You Can’t Sue Us … We Had No Right to Do What We Did!
Tomorrow morning, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a rather unusual case. Jim Roos graduated from...
A Great Development
Dave Roland beat me to it, but I was going to talk about the "Call to Oneness" article for addressing...
Kudos to “A Call to Oneness”
The Drudge Report brought my attention to an Associated Press story describing how a St. Louis–area faith-based group, A Call...
EPA Mandate Promises High Costs and Few Benefits
According to a Post-Dispatch article, the metropolitan St. Louis area can expect sharp increases in sewer bills during the next...
This Law Is for the Birds … or Should I Say Pigs?
While doing some research for one of my many bosses, David Stokes, I ran into a number of city ordinances...
Should the Attorney General Be Appointed?
I don’t usually pay too much attention to letters to the editor, but there was a very interesting one in...
One-Size Health Care Doesn’t Fit All
One of the downsides of paying for health care through insurance is that patients have less incentive to conserve scarce...
Vice Lieutenants of the Board of Aldermen
There is a very enjoyable article today in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about a local expert on vice presidents, which...
Derailed
I’ve never ridden the St. Louis/Kansas City Amtrak train, but have heard plenty of negative things about it. This year,...
Ed in ’08: Good Questions, Short on Answers
Ed in ’08 came to St. Louis this week to promote education reform. Follow the link to watch KTVI interview...
Swing … and a Miss
Let me preface this post by saying that I appreciate the attention that Henry Waters, publisher of the Columbia Daily...
Kansas City Transit Cornucopia
Detailed commentary will follow, but I wanted to get Mayor Funkhouser’s new regional Kansas City transit plan up on our...
Incentives for Students
This week, Gary Becker and Richard Posner discuss programs like the one in New York City that pay children to...
“Those Who Can, Do. Those Who Can’t, Close”
Here’s a good way to make a positive out of a negative. The Missouri State Board of Education has decided...
The Earnings Tax in Action
Perhaps there is no finer crucible with which to test criticisms of the earnings tax than a general economic downturn....
Pitch Whacks Earnings Tax Flat in Its Tracks; Backs Tax on Plats, in Fact
Justin’s excellent post earlier today touching on the distortionary effects of the earnings tax was particularly timely. Also today, The...
Fun With Numbers (and Economic Incentives)! Hooray!
There are all kinds of fun number-crunching stories to talk about today. But I’ll concentrate on just one. Chicago currently...
Kansas City Council Considers 400% Tax Increase
OK, now that I have your attention with that eye-popping (yet accurate) title, let’s discuss the issue reasonably. The Kansas...
Privatization Possibilitites Abound as Festus Sells Its Airport
The City of Festus has decided to sell the only airport in Jefferson County. The Suburban Journals story serves as...
Missouri Higher Education Loan ATTACK
A disjointed editorial about MOHELA, Missouri’s pseudo-public student loan lender, appears in the Lake Sun Leader today. The author argues...
