St. Louis and Pittsburgh, Lead and We Shall Follow
I came across this St. Louis Business-Journal blog post from a week ago arguing that St. Louis should follow the...
Police Power and Public Finance: How A Proposed Local Government Mandate Will Trash St. Louisans’ Pocketbooks
The city of St. Louis is debating a local legislative proposal that will, for the first time, impose a mandatory...
Tax Credits Are an Undesirable Strategy for Missouri
There was some classic rent-seeking behavior in the editorial section of the Post-Dispatch yesterday: An architect touts historic preservation tax...
Show Me the Real Unemployment Rate
Missouri’s unemployment rate dropped two tenths of a percent from April, according to the Department of Economic Development. The drop in...
Red Light Camera and Surveillance Camera Discussion Now Online!
If you missed the discussion about red light and surveillance cameras that the Show-Me Institute hosted on June 9, you...
Should We Save, or Should They Go?
No one wants businesses to abandon communities. After all, here in St. Louis we saw what happened to Downtown West...
SLU Economics Professors Misstate Findings of Earnings Tax Paper
In a recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch commentary (“Don’t blame the earnings tax,” May 6), Drs. Lisa Gladson and Jack Strauss...
Despite Government’s Encouragement, Rate of Homeownership Remains Steady
The rate of homeownership has not increased to the extent that the author implies in this Post-Dispatch article: After being...
Seventh Signature and the Bill is Free!
The governor will be jetting around Missouri over the coming week for ceremonial signings of H.B. 1311, the Autism Spectrum...
Metro St. Louis Approves Fiscal 2011 Budget, Making Work Harder to Find
The Metro Board of Commissioners approved the St. Louis regional public transit agency’s Fiscal 2011 operating budget of $232.4 million...
No Radar Love in Ohio
The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled Wednesday that a “police officer’s unaided visual estimation of a vehicle’s speed is sufficient...
Can St. Louis Really Support Another Performing Arts Facility? Local Government Certainly Thinks So
If I read the tea leaves correctly, I expect an announcement in the coming days, weeks, or months that the...
Policing By Camera: A Discussion of Red Light and Surveillance Cameras as a Tool of Law Enforcement
On Wednesday next week, the Show-Me Institute and the Saint Louis chapter of Liberty on the Rocks will co-host a...
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad For-Profit Animal Shelter?
St. Louis is, George; St. Louis is. The plan to contract out the operation of the animal shelter to Stray Rescue has been canceled. The...
You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here
The City of Saint Louis is removing the pretzel vendors along Jamieson Avenue in south St. Louis due to complaints...
Rules Too Cool for the Pools
Today’s Post-Dispatch has a big story on pool safety and regulation in the St. Louis area. I’ll stipulate right off...
City of Saint Louis Twisting Pretzel Vendors out of Business
If you have spent much time in the South City area of Saint Louis, you’ve probably seen street vendors selling...
KC Pitch Blurb About St. Louis Offers Insights to Government Structure
Today’s Kansas City Pitch has a short story on a new Brookings Institution study that places modern American cities into...
St. Louis Follows Kansas City by Moving Forward on Privatizing Animal Shelter
The Suburban Journals has an updated piece on where the city of St. Louis stands with its animal shelter. According...
Privatizing the Saint Louis City Water Division
Yesterday, we released the lastest Show-Me Institute case study, about the potential for privatization of the St. Louis city water...
