All Hail The Taxi App
The Saint Louis Taxicab Commission recently approved its first multi-company taxi-hailing app, allowing customers to book cabs from the airport. While...
KWMU: Stokes Talks About The Benefits Of Privatization
Show Me’s David Stokes talks about the value of privatization on St. Louis’s public radio station. Listen to the conversation.
The Tax Subsidy That Wasn’t
In the 1990s, private developers partnered with members of the Olivette City Council to endorse the implementation of a $38...
Ishmael on KWMU: Raising the Minimum Wage
Show Me Institute Policy Analyst Patrick Ishmael joins host Don Marsh of KWMU and and Jack Strauss, Director of the...
Stokes on KWMU – Veolia Contract Would Benefit City
Innovation comes from the private sector. You don’t have to be a radical capitalist to agree with that simple truth....
Stokes on KWMU – TIF Hurts Communities
Shrewsbury is the latest city within Saint Louis County to consider Tax Increment Financing (known as TIFs) to subsidize a...
Props To Sen. Crowell For Speaking Out Against Budget Gimmicks
Today, the Missouri House of Representatives approved a $24 billion state budget. What remains to be seen is whether that...
“Aerotropolis” Roundup
What a long, strange three weeks it’s been. My colleague Audrey Spalding and I dropped nearly everything we were doing...
Tough Choices Coming
That was the message Tuesday from Brian Riedl on KWMU’s radio program “St. Louis On The Air.” Riedl, the Heritage...
The Earnings Tax Debate: Argle-Bargle or Foofaraw?
Show-Me Institute scholars and analysts have been activily involved in debates about the earnings taxes in St. Louis and Kansas...
Audrey Spalding on ‘St. Louis on the Air’ Thursday at 11:00 a.m.
Audrey Spalding will be on KWMU, 90.7 FM, tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. to discuss the city of Saint Louis’ landholding...
Dave on Don Marsh This Morning
If you happen to be in the St. Louis area and near a radio (or at a computer pretty much...
Tax Incentives Are a Game We Can’t Win
Today, Show-Me Institute Research Analyst Christine Harbin appeared on the Sarah Steelman Hour radio show in Springfield, talking about tax...
“You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.”
St. Louis Public Radio posted a piece yesterday about $54 million in stimulus funds that Missouri has received to spend...
A Bad Day to Be an Ameren Customer
Well, it’s been coming for months, but KWMU reports that Ameren has officially begun hearings in front of the Public...
The Economic Impact of Smoking Bans
One of our scholars, Michael Pakko, has a piece looking at the economic effects of smoking bans in this month’s...
New Bridge to Madison County
Well, we have a new winner in the "Most obvious reference for a blog post title, ever" contest. Even if...
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