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...
Missouri School Districts Gamble … and Lose
On October 17, Judge Richard G. Callahan rendered a decision in the case brought by many of Missouri’s school districts...
Missouri in High Immortal Verse
Regular readers of this blog know that I like to include references to literature in the titles of my posts....
Cell Phone Subsidies and 911 Service
I have written before about the proposed new 911 tax on cellular phone bills. There is a great article in...
Should Kirkwood Sell Its Municipal Utilities?
Kirkwood is the only municipality in Saint Louis County that continues to provide utility services to its residents. Would citizens...
“I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door”
Immigration’s back in the news. The Post-Dispatch reports on a personal angle: State Rep. Tim Flook is Mexican-American. Since many...
Women’s Health in Missouri
An article in the Post-Dispatch today reports that the National Women’s Law Center and Oregon Health Sciences University have given...
Access to Credit
There’s a great op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader about the proposed interest rate cap on payday loans. If you want...
Eminent Domain Abuse Interview on KMOX
We hope you enjoyed the discussion of the Show-Me Institute’s just-released eminent domain study, which ended a short time ago...
