A Blueprint for Missouri in 2025
Download the full 2025 Blueprint here In this episode, Susan Pendergrass, James Shuls, Elias Tsapelas, Aaron Hedlund, David Stokes, Patrick...
Absurd Light Rail Project Marches Onward
Metro is hosting a series of public meetings on its proposed new light rail line in St. Louis. Now called...
Kansas City and St. Louis Road Quality
Our roads are crucial for commerce, safety, and daily life. Yet the state’s extensive road network presents challenges that have...
Where Did the Report Cards Go?
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is an agency in the executive branch that carries out the...
Public Schools without Boundaries with Jude Schwalbach
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Jude Schwalbach, policy analyst at the Reason Foundation, about his report Public Schools Without Boundaries: 2024....
Will the New Commissioner of Education Bring More Accountability to Missouri School Districts?
I guess we have our answer. On November 25, 2024, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) released...
What to Make of Big Tech’s Pivot to Nuclear
The American nuclear industry is making headlines seemingly every week, with developments in construction, innovation, legislation, and regulation. Recently, there...
Does St. Louis Need a City Manager?
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Business Journal. Back in 2022, in response to the seemingly...
Make Missouri Education Great
President-Elect Trump has repeatedly stated his desire to close the U.S. Department of Education and return education back to the...
Homeschooling Trends in Missouri with Collin Hitt
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Dr. Collin Hitt, Executive Director of the SLU PRiME Center and co-author of the paper “Taking...
Missouri’s (Hopefully Successful) DMV Makeover
When I hear the term driver’s license, I either think of Olivia Rodrigo’s breakout song or the prospect of waiting...
Let’s Grow Missouri, Literally
We often talk about growing Missouri in abstract ways. We want to grow the economy, grow the tax base, grow...
Missouri’s Mean Streets
Traffic fatalities in both Kansas City and St. Louis have seen significant increases, drawing concern from local leaders and community...
A Fork in the Road in Kirkwood
On November 5, Kirkwood residents will vote on Proposition T, which, if passed, will create a citywide transportation development district...
What’s So Great about Performance Districts?
The state of Missouri provides almost half of the funding for public education (the rest comes from the federal government...
The Scholarship That Wasn’t
In addition to the nearly $3 billion in federal relief funding that Missouri received to try to right the public...
Missouri Nearly Fails Cato’s Test
Missouri’s government spending is out of control, and a new report from the Cato Institute, a free-market think in Washington,...
Choice and Competition Lead to Better Outcomes
The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) recently released a report confirming what free-market advocates like Milton Friedman and many of us...
10 Ideas to Get Missouri’s Budget Back on Track
On October 22, the Show-Me Institute released the following recommendations for bringing Missouri government spending under control. Download the...
Shocker! Local Leader Demands More Money to Address Issue
I attended a screening of the KCPBS documentary “A Tale of Three Cities” on Tuesday hosted by the Kansas City...
