Ethanol Wins Out, Unfortunately
An letter to the editor in today’s Springfield News-Leader laments the decision by Gov. Matt Blunt to keep a $42...
What Should We Do About Uninsured Kids?
A letter in the Springfield News-Leader complains about the number of uninsured children in Missouri: The SCHIP program provided health...
What to Do With the Budget Surplus
An op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader argues that Missouri shouldn’t spend its budget surplus: To fairly address this excess, the...
A Bicycle Built for Tourism
According to the Springfield News-Leader, officials are touting the economic benefits of September’s "Tour of Missouri" bicycle race: Out of...
Check Out How Missouri Spends
You can finally know how the state spends your money! Yesterday, Missouri launched the Missouri Accountability Portal, where any person...
Sen. Matt Bartle – A Legislator With Common Sense
In the Springfield News-Leader today, Sen. Matt Bartle discusses in an op-ed piece the veto of HB 327 (aka The...
Physicians Will Benefit When Patients Have a Choice
An op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader explains how Missouri’s health care system has made life difficult for independent physicians —...
Pathbreaking Reform – In Missouri!
Thanks are again due to Combest for linking to a letter by state Rep. Doug Ervin Kearney in the Springfield...
I’m Thinking of a State (Part 2)
The Springfield News-Leader jumps on the bandwagon and publishes a fanciful vision of a future Missouri: I recently asked a...
Read It to Me!
A letter in the Springfield News-Leader criticizes a recent editorial. The editorial argued against the proposed English-only amendment, stating that...
The Cycle of Regulation Never Ends…
Those of us here at the Show-Me Institute have strongly supported the midwife legislation passed by the legislature. The various...
Reliability Engineering for Property Rights
On May 24, the Springfield News-Leader published an editorial about eminent domain, highlighting the fact that Ozark, a town outlying...
Au Contraire
Rep. Brian Nieves has an op-ed in the Springfield News-Leader in which he defends his proposal to require using English...
Blinded by the Blight
George Orwell famously warned about the use of political terminology to obscure meaning, rather than to reveal or enlighten. It’s...
You Can’t Make a Silk Purse from a Sow’s Earmarks
Claire McCaskill, Missouri’s freshman senator, has been keeping her campaign promise to fight congressional earmarks, the budget process by which...
MOHELA Money II: Biotech Boogaloo
Looks like Gov. Blunt and friends will get their MOHELA money after all. At this juncture, pointing out just how...
ID Bill unnecessary, MSU debacle demonstrates
Currently making its way through the house is an "intellectual diversity" bill intended to: require all public institutions of higher...
