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Wednesday, May 16
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Missourian: Postal service deadline for action by Congress passes
KC Star: McCaskill, Blunt want debate on the farm bill
KC Star: Blunt pushes compromise on cybersecurity
Quincy Herald-Whig: Mark Twain boyhood home
rededicated; Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer speaks at ceremony
St. Louis Beacon: Now-defunct steel company, Jim
Talent share spotlight in presidential race - even after Obama camp has
given up on Missouri
P-D Political Fix: Talent skewers Obama on debt as
debate over Bain Capital heats up
Politico: McCaskill, other Dems rush into arms of
Super PACs
KC Star: Washington website reports that Akin nabs
earmarks, then recipients donate to his campaign
Mahoney: EMILY's List puts Hartzler opponent Teresa
Hensley on preferred list of pro-choice Democratic women
P-D's Nicklaus: Missouri minimum wage is likely to
rise, with or without a vote; 2006 measure adjusts wage
automatically
AP:
Missouri gains 6,000 jobs in April
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Missourian: Area legislators support Limbaugh selection for Hall
of Famous Missourians; Democrat Steve Hodges doesn't object, says
statue is "done deal"
St. Louis Beacon: Legislative session ends
Friday; Here's what passed and what's pending
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri General Assembly passes
bills on charter schools, workers compensation
AP: Missouri House approves bill on suing co-workers
KC Star: Charter school expansion bill headed to Nixon
P-D: Missouri lawmakers approve expansion of charter
schools
AP: Missouri lawmakers approve expanding charter
schools
P-D: State board renews charter school, with conditions
AP: Missouri Senate stops bill allowing ads on school
buses
P-D Political Fix: Missouri Legislature passes cell
phone, billboard bills
AP: Digital billboards bill heads to Nixon
AP: Missouri House votes to expand state's elder abuse
law
Missourinet: Senate debates cost of executions
P-D: Missouri Senate approves earlier liquor sales at
Lambert
AP: Missouri House moves to stop Jayhawks license plate
KC Star: Missouri House takes stand against KU license
plates
P-D: Conservation group names Missouri River among
'most endangered' due to flood-control practices
AP: Kiosks to help in unclaimed property
AP: Longtime St. Louis Business Journal reporter Rick
Desloge dies
St. Louis Business Journal obituary: Rick Desloge,
1948-2012
Peterson: Condolences to the family of journalist Rick
Desloge
P-D editorial: Tilley's legacy: It's El Rushbo's
House now
Shelly: Tilley's legacy includes four controversial
issues
Missourinet's Jessica Machetta: Rush busts into the
people's house: Thoughts on controversial figures, limited-invite
events and hurt feelings
Columbia Missourian's Rosman: Senate bill is bad for
Missouri teachers, students
P-D letter: Social service agency would like more
taxpayer dollars
KC Star letters: Teacher tenure; Limbaugh's honor
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Wall Street Journal: Gay marriage recasts Senate
races; McCaskill declines to support gay marriage, says states
should decide issue
P-D Political Fix: Democrats have buyers' remorse for
not choosing St. Louis as convention site
KC Star: Obama ad attacking Romney on KC mill isn't
airing in MO; Dem consultant Richard Martin says Missouri is no
longer a battleground
AP: Obama trying to undermine Romney's record on
jobs; New web ad highlights Kansas City steel mill
Missouri News Horizon: Obama campaign blasts Romney
over failed Kansas City steel mill
Politico: DSCC says it has reserved space for $4.9
million in TV for McCaskill this fall
KWMU: New report calls Missouri River "endangered" by
poor flood management
Drebes:
Jerry Schlichter, architect of historic tax credit program, eschews
incumbent Robin Wright-Jones and gives to Jeanette Mott Oxford
St. Louis Beacon: Tilley announces Monday's
installation of Rush bust; Democrats insist that Nixon block
display
KC Star: Rush Limbaugh inducted into Hall of Famous
Missourians; Talboy says Nixon's office told him they'll block
display
P-D: Rush Limbaugh inducted into Hall of Famous
Missourians; House Dems say they're confident Nixon will stop
installation
Missourinet: Video: Rush Limbaugh inducted into
Hall of Famous Missourians
KWMU: Rush Limbaugh inducted into Hall of Famous
Missourians
Missouri News Horizon: Nixon calls for expansion of
auto tax credits
St. Joseph News-Press: Lawmakers prepare for final
week of session
P-D Political Fix: Missouri House members work late to
advance bills
AP: Missouri senators back changes to vacancy
appointments
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri's bid for No Child Left
Behind waiver enters home stretch
KC Star: Despite deep cuts, KC Public Schools still
spends significantly more per pupil than nearby districts
P-D: Former Riverview Gardens Superintendent Henry
Williams dies before paying penalty, liens
P-D: Bill would allow earlier liquor sales at Lambert
Airport
KC Star: Latest KS-MO conflict over license plates
Missourinet: Linked-deposit program reaches $1 billion
in loans for small businesses, farmers
St. Louis Beacon: Rams seek to remove part of Dome's
roof under team's proposal to revamp facility
P-D: Rams' vision for dome could cost $700 million
St. Louis Beacon: Beacon's Barroom Conversations event
series to conclude with look at 2012 political landscape
Joplin Globe: Disaster anniversary coverage:
Schools receive additional funds for storm shelters
Missouri News Horizon: Disaster anniversary
coverage: A week before tornado anniversary, Nixon announces safe
room funds
P-D editorial: Pay-to-play allegations will persist
until Missouri has donation limits
KC Star editorial: UMKC name change could be game
change
KC Star's Abouhalkah: Tilley embarrasses Limbaugh with
closed event; Critics, protesters should have been allowed on
House floor during ceremony
P-D letter: MoDOT funding and stewardship of tax
dollars
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Monday, May 14
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Missourian: Proposal would reduce hours, not close rural post
offices
Washington Missourian: New plan keeps post offices
open, impacts many in Franklin, Warren counties
Mahoney: McCaskill's Homeland Security panel may look
at Secret Service sex scandal
St. Joseph News-Press: Report shows farm production
costs have risen; Farm bill may eliminate traditional support for
commodities
Missouri
News Horizon: McCaskill spoke at Jackson County's Truman Day
dinner Friday night
Hotline On Call:
Democratic Majority PAC poll shows McCaskill leading Republicans, but
under 50 percent
Tony's Kansas City: Dem secretary of state candidate
MD Alam upset he wasn't recognized at Truman Day, will hold press
conference this afternoon
Platte
County Landmark's Foley: Platte County R-3 District promotes
Missouri Democratic Coordinated campaign internship, volunteer
opportunities
St. Louis Beacon: Phyllis Schlafly getting involved in
Michigan GOP primary, will serve as Missouri presidential delegate again
Berger: Ed Martin's campaign statement uses poor
grammar
Drebes:
Nixon may put court plan on August ballot
KTVI: Video: Charles Jaco talks voter ID
legislation with Show-Me Institute's Patrick Ishmael, former ACLU Legal
Director Denise Leiberman
St. Louis Beacon: Lawmakers' final week: Little
legislation, no rush for Rush
P-D: Missouri Legislature enters final week with
lengthy list
P-D: List of bills the MO Legislature will face in
final week
KC Star: Bill in Missouri Legislature would be a boost
to bail bondsmen
McClellan: National comedy shows demonstrate
Missouri's problem - Legislature's anti-gay sentiment
Joplin Globe: Disaster anniversary coverage:
Documentary tells story of Joplin's recovery
KC Star editorial: Expand work visas for top foreign
talent; Blunt is co-sponsor of pro-immigration bill
P-D editorial: Ballot proposals offer stark contrast
to Legislature's follies
JCNT editorial: Budget items get hung up, but hang on
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Budget pact put
fairness in play; Higher education formula could make for more
