Beware Medicaid Expansion, Even If It Is Billed as Reform
As first appearing in the Columbia Missourian: “Beware the Greeks bearing gifts” is one of the better-known sayings in...
Highway Funding in Missouri: The Fuel Tax Option
As first appearing in the Columbia Missourian: The failure of Amendment 7, the proposed transportation sales tax, in August has...
MoDOT Vastly Overstates Its Need For Funding
Show-Me Institute Policy Researcher Joseph Miller writes in the Columbia Missourian: In the aftermath of the transportation sales tax (Amendment...
Robbing Peter To Pay For Paul’s Pension
As first appearing in the Columbia Missourian on November 18, 2013: Peter and Paul are friends. They went to the...
Gas Taxes And Tolls Are A Better Way To Fund Missouri Transportation
As first run by the Columbia Missourian: Missouri needs to invest more in transportation infrastructure. Our state has long been...
Help Wanted
Looking for work in Columbia? If job promises are to be believed, it may be time to give the overly...
What Is The Matter With Columbia?
The demolition of the Regency Hotel site. Photo by Timmy Huynh of the Columbia Missourian. Since 2005, the City of Columbia...
Props To Sen. Crowell For Speaking Out Against Budget Gimmicks
Today, the Missouri House of Representatives approved a $24 billion state budget. What remains to be seen is whether that...
Teacher Tenure: Why Should Educators Be Different?
On Monday, Missouri Rep. Scott Dieckhaus (R-Dist. 109) proposed a bill (House Bill 1526) to reform the state’s teacher tenure laws. As we...
Post-Dispatch on Aerotropolis: “Those goods don’t actually have to be flown by plane…”
Longtime readers of the Show-Me Institute’s research into the Aerotropolis legislation have known for some time that the bill’s tax...
Of Bikes and Birds
As a former Columbia resident, I’m not surprised that the city is working to build more bike trails. Columbia has...
“Aerotropolis” Roundup
What a long, strange three weeks it’s been. My colleague Audrey Spalding and I dropped nearly everything we were doing...
Article About the Missouri “Fair Tax” in the Columbia Missourian
A few days ago, the Columbia Missourian printed a terrific article about the “Fair Tax” proposal in Missouri written by...
Another Troubling Case in Columbia
The Columbia Missourian ran a story earlier this week about allegations of police abuse at a convenience store last fall:...
Salutary Incentives
A recent article in the Columbia Missourian highlights some of the steps being taken in Missouri to combat childhood obesity....
Thanks to Government Incentives, It May Be Cheaper to Locate a Service Center in Columbia, Mo., than in India
The Columbia Missourian recently published a summary of the $31 million incentive package that the state and local governments are...
Columbia SWAT Officers Cleared
According to the Columbia Missourian, an internal investigation into the SWAT raid of Jonathan Whitworth’s home (which I have also...
Where Do the Home-Schooled Children Play?
Currently, home-schooled students cannot participate in high school athletics, but a bill before the Missouri Senate would allow them to...
Missouri Dental Association Promotes Its Agenda
Two op-eds, attributed to different members of the Missouri Dental Association (MDA), appeared in the Columbia Missourian and the Examiner...
Negative Consequences of Reviewing Tax Credit Applications in the Missouri Legislature
As Ben Wieder reported yesterday in the Columbia Missourian: Senators who would be responsible for reviewing tax credit applications under...
