Wednesday, February 28
Columbia Missourian: More than 3,000 young illegals
can renew DACA applications
P-D: Ann Wagner's sex-trafficking bill passes House
after multi-year push
Hannibal Courier-Post: Demo Days set for this
weekend; Octogenarian organizer John Yancey weighs in on school
violence, recalls "Tommy Guns" of his youth
The Missouri Times: Filing day compendium: U.S.
Senate, statewides, legislative races
KWMU: Few surprises as Missouri's 2018 candidates
begin filing to get on ballot
JCNT: Eight Republicans file for U.S. Senate on first
day of filing X
SNL: Hawley files for office, supports Trump's
gun-control stance X
KC Star: As he files for U.S. Senate, Josh Hawley
entertains reporters' questions on Greitens, guns and Trump X
SE
Missourian: Filing day briefs: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, state
legislative incumbents to face token opposition +
Columbia Missourian: Filing-day notes
The Missouri Times: Missouri farmers, ranchers gather
in Capitol for Missouri Farm Bureau's legislative day
JCNT: Farmers push for rural broadband Internet X
The Missouri Times: C. Brooks Hurst now leads Missouri
Soybean Association
KCUR: Missouri joins states arguing no tax penalty, no
Affordable Care Act
SNL: Jeff Notes: Lawmakers investigating
Greitens may meet in private; Governor's lawyers say prosecutor's
reference to "photo" evidence is woman's professional headshot X
KC Star: Prosecutor releases list of evidence in case
against Greitens X
P-D: Greitens defense team says prosecutors may hide
evidence by using private investigators
AP:
Use of private firm for Greitens investigation questioned
The Missouri Times: Schaaf bill takes aim at A New
Missouri
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia)
says potential impeachment proceedings will avoid partisanship
The Missouri Times: Democratic poll says voters think
Greitens should resign
KWMU: Bill to extend tax credits for pro-life
pregnancy resource centers passes Missouri House
AP:
Report says more women from Missouri, other states traveling to
Illinois for abortions
JCNT: Kirk Cameron to speak at Vitae Foundation
fundraiser X
Columbia Missourian: House committee passes several
bills expanding gun rights in Missouri
Missourinet: Speaker Todd Richardson proposes
pro-Israel business bill
The Missouri Times: Video: Sen. Maria
Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City) appears to shove, shriek at blind
man during public meeting; Coldwater Creek activist group
denounces assault, says violent approach is better suited for West Lake
Landfill crowd
Hannibal Courier-Post: Court of Appeals moves Grain
Belt case to Missouri Supreme Court
AP:
Missouri court revives proposed Midwest power line
Missourinet: Massive Missouri Capitol construction
project starts Friday in Jefferson City
AP:
Portrait of George Washington Carver installed in Governor's Mansion
JCNT editorial: In interest of state, Greitens should
resign X
KC Star editorial: House panel should consider one
question: Did Greitens commit a felony?
X
Helling: Greitens' lawyers are on shaky legal ground
in fighting grand jury indictment X
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Gun buyback
programs work and Missouri should use them
P-D letter: Lee's Summit man says Greitens should
resign
P-D letter: St. Louis sexagenarian criticizes
Post-Dispatch for printing pro-Greitens letter
SE
Missourian letter: Cape Girardeau gynecologist dislikes opioid
legislation, says prescription-length mandate could stir up problems +
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Tuesday, February 27
The Missouri Times: Judge Roy Moore endorses Coutland
Sykes for U.S. Senate
AP:
Moore endorses feminist-baiting GOP candidate Courtland Sykes
P-D: 'MODreamers" hold press conference in Central
West End; Illegal alien "Rigo" recounts dramatic tale of sneaking
across the Mexican border as a chico
SE
Missourian: Cape County Democrats will help gather signatures for
"Clean Missouri," "Raise Up Missouri" drives
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The Missouri Times: Former teacher to run against Rep.
