A Free-Market Guide to Zoning with David Stokes
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Show-Me Institute Director of Municipal Policy David Stokes about his new paper in the Free-Market Guide...
Municipalities Should Not Be Commercial Landlords (I’m Looking at You, Chesterfield)
Chesterfield, which is poised to be the largest city in St. Louis County, is attempting to get into the commercial...
Good News for Men’s Hair in the City of St. Louis
You are not alone if you are unaware that there was a law on the books in the City of...
High Hopes for a New Committee at the St. Louis Board of Aldermen
On Wednesday, October 9, a new committee of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen is holding its first hearing. The...
Taxpayers Getting Burned
As I have discussed many times before, some of the worst public policy ideas in Missouri have come from the...
Broken Approval Process Slows Development
Several disjointed developments in the Cortex and Grove areas of St. Louis nicely encapsulate the confusing involvement of elected officials,...
911 System Cost Savings Are No Joke
Emergency 911 call centers represent one of the clearest opportunities in Missouri to combine regional services. It is a vital...
Companies Pushing Back Against Government Overreach
Three food delivery companies are suing New York City over its cap on commissions the companies can charge restaurants to...
We’re Already Seeing the Effects of Delivery Fee Regulation
Months ago, I wrote about the new St. Louis City cap on delivery fees that food delivery services can charge...
What’s Wrong with St. Louis Economic Development Incentives? Everything
Growing a business is difficult. Business owners who have successfully overcome all the usual obstacles have my respect. Policymakers can...
Time to Take out the Trash
On the heels of a report finding that St. Louis has some of the poorest-quality city services in America, residents...
When Bad Policy Won’t Stay Dead
We’re far from Halloween, but some really scary things are already rising from the dead—in particular, the effort to subsidize...
When Scoring a 60% gets you $16 Million
Bill DeWitt III, President of the St. Louis Cardinals, let the city know he was “ticked off” when he heard...
The North Side’s Unlearned Lesson
Many Saint Louis residents are familiar with the empty promise of the NorthSide redevelopment project and how it hasn’t achieved...
Rams Move Exposes Broken Policymaking Process in Saint Louis
Think back to December, 2014, not long after the tragic events in Ferguson. Everyone had an opinion about what was...
What I Saw at the Stadium Hearing
On Saturday, the Saint Louis Board of Aldermen’s Ways and Means Committee held a public comment session on the Near...
Taxpayers Shouldn’t Have to Subsidize Parking in Upscale Central West End Redevelopment
Last week the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Commission voted to approve Koman Group’s $4.5 million TIF proposal for 32 N....
Saint Louis City Board of Aldermen Passes Saint Louis County Employment Act of 2015
The Saint Louis Board of Aldermen met yesterday to discuss a modified proposal that would have raised the city’s minimum...
The Idea That Would Not Die
Last month I talked with a restaurant owner who told me that a sizeable increase in Saint Louis’ minimum wage...
Something to Ponder While Debating the Minimum Wage
The latest news regarding the minimum wage debate in Saint Louis makes me feel like Michael Corleone in The Godfather...
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