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CNN: Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Smith (D-N.Y.) fires
back at McCaskill, calls comments "pretty disappointing"
CDT: Trump's visit to Columbia cost city less than
$40k; Three-quarters of funds went to local law enforcement
officers X
SNL: How EPA's proposed mercury rule changes will
affect City Utilities X
JCNT: Rep. Bill Kidd (R-Buckner) wants to give seniors
a property tax break X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen.-elect Cindy O'Laughlin
(R-Shelbina) looks forward to budget work
JCNT: Crisis in Missouri's prisons 'downplayed;'
Vacancies, violence against staff greater than portrayed, former warden
says X
Columbia Missourian: Legislation from Tracy McCreery
(D-Olivette) aims to help keep guns away from domestic abusers;
Comments from outgoing Rep. Donna Lichtenegger (R-Jackson)
JCNT: MoDOT's Jason Shafer repairs the roads, then
enjoys them X
Joplin Globe editorial: Tread lightly when changing
Missouri's petition process X
P-D editorial: Updated editorial board member
profiles: Ray Farris (Caucasoid male, 62); Tod Robberson
(Caucasoid male, 62); Kevin McDermott (Caucasoid male, 53);
Gilbert Bailon (Hispanic male, 59); Family
columnist/beauty-product reviewer Aisha Sultan ("Muslim mom in the
Midwest," 44) handed "adjunct member" title X
SNL op-ed: Josh Hawley: Thank you for the
privilege of being your attorney general X
CDT's Keller: Gov. Parson's transparency on Amendment
1 cleanup just one example of his superiority to Eric Greitens X
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Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith sees no quick end to partial
government shutdown +
CDT: Truman VA hospital accused of negligence in
veteran's death X
The Missouri Times: Top 10 stories of 2018
The Missouri Times: Q&A: Missouri Democratic
Party Chair Jean Peters Baker talks with Scott Faughn about
disagreement with far-left feminists regarding pro-life Democratic
candidates; Democratic gov candidate Scott Sifton and also-ran
opponents; rebuilding the party in oustate Missouri; much
more
The Missouri Times: Proposed initiative petitions
include 'right to work,' Medicaid expansion, protecting Missouri from
illegal aliens, more
JCNT: Ashcroft: 27 petitions filed since Nov. 6
election X
P-D: Lawmakers could vote to raise the bar for
initiative petitions X
The Missouri Times: Profile: Capitol City
Research's Willis Jones
P-D: State spares Wash U. and The Mission Continues
from legal action related to misuse of resources X
KC Star: Attorney general's office drops further
investigations into The Mission Continues X
The Missouri Times: State projects increase in general
revenue collection for FY 2020
AP:
Parson, legislative budget leaders predict 2 percent revenue hike
KCUR: Sen. Andrew Koenig (R-Manchester) wants to cap
'out of control' local taxes
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Interim Education Director Dr.
Roger Dorson praises rehiring of Margie Vandeven
KC Star: University of Missouri Title IX
official: Male asking out a smaller female can be considered
harassment X
JCNT editorial: State's child abuse hotline needs to
do better X
The Missouri Times: Top 10 opinion pieces of 2018
P-D letter: Shrewsbury sexagenarian angry at Parson,
Schatz over Amendment 1 cleanup efforts X
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December 28, 2018
KFVS (Cape Girardeau): U.S. Rep. Jason Smith holds
public forum in Poplar Bluff on government shutdown; Comments
from Mitch Davis, others
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Luetkemeyer discusses Pelosi's
approach and left-wing impeachment push
AP: Schmitt taps former Assistant U.S. Attorney
Cristian Stevens to lead criminal litigation
SE
Missourian: Outgoing Scott County commissioner - a lifelong
Democrat - to switch parties, run for Holly Rehder's state rep seat in
2020 +
St. Joseph News-Press: After minimum wage hike,
businesses look for ways to adapt to higher labor costs
Missourinet: Proposal from Rep. Bill Kidd
(R-Independence) would free senior citizens of property taxes
CDT: Planned Parenthood seeks court order to resume
abortions in Columbia X
Missourinet: Audit suggests ways for Missouri to fight
prescription drug fraud and abuse
JCNT: Galloway: Prescription drug oversight
could halt abuse X
P-D: Bill from Rep. Dan Shaul (R-Imperial) would
protect restaurants from plastic straw bans X
Missourinet: Extra state troopers on the road during
this New Year's weekend
KC Star editorial: Why wouldn't Missouri accept
donation for 144-mile hike and bike trail? X
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December 27, 2018
The Hill: McCaskill on liberal poster girl Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y): "I'm a little confused why she's the thing"
Joplin Globe: List of local entities affected by
temporary government shutdown X
Columbia Missourian: List of local entities affected
by temporary government shutdown
AP:
Missourians want action over too-high Illinois river levee
P-D: Pro-Parson "Uniting Missouri PAC" attracts
contributions from conservative donors, business PACs; Comments
from spokesman John Hancock X
Columbia Missourian: Minimum wage increase, other new
laws take effect January 1
P-D: Republicans seek to require some Medicaid
recipients to work - or put forth some effort to find work - while
enjoying benefits X
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport)
would let drivers turn left on red light in certain road configurations
Missourinet: Proposed St. Mary's Hospital sales in
Jefferson City and Mexico could go before Legislature
JCNT: Audit: Low staffing creates delays at
abuse hotline X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Missouri Highway Patrol
emphasizes gun safety
P-D editorial: 2018 in review: Greitens,
McCaskill-Hawley, tariffs dominate political news - and people should
care more about Confide X
Washington Missourian editorial: State should begin
realizing sales taxes from out-of-state online retailers X
Missourinet's Jason Taylor: Despite Trump's photo ops,
government shutdown is hurting Missourians
P-D letter: Liberal St. Louis City sexagenarian eager
for Clean Missouri to get more Democrats elected X
P-D letter: Liberal St. Louis County septuagenarian
hopes Clean Missouri goes uncontested X
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December 26, 2018
Missourinet: Missouri delegation's support for border
wall splits down partisan lines
KWMU: Politically Speaking podast: Senate
President Pro Tem-elect Dave Schatz (R-Sullivan) talks GOP unity, PDMP,
low income housing tax credits, cleaning up Amendment 1, more
Missourinet: Clean Missouri regulations force
cancellation of annual "Taste of Jefferson City" event
KC Star: Advocacy group wants Missouri to spend more
money on anti-smoking programs X
SE
Missourian's Jon Rust: Some of the top stories of 2018:
Trump visit, Swan speaking out against Greitens, Parsons stumping for
gas tax, local state legislative elections, more +
P-D letter: St. Charles County liberal wants Parson to
expand Medicaid X
P-D letter: Ballwin woman wants more sex education in
Missouri schools X
P-D letter: Washington University student Reede
Goldberg says Missouri drug laws are racist X
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December 25,
2018 Merry
Christmas!
