Pathbreaking Reform – In Missouri!
Thanks are again due to Combest for linking to a letter by state Rep. Doug Ervin Kearney in the Springfield...
Jetton Spreads the Good News
An article in the Lebanon Daily Record (via Combest) discusses Rod Jetton’s visit to the Hughes Senior Center in Lebanon...
State Invertebrate
I have mixed feelings about the state invertebrate. (Thanks, Combest!) I love crayfish, and creating new state symbols is about...
I Love the Sales Tax Holiday!
I stand to respectfully yet strongly disagree with my colleague Sarah Brodsky, over her arguments against the sales tax holiday....
My Ears are Burning
Just a few days after Paul Jacob mentioned our scholar R.W. Hafer’s op-ed about St. Louis traffic and bridge construction...
State Takes Aim at the Start of School
In the Southeast Missourian (via Combest) an article discusses a new state law that would require school districts not to...
Health Insurance Reform Paves Way for Consumer-Based Care
Missourians have reason to applaud the legislative passage of Rep. Doug Ervin’s health insurance reform. With the signing into law...
Cape Officials Consider Very Bad Idea …
As reported in the Southeast Missourian, city officals in Cape Girardeau are considering instituting some type of earnings or payroll...
Maybe They Should Attend the University of Phoenix
John Combest is, as usual, doing half my job for me. He links to an article in the Southeast Missourian...
The Proposed Official-Language Amendment
The Washington Missourian (by way of Combest) reports that Tom Schlafly has found a possible problem with the proposal to...
I’m Thinking of a State (Part 2)
The Springfield News-Leader jumps on the bandwagon and publishes a fanciful vision of a future Missouri: I recently asked a...
The One (Hundred) Million Dollar Man.
Over the weekend, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed an article about Paul McKee Jr., who is known for developing the...
No Teachers Yet for the Virtual School
Missouri’s virtual school tries to get its act together (thanks, Combest!): The new program, which will take children out of...
Virtual Schools are the Wave of the Future!
On KSDK’s website, an article discusses North Carolina’s dive into online education for students. So far, students and teachers are...
Incentives at Work (in School)
There’s an article in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Digest about the relationship between merit pay for teachers...
Immigration Law and Its Costs for Businesses
Link via Combest, Claire McCaskill writes about illegal immigration in the Kansas City Star. She mentions the raid of a...
End the Insanity!
Today, the Cole County Circuit Court will decide if the St. Louis School Board deserves a restraining order against the...
Recognition by the Columbia Tribune!
Strolling through John Combest’s page, I found a blog on the Columbia Tribune‘s website that acknowledges the work of the...
Centralized Economic Policy Bad for Missouri
The 2007 economic development bill, HB 327, would enact a wide variety of tax credits and other subsidies. Although widely...
Read It to Me!
A letter in the Springfield News-Leader criticizes a recent editorial. The editorial argued against the proposed English-only amendment, stating that...
