Election Week: Will Your Vote Count?
It’s Super Tuesday, so I hope that sometime before, after, or while you’re actually reading this (hooray for iPhones) you’ve...
Light Rail Study Didn’t Focus on Crime
The Kansas City Star‘s Prime Buzz blog yesterday had a couple of posts criticizing our recent light rail study‘s use...
More About KIPP Schools
This issue of Forbes examines education reform, and KIPP charter schools make a prominent appearance with an essay by Mike...
Overturning Light Rail a Good Decision for Kansas City
When citizens pass an initiative referendum, judges or elected officials should use the greatest of caution in exercising their...
Great Ideas Abound for Kansas City’s School District
The Kansas City School District is (once again) stumbling down the path (recently blazed by the Saint Louis School District)...
Media Round-Up for Kansas City Light-Rail Release
The Show-Me Institute’s study on light rail proposals for Kansas City certainly received a good deal of attention yesterday. Many...
New Study Analyzes Light-Rail Proposals for Kansas City
Today, the Show-Me Institute released a new policy study, "Review of Kansas City Transit Plans," by Randal O’Toole. The study...
Back From Vacation and Ready to Rip!
There is nothing on earth better than Rocky Mountain skiing in enormous amounts of fresh snow. But now that I...
Not Early to Bed, Not Likely to Rise
The New York Times ran an op-ed in yesterday’s edition describing the negative effects of increasingly earlier start times for...
Old Math, New Math, Singapore Math
Here’s an article about a private school in St. Louis that is using my favorite math curriculum, Singapore Math. For...
Charters for Autistic Children
The panel on autism has released its report. I don’t know enough about current autism support services to say whether...
Make Way for Charters
St. Louis makes an ignominious appearance in an article by Andy Smarick in Education Next: Charter competition has caused one...
A Better Solution for the Quality of Long-Term Care
Yesterday, representatives of the National Senior Citizens Law Center (NCSLC) hosted news conferences in Kansas City, Columbia, and St. Louis...
City Manager on Hot Seat in Kansas City
Did you know that Kansas City is one of the largest cities in the United States that has a city...
Kansas City Counts on Gambling for Parking, Art, Self-Esteem
Gambling revenue is to government what masturbation is to single 20-somethings — just a reliable thing to fall back on...
Incentives, Recycling, and Trash
The Kansas City area is addressing the way it handles waste, just as St. Louis County has been doing. Here...
New Bridge to Madison County
Well, we have a new winner in the "Most obvious reference for a blog post title, ever" contest. Even if...
Education Reform in the Private Sector
Faithful readers of this blog might be under the impression that St. Louis is always missing the boat on education...
Justin Channels Stalin
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." — Joseph Stalin, aka Koba the Dread "No,...
Crime Stats Are Facts, Not Opinions
My colleague Justin seems to be attempting, in his prior post, to refute hard numbers with personal experiences, which is...