Brownfield Ag News: Farmers' priorities secured in new
farm bill; Comments from Missouri Corn Growers Association's
Shane Kinne
CNN: McCaskill warns Dems about 'cheap' rhetoric, says
GOP senators privately believe Trump is 'nuts'
Joplin Globe: Neosho Mayor Ben Baker officially
resigns city duties in preparation for state rep job
Missourinet: Missouri State to ask Legislature for
major spike in funding
Joplin Globe: Attorney for veteran Missouri blogger
Randy Turner expects judgment to be set aside; Case alleges
wrongful termination by Joplin School District
Priddy: On Gov. Parson's office Christmas decorations,
and documentation of Legislature working on Christmas Day in the 1800s
(1,222 words)
Joplin Globe letters: Leslie Holloway says not
everyone wants the Rock Island Trail; Joplin septuagenarian urges
caution on Equal Rights Amendment
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December 24, 2018
Christmas Eve
The Missouri Times - Clayton edition: Clay calls
criminal justice bill "historic bipartisan legislation"
KWMU: Fort Leonard Wood addresses regional needs with
new hospital and air service
CDT: Columbia refugee numbers grow as state shows
decline X
AP:
Parson wants repeal of Democrat-boosting redistricting measure
KWMU: Schmitt mulls changes to attorney general's
racial-profiling traffic stop report; Adding zip codes of stopped
drivers would help police departments provide context
P-D: Missouri officials have yet to decide on new
cross-state hiking, biking trail X
AP:
Public wants elk hunts open to all Missouri residents, Dept. of
Conservation biologist says
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: State legislators
should support an online sales tax
Messenger: Efforts by Rep. Justin Hill (R-Lake Saint
Louis) on probation companies, police departments shows common ground
is possible in 2019 X
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December 23, 2018
P-D's Raasch: The big question in 2019 Missouri
politics: What kind of senator will Josh Hawley be? X
Joplin Globe: List of local entities affected by
government shutdown X
P-D: Arch, Old Courthouse access affected by
government shutdown X
KWMU: With Trump's signature, law allows Delta Queen
steamboat to again travel the Mississippi
KC Star editorial: Hawley's political use of staff was
definitely hypocritical - and potentially illegal X
P-D editorial: Clergy abuse probe should be top
priority for Eric Schmitt X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Irl Scissors: Modern
energy policy is delivering results in Missouri
P-D letter: St. Charles octogenarian offers fond
farewell for Jim Spainhower X
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December 22, 2018
KWMU: Local effects of the government shutdown are
minimal
P-D: Congressional votes for the week: Ann
Wagner gets two bills passed; Claire McCaskill casts her final
vote X
The Missouri Times: Attorney general's office
responds, again, to liberal group's allegation that Hawley misused
public funds
AP:
Hawley releases records involving his office staff's work
KC Star: Hawley releases 85 pages of records in
responds to liberal group's allegations X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of December 19, 2018
Joplin Globe: Cody Smith named Missouri House Budget
chief X
AP: Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage) chosen as next budget
chairman
P-D: Missouri heading into budget talks with fresh
faces at the helm X
Joplin Globe editorial: Support local feminists' push
to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment X
KC Star editorial: A movie list for Missouri
pols: McCaskill should watch "anything with her look-alike"
sexagenarian Miranda Richardson; Courageous Democratic hero
Nicole Galloway should watch inspirational film "Rocky"; more X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Solid leaders Sam
Graves, Dan Hegeman, and Northwest Missouri alum Elijah Haahr will
bring home the bacon for northwest Missouri
KC Star's Hunter Woodall: 'Clean Missouri' will slow
the revolving door that turns lawmakers into lobbyists X
CDT op-ed: Women's Foundation's Wendy Doyle:
State legislators should spend time focusing on paid family and medical
leave X
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December 21, 2018
NY Times podcast: McCaskill's parting shots:
Young, ungrateful Missouri feminists screeching about pro-choice agenda
should, "Shut up! You know, really. This is hard." (8:00)
P-D: In closing days as Missouri's senior senator,
McCaskill trolls Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Jeff Flake on Twitter X
JCNT: Missouri ag experts, officials laud farm bill X
P-D: Ann Wagner, one of a dozen Republicans who met
with Trump, says House GOP steadfast on border-wall funding X
KWMU: EPA approves $48 million loan to help prevent
sewer overflows in St. Louis County
Missourinet: Speaker Elijah Haahr discusses
Fitzpatrick appointment and Budget Committee chair slot
The Missouri Times: 20 (or more) questions with Lowell
Pearson: On his upbringing, working for Matt Blunt, proposing to
Jane Drummond, and "Hit 'Em With the Hein"
The Missouri Times: Best of the Legislature
2018: Leslie Korte, chief of staff to House Floor Leader Rob
Vescovo
The Missouri Times: Best of the Legislature
2018: Janson Thomas, chief of staff to Senate Minority Leader
Gina Walsh
The Missouri Times: Behind the Lawmaker series:
Mark Schupp, husband of Sen. Jill Schupp (D-Creve Coeur)
Columbia Missourian: No consensus among lawmakers on
how to pay for state's transportation needs
The Missouri Times: Three names submitted to Parson
