A New Agenda for Cities Must Come from Cities
Recently, Kansas City, Missouri’s mayor, Sly James, wrote in The Hill that America needed a new agenda for cities. No...
The Ballooning Cost of Streetcars
Last summer, the Kansas City Star tried to defend the city from the charge that it overpaid for its 2.2-mile...
MCI Is the Envy of its Peers
The effort to issue $1.25 billion in debt to tear down and rebuild Kansas City International Airport (MCI) is on...
Saint Louis: Not a Tech City
Saint Louis officials constantly tout the growth of tech companies in the metropolitan area and the city specifically. Whether it’s...
Kansas City Streetcar Has First Crash
It was only a matter of time. During a test run, the Kansas City Streetcar collided with its first parked...
Missouri Is Leaving Its African-American Students Behind
There’s no other way to put it: Missouri schools simply aren’t giving African-American students a chance. This was made...
Comparing Teacher Pay by State Offers Heat, but Little Light
I’m going to tell you something you already know: Teacher salaries are higher in Saint Louis and Kansas City than...
Private School Pioneers in Kansas City and St. Louis?
The past 40 years have seen a well-documented decline in Catholic school enrollment across the country. But what many people...
Why Taming the Higher-ed Leviathan is Hard Going
College affordability may prove to be one of, if not the, defining education issue of the 2016 election cycle. More...
Pope Francis Is Visiting a Catholic School. Maybe You Should, Too
Today, Pope Francis will visit Our Lady Queen of Angels school in East Harlem in New York City. It will...
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...
No Child Left Behind the Times
Technology has given us some amazing things over the years, but you don’t see people using VHS and cassette tapes...
Tax Incentives: How Much Money Do Governments Give Away?
This summer the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) is set to release new guidance to state and local governments on...
Streetcars Have Lost . . . Washington, D.C.?
Back in May 2014, at the groundbreaking of the 2.2-mile streetcar line, city leadership held up the streetcar projects in...
Streetcars Have Lost the Left
President Lyndon Johnson famously said of Missouri-born news anchor Walter Cronkite, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost America.” Johnson was...
Uber, Education, and Barriers to Entry
What do taxicab cartels and traditional education groups have in common? This is a question I contemplated on a car...
Streetcars Continue to Fail
In September we highlighted the problems with streetcar cost overruns in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now it appears streetcar efforts are collapsing everywhere....
Education: A Way Out
For some students, education is a “way out,” but in places with few educational options, the way out is often...
Public Dollars Going to Bike Sharing in Saint Louis?
Bike sharing is growing in popularity across the country. In cities like New York, Miami, Chicago, and Kansas City, bike...
What Uber and School Choice Have in Common: In Missouri
Late last month, founding president and chief operating officer of the Children’s Scholarship Fund James Courtovich wrote an op-ed in...
