A Free-Market Guide for Missouri Municipalities, Part Three: Planning and Zoning
This third installment in the free-market municipality series examines the use of planning and zoning in Missouri cities and suggests...
Overland Park Considers Adding Tolled Lanes to Expand Highway
Drivers on U.S. Highway 69 in Overland Park near Kansas City are about to see some market-based transportation policy in...
Missourians May Lose Their Homes Because of State-Supported Loans
As reported by ProPublica’s Jeremy Kohler and Haru Coryne, more than 100 homes with PACE loans in metropolitan Kansas City...
Skepticism Is Warranted on Missouri/Kansas Border War Truce
A lot of people around the country have cheered a recent agreement by the governments of Missouri and Kansas to...
Thank You to the Urban League of Greater Kansas City
I remain grateful to the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, and to its president Gwen Grant, for including my...
Taxes for Thee, But Not for Me (Part 2)
Over two years ago, Show-Me published a piece about how Missouri corporations such as Burns & McDonnell advocate for higher...
Opportunity Zones?
A recent Business Journal story examined Opportunity Zones, a new program created in the 2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act....
KC’s economic development study parroted exactly what the city wanted
The following commentary also appeared in the Kansas City Star. Businessman John Wannamaker famously quipped, “Half the money I spend on...
How Not to Study Economic Development Incentives
Economic development incentives are all the rage. And they aren’t all multi-billion-dollar packages to attract a new Amazon headquarters. Many...
Tourism: When Kansas City Is Not Kansas City
Eyebrows were raised at the claim by Kansas City’s tourism board, VisitKC, that Kansas City has over 25 million visitors...
Regional Interdependence in Missouri
The Saint Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas account for over half of Missouri’s economic output. Accordingly, the state’s economic...
Kansas City’s Economic Divide
On a recent broadcast of KCPT’s Ruckus, former KC Chamber of Commerce head Jim Heeter said [starts at 11:02], Greater...
Show-Me Study Featured in New Book
Tax subsidies for economic development were designed to go to poor areas that actually needed development. But that is not...
Wow: Jackson County Voters Say No To Research Tax By Five-To-One Margin
We had our concerns about Question 1 in Jackson County, a proposal that would have imposed a half-cent sales tax...
It Is Time To Increase Public School Transparency
In the past three years, the Missouri State Auditor has chastised public school districts for irresponsible spending, excessive pay for...
Last Week For TIF Reform
In my personal opinion, the single most important thing the Missouri General Assembly needs to do this year is pass...
The Will of the People, Revisited
Today, I’m going to Jefferson City to testify on bills related to the initiative and referendum powers that the Missouri...
Stokes Massages the Post-Dispatch
The Show-Me Institute’s very own David Stokes was interviewed by David Nicklaus of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for an article...
Choice, Illustrated and Rejected
I spotted an interesting article today in the Post-Dispatch discussing frustrations that many parents are having with a school in...
Should St. Charles Councilmembers Get a Pay Raise?
The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Saint Charles County Council is considering giving itself a pay raise. Now, those...
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