Reining in Medicaid
An article in the Springfield News-Leader reports that the number of people within Missouri’s Medicaid program has risen 5 percent...
Bravo, North Dakota
I want to just take a minute to thank and applaud North Dakota for being on the cutting edge of...
Justin Channels Stalin
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." — Joseph Stalin, aka Koba the Dread "No,...
Waiting for Their Handout
David Nicklaus reports in the St. Louis Post Dispatch the angst that some companies have about setting up shop in...
New Bridge Might Not Ease Rush Hour Congestion
Have you ever tried to get through downtown Saint Louis during rush hour? How about before or after a Cards...
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