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Wednesday, August 30
SNL: Before Trump speaks here, a look at current tax
overhaul debate X
SNL: Missouri Democrats hold press conference in
Springfield, focus on health care X
SNL: Trump supporters, Democrats shake hands before
Trump's Springfield appearance X
SNL: Last visit to Springfield by sitting president
was 2006; Photos of George W. Bush speaking, liberals outdoors
holding vulgar sign X
SE
Missourian: Jason Smith applauds Trump for Missouri visit to
champion tax overhaul +
KC Star's Hunter Woodall and Bryan Lowry: Expect Trump
to avoid providing any details in Springfield speech
KC Star's Melinda Henneberger: Attempting to speak to
unsophisticated Springfield Trump supporters in the city where black
men were lynched
Missourinet: Lacy Clay unhappy with Trump's move to
provide law enforcement more tools
SNL: Southwest Missouri chapter of National
Organization for Women holds inaugural meeting; Local NAACP
chief, MSU prof/LGBTQIA* expert, other gals gab about Trump, perceived
discrimination, etc. X
KWMU: Former Lt. Gov. Joe Maxwell (D) leads
anti-corporate "Family Farm Action" 501(c)(4)
Missourinet: Groups supporting, opposing 'right to
work' begin campaigns
SE
Missourian: Retired officer announces 2018 candidacy for
Lichtenegger's open House seat +
Drebes:
Sarah Swoboda, former deputy treasurer for Clint Zweifel, joins Public
School Retirement System
KWMU: Ashcroft seeks dismissal of ACLU's voter ID
lawsuit
P-D: Vote to expel Chappelle-Nadal from office could
be close
The Missouri Times: Chappelle-Nadal controversy leads
to talk about Legislature calling special election
The Missouri Times: Galloway proposes whistleblower
protection legislation to fix 'gap' in law
Missourinet: Galloway proposes to reinstate
whistleblower protections
CDT: After state cuts, Columbia Public Schools to pay
for ACT for juniors X
The Missouri Times: After Greitens stays execution,
death penalty film screens across Missouri
KC Star editorial: Advice for Trump's Missouri visit -
learn tax lessons from Kansas' mistakes
P-D editorial: Elder statesman Jack Danforth right to
trash Trump
The Missouri Times op-ed: Justin Brown: Maria
Chappelle-Nadal needs to go, and so do her policies
Jensen:
Imagining the next target for the perpetually-offended
politically-correct thinskins - demanding Missouri give its name back
to Indian tribe +
Columbia Missourian's Steve Spellman: Petty political
accusations persist: A look at the Josh Hawley residency hubbub
and Chappelle-Nadal's assassination post
Priddy: That time when Missouri almost moved to a
unicameral Legislature; 1374 words of reflection, including
early-'90s pop-culture punchline "Not!"
Messenger: Lawsuit renews Missouri court battle over
$3 charge to fund sheriffs' pensions
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Courts,
legislatures need to revisit the sales tax problem
KC Star letters: Kansas man disagrees with Kraske's
suggestion that Missouri Dems drop abortion litmus test; KC
liberal mocks Blunt for not embracing Trump or McConnell
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Tuesday, August 29
SNL: Anti-Trump protesters say hundreds preparing to
demonstrate in Springfield tomorrow X
SNL: Trump supporters plan to protest the protesters X
SNL: White House releases details for Trump visit X
SNL: Merch salesmen seek to profit from Trump visit,
set up shop around Springfield X
SE Missourian: Jason Smith previews Trump's
Springfield visit +
The Missouri Times: Hawley, Ashcroft won't be present
at Trump event
Washington Post: Claire McCaskill's balancing
act: Portraying a moderate in immoderate times
Missourinet: Luetkemeyer calls Trump an effective
leader
SE
Missourian: Federal government approves SkyWest's air service to
Cape Girardeau +
P-D: Report: Spy agency followed guidelines in
picking North St. Louis City for new western HQ
The Missouri Times: Americans for Prosperity takes aim
at 'union bosses' with 'right to work' mailer
KWMU: Democratic leaders, activists rally for higher
minimum wage; McDonald's worker explains household budget woes,
says she might forgo using electric "for a minute"
P-D: Krewson, Stenger throw support behind $12
statewide minimum wage ballot initiative
Drebes:
Jordan Duecker, formerly of Catherine Hanaway and Phil Christofanelli,
joins Greitens' office as a Policy Analyst
The Missouri Times: State Treasurer Eric Schmitt touts
benefits of MOST 529 with "Back to School" tour
The Missouri Times: Abuse victim confidentiality
program, "Safe at Home," turns 10
Missourinet: Domestic violence survivor:
Missouri system saved me in my darkest moment
SE
Missourian: Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston) seeks to serve as
Speaker of the House, talks leak/hack probe, says female lawmakers
can't wine & dine fellow legislators to get their way +
The Missouri Times: Rep. Bart Korman (R-High Hill)
considering a run for Majority Floor Leader
AP:
Survey: State workers think they're underpaid
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): At Moberly stop, UM System
President Mun Choi talks value of community colleges
SNL: Complaint over 'electronic meeting' closed by
Hawley's office X
P-D: Activists threaten "mass disruption" in St. Louis
City if court ruling doesn't go their way; Veteran street
pharmaceuticals salesman Anthony Lamar Smith fled Church's Chicken
parking lot/dispensary after spotting cops, was put down by officer
SNL editorial: Trump is coming to Springfield. Don't
lose your head. X
SNL op-ed: Springfield City Manager Greg Burris:
City must be civil during Trump's visit X
KC Star op-ed: McCaskill and Kansas' Pat
Roberts: Working to protect against agro-terrorism
P-D letter: Glendale liberal applauds Danforth for
criticizing Trump
P-D letter: Healthcare Supply Chain Association
supports McCaskill effort to lower drug costs
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Monday, August 28
KSMU: Trump to visit Springfield on Wednesday
AP:
Trump to promote tax overhaul this week in Missouri
KC Star: Local Democratic Socialists of America
spokeswoman unhappy with peacekeepers' presence at KC protests
P-D: Wisconsin conservative megadonor Foster Friess
visits St. Louis to promote "civility" campaign, poses for pics with
Maria Chappelle-Nadal
SNL: Letter campaign gains steam opposing Table Rock
Lake changes X
Drebes:
New campaign committees for Jay Barnes' state rep seat
JCNT: NAACP executes latest stunt: Mock funeral
outside Greitens' home; Unclear if governor's wife, young child
were at home X
KWMU: Raft of new Missouri laws take effect:
Workplace discrimination, REAL ID, Uber/Lyft, liquor at airports,
minimum wage, more
Missourinet: Key Missouri bills become law today
AP:
New discrimination, overdose laws take effect today in Missouri
Columbia Missourian: Law enforcement Blue Alert System
to go online today
KSMU: Blue Alert System goes into effect today
Missourinet: Richard and Munzlinger praise 2017
Missouri State Fair; Munzlinger wants to upgrade campgrounds
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Dr. Mun Choi speaks to Randolph
County Pachyderms, talks future of UM System and his priorities
KWMU: Adult education official: Post-high school
training matters more than GED vs. diploma debate
SNL: Springfield Public Schools may pay for juniors to
take ACT after state eliminates funding X
Missourinet: In lieu of stricter laws, MoDOT focuses
on driver education
KC Star editorial: Legislature blocks Kansas City's
$10 minimum wage, but local employers should keep payroll expenses
higher anyway
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri State
Highway Patrol to boost traffic law enforcement during Labor Day weekend X
Waters: University of Missouri handouts to poor kids a
great idea, will surely help Mizzou X
SNL letter: Local union member opposes 'right to work' X
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Sunday, August 27
SNL: Local liberals brace themselves for trauma of
Trump visit; Member of feminist "Pantsuit Nation" says
overwhelming number of her neighbors support "cretin" Trump X
CDT: Area transgenders oppose Trump's transgender
directive; Angry 15-year-old "non-binary" girl rejects "he" and
"she" pronouns, insists on being called a "they" [sic] X
KC Star's Andy Marso: "U.S. Rep. Vicki [sic] Hartzler" praises Trump's
transgender directive; Jason Kander weighs in
KC Star's Andy Marso: Jason Kander speaks to liberals
at park
SNL: Women's Equality Day's "Free the Nipple" protest
draws smaller crowd this year X
SNL: "Free the Nipple" protest photo: Obese man,
woman expose cellulite rolls in public X
SNL: Trump visit preview: In 2016 visit to St.
