Why Are Other Organizations Doing DESE’s Job?
“Kind of crazy.” That’s how the director of school improvement for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)...
The Boston Tea Party and . . . Targeted Tax Credits?
I don’t think any American schoolchild escaped this lesson from civics class: On the night of December 16, 1773, in...
Disincorporation Nation and the Sage of Saint George
Say the title line like you’re Casey Kasem introducing a one-hit wonder disco group from the 1970s. Saint George is...
Saint Louis: Home of the World’s Largest Laffer Curve
Dr. Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Jonathan Williams recently published the third edition of Rich States Poor States: ALEC-Laffer...
East Side Stripper Full Employment Act Advances
I’m quite a bit late on this one, but a couple of weeks ago, the Missouri Senate overwhelmingly approved a...
The Mismeasure of Stimulus
An article in the St. Joe News highlights the accomplishments of federal stimulus dollars in Northwest Missouri: Missouri’s 6th Congressional...
Honey, I Shrunk the Legislature
A very encouraging post on the Freakonomics blog today mentions that the Maine state legislature recently proposed a bill that...
In Defense of St. Louis
When I checked out the Post-Dispatch‘s website today, I fully expected the top stories to include President Barack Obama’s visit yesterday. Nope....
The Little Engine That Could
Train service around here can be awfully slow. Not so slow as the horse-drawn carriages the government allowed to fade...
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