for Van Amburg judicial vacancy
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: December 19, 2018
Missourinet: Audit: Poor staffing of Missouri's
Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline puts children at greater risk
Washington Missourian: Grace's Place gets state tax
credits X
KC Star editorial: Despite Fitzpatrick's
qualifications, Parson should not have appointed a white male to state
treasurer post X
SE
Missourian editorial: Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge turns 15,
becomes city's iconic image +
Washington Missourian editorial: Only solution to
Franklin County traffic congestion is cost-sharing with the state X
Kraske: Politicians say the darndest things - a look
at Missouri's notable quotables from 2018 X
Messenger: Defendants getting some help in battles
against Missouri debtors' prisons X
P-D letter: Chesterfield man says southwest Missouri
deer poachers should have gotten stiffer sentences X
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December 20, 2018
KWMU: Josh Hawley named to key U.S. Senate committees,
including judiciary
Missourinet: Hawley to join high-profile Judiciary
Committee
MSNBC: McCaskill gives "last live interview" to Rachel
Maddow, criticizes Trump and far-left wing
Missourinet: Missouri liberals oppose judge's
Obamacare ruling
KWMU: Parson picks state Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick
(R-Shell Knob) to be Missouri's next state treasurer
Missourinet: Missouri House's top budget leader
appointed as state treasurer
Missourinet: Parson: Fitzpatrick has more
"knowledge of the state budget than any other elected official"
AP:
Parson appoints Fitzpatrick as new state treasurer
P-D: Parson picks House budget chief to be next
Missouri treasurer X
AP:
Not-for-profit with ties to Greitens campaign raised $6 million in 2017
P-D: Greitens nonprofit raised $6 million, spent big
on Greitens allies, new records show X
The Missouri Times: Missouri unemployment hits record
low
Missourinet: Missouri unemployment rate is lowest on
record
The Missouri Times: Lyndall Fraker to lead medical
marijuana unit within DHSS
AP: Parson creates committee to promote 2020 census
Missourinet: Advocacy group says Missouri handled
federal early childhood funds poorly - in 2016
P-D: DHSS tests are positive for Legionnaires' disease
at west county Marriott X
The Missouri Times: Missouri Supreme Court Civil Rules
Committee gains 6 new members
Missourinet: Missouri regulators consider wind energy
project after high court order
SE
Missourian: Electrical co-ops, DRA will help bring fiber
broadband Internet to rural areas +
KC Star editorial: Parson is on track with making
LGBTQIA* a protected class in Missouri. Now he should stop hedging and
lead X
Priddy:
Remembering Jim Spainhower (1,423 words)
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Missouri
Republicans unwilling to listen to the voices of voters
P-D letter: Pro-Obamacare group's form letter, signed
by "Maximilianah Zales": Ruling on Obamacare could hurt Missouri
entrepreneurs X
Chicago Tribune letter: Pro-Obamacare group's form
letter, signed by "Geraldine Aglipay": Ruling on Obamacare could
hurt Illinois entrepreneurs
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December 19, 2018
Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith says Democrats
could avoid government shutdown by embracing compromise
KC Star: Blunt, Hawley, academics weigh in on
scrapping Obamacare X
Missourinet: Poplar Bluff nail company awaits tariff
certainty
AP:
Parson wants law for online sales tax collections
The Missouri Times: Medical marijuana: The path
from voter approval to a functioning industry
Washington Missourian: Despite rise of fentanyl, meth
still the top killer drug in Franklin County
Columbia Missourian: Rowden bill would reduce jail
costs; Area man claims to be too poor to pay bills, drinks
premium beer during day
KC Star: Gov. Parson, House Speaker Elijah Haahr, Rep.
Greg Razer (D-Kansas City) weigh in on proposal to expand protected
classes in Missouri X
KC Star editorial: Blunt, Hawley disingenuous on
Obamacare X
P-D editorial: Jay Ashcroft bolsters his credibility
with bipartisan probe of Hawley's campaign X
Joplin Globe editorial: Poaching is a serious offense,
and should be treated as such X
St. Joseph News-Press letter: St. Joseph sexagenarian
conservative says McCaskill's farewell speech should have included
Kavanaugh debacle
P-D letter: Richmond Heights sexagenarian expresses
anger at Missouri voters and Josh Hawley over Obamacare X
P-D letter: Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Spring):
Repealing earnings tax is an issue of fairness, equality X
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December 18, 2019
KWMU: As she wraps up life as senator, McCaskill
forecasts deadlock over health care, border wall
SNL: HUD report: Homelessness in Missouri down
in 2018 X
Missourinet: Missouri state offices to be closed on
Christmas Eve, Christmas Day
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Charter expansion and voucher
issues returning to session; Thoughts from Missouri School
Boards' Association's Brent Ghan
P-D: Bill from Rep. Justin Hill (R-O'Fallon) to
consolidate small municipal police departments earns bipartisan support X
AP: Missouri to give away historic bridge for free,
with catch
P-D editorial: Now that Republicans have put Obamacare
on its deathbed, what's Hawley's plan? X
SE
Missourian editorial: Grant for regional port is good news for
economy +
The Missouri Times op-ed: Rep. Sheila Solon (R-St.
