A Strong, Pro-Growth Tax Bill
In the high-stakes arena of legislating, the Missouri Senate and House are going heads up. In March, the Senate drew...
Another Step Closer
In the race to keep up with Kansas, Missouri has cleared one more hurdle in enacting serious tax reform. The...
And Over In The House
I previously blogged about the Missouri Senate’s stated agenda for the upcoming legislative session that starts in January. Over in...
Nixon: Missouri Will Not Implement Health Insurance Exchange By Federal Deadline
In a victory of sorts, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said on Thursday that the state will not be able to...
A Note Of Praise To The House Health Insurance Committee
Word came yesterday afternoon that the Missouri House Health Insurance Committee has finally voted to send a key piece of...
Beer Wars
The future of the state’s beer market potentially is about to change, and not for the better. That is, if...
Optometrist Mandate Dies In Senate Education Committee
In February, I wrote about a bill that would renew an onerous mandate on kindergartner and first grader eye exams in...
Kudos to Missouri Senate for Blocking Health Exchange
Earlier this year, the Missouri Senate approved a measure blocking Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s ability to create a health insurance...
Adios, MOSIRA?
That is the word on the street. This morning, news broke that a Cole County circuit judge had ruled that...
Money Down a Drain: The Millions Spent on Missouri’s No-Show Feb. 7 Election
Missouri lawmakers are feeling embarrassed. And well they should be. The representatives of the Show-Me State were shown up as...
Florida Deadline Comes and Goes; Missouri’s Attorney General Is Not Yet On Board
Not only have a majority of Missouri voters signaled that they’re against the health care law, lawmakers in Jeff City...
Where Do the Home-Schooled Children Play?
Currently, home-schooled students cannot participate in high school athletics, but a bill before the Missouri Senate would allow them to...
A Ban I Actually Support
That would be a ban on red light cameras, which was recently proposed in the Missouri Senate. Although I am...
The Autism Bill: Negative Outcomes From Good Intentions
There is an ironic tension between two health care bills currently pending in the Missouri Senate. One seeks to create...
The Lesson Applied to Film Production Incentives
In the beginning of Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt describes classic rent-seeking behavior: While certain public policies would in...
East Side Stripper Full Employment Act Advances
I’m quite a bit late on this one, but a couple of weeks ago, the Missouri Senate overwhelmingly approved a...
The Sales Tax and Catholic Schools
The Missouri Catholic Conference (MCC) has come out in opposition to the proposal to implement a statewide sales tax that...
Four-Day School Weeks in the L.A. Times
A four-day school week proposal was voted down in the Missouri Senate a few weeks ago, but the idea is...
Show-Me Health Coverage
An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch outlines a health care proposal that passed the Missouri Senate last week. Like...
The Missouri Health Transformation Act: Everything AND the Kitchen Sink
The Missouri Health Transformation Act of 2008 (SB1283), which would implement several state health care reforms, has passed the Missouri...
