Brain Versus Heart on Amtrak in Missouri
Rail advocates are arguing for an increase in Missouri’s Amtrak funding. They want the taxpayer subsidy for the little-used route...
Commentary: A Tsunami of Bad Policy
This commentary appeared in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch on December 7, 2021 Inflation has reared its ugly head again—hitting a...
Intercity Bus Service on the Rise in Missouri, Nationally
I often find myself traveling to Chicago to visit family, and when I do I have a number of transportation...
Saint Louis Property Taxes, Part 2: The Nonprofits
In my first post on property taxes in Saint Louis City, I discussed how the city’s...
Missouri Needs to Learn to Prioritize Spending
As first appearing in the Columbia Tribune: In a couple of weeks’ time, incoming college freshmen will get their first...
Positive Train Control Creates Doubts for Amtrak in Missouri
With the recent Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, the push for increased passenger-rail safety measures has greatly increased. As part of...
Transforming Vacant Land
Usually, food on trains is nothing to brag about. A quick Google search showed that Amtrak actually has a chicken...
High-Speed Rail in Missouri Is Snapshot of Government Delusions
Did you know that the building of a high-speed rail line across central Missouri will support more than 200,000 jobs,...
High-Speed Rail Supporters Are Just Making Things Up
Over at the St. Louis Beacon, high-speed spending (and rail) enthusiast Rick Harnish is just flat-out misleading people to get...
Visiting the Friendly Confines of Wrigley Field
There is no ballpark quite like Wrigley Field. Although I am a diehard Cardinals fan who passionately despises the Chicago...
Off the Track
The governor has announced that Missouri will seek additional funding for high-speed rail. This is, in my opinion, a very...
You’ve Been on a Fast Train, and It’s Going Off the Rail
Transportation expert (and sometimes Show-Me Institute author) Randal O’Toole wrote an editorial for USA Today about the folly of huge...
Missouri Can Be Proud of Its High-Speed Rail Allocation
Here are some things to be happy about! Missouri ranks last among the 50 states in the number of professions...
Feds Allocate $8 Million to High-Speed Rail; Missouri Gets a 0.39% Cut
Yesterday, the Obama administration pledged $8 billion in federal stimulus funds to develop a high-speed rail system in the United...
This Is Spending On Rail That I Can Support
The Kansas City Star is reporting on the opening of a new sidetrack along Missouri’s Amtrak route connecting St. Louis...
Amtrak And Tax Dollars
The headline for this AP article on rail subsidies says it all. Shockingly, a government agency has overstated its efficiency...
The High Cost of High-Speed Rail
During the drive home from work yesterday, I listened to a discussion of high-speed rail on NPR’s “Marketplace.” Mitchell Hartman...
Your Weekend Irony
We have had a little bit of irony recently here at the Show-Me Institute. Randal O’Toole came into town to...
Amtrak and High-Speed Rail
There’s a nice article in the Kansas City Star discussing the improvements made to Amtrak service in Missouri. In fact,...
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...
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