Forget Ballpark Village, This Is What St. Louis Really Needs
Today’s Post-Dispatch has a front-page article on Mayor Slay’s newly announced plan to seek a major expansion of the network...
Interesting Story in Post About Outsourcing Mental Health Care
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a very interesting story (link via Combest) on the state’s plan to send the casework...
Empowering Parents to Seek Out Adequate Education
As was widely expected, last week a circuit court judge denied several school districts’ claims of constitutional entitlement to...
Missouri School Districts Gamble … and Lose
On October 17, Judge Richard G. Callahan rendered a decision in the case brought by many of Missouri’s school districts...
For Each Their Own in Cape Girardeau County
It seems that an attempt by local governments in Southeast Missouri to work together and share revenues from overlapping developments...
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...
Education Tall Tales
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article this morning detailing a study by the Washington-based Center on Education Policy, which...
Missouri Teachers Voice Support for School Choice
When the Missouri General Assembly reconvenes in January, true education reform should be at the top of its agenda. Missourians,...
How Do You Spell Relief? C-H-O-I-C-E
The Post-Dispatch has a great article this morning about the success of “Big Picture” schools in educating students who had...
Truancy in Reverse
An article in this morning’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch details the rising trend in “educational larceny” — the term used for...
Czar Anthony the Great?
When the Legislature passed HB 1944 last year (modifying existing laws related to eminent domain use), it included a provision...
A 50 Basis Point Cut? Try 50,000 …
Yesterday, Attorney General Jay Nixon and several legislators called for reform to Missouri’s payday loan industry, arguing that it engages...
Clay County’s Noble Experiment May Come to Judicial End
It seems that Clay County — the only county in Missouri, I think, that forgoes use of the property tax...
The Missouri Plan, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lawyers
Missourians amended our state constitution in 1940 to change the ways judges were selected for the Supreme Court, the Court...
Transportation Development Districts Good, Could Be Better, Says Auditor
Transportation Development Districts are in the Post-Dispatch again, with another, longer, report on the recent audit of TDDs, by the...
Missourians Should Be Allowed to Use Midwives
Ever since HB 818, the groundbreaking consumer-based health insurance reform bill, passed both houses of the Legislature by wide bipartisan...
Tax Incentives, Bridges, and Jeff City in August
Governor Blunt has just set a date for a special session of the state legislature. It starts on August 20...
You Can Tax My Cell Phone When You Pry It From My Cold, Dead Landline …
Actually, I really don’t mind the idea of a tax to improve 911 service throughout Missouri, but I do mind...
Surpluses + Legislature = A Bad Mix
According to Gov. Blunt’s budget office, the state of Missouri now has an extra $320 million in the state treasury,...
Veto, Don’t Fail Me Now
There were plenty of good reasons for Gov. Blunt to veto HB 327, as he did on Friday. As Show-Me...
