Thursday, April 30
P-D: Obama threatens veto of Iran arms bill if Blunt
amendment is attached
KC Star: White House says Iran bill will draw veto if
Blunt's prisoner-release amendment is attached
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St. Joseph News-Press: At hearing, Lt. Gen. Stanley
Clarke tells Blunt that flight simulators are coming to Rosecrans X
Kraske: The Chat: Club for Growth on Blunt's
conservative rating; Schmitt on bullying; Nasheed on
wayward youths and deadly force +
P-D/Kaiser Health News: Study from experts at Kaiser
Family Foundation shows Medicaid expansion gives boost to Ascension
Health
KC Star: Sen. Mike Parson (R-Bolivar) to kick off
gubernatorial campaign today +
Columbia Missourian: In third term, Rep. Caleb Jones
(R-Columbia) keeps moving up
JCNT: Defendant: 'Right to Farm' cancels
marijuana-growing charge X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Munzlinger says legislators are
trying to avoid triggering Hancock Amendment with transportation funding
AP: Legislature OKs expanded rights for military voters
AP: Missouri House endorses bond funding for new
veterans home
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Moberly superintendent talks about state's tougher
exams for potential teachers
Washington Missourian: Students taking state
assessments online
CDT: Committee defeats House bill that would stop
Grain Belt Express X
Missourinet: Missouri lawmakers, officer disagree on
effect of system to track pseudoephedrine purchases
The Maneater: Rep. Stephen Webber (D-Columbia)
introduces LGBTQIA non-discrimination bill for the sixth straight year
The Missouri Times: Rep. Ken Wilson (R-Smithville)
brings UAVs to Capitol, wants to codify commercial drone use in the
state
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Bill from Rep. Lindell Shumake
(R-Hannibal) would reduce regulations on small honey bottlers
Missourinet: Change to use of deadly force by Missouri
police gets initial Senate approval
AP: Missouri Senate OKs bill to limit police use of
deadly force
P-D: Rates rising for Ameren Missouri customers,
except Noranda
AP: Noranda gets rate cut, other Ameren customers see
increase
JCNT: Mid-Missouri lawmakers unhappy with PSC decision X
P-D: New football stadium bills total about $800,000,
so far
JCNT: Stink bugs invading Missouri;
Invertebrates cause economic damage, emit foul odor when disturbed X
P-D: Protesters again return to Ferguson
streets; Tuesday night activities included multiple shootings,
looting, destruction of police vehicles, setting Port-a-Potty ablaze
AP: Protests return in Ferguson for second night
P-D: Caucasoid Illinois teen admits plan to join
looting in Ferguson, then sell stolen guns to protesters
The Maneater editorial: Legislature should pass
Webber's MONA
P-D editorial: From Ferguson to Baltimore: The
new civil rights movement emerges
St. Joseph News-Press' Alonzo Weston: Sexagenarian
columnist discusses Missouri welfare reform with imaginary 300-lb.
friend "Bag-Head Jheri" X
KC Star letters: Ensure transportation money isn't
spent on other projects; Adult Abuse and Neglect Hotline deserves
full funding +
P-D letter: Response to Martin Rochester's response to
P-D editorial on school-transfer issue
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Wednesday, April 29
KC Star: Blunt wants release of U.S. prisoners as a
condition of Iran deal +
KWMU: Blunt says he wants less regulatory burden on
job creators, would codify executive order
Roll Call: Rothenberg/Roll Call rate Blunt's seat as
Safe Republican, but Kander supporters insist he has a shot
P-D: HUD secretary visits St. Louis, says area may
receive taxpayer dollars through "Promise Zone" designation
AP: HUD secretary announces 8 new Promise Zone
designations
Kraske: The Chat: Cleaver on Hillary;
Galloway gives a gracious nod to Schweich, Jackson; Kehoe on
state employee compensation +
CDT: Nicole Galloway replaces top staffers; John
Luetkemeyer named deputy state auditor, and Michael Moorefield as chief
of staff X
CDT: Medicaid-expansion rally draws 20 X
KWMU: How the Missouri General Assembly's budget
differs from governor's proposals
KWMU: Senate gives first approval to bill changing
state's deadly force law
The Missouri Times: New deadly force law gets first
approval in Senate
AP: Senate passes prison options for kids guilty of
murder
The Missouri Times: A look at what's next for student
transfers
P-D: Students in nearly 90 schools across Missouri
could transfer under tentatative plan
KC Star: High school juniors across Missouri take the
ACT exam on the state's dime +
Missouri Digital News: Anti-bullying bill passed by
state Senate; Comments from Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Glendale)
KWMU: Brookings Institution gives high ranking to
Missouri S&T
Missourinet: Missouri lawmakers asked to require
infant sleeping policy of day cares
AP: Missouri House OKs utility tax exemption for food
production
AP: Missouri Senate hires former Army officer as
security aide
Missourinet: Proposed reforms of Missouri city courts
goes to legislative conference
KWMU: Data problem clouds American Lung Association's
annual St. Louis air report; ozone improves but still gets an 'F'
Missourinet: Petition: Release Missouri man in
prison 21 years for pot crimes
The Missouri Times: Rep. Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin),
others call for clemency for pot inmate
CDT: State documents refute IBM's jobs claims X
KOLR: Tick season creeping up earlier this year;
Missouri Dept. of Conservation warns against dangerous blood-sucking
parasites
Drebes:
NY Times wonders why so many black men are killed or incarcerated in
Ferguson
KTVI: Protesters congregate in Ferguson, 2 people shot
KTVI: Looters hit Mobil on the Run overnight;
Video of miscreants breaking windows, pillaging store
P-D: Protesters congregate, shootings ensue;
Photos of man bleeding, woman waving upside-down American flag, police
dealing with aggression
KWMU: Protesters congregate, violence ensues
KC Star: Nixon to Baltimore: Make it through the
short-term protester/rioter/looter/arsonist behavior, then don't put
your head in the sand +
JCNT editorial: Rate request becomes issue for
Legislature X
KC Star letter: Maybe students whining about their
college loans should have thought about the struggle before borrowing
huge sums of money +
JCNT letter: Area man reveals objective of Missouri
Republicans: To destroy the middle class
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Tuesday, April 28
P-D: Iran bill up for Senate debate, but amendments
may kill it; Comments from Blunt
National Journal: Corker, Cardin try to hold Iran bill
together; Details on Blunt amendment
KWMU: McCaskill talks politics, law enforcement,
presidential campaign, Schweich suicide, more
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Emanuel
Cleaver chats with Mannies & Rosenbaum about rural parts of
district, congressional civility, "revenue-based" policing, Hillary
Clinton, more
Reuters: U.S. House defense bill funds 12 Boeing
fighters, 6 Lockheed F-35s
The Hill: Senate Dems send letter to Rules Committee
Chairman Blunt, asking Senate to start paying restaurant workers and
other contractors a "living wage"
P-D: U.S. Supreme Court showdown on gay marriage
likely to reverberate in Missouri
CDT: Crowd gathers for Earth Day celebration;
Mid-Missouri Peaceworks organizes "human chain" to end global
warming; Adults play with hula hoops in public
JCNT: Nicole Galloway takes oath as 38th auditor X
AP: Nicole Galloway sworn in as Missouri auditor
CDT: Nicole Galloway sworn in as new auditor X
Columbia Missourian: Nicole Galloway officially
succeeds Schweich as state auditor
KOMU (Columbia): Nicole Galloway sworn in as Missouri
auditor
P-D: Nicole Galloway sworn in as state auditor
KWMU: Galloway sworn in as Missouri auditor
SE
Missourian: Missouri Association for Social Welfare, rebranded as
"Empower Missouri," draws about a dozen to pro-Medicaid-expansion event +
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): MoDOT's Brian Haefner on
transportation funding, possible options for revenue
AP: Nixon approves $250M in additional spending
Missourinet: Sen. Mike Kehoe (R-Jefferson City) wants
Nixon to let state employee pay study stand
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) on
state's "record levels" of education funding
The Missouri Times: Libraries see state funding woes,
again
Missourinet: Missouri Senate sued over filming of
hearings
KOMU (Columbia Missourian): Progress Missouri awaits
response in lawsuit over cameras in Senate hearings
Kraske: Kander wants Legislature to move on
legislation to reduce filing fees +
AP: State alcohol, tobacco agency could get dedicated
funds
JCNT: Senate endorses Riddle's immunization notices
bill X
P-D: For the first time, students across Missouri will
take ACT
CDT: Common Core criticism muted in Columbia, but
still widespread across the state X
KC Star: Sen. Tom Dempsey (R-St. Charles) endorses
local control for Uber, Lyft +
Missourinet: Rep. Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City) seeks
to regulate ride-sharing companies statewide
AP: Senate backs proposed U.S. balanced budget
amendment
KOMU (Columbia): IBM employment numbers reveal broken
promise to Columbia, state
Columbia Missourian: IBM suspended from BUILD
incentives for low employment
KOMU (Columbia): MoDOT has a new one-stop website for
road conditions
KWMU: Ferguson Commission adopts new principle:
September report must be written through lens of "racial equality"
P-D/Feast: Ferguson BBQ join opens after nearly being
ruined by looter/arsonist damage
P-D editorial: Missouri's SORTS program for
sexually-violent offenders looks a lot like prison
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Adjunct professor: MU
should spend more time talking about race
P-D letter: Editorial board's attempt at "Bigfoot"
allegory was a little too tryhard
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Monday, April 27
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill on how she because a
Hillary surrogate; Kurt Schaefer relays a tale about Roger Wilson
and Chris Kelly +
KWMU: Does Earth Day matter? Festival-goers
respond
P-D: Sunny skies help fuel turnout for Earth Day
celebration
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Catherine
Hanaway; Panel of Michael Kelley (D), Brittany Burke (D), Rep.
