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...
Overturning Light Rail a Good Decision for Kansas City
When citizens pass an initiative referendum, judges or elected officials should use the greatest of caution in exercising their...
And the Slippery Slope Award of the Day Goes To …
Missouri Sen. Scott Rupp, for his recently introduced bill that seeks to end cyberbullying in the wake of the tragic...
A Better Solution to Missouri’s Long-Term Nursing Home Care
It’s disturbing to think of nursing home abuse. Many of us have elderly family members or friends living in assisted-living...
The Battle of Midwifery
The Post-Dispatch ran a two-part article this this weekend (and this morning) on Missouri’s midwifery battle. The casual reader may...
“There’s a Very Fine Line Between Not Listening and Not Caring.”
A bill which would offer a sales tax exemption for energy-efficient appliances has been proposed in the General Assembly. The...
Eminent Domain Case Reaches Missouri Supreme Court
This morning, the Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments in City of Arnold v. Tourkakis, an eminent domain case that’s...
Will the Missouri Supreme Court Leave Your Home At Risk?
When Homer Tourkakis set up his dentistry practice 20 years ago in Arnold, Mo., he never dreamed that the city...
Missouri Supreme Court to Decide Whether Cities May Continue to Abuse Eminent Domain
During the five years between December 2002 and November 2007, dozens of cities acting without a constitutional charter used...
Not Early to Bed, Not Likely to Rise
The New York Times ran an op-ed in yesterday’s edition describing the negative effects of increasingly earlier start times for...
New Study Examines Tuition Tax Credits
Today, the Show-Me Institute released a new policy study, "The Fiscal Effects of a Tuition Tax Credit Program in Missouri,"...
The Bandwagon Just Got Fangs
After the General Assembly last week introduced legislation to prevent another sub-prime mortgage crisis in Missouri, the Kansas City Business...
Jumping on the Sub-Prime Bandwagon
The General Assembly is out to "protect" consumers once again, this time from unscrupulous mortgage brokers. I’ve written before about...