Louis, Trump made throwaway reference to football X
SNL: Trump visit preview: What Springfield can
learn from Phoenix X
Drebes: Statewide poll: Trump approval, Claire
McCaskill vs. Josh Hawley, Nicole Galloway vs. Todd Richardson, 'right
to work'
AP:
Thanks to GOP legislators, businesses in Kansas City and St. Louis City
freed from being forced to pay higher minimum wage
P-D: GOP legislators save local employers from higher
minimum wage; Comments from St. Louis Regional Chamber's Hart
Nelson, liberal professors, woman unable to manage her household budget
SNL: New law offers some legal protections to 911
callers during an overdose X
JCNT: Greitens' 'board of inquiry' in case of murderer
Marcellus Williams a rare move X
JCNT editorial: New website will benefit Capitol
interns X
P-D letter: Libertarian leader Tim Barnhart corrects
McCaskill misstatement about Hawley and residency, says it was a cheap
shot
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Saturday, August 26
SNL: President Trump coming to Springfield next week
to talk taxes
SNL: Why did President Trump pick Springfield?
SNL: When was Donald Trump last in Springfield?
The Missouri Times: Trump to visit Missouri on tax
overhaul tour
Missourinet: Trump to kick off tax policy campaign
next week in Springfield
P-D: Trump announces Missouri visit just as former
Sen. John Danforth denounces him
KC Star: Democrats seek to use Trump visit to create
divisions between President, Republicans
Drebes:
Trump's Missouri approval ratings: Even after media's
Charlottesville push, President's support remains strong
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Hartzler previews tax-overhaul
push, corporate taxes, taxes on Internet sales
CDT: John "Jenna Marie" Bourgeois moves to Missouri,
says he'll run as Democrat against Hartzler; Transgender says
current Democrat candidate can't represent transgender issues, compares
himself to Jackie Robinson
KC Star's Melinda Henneberger: Country Claire, gettin'
folksy and workin' hard: Editorial board member attends McCaskill
town hall, mocks rural voters' lack of sophistication and senator's
answers
Kraske: Struggling Missouri Democratic Party can't
afford to impose an abortion litmus test
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of August 21
Missourinet: Munzlinger and Curtman to file industrial
hemp bill again in 2018
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport)
preview next session's work on insurance coverage for those with
developmental disabilities
KC Star: Background on boating bill vetoed by Greitens
SE
Missourian: SEMO student retention hits record high;
overall enrollment down slightly
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Department of
Conservation reminds Missourians that bird hunting season starts next
week
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Midwest Innocent
Project Director Tricia Bushnell promotes her group
The Missouri Times: KC double-murderer claims he is
innocent; Rep. Brandon Ellington (D-Kansas City) wants Hawley to
issue a statement
AP: Missouri NAACP announces newest stunt: A
mock funeral outside Governor's Mansion on Sunday
P-D: Man who shot police during Ferguson riot gets 15
years in prison
SE
Missourian editorial: Peter Kinder will be good fit for Delta
Regional Authority
P-D editorial: Ed Martin is back at it
KC Star editorial: Tell Greitens that Missouri
supports the Rock Island Trail project
P-D op-ed: Jack Danforth: Why Trump is no
Republican
SE
Missourian op-ed: Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau): Urge
Congress to reauthorize Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home
Visiting program
KC Star letter: Kansas sexagenarian disagrees with
pro-'dark money' op-ed
P-D letter: Man who lives near Chappelle-Nadal says he
likes her
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Friday, August 25
Quincy Herald-Whig: McCaskill supporters rally at
Bowling Green town hall; Attendees include zero (0) Republicans
WGEM: McCaskill talks tariffs, Charlottesville, state
legislation on 'right to work,' more
KTVO (Kirksville): 'Underdog' McCaskill holds
Kirksville town hall
P-D: War over Backpage moves to a new
battleground: NAFTA
St. Joseph News-Press: Bioenergy plant officials to
Graves: Some consistency in tax credits needed X
Clayton Times: Columbia city councilman speaks to
Better Way Missouri PAC, says he'll add marijuana-law overhaul to
lobbying agenda
Drebes: Sen. Jason Holsman (D-Kansas City) hangs real
estate shingle
The Missouri Times: How does a special legislative
session work, and what could it mean for Chappelle-Nadal?
Rosenbaum: As paid leave catches on in Missouri
agencies, lawmakers wonder about cost
Missourinet: Senate President Pro Tem Ron
Richard: Brian Munzlinger may be the best Agriculture Committee
chair in Missouri history
KWMU: What's next for the 4 Missouri state parks in
limbo?
The Missouri Times: State-school sports taking hits as
state budget tightens
Missourinet: Missouri Transportation Task Force seeks
road funding ideas in Springfield
Missourinet: Transportation hearing shows local
governments don't want to manage Missouri's lettered roads
CDT: University of Missouri launches plan to cut costs
for low-income students X
P-D: Mizzou to hand out full-tuition grants to
low-income students
KC Star: University of Missouri to offer free tuition
and fees to qualifying students
AP:
As with previous governors, Greitens appoints some donors to boards and
commissions
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri Supreme
Court: Week of August 21, 2017
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Midwest Innocence
Project promotes its anti-death-penalty views
KC Star editorial: Missouri's U.S. Senate race
devolving into petty skirmishes between McCaskill and Hawley camps
Washington Missourian editorial: Chappelle-Nadal
should stop playing victim and resign X
KC Star editorial: MU enrollment data offers a glimmer
of hope
CDT editorial: New evidence should have us all
question Marcellus Williams' guilt X
JCNT editorial: Greitens makes right call on halting
execution X
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Thursday, August 24
KWMU: McCaskill takes her town hall tour to the
once-blue, now-red Northwest Missouri
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): At Moberly stop, Hartzler talks
Obamacare overhaul and her hopes that Senate takes positive action
SNL: Analysis: Typical Springfieldian's
demographics would not allow a hypothetical immigration into the U.S. X
The Missouri Times: Special election for Will Kraus'
seat: Rep. Mike Cierpiot (R-Lee's Summit) vs. Indivisible KC
co-founder Hillary Shields
The Missouri Times: Former Office of Administration
Commissioner Doug Nelson joins Lathrop Gage
Drebes: Katie Reichard to Coalition for Community
Behavioral Healthcare
KWMU: Politically Speaking Podcast: St. Charles
County Executive Steve Ehlmann (R) talks county's prosperity, dangers
of having poors concentrated in one area, opioids, advice for rural
state legislators
AP:
Greitens makes several board, commission appointments: Doug
Russell, others
P-D: Greitens fills rest of Missouri Board of
Education spots
The Missouri Times: Greitens hosts third public
address through Facebook
AP:
Greitens hints at consequences for Trump assassination post
Washington Missourian: Sen. Dave Schatz (R-Sullivan)
calls for Chappelle-Nadal to resign
SNL: Business groups ponder scare tactics to raise
Missouri's 'ridiculously low' gas tax X
KWMU: Capturing state taxes on online sales: In
Missouri, it's mostly on you
SE
Missourian: Fiber upgrade helped pave way for AT&T
expansion; Comments from John Sondag +
KC Star: Brandon Ellingson's father worries he'll miss
sentencing of trooper in son's case
SNL: What to do with $130k seized from Asian massage
parlors? Area woman suggests donating it to anti-trafficking
efforts X
The Missouri Times: Womens' groups create resource to
protect interns in workplace
Columbia Missourian: New website launches to help
prevent sexual harassment of college interns
AP:
Harassment claims at Missouri Capitol inspire intern website
KWMU: Protesters congregate in St. Louis City after
man stabs another man and a police officer, gets put down by police
P-D: Protesters jump onto Mercedes-Benz in St. Louis
City, make a scene
KC Star op-ed: Concerned Veterans for America's Dan
Caldwell: Greitens right to protect private political donations
in Missouri
Waters: Club for Growth's dark money X
P-D letter: Crestwood man says Democrats would help
themselves by expelling Chappelle-Nadal
KC Star letter: Area septuagenarian says that if
Chappelle-Nadal resigns, then Trump must resign too; Area
sexagenarian says Chappelle-Nadal deserves another chance after what
she wrote "on her computer"
P-D letter: Dardenne Prairie man says MSU's increased
enrollment from St. Charles County shows that sensible students and
parents want an education, not Mizzou's liberal indoctrination
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Wednesday, August 23
Dunklin
Democrat: McCaskill holds town hall in Kennett, talks Obamacare,
Planned Parenthood, opioids, more
SNL: Health care uncertainty, gun concerns discussed
at McCaskill town hall X
SNL: Video: Excerpts from McCaskill town hall in
Ozark X
KCUR: Three KC Star veterans accept buyouts as
'newsroom reinvention' gets underway; Health beat renamed "bad
medicine" beat, education now "raising Kansas City," other
social-justice slants; Reporters to be rewarded for high-click
stories
The Missouri Times: August 2017 tip sheet for 2018
statewide, state legislative races now available online
Drebes:
Joe Maxwell, Wes Shoemyer form dark-money PAC to fight "foreign
ownership" of Missouri land, multinational companies selling products
to farmers, other atrocities
P-D: Oklahoma Indian tribe hires lobbyists in push for
Missouri casino
The Missouri Times: Hilltop Public Solutions office in
St. Louis signals Midwest outreach for Dems; Ryan Hawkins to lead
local office
The Missouri Times: Lt. Gov. Mike Parson issues letter
to senators calling for special session to expel Chappelle-Nadal
The Missouri Times: Sen. Gina Walsh (D-Bellefontaine
Neighbors) strips Chappelle-Nadal of committee assignments
KWMU: Missouri Senate removes Chappelle-Nadal from
committees; Expulsion still looms
P-D: Parson wants special session to remove
Chappelle-Nadal
Jensen:
Chappelle-Nadal receives only mild rebukes because of her protected
class - and will play the race card, gender card and every other phony
ploy
The Missouri Times: GOP caucus vote causes a commotion
over issue of seniors' vote; Copies, screenshots of snippy
internecine e-mails
The Missouri Times: Lt. Gov. Mike Parson honors
veterans at Missouri State Fair
AP: Greitens to take questions via Facebook today at
11:30 a.m.
