No Teachers Yet for the Virtual School
Missouri’s virtual school tries to get its act together (thanks, Combest!): The new program, which will take children out of...
Virtual Schools are the Wave of the Future!
On KSDK’s website, an article discusses North Carolina’s dive into online education for students. So far, students and teachers are...
Incentives at Work (in School)
There’s an article in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Digest about the relationship between merit pay for teachers...
Immigration Law and Its Costs for Businesses
Link via Combest, Claire McCaskill writes about illegal immigration in the Kansas City Star. She mentions the raid of a...
End the Insanity!
Today, the Cole County Circuit Court will decide if the St. Louis School Board deserves a restraining order against the...
Recognition by the Columbia Tribune!
Strolling through John Combest’s page, I found a blog on the Columbia Tribune‘s website that acknowledges the work of the...
Centralized Economic Policy Bad for Missouri
The 2007 economic development bill, HB 327, would enact a wide variety of tax credits and other subsidies. Although widely...
Read It to Me!
A letter in the Springfield News-Leader criticizes a recent editorial. The editorial argued against the proposed English-only amendment, stating that...
Trafficking in Good Ideas
Paul Jacob has been writing and recording his Common Sense radio commentaries for years, first for U.S. Term Limits, then...
No Pork for Claire
In today’s The Hill, an article points to the excesses of pork barrel spending by Democrats and Republicans in the...
The Cycle of Regulation Never Ends…
Those of us here at the Show-Me Institute have strongly supported the midwife legislation passed by the legislature. The various...
Taxing for Better Roads!
In today’s Columbia Missourian, an article discusses the problems that the Missouri Legislature is having in finding an appropriate amount...
When Government is Unaccountable
In today’s SE Missourian, an article discusses the sorry financial state that Puxico, MO, is in. The state auditor found...
Reliability Engineering for Property Rights
On May 24, the Springfield News-Leader published an editorial about eminent domain, highlighting the fact that Ozark, a town outlying...
A Bad Idea for Missouri HealthNet
Here’s a bad idea that didn’t make it into the Missouri HealthNet bill — a "rewards debit card": The idea...
Immigrants Want to Learn English
KOMU reports on kids who are trying to learn English in Columbia, Missouri: "He spends an hour a day in...
I’m Thinking of a State …
An op-ed in the Lake Sun Leader imagines a better Missouri: Imagine businesses operating as responsible partners in making Missouri...
We Have a Nominee for Worst Proposal of 2007…
O’Fallon, MO, is seeking to annex the Busch Wildlife Area. This would put one of the state’s parkland and wildlife...
Missouri … The State That Takes Your Property!
In today’s St. Louis Business Journal, an article points out that Missouri is failing in pursuing comprehensive eminent domain reform....
Health Care Ownership Index
Over at Statehousecall.org, John Graham links to his new index ranking states on "health care ownership." Missouri comes in 32nd....
