Show-Me Institute Podcast

David Stokes appeared on The Gary Nolan Show on January 7 to discuss HB 607, Columbia's new trash bag regulations, and more. Listen to the full show here: https://www.garynolan.com/

Dr. Jeff Milyo is a Professor and Department Chair in the department ofPolitical Economics, Law and Economics, Health Economics at the University of Missouri - Columbia. His new book, Campaign Finance and American Democracy: What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters (with David Primo), is available now. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity.

Ron Rice is a Senior Director at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Ron C. Rice has over 15 years of public policy experience in the fields of education, urban development, and community empowerment initiatives as an executive state government appointee and two-term local elected official

John is an entrepreneurial-minded business executive and attorney. John has served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer/General Counsel for some of the country's leading asset management firms. John has extensive experience starting, growing, restructuring and managing businesses. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Susan Marino is Executive Director at Lafayette Preparatory Academy in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. James V. Shuls is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Missouri St. Louis and Distinguished Fellow in Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Jamie Rosenberg Founder & Chief Executive Officer of ClassWallet. Passionate about helping education; Serial entrepreneur; Quit M&A law to dedicate his career to helping teachers; Founder of AdoptAClassroom.org, which has helped teachers in 1/3 of schools in the US and improved the learning environment for 3.5 million children. The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform. She has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform to transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients. She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more...

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) is an educational, research, and human rights nonprofit devoted to commemorating the more than 100 million victims of communism around the world and to pursuing the freedom of those still living under totalitarian regimes. In support of VOC’s mission to “educate this generation and future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of comm...

On September 10, 2020, the Show-Me Institute hosted a virtual town hall featuring Manhattan Institute’s Brian Riedl. Brian discussed the looming national debt crisis in America, fiscal responsibility, economic growth, and more. Brian Riedl is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on budget, tax, and economic policy. Previously, he worked for six years as chief economist to Senator R...

Read the full report: https://www.manhattan-institute.org/plan-make-medicaid-fair-accountable Christopher Pope is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Previously, he was director of policy research at West Health, a nonprofit medical research organization; health-policy fellow at the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce; and research manager at the American Enterprise Institute. Pope...

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. Cannon has been described as “an influential health‐​care wonk” by the Washington Post. His articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal; the New York Times; USA Today; the Washington Post; the Los Angeles Times; the New York Post; the Chicago Tribune; the Chicago Sun‐​Times; the San Francisco Chronicle; SCOTUSB...

Stuart Butler is a Senior Fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution. Prior to joining Brookings, Butler spent 35 years at The Heritage Foundation, as Director of the Center for Policy Innovation and earlier as Vice-President for Domestic and Economic Policy Studies. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Convergence Center for Policy Resolution. He is a member of the editorial board of...

Walter Blanks Jr. is a Communications Associate at AFC and the first private school choice program recipient AFC has hired. Before joining AFC full-time, Walter was chosen for the first cohort of the American Federation for Children Future Leaders Fellowship, a year-long advocacy and professional development program for graduates of private school choice programs. Before moving to Washington, D.C....

Read Aaron Renn's full report here: https://showmeinstitute.org/publication/employment-jobs/kansas-city-missouri-vs-kansas The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Patrick Ishmael is the director of government accountability at the Show-Me Institute. He is a native of Kansas City and graduate of Saint Louis University, where he earned honors degrees in finance and political science and a law degree with a business concentration. Elias Tsapelas is a Senior Analyst at the Show-Me Institute. Before joining the Show-Me Institute, he worked for the State of Misso...

On July 9, 2020 Dr. Michael Q. McShane, Director of National Research at EdChoice and Senior Fellow of Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute hosted a panel discussion on how to safely reopen Missouri Schools. The panel included: Dr. Susan Pendergrass - Director of Research and Education Policy at the Show-Me Institute Senator Cindy O’Laughlin - Missouri’s 18th Senatorial District Representativ...

Ranken CEO, Stan Shoun brings a background of military service, a degree in aeronautical engineering and a long career in technical education to his position. Embarking on a second career in education after retiring from the US Navy in 1996, Shoun served as the Vice President of Workforce Development and Continuing Education at Central Virginia Community College (CVCC) in Lynchburg, Va., and also...

Brian Blase was Special Assistant to the President at WH National Economic Council '17-'19; CEO of Blase Policy Strategies. Elias Tsapelas is a Senior Analyst at the Show-Me Institute. Learn more about Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Howard Wall, Ph. D., directs the Hammond Institute for Free Enterprise and is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Economics and the Environment. He is also a Professor of Economics in Plaster School of Business & Entrepreneurship at Lindenwood University. Prior to joining Lindenwood in 2011, Wall was a vice president and regional economics adviser at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. I...

Nathan Willett is an algebra II teacher in the Kansas City Public School District and an intern at the Show-Me Institute. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

As director of the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, Lindsey Burke oversees the foundation’s research and policy on issues pertaining to preschool, K-12, and higher education reform. Burke’s commentary, research, and op-eds have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and she is a frequent guest on radio and television shows and speaks on education reform issues across...

On May 21, Show-Me Institute co-hosted a virtual town hall featuring National Review Institute's Richard Brookhiser and Justin Dyer, Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri. In his latest book, NRI fellow Richard Brookhiser recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of thirteen essential documents....

Andy Smarick is the Director, Civil Society, Education and Work; Resident Senior Fellow at R Street where he researches and writes about civil-society issues, including localism, governing institutions, education and social entrepreneurship. Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/ The Show-Me Institute Podcast is produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Neal McCluskey is the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom. He is the author of the book Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples, and Compromises American Education and is co‐​editor of Educational Freedom: Remembering Andrew Coulson, Debating His Ideas and Unprofitable Schooling: Examining Causes of, and Fixes for, America’s Broken Ivory Tower. He also maintains...

On May 4, 2020, The Show-Me Institute hosted a virtual town hall on the topic of How to Reopen America with guest speaker Dr. Arthur B. Laffer and Senator Jim Talent Learn more about the Show-Me Institute: https://showmeinstitute.org/