Travis Fitzwater (R), Ryan Johnson (R) discuss gov race, stadium,
municipal-court overhaul
Missouri Viewpoints: Learning from Tom Schweich's
tragedy: Thoughts from Missouri Institute of Mental Health's Liz
Sale and former U.S. Senate candidate John Brunner
Drebes: Reader offers defense of Keith English on
Ethics Commission fine
JCNT: Debate swirls around whether increase in minimum
wage would hurt businesses X
AP:
Democrats criticize GOP budget process, while esteemed vet Chris Kelly
(D) recounts solving a budget dispute via billiards
JCNT: Future of Legislative Research modified in budget X
P-D: Proposed tax legislation pleases St. Louis County
police chief, angers some mayors
KC Star: New teacher license tests are tough to pass,
and students say they're not prepared +
KWMU: School superintendents gather to share ideas on
keeping pace with digital changes
Missourinet: Bill aims to change policy on youth
athlete brain injury assessment
P-D: New project seeks to help thousands of Missouri
child care providers succeed in business
KODE (Joplin): Proposed bill limits access to body
camera video
JCNT editorial: In support of gas-tax proposal:
Editorial board cannot resist climaxing with "2 cents" punchline X
P-D editorial: Missouri budget debate misses the
point, and $4 billion
KC Star's Mara Rose Williams: College tuition in
Missouri going up, but not by much +
JCNT letter: Luetkemeyer is a do-nothing
representative who only takes shots at the EPA because his donors want
to pollute the air X
P-D letter: Legislators correct to continue stand
against Medicaid expansion
P-D letter: City alderwoman says poor children in bad
districts should be integrated into decent ones
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Sunday, April 26
Monett
Times: McCaskill's David Stokely, Blunt's Steve McIntosh, Long's
Mike Ussery give updates, along with GOP Sen. David Sater, Reps. Scott
Fitzpatrick and Mike Moon
SNL: A look at the 2014 office expenses of Missouri's
congressional delegation X
KMZU (Carrollton): Vicky Hartzler talks about
legislation to nullify EPA's "Waters of the U.S." rule
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): USDA marks Earth Day in mid-Missouri
JCNT: Federal program to help downtown plan for
permanent farmers market; Comments from Downtown Association
President Stephanie Bell X
KC Star: Justice Department to spend $1 million trying
to make Kansas City's Prospect Avenue corridor safer +
CDT: Nicole Galloway says she'll bring innovation,
energy to auditor role X
SNL: John Brunner speaks to Greene County Republican
Women X
Drebes:
John Wright won't seek office in 2016
JCNT: State Employee of the Month: Maintenance
supervisor Roger Lehnhoff X
KC Star: Missouri ponders medical marijuana - and the
money to be made selling it +
KMZU
(Carrollton): Sen. Dan Hegeman (R-Cosby) on Tax Freedom Day,
difference between 2014 transportation ballot issue and current gas-tax
proposals, more
CDT: Missouri Department of Economic Development
suspends IBM incentives after layoffs X
KC Star: Testing is at a crossroads as schools take
state exams +
AP: Students rally around high school senior who left
unloaded, disassembled shotgun under the seat of his pickup truck
parked on school grounds
P-D: With no state standards, getting clear picture of
city jails is difficult
Hannibal Courier-Post: Farmers continue fight against
proposed Ameren power line project
SNL editorial: Pass the 2-cent fuel tax bill! X
KC Star editorial: In Kansas City area, jobs aren't
fleeing Missouri after Kansas tax cuts +
KC Star's Steve Paul: U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
enlists Kansas City to boost 18th and Vine plan +
CDT op-ed: Rep. Tracy McCreery (D-Olivette), Carl
Bearden (R): Bipartisan bill protecting ticket buyers should be
welcome in Missouri X
The Missouri Times letter: Sen. Doug Libla (R-Poplar
Bluff): Gas-tax increase is critical to maintaining Missouri's
roads
KC Star letters: Show-Me Institute's Brittany Wagner
says school choice can help youngsters escape savage bullying;
Liberty man reveals how Jesus Christ feels about Missouri legislators +
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Saturday, April 25
P-D's Chuck Raasch: McCaskill and the power and peril
for Clinton surrogates
Kraske: Scott Walker has Jim Talent in his corner -
and maybe the Koch brothers +
P-D: Local congressional delegation's votes for the
week
SE
Missourian: Area officials continue grappling with new ozone
standards +
JCNT: DNR Earth Day event promotes conservation X
Missourinet: Democrats attack - and Republicans defend
- accelerated Missouri budget timeline
St. Joseph News-Press: Universities react to state
budget passed Thursday X
KMZU (Carrollton): Rep. Dean Dohrman (R-La Monte) on
budget, tax credits for data centers, state advertising for
international businesses
KMZU (Carrollton): Missouri Association for Community
Action rallies for more spending
KWMU: Local transportation officials, mayors support
gas-tax increase for roads
P-D: Local officials want gas-tax hike, despite long
odds against it
KMZU (Carrollton): Medicaid-expansion advocates make
their case; Carroll County Memorial Hospital CEO Jeff Tindle says
opponents demonstrate "stupidity"
P-D: MSSU pulls its legislative interns from Capitol
program; Coed drama may be to blame
P-D: Stadium plan advancing, but financing still
uncertain
P-D: St. Louis County man admits attempted arson of
Ferguson market; Antonio Whiteside sought to burn down store
where Michael Brown thieved Swisher Sweets and assaulted minority
business owner
KWMU: Organization for Black Struggle continues push
to oust McCulloch
Investor's Business Daily editorial: Blunt among GOP
senators giving an inch on Obamacare; Republicans should push
dismantling prior to '16 election, not after
JCNT editorial: Audit reveals Nixon's poor spending
practices continue X
KC Star Capitol Watch editorial: Weekly list of GOP
transgressions: Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) wrong to shift
social welfare program spending +
Washington Missourian editorial: Legislation to fund
911 systems is needed, and can take time to accomplish
P-D letter: Caps on medical malpractice will affect
safety of health care
KC Star letter: Area woman says paperwork error shows
state social workers are not very bright +
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Friday, April 24
KC Star: McCaskill, Blunt at odds over Loretta Lynch
confirmation vote in Senate +
Washington Post: Video: McCaskill says
opposition to Obama nominee 'disgusting'
Washington Post: McCaskill calls attention to issues
surrounding senior citizens not paying their student loan debts
The Hill: McCaskill, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
fret about government's approach to recovering debt from deadbeat
seniors
KC Star: Kander fundraising pitch quotes Blunt on
student loans +
Drebes:
Anne Zerr far outpacing Mark Parkinson in fundraising for state Senate
seat
KWMU: Jason Rosenbaum wins regional Murrow award for
Ferguson piece
Missourinet: Former Joplin chief of police sworn in as
Missouri's Public Safety Director
KWMU: Lawmakers send state budget to Nixon
The Missouri Times: Lawmakers send budget to Nixon
AP: Legislature approves $84,000,000.00 more for K-12
basic aid
AP: Legislature lays out plan to spend around
$26,000,000,000.00
AP: Budget breakdown: How state government will
manage to spend $26,000,000,000.00
JCNT: No state employee pay raise in new budget X
KWMU: Negotiators approve state budget, with House
passing court reform and traffic fines bill
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg)
on prospects for school transfer bill
SNL: State: Springfield, Nixa spending too much
to lease buildings X
The Maneater: Low state revenue stymies 50-50 fund
match capital projects
KWMU: In recruitment push, SEIU targets area's
less-than-full professors
The Maneater: Rep. Keith Frederick (R-Rolla) looks to
get treatment of eating disorders covered by health plans
AP: Missouri House OKs allowing aspiring doctors to
retake exam
KWMU: Missouri Coalition for the Environment appeals
nuclear plant license renewal
JCNT: Environmentalists appeal nuclear plant extension X
Missourinet: Execution set for Missouri man who killed
girlfriend, 2-year-old in 2000; Richard Strong attempted to saw
off toddler's neck with butcher knife, then left tip of knife in
girlfriend's skull
KRCG: MO Dept. of Conservation says spring hunting
looks good, though population of young wild gobblers has decreased
KWMU: Parents of Michael Brown file wrongful death suit
P-D: Michael Brown's parents seek cash from city of
Ferguson, former Police Chief Tom Jackson, and assault victim Darren
Wilson
AP:
Michael Brown's parents seek cash from Ferguson
The Maneater editorial: Legislators need to make the
'Missouri Promise;' State Treasurer Clint Zweifel's initiative
provides great hope
P-D editorial: Debate over sales and police taxes
highlights region's dysfunction
SNL editorial: Write a letter to the editor, and maybe
it will instigate a conversation or somehow be productive X
Shelly: Strugglefaces abound at free clinic;
Republicans who oppose Medicaid expansion should listen to hard-knock
stories +
P-D letter: UMSL's J. Martin Rochester:
Post-Dispatch editorial writers should look in the mirror when
assigning blame for transfer law
JCNT letter: Missouri's white men earn too much money
compared to everyone else; Furthermore, "all educated women are
cheated out of one million dollars" X
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Thursday, April 23
The Hill: Business groups call for passage of
McCaskill tariff bill
P-D: After long delay, Senate OKs trafficking bill
KWMU: Senate approves human trafficking bill
P-D: Nixon in D.C. pushing Missouri site for new
Geospatial facility
Brownfield Ag News: USDA Rural Development official in
Missouri for Earth Day, lauds office's accomplishments
KC Star: KC officials lament the loss of $1 million in
Homeland Security funding +
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill on college
basketball, Schaaf on deadly force +
Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal: McCaskill says campus
sexual assaults still an issue
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Jason
Crowell talks to Mannies & Rosenbaum about his time in Jefferson
City, Hanaway, campaign finance limits, state tax credits, more
The Missouri Times: Department of Labor honors fallen
workers
JCNT: Coalition changes tactics in clean energy effort X
Missourinet: Audit: Nixon's office still paying
for employees, travel from other agencies, can't justify float trip
JCNT: Still footing the bill for Nixon;
Audit: Governor still spending money from other departments X
KWMU: Audit ranks Nixon's office as 'fair,' cites
continuing use of funds from other agencies
AP: Audit says Nixon has shifted costs to other
agencies
AP: New State Auditor Nicole Galloway to cut deputy,
chief of staff
Missourinet: Proposed FY16 Missouri budget set for
House and Senate votes
The Missouri Times: After delays, conference committee
advances budget
SE
Missourian: State funds release means SEMO Port will add railroad
tracks +
Missourinet: Legislature proposes limits on medical
malpractice awards
Washington Missourian: Area legislators weigh in on
gas-tax proposals
The Missouri Times: House gives first approval to
ride-sharing legislation
AP: Missouri House endorses statewide regulations for
Uber, Lyft
KWMU: New exams test Missouri schools, students
KWMU: State school officials want to hear about
Normandy can improve
Missourinet: House and Senate near agreement on 'fix'
to school transfer law
KMZU (Carrollton): Rep. Mike Lair (R-Chillicothe) on
welfare cuts, impact of transfer students' poor performance on host
school districts
AP: Nixon says he's worried TANF cuts will hurt
welfare kids
KWMU: House gives first approval to bill restricting
police body camera footage from public
Missourinet: MU professor critical of secrecy in
Missouri execution protocol
The Missouri Times: Senators weigh changes to deadly
force law
AP: Missouri House OKs changes to municipal court
practices
The Missouri Times: Municipal court reforms move
closer to Nixon's desk
SNL: Hunters who shoot their first wild animal
eligible for certificate from Missouri Department of Conservation X
KWMU: Michael Brown's parents will sue Ferguson over
son's death
AP: Civil lawsuit to be filed in Michael Brown's death
P-D: Organization for Black Struggle, others ask for
special prosecutor to investigate grand jury proceedings in Michael
Brown case
P-D: Charges filed against looter from second round of
Michael Brown riots; Carlos Hill caught on camera thieving from
Dollar Tree
KC Star editorial: Nixon to auditors: Follow the
rules? Who, me? +
Washington Missourian editorial: Nixon should sign GOP
bill and put a stop to frivolous "discrimination" lawsuits
SE
Missourian op-ed: Joshua Hawley: Missouri shouldn't sign up
for Obama's Clean Power Plan +
Washington Missourian letter: Media labels assault on
Curt Ford a "hate cime," but savage beating of man on MetroLink was
supposedly not
JCNT letter: Area man disagrees with Ron Calzone on
discrimination protections, quotes Star Trek actor/frequent Howard
Stern guest George Takai +
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Wednesday, April 22 Earth Day
Washington Times: White House won't link Iranian
nuclear talks to U.S. prisoners; Comments from Blunt
Brownfield Ag News: Vicky Hartzler, Blaine Luetkemeyer
speak against EPA's "Waters of the U.S." rule
Missourinet: Missouri congressional delegation
campaigns to ditch the EPA's "Waters of the U.S" rule
Kraske: The Chat: Blunt on health research
funding; Lacy Clay on black struggle; MoDOT's Roberta
Broeker on transportation-funding dreams +
P-D: McCaskill contemplating legislative action on
NCAA 'one and done' rule
Washington Post's Cillizza: A look at 2018 U.S. Senate
races; In a state turning deeper red, McCaskill's decision to not
run for governor helps Dems
Drebes:
Marijuana advocate Eapen Thampy supports pro-pot-reform Brad Bradshaw
(D) for gov lite
JCNT: Supporters of campaign-financing overhaul
promise appeal X
SE
Missourian: Area folk singers perform at library to protest
budget cuts +
JCNT: Schaaf proposes toll road option for I-70 X
Missourinet: Legislature proposes new limits on
unemployment benefits
KWMU: House sends bill reducing unemployment benefits
to governor
AP: Missouri House roll call vote on medical
malpractice caps
P-D: Senate endorses eating-disorder bill
The Missouri Times: Senators weigh changes to deadly
force law
Missourinet: Bills would allow orders of protection
for Missouri rape victims
P-D: Class action lawsuit begins over Missouri's
treatment of sexually violent predators
CDT: Police make arrest in campus groping case:
Luke Kuol among pack of men prowling for victims X
CDT: Police catch second sexual assailant from MU
campus incident: Gire Ngezahayo X
CDT's Ashley Jost: Final "Learning Curve" column
before heading to KC Business Journal: Remembering Charles
McClain, Spence Jackson scholarship fund details, more X
P-D: Washington University launches "gun violence"
initiative
The Missouri Times: Conference committee appointments
give some hope for transfer fix
The Missouri Times: Bill from Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape
Girardeau) seeks to make Missouri a competitive filming location
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Brian Munzlinger
(R-Williamstown) on conflict of interest at Missouri Department of
Conservation
The Missouri Times: Rep. Genise Montecillo (D-St.
