Statistics Shows Crime Numbers Converging for Major Missouri Cities
The violent crime statistics in the cities of St. Louis, Kansas City, and Springfield tell a much different story today...
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,...
A Streetcar Undesired
As Omahans consider spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a streetcar system, proponents point to Kansas City as an...
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...
Kansas City Deep in Debt
Back in 2013, when we examined Kansas City’s spending relative to other regional peer cities, what we found wasn’t good:...
The Cost of Inefficiency in Kansas City
Woody Cozad on Ruckus last Thursday talked about how poorly Kansas City government is managed. While most people are still...
We’re Number 5! We’re Number 5!
Today, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released a report on the market share of charter schools in cities...
Show-Me Institute Presents: Breaking Down Revenue
City residents care about how much they pay for government services. For those in Saint Louis and Kansas City who...
Recent Missouri Travel Trends Fail to Meet MoDOT Expectations
In February, the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) issued its finalized Long-Range Transportation Plan, titled “A Vision for Missouri’s Transportation...
Get Off The Train: Kansas City Cannot Ride To Economic Growth
Show-Me Institute Policy Researcher Kacie Galbraith wrote yesterday that much has been said in Missouri about economic development that attracts...
Get Off The Train: Saint Louis Cannot Ride To Economic Growth
Articles written about why we must invest in transit in Saint Louis often say young people want to live in...
What Can Starbucks Tell Us About Kansas City?
Starbucks is one of the most ubiquitous brands on the planet: Since its founding in 1971, the upscale coffee chain...
A Wild Idea: Kansas City Votes Nov. 8 On Proposed Zoo Tax
When I was a kid, I often visited the Kansas City Zoo with my family; after all, we were members of...
Should We Save, or Should They Go?
No one wants businesses to abandon communities. After all, here in St. Louis we saw what happened to Downtown West...
