Taxicab Commission Gets New Year Rolling with Reform
After an acrimonious showdown with ridesharing company Uber in the middle of last year, the the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission (MTC)...
Does It Matter What a Lost Job Would Have Paid?
In a recent Wall Street Journal editorial, economist David Neumark challenges some of the myths about the minimum wage. From...
New Bill Would Raise Missouri Fuel Tax, Cut Highway Miles
Recently, we discussed a couple of pre-filed bills that would raise the fuel tax in Missouri to avert a funding...
Metro Ridership Trending Down in 2015
Earlier this year, we talked about how, contrary to the hopes of many Saint Louis regional planners, there is no...
Private School Pioneers in Kansas City and St. Louis?
The past 40 years have seen a well-documented decline in Catholic school enrollment across the country. But what many people...
Riverfront Stadium Costs Change, Backers Push Ahead
We’ve covered the proposal to spend some $400 million in public dollars on a new stadium for Rams extensively on...
Higher Property Taxes: The Cost of Doing Business?
Taxes are, unfortunately, a necessary evil. But when we have to pay them, we should at least expect that they...
Open-Source Alternatives May Disrupt Billion-Dollar Textbook Industry
Affton School District in St. Louis will take part in the U.S. Department of Education’s #GoOpen campaign, a new federal...
Universal Pre-K May Destroy the Preschool Marketplace
In the 1950s, economist Milton Friedman proposed the use of educational vouchers in public education. Under a voucher program, parents...
Kansas City’s War on Voters
The Show-Me Institute has written extensively about efforts by government officials in St. Louis to keep the public from voting...
Driving Still Dominant in Saint Louis, Kansas City
When considering investment in transportation infrastructure, be it road, rail, or river, it is important to think about what type...
Spring 2016 Internships
The Show-Me Institute is pleased to offer internship opportunities for Spring 2016. Internships are open to current undergraduate and graduate...
Attention Teachers: Professionals Do Not Have a Salary Schedule
When you think of “professionals,” how do you think of them being paid? Do you expect them to have a...
Saint Louis Transportation Planning Prioritizes Public Transportation, MetroLink
Saint Louisans depend on a functioning transportation system to do practically everything in their lives, from getting to work to...
Questions for the Kansas City Public Schools Master Plan
The Kansas City Public School’s new master strategic plan has already attracted its fair share of controversy. Closing Southwest, a...
What I Saw at the Stadium Hearing
On Saturday, the Saint Louis Board of Aldermen’s Ways and Means Committee held a public comment session on the Near...
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...
Learning from New Orleans
Yesterday I highlighted a recent report that showed just how big a part of Kansas City’s education system charter schools...
City Delusional Over Stadium Economic Benefits
A couple months ago, I was sitting in a movie theater watching Jurassic World. When life predictably “found a way,”...
Will Building the Convention Hotel Create Jobs?
Proponents of a new $311 million hotel claim that the project will create construction jobs. At a recent hearing...
