The Never-Ending School Finance Wars
Just like school years come and go and spring fades into summer, controversy over how we fund our schools has...
Some School Finance Common Sense from Deep in the Heart of Texas
Last week, the Supreme Court of Texas handed down its decision in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Lone...
Design-Build and Save
My colleague Joe Miller recently published his paper on funding the Missouri Department of Transportation. In it, he refers to...
Report: Saint Louis, Kansas City *Not* Among Most Cost-Friendly Cities for Business
Recently, the Post-Dispatch prominently published an article claiming that, “St. Louis is among the top 10 most cost-friendly cities to...
Texas Toll Road Goes Bankrupt, but Taxpayers Don’t
This month, a major toll road company filed for bankruptcy in Texas. The company in question is the SH 130...
A Well Intentioned Disaster: A Presentation on the Merits of Common Core State Standards
The following is taken from a presentation given by Show-Me Institute Distinguished Fellow of Education Policy James Shuls on February...
MLS Stadiums Dig Deep Into Public Coffers
Late last week, the MLS announced that it was beginning to search for a place to put a new soccer...
Course Access Is Working in Texas
Brittany Wagner and I released a paper last month outlining how a course access could work in Missouri. Tens of...
Regionalism for Thee, But Not for Me
In their recent push to keep the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in Saint Louis City, city leadership has argued the...
Student Loan Default in Missouri
Like many twenty-somethings, I am kept up at night—not by noisy neighbors, but by my student loan debt. I’ll be...
Income and Money Flee Missouri
Earlier this year, Michael Rathbone and I published an essay examining migration trends for Missouri. We reported that over the...
Course Access in Rural Texas
Earlier this month, I wrote about an emerging trend in school choice policy: course access programs, which allow students to...
Missouri’s Rural School Students Need Choice, Too!
Recently, the Foundation for Excellence in Education released a paper about how states across the country are implementing course access programs....
Highway Dollars: Does Washington Give Missouri Its Fair Share?
Often, when discussing the impending funding crisis at the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT), many residents are skeptical of the...
South County Connector: Still an Opportunity to Toll
Last week, Saint Louis County officials announced that the proposed $120 million South County Connector had been placed on hold. The...
We Are Thankful For Data
Debate over public policy is rife with stories about individuals who will benefit or suffer from proposed legislation. It can be...
Ballot Initiative Lets Motorists Off Hook
As first appearing in the Columbia Daily Tribune on 24 November, 2013: Imagine ordering the usual for dinner at your...
South County Connector Is Opportunity For Transportation Innovation
As first appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on November 21, 2013: “Thinking outside of the box” is viewed positively,...
Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry Guilty of “Stealing” Missouri Jobs?
As appearing in the Springfield News-Leader on October 23, 2013: If “stealing jobs” were as bad as — and essentially...
You Can Call Them Buzzards, But That Makes Missouri The Carcass
Another day, another governor courting — or as some are saying, “trying to poach” — Missouri’s businesses. This time, it’s...