Louis) leads late push for Ameren to Public Service Commission
P-D: St. Louis County could seek sales tax for law
enforcement under House plan
KWMU: Missouri House version of traffic fines fix
moves forward, singles out 'suburban areas'
KWMU: Developer/campaign contributor Paul McKee's
Hazelwood development owes millions in court judgment, taxes
Missourinet: Veterinarians concerned dog flu outbreak
could reach Missouri
KWMU: Ferguson's new councilmembers take their oaths -
and face tough challenges
P-D: Crowds throng Ferguson City Hall
AP: Crowd gathers to watch new councilmembers sworn in
P-D editorial: Wife of Washington University
chancellor wants to study gun violence, and that's special
CDT's Waters: Schmitt's bill on course syllabi a good
idea X
CDT op-ed: Gregg Keller: In support of Schmitt's
syllabi legislation X
CDT op-ed: Nixon sells out Missouri cattle farmers X
SNL letter: House bill allows pollution from factory
farms X
KC Star letters: Republicans are mean and
self-serving; McCaskill-Blunt support for nuclear weapons is a
"threat to all creation" +
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Tuesday, April 21
KWMU: Blunt wants to boost funding for National
Institutes of Health
KWMU: Clay on new Black Caucus economic report:
African-Americans not given same chances as whites, have been hit
harder by recesssion, earn less money, etc.
The Hill: Republicans assail race disclosures in gun
purchases; Blunt spotted ATF's form change last fall
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill on Rubio,
Hillary; Obamacare contractor Lavonne Takatz on playing
Pictionary, other board games on the clock +
The Hill: Senate fundraising winners and losers:
Jason Kander a winner with an impressive first quarter
The Maneater: McCaskill stops by MU, talks about
sexual assaults
P-D: Environmental law group sets annual
fundraiser; Missouri Conservation Commission Chairman James Blair
IV to speak at May event for Great Rivers Environmental Law Center
AP: Office of AG Chris Koster (D) will defend Senate
in Sunshine Law lawsuit from liberal group
Missourinet: MoDOT still hoping for new funding
proposal
The Missouri Times: Springfield-area hospital
threatens job cuts ahead of budget debate
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Audio: Munzlinger on ag
bills, budget timeline
AP: Corporate headquarters tax bills sent to governor
AP: Infighting splits panel for Missouri Common Core
goals
P-D: Common Core workgroups report mediocre attendance
Missourinet: Bill to allow statewide 911 in Missouri
nears House passage
JCNT: House panel hears testimony for texting-driving
ban X
AP: House panel OKs traffic fine limits, court rules
Missourinet: Missouri Dept. of Corrections' "Puppies
for Parole" celebrates 3,000th adoption
P-D: Gallery: Post-Dispatch photographers win
Pulitzers for Ferguson pics: Protesters throwing objects at
police, looting stores, taunting law enforcement officers, lighting
candles at site of assault on Darren Wilson, more
P-D: DOJ talks end abruptly in Bellefontaine Neighbors
P-D editorial: Missouri Chamber once again gets
discrimination all wrong
P-D editorial: With 'welfare reform,' Missouri
Legislature attacks Bigfoot; Nixon should veto Republicans'
"fact-free meanness"
KC Star editorial: Nixon should free career criminal +
P-D op-ed: National Council of Jewish Women's Jen
Bernstein supports McCaskill on abortion
Helling: Sarcastic analogy on welfare reform:
Lawmakers who work for a living are like welfare recipients hanging out
on the dole +
KC Star letters: "Clean energy," Republican meanness,
motorcycle helmets +
P-D letter: Republicans who oppose Medicaid expansion
lack logic
P-D letter: Liberal male says Post-Dispatch editorials
are a nice balance to state of Missouri's "rigid conservative nature"
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Monday, April 20
ABC News: Video
and transcript: Claire McCaskill touts Hillary Clinton's
presidential campaign, takes aim at Marco Rubio
NY Times: McCaskill among several Hillary Clinton
surrogates making Sunday morning talking-head rounds
Washington Post: Democratic rivals pitch themselves as
McCaskill, other Clinton stand-ins do Sunday shows
The Hill: Clinton supporter Claire McCaskill:
Benghazi probe a 'political exercise'
Washington Post: Claire McCaskill on why she's
supporting Hillary Clinton this time around
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill on how hard it is to
be a woman; Blunt on Corker's Iran proposal +
KC Star: McCaskill gets "weepy" in public paying
tribute to nonagenarian former judge Scott Wright +
KMZU (Carrollton): Audio: Blunt's weekly
conference call with reporters, discussing budget and highway funding
P-D: Obamacare contractor paid 13,000 hours of
overtime; Employees spent their time playing Pictionary, Trivial
Pursuit
Missouri Viewpoints: Interviews with Randy Asbury (R),
Brad Bradshaw (D), who say they'll file for statewide offices
This Week in Missouri Politics: Video: Featured
guest Tom Dempsey; Panel of Mark Dalton (D), Megan Shackelford
(D), Robert Cornejo (R), Scott Dieckhaus (R)
KC Star: Unannounced GOP gov candidate Eric Greitens
talks with Jon Stewart +
Kirksville Daily Express: Money tough to track in
anti-Schweich ad
Kirksville Daily Express: Jeff Roe says Catherine
Hanaway knew nothing of ad that mocked Schweich
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Profile: 1980's state Sen. Stephen Sharp
(D-Kennett)
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Audio: Nixon speaks to FFA
convention about foreign markets, education, high-speed Internet
service to rural communities
Rosenbaum: Urban Democratic prosecutors Jennifer
Joyce, Jean Peters Baker criticize Missourians' passage of Amendment 5,
while Chris Koster (D) endorses it
St. Joseph News-Press: Area lawmakers' views mixed on
increasing the gas tax for roads X
KWMU: Lawmakers to tackle budget, student transfers,
and Macks Creek "fix" this week
Missourinet: Schaefer: 'Reining in' Missouri
social programs more important than accelerated budget timeline
AP: Missouri Republicans move forward on Medicaid
reforms
KODE (Joplin): Legislature proposes limiting time
welfare recipients can stay on the dole; Comments from Sen. Ron
Richard (R-Joplin)
KODE (Joplin): Joplin's Sen. Ron Richard (R), Rep.
Bill White (R) speak in Webb City about Missouri budget issues
KOLR: Springfield mental hospital vows job cuts if
Senate budget passes
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg)
on education budget
Kirksville Daily Express: Jeff City Beat:
Funding for Truman State's Baldwin Hall remains stalled; More
updates
Columbia Missourian: Columbia City Council members
critical of Schaefer, Rowden proposals
SE
Missourian: Law change could mean more funds for local domestic
violence shelters +
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Nate Walker (R-Kirksville)
speaks out against child abuse
KC Star: Gay-rights activists continue push +
JCNT: Legislature considers how to deal with children
who kill X
KMOX: Missouri's Black Caucus discusses 2015
agenda: Rep. Courtney Curtis (D-Berkeley): "Let's make the
unions put their money where their mouth is"
KWMU: Nine legislators, 35 members of the public show
up on time for Black Caucus event; Rep. Sharon Pace (D-St. Louis)
arrives at end of panel discussion
KOMU (Columbia): MO Dept. of Conservation proposes new
hunting regulations
KWMU: After tumultuous start, Ferguson Commission gets
down to business
P-D: Mini protests erupt at Saul Williams concert at
Duck Room; Artist enraged by audience member saying "All lives
matter" instead of acceptable "Black lives matter"
Kirksville Daily Express editorial: Legislature should
honor Schweich's memory with campaign finance reform
P-D editorial: Missouri Legislature is poised to
bankrupt Normandy schools again
P-D letter: Missouri Republicans and ALEC are
mean-spirited, and believe the state motto should be "I've got mine. To
hell with you."
