What Happened to Course Access?
In the early days of this legislative session, course access seemed primed for success. Both the House and Senate held...
Resolution for Article V Convention Deserves Serious Consideration
It’s been said that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but can you remind an old dog of...
The Supreme Court Can Put a Nail in the Anti-Catholic Coffin
This week, the United States Supreme Court will hear a case out of our own backyard that wrestles with a...
Leadership Lessons from Attila the Hen: Margaret Thatcher on Europe-and the United States
It was a vintage if ill-advised display of firmness. A quarter of a century ago, Margaret Thatcher threw the British...
No Child Left Behind Has One Foot in the Grave
After the pigs got clearing for takeoff and the weather reports from Hell came back with a temperature below 32...
TIF Reform Stalled In State Legislature
There are definitely some good things happening in the Missouri Legislature. There are, as always, plenty of bad ideas, too....
Ignoring 40 Years Of Failure, Legislature Passes Land Bank Legislation
Yesterday, the Missouri Legislature passed House Bill 1659, which allows for the creation of a land bank in Kansas City....
Last Week For TIF Reform
In my personal opinion, the single most important thing the Missouri General Assembly needs to do this year is pass...
Income Taxes Decrease Economic Growth, Prosperity
With the 2010 Census complete, Congress will soon reapportion seats in the House of Representatives, and it appears that Missouri...
Ethics Reform and Constitutional Principles
One of the hot topics in Missouri policy debate over the past several days has been Senate Bill 844, the...
Continuing the Fight for Fewer State Reps
Today’s Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal has an op-ed about the size of Missouri’s House of Representatives. In short, the House is...
A Ban I Actually Support
That would be a ban on red light cameras, which was recently proposed in the Missouri Senate. Although I am...
Frankly, I’m Not Seeing the Downside Here
From KMOX: The Missouri House Budget Committee was told two Missouri prisons could close down if the House cuts funds...
Baumol and Health Care Costs
The New York Times has a nice analysis of health care cost control using the insights of economist William Baumol,...
Are Women Better Legislators Than Men?
Studies like this do nothing to raise the level of political dialogue in this country. Today, Politico published an article...
Virtue and Government-Compelled Charity
Recently, several of my colleagues from Vanderbilt Divinity School sat in on President Barack Obama’s conference call, in which he...
Cutting Health Care Costs With a Chainsaw
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published a letter to the House majority leader regarding a proposal to establish a...
Missouri Will Likely Be Spared Cap-and-Trade Pain
David Catanese blogs over at ky3 political notebook that Sen. Claire McCaskill is highly unlikely to cast a yes vote...
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...
Cap and Trade Dangerous for Missouri
A cap and trade bill was narrowly passed in the House of Representatives on Friday afternoon. If passed in the...
