Who is Buying What?
An editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today discusses the findings of one person who is rummaging through the purchases...
It’s Time To Upgrade Our Teachers
An article in today’s Southeast Missourian talks about a report that ranks Missouri teacher preparation at the bottom in the...
I’ll Miss Rep. Bearden
It was announced yesterday that Rep. Carl Bearden is resigning from the Missouri House. As a person who wants to...
More Flexible Certification Could Help Ease Teacher Shortages
When schools hire teachers for a new school year, they generally find that some subjects are harder to staff than...
Taxing Pensions is Double Taxation
Here at the Show-Me Institute, we do have disagreements on policy, and I have one with David Stokes. In his...
Check Out How Missouri Spends
You can finally know how the state spends your money! Yesterday, Missouri launched the Missouri Accountability Portal, where any person...
Shame on You, McCaskill
Thanks to some digging by David Stokes here in the office, we’ve found a blog entry at The Riverfront Times...
I’ll Say It: Pensions Should be Taxed
I disagree with our uber-blogging intern Maurice Harris’s statement that the State of Missouri should go further to reducing the...
I Rise in Defense of the Congressman …
Channel Five did an investigative report last night on the assessed valuation of Congressman Todd Akin’s property in West St....
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,...
Justice for Seniors
In a Daily Dunklin Democrat article (via Combest), seniors cheer the Senior Tax Justice Act, recently signed into law by...
Waiting for Their Handout
David Nicklaus reports in the St. Louis Post Dispatch the angst that some companies have about setting up shop in...
Sen. Matt Bartle – A Legislator With Common Sense
In the Springfield News-Leader today, Sen. Matt Bartle discusses in an op-ed piece the veto of HB 327 (aka The...
The U.S Postal Service is Privatizing
An article in the Kansas City Star today discusses the move by the U.S Postal Service to privatize some of...
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...
Blunt Vetoes Quality Jobs Act
On KY3’s Political Notebook blog, a post discusses Gov. Matt Blunt vetoing the Quality Jobs Act. The main reason for...
English MacGuffins
In an op-ed released yesterday (also reprinted by the Missouri Political News Service and quoted by the Post-Dispatch‘s Political Fix...
Reform is On Its Way!
In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today, an article discusses MO HealthNet, which Gov. Matt Blunt signed into law yesterday. The...
Missouri Doesn’t Need an English-Language Amendment
Although official state business is not always understandable to ordinary Missourians, the reason probably has more to do with bureaucratic...
A New Way of Driving
Lily Tomlin once said, "The road to success is always under construction." The same can be said for Missouri’s roads...