KWMU: Missouri finally has prescription drug
monitoring, but prescribers can't use it
SE
Missourian: AT&T to hire 150 people at Cape Girardeau call
center; Comments from AT&T Missouri President John Sondag +
P-D: MO DNR: Radioactivity in stormwater runoff
is not from West Lake Landfill; Republic Services' Russ
Knocke: "Science isn't always fast, but it's irrefutable."
KWMU: Greitens postpones murderers' execution due to
new DNA evidence
AP:
Greitens halts Marcellus Williams' execution
Columbia Missourian: Stay of execution turns protest
into celebration
P-D: Greitens stops execution after questions about
DNA evidence
SE
Missourian editorial: Rush Limbaugh enters milestone year for
radio show +
KC Star editorial: Greitens shows courage in decision
to stay execution of Marcellus Williams
P-D editorial: Greitens steps up to remove doubt in
murder case
KC Star letter: Cass County septuagenarian says
Chappelle-Nadal deserves consequences
JCNT letter: Jefferson City septuagenarian says
Chappelle-Nadal must be punished X
P-D letter: Bridgeton man says Post-Dispatch editorial
board, Messenger should acknowledge hate speech from Chappelle-Nadal
and other liberals
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Tuesday, August 22
The Missouri Times: McCaskill adds three town hall
stops to list in effort to reach rural voters
CDT: Liberal group CoMo for Progress cancels meeting
with Hartzler; Group refuses to meet with congresswoman unless
media captures the performance X
Missourinet: Missouri group still hoping Congress will
privatize air traffic control system; Comments from state
legislators, Joe Lakin
KWMU: 'Right to work' is strictly a union issue, but
all Missouri voters will have a say in 2018
Drebes:
Harry Roberts joins Tony Luetkemeyer, Rep. Nick Marshall in GOP state
Senate primary
The Missouri Times: Profile: Viceroy Government
Relations' Jeffrey Altmann talks origins of career, repping "Uber for
boats," more
The Missouri Times: Photos: Eclipse at the
Capitol
Columbia Missourian: Photos: Eclipse at the
Capitol
JCNT: Capitol crowd pleased with what they saw X
SNL: MSU sets an opening day enrollment record X
KC Star: MU enrollment is down but last year's
freshmen came back
The Missouri Times: On This Week in Missouri Politics,
Choi says UM job 'one of the best in academia'
AP:
Attorneys for Marcellus Williams seek to halt today's execution
KWMU: Missouri prepares for second execution of 2017
Missourinet: Missouri NAACP President Nimrod
Chapel: Murderer Marcellus Williams might be innocent
P-D: Marcellus Williams' lawyers insist he's innocent
Missourinet: Missouri Parole Board rejects parole for
man convicted of 1991 Moberly murder
P-D editorial: Chappelle-Nadal would be a burden to
McCaskill's re-election and must resign
KC Star editorial: Chappelle-Nadal could do damage to
Democratic Party's prospects in 2018 and must resign
KC Star editorial: Missouri officials wrong to support
Ten Commandments monument on public property
P-D editorial: Death-penalty debate hits close to
home; Man who stabbed Post-Dispatch employee to death should be
given a break
P-D op-ed: SLU associate prof of health care ethics
weighs in on climate change and Missouri agriculture
SNL letter: Local member of Silver Haired Legislature
wants real legislators to expand Medicaid X
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Monday, August
21 MoDOT Travel Map
KTVI: MoDOT warning drivers to be prepared for the
Great American Eclipse
Missourinet: Most Missouri state offices in Buchanan
and Cole Counties are closed today because of solar eclipse
SNL: McCaskill announces three town halls tomorrow X
P-D: McCaskill, gearing up for tough re-election
fight, turned over Rosie O'Donnell donations to charity
AP: McCaskill reaches out to rural Missouri ahead of
election
SNL: Proposed cuts threaten utilities assistance
programs X
Clayton Times: Chappelle-Nadal apologizes to Trump
Missourinet: Chappelle-Nadal apologizes to Trump,
stands by refusal to resign
KC Star: Anti-Trump activists rally at the
Plaza; Teenager holds vulgar sign, local Indian "Moses Brings
Plenty" speaks wisdom to palefaces, etc.
KWMU: At St. Louis Black Pride Festival, LGBTQ
activists complain about Trump and "white privilege"
Drebes: New PACs and treasurers: Cooperative
Owners PAC's Amanda Yoder, others
This Week in Missouri Politics: UM System President
Dr. Mun Choi talks about Board of Curators, preparing for activist
rabblerousing, lessons from his dad in working hard and rejecting
handouts; Panel of David Barklage, John Gaskin, Senate Minority
Caucus Counsel Chris Schappe, Gregg Keller talk Chappelle-Nadal,
Hawley, much more
SNL: Greitens could help public defense in Greene
County and beyond X
Missourinet: Missouri organization launches system in
response to Capitol intern scandals
KWMU: Midwest Innocent Project wants Greitens to halt
execution of murderer
SE
Missourian editorial: Bipartisan call for anti-sex-trafficking
bill is encouraging +
KC Star editorial: Greitens should spare murderer
Marcellus Williams
SE
Missourian letter: Local Moms Demand Action member wants
McCaskill, Blunt to support gun control +
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Sunday, August 20
SE
Missourian: At town hall, McCaskill talks Planned Parenthood,
Medicare, Trump, more +
SNL:
Local Democrats change name of 'tone deaf' Jackson Day; Former
President owned slaves, moved Indians off their land X
KC
Star: Vandalized Confederate monument in KC will be removed soon,
park officials say
The
Missouri Times: HRCC Executive Director Robert Knodell talks 2018
House races, Trump's impact, more
The
Missouri Times: Rep. Rocky Miller (R-Lake Ozark) withdraws from
Floor Leader's race
Drebes:
Hawley joins amicus brief defending 10 Commandments display
P-D:
Rural hospitals' financial health is under State Auditor Nicole
Galloway's lens
AP:
Thanks to Sheena Greitens, Missouri child abuse hotline now accepts
out-of-state calls
P-D:
Missouri State takes on Mizzou: 'We want to be the undergraduate
choice for Missouri'
CDT:
KOPN facing 'serious' financial woes; Public radio station can't
pay its bills, hires Bernie Sanders volunteer organizer to right the
ship X
SNL
editorial: Maria Chappelle-Nadal should resign after
assassination post X
KC
Star editorial: Dark money and secret donors could deluge
Missouri in 2018
P-D
editorial: Missouri's parole board doesn't give parolees a fair
chance at life outside
SNL
op-ed: Americans for Prosperity's Jeremy Cady: 'Right to
work' benefits everyone X
Waters:
Questionable Public Service Commission denial of Grain Belt Express
seems political
Horrigan:
Netflix goes to Georgia to trash Missourians and the Lake of the Ozarks
P-D
op-ed: ACLU's Jeffrey Mittman: Stop the execution of
Marcellus Williams
SNL
letter: Springfield sexagenarian disagrees with Tim Jones piece
on tax cuts X
P-D
letter: Mehlville man examines P-D's liberal, anti-Trump bias
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Saturday, August 19
KWMU: Democratic, Republican leaders call for
Chappell-Nadal to resign over Trump assassination comment
SNL: Chappelle-Nadal's death wish for Trump brings
Parson to Springfield as expulsion looms X
The Missouri Times: Parson, Greitens call on Senate to
expel Chappelle-Nadal
P-D: Greitens calls for expulsion of Chappelle-Nadal
Clayton Times: Lt. Gov. Mike Parson gives
Chappelle-Nadal three weeks to resign, or be expelled
Clayton Times: Chappelle-Nadal not backing down
Missourinet: Parson calls on Senate to remove
Chappelle-Nadal
SNL: Blunt talks Bannon's exit, Chappelle-Nadal's
assassination comment X
