Royals May Stay at Kauffman Amid Stadium Inertia
A new story by Kansas City Business Journal’s Thomas Friestad suggests a growing likelihood that the Kansas City Royals will...
St. Louis Crime Reduction: Progress, Pitfalls, and the Path Forward
A version of the following commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. With a new mayor taking office, St. Louis begins...
Royals Move Downtown Is Not About Baseball
John Sherman, the billionaire owner of the Kansas City Royals, wants a new stadium in downtown Kansas City, funded with...
New Avenues for Price Transparency
Why is health care so expensive? In part, it’s because patients rarely have the opportunity to shop for a better...
What Can Missouri and Tennessee Learn from Each Other?
I’ve been working up the strength to write about Missouri’s absolute thrashing of Tennessee a month ago. My colleague, Elias...
Not the Time for Entertainment
Like Nero fiddling while Rome was burning, our state lawmakers are focusing on entertainment at the most inopportune time. With...
The Legendary Loop Trolley Saga Continues
A familiar sentence for St. Louis residents: The Loop Trolley is back in the news! Show-Me Institute analysts have been...
Call for Music Production Tax Credits Sounds Familiar
Gateway Studios is using a hodgepodge of incentives to build a $130 million music production facility in Chesterfield. The company...
Earnings Taxes and St. Louis’s Catch 1%.
A version of this commentary was published in the St. Louis Business Journal. As voters in the City of St. Louis...
St. Louis City’s Earnings Tax Is Not the Lowest in the Country
The earnings tax was one topic of conversation during a recent forum for St. Louis mayoral candidates. During the forum,...
Many Missourians Are Moving . . . To Missouri
If you live in a rural community in Missouri and it feels like your neighbors are moving away, you might...
It’s a Head-Scratcher
I just don’t get it. A recent article in The 74 describes how the vibrant charter school sector and strong...
How Not to Study Economic Development Incentives
Economic development incentives are all the rage. And they aren’t all multi-billion-dollar packages to attract a new Amazon headquarters. Many...
Too Many Hotels in KC, According to Hotel Developer Seeking Subsidies
In a blog post earlier this year I wondered about Kansas City, “If previous subsidies successfully created a vibrant economic...
Films Can-and Do-Get Produced without Government Handouts
Unless you're an avid fan of independent films, you may not have heard about the premier of a movie titled...
Report: Saint Louis, Kansas City *Not* Among Most Cost-Friendly Cities for Business
Recently, the Post-Dispatch prominently published an article claiming that, “St. Louis is among the top 10 most cost-friendly cities to...
Jones Dome Headed for Demolition?
We’ve talked about the fate of the Edward Jones Dome many times on this blog. When the city was planning...
When Public Schools Compete
We Choose SLPS is the slogan for the Saint Louis Public Schools (SLPS) ad campaign, in which radio commercials, newspaper...
Bieber Fever
Here at the Show-Me Daily blog, we typically write about Missouri state and local policy issues. But this weekend, something...
Another Way To Keep Score?
In a league as competitive as the NFL, it serves a team well to gain any advantage available. In Major League...
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