St. Louis County Should Find Budget Cuts Before Hiking Taxes
The economic damage caused by COVID-19 has been catastrophic, and families everywhere are scrambling to tighten their belts and make...
It’s Time to Fund Everything for Every Student
One fascinating result of the COVID-19 school shutdown is that parents have taken their children’s education into their own hands....
Update: St. Louis May Not Honor Earnings Tax Refund Requests
As recently as last month, it appeared that those working from home outside the city limits of St. Louis and...
St. Louis Lawmakers Should Stay Out of Business Decisions
A St. Louis Alderman has submitted a board bill that contains a number of measures relating to food delivery services....
Transparency Needed for Coronavirus Stimulus Spending
St Louis County expects to receive $173.5 million from the federal government in the coming weeks to handle expenses related...
The Absolute Worst Time to Ask for a Stadium Incentive Package
In a sea of coverage about health care and social-distancing measures, there is a big outlier in St. Louis news...
The Appalling Lede Buried in Prison Guard Labor “Dispute” Story
For the past few months, a fascinating labor dispute has been developing down in Jefferson City. Starting in December, the...
Government Sues Government over Government’s Common-Sense Decision
Truth is stranger than fiction. The Post-Dispatch recently reported that the City of Maryland Heights is suing the St. Louis...
The MLS Deal Keeps Getting Better for Taxpayers
Recent news that the owners of a new Major League Soccer franchise in St. Louis will not be getting $40...
A Win for Economic Development Sanity
There isn’t enough good news about economic development policy in Missouri. But a recent vote in Maryland Heights, just outside...
Clunk, Clunk, Clunk Goes the Trolley
After 13 months of operation, the Loop Trolley will be shutting down on December 29 due to a lack of...
St. Louis Officials Recommend “Blight Designation” for . . . A Gated Parking Lot
When is blight not really blight? Apparently, when tax incentives are involved. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the St....
Aquarium Project Repeats Familiar Mistakes
Local media in St. Louis is abuzz over the imminent completion of the Union Station renovation project. The St. Louis...
It Might Take Stan Kroenke to Reform Missouri’s Special Taxing Districts
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a great piece by Jacob Barker on an effort by the city of Wentzville to...
St. Louis Blight Authority: Philanthropy Might Provide What Markets Cannot
St. Louis has many serious problems. One is the city’s downwardly spiraling population, which has been in decline for decades....
Better Is a Relative Term
Rumor has it that later this month Major League Soccer (MLS) will announce the next cities to be blessed with...
Trolley Folly
Show-Me Institute analysts have been a bit of a broken record on the Loop Trolley. But that’s because the project...
Why Are Other Organizations Doing DESE’s Job?
“Kind of crazy.” That’s how the director of school improvement for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)...
Film Tax Credits Still a Bad Idea
It is appropriate that in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch story on an effort to reinstate film tax credits, the newspaper...
Who’s Afraid of Charter Schools?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board wrote a fearmongering editorial about charter schools becoming a potential option for suburban parents....
