More Tax Rates in St. Louis County Rolled Back …
More good news rolls in for county taxpayers as political entities around the county continue to do a good job...
Wall Street Journal and Mo’ Better Judges
The Wall Street Journal has a lead editorial today on Missouri’s system of selecting judges, very originally known as "The...
License Me, Please, Please, Please …
According to legend, when Cornwallis surrendered to Washington at Yorktown, the British military band played "And The World Turned Upside...
School Choice Would Bring Greater Student Diversity
In late June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school assignments based on race are unconstitutional. The ruling has sparked...
Feedback on Missouri Plan Op-Ed
I have had the pleasure of receiving some great feedback from David Steelman over the past two days about my...
Finally, Missouri Is #1 in Something We Can Be Proud Of …
The Reason Foundaton just released a major report on employment licensure in the United States. The good news, from an...
Talk of the Town
Long time devotes of St. Louis’ fourth estate know that the finest journalism in St. Louis is not provided by...
State vs. State vs. State Ad Nauseum
There is a very reasonable editorial today in the Southeast Missourian (link via John Combest) regarding the tax dispute between...
AT&T Cable Is Spreading
AT&T cable is coming soon to Missouri, according to an article in today’s Springfield News-Leader. AT&T is entering the market...
Tax Rollback Right Thing to Do
Protesters, including several elected officials, gathered outside the county council last night to demand a rollback of St. Louis County’s...
Tax Credits Don’t Always Create Jobs
An article in today’s Kansas City Star discusses the rewritten economic development bill, which was just approved in the special...
Great Eminent Domain Column in the News-Leader
Our former editor Tim Lee , now an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute, wanted us to be sure to...
Tweaking the Judicial Selection Process
Our newest policy analyst, David Stokes, spent years involved with local and county government, and other area organizations, before joining...
Clay County’s Noble Experiment May Come to Judicial End
It seems that Clay County — the only county in Missouri, I think, that forgoes use of the property tax...
Why We Don’t Need More Regulation of Drug Ads
This past legislative session, Missouri was one of 27 states to file legislation that would restrict pharmaceutical advertising. And a...
The Missouri Plan, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lawyers
Missourians amended our state constitution in 1940 to change the ways judges were selected for the Supreme Court, the Court...
I Know Some People Can’t Fathom This, But …
There are actually some people left in America who don’t want government assistance! Per this Columbia Daily Tribune article (via...
Missouri Kept Extra Sales Tax Revenues
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, for the past five years the state of Missouri has quietly kept extra funds...
Thinking Ahead
While my editor is busy looking for live music and ethnic food, I’m planning my retirement and long-term care. Or,...
I’m Running as Fast as I Can
The other day, I noticed an article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about rankings of the world’s 30 "fast cities"...
