SB 4: Missouri’s Energy Challenge and the Push for CWIP Reform
Senate Bill 4 (SB 4) is a massive, 133-page omnibus bill that flew through the Missouri Legislature and has now...
Missouri Must Do Better at Controlling Spending
A version of the following commentary appeared in the Springfield News-Leader. Elections and inaugurations are a time for reflection and...
Kansas City and Jackson County Do Two Things Twice
I am several weeks late on this, but it is worth stressing how Kansas City and Jackson County have missed...
Education Finance is a Black Box with Chris Braunlich
Chris Braunlich is the former Co-President and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, Virginia’s non-partisan public policy...
Centene Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
There are numerous flaws in the ongoing subsidy-driven economic development strategy employed in Missouri. In this post, I want to...
Virginia and the State of Education Reform with Andrew J. Rotherham
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Andrew J. Rotherham from Bellwether Education Partners. Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Sticher Listen on...
Who’s Driving the Bus on School Openings?
Students and families are nearing the one-year mark of schooling in COVID times. For many, traversing this ever-shifting education landscape...
Some Good News Regarding Missouri’s Highways
The Reason Foundation just released its 24th Annual Highway Report, ranking Missouri’s highway system as the third best overall, behind...
The Most Unkindest Tax of All
We’ve written a great deal about the various forms of taxation in Missouri. Some taxes are too high, some may...
A Thanksgiving Reflection: How Private Property and Economic Freedom Saved the Pilgrims
Americans readily accept two opposing ideas about the first Thanksgiving – one bright and highly idealized, the other grey and...
Recess-Something So Loved, Only Bureaucrats Could Kill It
I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t like recess. As a former elementary school teacher myself, I can tell you that...
You will be made to care: Sex Ed Edition
Conservative columnist and radio host Erick Erickson coined the phrase “you will be made to care” to describe the tendency...
Streetcars Have Lost . . . Washington, D.C.?
Back in May 2014, at the groundbreaking of the 2.2-mile streetcar line, city leadership held up the streetcar projects in...
Streetcars Continue to Fail
In September we highlighted the problems with streetcar cost overruns in Charlotte, North Carolina. Now it appears streetcar efforts are collapsing everywhere....
State Audit Recommends Sunset Of Historic Preservation Tax Credit
You saw the original, and now here’s the sequel. Just weeks after producing an excellent report on Missouri’s Low Income...
Designed to Fail
George Mason University economist Donald Boudreaux wrote a post earlier this week describing a hypothetical world in which groceries are...
Restricting Credit for Poor People
I’m sure that “restricting credit for poor people” is not the phrase supporters of capping interest rates on short-term loans...
Shout Out From Nasturtium Squids
Err… Tertium Quids, that is, a policy group based in Virginia. Today, at the State Policy Network‘s annual meeting in...
You Don’t Count the Cost
David Stokes has been doing a fine job covering the potential legalization of ticket scalping. There’s no question legalization is...
Eric Mink’s Talkin ’bout Bridges
Eric Mink has an excellent article in the Post-Dispatch today about the proposed Mississippi River bridge. It is carefully researched...
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