For More Affordable Housing We Need More Housing, Period
St. Louis, at least relative to other cities, is not facing a housing affordability crisis. In fact, a 2024 study...
Pittsburgh, Poster Child for Sloppy Housing Policy
In the weeks and months ahead, researchers at the Show-Me Institute will be taking a closer look at housing policies...
Report: Saint Louis, Kansas City *Not* Among Most Cost-Friendly Cities for Business
Recently, the Post-Dispatch prominently published an article claiming that, “St. Louis is among the top 10 most cost-friendly cities to...
On The Airline Industry, Don’t Trust The Airlines, Just Listen To A Consultant
The Kansas City Star recently published an article airing the views of a consultant group, Frasca & Associates. Frasca attacked the...
Missouri Urban Assessments Need Greater Consistency
Some of the land in the heart of the city of Saint Louis’ fashionable Central West End is worthless. Don’t...
Kudos, Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato
When politicians are doing the right thing, it’s appropriate for us to congratulate them and highlight their good decisions. This...
St. Louis and Pittsburgh, Lead and We Shall Follow
I came across this St. Louis Business-Journal blog post from a week ago arguing that St. Louis should follow the...
KC Pitch Blurb About St. Louis Offers Insights to Government Structure
Today’s Kansas City Pitch has a short story on a new Brookings Institution study that places modern American cities into...
Taxes and Sports: The Earnings Tax (Part One in a Series)
This is the first in what will be a series of posts on taxation and professional sports in Missouri written...
Should Nonprofits Pay Property Taxes?
The Post-Dispatch had an excellent article Monday about the city’s issues with such a sizable proportion of land in St....
Ensuring Unemployment
The state of Missouri has extended unemployment benefits for up to 20 weeks. This is undoubtedly a temporary boon to...
History Repeats Itself
By way of Edspresso, I see that Pittsburgh is dealing with the same issue that St. Louis did not long...
All-Star Earnings Taxes
Sunday’s Post-Dispatch had a good article about a planned attempt by the St. Louis city collector’s office to apply the...
Post-Dispatch Discusses Privatization of Police
There was an excellent article in Sunday’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the heavy use of, and recent controversies over, taxpayer-funded...
Beer Bloggles
There is nothing I would rather do more than blog about beer — except maybe drink beer while blogging about...
The Village People Play Missouri
Whatever the question is for Missouri, more government entities are not going to be the answer. The Springfield News-Leader has...
How to Spur Budding Industries
I have to disagree a bit with Steve’s assertion that doling out state money will “drive Missouri’s budding biotech industry.”...
Earnings Taxes and Wal-Mart
Today’s announcement by Wal-Mart got me thinking about this study by the Show-Me Institute. Wal-Mart is opening 9 new stores...
