Pre-Filed Bill Excitement Spreads Among Nerds, Hacks …
Count me in as the latter, but I assure you I am at least a reputable hack. Political Fix has...
Pre-Filed Bills to Dominate Blogging, Commentary, Life …
Like an early Christmas for bloggers here at the Show-Me Institute, the swallows have returned to Jefferson City in the...
Columbia School District Should Abandon Frivolous Lawsuit
To date, Columbia Public Schools has spent roughly $82,000 on the “adequacy” lawsuit, despite the fact it is a no-win...
Why Don’t They Just Designate the Building as Blighted? It’d Save Some Time
This has been a hot topic around the office, but as I was skimming through our recent posts, I realized...
Clarification on Quote in Columbia Daily Tribune
This past Friday, MoDOT held a forum on future transportation funding in Missouri. It was a very worthwhile event, and...
Take Two
Tax incentives for film producers might not be such a good idea after all. The Post-Dispatch reports that two directors...
Mizzou 38, OU 35
No, this is not a post about football. The University of Missouri?Columbia has won approval to drop the hyphen from...
Carbon Copy Laws
David Weigel at Reason’s Hit and Run blog comments on Gov. Blunt’s plan to keep illegal immigrants from getting driver’s...
A Win for Consumers
Fans of free markets are doing the wave. Starting today, it’s legal in Missouri to sell tickets at prices above...
School Choice Is Working, After All
During the past few weeks, commentators across the country have reported that a conservative policy group issued a study finding...
An Education Blog Is Born
There’s another new Missouri education blog out there, this one courtesy of the Columbia Missourian. In its first few posts,...
“Statistics Are Elusive Things”
Most journalists aren’t number people. If they were, they’d be much less likely to wind up in a profession dominated...
Mommy Missouri
Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, spoke this month before the Missouri House of Representatives’...
Soapbox Gripe
The National Motorists Association has compiled a state-by-state list of the “Worst Speed Trap Cities” in the country. For Missouri,...
Please Pay Our Tuition
My birth cohort, unfortunately also known as the "hand-it-to-me-on-a-silver-platter" generation, is getting involved in politics: The goal is not to...
Show-Me Institute Mislabeled, Misidentified, Misconstrued … Again
There’s some discussion over at NCLBlog about research by Show-Me Institute scholar Mike Podgursky that was published in Education Next....
New Bridge to Madison County
Well, we have a new winner in the "Most obvious reference for a blog post title, ever" contest. Even if...
Truthiness and School Choice
On Sunday, the Columbia Daily Tribune juxtaposed two columns on school choice: one by David Webber (which Sarah Brodsky already...
No, Crime Statistics Are Statistics, Not Facts
Not to beat a dead horse here, but I disagree with Dave’s impression of the crime statistics in St. Louis....
Regional Cooperation Continues in Northwest Missouri
As regular readers know (my old joke would have been to insert "both of you" there, but I am pretty...
