School Reform: Have We Reached The Boiling Point?
Parents continue to demand solutions to failing schools in Missouri. As an example, five Saint Louis firefighters recently sued three...
Do Aldermen Still Have Outsize Power Over Whether LRA Sells Property?
The St. Louis Land Reutilization Authority (LRA) met today to consider offers to purchase vacant property. The LRA, part of...
Closing Bad Schools Is Exactly What Is Supposed To Happen
Two failing charter schools in Saint Louis City will be closed at the end of this school year. You may...
Private School Choice and the Turner Decision
It is serendipitous that the Missouri Legislature has gone back to work this month, just in time for the kick-off...
School’s Out: Closing Bad Schools
Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Audrey Spalding reports on a Saint Louis-area charter school which will soon be shut down for...
Doing the Same Things Over and Over and Over . . .
After a 2011 chock full of tax credit disaster stories, one would think the last thing Missouri politicians would suggest is the creation...
Should Missouri Toll I-70?
Think about the difference in the taxes that property owners pay to fund local parks and the entrance fee your...
When Progress and Preservation Collide
Successful cultures arise from a dynamic process that balances a healthy respect for the past with an optimistic regard for...
Donnybrook: Audrey Spalding Returns to KETC
Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst Audrey Spalding returned to Saint Louis local roundtable discussion show Donnybrook on December 15, 2011. Among...
Among the Blackhawks Fans
Please check out our latest video where we ask Chicago Blackhawks fans if they intend to take advantage of Missouri’s...
The Gateway City, The ‘Possibility City,’ And Hope For The Future
The guard is changing at Saint Louis’ regional chamber of commerce, the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA)....
Stokes on Jaco Report – Minimum Wage
Show-Me Institute Policy Analyst David Stokes recently appeared on Channel 2’s Jaco Report in Saint Louis in support of the...
Ceux Subventionnes (The Subsidized Ones)
It is not our intention to be the Inspector Javert to the Jean Valjean of Winghaven, constantly chasing Paul McKee’s proposals...
A Heavenly Deal?
Right now, if you are a St. Louis Cardinals baseball fan, you are probably in a state of shock, anger,...
High-Speed Rail in Missouri Is Snapshot of Government Delusions
Did you know that the building of a high-speed rail line across central Missouri will support more than 200,000 jobs,...
The Not-So-Special Session: Lessons Learned From a Public Policy Viewpoint
Talk about laying an egg! Missouri lawmakers are going home at the end of the 50-day special session of the...
Making a Good System Better: Suggestions for Kansas City Government
All politics, as they say, is local. But the politics in some places (think St. Louis and St. Louis County)...
Occupation as Aggression – And Public Theater
What does it mean to ‘occupy Wall Street,’ “occupy KC,” or occupy any one of dozens of other cities. Plainly,...
Truth in Tax Credit Advertising?
The St. Louis Business Journal reported that Post Holdings Inc. (the cereal company) would get millions in state and local...
High-Speed Rail Supporters Are Just Making Things Up
Over at the St. Louis Beacon, high-speed spending (and rail) enthusiast Rick Harnish is just flat-out misleading people to get...
