MCI and Privatization
For years now, city leaders have pushed for a $1.2 billion new airport terminal, first proposed by former Aviation Department...
Education Savings Accounts Found Constitutional in Nevada
Last week, a Clark County judge threw out a constitutional challenge to Nevada’s landmark education savings account program. The ACLU...
Andrew Coulson, RIP
Every once in a while I stumble across a sentence and think man, I wish I’d written that. One of...
No Government Program is Perfect
I’ve spilled a lot of electronic ink over the minimum wage. It’s a bad policy that, though well intentioned, would...
Cato Study Shows that Federal Employees Make More than Private Sector; Government Unions Furious
Underlying the American Federation of Government Employee’s (AFGE) claims that their members deserve higher salaries and more lavish benefits is...
Michael Cannon on the Future of Medicine: “So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades”
Earlier this year the Show-Me Institute had the pleasure of hosting Michael Cannon, the director of health policy studies at...
Mark Your Calendars, Kansas City and St. Louis: Michael Cannon is Coming to Town
Michael Cannon is the director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and is one of the most prominent figures...
Vindication for New Hampshire’s Scholarship Tax Credit Program
In February, the Show-Me Institute released “Live Free and Learn: A Case Study of New Hampshire’s Scholarship Tax Credit Program,”...
Senate Bill 493 Is Not A School Choice Bill
On Thursday, the Missouri Legislature passed Senate Bill 493. Described as the “transfer fix,” the bill contains many provisions. One...
Mark Your Calendars For Our April 25 Tax Credit Scholarship Event
When I speak about tax credit scholarships, I get a lot of questions: What is a tax credit scholarship? How...
Education Needs More Money, STAT!
If you believe the popular media outlets, Missouri schools are in dire need of more cash. They claim that Missouri...
Announcing New Case Study: Live Free and Learn
Over the course of the past year, I have spoken and written a lot about tax credit scholarships. When I...
Why Would Unions And Some Big Businesses Support Raising the Minimum Wage? Some Reasons
Last week’s Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report brought the negative effects of a proposed minimum wage hike into sharp focus. The CBO...
An Open Letter To Streetcar Supporters
At the recent meeting of the Kansas City Save the Trolley Trail, supporters of an expanded streetcar system dismissed assertions from the Show-Me...
Missouri Leading On At Least One Health Care Reform
Earlier this month, I had the honor of presenting at this year’s State Health Policy Summit, a meeting that the...
New CATO Report: Cracking The Books
The CATO Institute recently released a report, “Cracking the Books: How Well Do State Education Departments Report Public School Spending.”...
Common Core: A Well Intentioned Disaster
Dr. James Shuls on Common Core as originally reported in the Show-Me Institute’s June 2013 Newsletter: Milton Friedman once...
Standards And Students Thrive In A Free Market
Last night, I conducted an experiment to test the impact of the Common Core State Standards. When my kids were...
It Just Ain’t So
Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for...
The Name’s Bond . . . Building Bond
After paying off the mortgage on your house, would you then take out another mortgage as part of a jobs...