Joseph): The future of the Republican party in Missouri is
promising
KC Star letter: KC octogenarian says Gov. Parson
should pardon woman who murdered her husband
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P-D letter: Creve Coeur man proposes solution to feral
hog problem X
P-D letter: Illinois man proposes solution to feral
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December 17, 2018
NBC: Meet the Press: Blunt weighs in on impact
of Obamacare decision
SNL: How Trump's rollback of Waters of the U.S. rule
will affect the Ozarks: Comments from Blunt, Missouri Farm
Bureau's Eric Bohl, Sierra Club's John Hickey, others X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Panel of former state
Sen. Jeff Smith, GOP consultant extraordinaire Scott Dieckhaus, veteran
Democratic commentator Jane Dueker and spokesvixen Brittany Robbins
talk Hawley investigation, Missouri Democratic Party's challenges,
Scott Sifton as Democratic gov frontrunner, more
KWMU: Gov. Parson talks to Jason Rosenbaum about
agenda: Early childhood education, transportation, Medicaid
restructuring, state treasurer appointment, more
The Missouri Times - Clayton edition: Reps from
Ameren, KCP&L and Spire talk economic development
Missourinet: Public comment period open on state fine
arts standards
Columbia Missourian: Wisper ISP Inc. wins FCC contract
to build broadband across rural Missouri
P-D: EPA remediating Missouri properties where lead
was found X
St. Joseph News-Press: Changing times lead to changes
in news delivery; Recent blizzard encouraged some area olds to
embrace digital edition
KC Star editorial: Bill Eigel - "from little Weldon
Spring" - is doing Rex Sinquefield's bidding and should mind his own
business X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri Public
Service Commission's policies benefit consumers
P-D letter: State Rep.-elect Mary Elizabeth Coleman
(R) applauds Ann Wagner X
P-D letter: St. Louis City man blames Travis Brown for
Bill Eigel's earnings-tax legislation X
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December 16, 2018
Joplin Globe: Voters analyze last month's state and
federal election results: Newspaper reporters visit coffeeshop to
interview senior citizens, coeds, etc. X
Joplin Globe: Area feminists want state legislators to
ratify Equal Rights Amendment; Gals' gabfest set for Jan. 17 X
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Missourian: Stephen Limbaugh III performs at White House holiday
party +
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Missouri Task Force 1 plans to
use rescue dogs in 2019 thanks to a donation
KWMU: Federal taxpayers to fund "conviction integrity
unit" by St. Louis City Prosecutor Kim Gardner and Midwest Innocence
Project
P-D editorial: McCaskill's exit further shrinks
America's political middle ground X
Washington Missourian editorial: U.S. senators should
heed McCaskill's parting shots X
JCNT editorial: Missouri coalition aims to curtail
robocalls X
Joplin Globe editiorial: Missouri voters have spoken
on state parks, now leaders must act X
Waters: Reflections on Claire McCaskill's career X
CDT's Rudi Keller: Surplus sustains state as revenue
declines X
Horrigan: Probe-o-rama: Airing of grievances at
Missouri GOP electeds: Parson, Hawley, Ashcroft, Schmitt X
KC Star's Jason Hancock and Allison Kite: Kansas City
counts on earnings tax to fund key services, so GOP keeps trying to
kill it X
St. Joseph News-Press letter: Local woman touts
upcoming benefits of Missouri's medical marijuana law
P-D letter: Local abortion doctor applauds Stacey
Newman's anti-GOP op-ed X
P-D letter: Warson Woods man says Stacey Newman
distorts pro-lifers' positions X
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December 15, 2018
KWMU: Galloway to oversee much of the probe into
liberal group's complaint about Hawley
P-D: Galloway to give 'heightened scrutiny' to
left-wing group's allegations against Hawley
X
AP: Galloway agrees to participate in Hawley
investigation
Missourinet: Galloway to help Ashcroft with Hawley
probe
KC Star: Galloway agrees to investigate AG's office
with 'heightened scrutiny' X
The Missouri Times: New initiative petition filed aims
to revise ethics amendment
KWMU: Monday preview: Gov. Mike Parson to talk
with Jason Rosenbaum about workforce development, 'right to work,'
health care, Greitens, more
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of December 10, 2018
Missourinet: Outgoing Senate Agriculture Committee
Chairman Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown) wants successor to know
importance of job
Washington Missourian: Aging vehicle fleet strains
MoDOT budget; Agency says it needs $10 million boost in FY20 X
Washington Missourian: Historic Washington Foundation
still has state tax credits to sell X
P-D: Feds shoot feral hogs from chopper in southeast
Missouri; Comments from Rep. Robert Ross (R-Yukon), Rep. Jered
Taylor (R-Nixa) X
SNL: Missouri Department of Conservation nabs
poachers; Judge orders offenders to watch Bambi once a month while in jail X
KWMU: Missouri DHSS investigating Maryland Heights
hotel after 2 guests diagnosed with Legionnaires' disease
SE
Missourian: Attorney general's office successfully prosecutes
former Perry County coroner a second time +
KC Star editorial: Missouri GOP should butt out and
stop playing politics with Hawley investigation X
Phill Brooks: How partisan will the upcoming
legislative session be? Parson could play a major factor. X
