Missouri Public Schools Have a Very Serious Reading Problem
Test scores on the Nation’s Report Card were released on January 29th, and Missouri faces a dire future if we...
EV Charging Stations Don’t Need Mandates to Succeed
Elected officials who want to put more electric vehicles (EVs) on the road face a Catch-22. Drivers won’t buy more...
Missouri’s Population Growth Is Still Lagging
The U.S. Census Bureau just released its updated state populations from the 2020 census, and the results were not good...
Multnomah County, Oregon Should’ve Called St. Louis Before Making This Mistake
Multnomah County, Oregon, which contains the city of Portland, recently approved a local income tax increase to fund tuition-free preschool....
Commentary: Funding Roads by the Mile, Not the Gallon
A version of this first appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Missouri’s road maintenance funding is on a road to...
Funding Roads by Miles Traveled—There’s an App for That
Yesterday’s post explored odometer reporting as an imperfect but straightforward way to replace fuel taxes with a funding mechanism that...
Other States Are Deregulating. Missouri Should Too
The COVID-19 crisis has led to rules and regulations being relaxed or even temporarily eliminated in states across the country....
Good News on Housing Affordability in Missouri
Forget the Academy Awards, the 16th annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey has just been released! It has some great...
Port KC Versus Taxpayers
Steve Vockrodt over at The Kansas City Star has a story about Google wanting to invest $600 million in a...
