Kansas City Star Calls For New MCI Plan, Airport Leadership
On Wednesday, the Kansas City Star called for a complete re-think of the $1.2 billion new terminal plan at Kansas...
Ballot Initiative Lets Motorists Off Hook
In Sunday’s Columbia Daily Tribune, my editorial, “Ballot Initiative Lets Motorists Off Hook,” made the case that user fees, and...
Ballot Initiative Lets Motorists Off Hook
As first appearing in the Columbia Daily Tribune on 24 November, 2013: Imagine ordering the usual for dinner at your...
Road Warriors
I guess it is that time of the year for everybody to have their hands out, to the detriment of...
Why Wasn’t the Blanchette Bridge Preserved? . . . Asks the Devil’s Advocate
Tuesday morning, Saint Louis social media was abuzz with news that the controlled demolition of the westbound section of the...
Warrantless Fears Of Tolling In Warrenton
Yesterday, I testified at the Missouri Blue Ribbon Citizens’ Commission on Transportation meeting in Hannibal. It was a good public forum:...
Who Should Pay for Highways?
The Missouri Department of Transportation, MODOT, is looking into ways of funding necessary maintenance on the main east-to-west highway across...
Should Missouri Toll I-70?
Think about the difference in the taxes that property owners pay to fund local parks and the entrance fee your...
High-Speed Rail in Missouri Is Snapshot of Government Delusions
Did you know that the building of a high-speed rail line across central Missouri will support more than 200,000 jobs,...
Is Missouri Ready For Tolls?
This Missouri News Horizon story has some updated information on the Missouri Department of Transportation’s (MoDOT) proposal to institute tolling...
Could a Longer Yellow Mean Less Green in City Coffers?
More importantly, could it mean more green in your wallet? As the Riverfront Times notes (emphasis added): Motorists driving along roadways...
Off the Track
The governor has announced that Missouri will seek additional funding for high-speed rail. This is, in my opinion, a very...
Private-Sector Investment Could Build Innovative Urban Corridor
The Show-Me Institute recently published a case study by Jerome J. Day that takes an expansive look at transportation infrastructure...
Subsidizing the Missouri State Fair
A regular Show-Me Daily reader alerts me to an article in the Kansas City Star reporting that the Missouri...
Progress on Red-Light Cameras
There’s some good news on this front: The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has halted allowing any further red light...
Shooting at a Seat-Belt Checkpoint … I Repeat, a Seat-Belt Checkpoint
It’s over. The nanny state is through the looking glass in St. Louis County. To take a cue from Neil Young:...
Mmmm, Free Federal Money
The Springfield News-Leader published a letter to the editor on the subject of federal expenditures in Missouri (link via John...
U.S. PIRG Publication Misrepresents Substance of Show-Me Institute Article
While looking for some academic papers on Google Scholar, I took a moment, as an afterthought, to see whether the...
More on MoDOT and Local Control of Roads
Just yesterday, I wrote about the loathsome move by the itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny city of Charlack to install speed cameras on I-170 in St....
State’s New Road Plan Involves Fewer Roads
Today’s Joplin Globe (one of our favorite papers here at the Show-Me Institute) featured a story about the new MoDOT...
