Thanks to Tim Lee for participating in today’s online discussion about eminent domain. Our discussants included two individuals, one from Rock Hill and one from the Allenton area, who said they personally had been victims of eminent-domain abuse. Tim is a…

The Show-Me Institute, a conservative think tank in Clayton, has focused most of its attention on statewide issues like health care,  education and eminent domain. But it’s also interested in micro-level economic issues, as a new commentary on Kirkwood’s utilities indicates.

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Two scholars at the conservative Show-Me Institute have written a devastating critique of the way eminent domain has been used in Missouri. It’s not a pretty picture.

They mention recent, well-known cases like the abortive redevelopment of the Sunset Manor neighborhood in…

As I reported in today’s column, Centene  is looking at roughly two dozen proposals for a place where it can grow by 900 jobs. Many, perhaps most, are in other states, but the RCGA hasn’t given up on keeping the jobs in…

The latest edition of Regional Economist, a publication of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, contains an excellent primer on the economics of eminent domain. Authors Thomas A. Garrett and Paul Rothstein conclude that any government using eminent domain as an economic-development tool…