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Sunday, April 19
ABC News: This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Claire McCaskill begins Sunday-morning talking-head circuit in support
of Hillary Clinton
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Missourian: Fraudulent filing of tax returns hits high
locally; McCaskill on panel that is examining issue
CDT: Organizers of Earth Day celebration postpone
festival due to threat of rain
CDT: At MU summit, McCaskill talks sexual assaults
KMIZ (Columbia): McCaskill visits campus, talks sexual
assaults
Columbia Missourian: McCaskill visits MU, discusses
sexual-assault legislation
Drebes: Missouri Ethics Commission says Rep. Keith
English (I-Florissant) must pay campaign back $5k
Washington Missourian: Local fire district
commissioner on importance of raising gasoline tax: "We need to
light a fire under the @ss of everybody in that House"
P-D: Despite demand for wind energy, Grain Belt
Express transmission line faces uncertainty in Missouri
AP:
Puppies for Parole marks 3,000th dog adopted
P-D: James O'Mara passes away; Iconic North
County labor leader, pol to have visitation tonight, funeral tomorrow
in St. Charles
SNL editorial: Nixon's release of state dollars a big
help
KC Star editorial: Pass a small fuel tax to invest in
Missouri's roads and bridges
Washington Missourian editorial: Ameren landfill
revisions: Residents can rest easy knowing landfill will meet or
exceed all state and federal regulations
SE
Missourian Editor Bob Miller: Missouri: The Hide-Me
State; How public institutions across the state are making a
mockery of the Sunshine Law
CDT op-ed: Citizens' Climate Lobby of
Columbia/Jefferson City's George Laur says Blunt should drop opposition
to carbon tax
CDT op-ed: Show-Me Institute's Michael Rathbone and
James Shuls: Taxing smokers no sign of support for education
JCNT letter: Area woman says bill from Rep. Jay
Houghton (R-Martinsburg) would hide information on animals and the
environment
CDT letter: Area woman opposes cuts to social welfare
programs
P-D letter: Defiance man says Wilson's innocence
doesn't require more proof; Black community should transfer
protest/looting energy into stopping black-on-black shootings
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Saturday, April 18
The Hill: Blunt reacts to Corker's Iran proposal
USA Today: Columbia University doctors want Dr. Oz
dismissed from med school faculty; McCaskill continues to call
out TV yapper for quackery
Bloomberg: Female pols weigh in on the hardships to be
endured by Hillary Clinton; McCaskill: "I haven't seen
anybody write yet on Rand Paul's hair, even though it's very
interesting"
P-D: Congressional delegation's votes for the week
Kraske: A toast to 'Mister Connection' and
'everybody's friend," Woody Overton +
AP: Schweich campaign returns $480,000 to donors
Drebes:
Brad Ketcher to serve as treasurer for "New Approach Missouri,"
committee to support statewide marijuana initiative in 2016
AP: Judge blocks campaign-limits petition
AP: Public gets second chance to weigh in on Common
Core
CDT: Nixon touts agriculture scholarships at FFA
convention X
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Ag Director Richard
Fordyce tells FFA kids to reach high
P-D: Legislature discusses bill protecting gays from
discrimination
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Missourian: Koster accuses Fruitland Meat processor of polluting
water +
AP: Koster sues meat-processing facility
SNL: Former state Rep. Kevin Elmer (R-Nixa) says those
opposing LGBTQIA proposals have been marginalized X
KSGF: Audio of Kevin Elmer on Nick Reed's show
discussing the LGBTQIA push in public schools
P-D: State housing commission suggests ways to improve
subsidized housing model; Possibilities include subjecting
"affluent" neighborhoods to low-income tenements
KWMU: Panel discussion focuses on Ferguson and
"economic mobility;" UMSL prof suggests extending MetroLink even
further
KC Star Capitol Watch editorial: Weekly list of GOP
transgressions: Republicans wrong about welfare cuts and
recording of public hearings, might potentially have the chance to be
right about heroin-overdose antidote +
P-D editorial: Progress in the fair wage campaign, but
harder work ahead; Context for SEIU push from MIT data, Leon
Trotsky, Gallup polls, more
Investor's Business Daily op-ed: Stephen Moore:
McCaskill's criticism of NCAA-NBA youth athlete complex is spot-on
CDT's Waters: Gas-tax proposal from Sen. Doug Libla
(R-Poplar Bluff) is a sign of progress X
JCNT letter: Area woman opposes Senate cuts to social
services X
P-D letter: Liberal stalwart Ruth Ehresman:
Missouri Republicans wrong to cut social services
P-D letter: Parents of badly-behaved children should
request documentation from school
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Friday, April 17
MSNBC: 'Imposter' tax scam worse than ever;
Comments from McCaskill
St. Joseph News-Press: Senators focus on scam with IRS
impersonators X
McClatchy: McCaskill, others target 'imposter' scam
KC Star: U.S. House Dems considering Emanuel Cleaver
for a leadership post +
KFVS (Cape Girardeau): McCaskill calls for delay in
postal closings
Kraske: The Chat: James Harris on Missouri's
role in 2016 national elections; Vicky Hartzler on the "death tax" +
Drebes:
SOS changes: John Scott is Kander's new Deputy Chief of
Staff; Elizabeth Zerr promoted to Legislative Director
The Missouri Times: Photo gallery: Annual
legislative softball tournament
KC Star: Dispute over meaning of Tom Schweich's
suicide still a topic among some Missouri Republicans +
AP: Monthly survey: Economy slowing in rural
areas of Midwest, Plains
KC Star: Missouri moves to tighten welfare rules +
Missourinet: Legislature proposes shorter time limit
for welfare recipients
KWMU: Lawmakers send Nixon bill that cuts welfare
lifetime eligibility
AP: Missouri OKs 15-month reduction in lifetime
welfare benefits
P-D: Legislature passes bill shortening time welfare
recipients can keep taking benefits
AP: Senate roll call vote on welfare
AP: House roll call vote on welfare
Missourinet: Dempsey pulls support for chamber's
budget proposal
AP: Missouri Senate leaders oppose lump-sum budget
proposal
Missourinet: Increase for Missouri's fuel tax for
transportation runs out of gas
AP: Senate leaders uncertain on Missouri
transportation gas tax
CDT: Bill would require state schools to post course
information X
AP: Legislature to find compromise for school transfer
bill
P-D: St. Louis Public Schools tries to shed vacant
buildings
St. Joseph News-Press: Lawmakers advance more school
board election bills X
AP: Missouri Senate approves changes to license office
bidding
Missourinet: Tense debate in Missouri over LGBTQIA
rights resumes
P-D: PSC sounds open to slight rate cut for Noranda
Columbia Missourian: Public incentives, private
obligations: IBM's state money
KWMU: Koster: More needs to be done to stamp out
irritating phone calls
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Supreme Court upholds
limits on nuisance lawsuits
P-D: Civil rights leader Frankie Freeman gets star of
St. Louis Walk of Fame
KWMU: Nonagenarian Frankie Freeman gets star on
Delmar's Walk of Fame
KWMU: Sexagenarian wife of Washington University
chancellor talks Joni Mitchell lyrics, thoughts on gun restrictions
KWMU: Octogenarian Selma James, other aged feminists
visit Ferguson
KC Star editorial: Better pay for low-wage workers
would benefit everyone; Republicans cutting handouts too deeply,
corporations earning too much money, etc. +
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Missourian's Bob Miller: Nixon made zero phone calls from public
cellphone in 2014 - which raises more questions than it answers +
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: Gender pay equity is a topic
worth talking about, and Missouri will totally lead the way +
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Thursday, April 16
Mannies: Missouri's position - and importance - in
2016 presidential contest up for debate
KWMU: Koster remains Missouri's fundraising leader,
but Blunt close behind
AP: Koster leads fundraising for Missouri governor
with $3M
P-D: A look at Blunt, Kander, Luetkemeyer numbers
P-D: Hanaway's decision to pause campaign after
Schweich suicide takes a fundraising toll
The Missouri Times: Schweich committee returns $480K
to donors
KWMU: Schweich campaign returns money to major donors,
including Danforth
P-D: Details of Schweich suicide yield advice for
prevention
KC Star: Jeff Roe speaks on anti-Schweich radio ad,
says he paid for it with his own money +
AP: Jeff Roe says he personally paid for anti-Schweich
ad
P-D: Blunt criticizes Obama decision to take Cuba off
state-sponsor-of-terror list
South
Missourian News: Blunt visits Alton, Mo. school, talks Secure
Rural Schools fund
KWMU: McCaskill says scammers target seasoned citizens
with phone calls
Drebes: Kim Tuttle featured in ESPN story on Big 12
basketball tourney
CBS News: Claire McCaskill: Time to reform NCAA
basketball
Kraske: The Chat: United States Senator from New
Hampshire spends time discussing symbolic gender representation on
paper currency; Nixon on graduation rates +
KC Star: Hundreds turn out in KC for a day of '$15 an
hour' protests; Comments from fried-chicken specialist Antoinette
Hill, less-than-full UMKC professor Liz Jacquinot +
KWMU: St. Louis protesters join national movement for
$15 minimum wage; Comments from renowned Ferguson
protester/journeyman hoagie artist Rasheen Aldridge, less-than-full SLU
professor Hillary Birdsong
Helling: GOP gov candidate field is getting crowded +
The Missouri Times: Barklage Cup Final Four:
Vote now for Brian Grace vs. Megan Shackelford, Eric Schmitt vs. Caleb
Rowden
AP: Liberal group targets Missouri Senate filming
policy; Comments from Progress Missouri's Sean Nicholson, GOP
caucus spokeswoman Lauren Hieger
KC Star: Missouri Senate faces lawsuit claiming it is
violating Sunshine Law +
AP: Missouri audit finds schools did not get traffic
fine money
P-D: Missouri superintendents launch task force to
study school accreditation
AP: Senate approves student transfer law fix
P-D: Former Normandy superintendent Tyrone McNichols
takes principal's job at elementary school in Hazelwood
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Missouri Supreme Court Chief
Justice Mary Rhodes Russell remembers former Northeast Missouri State
President Charles McClain
CDT: Police corner sex offender/parole
absconder/failed thief, put him down at MU parking garage +
KWMU: Non-discrimination bill gets another hearing in
Missouri Legislature
The Missouri Times: Lawmakers continue to debate
non-discrimination act
JCNT: LGBTQIA protections divide business interests X
AP: Catholic Bishops of Missouri continue to oppose
death penalty, ask Nixon and Koster to flip-flop their long-held
positions
KWMU: Historians bring national conference to St.
