Martha Stewart Was Wrong: It’s Not a Good Thing
I don’t want to beat a dead horse, so I will be brief. While I certainly agree with many of...
Don’t Take Pride in Not Being the Worst
In a study highlighted by the New York Times and every other major news publication in the country, the Pew...
Initiative & Referendum Has Great Track Record
I want to follow up on Justin Hauke’s and David Stokes’ entries about the initiative process. Primarily, I take issue...
New Study Shows Role for Private Investment in Missouri Transportation
A new study, jointly produced by the Show-Me Institute and the Reason Foundation, examines the relatively new funding paradigm of...
Gateway to 21st Century Education
I know what you’re thinking: "Enough, Justin, we’re sick of you already." I know, but this is the last post...
Taxes Matter
Faced with a record budget surplus this year (on the order of $14.8 billion U.S.), the territory of Hong Kong...
Put on the Red Light (Camera)
The city of Arnold (which has graced this forum before for alternate reasons) is now the first municipality in Missouri...
Alternative Teacher Certification
Thanks, Combest, for linking to an article about this excellent legislation: Sen. Luann Ridgeway, R-Smithville, sponsored a bill to give...
Another Reason to Vote
Here’s another situation in which economists are wrong and your vote does count. You might someday want to run for...
Cut the Budget or Raise Taxes? Kansas City, Make Your Choice …
Today’s Kansas City Star has a very good and detailed look at Kansas City’s projected budget problems. I believe it...
Margaret Spellings on the Teacher Shortage
Margaret Spellings spoke about alternative teacher certification in Jefferson City yesterday: She pointed to federal programs such as Teach for...
Coors-Miller HQ: Kansas City?
Maybe I’m a little late in getting this out, but last week the Miller-Coors merger talks focused on a neutral...
If It Works in California, It Could Work in Missouri, Too
Here’s a chart of Missouri’s teacher shortage areas from 1997 to the present. The list keeps getting longer, and there’s...
Spotlighting Special Needs
Yesterday, committees in both the House and Senate of Missouri’s General Assembly heard testimony on several bills designed to help...
Whoops
One month into Missouri’s new ethanol fuel standards, and what have we learned? The 2006 legislation that required all gasoline...
Ready, Fire, Aim!
Hits and misses from around Missouri newspapers, blogs, and elsewhere today: Education Week has a story on how the increased...
Some Senators Should Stop the Stupid Stimulus
Ahh, alliteration, the simple pleasure of a poetic mind. This post really doesn’t have anything to do with the Senate...
Bit by Bit
The Post-Dispatch ran an article this morning about a pair of bills recently introduced in the General Assembly that would...
Texas Thinks Outside the Lane on Transportation Planning
Texas is attempting to address its long-term transportation planning needs in a fairly radical way. "Radical" often has a negative...
Here We Go Again
Some people scoffed when I complained last year that encouraging schoolchildren to lobby will lead to a lot of frivolous...
