Missouri’s Taxpayers Lobbying To Pay More Taxes?
As a resident of University City, I was interested to learn that the city spent $26,000 to hire a lobbyist...
Has MSTA’s Legislative Director Moved To Lake Wobegon?
Apparently the legislative director of the Missouri State Teacher’s Association (MSTA) has moved to Lake Wobegon. On the MSTA’s blog...
No, It Will Cost Missourians Considerably More Than ‘$20 Per Person’ To Expand Medicaid
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has published a commentary by Saint Louis University School of Law Professor Robert Gatter in which the...
Kudos to Missouri Senate for Blocking Health Exchange
Earlier this year, the Missouri Senate approved a measure blocking Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s ability to create a health insurance...
Episode II: Attack Of The Dome
The Edward Jones Dome saga continues. I previously blogged about this topic and there is a new development. It seems...
Dough for the Dome
The St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission (CVC) just released its proposal (estimated price tag: $124 million, with the St. Louis...
What Will The Neighbors Think?
Despite the recent adjournment of the Missouri Legislature’s special session (which cost Missouri taxpayers more than $280,000), it wasn’t a...
Pop-Tartocracy
As labor unions shrink, new and exciting ways of promoting union membership are springing up all over. In April, I...
Ms. Harbin Goes to Washington
Today is my last day at the Show-Me Institute. Beginning next month, I will work at the Center for Fiscal...
The Kansas City Earnings Tax Is Bad for Our Health – But Do We Care?
Call it “the smoker’s dilemma”: Everyone knows that smoking kills, but a habitual smoker may be convinced that he requires...
Food Truck Sighting in the Central West End!
Now that I have my eyes open for food trucks, I see them nearly everywhere I go! While I was...
Why Do Food Trucks Park Side by Side?
When I was in Washington, D.C., recently, I saw two food trucks as soon as I hopped off the Metro...
A New Hope
Over the weekend, I attended the 2011 International Students for Liberty (SFL) conference in Washington, D.C. Although I have participated...
Spotted: Food Trucks and the Free Market
When I was in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, I encountered a food truck parked next to the Woodley Park...
Needed: An Alfred Kahn for Health Care Reform
In the annals of progressive thought, there was a fleeting moment when Ted Kennedy, Ralph Nader, and other left-wing icons...
Students: Apply to Work at the Show-Me Institute This Summer!
The deadline to apply to be a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow — a program that includes two weeks of...
Growth by State
Many variables affect a state’s economic growth, including public policy, natural resources, geographic location, business centers, etc. The large number of contributing...
Missouri’s Many Health Insurance Mandates
In the recent public discussion of the autism bill and health insurance mandates, a recurring question has emerged: can a...
Fun With Guns
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in McDonald v. Chicago, otherwise known as the Chicago gun ban case. The...
Paid Internship Opportunity for the Summer!
Last summer, I had the privilege of being a Koch Summer Fellow for the Show-Me Institute. It was a terrific...
