Books are Burning
The Post-Dispatch reports that a used book store owner in Kansas City, unable to unload his thousands of warehoused books,...
Coverage in the Business Journal
The latest issue of St. Louis Business Journal has an op-ed by Show-Me Institute research fellow R.W. Hafer. An excerpt:...
Realism is a Good Thing…
My love of trains has been discussed before. However, in a recently released study recommending against adding an Amtrak line...
What is the true value of a taxi medallion in St. Louis?
In New York City, the value of a taxi medallion, simply a license to operate a taxi cab, is $477,000....
School Choice Would Provide Incentives
An editorial in today’s Post-Dispatch says: Almost half of the 23 school districts in St. Louis County have slammed their...
50 Ways to Get Around the Earnings Tax…
The Post has a great article today in the business section on recent successes in luring businesses to locate in...
Students Would Benefit From Diverse Virtual Schools
What kind of student enrolls in a course online? It could be someone who needs to do remedial work, or...
New Bridge Might Not Ease Rush Hour Congestion
Have you ever tried to get through downtown Saint Louis during rush hour? How about before or after a Cards...
All Eminent Domain at the Post Today…
Today’s Post-Dispatch gives extensive coverage to various eminent domain issues in St. Charles, Jefferson and St. Louis Counties. The St....
A Fair Compromise on Transit
Metro needs a lot of things, and one thing it is getting is a tax cut. Legislation has been sent...
The TIF-fing Point
Sen. Tim Green has passed, apparently, legislation to change the ways Tax Increment Financing is managed in the St. Louis...
Update on the Amendment We Don’t Need
This story shows why we don’t need to legislate that government affairs be conducted in English: Senator Kevin Engler of...
Saint Louis Public Schools Get More and More Desperate
The Saint Louis Board of Education is fighting the state takeover tooth and nail: The St. Louis Board of Education...
Saint Louis Kids Deserve Choices
Parents and students in Missouri have essentially three choices: public education in their local district, attending a private school,...
School Choice Around the World
The Economist has an article about the benefits about parental choice in education: Voucher schemes are running in several different...
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on “Ready for Change”
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on the just-published study I coauthored with Verne Kennedy of Market Research Insight: The survey...
Quality Jobs, Questionable TIFS, and Cameras, Cameras, Cameras
Over at the Columbia Daily Tribune they have a depressing article about the corruption of a bill to expand the...
How Free Are We? Part 2
On April 6, I wrote about the creeping state control of our lives in the name of safety. I was...
Disappointing Reporting in the Post
I didn’t care for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s article on eminent domain activist Jim Roos. I have to admit I...
Trains, market gains and monopolies…
Yesterday, my colleague, Sarah Brodsky, posted on the report on Missourinet about MoDOT’s desire to improve Amtrak’s performance in order...