equitable distribution of funds
P-D editorial: Vibrant public discussion will make
Arch proposal better
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Human trafficking has
ambiguous presence in western Missouri
P-D letters: Texting-while-driving laws; Sue
Shear Institute funding
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Sunday, May 13
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KC Star: At KC Dems' Truman Days, McCaskill rips her 3
GOP foes
Berger: Rep. Stacey Newman to attend Jewish American
Heritage Month event at White House
Hannibal Courier-Post: Veterans salute passage of vets
home funding bill
Missourinet: In session's last week, workers' comp a
priority
AP: Missouri lawmakers a step closer to passing Mamtek
bill
SEMO Times:
Library seeks a more reliable funding source; Bill from Rep. Todd
Richardson, Mayer could set new state precedent for library funding
KSDK: Video: Imagine Schools closures force
students to transfer
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Missourian: SEMO regents approve tuition increase
KFVS: Video: Tuition increase approved at
Southeast Missouri State
P-D's Gallagher: New federal law opens doors to
investment scams; Comment from Robin Carnahan's office
Priddy: Pro-Mizzou caucus to KU alums: We don't
like you, and you can't have a special license plate
Washington Missourian editorial: Obama bows to
gay-marriage pressure, seals his doom in Missouri
Joplin Globe editorial: Crossing the line; Most
activists don't really mean verbal threats, and shouldn't make them
Washington Missourian editorial: Sarah Steelman's
shortcomings: Candidate should have denounced activist's remark
P-D letter: Prosecutor McCulloch responds to P-D
editorial; "kill the Claire bear" vs. Hoffa's threats;
Response to Nicklaus' column on minimum wage
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Saturday, May 12
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Missourian: Judge dismisses portion of floodway farmers' suit
Missouri News Horizon: Russ Carnahan announces drug
treatment bill
St. Joseph News-Press: Akin, Brunner, Steelman attend
forum in St. Joseph
P-D Political Fix: John Brunner's gay marriage answer
explained: He didn't vote in 2004
Mahoney: McCaskill twitpics solution to lost-voice
conundrum: nametag explains "I lost my voice"
P-D Political Fix: Jean Carnahan makes mother's day
pitch for Russ' campaign, invokes Mel's name
Mahoney: Washington Post includes Hartzler's seat as
one of top 10 that could see a surprisingly close election
St. Louis Beacon: Lawmakers sidestep deadlocks, send
$24 billion Missouri budget to Nixon
P-D: Child care cut by $10 million in Missouri
P-D Political Fix: More on the Missouri budget
Missouri News Horizon: Sen. Bob Dixon nearly derailed
education funding deal over MSU exclusion
Missouri News Horizon: With a week left in session,
legislative focus unclear
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Legislature refuses to
loosen reins on nurse practitioners
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Missourian: SEMO regents to consider tuition increase
P-D: Imagine teachers may join city schools
Washington Missourian: Sgt. Jason Grellner pushes new
prescription laws; state meth bill dead
P-D: Missouri, Illinois victims report $15.5 million
in Internet crime losses
KC Star: Judge dismisses Missouri Medicaid lawsuit
P-D: Judge dismisses Molina Healthcare's Medicaid
lawsuit
AP: Missouri judge rejects challenge to Medicaid
contracts
JCNT editorial: Legislative power grab for control of
Capitol Rotunda unnecessary, duplicative
KC Star editorial: Missouri's Sharia nuttiness leaks
into Kansas; Judicial reform; Sue Shear funding snafu
P-D letters: StudentsFirst, Turner fix
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Friday, May 11
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St. Louis Beacon: House backs export-import
bank; Blunt predicts Senate approval
P-D Political Fix: After flopping at the polls, Tommy
Sowers finds new route to Washington
KC Star: Mitt Romney raises $1.2 million in Kansas City
KC Star: Romney in Kansas City - the pool report
Mahoney: KC union boss: "I'm amazed Romney has
the (testicular fortitude) to come to Kansas City"
St. Louis Beacon: Reactions to Obama's gay marriage
stand run gamut; Comments from faith, gay leaders
Bloomberg: Some Congressional Democrats split with
Obama on gay marriage; McCaskill says states should "take the
lead in determining marriage equality"
St. Louis Beacon: Akin tries to outflank other GOP
Senate candidates on gay marriage
NY Times: Tea Party group to endorse John Brunner in
Missouri's U.S. Senate primary
St. Louis Beacon: Bill Bradley promotes his book
KC Star: Ethics Commission signs off on Dave Spence's
vague financial disclosure
P-D's Nicklaus: Timing is bad for a minimum wage
increase; Missourians will choose between emotion and economics
P-D Political Fix: In court, Robin Wright-Jones and
Jamilah Nasheed clash over residency question
P-D: State unemployment fraud dragnet continues to
snag jobless; Vigilance leads to occasional paperwork hassle for those
on the dole
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Missourian: Nixon says more funds on the way for 2011 flood
repairs
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Missourian: Corps of Engineers prepares to renew construction at
Birds Point
St. Louis Beacon: General Assembly sends $24B Missouri
budget to Nixon
AP: Missouri lawmakers send $24B budget to governor
Missourinet: Legislature sends budget to governor
Missouri News Horizon: Missouri budget heads to
governor for approval
P-D Political Fix: Missouri Legislature sends budget
to governor
Missourinet: Senators question constitutionality of
blind pension language
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Missourian: Crowell: Stalling budget wasn't due to vendetta
against SEMO
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri House sends court plan
change to voters
KC Star: Missouri voters will decide how high court
judges are selected
AP: Missouri voters to decide on changes to judge
selection
P-D: Missouri voters to decide on revising system for
appointing judges
Missouri News Horizon: With support from House, court
changes head to voters
Drebes: Both parties seek to carry the education
reform banner
P-D: Data show black students who attend city magnet
schools, or are bussed to county schools, perform better than those
stuck in regular city schools
P-D: State settles deaf Missourians' claims of flawed
mental health care
MBC Pathway: Koster pushes for House Bill 1500;
Comments from Kerry Messer on Koster and gay rights
AP: Koster urges movie makers to curb positive
depictions of tobacco use
AP: Missouri National Guard plans new $8 million
facility in Macon
P-D: Casino winnings droop in April
AP: Missouri Department of Agriculture to create bee
buzz
P-D obituary: Memorial service set for consummate
insider Lou Berra
JCNT editorial: Tobacco tax hike needed in Missouri
P-D editorial: Shortage of key drugs may suspend death
penalty in Missouri
KC Star op-ed: Missouri sex offender laws are in a
time machine
Shelly: The long, slow march to the gay-marriage altar
can't be stopped
P-D letter: Pseudoephedrine regulations
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Thursday, May 10
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Politico: Barack Obama's seven states of grief over
gay marriage; Missouri, already a lost cause, now even worse for
Team Obama
SNL: McCaskill walks tightrope with gay marriage stance
Mahoney: Brunner reacts to Obama's gay marriage
decision
Mahoney: Steelman reacts to Obama's gay marriage
decision
KC Star: Romney to hold private fundraising event at
KC's Westin Crown Center tonight
P-D Political Fix: FBI interviews activist who said
'kill the Claire bear"
Joplin Globe: Rural post offices to remain open
St. Joseph News-Press: Officials, residents mixed on
post office plan
KWMU: Blunt says student loan debate is red herring
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Missourian: SEMO Port using $1.3 million in fed money for
repairs, improvements to railroad tracks
St. Louis Beacon: Obama administration places one-time
congressional candidate Tommy Sowers at VA Public and Intergovt.
