Pujols Is Worth Every Penny (All 3 Billion of Them)
We are rapidly approaching the deadline imposed by Albert Pujols and the Cardinals’ front office to secure a new contract...
Show-Me Institute Free-Market Field Trip No. 3: Ticket Scalping
In this video, Show-Me Institute staff and interns illustrate a functioning market by scalping St. Louis Cardinals tickets at...
Worth the Cost? A New View of Ballpark Village
This week, the long-stalled Ballpark Village came back from the dead, one decade after it was first announced. The new...
Regulation to Go
The Sunday edition of the Post-Dispatch ran an interesting story about the proliferation of food trucks in Saint Louis and...
Free-Market Field Trip!
Last Wednesday, Show-Me Institute staff and interns ventured on our third free-market field trip. We went to Busch stadium to...
Getting It Backward
Today is the Saint Louis Cardinals’ home opener, and — like all good Saint Louisans — I am excited about...
Adding New MetroLink Lines Too Costly, Inefficient
It is odd to hear serious discussion of expanding MetroLink when the Metro system faces a $50 million shortfall and...
More Steelman
Steelman fields another question of interest over at the Post-Dispatch: Brian R.: Urban decay and poverty is a problem that...
Former Site for Centene Plaza Sells After All
Our former editor, Tim Lee, recently pointed me to this article that ran a couple weeks ago in the St....
Gouging for the Green
It’s raining in St. Louis on this St. Patrick’s day, so I wouldn’t be surprised if today’s Ancient Order of...
Eminent Domain at the All-Star Game
A front-page story in this morning’s Post-Dispatch details the delays that have plagued the Ballpark Village development in downtown St....
We Are All In This Together, Except For Westwood
In today’s punch-right-between-the-eyes example of why Saint Louis County has too many municipalities, the Village of Westwood wants to contribute...
Even More Traffic
It appears I jumped the gun a little when I wrote my last blog entry, about our mention in Paul...
New Bridge Might Not Ease Rush Hour Congestion
Have you ever tried to get through downtown Saint Louis during rush hour? How about before or after a Cards...
Quality Jobs, Questionable TIFS, and Cameras, Cameras, Cameras
Over at the Columbia Daily Tribune they have a depressing article about the corruption of a bill to expand the...
RCGA Touts Cards in Study; Sun Rises in East
Just in time for opening day, the Saint Louis Regional Commerce and Growth Association released a study that concluded that...
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