No Radar Love in Ohio
The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled Wednesday that a “police officer’s unaided visual estimation of a vehicle’s speed is sufficient...
Obstructing the Will of the People
Here at Show-Me Daily, we have long documented the efforts of the Missouri Municipal League to prevent this state’s citizens...
High-Speed Rail Proponents Underestimate Environmental Impact
On Monday, eight Midwestern governors met in Chicago to sign a memorandum of understanding by which they committed to a...
The Future of Highway Funding
The Kansas City Star reports on the increasing support for a plan to scrap and replace the fuel tax. The...
Reason Talks About Truck-Only Lanes in Missouri
From the latest email edition of Surface Transportation Innovations, by Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation: Progress on Truck Toll...
Ohio’s Successful Austism Scholarship Program Is Good for Districts, Too
Edspresso links to this article about Ohio’s Autism Scholarship Program. The program has been growing since Ohio instituted it in...
Tuition Tax Credits Would Be Best Solution for Autistic Students
Raising kids with autism is a financial challenge. Treating the disorder, which can impair speech, social interaction, and many other...
Missouri’s Kelo
The nation was stunned in 2005 when the United States Supreme Court ruled that the United States Constitution allowed the...
Initiative Process Deserves Support
I’ve intended for the past couple of weeks to respond to Justin Hauke’s last attack on the initiative process —...
Election Week: The Perils of Frontloading
This morning, it was all supposed to be over. Two candidates were promised to rise above the masses and act...
Always Things to Write About on School Choice …
There is a letter to the editor from the Dean of the School of Education at Maryville University in this...
Save the Charters!
Dave Roland takes issue with my criticism of an effort to close "failing" charter schools in Ohio. He writes: A...
Close Those Charters, Dangit!
I just wanted to briefly follow up Sarah’s earlier post about Ohio’s threatened closing of some of its charter schools....
Charters Held to a Higher Standard
The New York Times reports that Ohio’s attorney general is trying to close some of the state’s charter schools, and...
Corrections to West End Word Article on Rex and SMI
Tim Woodcock of the West End Word (link via Missouri Political News Service) wrote a very thorough and detailed article...
Hannah Montana Teaches Teens Valuable Lesson About Law of Supply and Demand
Today’s Post-Dispatch has an article about the continuing education pre-teen girls are receiving about the basic laws of economics. If...
Gasp! People Actually Move to Low-Tax States!
File this article under "Like we said …" The Kansas City Star had an article last week about the fact...
School Choice for Special Education
Gov. Blunt has announced he wants to spend more money to help autistic children: In a visit Thursday to a...
