In the City, City of Compton … I mean, StL
Amidst St. Louis’ celebration of the Cardinals’ World Series victory last year, an independent report compiled by CQ Press ranked...
I Call Shotgun!
I spotted Kevin Horrigan‘s fantastic article on Amtrak subsidies last week when it was published in the Post-Dispatch, but somehow...
Design-Build Comes to Kansas City
Later today, MoDOT is going to announce the team to rebuild/replace the historic Paseo Bridge in Kansas City. MoDOT will...
Progress We Can All Support
The Show Me Progress blog had an excellent post yesterday about Arnold dentist Homer Tourkakis and his ongoing fight to...
Too Bad This Is No Longer Current
I’ve been searching for more good blogs and other websites about public policy outside of St. Louis, and today I...
Forget Light Rail, This Is What Kansas City Really Needs
Actually, this post is indeed about light rail, I just liked the connection to the prior post. Damn, this is...
Big School Vote in Kansas City! Will It Come to St. Louis Next?
Voters in the section of the Kansas City school district that lies in the suburbs of Independence and Sugar Creek...
Comments on Comments in KC Prime Buzz
The Kansas City Star’s Prime Buzz online column (link via Combest), which — thank goodness — is free to access...
Quibbles and Bits
In addition to David Stokes’ criticisms of the otherwise excellent West End Word piece about Rex Sinquefield and the Show-Me...
Corrections to West End Word Article on Rex and SMI
Tim Woodcock of the West End Word (link via Missouri Political News Service) wrote a very thorough and detailed article...
Innovative Charter Schools
I’ve discussed how more charter schools could help bring down the dropout rate in St. Louis. Now I see by...
School Choice in Kansas City, the Old-Fashioned Way
There is an extremely interesting move afoot in Kansas City, by residents of the far-eastern part of the city, to...
Sinking Ship
The Kansas City School District is attempting to prevent (through the court system) a November 6 ballot initiative which would...
A Cutting-Edge Charter School, in Kansas City
An article in the New York Times describes private preschools that offer language immersion programs for kids: Ms. Kinsale says...
The Village People Play Missouri
Whatever the question is for Missouri, more government entities are not going to be the answer. The Springfield News-Leader has...
Clayton-Richmond Heights Merger Talks Dead
Clayton and Richmond Heights (two St. Louis County municipalities, for those of you who read us from Kansas City or...
Hannah Montana Tests New Scalping Laws: Some Parents Intimidated by Their 9-Year Olds
Both the Kansas City Star and KSDK – Channel Five in St. Louis are reporting on the difficulty of getting...
Saint George: Symptom of a Larger Problem? Or Is It a Smaller Problem?
Traffic ticket hotspot St. George, Missouri, is still on people’s minds after that ugly incident with the police officer last...
In Praise of MoDOT
I stand here today to praise MoDOT. These are words you do not often hear in Missouri, where attitudes toward...
Reading, Writing, and… Labor Studies
John Combest links to an article about the University of Missouri at Kansas City. UMKC is getting rid of its...
