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...
“Sometimes Common Sense Does Prevail”
Those words were spoken by Missouri Governor Mike Parson about the agreement struck with Kansas to end some aspects of...
Plugging the Port Hole
A recent column by Dave Helling in The Kansas City Star called for Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas to challenge...
The Entirely Predictable Failure of Sports Teams Subsidies
The River City Rascals are taking their ball and going home. This was not entirely surprising as the team was...
Patrick Tuohey on KCPT’s Ruckus
On Thursday, August 8, Patrick Tuohey joined the Ruckus panel to discuss the Jackson County property tax assessment controversy, the...
Patrick Tuohey on KCPT’s Ruckus
On Thursday, July 18, Show-Me Institute Director of Municipal Policy Patrick Tuohey appeared on KCPT’s Ruckus to discuss taxpayer subsidies...
Charter Schools Offer Flexibility
In partnership with the Department of Conservation, the Columbia school district is developing a 10-day program where fifth graders from...
Rural Families Don’t Have to Accept “One Size Fits All” When it Comes to Education
Anyone who grew up away from big cities knows that limited options are a fact of life, whether it’s restaurants,...
Will There Be a Cease-fire in Kansas City’s Economic “Border War”?
That’s the billion-dollar question that legislators on both sides of State Line Road are asking themselves. Show-Me Institute researchers have...
Missouri’s Biggest Cities Spend $100 Million Annually Just to Give Away Money!
An excellent story in the St. Louis Business Journal points out that according to a recent study by the Milken...
Time to Take out the Trash
On the heels of a report finding that St. Louis has some of the poorest-quality city services in America, residents...
Millennials *Still* Prefer the Kansas City Suburbs
For years, census data demonstrated that people are eschewing urban settings for the suburbs. Then, for a while, some urbanist...
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...
Legislative Update: TIF Reform
Researchers and activists across Missouri have long decried the way in which city governments too easily give away taxpayer money....
Patrick Tuohey Appears on KCPT’s Ruckus
On Thursday, March 22, the Show-Me Institute’s Patrick Tuohey appeared on KCPT’s Ruckus to discuss school funding in Kansas and other important...
What I Saw at the TIF Hearing
Anyone who has been paying attention to the Show-Me Institute over the past few years knows that our analysts are...
A $200,000 Retirement Benefit and a $250,000 Salary? Deal!
Ah retirement . . . that glorious time at 57 years of age when you can begin drawing roughly $200,000...
Crosby Kemper III Appears on KCPT’s Ruckus
The Show-Me Institute’s Chairman Crosby Kemper III appeared on KCPT’s Ruckus on February 1 to recap the events of the week including Mike...
2018 Blueprint: Right to Work
THE PROBLEM: Until recently, many workers in Missouri could be forced to join unions. That was unfair not only to...
2018 Blueprint: Certificate of Need
THE PROBLEM: Missouri’s Certificate of Need (CON) law restricts health care competition by requiring many health care providers to get...
