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Missouri’s April 7 Ballot Breakdown with David Stokes and Patrick Tuohey
Patrick Tuohey and David Stokes join Zach Lawhorn to break down the key issues Missouri voters will decide on April 7th. They discuss whether local elections should stay in April or move to November, property tax limit votes happening in more than 90…
Kansas Sports Authority Lets Chiefs Play as Home Team,…
The package of subsidies offered to the Kansas City Chiefs by the Missouri Legislature during last…
Are Opportunity Zones Just Federal-Level TIF?
When Congress created Opportunity Zones in 2017, the goal was simple: use tax incentives to steer…
Bad and Worse for Data Centers in Colorado
Denver just added a new layer to an already hostile environment for data centers. This week, Mayor…
The TIF that Keeps Taking
Thomas Friestad at the Kansas City Business Journal wrote recently that an engineering firm (Gannett…
What’s the Deal with the Tax Subsidies for Youth Sports Centers?
Yes, you are supposed to read the title like Jerry Seinfeld doing a bit. (I met Keith Hernandez at an event in St. Louis recently, so obviously Seinfeld is on my mind now.) Youth sports centers have been exploding around Missouri for two decades and,…
Powering Data Centers Out of Colorado
By Sarah Montalbano Legislators in Denver are off to the races this session with a heavy-handed bill…
Extraordinary Economic Claims Require Extraordinary…
Three pieces published on Friday tried and failed to find evidence for big claims about the economic…
Live By the Sword, Die By the Sword
Show-Me Institute analysts have been writing and talking about Paul McKee’s Northside (St. Louis)…
2026 Missouri State of the State
David Stokes, Elias Tsapelas, and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to break down Governor Mike…
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