KC Star: At Harrisonville, McCaskill says she was 'not
surprised' by release of Bannon; Comments from attendee and
University of Central Missouri poli sci prof Robynn Kuhlmann
Rosenbaum: Missouri's Trump supporters reflect on
president's response to Charlottesville
Clayton
Times: Profile: Kelli Dunaway seeks to fill Democratic
ballot slot in Ann Wagner's re-election, alleges that primary opponents
are "three straight white men"
P-D's Joe Holleman: The smoking lamp is out:
Chief Wana Dubie dead at 58
The Missouri Times: Unions look to force statewide
vote with 310,000 signatures seeking to block 'right-to-work' law
KWMU: Missouri's 'right-to-work' law suspended after
unions turn in 300k signatures for statewide vote
AP:
Unions deliver signatures to block 'right to work' in Missouri
Missourinet: Unions turn out large crowd for
anti-'right to work' rally
Drebes: Help Wanted: Show-Me Institute seeks
policy analysts
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Israeli ambassador, judge appointment, assassination
tweet response
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): At State Fair, Greitens talks
broadband for rural schools
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): State Fair prepares for another
packed weekend
KWMU: Behind the Headlines: How MO Dept. of
Tourism, Highway Patrol are preparing for eclipse hysteria
AP: Missouri State Parks: Don't use the eclipse
glasses we sold
KWMU: Ferguson-Florissant superintendent faces fraud
charges, is on leave
P-D: Ferguson-Florissant superintendent 'emphatically
denies' claims he misused North Carolina district's credit card
P-D editorial: Chappelle-Nadal's comments make 2018
elections even harder for Missouri Democrats
KC Star letter: Independence man says Cleaver's
rhetoric is creating more divisions
P-D letter: Missouri Right to Life's Steve Rupp
responds to P-D's pro-Planned Parenthood editorial
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Friday, August 18
The Missouri Times: Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal
(D-University City) calls for President Donald Trump to be assassinated
KSDK (St. Louis): Video: Chappelle-Nadal
explains call for presidential assassination: "I had over 60 hits
[sic] of people who liked it"
(0:25); Expresses frustration with interviewer (4:00);
Compares her assassination comments to Trump's criticism of Obama
(5:00); Says constituents will not read or see negative news
coverage of her (6:45); Dismisses county executive's criticism as
racially-motivated (10:00); Says 100% of constituents support her
(12:00); Compares her call for presidential assassination to
legislators who have smoked marijuana (13:40); Much more
KWMU: Democratic, GOP leaders call for Chappell-Nadal
to resign over Trump assassination comment
P-D: Missouri's top Democrats call for Chappell-Nadal
to resign for assassination post
SNL: Missouri Democrat posts assassination wishes X
Missourinet: Chappelle-Nadal says she will not resign
AP:
Democratic state senator posts wish for Trump assassination
KC Star: Democratic state senator hopes Trump is
assassinated
Washington Post: A Missouri lawmaker's Facebook
comment leads to calls for her resignation
KC Star: McCaskill at town hall: 'My job isn't
to fight the president'
Missourinet: McCaskill to participate in roundtable
discussion on agricultural security
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt differ on how to get
high-speed Internet to rural Missouri
AP:
U.S. Senate campaign rivals Claire McCaskill, Josh Hawley chat at Ham
Breakfast
P-D: At Ham Breakfast, media shows most interest in
U.S. Senate, state auditor races
Missourinet: Parson: There have been record
crowds every day at Missouri State Fair
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
panelists talk reapportionment, Stephen Webber's efforts to revive
Missouri Democratic Party after years of lackluster leadership, more
JCNT: New GOP Executive Director Austin Stukins speaks
to Cole County Republicans, says he'll put Claire McCaskill "out to
pasture"
Drebes:
Lobbying firms' new gambit: Creating their own PACs
The Missouri Times: Federalist Society to start new
chapter in mid-Missouri
JCNT: Michela Skelton launches new campaign for House
seat X
The Missouri Times: Legislature could override veto
this fall
The Missouri Times: HCB 3 could once again appear
before the Legislature
SE
Missourian: MoDOT director: Gas-tax increase could be
'quickest way' to fund roads and bridges +
Missourinet:
McKenna, Rep. Bruce DeGroot (R-Chesterfield) talk regional favoritism
in road funding
P-D: In rare remarks, Jay Nixon says public should
voice support for proposed trail project
KWMU: Pentobarbital: A look at Missouri's choice
for effective, painless executions
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Palestinian activist says
McCaskill is trying to restrict First Amendment rights
Columbia Missourian's George Kennedy: Columnist recaps
anti-GOP health care rally, notes that he held the door open for a
handicapped woman
Missourinet's Jason Taylor: Josh Hawley's vague
answers at State Fair Ham Breakfast show he's closer than ever to
climbing the same ladder he once denounced
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Thursday, August 17
P-D: Trump signs bill clearing way for World War II
vets' mustard gas claims
Joplin Globe: Trump signs McCaskill-backed bill for
WWII vet benefits X
SNL: Blunt staffers endure activists' complaints about
Medicaid cuts; Handicapped man makes excretory reference X
SNL: Austin Petersen, Tony Monetti say they're still
running for GOP U.S. Senate nomination X
P-D: Ann Wagner on congressional trip to South Korea,
China, Japan
P-D: Elected officials' communications staff pen
statements on Charlottesville
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: KC Dem Reps.
Lauren Arthur, Jon Carpenter chat with Mannies & Rosenbaum about
life in the superminority, state budget, unions' minimum-wage campaign,
more
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep.-elect Sara Walsh prepares to
serve in the House
KOMU (Columbia): Activists hold town-hall rally
against home health care cuts
CDT: Democratic superminority members Martha Stevens,
Kip Kendrick attend health care rally X
Clayton Times: Greitens: Troopers on St. Louis
City interstates getting dangerous criminals off the streets
Clayton Times: MoDOT asks motorists to plan ahead for
eclipse, expects traffic to be heavy
The Missouri Times: Senate Interim Committee on labor
debates prevailing-wage laws
SE
Missourian: Voluntary retirement offered for SEMO staff members +
KWMU: KIPP high school among 3 new charter schools
opening in St. Louis City this week
The Missouri Times: This Week in the PSC: August
16, 2017
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): PSC denies Grain Belt;
Thoughts from company, opposition groups, Missouri Farm Bureau's Blake
Hurst
AP:
Missouri regulators reject massive Midwest power line
CDT: Local governments play waiting game after third
Grain Belt project rejection X
P-D: Despite giving vocal support, state regulators
again deny Grain Belt Express transmission line, citing court ruling
P-D: Missouri seniors buying up national parks passes
before $70 price hike
KWMU: Missouri appeals court weighs grand jury secrecy
vs. right to contradict officials
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Greitens not doing
enough to repudiate Trump
P-D op-ed: CEAM's Brian Murphy: NAACP's attack
on charter schools is misguided
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Wednesday, August 16
The Missouri Times: Eric Schmitt will not run for U.S.
