Another Potential Meaningless Victory for the Nanny State: Bike Helmets
Helmet laws are a popular mechanism by which state and local governments like to insert themselves into the lives of...
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Seat Belts, or: The Day I Couldn’t Think of a Seat Belt Pun
St. Louis County has recently begun tightly enforcing a county ordinance allowing police to fine motorists in unincorporated areas for...
Jefferson City Leadership and Saint Louis
The leadership teams that both parties will have during the next two years in Jefferson City have been announced. It...
We Love the Kids
Back in October, I discussed some of my thoughts about Proposition 1. Just to refresh your memory, Saint Louis County...
Not a Great Day for Light Rail in Missouri
They weren’t the most popular or eye catching items on the ballot yesterday, but both Proposition M in St. Louis...
Low-Cost Op-Eds About High-Cost Light Rail
Show-Me Institute contributors and scholars have recently submitted a number of opinion pieces about the proposed Metro tax increase in...
Questions of Transit Efficiency Need to Include Both Costs and Benefits
What is the most efficient means of getting people from the place they are to the place they want to...
Prop. M Would Help Fund, Expand Crucial Alternative to Highway System
Next week, the citizens of Saint Louis County have the opportunity to invest in the future. Passage of Proposition M...
Civic Duty ? the New Recess
When I was an elementary student at Kennard Classical Junior Academy, I remember being absolutely furious about having my gym...
County Seat Mania ? Live From The Gasconade Octagon
If you like studying government, covering politics, and writing about it all on a blog, then yesterday’s Post-Dispatch had a...
Upcoming Ballot Issues
With an election approaching, so I’ve heard, you might be interested in some of the ballot issues that always seem...
Charitable Tax Credits Provide Constructive Alternative to Prop. 1
This November, Saint Louis County constituents will vote on a new annual tax of one-quarter of a cent (1...
Hatfields and McCoys
Here’s a quick question: Does St. Louis city honor St. Louis County licenses? Under Missouri law, each county must impose...
Thoughts on the Home Rule Charter of Jefferson County
On November 4, voters in Jefferson County will decide whether they would like their jurisdiction to become a charter county...
Metro Transit Funding Raises Difficult Questions
Saint Louis area officials have long struggled over how to fund the mass transit system. In the November elections, county...
STL Crime Rate Up While Cops Pay for Health Care Choice
On the same morning that the St. Louis Police Board announced that crime rates were up in St. Louis for...
Saint Louis County Blue Ribbon Commission Issues Its Report
The Commission that was charged with reviewing the capital needs of the county and recommending solutions has issued its final...
The Municipal League Is on a Roll
Not content with the Missouri Municipal League putting the good of government over the good of the people by trying...
The Harm of Occupational Licensing
I grant you that this AP story in the Post-Dispatch is a rather extreme example. I further grant that of...
Charter Schools in the Suburbs
Edudiva is blogging about the just-released MAP scores. There’s good news and bad news: Some districts in the greater St....
