MoDOT Gets a New Director
Recently, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) named Patrick McKenna as its new director. The previous director, Dave Nichols, stepped down earlier...
Let’s Talk about the ACT
At first glance, this year’s ACT results in Missouri might give cause for optimism, but a little more digging shows...
Equal Opportunity Scholarships-Giving Students Options
If you could expand educational opportunities for students in failing schools by leveraging greater private investment in education, would you...
Vindication for New Hampshire’s Scholarship Tax Credit Program
In February, the Show-Me Institute released “Live Free and Learn: A Case Study of New Hampshire’s Scholarship Tax Credit Program,”...
Pennsylvania’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program…Winning!
This week, the Show-Me Institute released our third and final case study about tax credit scholarship programs in other states:...
Mark Your Calendars For Our April 25 Tax Credit Scholarship Event
When I speak about tax credit scholarships, I get a lot of questions: What is a tax credit scholarship? How...
Don’t Forget About Homeschoolers!
New Hampshire is one of 14 states that have implemented a tax credit scholarship program for students. Essentially, these programs...
Announcing New Case Study: Live Free and Learn
Over the course of the past year, I have spoken and written a lot about tax credit scholarships. When I...
Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry Guilty of “Stealing” Missouri Jobs?
As appearing in the Springfield News-Leader on October 23, 2013: If “stealing jobs” were as bad as — and essentially...
Serious Effort to Reduce Number of State Reps
The Missouri Democratic Party has announced that it will be launching an initiative petition to reduce the number of state...
Cutting Cigarette Taxes for Budget Health
While lawmakers in the Show-Me State want to hike the cigarette tax rate, lawmakers in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and...
Striking Correlations Between Income Taxes and Congressional Reapportionment
Only seven states levy absolutely no income tax. According to the U.S. Census data released today, only eight states will...
Growth by State
Many variables affect a state’s economic growth, including public policy, natural resources, geographic location, business centers, etc. The large number of contributing...
Symbolic Cider
Legislators in New Hampshire are debating whether to declare apple cider the official beverage of their state. As is often...
Reining in Medicaid
An article in the Springfield News-Leader reports that the number of people within Missouri’s Medicaid program has risen 5 percent...
Inspiring Story From New Hampshire in the Wall Street Journal
How angry would you be if the following scenario played out where you lived? First, you build a successful society...
The Missouri Free Suburb Project
Regular readers will recall the debates we have had over the recently repealed "Village Law," which made forming one’s own...
FSA, HSA, HRA … AFT! LOL.
We’ve been very proud at the Show-Me Institute to be at the forefront of HSA reform in Missouri. The “new...
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