The Taxman Confuseth
Some Missouri counties are moving forward with passing property tax freezes for seniors. This is unsurprising, as it is a...
20 Missouri Districts Get the Green Light to Try New Assessment System
New beginnings are in the air in Missouri. Some families are sending their children off to college for the first...
20 Missouri Districts Seek Exemption from the Missouri Assessment Program
At the most recent state board of education meeting, 20 school districts requested a federal waiver to be exempt from...
Brain Versus Heart on Amtrak in Missouri
Rail advocates are arguing for an increase in Missouri’s Amtrak funding. They want the taxpayer subsidy for the little-used route...
Springfield Should Reject Subsidies for Sports Town
A version of this commentary appeared in the Springfield News-Leader. It is important to learn from one’s mistakes, and when it...
A New Sales Tax for Law Enforcement in the Lake of the Ozarks
There is a one-quarter cent sales tax increase on the ballot for August 3rd in Camden County. The extra revenue...
An IRC Bonus Pay Program Would Benefit the Ozarks
A survey released earlier this year suggests the Ozark region has a workforce problem. The survey asked businesses in the...
Film Tax Credits: Facts and Fiction
Over the weekend, the St. Louis Post Dispatch published a piece about yet another Missouri-based television program that is being...
Ballparks of the Ozarks Land Foreclosed On After Two Year Odyssey
Back in 2015, we wrote about (and Salvy-splashed some cold water on) an Ozarks project that aimed to build a...
Is Ballparks of the Ozarks Swinging for the Tax Incentive Fences?
Few would dispute that Missouri is obsessed with baseball. From the Major Leagues to the Negro Leagues, the Show-Me State has...
The 411 on a CID in the B70
Some business leaders in Columbia want more attention for their slice of town. To do that they are getting together...
Missouri Charter School Law: A Soup Sandwich for Military Families?
The Show-Me State forbids charter schools from opening in non-urban, accredited school districts, unless they are sponsored by the district...
Cape Girardeau Should Think Twice Before Establishing CID
As first appearing in the Southeast Missourian: Over the past two decades, Missouri has seen an explosion of new, alphabet...
Widen Pool of Dock Electrical Inspectors
As published in the Springfield News-Leader: It is hard to imagine a more terrible death than electrocution and drowning. Last...
Dispute About Parking Stirs Up Trouble In The Ozarks
In case you have not heard, there is trouble brewing at the “Party Capital of the Lake of the Ozarks.”...
Progress on Red-Light Cameras
There’s some good news on this front: The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has halted allowing any further red light...
Higher Taxes Don’t Need to Be the Only Choice for Roads
Yesterday’s Hannibal Courier-Post had a story about the recent MoDOT Board of Commissioners meeting in Shelbina. (Hat tip to Combest.)...
Nanny State Policies and Their Side Effects
Matthew Kahn writes about safety precautions that can do more harm than good because they lull people into complacency: Child...
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...
Your Property Is Your Kingdom ? Literally
I am going to defer to his boss on the question posed in the title of Dave’s post on the...
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