KC Star op-ed: Former University of Missouri
Chancellor and CEO Brady Deaton: Universities deserve more
taxpayer dollars X
Messenger: Latest debtors' prison lawsuit straddles
Missouri's urban-rural divide X
Washington Missourian letter: Sen. Roy Blunt
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December 14, 2018
KWMU: McCaskill slaps Senate in farewell speech:
"We have too many embarrassing uncles in the United States Senate"
Fox News: McCaskill blasts 'too many embarrassing
uncles' in Senate in final floor speech
P-D: McCaskill farewell speech features tears, swipes
at Senate colleagues and Trump X
AP:
McCaskill lectures Senate in farewell
Missourinet: McCaskill delivers harsh criticism on
Senate floor, mocks Americans for "elect(ing) a reality TV star
president"
KWMU: St. Louis City transfers land to federal
government for new 'transformative' NGA facility
P-D: St. Louis City officials hand off NGA land to
federal government X
The Missouri Times: Concealed carry permits to be
honored at Missouri Capitol; Service dogs to be allowed as well
CDT: MoDOT Director Patrick McKenna paints grim
picture without more funds X
Missourinet: MoDOT's Patrick McKenna: Rehabbing
mid-Missouri bridge will cause three- to eight-hour backups on I-70
CDT: Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) to try again on
school bus bill X
KC Star editorial: Emanuel Cleaver rightly in no rush
to impeach Trump X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's Eric
Bohl: New clean water rule gives farmers and ranchers clear
guidelines
KC Star op-ed: Gov. Parson should pardon woman who
shot and killed her husband while he slept X
P-D letter: Area deacon responds to Stacey Newman
op-ed, says no medical consultation is needed to save a human life X
P-D letter: Oakland, Mo. man says Stacey Newman
personifies why Democrats have become the minority in Missouri X
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December 13, 2018
P-D: McCaskill: I'll never run again, but I'll
stay involved in politics X
AP:
Missouri GOP calls on lawyer to step aside in Hawley review
Missourinet: Missouri GOP wants lawyer investigating
Hawley to step aside
KC Star: Attorney's donations to Democrats spur calls
for recusal X
Missourinet: Missouri's House delegation supports farm
bill
Columbia Missourian: Fact check: Roy Blunt is
right on military pay increases
Missourinet: Jack Danforth, 82, takes to MSNBC to
complain about Trump, reminisce on how much better things used to be
back in his day
AP:
Missouri infrastructure projects get $90 million in federal grants
SE
Missourian: Cape's Emerson Bridge turns 15; traffic lighter
now than old span; major repairs slated for 2019 +
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): AAA rep talks Missouri gas tax
proposal's 'bait and switch' language, previews 2019 highway funding
debate
The Missouri Times: Former State Treasurer James
Spainhower passes away at 90; Comments from Gov. Bob Holden
Joplin Globe: Rep.-elect Ben Baker (R-Neosho) to
resign mayoral post in January X
KWMU: Missouri's Obamacare enrollment drops as
deadline looms
KC Star: Obamacare enrollment down in Missouri X
P-D editorial: Leave the earnings tax alone unless
legislators have a better funding source X
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December 12, 2018
The New Yorker: Exit interview: Claire McCaskill
on Josh Hawley, Trump, Senate Republicans, more
Politico: Ann Wagner, other female GOP leaders talk
about diversifying the Republican party
Missourinet: Missouri Farm Bureau, Sierra Club
disagree over rollback of Obama's 'Waters of the U.S." rules
The Missouri Times: Kit Bond aims to help students get
international experience
The Missouri Times: Scott Sifton making moves to
become the Democratic frontrunner for governor
Columbia Missourian: Conservative attorney Jennifer
Bukowsky hopes personal studio will help broadcast personal message
JCNT: State employee charity donations exceed $1
million for 15th year X
P-D: Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Spring) wants to phase
out earnings tax in St. Louis and Kansas City
X
Missourinet: Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Frankford) to bring
back bill to ban texting while driving
P-D: Tax Foundation report says Missouri has country's
ninth-highest tax on cell phones X
KC Star editorial: Roy Blunt has received $19,250 from
Saudi lobbyists. Did they get their money's worth? X
The Missouri Times editorial: There is no good reason
Jean Peters Baker should resign as prosecutor
JCNT editorial: Tackling prison overcrowding through
drug courts is a worthwhile goal X
P-D's Chuck Raasch: On Ann Wagner and GOP's female
congressional candidates X
Jensen:
Respect the people's vote on 'right to work'
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Helling: Missouri should not pay for elected
officials' public pensions X
Messenger: Missouri appeals court blasts hole in
debtors' prison scheme X
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December 11, 2018
KWMU: Josh Hawley's U.S. Senate victory highlights the
power of voters versus money
Missourinet: Hawley's office calls left-wing group's
allegations "frivolous act of political harassment"
AP:
Ashcroft asks Galloway to check into liberal group's complaints about
Hawley campaign
P-D: Ashcroft invites Galloway to participate in
Hawley probe X
KC Star: In KC, deportation can take up to 580 days.