Affairs assistant secretary post
P-D: FBI's St. Louis office gets new boss
AP: Bryant appointed to lead FBI's St. Louis office
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Missourian: Nixon tells Zalma students they have place in world
economy
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Missourian: Tilley appoints Jetton to transportation panel
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri lawmakers reach budget
breakthrough as deadline nears
P-D: Missouri lawmakers reach budget agreement
AP: Missouri lawmakers break budget jam, back blind
program
KWMU: Missouri lawmakers reach deal on state budget
Missourinet: Budget Conference Committee sends
proposal back to House, Senate
Missouri News Horizon: Committee reaches agreement on
budget proposal
Missourinet: Veterans bill logjam cleared in Senate
KC Star: Impasse ends on key part of Missouri budget
AP: Missouri lawmakers back funding plan for veterans
homes
St. Joseph News-Press: Budget talks yield money for
colleges
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Missourian: Southeast receives $500K grant from Energy Department
St. Louis Beacon: Former Imagine students may move to
city schools as a group
P-D: 95-year-old Frankie Freeman given award at
Harris-Stowe for work in education
AP: KC School Board president urges Missouri lawmakers
not to rush to take over district
KC Star: For young readers, a bounty of books;
Publishing house donates books to KC public schools
Drebes:
Rep. Jeanie Riddle likely to take over chairmanship or Rules Committee
next year
P-D Political Fix: First-ever tanning bed legislation
in Missouri nearing approval
AP: Missouri House passes bill on asthma meds in
schools
P-D Political Fix: Sales tax hike for Arch project may
go before voters next April
Peterson: Civic Progress' Tom Irwin switches lobbyist
registration
AP:
Missouri House OKs giving lawmakers control of Rotunda
Missouri News Horizon: Dred Scott inducted into Hall
of Famous Missourians
AP: MoDOT crews to start mowing along major
highways; Officials ask motorists to be careful, expect delays
Marble
Hill Banner Press: Marble Hill water, sewer customers face major
rate increase; MO DNR, EPA want city to bring service up to
standard
P-D editorial: Shame on Sarah Steelman for
hypocritically condoning violent rhetoric
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Postal service blinks
JCNT editorial: Well-deserved state pay raise advances
Washington Missourian editorial: Every journalism
student - and working journalist - should see Joplin's "Deadline in
Disaster" documentary
Washington Missourian's Miller: Petitions, petitions
Priddy: In ranking of 200 jobs, "broadcaster" is #191,
"reporter" is #196
P-D letters: Missouri Gaming Association's Mike
Winters on casino loans; Response to P-D editorial on education
and "Nicastro fix"
KC Star letter: Tobacco tax
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P-D Political Fix: Blunt, Republicans marshal 'S-Corp'
lobby against student loan fix
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill, Blunt back new unit
for Rosecrans air base
St. Louis Beacon: Lacy Clay, Ron Paul square off on
future of the Fed
Politico: Sam Graves: Obama export plan hurts
small business
St. Louis Beacon: Blaine Luetkemeyer brings Show-Me
conservatism to Capitol Hill
KC Star: Former U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton accepts Truman
award
P-D: Clayton-based Enterprise Financial Services to
repay TARP funds
Helling: Why Missouri doesn't matter in this
presidential race; State has moved firmly into red-state column
AP: U.S. Chamber to run ads targeting McCaskill
St. Louis Beacon: Brunner, U.S. Chamber up with ads
criticizing McCaskill, who heads for the Colbert Report
Mahoney: Missouri Dems fire back at Brunner TV spot
Comedy Central: Video: Claire McCaskill
criticizes Super PACs
Politico: McCaskill ups security after tea partier
comments
The Hill: McCaskill gets increased security after
'kill' comment at rally
KC Star: McCaskill gets extra security after "kill the
Claire bear" remark
Missouri News Horizon: Steelman defends activist who
made 'kill the Claire bear' remark
KC Star's Abouhalkah: Steelman's disgusting statement
on 'kill Claire'
St. Louis Beacon: Personal financial statements filed
by Nixon, Spence say a little - and a lot
St. Louis Beacon: At Left Bank Books, 'Sluts Talk
Back' event to feature Rep. Stacey Newman, area feminist/lesbian/gay
leaders
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Cures Education Foundation
to hold fundraiser May 24
Drebes:
Lobbyist Trent Watson gets married
KOMU: Video: Nine women, two male followers
chant, protest Rush Limbaugh show
Politico: Eleven attend Columbia's Limbaugh protest
P-D Political Fix: Rush Limbaugh bust makes its way to
Missouri Capitol
Brian
Schmidt's Missouri Wonk: Cigarette settlement still
smoldering; A brief history of the tobacco Master Settlement
Agreement
Missourinet: Senate floor leader expects debate to
resume today
Priddy: Crunch time
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Missourian: Crowell fights against plan to give SEMO extra $2
million for funding equity
KC Star: $2 million earmark for university stalls
Missouri's whole budget
P-D: UMSL's Sue Shear Institute the flash point of
state budget debate
Shelly: UM President Tim Wolfe calls Sue Shear debate
"a fricking embarrassment"
P-D: Distracted driving measures gain in Illinois, lag
in Missouri
P-D: Charter school advocate says he's ready to open
one in Riverview Gardens
AP: Missouri House backs pregnancy center advertising
bill
P-D Political Fix: Rush Limbaugh bust makes its way to
Missouri Capitol
P-D Political Fix: Jake Wagman's monthly lobbyist-gift
recap
Missourinet: House passes plan to resume taxing of
out-of-state vehicle purchases
P-D: Clerk at Missouri Department of Revenue office
admits taking bribes for falsifying paperwork
St. Joseph News-Press: Mental health program going
statewide
AP: Missouri to get $15M from settlement with Abbott
JCNT editorial: Corrections bill aims to cut costs,
protect public
P-D editorial: Legislative budget talks devolve into
'Shear' madness
P-D letter: "American Association of University Women
- Missouri" on Sue Shear Institute funding
St. Joseph News-Press letter: Pseudoephedrine
monitoring
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Tuesday, May 8
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Quincy Herald-Whig: Federal transportation hearings
begin today; Comments from Luetkemeyer
KC Star: Inside Edition features taxpayer-sponsored
luxury vehicles; Cleaver's $1900/month bill tops the list
P-D Political Fix: Sen. Boxer pressures St.
