Beyond Freakonomics in St. Louis
While I should have posted something about this sooner, I’ll offer a brief account of Tuesday evening’s visit from Steve...
Metro Transit Funding Raises Difficult Questions
Saint Louis area officials have long struggled over how to fund the mass transit system. In the November elections, county...
When Schools Compete, They Improve
In case anybody thinks that charter schools and parental choice programs don’t encourage urban districts to improve, here’s an article...
Ameren, Renewable Energy, and Time Travel
Several elements came together allowing me to write this blog post. The first was an ongoing series of articles from...
Ed Martin Goes There
We have written extensively on this blog about the unconstitutional scam that is the red-light camera industry. Those cameras are...
STL Crime Rate Up While Cops Pay for Health Care Choice
On the same morning that the St. Louis Police Board announced that crime rates were up in St. Louis for...
Tennessee vs. Missouri: Taxes May Tip the Odds
Missouri nestles against eight states, so border wars of all sorts are common. Some are fun, such as this week’s...
SLPS Calls for Parental Choice … for a Few
“When it comes to your child’s education, one size definitely doesn’t fit all.” That’s a quote from Milton Friedman, right?...
Good News and Bad News
Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau were released yesterday, leaving us with good news and bad news. First, the good...
Challenging Business as Usual
Despite spending more per student than all but two states, maintaining a 14:1 student-to-teacher ratio, and offering among the higher...
Missouri Private School Regulations Make the Grade
The Friedman Foundation has graded all 50 states on how they regulate private schools. The states with the highest grades...
Lobbying for More Government
There is a brief post in Prime Buzz today about the decision by the KC City Council to renew its...
Cato U
Those of you who read this blog for in-depth analysis and riveting commentary, I’m sure you haven’t noticed my absence,...
More Steelman
Steelman fields another question of interest over at the Post-Dispatch: Brian R.: Urban decay and poverty is a problem that...
Show Me Sarah Steelman
Over at the Post-Dispatch, gubernatorial primary hopeful Sarah Steelman participated in a live Q&A session with the readers. Here is...
Yet Another Example of Terrific City Planning
The Kansas City Star has a story on the failures of the planning process in Kansas City’s Beacon Hill neighborhood....
Channel 5 Warns Against Hot Slides
Somehow, I messed up my prior post, so the following portion did not get added. The disaster movie references were...
Foundation(s)
Resolved, that next to life and liberty, we consider education the greatest blessing bestowed upon mankind. Resolved, that the public...
The Law of Incentives
A story in the St. Louis Business Journal (the first few paragraphs of which are available for free online) reports...
The Education Struggle in St. Louis Continues
The Post-Dispatch ran an editorial today rehashing the continuing problems facing St. Louis’s public school system. The Special Administrative Board...
