A new study, jointly produced by the Show-Me Institute and the Reason Foundation, examines the relatively new funding paradigm of public-private partnerships and how such arrangements may benefit Missouri’s public transportation infrastructure. The study provides an overview of the types of public-private partnerships that can be utilized for transportation projects, including their benefits and best [...]

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By David Stokes There are few things as worthless as a gun buyback program. Here is the article on this weekend’s one-day exercise in giving people taxpayer money to purchase new guns. After the “tremendous” success of the 1991 St. Louis City Police Department gun buyback, as the Post-Dispatch puts it: The 1991 cache was [...]

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Show-Me Institute policy analyst David Stokes takes a look at Missouri’s property reassessment system, and considers the many assessment complaints lodged by Missourians — particularly in the state’s larger and faster-growing counties. Stokes suggests that the current method of assessing individual homes before determining the county’s average rate of increase should be reversed, using aggregate [...]

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By Tim Woodcock Rex Sinquefield could have retired and opted for the quiet life. Instead he left his life in California, where he ran an investment company, and returned in 2005 to St. Louis, the city in which he grew up, and threw himself into the political arena and into philanthropy. The dining room of [...]

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By David Stokes Kirkwood is the only municipality in Saint Louis County that continues to provide utility services to its residents. Would citizens benefit if Kirkwood abandoned this service model, instead allowing private, regulated utilities to provide all utility services to residents? In January 2002, Florissant sold its water distribution system to Missouri-American Water Company [...]

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The Missouri Political News Service agrees today with Tony Messenger’s accurate analysis (I can’t believe I wrote that) of how to really solve our country’s illegal immigration problem: “Finally, with all the blather about illegal immigration between Missouri’s two candidates for governor over how “tough” they are, there’s a story with some good news about illegal immigration. [...]

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