Emerald Automotive Still Seeking The Green
It’s been a couple years since we first discussed hybrid car start-up Emerald Automotive. When we last left it, Emerald...
Pro-Obamacare Saint Louis Hospital Cutting Back Benefits To Part-Timers … Apparently Because Of Obamacare
Earlier this year, BJC Healthcare hosted a press conference supporting the expansion of Medicaid in Missouri under the Affordable Care...
$16 Million For Two Blocks?
Should Missouri and St. Louis taxpayers provide more than $16.5 million in tax subsidies to move Laclede Gas two blocks...
Free Rides In The Zoo Museum Taxing District?
Show-Me Institute Intern, Haleigh Albers, talks about the demographic changes in the St. Louis area that impact the St. Louis...
Is The Zoo-Museum District An Outdated And Unfair Tax?
The Saint Louis Zoo is a great place for families to spend a summer day. Many people like that the...
Panel Discussion of the School Transfer Law
The school transfer law has created controversy in Saint Louis. The question is, where do we go from here? Show-Me...
Free Rides In The Zoo Museum District?
As first appearing in the STL Beacon on September 11, 2013: When I was a little girl growing up in...
Three Public School Superintendents Walk Into A Free-Market Think Tank . . . No Joke
On Tuesday morning, the Show-Me Institute was pleased to host “Solutions: A Panel Discussion on the School Transfer Law.” Joining...
On Tax Policy And Iocane Powder
Last week, our friend and fellow blogger Dave Helling at the Kansas City Star wrote a critique of my post...
I’ll Gladly Cost You Your Job On Tuesday For My Pay Raise Today
On Aug. 29, hundreds of fast-food workers in dozens of cities across the United States (including Saint Louis) walked off...
What Is The Cost Of Not Educating Students?
Earlier this week, Missouri State Auditor Thomas Schweich released the results of an audit of the St. Louis Public School...
You Can Call Them Buzzards, But That Makes Missouri The Carcass
Another day, another governor courting — or as some are saying, “trying to poach” — Missouri’s businesses. This time, it’s...
Free Enterprise, Taxpayer Subsidies – Bass Pro Gets Best Of Both
As first appearing in the Springfield Business Journal on August 27, 2013: “Bass Pro Shops could only have happened in...
Tear Down The Wall Between Public Dollars And Private Schools
As first appearing in the Education News on August 14, 2013: Growing up in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods...
Show-Me Institute Hosts First Freedom Celebration
We hope you will join us for the Show-Me Institute’s first Freedom Celebration at 6:30 p.m. on Fri., Sept. 27...
Is St. Louis the next Detroit? (Not in my view)
As first appearing in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on August 16, 2013: When the St. Louis Cardinals played the Detroit...
Blitz: Gov. Rick Perry To Visit Missouri And Run Ads Promoting Texas’ Business Climate
He’s already visited businesses in other floundering states — including Illinois, California, and New York — in an effort to...
Part 1: Expanding School Choice Is A Choice
Missouri Senate Bill 125, which goes into effect on Aug. 28, will change Missouri’s state education policy. The law will...
Shining A Light On A School Transfer Solution
The school transfer case has placed education at the center of attention in Saint Louis. Many are eagerly watching the...
More Like This. . .Please?
The Carter Carburetor building has sat dilapidated for numerous years and is a blight for the city of Saint Louis....