Louis, hope to 'historicize' Ferguson
Washington Missourian editorial: No more lame excuses
from legislators - it's time to raise the gas tax
P-D editorial: From World Series tickets to
Ferguson: The case for police accountability
P-D op-ed: Former U.S. Senator/current health care
lobbyist Kit Bond (R): Missouri should choose common-sense
solution on Medicaid
CDT's Waters: By not expanding Medicaid or giving
education more money, Republicans "are digging a dangerous societal
hole" X
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Missouri bill for
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer/intersex/asexual rights shows
changing moral views
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch points fingers at everyone
except minorities
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch's obituary-listing prices
are racist
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Wednesday, April 15 Tax Day
MSNBC: Video: McCaskill says no one 'is more
qualified than Hillary' to run for president
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Missourian: McCaskill, others request one-year moratorium on
postal consolidation efforts +
KC Star: Adjunct professors will join fast-food
workers today to complain about wages in their chosen professions +
Politico: Twitter's most influential
journalists: Dana Loesch #6 most influential on the right
97.1 FM (St. Louis): Peter Kinder tells Dana Loesch
he's considering run for governor
KC Star: Hanaway takes pledge to fight "any and all
taxes" if she's governor +
Missourinet: Boone County Treasurer Nicole Galloway is
next Missouri auditor
Missourinet: Galloway announces she'll run for
re-election in '18
CDT: Nixon selects Boone County treasurer for state
auditor X
Columbia Missourian: Boone County Treasurer Nicole
Galloway to be next Missouri state auditor
JCNT: Nixon tabs Boone County treasurer as next auditor X
KWMU: Nixon taps Nicole Galloway, 32, to be new state
auditor
P-D: Nixon picks Boone County treasurer for state
auditor job
The Missouri Times: Nixon names Nicole Galloway to
state auditor post
Missourinet: Tom Schweich suicide investigation
continues, no motive found
AP: Police: Schweich talked for years about
suicide, left no note
KWMU: Police say they can't determine why Tom Schweich
killed himself
P-D: Schweich told family he had thoughts of suicide
for years, police say
KC Star: Police say Tom Schweich told his wife "I just
need to be dead" before shooting himself +
Shelly: If Tom Schweich didn't own a gun, maybe he
wouldn't have killed himself +
Drebes:
Brad Thielemier moves on from Missouri State Troopers Association to
Three Rivers College
KWMU: Missouri may owe federal government $34.8M after
Medicaid audit
The Missouri Times: Gas tax increase stalls in Senate
AP: Missouri lawmakers struggle to find transportation
funding
JCNT: Senate sends welfare reform measure to House X
AP: Senate approves reduced lifetime limit on welfare
P-D: Centene hopeful as lawmakers again weigh
expansion of Medicaid managed care
P-D: Missouri bill would require day cares to disclose
if they enroll children without vaccinations
The Missouri Times: Bill would require public
universities to post more class info online
The Missouri Times: PSC indicates support for lowering
Noranda's rate
The Missouri Times: Grain Belt Express project moves
forward
P-D: Legal advocacy group leads push for municipal
court overhaul
KMIZ: Dept. of Conservation under fire for having
"illegal relationship" with one of its non-profit entities
AP: Missouri Supreme Court rules in favor of hog farm
Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal: Youth turkey harvest
program gives recognition for helping control population of wild animals
Missourinet: Gov. Jay Nixon (D) denies clemency for
murderer Andre Cole
P-D: Normandy man is executed
KWMU: Missouri executes Andre Cole;
Pentobarbital works flawlessly
AP: Missouri executes murderer after last-minute
appeals rejected
KWMU: Ferguson protest draws "scant participants" in
St. Louis; Communist Party leader, others speak;
"Legislation got [sic] to
change. Laws got [sic] to
change."
P-D: Photographer wins award for capturing image of
Twitter's "@eyeFLOODpanties" (government name Edward Crawford) throwing
flaming projectile at police
KC Star letter: Shame on pro-marijuana
legislators; Legalization would result in every town behaving
like Ferguson protesters +
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Tuesday, April 14
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill hails Clinton's
entry into presidential race - and with Missouri trending Republican,
so does the GOP +
Drebes: MOScout poll: GOP statewide primaries
SNL: Eric Greitens to be inducted into Missouri Public
Affairs Hall of Fame; Gov candidate joins "Cal Ripkin, [sic] Jr." and others as part of MSU
policy conference X
The Missouri Times: Barklage Cup Round 3 results -
with Elite 8 voting open until House adjourns today
The Missouri Times: Petroleum, clerks opposing
proposed EPA ozone standards
P-D: Audit slams Medicaid program, says Missouri may
have to repay more than $34 million
KWMU: Activists oppose Senate budget cuts
P-D: Advocates for the handicapped, other groups decry
proposed budget cuts
KC Star: Missouri lawmakers debate shorter time limits
for welfare recipients +
AP: Missouri lawmakers move to compromise on welfare
cuts
AP: Missouri Senate amends bill to limit unemployment
benefits
KWMU: Missouri Senate works on student transfer fix
and unemployment compensation bill
AP: Missouri Senate advances bill to fix student
transfer law
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg)
eager to complete work on school transfer bill this week
AP: Missouri House OKs broad access to heroin overdose
treatment
AP: Missouri House approves ending motorcycle helmet
requirement
AP: Missouri House passes 'Senior Protection Savings
Act'
AP: Activists says murderer should not be
executed; Andre Cole was unhappy about child support payments, so
he stabbed the mother of his children and her lover
KWMU: Activists call on Nixon to halt execution,
investigate St. Louis County prosecutor's office
KMOX: Hazelwood School District Superintendent
Grayling Tobias, a member of the Ferguson Commission, takes "medical
leave"
P-D: Hazelwood School District supe says he's taking
"medical leave"
KC Star editorial: Missouri Senate budget plan a
crisis in the making for the poor +
Washington Post's Greg Sargent: Liberal columnist says
GOP opposition to Obamacare in Missouri, other states is "working
brilliantly"
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Missourian op-ed: Missouri Chamber's Dan Mehan: Meritless
lawsuits fuel need for reform +
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Show-Me Institute's
Brittany Wagner: Spring into action on school board reform
KC Star letter: The Sam Graves/GOP whines about "death
tax" have been proven fraudulent +
SNL letter: LGBTQIA supporters should channel their
energy into supporting "extension of Medicare [sic]" X
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Monday, April 13
AP: McCaskill: Hillary Clinton's policy
positions "are more in line with what the struggling middle class is
interested in"
P-D: McCaskill says Clintons get unprecedented scrutiny
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt talks about agriculture,
A-10s during Warrensburg visit X
KWMU: Tax season is identitity-theft season;
Blunt bill would require businesses to cooperate with government on
data-breach cases
Missouri Viewpoints: Video: Fight back against
sex trafficking: Conversation with Rep. Ann Wagner, sex
trafficking victim Christine McDonald
This Week in Missouri Politics: Keaveny talks Senate
actions; David Barklage (R), Dave Spence (R), Jane Dueker (D),
Sean Nicholson (D) talk Nixon, MO legislation to date, LGBTQIA rights,
more
KODE (Joplin): Nixon signs ag bill
Missourinet: Audit cools some Missouri lawmakers to
gas tax hike idea
Kraske: The Chat: Nixon criticizes GOP's
"draconian" cuts; Trish Vincent pays homage to Spence Jackson +
CDT: MO DHSS gives $432,000 grant for respite
reinsurance for Alzheimer's caregivers X
Missourinet: Debate over changes to Missouri welfare
programs continues
AP: Republicans look to trim social services spending
KWMU: Higher ed group says higher ed funding lacking
in Missouri
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Missourian: Education majors caught in transition between exit
exams and teacher certification +
P-D: Legislation would give Missouri Children's
Division more power when one child abuses another
JCNT: Prosecutors' association takes a deal,
compromises with Sen. Bob Dixon (R-Springfield) on multi-county
jurisdictions X
Rosenbaum: With wild election in the books,
newly-minted Ferguson council members look to the future
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Wesley Bell
talks about winning election in Ferguson, where he was opposed by
Organization for Black Struggle/SEIU/ACORN et al.
KC Star editorial: Blunt wrong to vote for
cybersecurity bill, which would allow more snooping +
P-D editorial: Proposed gas-tax increase is too small,
but it's a start
Washington Missourian editorial: Tax-amnesty bill
stinks, but Nixon should still sign it
JCNT editorial: Bills from Reps. Jeanie Riddle
(R-Mokane) and Bill Lant (R-Pineville) will help prevent child-on-child
sexual abuse X
KC Star op-ed: Free barbecue at "Good Jobs and $15 for
All" rally on Wednesday +
JCNT letter: Tell your legislator you don't like
"large, corporate, factory farms" X
KC Star letter: Grandmothers Against Gun Violence
local head "frustrated, incredulous and mad" about Missouri gun
legislation +
P-D letter: Assault victim Darren Wilson doesn't
deserve to be linked to South Carolina shooting
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Sunday, April 12
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt: Iran talks headed
'in a bad direction' X
KCUR: Blunt 'optimistic' a multi-year highway bill can
pass Congress
The Examiner: Blue Springs Chamber members hear
federal, state legislative updates; Blunt on "out of control"
regulators, Sheila Solon on patient notification and insurance
implications, Mike Cierpiot on transfer law
P-D: Memorial service today for Alyson Singfield,
outreach director for Lacy Clay
CDT: Boone County Republicans gather for Lincoln
Day; Rep. Caleb Jones gives legislative update; Rep. Caleb
Rowden says new pachyderm goal is "to keep Boone County red" X
Drebes: Bits: Black website profiles Sen. Maria
Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City); Former senatorial spouse
Gina Loudon writes column entitled "Why Do Democrats Hate Veterans?"
AP: Speciality, generic drug costs drive Medicaid
costs up
JCNT: Lawmakers vow to 'fix' superintendents law
before it takes real effect X
JCNT: Missouri lawmakers could tackle gas tax hike
this week X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Munzlinger on Nixon's signing of
ag bills
JCNT: Bills would restrict creation of
gender-segregated spaces X
Columbia Missourian: State legislators, public discuss
pilot program for medical marijuana
St. Joseph News-Press: Schaaf makes effort to add
levee repair funds X
KC Star: Missouri lawmakers ponder tax that funds
Kansas City public transit +
P-D: Suit filed to avoid public vote on new stadium
P-D: As the job market appears to tighten, wages are
rising in St. Louis
KC Star editorial: Lobbyist gift limits are just part
of needed reform; Rep. John Rizzo (D) leads the House in
gifts/meals, with Brandon Ellington (D) third; In the Senate,
LeVota, Curls and Silvey get honorable mentions +
Gary
Rust: Which websites you should visit to get a broad view of the
news, and which newspapers you should read +
SE
Missourian editor Bob Miller: More on Nixon's
failure-to-communicate issue: Governor operates in a vault, and
only a few people know the combination +
KC Star letters: Area councilwoman attempts Bigfoot
analogy regarding Legislature and local ordinances; Man wants to
see higher tobacco taxes +
P-D letter: Editorial wrongly juxtaposes South
Carolina shooting with Michael Brown's savage attack on Darren Wilson
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Saturday, April 11
AP: Funeral marks Spence Jackson's political passion
AP: Missouri health care navigator law pre-empted,
court rules
Missourinet: Hartzler wants more local control of
school lunch
AP: North Dakota officials say federal study of
Missouri River project has addressed concerns over environmental harm
to Missouri
Columbia Missourian: Boone County Republicans honor
Lt. Bruce Britt at annual event
The Missouri Times: Bev Randles may announce lt. gov
bid next quarter
The Missouri Times: Barklage Cup Round 2 results
Kraske: Ranking recent performances: Jason
Kander's first-quarter numbers look good +
AP: Nixon signs bills to help dairy, agriculture
KOMU: Farm bills could improve Missouri agriculture
Brownfield Ag News: Dairy, omnibus ag bills signed on
dairy farm
Missourinet: Nixon calls for Missouri lawmakers to
stem proposed budget reductions
AP: Nixon calls for reversal of proposed budget cuts
CDT: UM system president endorses Zweifel's Missouri
Promise proposal X
KOMU: Tim Wolfe supports Missouri Promise plan;
Fougere says either tobacco tax increase - or legislative action - are
viable options
CDT: Missouri higher ed figure Charles McClain dead at
age 83 X
CDT: Rex Sinquefield donates $10 million to MU's
College of Arts and Science X
KOMU: Rep. Diane Franklin (R-Camdenton) responds to
critics of school vaccination-information bill
JCNT: Medical marijuana bills picking up steam in
Missouri House X
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Liberal group's report targets food hardships;
Jeanette Mott Oxford talks hunger issues
KC Star: Kansas City faces clash with state of
Missouri over proposal to raise minimum wage
+
Missourinet: Lawsuit seeks to block vote on new St.