That's good and bad for illegal aliens. X
KC Star: Veteran died after confrontation at Kansas
City VA hospital; McCaskill and Blunt demand answers X
Missourinet: Blunt, Smith announce $20 million federal
grant for Southeast Regional Port Authority
P-D: Missouri still scrutinizing White House official
Nick Ayers' tortured ties to state X
The Missouri Times - Clayton edition: Sen. Ed Emery
(R-Lamar), Rep. Rocky Miller (R-Lake Ozark) talk energy infrastructure,
transportation funding, initiative petition system changes, more
Missourinet: Sen. Gary Romine (R-Farmington) opposes
new 'right to work' efforts
Columbia Missourian: Proposals would lessen
HIV-related penalties, protect needle-exchange programs; Comments
from Holly Rehder, McCreery's Emily O'Laughlin
Missourinet: Missouri prisons roll out tablets for
inmates to use
KC Star: Missouri Clean Water group rejects cattle
feedlot expansion near Powell Gardens X
KC Star editorial: It shouldn't be a big deal that Jay
Ashcroft is investigating Josh Hawley, but it is X
P-D editorial: Justice is distorted when courts turn
into profit-generating centers X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Olympus Political
Consulting's Jake Silverman: Clean Missouri is illegal and immoral
Washington Post op-ed: Brookings Institution's Elaine
Kamarck: Watchful eyes are on Missouri's novel approach to
redistricting X
St. Joseph News-Press' Ken Newton: In Missouri, term
limits are here to stay
P-D op-ed: Rep. Stacey Newman (D-Richmond
Heights): GOP's anti-abortion zealots double down with extreme
abortion bills X
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December 10, 2018
P-D: Delegation adapts to Dem House takeover:
Wagner talks Trump, suburban caucus; Clay says Republicans "have
to rely on Cleaver and Lacy ... to actually deliver for Missouri" X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Dave Schatz on
role as Senate majority floor leader, tort overhaul, attributes of
Caleb Rowden, PQ forecasting, more; Panel of Gregg Keller, Jeff
Roorda, Jim Gwinner, UFCW's David Cook on PDMP, St. Louis City's
rampant crime, 'right to work,' Parson's appointments, more
Missourinet: Parson wants Missouri to be a national
leader in preventing Medicaid fraud
JCNT: Anne Precythe: Fixing Missouri Department
of Corrections is 'going to take time' X
Messenger: By quitting early, several Missouri
lawmakers show the need for Amendment 1 X
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's Eric
Bohl: Rural Missouri's 2019 policy wish list: Initiative
petition system overhaul, rural broadband, more
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December 9, 2018
KC Star: KC gets $25 million in federal funds for Buck
O'Neil Bridge X
St. Joseph News-Press: Parson: 'We can do
better' on drugs, infrastructure
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Budget work to begin early in
session; Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Frankford) on raising pay of
Corrections employees
CDT: Prosecuting attorneys differ on enforcement of
new Missouri medical marijuana law X
KWMU: Missouri schools preparing for students taking
online classes
JCNT: Department of Corrections looks to reduce prison
populations, recidivism X
Daily
American Republic: Missouri Department of Conservation forming
plan for future elk hunting +
Joplin Globe: Capitol murals, including those by
Thomas Hart Benton, focus of conservation efforts X
JCNT: Construction won't hinder Capitol Christmas
caroling X
Washington Missourian editorial: Hard to fathom why
Missouri is so late on PDMP X
JCNT editorial: Citizens should pay attention to
pre-filed bills X
P-D editorial: Medical marijuana is legal in Missouri.
So don't punish its legal users. X
KC Star op-ed: KC labor and employment lawyer Lauren
Sobaski: Q&A about medical marijuana and employment
law: Smoking at work, workers showing up high, drug testing, more X
P-D's Kevin McDermott: Republicans around the country
- like conservative Sen.-elect Eric Burlison (R-Springfield) - are
kneecapping democracy X
P-D letter: Sen. Gina Walsh (D-Bellefontaine
Neighbors): Republicans should waste no more time on 'right to
work' X
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December 8, 2018
KC Star's Hunter Woodall: Between Twitter rants, Trump
turns to familiar issues in KC: immigration and the wall X
WhiteHouse.gov: Remarks by President Trump at the 2018
Project Safe Neighborhoods National Conference
Missourinet: Audio: President Donald Trump's
comments to hundreds of law enforcement officers at national conference
in Kansas City
AP: In KC, Trump calls illegal immigration a "threat
to the well-being of every American community"
SE
Missourian: Health insurance open enrollment ends Dec. 15;
Comments from Cover Missouri's Nancy Kelley +
The Missouri Times: Faced with a purported "Blue
Wave," how Mike Parson helped the GOP turn the political tide by
November
The Missouri Times: Final 2018 (post-general) campaign
finance reports: State auditor
The Missouri Times: Final 2018 (post-general) campaign
finance reports: Missouri Senate
The Missouri Times: Final 2018 (post-general) campaign
finance reports: Missouri House
The Missouri Times: Final 2018 (post-general) campaign
finance reports: PACs and campaign committees
The Missouri Times: Missouri AFL-CIO President Mike
Louis files four pro-union initiative petitions for 2020
P-D: Former Civic Progress boss Tom Irwin joins Centene X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: December 3, 2018
The Missouri Times - Clayton edition: Missouri Dept.
