By Dave Roland As was widely expected, last week a circuit court judge denied several school districts’ claims of constitutional entitlement to additional educational funding. The decision was not a difficult one, Judge Callahan wrote, because the state demonstrated “under every reasonable method of calculation” that it had satisfied its constitutional obligation to spend 25 […]

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Your School, Your Choice: “So, Rex Sinquefield started a few PACs…big deal. It’s not illegal and it is definitely not the first time this has happened either. PACs are started all the time to support issues and back certain politicians, what’s the difference?” The difference is it’s ok for a wealthy billionaire like George Soros to fund […]

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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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By Justin P. Hauke and Dave Roland When the Missouri General Assembly reconvenes in January, true education reform should be at the top of its agenda. Missourians, parents, and teachers alike have suffered from continual public school decline as the Legislature has pumped more and more money into districts. Yet increased educational spending has not […]

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By Beverly Gossage The ink is barely dry on HB 818, an innovative free-market health care reform bill that encourages individual responsibility and employer participation. Other states, including Kansas, are hoping to emulate it. A new plan proposed last week, however, takes a significant step in the wrong direction. “Insure Missouri” is designed to fund […]

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“The Show-Me Institute is a vital voice for quality education in Missouri, and a welcome addition to the efforts in Saint Louis to create quality public schools for all students, regardless of income.” Francis Slay – Saint Louis Mayor The report details SMI’s 2006 accomplishments and finances, profiles their research areas, board of directors, staff, and scholars, […]

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By Justin P. Hauke Last week, Attorney General Jay Nixon called for reform to Missouri’s payday loan industry, arguing that lenders engage in predatory practices targeted at uninformed consumers. Nixon proposes legislation to cap payday loan rates at 36 percent, and eliminate the practice of renewing outstanding loans — a practice, many argue, that traps […]

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By Eric D. Dixon Nobody likes high fuel prices. In recent years, as gasoline costs have soared, consumers have looked for solutions — ranging from attempts to increase efficiency, like carpooling and converting to biodiesel, to ineffective gestures, like those perennial calls for singleday gas station boycotts. The recent movement to regulate “hot fuel” at […]

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From Show Me Progress: (not affiliated with the (Show-Me-Institute) “The motto of school voucher advocates in Missouri must be, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again, because big money donors to state legislators who favor vouchers have already given more campaign contributions–fourteen months before the elections!–than they did in 2004 and 2006. Which […]

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KMOV News 4 Investigates: Daily Briefing: So what did you do with your Friday night? A fella by the name of Brett Darrow spent a good chunk of it driving around in his Nissan Maxima, running a radar detector and recording video from a camera mounted over his shoulder. Why would he want to do […]

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