The School Choice Segregation Myth
It’s time to put to bed a nasty myth about school choice (exemplified in this letter from American Federation of...
The Saint Louis City Earnings Tax: Lifeline or Noose?
On April 2, Show-Me Institute Fellow and Senior Writer Andrew B. Wilson gave a speech on the Earnings Tax to...
Report: Saint Louis, Kansas City *Not* Among Most Cost-Friendly Cities for Business
Recently, the Post-Dispatch prominently published an article claiming that, “St. Louis is among the top 10 most cost-friendly cities to...
Bad for Borrowing: Saint Louis Bond Ratings Slip
Recently, Moody’s, a prominent credit rating group, downgraded Saint Louis’s debt rating. While the changes are nothing drastic (and the...
We Didn’t Lose the GOP Convention Because of Hotel Rooms
The 2016 Republican Convention will be hosted in Cleveland. Kansas City was considered but not chosen. Kansas City leaders want...
The Myth of the Urban Millennial
The debate over what millennials want continues to rage in Kansas City and elsewhere. City leaders are spending gobs of...
Does Kansas City Need Rail Transit?
After downtown voters rejected a taxing district for the expansion of Kansas City’s streetcar, rail proponents are looking for a...
Vetoes, Vetoes, And More Vetoes
There has been a lot of consternation in the Missouri Legislature about Gov. Jay Nixon’s vetoes and withholds (withholds differ from...
Part One: The Smallness Of The Potentially ‘Hip’ Core
Just the other day, The Daily Beast published an outstanding piece on redevelopment trends in our urban communities. Joel Kotkin, a...
Promote Kindness, Not Taxes
An unpopular item in Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget proposal is the 12.5 percent funding cut to higher education. Considering...
Is Bulldozing a Way to Prosperity?
Demolition in Cleveland. Photo by Mhari Saito for NPR National Public Radio ran a segment today on a Cleveland-area land...
High Heat and Low Taxes
LeBron James recently announced that he will be moving to Miami. This is great news for Miami, but terrible news...
Vacancy, Legitimated
According to the United States Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the city of Saint Louis has an estimated 21.5-percent residential...
Taxes and Sports: The Earnings Tax (Part One in a Series)
This is the first in what will be a series of posts on taxation and professional sports in Missouri written...
Light-Rail Systems Are a False Promise
Rail transit has become such an albatross around the necks of the American cities that have it that it is...
When Schools Compete, They Improve
In case anybody thinks that charter schools and parental choice programs don’t encourage urban districts to improve, here’s an article...
Earnings Taxes and Wal-Mart
Today’s announcement by Wal-Mart got me thinking about this study by the Show-Me Institute. Wal-Mart is opening 9 new stores...