Senate in 2018, paves way for Hawley bid
SNL: Schmitt won't run for U.S. Senate, opening door
wider for Hawley's candidacy X
Real Clear Politics' Rebecca Berg: Schmitt clears way
for Hawley in Missouri's U.S. Senate race
Washington Examiner: Schmitt backs out of Claire
McCaskill challenge, citing need for GOP unity
P-D: Eric Schmitt out of Missouri's U.S. Senate race,
backs Josh Hawley
JCNT: Democrats question Hawley's residency and his
vote in last week's election X
KC Star: Cleaver talks Charlottesville, Trump
KWMU: EPA: No trace of asbestos found in house
that burned
Missourinet: State agencies brace for massive inflow
of visitors for once-in-a-lifetime eclipse
Drebes:
Mark Milton forms Franklin County Leadership PAC
JCNT: Gena Terlizzi takes helm at Missouri National
Alliance on Mental Illness X
Clayton Times: Greitens talks business with Israeli
ambassador at Danforth Plant Science Center, slams violence in
Charlottesville
P-D: The Bottom Line video series: Sexagenarian
business columnists David Nicklaus and Jim Gallagher say tax credits
are "out of control," doubt that Greitens will do anything about it
JCNT: Greitens makes appearance at Jefferson City
Correctional Center X
P-D: Missouri Department of Social Services still
reviewing budget to identify places to trim
P-D: Another special session not out of the question
SNL: Under Greitens, fate of new state parks in limbo X
The Missouri Times: Mallinckrodt donates 50,000 drug
disposal pouches in Missouri to fight opioid epidemic
CDT: UM reaches deadline for new federal
lobbyist; Andy Blunt's $10,500/month no-bid state government
lobbying contract still untouchable until June 2018 X
KWMU: Missouri education officials hope 'skinny'
school improvement plan will satisfy feds
P-D: Missouri approves 'skinny plan' to improve
worst-performing public schools
KWMU:
Missouri ed board to stay out of St. Louis Public Schools' local
control talks
P-D: Missouri sued over lack of attorneys for parole
violators
The Missouri Times: Certificate of Need subcommittee
proposes minimum occupancy requirement for hospital beds
The Missouri Times: Experts urge companies to beef up
systems at Missouri Chamber's Cybersecurity Summit
AP:
Overview: NAACP "travel advisory" details, reactions
SNL: Springfield NAACP holds press conference to
promote "travel advisory," receives pushback
X
SE
Missourian: Band who cancelled concert appearance due to NAACP
"travel advisory" quickly replaced +
AP:
Missouri Supreme Court rejects request to stop execution;
Marcellus Williams broke into Post-Dispatch employee's home and stabbed
her 43 times in the neck with a butcher knife
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court denies murderer's
request for stay of execution
KWMU: Juror in Michael Brown assault case to ask
Missouri appeals court for right to speak
JCNT editorial: Missouri Department of Conservation
marks 80 years of good stewardship X
KWMU's Durrie Bouscaren: In Missouri, guns are too
easy to purchase; Local man purchased guns for protection in
urban areas, but brother-in-law's nefarious hoodlum pal broke into
house and shot homeowner
Jensen:
KWMU piece on urban bloodsports ignores major reason for crime:
Males abandoning the children they created +
P-D letter: Jeanette Mott Oxford on GOP discrimination
law
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Tuesday, August 15
Missourinet: McCaskill wants U.S. to invest more in
missile defense program
P-D: Club for Growth raises $10 million to back Hawley
in U.S. Senate race
The Missouri Times: As Net neutrality debate
continues, Blunt pushes for rural expansion of broadband
Missourinet: Clay praises Jason Smith for
bipartisanship on civil rights historical sites
Missourinet: Cleaver talks Charlottesville, criticizes
Trump
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Rep.-elect Sara
Walsh (R-Ashland) talks campaign, voter priorities, MU, more;
Panel of Sarah Martin, Ray Hartmann, Carl Bearden, Robert Knodell talk
Walsh's victory, Democratic factions affecting McCaskill's re-election,
Nicole Galloway vs. Todd Richardson
The Missouri Times: Democrat Jordan Presnell announces
candidacy for seat held by term-limited Rep. Gary Cross (R-Lee's Summit)
JCNT: Patrick Baker named new Senate administrator
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Missouri House of Representatives seeks Drafting
Services Attorney
KC Star: Missouri still last among states in employee
pay
P-D: Unions to hold anti-'right to work' rally at
Capitol, submit petition signatures on Friday
SE
Missourian: Cape County adopts prescription drug database
KWMU: Greitens to join other state leaders in drawing
attention to corrections workers
KWMU: Harris-Stowe students, administrator air
grievances about "PWIs" (Predominantly White Institutions): Coed
says Caucasoids at her high school were "not understanding (my) hair,"
other atrocities
Clayton Times: Few transfer students from unaccredited
school districts remain in Clayton district
SE
Missourian: Nashville band cancels gig, cites NAACP "travel
advisory"
P-D: NAACP "travel advisory" hurting tourism,
officials say; Comments from Explore St. Louis' Kitty Ratcliffe,
Jerry Hunter, others
KWMU: Attorney for man who killed Post-Dispatch
reporter requests stay of execution for new DNA evidence
P-D op-ed: Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City):
Employers can teach cruel Republican legislators a lesson by increasing
payroll expenditures
KC Star letter: Independence liberal unhappy with GOP
legislators' tax cuts, wants Legislature to be disbanded
SNL letter: Willow Springs sexagenarian wants GOP
legislators to expand Medicaid
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Monday, August 14
Washington Examiner: McCaskill: Army contractor
in Afghanistan bought Porsches, Bentleys, prohibited guns and alcohol
St. Joseph News-Press: Anti-Trump group turns out
fewer than 60 for health care rally X
St. Joseph News-Press: Anti-Trump group organizes
Charlottesville protest X
SNL: Springfield liberals organize Charlottesville
protest, link Trump to Nazis; Local Dem leader: "Probably
the cream of the left activists are here" X
Missourinet: Deadline is today for Missouri residents
to apply for federal disaster relief
Drebes:
Mark Schwartz leaves Andy Blunt's Statehouse Strategies
KC Star: Family of man who receives in-home care
opposes cuts to in-home care
AP: Sex offender law prompts lawsuit
SNL: Springfield Police Department aware of sex
trafficking investigation at Asian spas since 2014, chief says X
KWMU: St. Louis City crime-data analysis: More
than half of 2017 homicide suspects are black males; Area woman
says spending $4 million in state money will surely help
SE
Missourian editorial: Missouri Department of Conservation
celebrates 80 years of preserving wildlife +
St. Joseph News-Press op-ed: Army vet: Foreign
aid makes for a stronger Missouri X
Messenger: On Ferguson and Charlottesville
SNL letter: Organizer of "Clean Missouri" petition
drives touts presence at Route 66 Festival this coming weekend X
P-D letter: Union lawyer opposes 'right to work'
KC Star letter: Area septuagenarian disagrees with
Missouri Republicans on minimum wage, cites Berkeley study
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Sunday, August 13
Roll Call: McCaskill to hold 25 town halls amid
challenges from right and left
Drebes:
Charlie Hinderliter leaving St. Louis Regional Chamber for St. Louis
Realtors
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri State Fair brings
attention to hungry children; Comments from Ag Director Chris
Chinn
Republic-Monitor: Rep. Rick Francis (R-Perryville)
reflects on freshman session: 'Right to work' victory, urban
legislators taking no interest in life-saving rural legislation, more
CDT: At MU, efficiency is the new normal due to budget
cuts X
SNL: Springfield Public Schools to see less than 5
(five) percent cut in funding for high-poverty schools; Federal
taxpayers foot $8,000,000.00 bill to "level the playing field" for
poorest SPS schools this year X
SNL: Springfield Public Schools to distribute 20,000
Google Chromebook laptops in first 11 days of schools X
P-D: Wentzville School District the fastest-growing in
the state; White, middle-class families flee inner-ring St. Louis
County suburbs for St. Charles County
JCNT editorial: A renewed call for primary seat belt
law in Missouri X
P-D: Michael Brown protesters make a scene outside
Cardinals game; Agitators hold obscentity-filled signs, scream as
families depart Busch Stadium
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: UM outlook brightens
under Choi X
Washington Missourian editorial: Hard facts to swallow
after Ferguson: Shooting of Michael Brown was justified;
Small pack of Mizzou complainers severely damaged school's
reputation; NAACP "travel advisory" gimmick is misguided;
More X
KC Star letters: MATA's Jeannie Brandstetter on GOP
discrimination law; KC man offers sarcastic praise of NAACP
"travel advisory," notes that "white folks with common sense" avoid
dangerous black areas
P-D letter: Chesterfield sexagenarian responds to P-D
editorial on GOP discrimination bill
SNL letter: Republic nonagenarian responds to former
Speaker Tim Jones' op-ed, attempts analogy involving Alice in Wonderland X
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Saturday, August 12
P-D: McCaskill launches rural Missouri town hall
meetings in bid to stake out the middle
AP: Fact Check: Democrats' anti-Hawley ad
SE
Missourian: Trump names Kinder to Delta Regional Authority
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Missourinet: Local governments, residents nearing
deadline to receive federal aid from spring floods
Deseret News: Scott Eckersley, at center of 2007 Gov.
Blunt controversy, sues local police and prosecutors in brochure dispute
CDT: Video: Sara Walsh 50th District special
election victory speech X
SNL: Local TV vet talks 'fake news,' media literacy
with local Pachyderms X
The Missouri Times: Pro-'right to work' group accused
of armed intimidation
Missourinet: 'Right to work' supporters ask state
Supreme Court to block union ballot effort
Ray Hartmann: Discriminating taste? How Missouri
Legislature disgraced the state with Senate Bill 43
P-D: State plan to verify welfare recipients'
qualifications is delayed
The Missouri Times: Office of Administration asking
for rule review input from applicants in state's Merit System
P-D: Greitens orders flags at half-staff to honor
slain Clinton, Mo., officer
P-D: New state parks: Planned by Nixon, on hold
by Greitens
St. Joseph News-Press: MoDOT finalizes eclipse plans X
P-D: When it comes to DUI enforcement, Missouri leans
to lenient
Missourinet: Event hosted by Rep. Steven Roberts
(D-St. Louis City) provides free backpacks, school supplies
The Missouri Times: As the final KCI decision looms,
questions arise around AECOM; Comments from Rep. Greg Razer
(D-Kansas City)
KC Star editorial: Despite state minimum-wage law,
every KC business should pay workers at least $10/hr.
