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...
Election Week: The Perils of Frontloading
This morning, it was all supposed to be over. Two candidates were promised to rise above the masses and act...
The Utility of Efficiency
At the risk of beating a dead horse, for the record, I’d like to disagree with Justin’s disagreement with my...
Election Week: Will Your Vote Count?
It’s Super Tuesday, so I hope that sometime before, after, or while you’re actually reading this (hooray for iPhones) you’ve...
Election Week: Rise of the Youth
In honor of Tuesday’s presidential primaries here in Missouri, I’ll be running a bit of a series this week related...
Will Decreased Home Values Lead to Lower Taxes?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article today on how the decline in home values may or may not result...
Stopping by Show-Me on a Snowy Morning
All apologies to Robert Frost for the title, but the rest of the Show-Me Institute staff is in the process...
Changing the Rules for Initiative Petitions
I respectfully, yet strongly, disagree with my colleague Dave Roland’s post yesterday on changes to the initiative petition/constitutional amendment rules...
Government By the People?
Some Missouri legislators apparently think that the citizens of this state have too much say in the laws that govern...
Missouri Bridges Score Highly on MSNBC Review
Normally, if you had a sentence that contained the words, "Bridges," "score," "(MS)NBC"and "high(ly)," one would assume you were talking...