Louis-based Enterprise, rental companies on speedy repairs
P-D's Nicklaus: E15 is a fuel whose time hasn't come
yet
KMOX: Occupy St. Louis protestors want jury trial
Politico's Charles Mahtesian: Hard vs. soft swing
states - Missouri no longer considered to be either
St. Louis Beacon: Former presidential candidate Bill
Bradley in St. Louis Friday to promote his book
Missouri News Horizon: McCaskill makes campaign push
on student loans
Hotline On Call: Facing uphill battle in red state,
McCaskill to get $3.5 million in ad help
Politico: DSCC reserves around $3.4 million in fall
air time for McCaskill race; NRSC has already pledged $5 million
Politico's
Morning Score: Brunner's new TV ad focuses on jobs and debt, ties
McCaskill to Obama
Mahoney: Susan B. Anthony List endorses Steelman in
GOP primary; Group says it gives preference to women over men
Columbia Missourian: Missouri payday loan petition
sparks controversy
Missourinet: Voters likely to decide whether to raise
cigarette taxes, minimum wage, cap payday loan rates
P-D: Renewable energy proposal fails to make
ballot; Renew Missouri blames lack of financial support
Drebes:
Wentzville's Wayne Stokes, running in GOP primary, fined $100 by Ethics
Commission for failure to place "paid for" on ads
Tony's Kansas City: In Dem state rep primary fight,
Joe Runions accuses Chris Moreno of buying Runion campaign domain name
Tony's Kansas City: Chris Moreno denies buying Joe
Runions' campaign domain address
P-D: Missouri legislators spar over budget
AP: Missouri Senate ties up over the state budget
AP: Care for veterans, blind tied up in Missouri budget
Missourinet: Crowell threatens to block all bills
KWMU: Crowell shuts down Missouri Senate
Missouri News Horizon: Days before budget due,
negotiations stalled over veterans funding
St. Louis Beacon: Effort to defund Sue Shear Institute
also targets its purpose; Comments from Jane Cunningham, area
Democrats
KC Star: Push to ease rules on radioactive shipments
clears Missouri House
St. Joseph News-Press: Lawmakers scramble to pass
bills; Democrat Pat Conway's jumping jacks bill, GOP rep
Johnson's Pony Express license plate bill pass House
AP: Missouri bill would allow sales tax for Gateway
Arch
Joplin Globe: Sen. John Lamping touts new tag line for
tourism: "The Great Rivers State"
KC Star: UMKC considers changing name to University of
Kansas City
Berger:
New Missouri Dept. of Agriculture site lists farmers' markets
St. Louis Beacon: Koster to release records involving
proposed Dome improvements
P-D: Koster to release Dome documents
P-D: Harrah's - St. Louis region's second-busiest
casino - to change hands
AP: Missouri wild elk herd to double in population
P-D editorial: Party leaders favor ethics reform, so
what is the holdup?
P-D op-ed: Rep. Susan Carlson: Time for a Turner
fix
Platte
County Landmark letter: Coalition to Protect Missouri Jobs' Jason
Klindt on Claire McCaskill and union elections
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St. Louis Beacon: McCaskill defends student loans,
plans to hit the road in Blunt's old campaign bus; Says she won't
endorse in 1st-CD, lt. gov races
The Hill: Wash U. prof Steven Smith says McCaskill may
run 4-5 points ahead of Obama in Missouri
Drebes: MOScout poll: Missourians dislike
Obama's health care overhaul, say it would affect their vote for state
reps and senators
St. Louis Beacon: Petitions for payday loan cap,
minimum wage hike submitted; Comments from backers, opponents
Missouri News Horizon: Activists submit signatures to
raise minimum wage, cap payday loan rates
AP: Minimum wage, payday loan petitions submitted
P-D: Ruling derails bills on schools
AP: Missouri lawmakers unlikely to take up school
transfers
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Missourian: State Emergency Management Association funds to help
build Three Rivers campus in Sikeston
Missourinet: Transportation panel appointment is
return to public work for Rod Jetton
AP: Missouri lawmakers advance bill expanding who can
accompany young drivers who have learner permits
Berger:
RCGA's Christine Page dines at Chez Leon, celebrates recent marriage
AP: Columbia, Mo. begins plans to clean up waterway
Joplin Globe: Disaster anniversary coverage:
Calendar of tornado-related events featuring pols, others
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Foundation for Health
sponsored coverage: Wash U. holds forum on Supreme Court and
Affordable Care Act
JCNT editorial: Proposal to appoint circuit clerks
doesn't go far enough
P-D editorial: Legislature takes small, but important
step toward prison reform
KC Star editorial: How to improve African-centered
schools
St. Louis Beacon op-ed: Governor, legislators should
focus on state-school dropouts
McClellan: City's schools face yet another test;
If public education dies, it will be from liberals' friendly fire
KC Star letter: Response to cigarette-tax coverage
P-D letter: Health care advocacy group critical of
other activists' "bake sale" gimmick; Gay-education bill
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P-D: In race for incumbent claim, Lacy Clay outpaces
Russ Carnahan; Thoughts from labor leaders, elected officials,
Russ' mom
Missouri News Horizon: Supporters collect 220,000
signatures to put cigarette tax hike on ballot
Missourinet: Budget clock ticking; Senate
trouble threatened
AP: Lawmakers consider Missouri fund for college
building; Bill sponsored by Sen. Tim Green (D-Spanish Lake)
AP: Missouri efforts to expand texting law again fall
short
Missouri News Horizon: Nixon, Koster honor fallen
veterans
KSDK: Video: 170 Missouri soldiers welcomed home
from Afghanistan
Kirksville Daily Express: Q&A with Rep. Zach Wyatt
KTVO: Rep. Zach Wyatt discusses decision to come out
Hannibal Courier-Post: 'Move over' law could soon
include MoDOT vehicles
Joplin Globe editorial: Postal vision:
McCaskill, Blunt understand what's at stake for rural communities
P-D editorial: Missouri Republican Zach Wyatt makes
history challenging his caucus
KC Star editorial: Missouri bill is a bad bet for
gamblers
Joplin Globe op-ed: Former state Rep. Kevin
Wilson: Bus advertising not best option for funding schools
KC Star letters: Kinder on caucus vs. presidential
primary; Reaction to Rep. Shane Schoeller's voter ID bill
P-D letters: DESE's Chris Nicastro and her
record; Education funding
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Mahoney: Cleaver blames weak jobs report partly on
"pathological partisanship"
KC Business Journal: Cleaver may be deposed in
wrongful death lawsuit against his car wash (link via Tony's Kansas
City)
Bloomberg: U.S. Export-Import Bank Authority to be
extended in House vote; Luetkemeyer helps drive support
Berger:
Details on Mitt Romney's visit to St. Louis June 7
Mahoney: Via MSNBC, Missouri media markets not among
swing-state targets
Politico: NRSC buys combined $10 million in ad time in
MO, VA; DSCC says they'll make "major buys" here soon
KWMU: Lacy Clay, Russ Carnahan disagree on whether
Carnahan challenging Clay is a good thing
KWMU: Audio: In separate interviews, Clay and
Carnahan discuss demographics, black turnout in November, McCaskill's
preference and actions, more
P-D Political Fix: Dave Spence's ethics plan takes aim
at lobbyist gifts, Tilley's investments
SE
Missourian: Kinder speaks to Cape Girardeau County Republican
Women's Club
Tony's Kansas City: In Kander's old district, Jeremy
LaFaver wins LGBT group endorsement
AP: Petitions submitted for Missouri tobacco tax
increase
St. Louis Beacon: Proposal to change Missouri courts
may be on its way to voters
Shelly: Defenders of high payday loan rates resort to
intimidation
Mahoney: Rod Jetton on influence of money in Missouri
politics
Missourinet: House and Senate leaders spar on why
budget conference is being held up
Priddy: A look at Thursday night's filibuster
St. Louis Beacon: New numbers show map gap between
deseg students and blacks in city schools
St. Louis Beacon: Rep. Stacey Newman, others back
local laws against LGBT discrimination; No comment from County
Exec Charlie Dooley
KWMU: Supporters want more local laws to protect LGBT
P-D: Clayton High principal resigns; Louise
Losos created fake Facebook profile to monitor criticism from students,
parents
Drebes:
St. Louis Police Officers Association and Gary Wiegert split
AP: Koster files suit over canceled school trip
Suburban Journals: Opinions don't change on
pseudoephedrine sales in Fenton; Comments from Franklin County
Sgt. Jason Grellner
P-D: Gilbert Bailon to replace Arnie Robbins as
Post-Dispatch editor
St. Louis Beacon: Wash U.'s Danforth Center on
Religion and Politics to launch online journal featuring work by
academics, national reporters
P-D: Danforth Center unveils journal 'Religion and
Politics'
Berger: Ray Hartmann wins journalism award for his St.