Waters: NAACP's "overblown allegations" in
travel-advisory gimmick don't help race relations X
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Friday, August 11
The Missouri Times: Trump names Peter Kinder as new
Alternate Federal Co-Chairperson of the Delta Regional Authority
P-D: White House appoints former Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder
to federal economic development
KWMU: Through Medicaid, taxpayers will subsidize
"free" health clinics at Normandy and two other poorly-peforming schools
P-D: Former Obamacare worker claims she'll file
against Claire McCaskill in Democratic U.S. Senate primary
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Democratic Party Chair
Stephen Webber to speak to local Dems on Monday X
P-D's Kurt Erickson: GOP rally at State Fair ruffles
feathers; Comments from one (1) member of Missouri State Fair
Commission, Democrat and longtime Carnahan family ally Sean McGinnis
CDT: Taylor Burks oversees first election, settles in
as county clerk X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) talks
potential statewide vote on fuel tax for transportation
The Missouri Times: Courts could see flurry of
anti-discrimination suits before new law takes hold
The Missouri Times: Rep. Steven Roberts (D-St. Louis
City) partners with Firefighters, unions in organizing school supply
drive
Columbia Missourian: UMKC chancellor leaving
early; likely interim backs more system collaboration
KC Star: A million out-of-state travelers expected to
pack Missouri roads for solar eclipse
The Missouri Times: Capital City preparing for total
eclipse
Columbia Missourian: Newspaper seeks members of
Readers Board "that represent the area's diversity"
SNL: Missouri Department of Conservation debunks story
of strange creature in Lake Springfield X
KWMU: Former Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson talks
about new book, Michael Brown's assault on Officer Darren Wilson, media
bias against law enforcement, more
Pacific Missourian: Missouri Department of
Conservation: Trap, euthanize is best solution for animal problem
KWMU: Filmmaker promotes Ferguson documentary, says he
hopes protesters "are proud of themselves" for what they did
P-D editorial: Auditor Nicole Galloway calls out Gov.
Nixon's budget poaching and mooching
SNL editorial: "Cliff Effect" legislation from Rep.
Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) could help stop area poors from
committing so many crimes X
P-D op-ed: 2016 Democratic lieutenant governor primary
bronze medalist Winston Apple: 'Right to work' an assault on the
right to unite
Columbia Missourian's George Kennedy: Gerrymandering
cost the energetic, courageous Michela Skelton her rightful state rep
victory
P-D letter: Chesterfield man responds to Clay's
Ferguson op-ed, says Michael Brown should not have punched officer in
the head
KC Star letter: U.S. Travel Association's Roger Dow
says NAACP "travel advisory" stunt will hurt Missouri employment
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Thursday, August 10
AP: McCaskill plans another round of rural Missouri
town halls
P-D: NRSC's new anti-McCaskill ads have rodeo theme
KC Star: Anti-Trump groups draws small crowd for
health care protest; Mayor Sly James, local "Indivisible" leader
serve as opening acts for headliner Jason Kander
KCUR: Health care bus tour makes stop in KC
Daily
American Republic: Rep. Jason Smith hears concerns during annual
Farm Tour +
KC Star: Man who helped with Stephen Colbert PAC gag
to serve as treasurer for Josh Hawley's eventual U.S. Senate campaign
The Missouri Times: New poll, conducted by Gravis
Polling, shows 53 percent approval rating for Greitens
SNL: Greitens' nonprofit gives $100k more to
'right-to-work' group while unions mobilize X
KWMU: Unions plan to turn in 300k signatures, likely
putting Missouri's 'right-to-work' law in limbo
KSMU: The Ways of the Court: Betsy AuBuchon -
the first female to serve as the Supreme Court of Missouri clerk -
explains the process
P-D: Greitens' "No Mo Red Tape" anonymous comment
website draws varied input
SNL: Missouri's Blue Alert law takes effect in 3
weeks. Would it have helped in Clinton? X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Moberly Area Community College
president supports new community college association leader Brian
Millner
Drebes: DESE issues Request for Information for adult
high schools
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: August 9, 2017
KC Star: Audit: Rural Missouri hospital at heart
of $90 million billing scheme
Missourinet: State audit raises red flags about
Missouri hospital's billing practices
P-D: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: The day in Ferguson: Bluetooth speakers fail during
dance performance, march to park cancelled, protesters create
disturbance inside McDonald's
P-D: Photo: Protesters make a scene, disturb
paying customers at McDonald's
KWMU: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: Thoughts from 2014's riot celebrities
KWMU: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: Compendium of station's previous Ferguson coverage
KC Star editorial: Greitens and GOP wrong on
subsidizing ACT for all students, wrong on prisoner rehab programs,
wrong - then right - on foster care funding
JCNT editorial: Encourage government participation by
filling panel appointments X
Columbia Missourian op-ed: McCaskill: Fighting
for justice for mustard gas victims
P-D op-ed: Humane Society's Kathy Warnick: Lack
of hot car law leaves Missouri pets in danger
SNL op-ed: Freshman superminority Reps. Peter Merideth
(D-St. Louis City) and Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) want override of
Greitens' HCB3 veto X
P-D letter: Rep. John Wiemann (R-O'Fallon):
Missouri voters elected governor, Legislature who promised 'right to
work'
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Wednesday, August 9
Missourinet: McCaskill's crackdown on prescription
drug price gouging heads to Trump
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
panel talks Hawley's U.S. Senate decision
KWIX/KRES (Moberly): Luetkemeyer concerned about North
Korea's capabilities
The Missouri Times: Sara Walsh, Sandy Crawford claim
victories for GOP in special elections
SNL: Rep. Sandy Crawford (R-Buffalo) wins special
election X
CDT: Walsh wins 50th District seat X
CDT: Photo gallery: De rigueur election-day
images: Old person voting, handicapped person voting, extremely
old person voting, election officials administering election, victory
and defeat parties X
Columbia Missourian: Photo gallery: Senior
citizens cast their ballots
Columbia Missourian: 50th District elects Sara Walsh
JCNT: Voters choose Sara Walsh in 50th House district
special election X
P-D: Republicans win special legislative elections
KC Star: Higher minimum wage gets KC voters'
support; Unions begin separate push for statewide initiative
petition campaign
Missourinet: Activists promote "Save the Raise"
campaign to keep wages high; Supporter compares minimum-wage
workers to cans of tomatoes
Missourinet: Missouri State Fair opens tomorrow in
Sedalia
Drebes:
MO HealthNet's Jay Ludlum leaving
Missourinet: Transportation Task Force members hope to
hash out funding issues in upcoming hearing
KWMU: DESE data: Wentzville the fastest-growing
school district in the state
P-D: Missouri students make slight gains in English
and math
SNL: Ozark Farmers Market launches "DoubleUp-SNAP"
days, hopes welfare recipients spend portion of taxpayer money on
healthy food X
KWMU: NAACP "travel advisory" campaign still getting
attention
KDKD (Clinton): Landowners team with Missouri Dept. of
Conservation to control feral hogs; To protect private property,
wild animals must be trapped or shot
Missourinet: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: Activists to march today
P-D: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: Activists rebuild Michael Brown memorial, place mylar
balloons and stuffed animals in middle of public street
KWMU: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: Station hosts call-in show for listeners to share
emotions, analysis
P-D editorial: Missouri's pro-gun legislators to blame
for death of Clinton, Mo. police officer
KC Star editorial: Jay Nixon's failure - Missouri's
board, commission seats left unfilled
P-D op-ed: U.S. Rep. Lacy Clay: Michael Brown
theft/assault anniversary piece
Jensen:
Remembering Jerry Litton +
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: List of criticisms
of Josh Hawley, Greitens, GOP legislators
P-D letter: Ladue woman wants McCaskill to fight
pro-gun law
P-D letter: Union member opposes 'right to work'
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Tuesday, August 8
SE
Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith says Senate GOP's bitter "Never
Trump" sect holding up good legislation +
SE
Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith: Corps needs to proceed
with area flood-control project, fix levees +
P-D: Rep. Marsha Haefner (R-Oakville) says she's
considering GOP U.S. Senate bid
Clayton Times: Q&A with Mark Osmack: Local
man seeks to fill Democratic ballot slot for Ann Wagner's re-election
SNL: Local 25-year-old claims he'll put name on GOP
primary ballot against Billy Long; Area sexagenarian seeks to
fill Democratic ballot slot for Billy Long's re-election X
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: SOS Jay
Ashcroft talks with Mannies & Rosenbaum on getting the word out
about new voter ID law
The Missouri Times: Auditor Nicole Galloway says
boards and commissions fell into "bureaucratic oblivion" under Nixon
Administration
SNL: Galloway: Nixon's spending on office was
shifty, not thrifty; state boards face "bureaucratic oblivion" X
P-D: Galloway: Nixon let state boards sink into
'bureaucratic oblivion'
AP:
Audit says Nixon overspent on office
Faughn: On Ashcroft and approach to ballot language,
media's sexist hypocrisy toward Abigail Blunt, Will Kraus appointment,
media dunderheadedness on lobbyist trinkets and meals, more
Clayton Times: Missouri missing out on millions as
"Ozark" is filmed in Georgia; State film production credits
ceased in November 2013
The Missouri Times: GOP Caucus Chairman Glen Kolkmeyer
(R-Odessa) discusses leadership election process
KC Star: KC voters to approve minimum-wage hike today
AP:
KC voters to approve minimum-wage hike today
Drebes:
Carl Bearden's United for Missouri files lawsuit against St. Charles
County's PDMP
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): MoDOT's winter prep to begin
SNL: St. Louis County NAACP flip-flops on travel
advisory X
Columbia Missourian: University responds to NAACP's
"travel advisory" campaign
P-D op-ed: Time to rethink how Missouri approaches
jail sentences for juvenile criminals
SNL letter: Local sexagenarian opposes cuts to
'circuit breaker' program, says Greitens and GOP lawmakers treat olds
like a pit bull treats a rag doll
P-D letter: Local sexagenarian urbanite wants
lawmakers to require police officers to sit through more "implicit bias
training"
KC Star letters: Local black man sees racism in
traffic stops; Local employer wishes minimum-wage crowd would
stop leeching unemployment benefits and welfare when they skip out on
the job
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Monday, August 7
KWMU:
Local transgenders in a tizzy over Trump tweets; Male military
veterans, now living as women, express anger at President
KWMU
General Manager Tim Eby: Stand up against the Trump budget so we
can continue to provide you unbiased journalism
Seeking
Alpha: Lee Enterprises earnings call transcript:
Post-Dispatch parent company kept Q3 costs down by trimming newsroom
fat and outsourcing jobs
KC
Star: Forty years ago this week, Missouri lost a giant in U.S.
