Getting Ready to Teach
Edudiva is back, blogging about teacher preparation. She describes a conversation that occurred while helping a friend apply for a...
Interesting Article About Octomom
As a follow-up to Sarah’s post from a few weeks ago about the octomom, a Post-Dispatch columnist has a nice...
Keep Up the Good Work!
I’m quick to point out misuses of tax dollars and state programs that are going nowhere. But it’s important to...
Controversy Over Veteran’s Program in Downtown St. Louis
Last night, KSDK Channel 5 in St. Louis ran a story about the controversy over a program to house veterans...
Economic Stimulus for Stay-at-Home Moms
This article in the Post-Dispatch describes a proposal for the state to offer scholarships to stay-at-home moms. Here’s what Rep....
Tobacco Tales From Both Sides of the State
The Kansas City Star has a detailed article about the upcoming cigarette tax hike, while today’s Post-Dispatch has a profile...
SLPS Deed Restrictions
As Clovis pointed out the other day, the Special Administrative Board for the St. Louis Public Schools recently adopted deed...
The Spectre of Condemnation, Revisited
In 2007, the Show-Me Institute released a study discussing the negative impact that eminent domain has had on families and...
Ending Eminent Domain Abuse
There is a letter in the Post-Dispatch today about Jim Roos’ sign advocating the end of eminent domain abuse. It is...
“Taxes Go Up Incrementally; Why Shouldn’t They Come Down Incrementally?”
That is what my former boss, now judge, Kurt Odenwald used to say when people told him the property tax...
Seeing Red
An article in the Post-Dispatch (link via Combest) reports that Jim “70 votes” Lembke (R-1), narrow victor of the race...
Last Call for Summer Fellows!
The deadline to apply to be a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow — a program that includes two weeks of...
“Can You Smell It In The Air, Opus?” “Dirty Socks?” “No, Reassessment.”
One thing that my brother, Mike (the second-oldest of four, with moi being the eldest), and I have in common...
Blaming the Achievement Gap on Anything but the Schools
The explanations that are being given to justify the black-white achievement gap in suburban school districts are disturbing: When affluent...
Very Important Study From East-West Gateway Council of Governments
I urge everyone to read this study from the East-West Gateway Council of Governments about the ludicrous economic development policies...
All Zoning, All Day
Let’s move from the theoretical debate over zoning to an actual example taking place right here near the Show-Me Institute’s...
Questions About the BBB
I have praised the Better Business Bureau several times here at the Show-Me Institute, particularly in discussions about occupational licensing....
Misery Loves Company
There is a story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (link via Combest) about how states are pushing for a new...
No More Free Stuff for Doctors
After reading this article in the Post-Dispatch, I took a quick inventory of some odds and ends I have lying...
Let’s Get the 2009 Debates Started Off Right …
A judge upholds the Kansas City public smoking ban, reports the Star. Also in KC’s newspaper of record, AmerenUE fights...