Louis Magazine columns
Joplin Globe editorial: 90-year-old man should be
handed a free ticket to see Obama's Joplin tornado speech
KC Star editorial: Capitol Watch: Laughing at
Missouri; Schaaf's filibuster comments
KC Star's Abouhalkah: The whole nation is laughing at
Missouri
Washington Post letter: Maryland woman dislikes
newspaper's use of "trilled" in lieu of "said" to describe McCaskill's
tone
KC Star letter: Voter ID
P-D letters: Martin Casas on city's immigration
history; Corn Growers' Gary Marshall on river plan;
Legislature's actions on local smoking ordinances; Ozark Park Plan
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P-D Political Fix: McCaskill, Blunt press for delay in
post office closings
St. Louis Beacon: Lawmakers question Air Force plan to
close guard unit at Jefferson Barracks
Missouri News Horizon: Blunt urges approval of
Keystone pipeline
Missouri News Horizon: Blunt urges more flexibility
for states on federal programs
Missouri News Horizon: Obama administration plans KC
urban economic forum
P-D: Enterprise criticized for stance on rental car
safety bill
KSMU: Students in the Ozarks speak out on doubling of
loan interest
KC Star: Romney expected in KC area next week
AP: Blunt declines to endorse in U.S. Senate primary
Joplin Globe: Tea Party bus tour makes stop in Joplin,
endorses Sarah Steelman
St. Louis Beacon: Dave Spence rolls out ethics plan,
including provisions tossed out by judge
AP: Spence backs limits on lobbyist gifts
Washington Missourian: Judy Baker, Rep. Jill Schupp
speak at local Truman Day dinner; Union activist Darin Gilley
given Democrat of the Year award
St. Louis Beacon: Audio: Rosenbaum, Mannies,
others discuss Turner case, Nixon's Clay endorsement, Zach Wyatt
The Maneater: Missouri voters might have chance to
increase cigarette taxes
AP: Court upholds Missouri home-care union election
KC Star: Missouri budget talks stall over funding for
veterans nursing homes
P-D Political Fix: Missouri budget negotiations to
resume next week
Drebes:
Brian Schmidt retained by Senate to provide budget scoring on bills
during final weeks of session
AP: Schaaf tries to block prescription database
Missourinet: Prescription monitoring bill wins, loses
P-D: Teaching colleges balk at ratings
P-D Political Fix: House says performance, not
seniority, should govern teacher layoffs
AP: Missouri House narrowly OKs changes to teacher
layoffs
P-D: St. Louis Public Schools looks to expand to take
in Imagine students
KSDK: Video: Clayton High School students rally
against "Don't Say Gay" bill
Comedy Central: The Daily Show: Sarcastic look
at Rep. Wanda Brown's proposal for gun owner employment
protection; Comments from Rep. Mike Colona
AP: Missouri Senate opts for highway study over toll
roads
P-D: Ameren: Tests show Labadie groundwater is
safe
SE
Missourian: New owner met with public officials over sale of
Cape's former federal building
Columbia Missourian: Joplin Globe journalists discuss
their experience covering the 2011 tornado
SE
Missourian: Disaster anniversary coverage: A year later,
Gen. Walsh reflects on 'grave' decision to activate floodway
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Foundation for Health
sponsored coverage: MO gets $10.3M to improve community health
centers under Affordable Care Act
Joplin Globe editorial: Obama administration rules on
farm teens' labor thankfully sent out to pasture
The Maneater editorial: Higher cigarette tax will
benefit students
SE
Missourian's Sullivan: Listen up, Sen. Lamping: When it
comes to the state slogan, just leave well enough alone
P-D letters: Casino loans; child-care
accreditation; Preschool standards
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St. Louis Beacon: McCaskill ad plays up Super PACs -
not GOP - as campaign villain
Mahoney: McCaskill's new TV ad goes after third-party
groups coming after her
The Maneater: McCaskill introduces "plain language"
bill
St. Louis Beacon: Steelman says Democrats use Violence
Against Women Act to distract voters
Talking Points Memo: Steelman: Violence Against
Women Act a distraction
Mahoney: Missouri Tea Party groups go after Tea Party
Express (TPX), again, as TPX tour bus approaches
Mahoney: Ed Martin uninvites Tea Party Express,
Steelman to "Victory Fieldhouse" campaign headquarters
St. Joseph News-Press: Jackson County Republican Bob
Gough sees national debt as critical in primary challenge to Graves
P-D Political Fix: Peabody Energy contributes to Gov.
Nixon, HRCC
Drebes:
Rep. Jamilah Nasheed releases campaign poll showing her leading Robin
Wright-Jones, Jeanette Mott Oxford
The Maneater: ALEC loses funding following corporate
exodus; Comments from "Color of Change," ThinkProgress.org, Sen.