of Economic Development Director Rob Dixon on how Best in Midwest and
Talent for Tomorrow initiatives are reversing state's negative trends
The Missouri Times: Parson, Schmitt, Richardson look
at ways to deal with Medicaid fraud
The Missouri Times: Parson urges innovative solutions
to improving criminal justice system
Joplin Globe: Bill from Sen. Ed Emery (R-Lamar) would
create Sunshine Law exceptions X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: December 7, 2018
KC Star editorial: Trump got city name, other facts
wrong in KC speech X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Respect voters' will
on highway tax
Messenger: St. Charles County points the way as
lawmakers seek to end debtors prisons in Missouri X
KC Star's Jason Hancock: Self-erasing messages at top
of Missouri government are just the tip of the iceberg X
P-D letter: Area coed studying social work thinks
Missouri should expand Medicaid X
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December 7,
2018 Pearl Harbor Day
AP:
Unsuccessful McCaskill campaign spent three times amount of Hawley
The Missouri Times: Secretary of state's office
looking into complaint from liberal D.C.-based group about Hawley
AP:
Ashcroft will examine liberal group's complaint about Hawley campaign
P-D: Ashcroft's office to investigate liberal group's
complaint about Hawley campaign X
KWMU: Hawley asks General Assembly to give more powers
to the attorney general's office
The Missouri Times: Attorney general's office
preparing for leadership transition
JCNT: Schmitt hears AG progress report X
Missourinet: Hawley and Schmitt hold joint press
conference, address range of complaints from liberals
P-D: Hawley, Schmitt talk AG office transition at
press conference
KCUR: Ashcroft will examine complaints from liberal
D.C. group
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Show-Me Institute's
Patrick Ishmael debates two (2) liberals on universal health care
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Reporter Eli Chen,
Sierra Institute's John Hickey talk climate change; Zero (0)
contrarian voices included
CDT: Renee Hulsof in running for state treasurer X
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen.-elect
Eric Burlison (R-Springfield) on 'right to work,' raising the bar for
changing the state Constitution, much more
AP:
Rep. Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson) resigns one minute before lobbying
restriction kicks in
SNL: What to expect as Missouri's medical marijuana
law takes effect X
Washington Missourian: Local officials attend new
bridge opening, want focus now on flooding X
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Missourian: Missouri bicentennial coordinator visits in
preparation for 2021 +
KC Star: Faculty buyouts at MU and UMKC will gut some
departments X
KWMU: Appeals court upholds class action status for
thousands of Missouri criminals with hepatitis
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: Hawley's war against big tech
likely to bring down small startups X
Messenger: After state pays jail bill of indigent
felon, Lewis County seeks even more X
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December 6, 2018
Missourinet: On Senate floor, Blunt recalls George
H.W. Bush's Missouri connections
P-D: Blunt, Ann Wagner share thoughts on Bush 41's
legacy X
AP: Historic 1920s Delta Queen riverboat can cruise
again
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Show-Me Institute's
Patrick Ishmael to debate two (2) liberal panelists on universal health
care
Columbia Missourian: Speaker rallies area liberals at
"Medicare for All" talk
The Missouri Times: Corlew resigns, plans to return to
being a full-time attorney
AP: Rep. Kevin Austin (R-Springfield) resigns, becomes
drug-court commissioner
AP: Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston) interested in job
as treasurer
Columbia Missourian: Fact check: Tweet from Rep.
Jean Evans (R-Manchester) about Clean Missouri rated "mostly false"
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): MoDOT Area Engineer Brian
Haeffner discusses Prop D defeat, what current funding means for road
transportation
KWMU: Parson calls for 'long-overdue' drug-monitoring
database to curb opioid abuse
AP:
Parson wants prescription drug monitoring program this session
Columbia Missourian: Missouri's medical marijuana
industry will be highly regulated, and highly lucrative
AP:
Savings from cuts to in-home care fall short of projections
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Nick Schroer (R-O'Fallon)
designed to save lives of babies with heartbeats
KSDK (St. Louis): Prior to August 'right to work'
vote, Parson's staff researched how policy could be implemented on
county level
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Dec. 5, 2018
The Missouri Times editorial: Parson's appointments
have been stellar thus far
P-D editorial: State legislators must not attempt to
pass 'right to work' legislation X
KC Star editorial: State legislators must not attempt
to pass 'right to work' legislation X
KC Star editorial: Incoming AG Eric Schmitt will
manage $2.8 million DOJ grant for rape kit tracking X
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December 5, 2018
Brownfield Ag News: Blunt relieved trade dispute did
not escalate
Brownfield Ag News: Parson: Trade normalcy will
take patience
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Jo Mannies shares
memories of George H.W. Bush
St. Joseph News-Press: Sam Graves, George H.W. Bush
shared aviation as a love
KWMU: Outside money played outsized role in
McCaskill-Hawley Senate race
KWMU: New Missouri Democratic Party Vice Chair Clem
Smith says the party can attract both urban and rural voters;
Scott Sifton, Nicole Galloway, Stephen Webber among potential gov
candidates
AP:
Three Missouri lawmakers resign ahead of new lobbyist limits
The Missouri Times: Blake Hurst to continue leading
Missouri Farm Bureau
The Missouri Times: Parson to host business panel
discussion in St. Louis about rising health care costs
KWMU: Missouri doctors urge new limits on prescribing
opioids in hospitals; Comments from Missouri Hospital
Association's Dave Dillon, others
Missourinet: Incoming Senate Appropriations Chairman
Dan Hegeman (R-Cosby) brings experience with state budget in flux
Missourinet: Sen.-elect Eric Burlison (R-Springfield)
to sponsor 'right to work' bill in 2019
KC Star: Sen.-elect Eric Burlison (R-Springfield)
pre-files 'right to work' bill X
P-D: Burlison pre-files 'right to work' legislation X
Joplin Globe: Rep. Cody Smith (R-Carthage), Sen. Bill
White (R-Joplin) file first bills for 2019 General Assembly X
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Farm Bureau policy
addresses rural broadband
Columbia Missourian: Coalition tackles state's rising
prison population
KC Star editorial: Missouri legislators must reverse
course and raise taxes X
Rudi Keller: When George H.W. Bush came to town X
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December 4, 2018
Rosenbaum: Lacy Clay's influence on the rise after
Democrats' House takeover; Veteran congressman talks about
priorities, young black political leadership and his "haters"
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Mike Jones
lays out challenges for public education, Missouri Democrats
KC Star: Watchdog groups, GOP question Jean Peter
Baker's conflicts as prosecutor, Missouri Democratic Party chair X
Missourinet: Kit Bond reflects on President George.
