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...
Clayton Seeks Four-Leaf Clover Of Tax Increases
As first appearing in the St. Louis Business Journal: Like a mischievous Leprechaun sporting a four-leaf clover, the city of...
Public Employee Pensions Are Great . . . Except When They Aren’t
When people hear the word “pension,” they often think “retirement security.” That is the idea of a public employee pension...
Joseph Miller on Mass Transit in St. Louis
Have you heard of the proposed Metro fare increases? Metro may need to raise fares to cover its rising expenses....
A Victory For Government Accountability In Kansas City
When the Missouri Legislature considered creating a land bank for Kansas City, the Show-Me Institute was opposed. We argued in...
Does Saint Louis Have Enough Transit Service?
With the transit committee hearing in Washington this week, there has been a freight train of stories and blog posts...
Where Are The Metro Buses We Paid For? (Part 2)
My last post about the Metro bus system in Saint Louis detailed how Metro’s focus on maintaining low-passenger bus routes reduces...
Where Are The Metro Buses We Paid For?
Local news outlets recently reported about the lack of spaces on buses in Saint Louis, specifically pointing out overcrowding on...
Current Teacher Pension Systems Impose A “Tariff” On Labor
As first appearing in TeacherPensions.org on 25 Feb, 2014, and Education Next on 26 Feb, 2014: In Missouri, students in...
Pragmatic Privatization Works Best
As first appearing in the Columbia Daily Tribune on Feb 16, 2014: When I was growing up, I regularly played...
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.
Columbia Says No To A TIF
There was very big news out of Columbia, Mo., Monday night. The Columbia City Council shot down a large Tax...
Privatization Can Benefit Missouri Taxpayers
As first appearing in the Springfield Business Journal: When I was growing up, I regularly played golf at the Forest...
Ambulance Service An Example Of Privatization’s Benefits
As first appearing in the Southeast Missourian on 10 Feb, 2014: When I was growing up, I regularly played golf...
Michael Rathbone on Stadium Sweetheart Deals
Michael Rathbone talks about the fairness of public financing for stadiums. Currently, $24 million in taxpayer money is spent annually...
Education’s Magic Wand
Nobody likes to fail, and when it comes to failures in our education system, the education bureaucracy thinks that no...
Privatization: Airport Possibilities
The Show-Me Institute recently released a case study called “Government Privatization in Missouri: Successes, Risks, and Opportunities,” by David Stokes....
Aerotropolis Revisited
Many Missouri residents remember the ill-fated effort to create a China Hub at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The plan, dubbed...
Missouri Privatization Documents
The Show-Me Institute has released a comprehensive project about privatization efforts in Missouri. This project documents the wide variety of...
An Open Letter To Streetcar Supporters
At the recent meeting of the Kansas City Save the Trolley Trail, supporters of an expanded streetcar system dismissed assertions from the Show-Me...