Bill Stouffer
Missourinet: Budget director on year-to-date, April
revenues: some good, some not-so-good
Kirksville Daily Express: Rep. Zach Wyatt: I am
a proud gay man
Mahoney: PROMO press conference video: Zach
Wyatt comes out
KTVO: Video: Rep. Zach Wyatt announces he is gay
St. Louis Beacon: GOP lawmaker announces he's gay,
criticizes bill barring sexual orientation discussion
KWMU: Q&A with Zach Wyatt on coming out
P-D: Rep. Zach Wyatt says he is gay
KC Star: Rep. Zach Wyatt announces he is gay
Missouri News Horizon: Rep. Zach Wyatt: "Being
gay is not a Democratic or Republican issue"
SE
Missourian: Rep. Donna Lichtenegger supports homosexual state
rep; has not read proposed legislation to limit discussion on
sexual orientation
The Maneater: Bill would remove LGBTQ discussion from
schools
Missourinet: House advances change to teacher layoff
criteria
AP: Missouri House advances bill on teacher layoffs
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Western to examine
funding dilemma
Missourinet: Missouri Senate clobbers attempt to move
presidential primary
AP: Missouri House passes funding plan for veterans
homes
P-D: Missouri Legislature passes sentencing, parole
guidelines
AP: Lawmakers pass corrections overhaul measure
Missourinet: Local government bill threatened by
amendment
AP: Lawmakers advance change to state "Move Over" law
AP: Cell phone tracking bill sent to Nixon
SE
Missourian: Area students take part in Youth in Government
Day; Rep. Wayne Wallingford ran this year's event
KRCG: Missouri Department of Conservation debuts new
'green' roof
AP: Film chronicles Joplin newspaper's tornado efforts
Columbia Missourian: Documentary about Joplin
newspaper's response to tornado debuts today
St. Louis Beacon: Disaster anniversary coverage:
One year after the flood, Bird Point farmers work to reclaim their lives
Washington Missourian editorial: Nixon, Farm Bureau,
others help defeat Obama administration farm rules and restore common
sense
KC Star editorial: Rep. Shane Schoeller's bill to
require proof of citizenship for voter registration should be killed
JCNT editorial: Don't get fooled again with tobacco
tax hike
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: We pay for lax sales
tax collections
KC Star editorial: Good ruling strikes down Missouri
student transfers
P-D editorial: Time for courageous action to protect
rights of St. Louis schoolchildren
The Maneater editorial: "Don't Say Gay" bill
discriminatory, censors education
St. Joseph News-Press letter: McCaskill on GSA
spending-reform bill
JCNT letter: HB1526, the "teacher quality" bill
Columbia Missourian letter: "Communities Creating
Opportunities" on payday loan initiatives
P-D letters: Response to Mehan's letter on
education; Response to Schoeller's voter ID proposal
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AP:
Year later, Blunt critical of pace at Birds Point
St. Louis Beacon: Labor, child welfare groups complain
that 'misinformation' killed rules to restrict teens' work on family
farms
Catanese: In Missouri's U.S. Senate race, Akin wins
April; McCaskill needs many more GOP gaffes to stop her polling
slide
KC Star: Tea Party Express to hold rally for Sarah
Steelman today
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon picks a side in the
Clay-Carnahan contest - and it's Clay
KMOX:
Gov. Nixon backs incumbent Lacy Clay over primary challenger Russ
Carnahan
KWMU: Nixon endorses Clay in congressional primary
Politico: Lacy Clay nabs Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's nod
P-D Political Fix: Jay Nixon sides with Lacy Clay over
Russ Carnahan
KWMU: May Day protesters take aim at Peabody tax
policies; Peabody says it paid $1.4 billion in taxes last year
P-D: Occupy protesters target Peabody shareholder
meeting in St. Louis
KC Star: May Day protesters complain to KCP&L
executives
KCTV: Video: Occupy protesters walk downtown,
chant slogans, play drums during workday
KC Star: Photo gallery: Occupy protesters
Columbia Missourian: Occupy COMO members march
St. Louis Beacon: Local community college will host
lecture on "War on Women;" Post-event discussion led by state rep
candidate Deb Lavender
St. Louis Beacon: Activists, elected officials to
congregate, discuss misogyny at "Sticks and Stones: Sluts Talk
Back"
SE
Missourian: Peter Kinder to speak at Cape Girardeau County
Women's Club on Friday
P-D Political Fix: Latest redistricting lawsuit has
Robin Wright-Jones seeking Jamilah Nasheed's ouster
Comedy Central's
"Indecision Forever": State rep candidate Martin Casas is one of
a kind
AP: Nixon signals compromise on workers' comp
KC Star: Budget sparks debate once again in Missouri
Senate
Missourinet: Purgason critical of party, House as
budget talks start
AP: Missouri lawmakers to begin negotiations on budget
P-D Political Fix: Missouri Legislature prepares for
budget negotiations
KWMU: No "binding" for the Missouri Senate on budget
negotiations
Priddy: Thank you, we'd rather suffer:
Legislature passes on collecting Internet sales taxes
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Senate passes amendment
changing court plan
P-D: State Senate wants to change judicial selection
method
Drebes:
SB837 and defining "franchise"
St. Louis Beacon: Judge rejects school transfer law
for students in unaccredited districts
P-D: Judge says 'No' to student transfers
KC Star: Judge blocks Missouri law on student transfers
P-D: Imagine goes it alone; Charter schools
fight to stay open - without their founding corporation
St. Louis Beacon: Lawmakers about to take on teacher
tenure
SEMO Times:
Part II of interview with "Don't Say Gay" sponsor Steve Cookson
AP:
Missouri House panel backs child care subsidy change
AP: Missouri House to weigh expansion of elder abuse
law
P-D: Rep. Melissa Leach's bill would restrict efforts
by cities, counties to ban smoking
AP: Missouri House endorses standards for yellow
traffic lights
P-D: St. Louis County, MoDOT swap responsibility for
some roads
P-D: St. Charles County alters prescription cold
medicine measure; Over-the-counter sales permitted for new
meth-resistant formulation
JCNT editorial: Loans by casinos a losing deal
P-D editorial: Sewer project is huge job creator, so
where is the state?
