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...
Default Rates among Missouri Colleges and Universities
The table below (data from the U.S. Department of Education) displays default rates for Missouri colleges and universities over a...
Saint Louis Property Taxes, Part 2: The Nonprofits
In my first post on property taxes in Saint Louis City, I discussed how the city’s...
Would Union Elections Help SLU Nurses?
Some SLU nurses seem to be dissatisfied with their union representative recently. In May, a Saint Louis University Hospital nurse...
Mark Your Calendars, Kansas City and St. Louis: Michael Cannon is Coming to Town
Michael Cannon is the director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and is one of the most prominent figures...
Students Need Choice, Not-Pie-in-the-Sky Solutions
When the chairman of the Black Leadership Roundtable announced his plan for ensuring Saint Louis-area students have access to a...
Students Need Choice, Not-Pie-in-the-Sky Solutions
When the chairman of the Black Leadership Roundtable announced his plan for ensuring Saint Louis-area students have access to a...
David Stokes Debates Sidney Watson About Obamacare
David Stokes, policy analyst with the Show-Me Institute, and Sidney Watson, a member of the Center for Health Law Studies...
Ishmael on KWMU: Raising the Minimum Wage
Show Me Institute Policy Analyst Patrick Ishmael joins host Don Marsh of KWMU and and Jack Strauss, Director of the...
Myths About Inequality
Recently, and especially leading up to the 2012 Pesidential Election, there has been much talk about inequality of both wealth...
Property Tax Exemptions Are Too Easy To Get In Missouri
Would you be surprised if I told you that there is no clear rule about what qualifies for property tax...
Reforming Healthcare by Seeding Free Market Formation
On September 27, 2012, the Show-Me Institute co-sponsored the latest lecture in the economic speaker series at the Saint Louis...
The Road to Freedom
In the tenth installment of the Show-Me Speaker Series, American Enterprise Institute President Arthur Brooks spoke to an enthusiastic crowd...
Video: Talking Health Care Reform on KSDK Channel 5 (Saint Louis)
Last night, I sat down with Mike Bush on KSDK Channel 5 in Saint Louis along with Saint Louis University...
Calvin Coolidge: The Best President You’ve Never Heard Of
On Tuesday, February 28, 2012, Amity Shlaes spoke at Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business at an event...
Putting Land To Productive Use
In light of the problems Saint Louis faces with respect to land utilization (see my colleague Audrey Spalding’s investigative research...
Private School Choice and the Turner Decision
It is serendipitous that the Missouri Legislature has gone back to work this month, just in time for the kick-off...
When Progress and Preservation Collide
Successful cultures arise from a dynamic process that balances a healthy respect for the past with an optimistic regard for...
Watch Live Tonight — Job Creation: How It Really Works and Why the Government Doesn’t Understand It
Click below for live video of the Show-Me Institute’s Speaker Series on Economic Policy, which will begin at 6:00 p.m....
Speakers Series on Economic Policy: Hardee’s CEO Talks Jobs!
Andrew Puzder pulled the famous fast-food chain back from the brink of bankruptcy, so he knows something about creating jobs...