Rep. Jerry Litton (D)
This
Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Jim Talent on national
security; Panel of Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis City), Rep.
Tom Hannegan (R-St. Charles), Steve Tilley, Garrett Webb talk Hawley
vs. McCaskill, abortion special session
KMIZ
(Columbia): Columbia College prof Terry Smith weighs in on
Michela Skelton vs. Sara Walsh
P-D:
Election preview: Michela Skelton (D) vs. Sara Walsh (R)
The
Maneater: Greitens appoints two new curators and student
representative to Board of Curators
The
Maneater: Greitens nominates Courtney Lauer to fill student
representative position
P-D:
More than 100 St. Louis businesses claim they'll keep $10 minimum wage,
despite new state law
Hannibal
Courier-Post's "Salt River Journal" free weekly: Area olds
complain about changes to Missouri Rx program
P-D:
State budget trims prison education programs
SE
Missourian: Missouri Department of Conservation to mark 80th year
with open houses tomorrow +
KOMU:
Columbia says impact of NAACP travel advisory still uncertain
P-D:
St. Louis County NAACP changes mind on national group's travel
advisory, now supports it
Missourinet:
Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary series: Ferguson police
prepare to protect property, law-abiding residents
SE Missourian
editorial: Greitens' Innovation Task Force a positive for
Missouri business +
SNL
op-ed: Local anti-Trump group expresses anger with Roy Blunt,
Billy Long for supporting Trump agenda X
Messenger:
As feds strengthen whistleblower protections, Missouri heads the other
way
KC
Star editorial writer Melinda Henneberger: Sly James, Eric
Greitens and Donald Trump are all too secretive
CDT's
Waters: Octogenarian repeats, for second time, original
endorsement of 50th District candidate Michela Skelton (D) X
Columbia
Missourian's David Rosman: Michela Skelton, "fond of reminding
everyone she's a distant cousin" of Ike Skelton, the best choice for
state rep
Columbia
Missourian op-ed: MU's Aaron Hedlund: Sara Walsh will make
a better state rep than Karl Marx fangirl Michela Skelton
P-D
letter: Septuagenarian couple still subscribes to Post-Dispatch
print edition, expresses frustration in columnist selection
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Sunday, August 6
JCNT: At local Chamber breakfast, Luetkemeyer says
Senate has "dropped the ball" on fixing Obamacare X
JCNT: Some rural co-ops investing to bring broadband
to rural areas, just as they did electricity
X
The Missouri Times: Labor groups to present
anti-'right to work' ballot signatures August 18
P-D: Lt. Gov. Mike Parson accepted less than $3,000 in
lobbyist gifts in first six months of 2017; Trinkets and food
include commemorative coins, meals with former colleagues
Columbia Missourian: Profile: 50th District
candidate Michela Skelton (D)
Columbia Missourian: Profile: 50th District
candidate Sara Walsh (R)
SNL: State law keeps allegations of teacher misconduct
out of public view X
CDT: Profile: University of Missouri President
Mun Choi X
SNL: Given budget, MSU President Clif Smart requests
no raise X
St. Joseph News-Press: Texting is still legal for many
drivers X
P-D: Express Scripts launches new measures in the
battle over the opioid epidemic
P-D: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: Status of race relations in Ferguson
KWMU: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: Public radio station seeks listeners' tales of how
assault on Darren Wilson, subsequent riots and looting affected them
Washington Missourian editorial: McCaskill-Hawley U.S.
Senate race would provide Missourians an entertaining political fight X
KC Star endorsement: Yes on urban minimum-wage hike
P-D editorial: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: Things are getting better in Ferguson, despite Donald
Trump
St. Joseph News-Press' Ken Newton: McCaskill helps
veterans who participated in mustard gas experiments X
Waters: 50th District endorsement, again:
Octogenarian repeats his endorsement of Democrat Michela Skelton, adds
new thoughts X
St. Joseph News-Press' Alonzo Weston: Improved access
to behavioral health clinics would help people avoid opioid addiction X
SNL letter: Local sexagenarian disagrees with Blunt on
Obamacare, resorts to CAPS LOCK to make her point X
JCNT letter: Liberal activist Sue Gibson wants
Greitens to protect black drivers during eclipse X
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Saturday, August 5
KBIA: American Medical Association President David
Barbe, a Missourian, weighs in on Obamacare fixes, PDMP, more
P-D: McCaskill, Blunt votes for the week
Missourinet: Missouri one of 17 states with
back-to-school tax-free weekends
P-D: The Mission Continues rolls on - without
Greitens; Comments from 1/2 of Post-Dispatch polisci prof pundit
pool (Ken Warren, SLU)
The Missouri Times: 'Right to work' groups accuse
unions of heavy-handed tactics and secrecy
The Missouri Times: PDMP debate: Why some
physicians aren't happy with Greitens' executive order
CDT: University of Missouri embezzlement investigation
turned over to feds X
Columbia Missourian: MU police turn over
misappropriation case to federal authorities
SE
Missourian: Fewer international students expected at SEMO this
fall +
JCNT: Road-safety group gives Missouri failing grade
for laws X
KC Star: St. Louis County NAACP objects to travel
advisory
KC Star: Taxpayers to fund federal "listening
sessions" in Blue Springs to heal race-based injured feelings
KC Star editorial: Lobbyists spending on the decline,
but still too high
P-D editorial briefs: On Will Kraus, and Kemper Arena
vs. TWA Dome
Messenger: Anti-gun gals gather downtown this weekend
SNL op-ed: Former House Speaker Tim Jones:
Republicans need a job-creating, wage-growing, tax-cut home run X
P-D letter: Kirkwood, Centralia mayors support Grain
Belt Express
P-D letter: Missouri Coalition for Quality Care's Dave
Damico opposes cuts to care programs
KC Star letter: Lee's Summit man suggests NAACP focus
less on "travel advisory" gimmick and more on black-on-black KC crime
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Friday, August 4
AP:
McCaskill plan to help veterans exposed to mustard gas heads to Trump
SNL: Jim Evans, who lost twice to Billy Long as a
Democrat, holds press conference declaring he is not a Republican but
will run in GOP primary X
Missourinet: Backpage, illegal alien prostitutes
suspected in Missouri sex trafficking ring
SNL: Details of sex trafficking case emerge X
KWMU: Behind the Headlines preview: The unique
struggle of African-American transgenders, self-identified "Queers,"
bisexuals, lesbians and gays
Drebes:
New PACs formed
Missourinet: GOP group accuses unions of "thuggery" in
'right to work' petition battle
Washington Missourian: Rep. Justin Alferman
(R-Hermann) doubts Senate will back bill for transportation funding X
Washington Missourian: Local electrician upset over
state license bill; Schatz's office offers explanation X
Missourinet: MoDOT to re-open key mid-Missouri
bridge; state officials expect 50,000 visitors in Jefferson City
for eclipse
P-D: Ask MoDOT: Just how bad will eclipse
traffic be?