P-D op-ed: Protect the kids and reject "Don't Say Gay"
bill
KC Star letters: Internet billboards; Rush
Limbaugh's honor
Columbia Missourian letter: Prison inmate weighs in on
state budget cuts
P-D letter: "Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice"
shares thoughts on need for state to spend more money
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KC Star: Vice president and wife visit Kansas City for
Obama Victory Fund fundraiser
KC Star: Jill Biden arrives, causes a midday traffic
headache; Tour of mock hospital may allow campaign to bill trip
to taxpayers
AP: Jill Biden, assistant Labor Secretary visit Kansas
City
KC Star: Obama outraising Romney in KC area
Mahoney: Missouri GOP gets convention hotel
assignment: Tampa Marriott, near the airport
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt, local officials question
river policies
The Hill: GOP money floods battleground states,
including Missouri; Conservative groups outspend liberals 4-to-1
in MO
St. Louis Beacon: Steelman to travel with Tea Party
Express, while Akin promotes opposition to abortion
Catanese: Gov race rankings: Dave Spence's
comedy of errors continues to haunt GOP as the race that got away
AP: Nixon seeks to stay out of Missouri tobacco tax
debate
Missourinet: MU research: Missouri losing
hundreds of millions in uncollected sales taxes
St. Louis Beacon: In residency skirmish, Rep. Jamilah
Nasheed hires Dave Roland and Eric Vickers; Wright-Jones turns to
Elbert Walton
AP: Missouri officials urge funding for river
port; Kinder, McKenna, Engler promote Jefferson County project
KC Star: Nixon: Better economic cooperation
needed in KC region
AP: Nixon concerned about money for veterans' homes
Missouri News Horizon: Nixon urges lawmakers to fully
fund blind, vets programs
AP: Lawmakers approve new veterans job-training program
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Senate approves legislation
for Arch sales tax proposal
KMOX: Rep. Sue Allen's bullying bill not gaining
traction in Jefferson City
SEMO Times:
Extensive Q&A with Rep. Steve Cookson on his controversial "Don't
Say Gay" legislation
Comedy Central's
Colbert Report: Video: Show mocks Missouri's gay-education
legislation
Shelly: Craziness in Missouri legislation no longer a
secret
St. Louis Beacon: Zweifel offers two free Kindles to
promote college-savings program; No taxpayer dollars were used
Drebes:
Editing the election: Beacon/KWMU/KETC looking to hire managing
editor for "Center for Public Media"
Peterson: Diana Ross performance draws Sam Fox &
Bert Walker, "newly slimtastic" Joyce Aboussie
P-D: Disaster anniversary coverage: Cairo, IL
still feels impact of 2011 flood after levee blast
P-D editorial: When bills skip hearings, be very, very
afraid
P-D editorial: Allowing casino loans is risky business
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: For the long-term
good, invest now in renewable energy
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Sen. Claire
McCaskill: We need to listen, take the advice of Missouri's
veterans
St. Louis Beacon op-ed: A Whistleblower Protection Act
that doesn't protect
P-D op-ed: College aid grants get cruel:
Recommendations for overhauling the system
SE
Missourian op-ed: Missouri Municipal League sponsors Local
Government Week
KC Star letters: Payday loans; Voter ID;
Missouri, Tennessee and state income tax
P-D letters: CEO of "Child Care Aware" calls for more
child-care funding dollars; Missouri Chamber's CEO Dan Mehan
calls for education reform
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Missouri News Horizon: National feminist group
organizes protests in dozens of states; Missouri event features
march to Capitol
KMOX: Religious freedom rally in St. Louis;
"National Coalition of Concerned Citizens" draws less than 100 downtown
St. Louis Beacon: Seeking to bolster 'cybersecurity,'
Congress sparks privacy concerns
SNL: Health insurers in Missouri to issue
rebates; Rule in 2010 overhaul mandates 80% of premiums to be
spent on care
Jensen:
How a presidential election could shape statewide races;
McCaskill faces rough rural road; Nixon well-positioned;
Emerson a shoo-in, again
AP: Army Corps to take more comments about Missouri
project
AP: Missouri proposal would alter standards for
initiatives
KC Star: Bill requiring proof of citizenship at voter
registration advances in Missouri
AP: Analysis: Budget grows after holdup in
Missouri Senate
Missourinet: House Budget Chairman Ryan Silvey says
he's confident balanced budget will be on time
SE
Missourian: Tailor Institute, serving autistic clients, to
continue to receive state funding
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Local school administrators talk transportation
funding
Drebes: Foundation formula fight in Senate
KTVO: Rep. Zack Wyatt says 'No' to 'Don't Say Gay' bill
Missourinet: Senate passes bill limiting CRNA pain
killing
AP: Sen. John Lamping pushes for new state
slogan: "The Great Rivers State"
Washington Missourian: Ameren wants to test
groundwater around Labadie power plant
SNL: Gannett Company plan to stop free access to
News-Leader articles goes into effect today
P-D editorial: Least offensive plan to ruin judge
selection still a bad idea
KC Star editorial: Keep politics out of Missouri
judiciary
Washington Missourian editorial: Nieves' firearms bill
should die in Senate
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri House,
Senate need to give casino-loan proposal more consideration
Washington Missourian editorial: Let Ameren test
groundwater
SNL op-ed: Increase billboard restrictions
KC Star letter: McCaskill, Blunt and National Labor
Relations Board
P-D letter: Fixing I-70 vs. replacing it
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SNL: No hope in sight for road funding
KC Star: The 'war on women' sparks a battle for
votes: Obama, Dems and feminists vs. Romney, Republicans and
conservative women
KC Star: Ad reporting rule will affect political
campaigns, TV stations in KC
AP:
Missouri voters could decide on higher cigarette tax in November
SNL: Bills would raise Missouri cigarette taxes
Drebes: Budget debate: The big picture
AP:
Missouri senators want wage law suspended in disasters
St. Joseph News-Press: 'Never stop learning,' Gov.
Nixon tells Northwest Missouri State graduates
AP:
Colleges seek outside help as state support falls short
P-D: School funding plan crumbles under economic,
political strain
St. Louis Beacon: Imagine students begin the hunt for
new schools
SE
Missourian: Disaster anniversary coverage: Some farmers
still counting what flood cost them
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Foundation for Health
sponsored coverage: Some health reforms will continue no matter
what Supreme Court says about Affordable Care Act
NY Times editorial: A senator fights back; In
her ads, McCaskill talks about the fact she'll be outspent in Senate
race
P-D editorial: Real 'cancer' in higher education is
lack of affordability
KC Star editorial: Kansas City needs local control of
police department
Joplin Globe op-ed: It's not perfect, but Missouri
Plan for courts makes sense
SE
Missourian's Rust: A historical perspective on ALEC and National
Conference of State Legislators
Joplin Globe's Stark: Documentary on Joplin tornado
and newspaper operations a record for future journalists
KC Star letter: Sierra Club on nuclear power
JCNT letter: Intelligent design in Missouri classrooms
P-D letters: Imagine schools;
Ameren-Westinghouse deal; Sen. Jane Cunningham on preschool
ranking and funding; NFIB on McCaskill and union elections
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Missourian: Labor Department drops proposed rules restricting
child farm labor
Missouri News Horizon: McCaskill, Blunt, Nixon applaud
Labor Dept.'s withdrawal of farm labor rule
Columbia Missourian: New ethanol-gasoline blend to be
sold in Missouri worries opponents
Politico: Former Koster spokesman Danny Kanner to work
for Obama campaign in Chicago, will report to Lis Smith
Missourinet: McCaskill takes to Senate floor to talk
about her career resume in fighting domestic violence
KC Star: Ethics complaints pepper Senate race in
Missouri
St. Louis Beacon: Akin-Obama tete-a-tete update:
Akin votes to keep student loan rate low by using "Obamacare 'slush
fund'"
P-D: Rep. Akin helps pass student loan bill after
ridicule from Obama
Kirksville Daily Express: Senate hopeful John Brunner
visits Kirksville
Berger: Russ Carnahan uses franking privilege to
promote his winning of a "Rosa Parks" transportation award - but
misattributes group's quote
P-D Political Fix: Tom Carnahan, builder Bob Clark
help boost Russ Carnahan's fundraising
St. Louis Beacon: Judge sides with Schweich, two sides
dispute whether decision keeps payday-loan initiative drive alive
SNL: Missouri ProVote organizer claims signed minimum
wage, payday loan petitions stolen from car
AP: Missouri ballot measure legalize marijuana burns
out
St. Louis Beacon: Robin Wright-Jones sues Jamilah
Nasheed to get her knocked out of 5th District state Senate contest
P-D Political Fix: Judge asks for more information in
Missouri Medicaid suit
SEMO Times:
Ozarks foothills may be left out of Nixon's broadband initiative
The Maneater: More for Less marches for higher
education funding
Drebes:
Budget bits from the Senate
P-D: Preschool funding to be restored
Missourinet: Senate advances court plan change
JCNT editorial: Changing the initiative process:
An initiative to restore, not dilute, power
The Maneater editorial: Tuition cap means well but
won't do well
KC Star editorial: Capitol Watch: LGBT education
in public schools
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Coal Free Missouri's Taylor
Dankmyer: MU's coal plant pollutes communities from Columbia to
southern Illinois
P-D letter: Funding for Imagine charter schools versus
that of public schools
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Missourian: Bill would delay closing of postal centers
KSMU: U.S. Senate passes amendment to protect rural
post offices
Missouri News Horizon: Blunt supports extending lower
student loan rate
P-D Political Fix: Blunt in minority as Senate
advances Violence Against Women Act
St. Joseph News-Press: Area Democrats pick
delegates: "This is the year of the angry woman"
St. Louis Beacon: Obama, Akin tangle over
congressman's use of 'stage-three socialism'
P-D Political Fix: Akin says Obama misquoted him
Mahoney: Akin tries to turn college loan dust-up with
Obama into fundraising pitch
Mahoney: Radio host Laura Ingraham had to press Akin
to take a stand on college loan vote
Time Magazine: Rep. Todd Akin begins defense
subcommittee meetings with a moment of prayer
Mahoney: McCaskill's official Senate office gets a new
press secretary: Drew Pusateri
KY3: Missouri GOP says McCaskill committed rules
violation on 'Hardball'
Missouri News Horizon: Missouri Republicans accuse
McCaskill of wrongdoing in TV interview
KWMU: Missouri GOP files complaint against McCaskill
KC Star: Missouri Senate race is also a battle of
ethics complaints
Mahoney: Democrats accuse Hartzler of breaking promise
not to earmark; Hartzler's office says DCCC is distorting the
facts
St. Louis Beacon: Audio: Dale Singer, Rosenbaum,
Mannies discuss Akin-Obama tete-a-tete, Imagine schools,
sexual-orientation education bill
St. Louis Beacon: Spence campaign accidentally goes
public with its 'pivots'
AP:
Missouri judge upholds minimum wage ballot summary
WDAF: Video: Anti-payday loan group hosts rally
KC Star: Payday loan industry's campaign-cash conduit
didn't file tax returns in 2009 and 2010
Shelly: In Missouri, it's always payday for
somebody; Schweich lashes out at initiative process
P-D: Where did Missouri's 'puppy mill' debate go?