Louis stadium plan
KWMU: To vote or not to vote? Lawsuit seeks
clarity on whether city stadium funding will need referendum
AP: Suit seeks clarity on funding for St. Louis stadium
KMZU (Carrollton): PSC to hold hearing in KC over new
Power & Light cost
KWMU: Paul McKee leaves city property taxes
unpaid; Developer received go-ahead from DHSS to build small
urgent-care center at former Pruitt-Igoe site
KC Star Capitol Watch editorial: Weekly list of GOP
transgressions: Republicans wrong on tax amnesty, Medicaid
expansion, elections/superintendent bill; Koster joins GOP in
being wrong about California egg rule +
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Achieving diversity must be
a priority for new journalism dean; Kouichi Shirayanagi says too
many faculty editors are white and Christian
P-D letter: Ann Wagner doesn't want to let IRS do its
job
P-D letter: Bob Onder is wrong about health insurance
subsidies
KC Star letter: Veteran supports Silvey's bill to
benefit veterans +
P-D letter: Death penalty is deserved in Andre Cole's
case
P-D letter: Article's slant doesn't help municipal
court discussion; Disregard of speed limits isn't always a "minor
offense"
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Friday, April 10
Details
on Spence Jackson Memorial Scholarship Fund
Washington Times: McCaskill, others demand probe into
guest-worker program, American layoffs
The Hill: McCaskill, others want probe into abuse of
visa program
CDT: Hartzler lunches with students, talks with
Columbia Public Schools officials about regulations X
KC Star: Supreme Court's Obamacare decision could
increase premium costs in Missouri +
P-D: Missouri among top spenders on hepatitis C drugs
Kraske: Darlene Green (D-St. Louis City) on Nixon's
short list for auditor appointment +
CDT: Webber announces plans to seek Senate seat in 2016 X
The Missouri Times: Rep. Stephen Webber (D-Columbia)
announces state Senate bid
The Missouri Times: Event for Sen. Dan Brown (R-Rolla)
features Navy SEAL who shot Osama Bin Laden
Drebes:
Springfield News-Leader seeks politics reporter; Applicants must
be willing to deal with politicians, staff, lobbyists and other Capitol
urchins in exchange for journalist salary
JCNT: Missouri to feds: Don't redefine 'waters
of the U.S.' X
St. Joseph News-Press: Report cites states' success in
exports X
KWMU: Uncertainty of renewable energy incentives a
challenge for Missouri solar companies
The Missouri Times: Missouri Chamber applauds signing
of data-center tax-exemption bill
AP: Nixon approves tax incentives for data storage
AP: Missouri House endorses tax credit aimed at
boosting ports
AP: Missouri House sends tax amnesty measure to Nixon
KWMU: Missouri lawmakers send tax amnesty bill to Nixon
AP: Missouri House endorses refund application after
tax audits
St. Joseph News-Press: Higher education panel mapping
out future X
The Maneater: Missouri Students Association president,
ASUM-UMKC testify against Haahr's religious-freedom bill
AP: GOP says bill passed by House will help put an end
to frivolous "discrimination" lawsuits
AP: Senate approves resolution asking California
lawmakers to change egg rules
Kraske: The Chat: Schmitt on munis' taxation by
citation +
P-D: Moline Acres, Normandy dismissed from Macks Creek
suit
AP: Missouri Senate advances legislation to boost
neighborhood watches
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court: Andre Cole
competent to be executed
AP: Court finds Missouri death row inmate competent
AP: Two more Missouri cities dropped from traffic
fines lawsuit
JCNT editorial: Tax amnesty: Practical, but not
principled X
KC Star editorial: Reject a mismanaged Medicaid
proposal in Missouri; "Sen. Rob Schaaf, of all people, is right
this time" +
P-D editorial: Too many black murderers sent to death
by white juries
KC Star letters: Medicaid expansion; Woman who
chooses to live in Kansas dislikes Mizzou athletics budget;
Seafood industry supports seafood for people on the dole +
P-D letter: Stories fitting liberal narrative are all
lies: Rolling Stone's erotic fiction, "Hands Up Don't Shoot"
fairy tale, etc.
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Thursday, April
9 Spence Jackson visitation tonight, funeral tomorrow;
Family fund, scholarship fund details
St. Joseph News-Press: GOP lawmakers voice suspicion
of Iran deal; Comments from Blunt, Graves X
Politico: Parties play post 'vote-a-rama' gotcha
game; McCaskill one of two Dems to break ranks and support GOP
plan to lift wages
SNL: Rep. Billy Long's daughter being treated for
lymphoma X
AP: Veterans awaiting treatment at Missouris VA
hospitals are being accomodated in a more timely fashion than the
national average
Columbia Missourian: Truman VA ranked 13th nationally
for fewest appointment delays
JCNT: EPA, MoDOT settle clean water complaints;
US 54 work in Osage Beach one of two cited projects X
NPR: Coverage of Tom Schweich and Spence Jackson
suicides, weeks after the fact
Drebes: Eric Greitens hires Meredith Gibbons
Missourinet: Missouri Legislature prepares to deal
with big budget differences
KWMU: Missouri House rejects Senate version of $26.1B
state budget
AP: Legislature set to reconcile differences in budget
KC Star: Missouri Senate approves budget that would
expand Medicaid managed care +
Kraske: The Chat: Kurt Schaefer on welfare
spending; Elaine Benes on pols' silly "Clinton thumb"
gesture; More +
KMZU (Carrollton): Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg)
on Nixon release of funding, tax credits, transportation funding
proposals, Foundation Formula, more
AP: Missouri lawmakers override veto of local
elections bill
St. Joseph News-Press: Lawmakers override veto of
school bill X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): DNR delays GAF Roofing facility
permit again; Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) says he's working with
Nixon's office, Diehl to cut through red tape
AP:
Missouri House OKs lifting motorcycle helmet requirement
KWMU: Missouri's top court weighs law limiting
municipal revenue from tickets, fees; Municipal League lawyer
Jane Dueker: "Political expediency should not trump the orderly
and constitutional administration of justice"
AP: Missouri Supreme Court hears challenge to traffic
fine law
P-D: Municipal court revenue limits debated in
Jefferson City
P-D: Missouri lawmakers reluctant to require police
body cameras
KWMU: Lawsuit threat seeks St. Louis vote on public
financing for new stadium
P-D: Civic Progress, Regional Business Council weigh
in on new NFL stadium
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court lifts order for
May execution; Attorneys for Kimber Edwards claim their workload
is too high to work on his case at the moment
P-D: Postmortem blame game begins for failed Ferguson
campaigns; Protester on paid canvassers: "People were
knocking on doors who didn't even know who the candidates were"
Washington Missourian editorial: Despite complainers,
Nixon showed sound business judgment by withholding funds
Washington Missourian editorial: Legislators too timid
to enact higher gas tax
JCNT editorial: Failure of state agencies, legislators
to communicate on budgets serves no one; Schaefer's approach "not
entirely on target" as money is needed for kids, elderly poors, and the
handicapped X
The Maneater editorial: Bill from Rep. Jeff Pogue
(R-Salem) is "utterly ridiculous;" Humans self-identifying as
"male" and "female" should be allowed to share bathroom facilities
regardless of genitalia
Washington Missourian editorial: Relief through
diversion; Baseball Cardinals can help distract the region from
St. Louis street savagery
Rolla Daily News op-ed: McCaskill: Protecting
Medicare, Social Security, and Missouri's seniors
KC Star op-ed: Mental-health nonprofit CEO Tom
Petrizzo describes himself as "a leader in the health care field in
Kansas City," shares thoughts on MoDOT and Medicaid funding +
KC Star letter: Independence man offers sarcastic
solutions to gun-control debate: Put lawmakers at greater risk of
getting shot at Capitol, provide "gunslinger" arenas, etc. +
P-D letter: SLU law prof's comments on Ferguson statue
are petulant; SLU sends message that campus is open for
protesters to disrupt serious students and deface the American flag
P-D letter: SLU law prof demonstrates tunnel vision,
ignores uncivilized behavior at McCulloch speech
P-D letter: P-D description of Ferguson candidates was
juvenile; White candidates labeled "balding, portly"
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Wednesday, April 8
The
Hill: VoteVets gets into 2016 race early; Group has already
contributed to Jason Kander, but co-founder says he's unsure if they'll
spend more in MO
Washington
Post: Jeb Bush doles out campaign cash to GOP candidates;
Blunt gets $5,400
P-D:
Lacy Clay aide Alyson Singfield dies of breast cancer
Brownfield
Ag News: USDA gives away $10M in grants for rural water;
University of Missouri-Kansas City gets $149K to develop a soil
hydrophobicity system
Drebes:
Raise Your Hand for Kids issues report making case for tobacco tax
increase
Brownfield
Ag News: Missouri/EU trade mission spotlights GMOs
CDT:
Libraries celebrate release of state funds X
