Show-Me Institute

Being financially responsible—keeping a close eye on your bank balance and even your credit score, for example—isn’t always pleasant. Being truly...

Bill Turque over at The Kansas City Star wrote the standard piece on this week’s streetcar extension vote, and gave some attention to the uncertainty...

The Loop Trolley appears stuck in an endless loop of delays.It was recently announced that the opening of the over-budget historic streetcar line...

Kansas City Mayor Sly James is working on a proposal for a sales tax increase to fund expanded pre-K education. Despite a real cost to taxpayers, few...

Good policy doesn't have to be complicated. That's the lesson we should take from the way Michigan legislators took on their prevailing wage (...

By next week, the Missouri State Board of Education should be up and running again. They’ve got plenty of business to attend to, including replacing...

For decades, Missourians have been paying hundreds of millions in special sales taxes they all too often had no clue about. Special taxing districts...

Richard Florida is an urban studies theorist who promoted the idea that the creative class would drive urban renewal and that smart cities should...

On May 31, Show-Me Institute CEO Brenda Talent appeared on KETC's Donnybrook to discuss the fallout from recent events in Jefferson City.

The Show-Me Institute's 2018 Blueprint: Moving Missouri Forward presents 16 policy ideas covering a broad range of issues—from education to...