David Gregory (R-St. Louis County)
The Missouri Times: House moves forward with Greitens
investigation, Barnes to lead committee
Missourinet: Jay Barnes to chair House committee
investigating governor's indictment
Missourinet: Impeachment process clarified
JCNT: Missouri House launches Greitens probe X
Columbia Missourian: GOP leaders launch investigation
into Greitens while some lawmakers ask him to resign
KWMU: Missouri GOP divided over Greitens' future
CDT: Rep. Sara Walsh (R-Ashland) undecided on
Greitens' future X
P-D: Missouri House launches probe; prosecutors
may seek more charges
Missourinet: Rep. Allen Andrews (R-Grant City):
Greitens has broken the confidence of the people
AP:
House forms panel to investigate Greitens
KCUR: Analysis: Legal experts say prosecutor
probably has photo Greitens took of woman
P-D: E-mail shows how Greitens team began using
charity donor list to ask for money
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) says
Greitens might not like legislators' forthcoming higher-ed funding plan
The Missouri Times: Swan files legislation to
establish 'Charter Schools Task Force'
Missourinet: Missouri House passes
parental-notification abortion bill
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Reps. Craig Redmon, Nate Walker
explain why they voted against marriage-age bill
The Missouri Times: 'Revenge porn' bill moves to Senate
JCNT: Lawmakers fire verbal shots at each other over
firearms bills X
P-D: Missouri lawmakers debate expanding lawful carry
to bars, college campuses
The Missouri Time: Capitol to undergo major renovation
beginning March 2018
P-D editorial: Lawmakers should ban convicted stalkers
and abusers from owning guns
Waters: The proper punishment for Greitens X
P-D letter: St. Louis County man wonders how many
hypocritical, self-righteous state legislators have skeletons in their
closets
KC Star letters: Liberty man says Greitens' hiring of
lobbyist proves guilt; Gladstone man claims he's so tired of
political news that he'll stop writing letters to the editor X
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Monday, February 26
CDT: Illegal immigrants, supporters rally to complain
about Trump; Speaker mocks First Lady Melania Trump's citizenship
status X
Columbia Missourian: Immigration rally draws
100; Speakers include illegal alien, "social documentary
photographer," woman slated to take November 2018 loss against Hartzler
AP: Several states tackle gerrymandering;
Unions, George Soros among those funding "Clean Missouri" campaign
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Sen. Dave Schatz
(R-Sullivan) talks Greitens indictment, opioid legislation,
transportation, Senate pro tem campaign; Panel of Jo Mannies,
Reps. Kathie Conway and Gina Mitten, Ray Hartmann talk indictment,
impeachment, more
P-D: Indictment of Greitens expected to be focus in
Missouri House today
Missourinet: Hoskins weighs in on Greitens' indictment
P-D: Attorney Al Watkins' newest gimmick:
Stripper who filmed lovers seeks pardon from Greitens
Drebes: Maria Chappelle-Nadal calls Gina Walsh a
"Judas Dixiecrat"
Missourinet: Rep. Jered Taylor (R-Nixa) wants to keep
government, state schools from restricting guns
KWMU: School districts attempt to manage influx of
immigrant children who don't speak English
KWMU: Advocacy group complains about St. Louis City's
tax incentives, demands "racially equitable development"
SE
Missourian editorial: Laura Bush reminds audience that education
is vital for all +
Joplin Globe editorial: Greitens should step aside X
P-D editorial: Effort to strengthen Missouri's open
records and meetings laws deserves Legislature's action X
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Palestinian man: No,
Missouri Legislature, you cannot sell our First Amendment rights for
dark money
KC Star letter: KC septuagenarian hopes Greitens'
troubles will bring down President Donald Trump X
P-D letter: St. Louis County septuagenarian compares
Greitens' nude photography to Rembrandt's artwork
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Sunday, February 25
P-D's Chuck Raasch: Is Claire McCaskill really the
centrist that she claims to be?
Sedalia Democrat: Rep. Vicky Hartzler hosts roundtable
with Sedalia Tyson employees
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Luetkemeyer discusses Trump's
infrastructure proposal
P-D: Feds prepare to select construction firms to
build $1.7 billion NGA campus
P-D: Some Poplar Bluff residents have a soft spot for
illegal immigrant; Local business owners say Honduran alien works
hard
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Missouri Veterans Commission seeks general counsel
KC Star: St. Joseph businessman and GOP donor Stan
Herzog in ICU after choking at D.C. steakhouse
SNL: Greitens declares state of emergency in response
to flooding in southern Missouri X
SE
Missourian: State of emergency declared in Missouri +
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Nate Walker (R-Kirksville)
on Greitens' law firm hiring lobbyists
JCNT: A look at Greitens' two paths: Criminal
process and impeachment procedures X
P-D: Prepping for impeachment: Here's what
Greitens and lawmakers face in the coming days
AP: Indictment of Greitens could have political ripples
JCNT: Professor: Law hinges on expectation of
privacy X
SNL: More than a dozen Missouri schools allow trained
teachers to carry firearms on the job X
P-D: Why aren't big-budget movies filmed in Missouri
anymore? No more film-production tax credits.
Washington Missourian: Lawmakers want answers about
Bourbon virus testing X
Washington Missourian editorial: Greitens should resign X
P-D editorial: The longer Greitens stays, the more
disgrace he brings. Time for him to go.