Missourinet:
After 6-hour delay, Missouri Social Services budget failed, then passed
AP:
Senate narrowly passes Missouri Social Services budget
P-D:
Senate narrowly passes Social Services budget
AP:
House OKs bill requiring hospital disclosures
AP:
Senate passes bill giving amnesty to delinquent taxpayers
AP:
Missouri Senate OKs budget cutting taxpayer-funded scholarships for
less-than-legal aliens; Bill also requires international students
to pay international tuition
AP:
Missouri House advances bill from Rep. Genise Montecillo (D-St. Louis)
to teach youngsters the perils of sexual predators and sexting
AP:
House endorses technical certificate program
The
Missouri Times: Bill from Rep. Elijah Haahr (R-Springfield)
sparks debate over discrimination on college campuses
AP:
House approves measure to set state standards for a
"agriculturally-friendly county" designation
Missourinet:
Missouri Supreme Court to hear challenge to anti-speed-trap law
The
Missouri Times: PSC considering Grain Belt Express proposal
Missourinet:
Missouri Supreme Court to hear Kansas City Chiefs age discrimination
case
Missourinet:
Court rules Larry Flynt can seek Missouri execution records
AP:
U.S. Court OKs Larry Flynt's push for Missouri execution info
KWMU:
Larry Flynt seeks records in Missouri execution case
KWMU:
Two candidates opposed by protester groups emerge victorious in
Ferguson; Brian Fletcher says law-abiding taxpayers "want their
city back"
AP:
Ferguson City Council candidate supported by Organization for Black
Struggle/SEIU/ACORN et al. loses by 34 points
P-D:
Candidates supported by ACORN/MORE, SEIU, Working Families Party lose
SNL:
Emotions, drama high as LGBTQIA protections repealed in Springfield
X
KC
Star editorial: Brattin's bill to crack down on welfare excess is
"dumbness" +
JCNT
editorial: Reform municipal courts, restore fairness X
Jensen:
Missouri overspends on Medicare payments; Solutions for fixing
the larger problem +
Columbia
Missourian's Rosman: English-only Pledge of Allegiance bill is a
waste of time
KC
Star's Sanchez: Larry Flynt is right about capital punishment
+
P-D
letter: Area man angry at "fossil interests," St. Louis Regional
Chamber, McCaskill and Blunt and wants readers to join him for an Earth
Day rally in Jefferson City
SNL
letter: Missouri can afford to spend more on education,
transportation, Medicaid expansion
CDT
letter: Missouri Department of Conservation is infested with
"eco-elitists" X
P-D
letter: Oakville man responds to Eric Vickers' piece:
Ferguson will be remembered as the place a young ruffian attacked a
police officer and got what he deserved
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Tuesday, April 7
KC Star: Jason Kander's Senate campaign collects $783K
in first six weeks; Blunt campaign boasts $1M Q1 tally +
KC Star: McCaskill pivotal, but so far noncommittal,
on bill to block pact with Iran +
KY3 (Springfield): McCaskill creates controversy with
basketball tweet; Missouri's senior United States senator weighs
in on how NCAA and NBA should run their operations
Deadspin: Claire McCaskill is fighting the wrong
battle; Trio of late-night tweets are "stupid on a couple of
levels"
Kraske: The Chat: Ed Martin on Jeb Bush;
Ryan Silvey on Obamacare and Medicaid expansion +
AP: Nixon plans trade mission to Ireland, France
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Caleb
Rowden (R-Columbia) talks to journogang about ethics, the Rams,
Columbia City Council, and Medicaid expansion's DOA status
AP: Missouri budget plan cuts social welfare programs,
makes major shift
Missourinet: Money released by Nixon includes $3
million for ports
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) on ethics bill,
cooling-off period
Missourinet: Missouri Senate passes prescription drug
monitoring program
The Missouri Times: Lawmakers still wrangling
prescription drug monitoring program
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Lindell Shumake (R-Hannibal)
on medical-care retainer bill
Drebes:
Among 16 applicants for Easter District Missouri Court of Appeals
judgeship, only three are women and only two are minorities
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rachel Bringer describes
judge-selection process
P-D: Missouri Supreme Court to take up Macks Creek Law
P-D: Wind Capital Group LLC, formerly a Tom Carnahan
joint, sells last two wind farms, winds down operations
JCNT editorial: Vote today, lest voting become
mandatory X
P-D editorial: Blame sexism for women's lower
pay; Of the less than one million Missourians classified as poor,
a whopping 55% are female
Columbia Missourian op-ed: MU J-school adjunct prof
says McCulloch event should have been open to the masses, including
protesters
P-D letter: Letting 16-year-olds cast actual votes is
a terrible idea
P-D letter: University City's Jess Rosenberg touts
Claire McCaskill, criticizes Roy Blunt
KC Star letter: Missouri Republicans oppose Medicaid
expansion because they are mean people +
JCNT letter: "Religious freedom" bills and their
effect on LGBTQIA, Wiccan and atheist rights
X
P-D letter: Ferguson native says town will heal once
Post-Dispatch stops pushing its crusade
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Monday, April 6
The Hill: Dems enlist military veterans in battle for
Senate; Illinois' Duckworth has a shot at winning, but Jason
Kander faces "uphill climb"
KODE (Joplin): "Council for Medicare Integrity" says
Missouri one of worst states for Medicare waste, with $170M in
overpayments
Kraske: McCaskill weighs in on state-level
Medicaid-expansion battle; Deputy Auditor Harry Otto on MoDOT
misspendings +
This Week in Missouri Politics: Speaker John
Diehl; Discussion panel includes Rep. Joe Adams (D-University
City), Braxton Payne (D), Rep. John Wiemann (R-O'Fallon), Jack Spooner
(R)
Kirksville Daily Express: Michael Reagan, son of
Ronald Reagan, speaks at Truman
JCNT: Providing pastoral care to lawmakers;
Chaplains try to bring a sense of peace to General Assembly X
Missourinet: Republicans aim to move budget quickly
this week
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg) on good revenue
numbers
KC Star: Missouri legislators consider taxing illegal
drugs and legalizing medical marijuana +
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Brian Munzlinger
(R-Williamstown) on fuel tax change of plans
AP: Months after Missourians passed Amendment 5,
discussion over gun rights continues
KWMU: Whether required or not, demand for vote on new
stadium is growing louder
P-D: Bills stimulate discussion of religious rights,
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer/intersex/asexual rights;
Comments from Kerry Messer, Rep. Elijah Haahr (R-Springfield), PROMO
JCNT: Municipal court reform making legislative
progress X
KMZU (Carrollton): Missouri landowners could trade
easement for profit
KWMU: UMSL's student newspaper looks to crowdfunding
to stay afloat
Student Life (Washington U.): Organizers for $15
minimum wage say they will bring 2,500 people to campus rally;
Students to aid movement by performing poetry
KC Star: Cleaver among those making an appearance in
Ferguson +
P-D letter: McCaskill, Blunt should support SNAP
funding
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Sunday, April 5 Happy
Easter!
KC
Star: Upset by political gridlock? Blame the baby
boomers; 11 of 16 members of the MO/KS delegation are in
"Polarized Grump" generation +
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): McCaskill, ranking Dem on Aging Committee, says panel
will spend time listening to complaints about the cost of medication
these days
Drebes: Sam Fox to
host fundraiser for John McCain, rounds up usual host-committee suspects
P-D:
Utility execs say they're worried that climate-change rules threaten
reliability of electrical grid
P-D:
Experts urge regional approach to EPA climate-change rules
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Moberly business leader on Missouri Chamber's
"Missouri 2030" committee
KSMU:
Medicaid expansion faces uphill battle; Sen. Ryan Silvey
(R-Kansas City) on Obamacare costs, Rep. Stacey Newman (D-Richmond
Heights) on impact to lady olds
St.
Joseph News-Press: A happy ending for library-funding saga X
St.
Joseph News-Press: Nixon vetoes bill that targeted
superintendents serving on school boards X
St.
Joseph News-Press: Bill from Rep. Kurt Bahr (R-O'Fallon) could
force districts into consolidation X
KMZU
(Carrollton): MO DED's Amy Susan on energy-efficiency loans
KNPN
(St. Joseph): Debate over payday loans continues
AP:
Organization for Black Struggle, SEIU, et al. going door-to-door for
Ferguson municipal elections
KC
Star: Ferguson elections generate attention; Voter-turnout
prognostication from area transplant Latrez Davis, others +
KWMU:
Lacy Clay shows up in Ferguson; KC-based political consultant
Michele Watley shares her expertise
P-D:
City of Ferguson says redacting private information in e-mails will be
costly
SE Missourian's
Bob Miller: Simple records request highlights Nixon
administration's lack of transparency +
KC
Star letters: Your friend may die this year, and it just might be
Missouri Republicans' fault; Instead of fixing I-70, improve U.S.
