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"...
“Hot Fuel” Legislation Is a Step in the Wrong Direction
Sen. Claire McCaskill is proposing legislation, according to the Washington Missourian, to end the practice of selling "hot fuel" at...
Trying to Leave Riverview Gardens
An article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch describes what parents in Riverview Gardens are up against: Under Missouri law, students...
Missourians Should Be Allowed to Use Midwives
Ever since HB 818, the groundbreaking consumer-based health insurance reform bill, passed both houses of the Legislature by wide bipartisan...
Tax Incentives, Bridges, and Jeff City in August
Governor Blunt has just set a date for a special session of the state legislature. It starts on August 20...
More on the Midwives – I Mean, the Tocologists
Missouri midwives are preparing to appeal after Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce ruled the midwife provision unconstitutional: The Senate tucked the...
What Should We Do About Uninsured Kids?
A letter in the Springfield News-Leader complains about the number of uninsured children in Missouri: The SCHIP program provided health...
Adequacy Lawsuits Reinforce Poor Educational Policy
As part of a growing trend seen across the United States, several school districts in Missouri continue to perform poorly,...
Quick Updates All Around …
The last few days of the Post-Dispatch have brought a number of updates to things I have been writing about,...
