TIF Decisions Should Be Made at the County, Not City, Level
The simplest thing Missouri can do to improve the decision-making process for tax increment financing (TIF) is move the responsibility...
Missouri Public-School Enrollment Continues to Fall
K-12 enrollment in Missouri’s public school system has been falling for more than a decade. Today, Missouri has about 30,000...
What Can Missouri and Tennessee Learn from Each Other?
I’ve been working up the strength to write about Missouri’s absolute thrashing of Tennessee a month ago. My colleague, Elias...
One Way to Actually Do Something about Kansas City Property Taxes
Between now and the start of the legislative session, all of my blog entries, social media posts, radio interviews, holiday...
Growing, Growing, Gone
It’s nothing new that Missouri’s state government has a spending problem, but as we head into 2024, there’s fear that...
School Choice is Good – Part 2
For the past several years, the Missouri Secretary of State has partnered with the Hunt Institute to host the Missouri...
School Choice Is Good – Part 1
For the past several years, the Missouri Secretary of State has partnered with the Hunt Institute to host the Missouri...
Brenda Talent: How to Move Missouri Forward in 2024
On December 7, 2023, Brenda Talent joined Mike Ferguson in the Morning on NewsTalkSTL to discuss the 2024 Blueprint: Moving...
Watch: A Blueprint for Missouri in 2024
Download the 2024 Blueprint for Missouri here On Wednesday, December 6, 2023, the Show-Me Institute hosted a Virtual Town Hall...
Well, that Was Fast
Recently, the commissioner of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) announced that she would be departing her...
Looking at the Tape on the Clayton/Brentwood Football Merger
The Missouri high-school football playoffs have me feeling sentimental about the “good ole days” of Friday night lights. While we...
Jackson County Taxpayers Have Had Enough
Jackson County residents voted on adopting a “use” tax last week. Use taxes are simply sales taxes on goods you...
Cry, the Beloved Unincorporated Area
An interesting vote took place last week in St. Louis County. A large unincorporated area in the southwest part of...
Some States Making Large Reading Gains Post-Pandemic
The hit game Wordle is something I look forward to doing every day. While the prestigious and crowning achievement of...
A Thin Veneer of Protectionism
Across the country, people are starting to realize that occupational licensing has gone too far. Slowly but surely, we are...
Wrong Then, Wrong Now—the Post-Dispatch and School Choice
It will come as no surprise to the readers of the Show-Me Institute blog that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch gets...
WATCH: Stopping America’s Slide to Socialism with Kevin A. Hassett
On Tuesday, October 24, 2023, Kevin A. Hassett discussed his compelling memoir and analysis, “The Drift: Stopping America’s Slide to...
0 out of 5—What a Score
The Reason Foundation just released a new report on how (or if) states are letting families choose their public school—a...
Good Ideas Done Poorly in Jefferson and Perry Counties
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. As systems evolve and become more complex over...
Show-Me Energy: Today’s Energy Sources
Energy is a very complicated topic, and policy debates around energy often involve confusing jargon along with terms and concepts...