36 from St. Joe to Hannibal +
Washington
Missourian letter: Labadie man says that if DSS has enough money
to pay welfare recipients "too lazy to work," it can find time to weed
out abuse
P-D
letter: Paper's line about Ferguson assailant's body laying in
the street shows anti-police bias
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Saturday, April 4 Arrangements made for
Spence Jackson
KY3 (Springfield): Video: McCaskill says Hillary
"inspirational to many woman," doesn't deserve - and won't get - a
Democratic primary challenge
Kraske: Sorting out the 2016 presidential
bracket; Cleaver took heat for sticking with Hillary Clinton in
'08 +
Daily Journal: McCaskill covers senior issues
Hometown Daily News (Branson): McCaskill speaks with
local seniors; Audio of entire event, text recap
Missourinet: Nixon releases $43M in Missouri's FY15
budget
KWMU: Nixon releases $43M, issues first veto of session
AP: Higher revenues lead Nixon to release funds
CDT: Nixon releases remaining funds for MU med school
expansion project X
JCNT: Lincoln University, Capitol benefit from Nixon
releasing funds X
AP: Nixon vetoes limits for former superintendents
Missourinet: Audit: MoDOT misused road funds
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): MoDOT: Bill to raise fuel
tax every year is one solution to funding woes
The Missouri Times: Rep. Jeanie Riddle (R-Mokane)
looks to close loophole in juvenile sexual offenses
P-D: Republic finishes sewer line from Bridgeton
Landfill
P-D: Black leaders want Nixon to stall execution of
convicted murderers Andre Cole and Kimber Edwards
P-D: Feds: Postal employee Latonya Freechild
'deserted' Jennings mail
KC Star Capitol Watch editorial: Weekly list of GOP
transgressions: Republicans are wrong about campaign contribution
limits, Pledge of Allegiance +
P-D editorial: On Missouri Supreme Court and municipal
court reform; Punchline/gimmick is that it's presented as a legal
brief
Washington Post's Roberto Ferdman: Rep. Rick Brattin
(R-Harrisonville) trying to deny welfare recipients' right to filet
mignon and crab legs
P-D letter: Missouri organizer for liberal Small
Business Majority supports EPA carbon regulations
P-D letter: Nixon, GOP legislators weakened state
pension system
CDT letter: Columbia man says Missouri Republicans are
"inept, bigoted and disgusting" X
JCNT letter: Fulton State Hospital, St. Louis football
stadium show how money burns holes in pols' pockets X
P-D letter: Florissant man says constant Ferguson
protests are getting on people's last nerves
P-D letter: Town and Country man wonders when Ferguson
looters and arsonists will be brought to justice
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Friday, April 3
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill pokes Republicans on
elderly tour: Where is GOP's alternative to Obamacare? X
KTVO (Kirksville): McCaskill talks to elderly
community in Macon
Branson Tri-Lakes News: McCaskill explains difference
between "jeans and a t-shirt" potheads and more sophisticated tokers,
offers insight into Jesus Christ's approach to LGBTQIA rights
KBIA: McCaskill talks Alzheimer's, more to seasoned
citizens
KRCG: McCaskill speaks to area olds
KWMU: Federal taxpayer dollars will go to St. Louis
public housing complex
AP: John Brunner forms exploratory committee for
governor
KC Star: Brunner inches closer to governor's
race; Successful businessman spent $8 million in loss to Todd Akin +
P-D: Brunner forms exploratory committee
Northwest Missourian (NW Missouri State): Tobacco tax
proposal aims to help early education
The Missouri Times: Vote now in annual "Whispering
Gallery Invitational" online tournament: Journos, keyboard
jockeys, and elected officials go head-to-head
Missourinet: Bacon business expands operations to
build new plant in Missouri; Comments from Ag Director Richard
Fordyce
The Missouri Times: Missouri lawmakers pledge support
for state employee pay raise
KWMU: Legislators want a raise in state employee
salaries
JCNT: AFSCME's Jeff Mazur, lawmakers seek state wage
plan X
Kraske: The Chat: State employee pay
raise; Deceased black journalist Lucile Bluford gets her own day +
JCNT: House advances resolution honoring civil rights
leader Lucile Bluford X
The Missouri Times: In light of cuts, Missouri River
Regional Library (MRRL) invites Nixon to visit
KWMU: Audit of MoDOT finds $7M in state road funds
used for other expenses
AP: Audit says MoDOT misspent $7M meant for highway
repair
KC Star: Audit says MoDOT has misspent $7.1 million +
The Missouri Times: Libla pushes new gas tax for MoDOT
funding
AP: Missouri Senate panel OKs lump-sum budgets for
three departments
AP: Missouri Senate approves prescription drug
monitoring program
AP: Missouri Senate roll call vote on prescription
drug database
SE
Missourian: SEMO to follow WGU Missouri model, may let students
learn at their own pace +
KWMU: Transfer numbers could spell bankruptcy for
Normandy schools
AP: Missouri Senate panel advances student transfer
solution
SE
Missourian: State could help pay high school equivalency test fee +
AP: House OKs requiring Pledge of Allegiance in English
Missourinet: Lawmakers debate 2nd Amendment rights and
public transit
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Stacey
Newman (D-Richmond Heights) shares her complaints about GOP approach to
gun rights, voter ID, more
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Legislature passes
omnibus ag bill
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Farmers Union lobby day
timing a little off; Group descends upon Capitol as bill they
oppose is passed
KC Star: Missouri House passes cap on lobbyist gift
and cooling-off period +
P-D: House passes bill to cap lobbyists' gifts to
legislators
AP: Missouri House passes bill bulking up ethics
requirements
KWMU: Missouri House and Senate differ on lobbyist
gifts, cooling-off period
P-D: Senate bill seeks to make St. Louis City sheriff
an appointed position
AP: New Black Panther Party members indicted for bomb
plot during Ferguson protests
KWMU: Missouri Supreme Court seeks public input on
municipal court practices
P-D editorial: State workers' salaries win race to the
bottom. It will be hard to catch up.
JCNT editorial: Lawmakers move cautiously on
drug-related bills X
KC Star editorial: Missouri could learn lessons from
Indiana's 'religious freedom' effort +
KC Star's Steve Paul: On negotiations with Iran,
McCaskill says best approach is wait and see and verify +
Shelly: Missouri Republicans are wrong to focus on
welfare +
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Thursday, April 2
Kraske:
The Chat: McCaskill on negative campaigning; Raise Your
Hand for Kids' Erin Brower on cigarette-tax hike +
KC
Star: McCaskill says Jeff Roe has been "cruel and inappropriate,"
like a "bully on a playground" +
Helling:
Some possible common ground between McCaskill and Republicans:
She's worried about overreaching environmental regulations +
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): McCaskill embarks on elderly tour, says MO GOP
legislators are hypocrites for not expanding Medicaid
KC
Star: McCaskill, Cleaver, other Dems turn out for Steve Bough's
judge ceremony +
Lake
Expo: Pearce, others react to Spence Jackson's suicide
SE
Missourian: Remaining postal service operations moving to St.
Louis +
Drebes: Bill
Burlison (D) files paperwork to run for state Senate in Libla's district
Drebes: Curtis
Trent, former Billy Long staffer, to run for term-limited Eric
Burlison's state rep seat
AP:
Roberta Broeker to take over as MoDOT interim director
AP:
Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) proposes lump-sum budgets for 3
departments
AP:
Missouri Senate OKs tax amnesty proposal to raise up to $60M
AP:
Bill from Rep. Ron Hicks (R-St. Peters) to allow guns on trains;
KC, Springfield public transit officials oppose measure
Missourinet:
Medical marijuana bill moves through Missouri House with more
regulations
AP:
Missouri House moves bill to expand beer growlers forward
KMZU
(Carrollton): Conservation Day at the Capitol today
AP:
Bill from Rep. Shane Roden (R-Cedar Hill) ensures public schools recite
Pledge of Allegiance in English
P-D:
Normandy schools brace for another expensive year
JCNT:
Bill from Sen. Dan Brown (R-Rolla) would change law so people can get
passports more easily X
KWMU:
Nixon bullish about stadium financing - even without St. Louis County's
involvement
P-D:
Nixon emphasizes county has ongoing stadium funding role
Missourinet:
Missouri House prepares to take on traffic fine limits
KWMU:
Diehl unveils new proposal to reform municipal courts and reduce
cities' reliance upon traffic fines
P-D:
Municipal court reforms include no new charges for missing court date,
Diehl says
Missourinet:
MO Supreme Court upholds death sentence for Lebanon man; Jesse
Driskill - who killed elderly man, then raped and shot man's wife -
wanted trial thrown out due to "anxiety attacks"
P-D:
MSD expects $75M state loan for sewer fixes through next summer
SE
Missourian: Koster's office shuts down animal shelter that was "a
substantial ongoing risk to (animals') health and welfare" +
AP:
Attorney for man who shot police surprised by jailhouse audio of client
admitting to shooting police
The
Maneater: Prosecutor Bob McCulloch (D) talks Ferguson at MU Law
event; Occupy COMO turns out fewer than two dozen to protest
P-D:
DOJ says it had 'constructive engagement' with Ferguson residents,
community groups
P-D:
FBI arrests man who hacked St. Louis County police union website
KWMU:
Next steps for the Ferguson police department
KWMU:
Throughout two rounds of riots, Ferguson library remained unlooted
KC
Star op-ed: Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker
(D): Actions on gun-rights amendment show Schaefer is not a true
leader +
CDT
letter: Special interests hurt school transfer fix X
P-D
letter: Post-Dispatch is inconsistent on gender
legislation; Why not ban gender-segregated restrooms?
JCNT
letter: There are plenty of reasons to opposed Medicaid expansion
X
KC
Star letter: Missouri lawmakers want to help the rich and hurt
the poor +
P-D
letter: Ferguson woman IDs cure for misbehaving students:
Fully fund foundation formula, and make sure teachers are "well-paid"
P-D
letter: Elderly Ferguson native remembers the days when North
County youth were civilized and would get out of the street if a
policeman asked them to
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Wednesday, April
1 April Fool's Day
KWMU: Spence Jackson's note says he feared losing his
job
Missourinet: Jackson's note: "I just can't take
being unemployed again"
The Missouri Times: Police release details of
Jackson's suicide note
AP: Police: Jackson wrote 'can't take being
unemployed again'
P-D: Jackson's note said he couldn't face unemployment
again
Shelly: In wake of Jackson's suicide, we should be
careful how we treat each other +
STLBJ: McCaskill, Blunt lobby for new National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency headquarters
KWMU: McCaskill continues criticism of Sinquefield,
calls for campaign contribution limits
KRES/KWIX (Moberly); Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport)
says he agrees with Parson on negative campaigning, still stands behind
Hancock as GOP chairman
St. Joseph News-Press: Proposed tobacco tax would fund
early childhood education X
AP: Missouri Senate defeats proposal to expand Medicaid
AP: Missouri Senate votes to raise caps for some to
get Medicaid
KWMU: McCaskill at elderly event: Seniors will
be hurt by GOP refusal to expand Medicaid
SE
Missourian: Fluoridation bill from Rep. Donna Lichtenegger
(R-Jackson) advances in House +
The Missouri Times: Rep. Paul Wieland (R-Imperial)
calls on Nixon to release port funds
AP: Missouri lawmakers pass bill to help agriculture
industry
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Senate bill would utilize hemp
measures in farm bill; Comments from Sen. Brian Munzlinger
(R-Williamstown)
AP: Missouri House panel sends medical marijuana bill
forward
The Missouri Times: Medical marijuana poised for House
debate
CDT: Group will seek to limit foreign ownership of
farmland, already capped at one percent; Woman hops aboard Willie
Nelson's tour bus, shares decades-old story and offers him her goodies X
JCNT: Funding poses roadblock for synthetic-drug
identification program X
JCNT: Bill seeks extra marshal at courthouse X
P-D: Nixon pulls St. Louis County out of new football
stadium financing
KWMU: County exec: STL County off the hook in
paying for riverfront football stadium
KWMU: Indian groups may complain about location of new
stadium
P-D: Unions to organize fast-food rally April
15; Whopper artist/Chicken-Fry chef Terrence Wise promises "the
biggest mobilization America has seen in decades"
Kraske: The Chat: Rep. Brandon Ellington
(D-Kansas City) on reality of no "Ferguson agenda" under GOP
supermajority; Cleaver wants Google to sign up more poors
+
AP: Man who shot police at Ferguson protest denied
lower bond
P-D: Spanish Lake man, 20, charged in attack on
MetroLink rider; Ringleader of beating is 15-year-old delinquent
CDT: Mizzou law school officials succeed in keeping
McCulloch visit focused on students
KOMU: Two dozens protesters express anger over
McCulloch visit; St. Louis County prosecutor visited campus to
discuss attack on Darren Wilson, subsequent court case
JCNT editorial: Don't give up on pay raise for state
workers X
P-D editorial: Indiana is getting all the attention,
but Missouri GOP discriminates against
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer/intersex/asexual residents, too
P-D editorial: Creative and cooperative policing
needed to stop teen intimidation; Ferguson riots have made
corralling youths a thorny topic, but the law is the law
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Unintended
consequences of the gun-rights amendment are now biting us
CDT letter: Central West End (St. Louis City) resident
wants Missouri lawmakers to expand Medicaid X
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch decries "racial divide" but
ignores miscreants' savage mentality and behavior
P-D letter: St. Charles man: Some white people
are racist, and some black people are racist, and that's a real shame.
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