Promise Zone Just the Latest of Many Development Zones for Saint Louis
This week, the Obama Administration announced that parts of Saint Louis City and North Saint Louis County would become the latest...
Missourians Take to the Skies With Increasing Numbers
In 2014, total airline passengers grew at Missouri’s largest airports by just over 1 percent, reversing the losses over the past...
More Progress on Ridesharing in Kansas City
In the last year, Kansas City has been slowly but surely opening up to ridesharing companies. The city government’s initial...
An Idea for Better Transit in Missouri: Raise Fares
Public transportation in Missouri’s major cities is heavily subsidized; taxpayers cover more than 80 percent of total costs in Saint Louis and...
Everything Is Choice in Florida
When Missourians think of public school choice, they might think of charter schools or the school transfer law, which allows...
No, Post-Dispatch, the Rams Don’t Pay Their Way
Earlier this week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an editorial discussing whether the tax revenue brought in by the Rams...
Blame It On the MTC
Traveling can be stressful. I’m usually comforted when the airplane safely touches down at my final destination, especially when it’s...
The Fallacy of Tailgate Economics
News flash: Saint Louis is in danger of losing its football team. City and state officials are working feverishly on...
Ridesharing Is an Opportunity for Saint Louis
In an increasingly competitive world, it is ever more important that our city and our region seize every opportunity to...
Taxi Regulations in Saint Louis
David Stokes appeared on OnStL radio to talk about taxicab regulations in Saint Louis.
The Show-Me Institute on Television
In recent weeks, Show-Me Institute representatives have appeared on several public policy television shows in Missouri, most recently on KCPT’s April 9...
Report on Parking in Saint Louis Finds Employees Take Best Spots, Don’t Pay
Last year, Saint Louis City began a long-awaited overhaul of the city’s parking meters. After a pilot period where different...
The Incredible Shrinking City
According to recently released U.S. Census data, the population of the city of Saint Louis has once again decreased. In...
Saint Louis Metro Ridership Up, but MetroLink Ridership Down
The latest data released by the national transit database shows the continued, albeit slow, recovery of transit ridership in the...
Low Alcohol Regulations Benefit Missouri Business
photo by Caitlin Hartsell Over the weekend, I visited a whiskey distillery, StilL 630, in downtown Saint Louis. The owner...
Don’t Let Transportation Development Districts Charge Fuel Taxes
A new bill in the Missouri Legislature (HB 1362) would allow transportation development districts (TDDs) to implement fuel taxes along with...
Is the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission Acting Illegally?
At a hearing on SB 351, which would create state regulations on ridesharing companies, the bill’s sponsor warned that existing...
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...
School Choice and Bullying
‘If I went here, I would have enjoyed learning,’ said a prospective parent at the New City School in the...
A Public School and a Private School Experience
Two hours—that was the amount of time it took me to get dressed, do my hair, get dressed again, decide...
