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In Governor Parson’s State of the State address last week, he touched on many topics that Show-Me Institute analysts have been writing about for...

Recently the Columbia Missourian ran a story about jail bond bills—payments that defendants are required to make to cover their own incarceration in...

For students just beginning elementary school, starting off on the wrong foot can have big consequences. Unfortunately, many Missouri students very...

On January 18, Show-Me Institute Director of Municipal Policy Patrick Tuohey appeared on Kansas City Public Television's Ruckus to discuss the...

What if the choices we make for our health care were governed by the same rules that control the choices we make regarding the education of our...

I wasn’t able to attend the recent meeting for the Missouri State Board of Education, but from what I can gather from Twitter, an alleged teacher...

By now it shouldn’t surprise us. As we head into the new year, governments across Missouri are getting ready to collect more in sales taxes.Over the...

In June 2013, the Show-Me Institute published a paper comparing St. Louis and Kansas City’s expenses  with six peer cities. One of the expenditures...

An excellent story in the St. Louis Business Journal points out that according to a recent study by the Milken Institute, Kansas City and St. Louis...

The Show-Me Institute's 2019 Blueprint: Moving Missouri Forward presents 16 policy ideas covering issues ranging from education to health care,...