Opponents of the Missouri Legislature’s “megaproject” tax credit bill have taken their fight to YouTube. A video titled “Bombardier, eh?” uses Popeye the Sailor Man and the always-hungry Wimpy to lampoon the Canadian company that is talking…

There are a lot of taxes that the Show-Me Institute doesn’t like, but two of its authors have zeroed in on an obscure one that they find especially egregious: the pool-table tax imposed by some Missouri counties.

Nicholas Loyal and David Stokes…

Joseph Haslag, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri in Columbia, doesn’t like a “mega-project” economic development bill that’s before the Missouri Senate. The bill would grant payroll tax credits to companies that invest at least $300 million and…

Missouri has finally found the money for a new I-70 bridge, but a recent Show-Me Institute study says it will need the private sector’s help in meeting future transportation needs.

With 32,464 miles of state roads and a relatively low gas tax…

You may have seen the stripper wells pumping oil out of neighboring Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma, but did you know Missouri now has an oil industry of its very own? A Canadian company called MegaWest Energy is drilling into a sandstone formation…

A new fee study by Joseph Hurley’s SavingforCollege.com finds that Illinois’ Bright Start is among the least costly college-savings plans. In fact, among plans that are available nationwide, only Ohio’s CollegeAdvantage  has lower costs than Bright Start. (Louisiana, Utah, Oregon and Kansas have cheaper options…

The economic stimulus bill that President Bush signed yesterday could blow a big hole in some states’ budgets, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. For Missouri, the damage could be $98 million.

The culprit isn’t the rebate checks being…

A reader named Rodney asks an excellent question about MOHELA’s recent losses, which I mentioned in my column about the credit crunch in student loans. Rodney clearly followed the political headlines last year, and he wants to know:

What effect if any…

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss says the Missouri economy has slipped “below growth neutral” for the first time in six years, based on his Mid-American Economy survey. Goss surveys purchasing managers to get an idea of how a state’s economy is…

The Census Bureau, to promote the economic census it’s conducting right now, has come out with a