CDT editorial: Greitens' effectiveness to lead is
tapped out X
JCNT editorial: A note about our coverage of Greitens'
indictment: No mug shots, no dragging children into the debate X
Washington Missourian editorial: Arming teachers is a
bad idea X
SNL letter: Springfield sexagenarian criticizes Billy
Long for support from NRA and farm groups, says incumbent's Democratic
opponent will win in November X
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Saturday, February 24
KWMU: In wake of Florida shootings, local students
split on gun control; Clayton High School student Neel
Vallurupalli says armed teachers could help mitigate damage done by
shooters
KC Star: Thousands of Blue Springs students plan to
skip class in early March X
SNL: Local Moms Demand Action chapter plans field trip
to Jefferson City; Gals gab about recent events, organize car
pools, imagine that their drop-bys at legislative offices make a
difference X
KWMU: After 'Atomic Homefront' release, frustrated
residents fill Army Corps Coldwater Creek meeting
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Jill Schupp has open campaign roles
The Missouri Times: Republicans defer to House
committee's investigation after MOGOP calls indictment 'political hit
job'
KC Star: Missouri GOP takes aim at Dem prosecutor, but
Hawley, lawmakers support investigation X
The Missouri Times: The path to impeachment:
Speaker's committee could seek ouster of Greitens
The Missouri Times: Greitens served with Harvey
Weinstein on Soros-backed NYC charity board
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
preview: Indictment talk dominates
Missourinet: Schaaf says he expected indictment of
Greitens
SE
Missourian: Lichtenegger, Swan call for Greitens to step down +
KWMU: More Republicans call for Greitens to step down,
while Democrats step back
The Missouri Times: Hoskins says governor must 'do
what is right'
Washington Missourian: Local lawmakers weigh in on
indictment
Missourinet: Nasheed calls for impeachment proceedings
KWMU: Q&A about Greitens indictment
KWMU: Five legal issues from the Greitens indictment
SNL: Greitens is no 'Peeping Tom,' his attorneys argue
in motion to dismiss felony charge X
AP:
Greitens indicted under law aimed at 'Peeping Toms'
P-D: Greitens case could test the definition of
'privacy' in the smartphone era
P-D: Who is Mike Parson? Meet the man who could
replace Greitens
Columbia Missourian: Mike Parson described as a
'straight shooter'
Missourinet: Missouri House honors lawmaker who
donated kidney
KWMU: Protest zone at St. Louis City Planned
Parenthood narrowly earns first-round approval
SNL editorial: Time to remove Greitens from office X
KC Star editorial: Missouri should not treat pregnant
drug addicts like criminals
P-D editorial briefs: Mocking Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash
Grove) for marriage-age comments
KC Star's Melinda Henneberger: Black voters are a
problem for Claire McCaskill X
Messenger: In the case of State v. Greitens, Lady
Justice wears a blindfold
P-D's Kristen Taketa: Brave students risk detention to
stand up against Missouri Legislature and state's lax gun laws
SNL letter: Springfield sexagenarian says Long, Trump
do not represent southwest Missourians X
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Friday, February 23
P-D: Gateway Arch National Park gets presidential seal
of approval
KWMU: Lawmakers and agricultural groups team up in
support of NAFTA; Comments from Sen. Dan Hegeman (R-Cosby),
Missouri Corn Growers' Shane Kinne, Missouri Dairy's Dave Drennan
The Missouri Times: Governor indicted by grand jury,
taken into custody; Greitens' lawyers will appeal
The Missouri Times: Libla, Romine call for Greitens to
consider resigning
The Missouri Times: Following indictment, House will
open investigation into governor
SNL: Greitens indicted on felony invasion of privacy
charge X
CDT: Rowden calls on Greitens to resign X
KWMU: Grand jury indicts Greitens
KWMU: What you need to know about the Greitens
indictment
AP:
Greitens indicted on invastion of privacy charge
P-D: Greitens indicted for felony invasion of privacy
P-D: Some lawmakers call for Greitens to resign;
GOP leaders call for an investigation
The Atlantic: The indictment of Eric Greitens;
From rising star to felony charges in barely one year
KC Star's Max Londberg: Twitter highlights:
Missouri political pundits, East Coast media roast Greitens with
one-liners X
Missourinet: Nasheed calls on Speaker Richardson to
begin impeachment process
SNL: Haahr's tax overhaul plan includes tax cuts,
higher DMV fees X
The Missouri Times: Haahr files bill to cut taxes
while generating revenue for roads, bridges
SNL: Greitens' higher ed cuts can be restored,
Fitzpatrick says X
Missourinet: Fitzpatrick outlines plan to restore