AP: State officials manufacture 500 summer jobs for
"State Parks Youth Corps"
AP:
Inspired by Mamtek debacle, Missouri House aims to prevent factory
failures
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Senate initially approves
changes to judge selection
SNL: Senate OKs changes to state judicial plan
AP: Missouri Senate endorses changes to judicial
selection
P-D Political Fix: Missouri Senate gives initial
approval to judicial reform resolution
Missourinet: Contentious week ends in Senate
AP: Missouri House passes whistleblower, workers' comp
bills
Drebes:
Foundation formula battle
AP: Fair to provide options for Imagine students
P-D: Lawmakers may let Missouri casinos extend credit
to gamblers
AP: Rep. Jeanie Riddle targets overtime at mental
hospital
Missourinet: 'Right to Farm' language stirs debate in
Missouri House
AP: Missouri Senate backs checks of some drunken
drivers
KC Star: Two more bills give exemptions to company
shipping radioactive waste through Missouri
St. Louis Beacon: Big or small, questions about
nuclear reactors remain
P-D's Tomich: Five questions with Ameren Missouri's
Bill Barbieri about landfill-gas program
P-D's Nicklaus: Angel investor subsidies don't create
jobs, professor's study finds
SE
Missourian: Missouri Department of Conservation, local parks
department organize Saturday cleanup drives
SE
Missourian: Disaster anniversary coverage: Limbaugh:
Corps had law on its side in levee breach
KC Star editorial: Debt vice tightens on
students; In Missouri, 65 percent of 2010 graduates had taken on
debt
KC Star editorial: Radioactive waste needs protections
Sedalia Democrat letter: Johnson County treasurer
candidate Samantha Hill on Rep. Stanley Cox's anti-meth bill
P-D letter: Voter ID; alcohol-wholesaler
regulations
JCNT letter: Ameren rate hike
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St. Louis Beacon: Senate approves postal service
reform, passes amendments from McCaskill and Blunt
SNL: Bill would spare Springfield mail center
P-D Political Fix: Opening fight over food and farm
bill abruptly delayed in U.S. Senate
Politico: Roy Blunt to GOP pals: Endorse Mitt
Romney
St. Louis Beacon: Latest attacks in Missouri's U.S.
Senate contest may later show up in TV attack ads
SNL: Obama and Akin tangle on socialism and student
loans
Washington Post: Akin says Obama misquoted him
KC Star: Obama rips Akin for student loan "cancer"
remark
CNN: President Obama calls out Akin on college tour
NY Magazine: Ann Coulter disagrees with Akin on
impeachment
KC Star: Vicky Hartzler's district one of 74 targeted
by DCCC in "Red to Blue" fundraising campaign
Tony's Kansas City: Jeff Roe officially shuts down
"The Source" blog; Axiom Strategies site will host new blog
featuring clients, oppo, ads, etc.
P-D Political Fix: Dave Spence's media consultant,
former TV reporter Matuschka Lindo, accidentally sends reporters
candidate's briefing book
Berger:
Ed Martin traveling in an ambulance across the state to draw attention
to "Obamacare"
SNL: State sales tax supporters press on after legal
blow
SNL: People gathering petition signatures for
competing payday loan initiatives clash at two library sites
Missouri News Horizon: Amid legal battle, Schweich
blasts payday loan industry
KC Star: Schweich: Make up your mind on fiscal
notes
SNL: Petition rules prompt bill; Legislation
would add requirements to initiative process
AP: Missouri House backs new rules for initiative
petitions
Columbia Missourian: John Wright, candidate in Dem
state rep primary, holds campaign launch party
St. Louis Beacon: At the Holden Public Policy Forum
event, advocates say St. Louis must understand Chinese culture to
advance business prospects
SNL: Blind Missouri residents following budget debate
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon lauds Missouri Senate version
of state budget, which restores aid program for the blind
Missourinet: Tourism budget takes cut in Senate
AP: Missouri senators vote to stay out of Medicaid
dispute
Missourinet: House advances two proposals related to
Mamtek
AP: Missouri lawmakers endorse economic development
bills
AP: Missouri House backs workplace whistleblower
measure
Missourinet: House advances proposed changes to
adoption law
P-D: Environmental group challenges Callaway plant
re-licensing
AP: Environmentalists contest Callaway nuclear renewal
KC Star: Mayor may yet have an advisory role in KC
school district
Columbia: Columbia ponders increased use of TIF
Columbia Missourian: Across Missouri, cities uses
tax-increment financing for a variety of purposes
P-D: State health officials lower number of E. coli
infections
AP: Champ Clark Bridge in Louisiana, Mo. to shut down
for a week
AP: Missouri gambling regulators ban 4 people from
casinos
P-D editorial: Challenged by judges, Tom Schweich
punts on responsibility
P-D editorial: Blocking preschool project funding
doesn't put students first
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Preserve public
notices; Sen. Ryan McKenna's proposal to modernize system is
flawed
P-D op-ed: Mark Twain and the coin crusade
SNL op-ed: Shady campaign would politicize picking
judges in Missouri
SNL op-ed: Accountability for schools changes in
Missouri, nation
Columbia Missourian's Rosman: Teaching ignorance of
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual community would be harmful to Missouri
SNL op-ed: 'Don't Say Gay' bill may cost young lives
in Missouri
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