Amendment 5 is headed to voters

By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief

Good morning,

Missouri’s tax amendment now moves from the courtroom to the campaign trail, with voters set to decide not only whether the income tax should be phased out, but what kind of taxing power lawmakers should have in its place.

That debate lands in a wider fiscal moment: States are no longer riding the revenue surge of the early pandemic years, and budget writers are looking at slower growth, higher costs and harder tradeoffs.

by Rudi Keller

With the ballot summary now final, the fight over Amendment 5 shifts from judges to voters — and both sides are already sharpening their arguments over taxes, authority and what the measure would actually do.

by Kevin Hardy

A new national survey shows governors trying to hold spending steady as costs rise, federal policy shifts and the easy revenue years fade further into the rearview.

by Jazzmine Nolan-Echol

Missouri’s charter-school oversight system asks vulnerable schools to fund accountability without providing enough support to keep them from falling apart.

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