The Testing Bogeyman Is Alive and Well in Missouri
A version of the following commentary appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune. If we believe it’s essential for schools to teach...
Banning Books? Everyone Is a Censor
A version of this commentary appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune. How do you feel about book-banning? This question was recently...
What Does Missouri’s Teacher Shortage Really Look Like
A version of this commentary was published in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Over the past few years, Missourians have gotten...
Flood of Federal Money Is Not a Free Pass for a Spending Binge
A version of this commentary appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Jefferson City is awash in taxpayer cash. Missouri’s state...
Wait, the Columbia Public School District Said What about Teaching the 1619 Project?
The 1619 Project will be taught in the Columbia Public School District (CPS) and the instruction is supported by a...
Columbia Public School District Bringing the 1619 Project to Classrooms
This week at a meeting of its school board, the Columbia Public School District officially accepted a grant from the...
Here’s A Crazy Idea: Tax Yourself.
Versions of this commentary were published in the Springfield News-Leader and the Columbia Tribune. Longtime United States Senator and Chairman...
The latest on a Gas Tax Increase and are Tourists “Free Riders”?
On May 13, David Stokes joined The Gary Nolan Show to discuss a gas tax increase that is headed to...
Will Boonville Repeat the Mistakes of St. Louis and Kansas City?
A version of this commentary was published in the Columbia Tribune. Tax-increment financing (TIF) is Missouri’s bad idea that refuses...
Local Gas Taxes Are the Secret Garden of City Road Funding Options
A version of this commentary appeared in the Columbia Tribune. When troubled or sickly aristocratic English youth needed a place to...
Five New Year’s Resolutions for Missouri Lawmakers
A version of this commentary appeared in the Columbia Tribune. Missouri is considered one of the most “conservative” of the 50...
Commentary: Funding Roads by the Mile, Not the Gallon
A version of this first appeared in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Missouri’s road maintenance funding is on a road to...
Debunking the Myth of a Costless Medicaid Expansion
As published in the Columbia Tribune On August 4, Missouri voters will decide whether the state should become the 38th...
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That Crazy CID Vote in Columbia Goes Back to Court
Back in 2015, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported that a proposed Community Improvement District (CID) in Columbia was drawn to...
Don’t Count Health Care Chickens Before They’ve Hatched
I raise chickens. No, I don’t own a farm, but for the four hens that live in my backyard, it...
MOSERS Wisely Reconsiders Past Assumptions
In elementary school I learned about the power of compounding from a book titled One Grain of Rice. The story...
Mizzou’s Loss Is Other Schools’ Gain
2,373 students. That is the difference between last fall’s and this fall’s enrollment at Mizzou. It is worse than what...
IRS Obamacare Ruling Buffets Some Missouri Graduate Students
College towns are typically bastions of liberalism, and Missouri’s uber-college town of Columbia is no exception. Columbia Tribune reporter Rudi Keller even...
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...
Will HB 42 Hurt Alternative High Schools?
The Columbia Tribune reported that Columbia Public Schools Superintendent Peter Stiepleman and other superintendents across the state are telling Gov....