H.W. Bush's legacy
Missourinet: President Trump to make stop Friday at
conference in Kansas City
Fox News Sunday: Video: Blunt talks trade with
China, Russia probe
The Missouri Times: Sen. Blunt, Sen.-elect Hawley,
Gov. Parson, AG-to-be Eric Schmitt speak at Missouri Farm Bureau annual
meeting
The Missouri Times: Chris Chinn, Brian Munzlinger,
Bill Reiboldt among Outstanding Service to Agriculture recipients
The Missouri Times: Sen. Jake Hummel (D-St. Louis
City) resigns from the Senate
Columbia Missourian: Hundreds of new bills filed in
advance of legislative session
Missourinet: Sen. Gary Romine (R-Farmington) pre-files
bill again in response to 2017 education chief shakeup
JCNT: MOSERS likely to need more financial help from
lawmakers X
JCNT: Legislators hope for early start on HIV-specific
bills X
Missourinet: Rehder, McCreery pre-file bills to change
HIV and drug treatment policies
Washington Missourian: State investigates
controversial photo showing toddler with deer; Newspaper caption
incorrectly stated that 2-year-old shot the buck X
KWMU: Hunters could soon have the chance to target elk
in southeast Missouri
KC Star editorial: Missouri lawmakers should ban the
use of secretive Confide app X
P-D letter: St. Louis woman expresses anger over Ann
Wagner's re-election, says anti-trafficking legislation will impede
those using Internet for consensual intercoursing X
P-D letter: Doorways CEO Opal Jones supports
legislation to change state HIV laws X
P-D letter: Clayton septuagenarian wants Republicans
to raise state income tax to pay for higher ed
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December 3, 2018
This Week in Missouri Politics: Todd Graves on his
successful reign as Missouri GOP chairman; Sean Soendker
Nicholson on Clean Missouri's electoral win
AP:
Missouri first to adopt fairness test against gerrymandering
P-D: From opioids to rural hospitals, health care will
be focus of Parson this week X
Missourinet: Rep. Glen Kolkmeyer (R-Odessa) says
Missouri transportation talks are happening behind scenes
Missourinet: Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston) to file
PDMP legislation; Sen.-elect Tony Luetkemeyer (R-Parkville) to
file same bill in Senate
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Springfield,
Mo.-based nonprofit cashed in using Arkansas program for mental services
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Nonprofit's CFO
bundled contributions for Ryan Silvey
Columbia Missourian's Craig Stevenson: Missouri's
safety net programs help build healthy families
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December 2, 2018
Kraske: George Bush taught this young reporter a
lesson about the business of journalism X
P-D: Bush family ties run deep in St. Louis X
SNL: Photo gallery: President George Bush at
Springfield visit in 1988 X
Joplin Globe: Bush was first sitting president to
visit Joplin X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Q&A: Luetkemeyer on
President George H.W. Bush's legacy, Barbara Bush, relationship with
Reagan, more
The Missouri Times: Jean Peters Baker elected chair of
Missouri Democratic Party
KC Star: Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker
to head Missouri Democratic Party X
St. Joseph News-Press: Bankrolling marijuana comes
with complications
KC Star: Local doctors weigh in on relative medical
value of marijuana X
P-D The Bottom Line: Business columnists David
Nicklaus, Jim Gallagher talk about medical marijuana, experience at
Colorado pot shop, forecasts for impact on Missouri X
CDT: Lobbyists hired to prevent MU Health monopoly in
Jefferson City X
Washington Missourian: New Highway 47 may open for
traffic tomorrow - weather dependent X
CDT: Activists say Catholic Church, Hawley slow to
oust sex abusers X
Washington Missourian editorial: Bridge ribbon-cutting
marks a historic day X
KC Star op-ed: Clean Missouri defense effort:
Op-ed attributed to Bob Johnson, Gwen Grant X
P-D letter: Missouri HIV justice coalition praises
Reps. Holly Rehder, Tracy McCreery for sponsoring legislation X
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December 1, 2018 George H.W.
Bush dies at 94
December
2017 Missouri political news headlines
December
2016 Missouri political news headlines
December
2015 Missouri political news headlines
NPR: McCaskill blames her defeat on Democrats'
'failure' with rural America
KWMU: Missouri Democrats hope new leadership - to be
elected today - will improve their future
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of November 26, 2018
JCNT: Parson gives state workers the day off on
Christmas Eve X
Missourinet: Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) wants to
streamline permits for business expansion
The Missouri Times - Clayton edition: Ribbon-cutting
ceremony today for new Route 47 Missouri River bridge
SNL: Deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
killed in Stone County; Missouri Dept. of Conservation says first
in southwest Missouri X
AP:
Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis City) wants Missouri Dept. of Public
Safety to suspend licenses of four St. Louis City police officers at
center of controversy
KC Star: Former employee in attorney general's office
downloaded Confide app in 2017; Evan Rosell, who left AG's office
nine (9) months ago, used app 3-4 times for personal, non-work
conversations X
KC Star editorial: Missouri's GOP state legislators
won't listen to voters. Electronic petitions would help change that. X
CDT editorial: Make Missouri dull again; State's
politicians should give Missourians a non-dramatic 2019 X
Joplin Globe op-ed: Show-Me Institute's Brenda Talent
and Susan Pendergrass: Margie Vandeven a terrific choice - for
those who want the status quo X
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