proposed Missouri higher education cuts
Missourinet: Missouri Senate starts process to boost
funding for nursing homes
The Missouri Times: Republicans look to fix state's
'bad reputation' for legal climate with Munzlinger's venue and joinder
legislation, but bill gets laid over
The Missouri Times: Kaufman Fund pens letter calling
for General Assembly's opposition to asbestos bill
The Missouri Times: House sends industrial hemp,
homeowners' association bills to Senate
KWMU: Pro & con: House Bill 2179 to penalize
companies boycotting Israel
The Missouri Times: PSC signs off on Spire rate case
KWMU: Regulators, environmentalists and scientists
weigh in on how to keep Missouri's lakes clean
Missourinet: Resolution from Sen. Jill Schupp (D-Creve
Coeur) addresses Equal Rights Amendment
P-D editorial: When the NRA is under fire, Sen. Roy
Blunt comes to the rescue
KC Star editorial: Greitens didn't shoot straight with
Missourians, can't govern under indictment X
P-D editorial: Greitens must resign
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Greitens' problems do
harm to state X
Washington Missourian editorial: Distracted driving is
deadly; Legislature should pass Dixon's bill X
Messenger: Greitens slithers up to the biggest snake
in the swamp and seeks salvation
Phill Brooks: Flaring tempers do nothing but divide
Missouri's Senate
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Thursday, February 22
Variety: Josh Hawley slams McCaskill over Hollywood
ties
CNBC: McCaskill, two other vulnerable Senate Dems show
why party is at risk of losing seats in 2018
SE
Missourian: Former First Lady Laura Bush speaks at Show Me
Center, stresses education +
The Missouri Times: Bill White launches TV ad for
Senate bid
SNL: Greitens, allies still have Confide accounts
following Capitol purge X
Missourinet: Hawley to release results soon in inquiry
into Greitens' use of Confide app
The Missouri Times: Legislation filed to strengthen
Missouri's open records laws
Missourinet: Missouri Senate starts process to boost
funding for nursing homes
AP:
Legislature moves forward on drug take-back program
SNL: Missouri Senate talks medical marijuana X
Missourinet: Missouri high school class of 2017
increased score on AP exams; Asians (3.46 average) outpaced
whites (3.13), with Hispanics (2.66) and blacks (1.92) pulling up the
rear
Columbia Missourian: Bill that would allow Mizzou to
charge higher tuition stalls in Missouri Senate
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Justin Alferman
(R-Hermann) would immediately suspend license of drivers who hit
construction workers
JCNT: Advocates lobby to help prevent suicides in
Missouri X
St. Joseph News-Press: House bill seeks to do away
with car inspections X
The Missouri Times: Munzlinger honored with award from
Missouri Agribusiness Association
Missourinet: 'Missouri Sliced Bread Day' legislation
is approved by Missouri House
P-D: National advocacy group 'Human Rights Watch'
criticizes private probation companies in Missouri
SE
Missourian: Allegations of timecard fraud in Oran in hands of
Hawley's office to avoid conflict of interest
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KC Star editorial: KC listening session came up with
no good reason for the EPA to repeal the Clean Power Plan X
P-D editorial: Another embarrassment for Missouri's
executioners
Gateway Journalism Review: Terry Ganey: How
Gatehouse Media has gutted the Columbia Daily Tribune
P-D op-ed: Sen. Rob Schaaf (R-St. Joseph): Bill
that benefits utilities comes at the expense of Missourians
P-D op-ed: SLU law prof Chad Flanders: The
problem with 'stand your ground' laws
KC Star's Tessa Weinberg: Missouri bill to criminalize
pregnant women who do drugs would hurt more than help; Thoughts
from Campaign Life Missouri's Sam Lee, American Congress of OB/GYNs
"Sarah Topps [sic]," state
legislators X
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Wednesday, February 21
P-D: McCaskill says VA has reversed itself and paid
claims to 17 WWII vets exposed to mustard gas
KWMU: DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison visits St. Louis,
meets with black activists
KWMU: St. Louis activist uses 'Black Panther' film to
register minority voters
P-D: Army Corps of Engineers to give update on
Coldwater Creek cleanup
P-D: Illinois businessman contributes $500k to
pro-'right to work' campaign
Drebes:
Bill Otto running for a different House seat this time around
KWMU: Joe Reagan resigns as St. Louis Regional Chamber
CEO
CDT: Greitens pays visit to Mexico veterans home X
CDT: Greitens: Taxpayers not funding attorneys'
fees for investigation X
The Missouri Times: Greitens' defense files for open
records lawsuit to be dismissed
KC Star: Lawmakers pass 'revenge porn' measure, with
Rep. Brandon Ellington (D-Kansas City) making Greitens "duct tape" joke X
