School Choice in Kansas City, the Old-Fashioned Way
There is an extremely interesting move afoot in Kansas City, by residents of the far-eastern part of the city, to...
When High Schools Fail, Colleges Take Up the Slack
An editorial in the Columbia Daily Tribune calls for higher standards in K-12 education: UM President George Russell went around...
Sinking Ship
The Kansas City School District is attempting to prevent (through the court system) a November 6 ballot initiative which would...
Way to Go, Missouri!
I’ve complained in the past about Missouri’s system of occupational licensure, which requires manicurists, martial arts judges, and lots of...
Money Well Spent?
I guess I can’t really blame school administrators for their perspective from the losing end of this summer’s school funding...
Missouri Teachers Voice Support for School Choice
When the Missouri General Assembly reconvenes in January, true education reform should be at the top of its agenda. Missourians,...
Revealed Preferences in Voting
The Missouri Ethics Committee announced today that it will delay a decision on how to enforce July’s Supreme Court ruling...
Post-Dispatch Says Same Thing That I Did … Pretty Neat, Huh?
In this morning’s editorial (that would be Thursday), the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called for legislation that would lower the percent...
The Village People Play Missouri
Whatever the question is for Missouri, more government entities are not going to be the answer. The Springfield News-Leader has...
Speaking of Regulation in the Ozarks, This Is So Quaint …
People still do this in rural Missouri? I thought all the criminals had moved onto meth. … I am sure...
More Frustration About St. Louis
Back in March, the Post-Dispatch published a letter from an annoyed outstate Missourian, complaining that St. Louis is wasting the...
Tiny Little Cities and Policing for Profit
Today’s Post-Dispatch has an article on sobriety checkpoints in North St. Louis County. Issues such as the heavy use of...
Lead in the Legislature
The Missouri Green Party announced that it has received enough signatures to trigger an audit of the St. Louis city...
‘Insure Missouri’ Strays From Path to Free-Market Reform
The ink is barely dry on HB 818, an innovative free-market health care reform bill that encourages individual responsibility and...
The Bridges of Pork-Barrel Congress
There is a very cool graphic over at the National Taxpayers Union that maps out the ratio of deficient brigdes...
2006 Annual Report: Better Late Than Never
"How did it get so late so soon?" This query from Dr. Seuss was echoed by the equally whimsical St....
More Choice on the Horizon? Glimpsing the Future of St. Louis Public Schools
Last night I participated in a panel discussion (hosted by Metropolis St. Louis, FOCUS St. Louis, and the League of...
Welcome, Dave Roland and Justin Hauke!
The Show-Me Institute is expanding, bringing aboard new policy analysts and a research assistant to help us conduct the best...
Tour of Missouri’s Value Yet to Be Determined
World-class cycling came to Missouri. For one week in mid-September, Missourians were offered an intimate look at the sport. Judging...
Truancy in Reverse
An article in this morning’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch details the rising trend in “educational larceny” — the term used for...
