Show-Me Institute

KOMU reports on kids who are trying to learn English in Columbia, Missouri:

An op-ed in the Lake Sun Leader imagines a better Missouri:

The Post-Dispatch reports that a used book store owner in Kansas City, unable to unload his thousands of warehoused books, has taken to burning them:

O'Fallon, MO, is seeking to annex the Busch Wildlife Area.

In today's St. Louis Business Journal, an article points out that Missouri is failing in pursuing comprehensive eminent domain reform.

Over at Statehousecall.org, John Graham links to his new index ranking states on "health care ownership." Missouri comes in 32nd.

An article in MissouriNet today discusses the new MO HealthNet plan and the challenges it still faces:

The New York Times reports on state education standards and discusses the disparities between them:

An editorial in the Columbia Daily Tribune deplores a new rule requiring ethanol to be mixed in with gasoline starting in 2008:

The latest issue of St. Louis Business Journal has an op-ed by Show-Me Institute research fellow R.W. Hafer. An excerpt: