Sen. Matt Bartle – A Legislator With Common Sense
In the Springfield News-Leader today, Sen. Matt Bartle discusses in an op-ed piece the veto of HB 327 (aka The...
The U.S Postal Service is Privatizing
An article in the Kansas City Star today discusses the move by the U.S Postal Service to privatize some of...
Veto, Don’t Fail Me Now
There were plenty of good reasons for Gov. Blunt to veto HB 327, as he did on Friday. As Show-Me...
Blunt Vetoes Quality Jobs Act
On KY3’s Political Notebook blog, a post discusses Gov. Matt Blunt vetoing the Quality Jobs Act. The main reason for...
English MacGuffins
In an op-ed released yesterday (also reprinted by the Missouri Political News Service and quoted by the Post-Dispatch‘s Political Fix...
Reform is On Its Way!
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today, an article discusses MO HealthNet, which Gov. Matt Blunt signed into law yesterday. The...
Missouri Doesn’t Need an English-Language Amendment
Although official state business is not always understandable to ordinary Missourians, the reason probably has more to do with bureaucratic...
A New Way of Driving
Lily Tomlin once said, "The road to success is always under construction." The same can be said for Missouri’s roads...
Missouri is Riding Smoother!
An article in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Missouri roads have improved sharply: The report from the Reason Foundation,...
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
The Goldwater Institute recently issued a news release on a lawsuit filed against the Arizona Department of Education (ADE). The lawsuit...
Columbia, IL, Does It Right!
In St. Louis and other cities and towns in Missouri, the use of TIFs and tax incentives to encourage development...
In Praise of MoDOT
I stand here today to praise MoDOT. These are words you do not often hear in Missouri, where attitudes toward...
More on the Wonderful Water of St. Louis
Mayor Slay wants to prohibit city government from buying bottled water: Does that mean banning water coolers? “We’re looking at...
Stay Out of the Way
In a recent post, Sarah Brodsky commented on the Department of Energy’s decision to fund biofuels research centers in three...
Biofuel Funding Goes Elsewhere
Missouri was not selected to be the site of a federally-funded biofuels research center: The Department of Energy announced Tuesday...
Northwest Missourians Have Better Stuff to Do
The St. Joseph News-Press complains that not enough Missourians from the northwest part of the state are serving on boards...
Virtual School Enrollment
Missouri’s virtual school has filled almost all of the available spaces: Missouri’s new virtual school has only a few free...
Hurray for Free Speech
Jo Mannies blogs about the Supreme Court ruling against some of the McCain-Feingold speech restrictions. The decision was popular with...
If You Build It, They Will Come!
In today’s Southeast Missourian, an article discusses the increasing popularity of the virtual school program in Missouri. In fact, it’s...
Tax Incentives for Centene
David Nicklaus writes about Centene’s search for a place to expand: Richard Fleming, president of the St. Louis Regional Chamber...
