Show-Me Institute Podcast

Zach Lawhorn speaks to Susan Pendergrass about her new report The Future of Missouri’s Workforce. Read the report here: https://showmeinstitute.org/publication/workforce/the-future-of-missouris-workforce/ Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Susan Pendergrass speaks with Randal O' Toole about his latest report "Is St. Louis Transit Built for the 2020s or the 1910s?" Randal O’Toole is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and Director of the American Dream Coalition, and Senior Economist at the Thoreau Institute. He has been Visiting Scholar at the College of Natural Resources at the University of California at Berkeley, McClu...

Jamison White is the director of data and research for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Before joining the National Alliance, Jamison worked as a data analyst and freelance consultant in Boston and the greater New York area. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

David Stokes and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to discuss Show-Me Institute's latest report "Is St. Louis Transit Built for the 2020s or the 1910s?", short-term rental regulations in St. Louis City, property tax freezes for seniors, and more. Read the full study here: https://bit.ly/46ri4bP Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Susan Pendergrass speaks with Michael J. Petrilli about his recent op-ed featured in The New York Times, titled 'We Can Fight Learning Loss Only With Accountability and Action'. Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the Education Gadfly Weekly, and host...

David Stokes, Elias Tsapelas, and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to discuss the veto session, freezing property taxes for seniors in St. Charles County, the formation of a committee on the St. Louis earnings tax, and more. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Dalena Wallace is a busy homeschool mom of six. She manages a co-op serving 35 local homeschoolers and operates a hybrid microschool called AIM High. She is the founder of AIM Educational Collaborative LLC which helps provide assistance and coaching for others who would like to build Autonomous, Innovative, and Missional educational models. To learn more about her work visit: https://www.aimeducat...

James V. Shuls is the director of research and distinguished fellow of education policy at the Show-Me Institute. James' work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including Phi Delta Kappan, Social Science Quarterly, Education Week, The Rural Educator, Educational Policy, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He earned his Ph. D. in education policy from the Unive...

James Franko is the President of Kansas Policy Institute. Learn more about KPI's September 23 event here: https://kansaspolicy.org/events/ James has published opinion pieces in both national and Kansas-based media outlets, has appeared on radio and TV programs, and regularly speaks to groups around The Sunflower State. A native of Stilwell, James is graduate of Kansas State University where he rec...

David Stokes, James Shuls, and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to discuss "innovation waivers", the school choice movement internationally, the search for a new location for a homeless shelter in St. Louis, and more. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Susan Pendergrass speaks with Ashley Berner about the importance of pluralism in education, how different countries think about pluralism in education, and more. Dr. Ashley Rogers Berner Ashley Berner is Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and Associate Professor of Education. She served previously as the Deputy Director of the CUNY Institute for Education Policy and as an...

Chris Braunlich is the former Co-President and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, Virginia’s non-partisan public policy foundation. He was appointed by Governor Bob McDonnell to the Virginia State Board of Education, where his colleagues elected him president of the Board. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

David Stokes, Elias Tsapelas, and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to discuss Missouri's new transitional benefits law, Chesterfield discussing the use of eminent domain in their legal battle against Dillard's, the future of nuclear reactor construction, and more. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Clip from the July 26 episode of The Show-Me Institute Podcast. Listen to the full episode here: https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/economy/tax-free-weekend-property-tax-freeze-and-school-lunches/ Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Patrick Ishmael, and David Stokes join Zach Lawhorn to discuss freezing property taxes for seniors, what the research says about the impact of "Tax Holidays", the latest developments in the Kansas City Royals search for a location for a new ballpark, and more. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Susan Pendergrass speaks with AEI's Rick Hess about his new book "The Great School Rethink". Learn more about the book: https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/the-great-school-rethink/ Frederick M. Hess is a senior fellow and the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on K–12 and higher education issues. The author of Education Week’s po...

David Stokes, Elias Tsapelas, and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to discuss more than $500 million in line-item vetoes by Governor Parson, the plan to increase the use of license plate readers in St. Charles County, what Missouri can learn from Florida public policy, and more. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

David Stokes, Elias Tsapelas, and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to discuss changes to St. Louis water rates, a new standardized test coming to Missouri schools, the challenges of increasing transparency in hospital pricing, and more. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Trish Flanagan is the executive director of Building Futures: Design and Build Workshop. Founded in 2012, by Gay Lorberbaum, Paul Krautmann, and Frank Lorberbaum, Building Futures: Design and Build Workshop began as a year-round Saturday workshop focused on supplementing the education of the under-served young people in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Aaron Hedlund, David Stokes and Elias Tsapelas join Zach Lawhorn to discuss the most recent report on inflation in the U.S., the daunting task of updating Missouri's Medicaid enrollment data, and the intriguing idea of privatizing the water utility in the City of St. Louis following a string of over a dozen water main breaks over the weekend. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Matthew Ladner is executive editor of redefinED. He has written numerous studies on school choice, charter schools and special education reform, and his articles have appeared in Education Next; the Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice; and the British Journal of Political Science. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and received a master's degree and a Ph. D. in...

Susan Pendergrass speaks with Mark A. Calabria about new mortgage regulations designed to increase equity in home ownership, if today's housing market has echoes of the pre-2008 market, what higher interest rates for longer could mean for first-time home buyers, and more. Mark A. Calabria is a senior advisor to the Cato Institute. He provides strategic input and direction on the federal economic p...

David Stokes, Patrick Ishmael, and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to put a bow on the legislative session, discuss new restrictions on short-term rentals, and calls to increase security in downtown St. Louis following a rash of car break-ins around Busch Stadium. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

Susan Pendergrass, Elias Tsapelas, and David Stokes join Zach Lawhorn to discuss the end of 2023 Missouri legislative session. Produced by Show-Me Opportunity

On May 9, 2023, Jay Nordlinger delivered a talk titled “Adventures in Journalism” at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. During the talk, Nordlinger surveys today’s media landscape with what has become frequent dismay. “We’ve never had so much journalism and so many outlets, which is great,” the National Review senior editor says. “But politics and journalism have merged, and … I’ve se...