Tuition Tax Credits
Within the next few weeks, the Show-Me Institute will be releasing a study about the economic benefits of a tuition...
“Smokey, this is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”
There’s another article this morning on Missouri campaign contribution limits (I’ve blogged about this issue before). Apparently, the contribution limits...
Internship Application Deadline Extended
We’ve extended the application deadline for Spring 2008 internships through Friday, November 16. So if you’re a student (or you...
“I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means…”
On Sunday, the Kansas City Star ran a column that misinterprets a recent report published by the Wisconsin Policy Research...
Does This Really Surprise Anyone?
The school districts acting as the plaintiffs in CEE v. Missouri, which have thus far used more than $3 million...
In Defense of Usury
I’ve written before on the negative consequences of anti-usury laws targeted at Missouri payday lenders. An op-ed in yesterday’s Wall...
County Trash Consolidation Intrudes on Individual Choice
In response to "Trashy Quotes," posted by Justin Hauke: I agree that the trash district plan for unincorporated areas of...
Corrections to West End Word Article on Rex and SMI
Tim Woodcock of the West End Word (link via Missouri Political News Service) wrote a very thorough and detailed article...
Columbia News Coverage of Our Education Conference
The Columbia Daily-Tribune and the Columbia Missourian both had excellent articles in today’s editions covering the conference sponsored by the...
Misconceptions From the MSBA
The MSBA blog is at it again, bashing the Show-Me Institute — I mean, writing about "religion." What these posts...
From Equity to Adequacy to Choice
The Show-Me Institute is today co-sponsoring a conference about issues associated with public school finance and educational adequacy lawsuits. The...
Judicial Elections and Parkland Sales
The Arch City Chronicle links to two stories, one from Detroit and one from DC, on issues of interest to...
Empowering Parents to Seek Out Adequate Education
As was widely expected, last week a circuit court judge denied several school districts’ claims of constitutional entitlement to...
Eminent Domain Harms Poor Residents
I’ve been remiss in pointing out this article at The American by our former editor, Tim Lee, about how eminent...
A Tax Activist Is Born
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a story today, via Combest, on St. Louis County’s newly born property tax reform group,...
Public School Successes Exist; You Just Have to Know Where to Look
While the MSBA was too busy attacking the competition to notice this, I found a public school success story. Governor...
The MSBA on Parental Choice
The MSBA is blogging away … telling us about the successes of public schools in Missouri, right? Well, not quite....
Dentist Chains Self to Building to Resist Sirens of Arnold
Not really, but I like the image. Dr. Homer Tourkakis’ fight to keep his dentistry practice going at the location...
MSBA Joins the Blogosphere
I see, by way of Combest, that the Missouri School Boards’ Association has started a blog. One of its stated...
CARR Training Returns Home to Missouri
Along with David Stokes, I had the pleasure of attending two all-day sessions training Missouri broadcasters how to use the...
