Missouri Starts Taxing Yoga Classes
The Kansas City Star reports that on Sunday, the state’s Department of Revenue began enforcing a 4-percent tax on yoga...
D.A.R.E. to Stop Wasting Time and Money
No school program epitomizes a childhood in the nineties like the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program (D.A.R.E.). I still have...
Commuter Rail Plan for Jackson County
I guess because we are always going somewhere, transit issues never seem to go away. Just today, we have the...
Your Weekend Irony
We have had a little bit of irony recently here at the Show-Me Institute. Randal O’Toole came into town to...
Kansas City Star Calls for Toll Roads
Combest today links to a great editorial in the Kansas City Star advocating that we pay for the proposed truck-only...
Ethanol Industry Doesn’t Need Salesmen, It Just Uses the Government
The definition of rent-seeking behavior: The expenditure of resources in order to bring about an uncompensated transfer of goods or...
Trucks and Tolls and Stuff
According to the Kansas City Star, Missouri has been approved to move ahead with a plan to install truck-only lanes...
Amtrak and High-Speed Rail
There’s a nice article in the Kansas City Star discussing the improvements made to Amtrak service in Missouri. In fact,...
Can You Define “Tocologist”? How About “Polystyrene”?
You can learn so many new vocabulary words by tracking legislation in the Missouri General Assembly. “Tocology,” otherwise known as...
A Private Solution for CAFO Nuisances
As I have repeatedly said, civil lawsuits — not zoning ordinances — are the best solution to nuisances caused by...
Great Privatization Success for Kansas City Animals
Check out this article in the Kansas City Star, and these comments over at Toellner Tells It, about the recent privatization...
Energy Monopoly: Less Is Not More
Show-Me Policy Pulse cited an AP article that appeared in the Kansas City Star on Sunday about the “energy efficiency”...
Breaking Down Barriers to Charter Funding
The Kansas City Star reports that some charter schools in Missouri have emerged victorious from the latest round of litigious...
The Future of Highway Funding
The Kansas City Star reports on the increasing support for a plan to scrap and replace the fuel tax. The...
Standing Up for Missouri’s Economy
Good news for opponents of cap-and-trade policy in Missouri (via the Kansas City Star‘s Prime Buzz): The climate bill passed...
A Nonexistent Benefit of Uniform Standards
From an editorial in the Kansas City Star: Charter schools and lab schools would have a framework within which to...
Kansas City Should Learn From St. Louis’ Mistakes
I don’t have much time to expand on this, because I have a flight to catch, but I see in...
Building Codes, Your Thoughts Please …
I support the right of local government to enforce building codes if the citizens in those areas want them. Yesterday’s deck collapse...
Weak Effort to Rah-Rah the Stimulus in the Kansas City Star
This column is a few days old, but it is still poor enough to warrant criticism. The Star‘s Steve Penn writes...
Public Service Academy Proposal Is Still Stupidest Idea I Have Ever Heard
The most appallingly horrible proposal in recent history might be coming to Missouri, which makes it even worse. The Kansas...
