Efficiencies of Scale in Local Government
There is a very interesting post in The American Scene today about a proposal in New Jersey to mandate the...
For Wall Street Journal, Lightning Strikes Twice
There are two editorials in today’s Wall Street Journal that discuss and highlight the proper solutions (read: abolish needless government...
An Early Understanding of Economic Incentives
A precocious high school student criticizes the accuracy of Missouri MAP test score results in today’s Springfield News-Leader, arguing that...
This Makes the Autobahn REALLY Expensive
To piggyback on Patrick’s earlier post, I stumbled across this interesting chart from the Wall Street Journal last night. We...
Choice, Illustrated and Rejected
I spotted an interesting article today in the Post-Dispatch discussing frustrations that many parents are having with a school in...
Swing … and a Miss
Let me preface this post by saying that I appreciate the attention that Henry Waters, publisher of the Columbia Daily...
Six Feet Under and 40 New Laws
Missourinet covers the continuing drama of the pre-need funeral scandals (seriously, what a bizarre thing for a scandal). It seems...
A Memorial for Civil Society
Every Memorial Day that I can recall while I grew up in Portland, Ore., we went to visit my mom’s...
Scrap Metal Law Shines
It’s certainly a rarity that market-regulating legislation uniformly helps economic growth. New standards facing Missouri scrap metal trading, however, have...
Fun With Numbers (and Economic Incentives)! Hooray!
There are all kinds of fun number-crunching stories to talk about today. But I’ll concentrate on just one. Chicago currently...
Show-Me Institute Releases Judicial Selection Study
The Show-Me Institute has released our contribution to the ongoing debate about the "Missouri Plan" and judicial selection in Missouri....
Missouri Higher Education Loan ATTACK
A disjointed editorial about MOHELA, Missouri’s pseudo-public student loan lender, appears in the Lake Sun Leader today. The author argues...
Your Property Is Your Kingdom ? Literally
I am going to defer to his boss on the question posed in the title of Dave’s post on the...
Look What Eminent Domain Has Done to Our Mindset …
It was not long ago that when business owners heard about new development in their area, they greeted it with...
Show-Me: The News
KOMU Channel 8 News, the NBC-affiliate in central Missouri, ran a news story on Friday covering the Show-Me Institute’s newest...
Village Law Is Repealed, and Blocks Lots of Other Stupid Ideas on Its Way Out
This could not have worked out better, frankly. The harmful "Village Law" that was passed last year was properly repealed...
Road Money Drying Up, Whatsoever Shall We Do?
MoDOT is predicting that road projects in Missouri, except for the New I-64/40, will be delayed because (according to the...
Popular Textbook Pricing Bill’s Faults Revisited
The proposed Textbook Transparency Act hopes to reduce seemingly exorbitant prices to students by mandating that publishers and bookstores provide...
Women in the Missouri Legislature
This article addresses the issue of women and discrimination in the General Assembly. It sounds like some women legislators have...
Missouri House Approves Property Tax Bill
Well, this is news that is sure to make David Stokes happy. Of course, there was a nice little useless...
