A Free-Market Guide to Zoning with David Stokes
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Show-Me Institute Director of Municipal Policy David Stokes about his new paper in the Free-Market Guide...
Speakers Series on Economic Policy: The Success Academy Experience and Lessons Learned
Eva Moskowitz founded Success Academy Charter Schools in 2006. Over the past ten years, Success has become the largest network...
Local Control in Education, Properly Understood
If you head West on I-70, past the inner-ring suburbs of St. Louis and over the Missouri river, you’ll happen...
From a Kansas City Charter School to the Ivy League
For the first time in its history, University Academy (UA), a charter school in Kansas City, had a student accepted...
Study Finds Health Care Price Transparency Should Be a Top Policy Priority
We have talked many times about market-based reforms that would help to bend down the cost curve of health care...
From Standardized Tests to Standardized Character
Grit, not to be confused with the popular Southern breakfast dish, is a personality trait. Described by Webster’s Dictionary as “mental...
No, Kansas City Star, The Legislature Should NOT Expand Medicaid
I guess all of the big battles are the ones that are fought over and over again. In “A good...
Pattonville’s Poorly Designed Pay Scale
In education, retention of teachers is a persistent problem. Richard Ingersoll, of the University of Pennsylvania, estimates that 46 percent of...
Medicaid: The Program that Keeps on Taking
Medicaid is one of the largest expenses in Missouri’s budget. In fiscal year 2008, Medicaid spending in Missouri totaled more...
Emphasizing Homeownership Is Questionable Policy
According to a Post-Dispatch article, the housing market in Missouri is very weak, to the surprise of probably no one. Housing...
The Gun Buyback May Not Come Back
An article from the Post-Dispatch tells us that, despite a request from the police chief to repeat last year’s gun...
