An Open Letter To Streetcar Supporters
At the recent meeting of the Kansas City Save the Trolley Trail, supporters of an expanded streetcar system dismissed assertions from the Show-Me...
Spending Money Kansas City Doesn’t Have On Streetcars It Doesn’t Need
Optimistically anticipating that their initial 2.2-mile downtown streetcar line will be a resounding success, Kansas City planners are proposing a...
Oregon Study: Medicaid Expansion Increases Emergency Room Use
One of the big arguments for expanding the Medicaid program in Missouri has been the notion that by doing so,...
Public Transit: What Does Success Look Like?
There often is talk of trying to improve the public transportation system in Kansas City and Saint Louis, usually with...
Portland’s (And Kansas City’s) Streetcar Collapse
A television station in Portland, Ore., reported that the city’s ever-expanding streetcar system is losing money. Streetcar service and routes...
The Streetcars Strike Back
Despite their inefficiency and high cost, local planners are attempting to revive the streetcar system in Saint Louis based on...
Kansas City’s Eternal Emergency
Kansas City leaders may aspire to be Portland or Denver, but their legislative actions make us more akin to third...
The Questionable Economics Of Building Around Light Rail
There has been a lot of talk in the community about transit-oriented development (TOD) and its supposed benefits (which I...
The Loopy Rationale For A Loop Trolley
If you want to travel from the Loop to Forest Park in Saint Louis, there is no shortage of options:...
Oregon’s School Districts Can’t Keep Up With Demand for Language Immersion
While most states are giving parents a wider range of educational choices, Oregon is going in the opposite direction. From...
Addressing Charter Enrollment Disparities
This is from an article about charter schools in Portland, Ore.: School board members in Portland worry that a large...
News From Oregon
When you introduce choice and competition into the education market, people with a vested interest in traditional districts don’t take...
Stop Leaving Most Children Behind
Two and a half years ago, while I worked for the Cascade Policy Institute, I was lucky enough to be...
Anti-Light Rail Campaign in Kansas City
The Kansas City Star ran an article today about a new group that’s campaigning against the city’s light rail proposal....
Light-Rail Systems Are a False Promise
Rail transit has become such an albatross around the necks of the American cities that have it that it is...
A Memorial for Civil Society
Every Memorial Day that I can recall while I grew up in Portland, Ore., we went to visit my mom’s...
I’m Running as Fast as I Can
The other day, I noticed an article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about rankings of the world’s 30 "fast cities"...
Stay Out of the Way
In a recent post, Sarah Brodsky commented on the Department of Energy’s decision to fund biofuels research centers in three...
Ready for Change: What Missourians Think of Parental Choice and the Public Schools
The Show-Me Institute has released a new study detailing Missouri’s overwhelming level of support for school choice, as demonstrated from...
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