SNL: Greitens' education pick turns down appointment
after learning about state law X
P-D: College president declines Missouri Board of
Education appointment after state law 'oversight'
P-D: 175 Missouri localities did not meet financial
filing requirements this June, Galloway says
The Missouri Times: PSC hears arguments for Clean Line
once again
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: August 3, 2017
Brownfield Ag News: Monsanto issues "open letter" to
growers seeking information about damage caused by illegal application
of generic dicamba
KWMU: Advocates want criminals with life sentences
sprung from jail and on the streets sooner
P-D: St. Louis NAACP opposes national group's "travel
advisory," says it will hurt local African-Americans who work
KC Star: Connecticut liberal e-mails KC Star, claims
NAACP "travel advisory" will keep him from visiting Kansas City
KMOV: Missouri Department of Conservation
investigating two animal deaths; Animals shot and left laying
create controversy
KWMU: Michael Brown theft/assault anniversary
series: A look at legal battles post-riots
P-D editorial: In fight for a U.S. Senate seat,
McCaskill and Hawley find mutual enemy in Backpage
SE
Missourian editorial: Missouri's sales tax holiday provides
shoppers significant savings +
Messenger: Former Department of Insurance Director
John Huff walks through revolving door, cashes in
The Missouri Times letter: Rep. Hannah Kelly
(R-Mountain Grove): Time for voters to boot McCaskill from office
KC Star letter: Independence octogenarian not a fan of
"Vicki [sic] Hartzler"
P-D letter: Eureka sexagenarian accuses Ron Richard of
"goose-stepping" for anti-union causes
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Thursday, August 3
KC Star: Hawley forms exploratory committee for U.S.
Senate run against McCaskill; Comments from James Harris, Jack
Danforth, McCaskill's David Kirby
Missourinet: Report: Hawley will file paperwork
for Senate race tomorrow; McCaskill campaign blasts AG
AP:
Hawley moves to challenge McCaskill
KWMU: Missourians will soon get the chance to view
info on Obamcare premium increases
KC Star: Cleaver on students not repaying the loans
they chose to take out: "Congress can fix this"
Missourinet: Columbia College poli sci prof Terry
Smith weighs in on Trump personnel changes
Missourinet: Americans for Prosperity to spend
"mid-six-figure" dollar amount fighting unions' anti-'right to work'
campaign
AP:
Greitens sets date to fill vacant legislative seats
Drebes:
Josiah Bechtold, who ran as a Democrat against Ryan Silvey, considering
state rep bid as a Republican
Rosenbaum: Lawsuit seeks to pull back curtain on
Missouri legislators' e-mails
SE
Missourian: Missouri tax-free weekend begins Friday +
AP:
Analysis: Abortion special session cost less than $100k
KC Star: Lobbyist spending down in 2017;
Lawmakers, staff receive less than $350k in gifts from lobbyists first
six months of 2017
Missourinet: Greitens' "Justice Reinvestment Task
Force" will look at how state handles criminals
The Missouri Times: Janna Basler, Black Lives Matter
sympathizer caught on video bullying student journalist in 2015, target
of embezzlement probe at MU
KWMU: In St. Louis, public and charter schools are in
the business of recruiting students
Reuters: Missouri, other state seek to educate farmers
about proper use of dicamba, importance of using low-volatility
formulations
St. Joseph News-Press: Soybean farmers learn more
about safe dicamba use; Trial lawyers attend session, encourage
litigation X
Clayton Times: Clayton tree awarded by the Missouri
Department of Conservation as one of the state's finest
P-D: St. Louis City Board of Alderman President Lewis
Reed claims state "owes" city more than $20 million for prison
reimbursement costs
P-D: Lee Enterprises, parent company of Post-Dispatch,
reports third quarter results; Revenue continues to decline, with
double-digit drops in retail and classified advertising
MarketWatch: Gannett, parent company of Springfield
News-Leader, reporters third quarter results; Revenue up, but at
breakeven ($0.00) earnings per share
KC Star editorial: Greitens is awfully cozy with his
big pay-to-play donor Express Scripts
KC Star editorial: NAACP travel advisory:
Missouri is the new Mississippi
SNL op-ed: Sexagenarian liberal says McCaskill, Blunt,
Billy Long too conservative on Medicare spending X
Columbia Missourian letter: Sexagenarian conservative
supports Sara Walsh, opposes Michela Skelton
Columbia Missourian letter: League of Women Voters
sexagenarian says voter ID law hasn't changed much about voting
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Wednesday, August 2
P-D: Potential campaign rivals McCaskill and Hawley
both up the ante against Backpage
KWMU: Investigations of Backpage prompt Missouri
officials to file legislation, lawsuits
SE
Missourian: McCaskill targets site that boosts sex trafficking +
SNL: Warrant sheds light on Hawley's bust of Asian sex
traffickers X
Missourinet: RNC officials visit Missourinet studios,
chat about voter data and effort to defeat McCaskill
SNL: Jim Evans, who filled Democratic ballot slots
against Billy Long in 2012 and 2014, to file as a Republican this time
around X
JCNT: 'Right to work' challenge to petitions rebuffed X
The Missouri Times: Rep. Kevin Austin (R-Springfield)
will not seek re-election
CDT: Charges fill direct mail in 50th District
race; Walsh accused of siding with Greitens; Skelton
accused of siding with Mizzou radicals, mocking religion on Facebook X
Missourinet: Will Kraus appointed to Missouri State
Tax Commission
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport)
hopes Greitens doesn't call yet another special session
P-D: Wallethub ranks Missouri, other states on
education factors
KWMU: Pew study: St. Louis County schools among
highest at risk of flooding in U.S.
KWMU: Missouri Supreme Court may force L.A. Rams to
shell out a little more money
The Missouri Times: Missouri Supreme Court rules that
Rams could owe state $350k in back taxes
AP:
Ruling means Rams may owe $352,000 to state of Missouri
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court issues opinion in
complicated Rams tax dispute
P-D: Rams may owe Missouri $352,000 in back taxes
P-D: Once too hot, inmates at St. Louis City jail now
complaining it's too chilly
KC Star: NAACP issues 'travel advisory' for Missouri
P-D editorial: Greitens sends wrong message to
employers with funding cuts for free testing
KC Star editorial: How Eric Greitens' last-minute
appointment cast the deciding vote for Kansas City police chief
JCNT editorial: Responsible Gaming Education
Week: May the odds be never in your favor X
KC Star op-ed: DHSS's Randall Williams: Missouri
has new tools in the fight against opioid abuse
KC Star letters: KC septuagenarian compares Greitens
unfavorably to Trump; Smithville sexagenarian attempts
anti-Greitens punchline involving "checks and balances"
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P-D:
Area schools spending millions of federal Medicaid dollars
P-D:
Taxpayers to fund $450,000 for soccer fields in Wellston
The
Missouri Times: Will Kraus steps down as state senator, will join
State Tax Commission
P-D:
Greitens picks three new members for Missouri Board of Education:
Eddy Justice, Delbert Scott, Melissa Gelner
CDT:
Greitens selects Sunvold, Brncic for UM curator appointments X
Columbia
Missourian: Courtney Lauer, John Sunvold, Julia Brncic named to
UM System Board of Curators
AP:
Greitens makes University of Missouri curator appointments
CDT:
Greitens appoints Taylor Burks as Boone County Clerk X
SE
Missourian: Innovation Task Force seeks to boost tech startups in
Missouri
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Munzlinger shares thoughts on multiple special
sessions, value of dicamba in helping farmers manage weeds on their
farm, more
The
Missouri Times: Questions about Capitol security continue to
weigh on legislators' minds
Missourinet:
Wash U. psychology prof, Rep. Crystal Quade (D-Springfield), others
weigh in on PDMP
JCNT:
Unions say 'right to work' will lower wages; businesses say law
will help economy grow X
KWMU:
Hep C lawsuit against Missouri prison system to go forward as class
action
Drebes:
State seeks bids for FirstNet system
CDT:
Competition, poor reputation contribute to Fulton hospital's demise
X
Missourinet:
6-state campaign results in more than 2,000 speeding tickets issued in
Missouri
SE Missourian
editorial: Resources available to help during heat waves +
Waters:
50th District state rep endorsement: Michela Skelton (D) X
Priddy:
I ran into former Holden staffer Paul Woody at a motel in Kansas
Columbia
Missourian letter: Kansas man applauds Greitens for abortion law
SNL
letter: Local sexagenarian reprimands Show-Me Institute with "TSK
TSK TSK!" for making education-overhaul suggestions X
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