KIPP: Putting Kids On A New Trajectory
Last week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a great piece about the first graduating class from KIPP Inspire Academy, a charter...
Love Is Hate, War Is Peace, General Tax Cuts Are Corporate Welfare
It seems the St. Louis Post-Dispatch thinks business tax cuts amount to corporate welfare. That is NOT corporate welfare. Corporate...
Standards-Based Reform Lacks Evidence
This past weekend, I was featured prominently in a story by Elisa Crouch of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the...
No Need To Throw Taxpayer Money Down The Well
Last year, at the height of the drought in Missouri, I wrote about Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s Executive Order authorizing...
Didn’t We Do This Already?
Despite my young age, I will admit that I have a pretty bad memory. That is why I am meticulous...
As Reported In The Wall Street Journal: American Federation of Teachers Attacks Show-Me
It seems James Shuls’ ongoing efforts to make our children’s education better and Andrew Biggs’ report on Missouri’s public pension...
Nota Bene: Historic Preservation Tax Credit ‘Consultant’ Supports Historic Preservation Tax Credit
Today, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a commentary by Stephen Acree, president and CEO of the Regional Housing and Community...
Should The Government Force Longevity?
St. Louis Post-Dispatch Columnist Bill McClellan takes a hard line against an overprotective government in his piece, “Government should let...
Part Three: The Smallness Of The Potentially ‘Hip’ Core
Last week, Kevin McDermott of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch‘s Political Fix blog wrote briefly about the “hip development” debate we...
Unfunded Pension Liabilities And Car Analogies
At one point or another, we are all guilty of it . . . making bad analogies. This time, the...
Valuing Public Employee Pension Liabilities: Nothing ‘Fair’ About It
The Show-Me Institute recently released a study that I authored about Missouri public employee pensions. The study argued that pensions...
Light Rail Does Not Replace Cars
A new study about the effect of light rail on traffic was just conducted in England. According to an article...
It Just Ain’t So
Mark Twain once said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for...
Can A School Transform A Community? (Part 2)
Last week, I wrote about KIPP Inspire Academy (KIA) and asked, can a school transform a community? This week, the St. Louis...
More Handouts For McKee?
What we need is the death of state tax credits; but tonight, developer Paul McKee will fight to keep the...
Taxes Do Harm Growth
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in its Sat., Feb. 2, 2013, editorial, attacked Rex Sinquefield, the Show-Me Institute, legislators, and anyone...
Could The Tax Credit Bar For A ‘Solid Investment’ Be Any Lower?
Former Missouri Sen. Jeff Smith wrote in an op/ed published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week that the “conventional...
Part 2: It Is Time To Close The Book On Aerotropolis
Last week, I noted that Aerotropolis is back in the legislative conversation as supporters try (again) to direct state subsidies to...
Memo To The Post-Dispatch: Taxes Kill Growth
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an editorial this weekend that attacked the Show-Me Institute and one of its founders, Rex Sinquefield,...
Part 1: It Is Time To Close The Book On Aerotropolis
Last year, Saint Louis County officials decided to revive the moribund Aerotropolis project, a part-cargo, part-real estate tax credit boondoggle...
