KCUR Finally Confronts the Reality of Fare-Free Transit
On Monday, KCUR carried a piece by NPR’s Joel Rose exploring fare-free buses in New York City, using Kansas City’s...
Welcome to “Kensas City”: Barbie-Themed Streetcar Wrap Costs Taxpayers $25,000
Are the Underpants Gnomes running the Kansas City Streetcar Authority (KCSA)? Hot on the wheels—pardon, hot on the heels—of the...
Where Are the Kindergartners?
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on December 8, 2020. According to enrollment counts taken...
Yes, the Mayor’s Pre-K Program Is a Voucher
As Kansas City considers expanding pre-K on the April 2nd ballot, two things about the research should be made clear:...
Reconsidering Teacher Pay
Recently in the Springfield News-Leader, I argued that school districts should reconsider how they pay teachers. Most districts use a...
School Choice Criticism: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
On multiple legs of my commute this week I’ve heard parts of an NPR series on school vouchers. In general,...
What Can City Leaders Do To Grow A City? Not Much
Wendell Cox recently wrote a paper for the Show Me Institute titled, “Kansas City—Genuinely World Class: A Competitive Analysis.” In...
Not This Again
As I scrolled through my twitter feed this morning, a tweet from NPR jumped out at me: All I could...
Kansas City’s Food Desert Folly
We’ve already written in this blog that the evidence that new grocery stores affect consumer fruit and vegetable consumption is...
Are Property Taxes for Education Fair?
NPR has reported that property taxes make public education unfair because some school districts receive more property tax revenue than...
Millennials Moving Out
My colleague Joe Miller has written much about the idea that millennials are flocking to urban areas. This is important...
Is there evidence of a “teacher exodus” from Kansas?
If you take the media’s account of the state of the teaching profession in Kansas seriously, you’d think that there...
Kansas City Embarks on New Bad Idea
Kansas City government is going into the grocery store business near 31st Street and Prospect Avenue on the east side. According to the Kansas...
How to Attract Jobs, or at Least Not Repel Them
Public officials in Kansas City and elsewhere are eager to be seen as job creators. Almost every taxpayer-subsidized development project,...
There Is No Jury Better Than The Hat
I recently heard a story on NPR about government officials in Madrid, Spain, requiring street performers, mostly singers and musicians,...
I’ll Gladly Cost You Your Job On Tuesday For My Pay Raise Today
On Aug. 29, hundreds of fast-food workers in dozens of cities across the United States (including Saint Louis) walked off...
Prospect Of Medicaid Expansion Appears To Have Turned Missouri’s Credit Outlook Negative
Is federal spending “free money”? Of course not — as I have said many times, we are the federal government,...
What’s Next? Indefinite Detention Of People Who Text And Drive?
Just in time for holiday travel, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended banning the use of cell phones while...
Is Bulldozing a Way to Prosperity?
Demolition in Cleveland. Photo by Mhari Saito for NPR National Public Radio ran a segment today on a Cleveland-area land...
The Earnings Tax Debate: Argle-Bargle or Foofaraw?
Show-Me Institute scholars and analysts have been activily involved in debates about the earnings taxes in St. Louis and Kansas...
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