Holy Smokes! Andy Puzder, a Free-Market Advocate, to Run the Labor Department?
One of the first tenets of free-market thinking is that nobody owes anybody else a job – much less a...
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Video: Kansas City: Genuinely World Class
The climate is so-so, there’s no nearby ocean or mountain range, and the metro area population has climbed only modestly...
2017 Blueprint: Moving Missouri Forward
The 2017 Blueprint: Moving Missouri Forward presents 15 policy ideas covering a broad ranges of issues – from education to healthcare, from...
Parking Fees Alone Cannot Fund MetroLink Expansion
Saint Louis City Mayor Francis Slay wants to spend $2.2 billion on a new north–south MetroLink line, originally reported at...
Subsidies in St. Louis, Part 4: Accountability and Clawbacks
Supporters and opponents of tax subsidies disagree over one key question: Do the jobs and economic activity generated by a...
Kansas City and “Fraudulent” Crony Capitalism
President-elect Trump has talked a great deal about the need for massive and widespread infrastructure spending. Many people agree that...
Rationalizing a Downtown Soccer Stadium
Sometimes we want something so badly we’ll tell ourselves just about anything in order to get it. Psychologists and philosophers...
Well, At Least It’s Not a Check
In a perfect world, municipalities would not need to offer tax incentives to attract investment. That was the consensus on...
Graham Renz Discusses Water Infrastructure on ABC30
Graham Renz appeared on ABC 30’s The Allman Report on November 22 to discuss alternative ways the city of St....
Watch Michael Highsmith On The Allman Report
Michael Highsmith appeared on ABC 30’s The Allman Report on Monday, November 21 to discuss public funding for a new...
Education Reform Should Be Top Priority for Missouri’s Leaders
On November 8, Missourians sent a clear message: We want change. Republicans won every major statewide office—all of which but...
Straight Talk on Kansas City’s Incentive Reform
In 2014, Mayor Sly James said that “Now is the time to start a conversation about the appropriate level of...
Funding the Foundry: Why Are Taxpayers Continually on the Hook?
When St. Louis public schools are underperforming and the water department is trying to get lead out of the water,...
Kansas City Hires Fox to Watch Henhouse
According to the Kansas City Business Journal, the City of Kansas City has approved contracting with the Council of Development...
Subsidies in Saint Louis, Part 3: Where They’re Used
Supporters of economic development subsidies justify them on the basis that the subsidies will help boost economically depressed areas by...
It Takes a Village to Raise a Subsidy
The Cardinals recently announced plans to move forward with a second phase of development at Ballpark Village, an entertainment district...
Which Came First: the Investment Chicken or the Incentive Egg?
Saint Louis Mayor Francis Slay recently touted the amount of money—more than one billion dollars—that has been invested in the...
Hair Braiders Continue Missouri Licensing Fight
Last month we published a paper on medical licensing and reforms that could make care more available to Missouri patients,...
Subsidies in St. Louis, Part 2: Economic Development Blunders
City officials, developers, and corporate welfare proponents have touted the benefits of development incentives like tax-increment financing (TIF) to taxpayers...
Entrepreneurship in Missouri, Part 3: The Startup Environment
This series on entrepreneurship has highlighted the fact that the percentage of workers in startups is at its lowest level...
