Retooling Missouri’s Economic Engines
Dave Helling at The Kansas City Star recently wrote a piece about how Kansas City and St. Louis might fare...
Show-Me Institute Looks Ahead in Wall Street Journal Article
In an article last week about the impact of the recent election on state policy, The Wall Street Journal came...
Education Reform Should Be Top Priority for Missouri’s Leaders
On November 8, Missourians sent a clear message: We want change. Republicans won every major statewide office—all of which but...
Democrats Like Vouchers More Than Republicans Do, and Other Findings from the 2016 Education Next Poll
Every year, the policy journal Education Next polls a representative sample of Americans about their views on education issues. Their...
Economic Impact Fallacies
David Martin over at The Pitch has a great piece about how the positive economic impacts of a Chiefs training...
Kansas City’s Crocodile Tears over Blight
After the events of Ferguson, when it was discovered that the city had been using fines and court fees to...
The Beam in the Star’s Eye
On Tuesday, The Kansas City Star published an editorial about the level of funding for mental health services in Kansas, concluding: Under...
Are Blaine Amendments Really about the Separation of Church and State?
Yesterday I wrote about a Supreme Court case out of Missouri challenging the state’s Blaine Amendment. This case could have...
Debate Comment Sparks Discussion about Vocational Education
During last Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio joked, “For the life of me, I don’t know why we have...
Post-Obamcare Medicaid Enrollment Far Outpacing State Projections
When Congress passed and the president signed the Affordable Care Act, supporters of the law were adamant that Obamcare would...
We Didn’t Lose the GOP Convention Because of Hotel Rooms
The 2016 Republican Convention will be hosted in Cleveland. Kansas City was considered but not chosen. Kansas City leaders want...
Is Democracy Too Messy for the Post-Dispatch Editorial Board?
Yesterday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch released an editorial titled, “Republicans continue to peddle the Common Core lie.” A more appropriate...
Convention Hotel Justification Built on Fiction
Kansas City Mayor Sly James has announced an effort, long discussed at City Hall, to subsidize a convention hotel downtown....
Florida Story Shows Risk of Conflating Medicaid Waivers With “Block Grants”
Earlier this week I was asked by the Kansas City Star for my thoughts on a Medicaid expansion proposal being marketed...
Nationwide Convention Business Declining
There is little doubt that once the coming elections are over Kansas City leaders will start pushing for a convention...
Tennessee, Wyoming Reject Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion (Again)
Medicaid is back in the news as pushes to implement Obamacare’s expansion in Tennessee and Wyoming came to a head...
Of Super Bowls and Economics
Following the passage of a resolution in the state legislature, the Missouri Department of Economic Development has convened a Super...
Streetcar Fever: Is it Now Or Never To Expand The Kansas City Streetcar?
Following the defeat of their expansion plan in Kansas City, today, streetcar proponents are wondering aloud about how to move...
School Vouchers: NOT A Party Issue?
When it comes to political issues, Americans often are polarized, except about education. School vouchers are one example. In a recent...
Blame Canada Washington!
Austin Alonzo, of the Kansas City Business Journal, recently reported that Kansas City Mayor Sly James argued that a door-to-door public outreach...
