Healthy Schools in Missouri and D.C.
There’s a bill before the D.C. Council that’s even worse than this one that was proposed during Missouri’s past legislative...
Obstructing the Will of the People
Here at Show-Me Daily, we have long documented the efforts of the Missouri Municipal League to prevent this state’s citizens...
Horrible Stuff Up and Down New Federal Spending Bill
This is just a depressing AP article on federal budget expenditures, from beginning to end. This has everything you need...
Charter Schools Still a Good Choice for Missouri
For more than 20 years, charter schools have been providing parents across the nation with an alternative to the...
Tariffs Punish Consumers, but Remain Politically Popular
This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon. With all the talk about polarizing politics and the fracturing...
Snail Mail Payouts
In an effort to cut expenses, the U.S. Postal Service is offering to pay employees to retire or resign by...
Look Here, Please
Tonight at 7 p.m., at Zion Lutheran Church, developer Paul McKee and alderwoman April Ford-Griffin will make a presentation about...
Interstate Rail Project Would Bring High-Speed Spending
On June 17, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) asked states for proposals for spending the $8 billion of stimulus money...
How Should We Deal With Carbon Emissions?
I was in Washington, D.C., yesterday to hear a presentation by Wendell Cox at the Heritage Foundation. His presentation centered...
An Ostrich Talks About Social Security in the New York Times
If you are writing an article about long-term planning for how best to collect your Social Security benefits, shouldn’t you...
Statistics That Defy Belief
Andrew Coulson of the Cato Institute had to publish a correction regarding his calculation of the per-pupil spending taking place...
Charter School Results Getting Federal Notice
I came across this story about charter school advocates being heard by the House Education and Labor Committee in Washington,...
Followup Articles on Pork ‘N Earmarks
Two more articles about what makes an earmark, what defines pork, and when are they justified, are in the Missouri...
Stand Together for School Choice
Yesterday, Andrew J. Coulson — director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom — wrote in the Washington Examiner:...
Government Pork: “In Oklahoma, Not Arizona, What Does it Matter?”
The annual Citizens Against Government Waste Pig Book is out for 2009. I have to guess this was a particularly...
Nietzsche Versus the Associated Press
The Post-Dispatch is hosting a truly stupid AP article lamenting that the nation’s uninsured (as in health, not personal effects) don’t...
Stuck Inside of Springfield With the D.C. Property Tax Blues Again
The above song title (switching out “Springfield” and “D.C. Property Tax” for “Mobile” and “Memphis,” of course) was the answer...
Charter Schools Succeed at Language Instruction
Charter schools, the public schools run by independent organizations that are continual subjects of debate, are often compared to traditional...
Nonpartisan Elections a Bad Idea for Franklin County
When it comes to elections, everyone wants the same thing: high voter turn-out and a well-informed electorate. Unfortunately, those two...
Stimulus Money
The state of Missouri is going to get so much money, it doesn’t know what to do with it all....