The Missouri Times: Forced arbitration? Not for sexual
harassment claims, Hawley says
Missourinet: Hawley says costs of state's harassment
and discrimination payouts are not sustainable
The Missouri Times: Emery's utility bill on hold for
now as House looks to send their own version to the Senate
SNL: Marriage bill divides Springfield lawmakers X
KMOX: House passes measure to ban marriage under age
15; Comments from "Rep. Warren Moon [sic]"
P-D: More Missouri students take AP exams, but black
students continue to disappoint; Asians, whites score higher than
state mean
Missourinet: Court rejects lawsuit intended to
reinstate fired Missouri Education Commissioner
P-D: Judge rejects push to reverse firing on
Missouri's top educator
The Missouri Times: Bill would enable city buses to
transport high schoolers
The Missouri Times: Hoskins introduces legislation
legalizing sports gambling in Missouri
KWMU: Gun-control group visits Capitol
Missourinet: Gun-control group visits Capitol offices
AP:
Missouri House gives initial approval to industrial hemp
JCNT: Bill would limit TIF projects to blighted areas X
Columbia Missourian: Bill would put sales tax increase
for public safety on Centralia ballot
P-D: Centene says subsidiary will no longer provide
drugs for Missouri executions
KC Star editorial: Scott Pruitt's EPA will talk
so-called Clean Power Plan in KC today X
P-D editorial: McCaskill helpful in the fight against
Big Pain
KWMU "race, identity and culture" reporter Ashley
Lisenby: #MeToo founder's speech at Webster University addresses
white women co-opting the hashtag and other emotional struggles
The Missouri Times' Jennifer Bukowsky: St. Louis City
Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's investigation of Greitens is political
and not based on public safety
P-D op-ed: If Greitens took a picture during pull-up
lessons, he is guilty of "perversion" and should resign
KC Star op-ed: Union contractors' leader:
Repealing the prevailing wage on construction jobs hurts workers and
the economy X
St. Joseph News-Press letter: St. Joseph Downtown
Partnership's Rhabecca Boerkircher: Historic tax credits
essential to ensuring Downtown thrives X
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Tuesday, February 20
Washington Examiner: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves talks
federal transportation funding
Faughn: The players involved in the Greitens
investigation
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Nate Walker (R-Kirsville)
says investigation into Greitens goes beyond blackmail allegations
Missourinet: Sen. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) says
investigation into Greitens "could turn into a witch hunt"
The Missouri Times: Three House reps vying for
Silvey's seat
The Missouri Times: Ron Rammaha in race for Rep.
Cloria Brown's seat
Clayton Times: Jimmy Loomis resigns as Clayton
Township Democratic committeeman
KWMU: Parson visits St. Louis Veterans home;
Conditions continue to improve, residents and families say
Missourinet: Parson honors those fighting for change
at veterans home
P-D: Parson thanks those who exposed problems at
veterans home
St. Joseph News-Press: Schaaf calls out colleagues
over utility rate legislation X
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Dan
Hegeman (R-Cosby) on tax credits and the Senate's relationship with
Gov. Greitens
The Missouri Times: Hegeman asks Senate to weigh the
needs of the state when considering historic tax credits, bill laid over
P-D: Lawmakers debate historic tax credits
KWMU: Low-income housing tax credit freeze casts
shadow over legislative session
The Missouri Times: DOR projecting quarter-million
increase in costs for postage
Missourinet: Missouri bill would provide more than
three months of unemployment benefits
P-D: In Texas County, indigent defendants will be
defended by private attorneys
JCNT: Firearms bill hearings delayed a week X
SNL: Greitens' staff met with board members before
Vandeven's firing, appointee says X
Missourinet: Missouri House passes bill that would ban
marriage of kids 14 and younger
JCNT: Bill would create new opportunities for
Missourians with disabilities X
St. Joseph News-Press: Texting and driving bills shut
down X
CDT: Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) battles critics of
hunting permit bill X
JCNT: Lawmakers asked to improve abuse case
investigations X
Missourinet: Committee report sent to Speaker Todd
Richardson about Warren Love's Facebook comment
Columbia Missourian: Dueling demonstrations outside
abortion facility pits pro-life group versus "Guild of Silly
Heathens"; Pro-choice group dresses up as female genitalia, waves
"Honk if You're Horny" signs
SNL: National advocacy group gives Missouri poor
ranking for health X
P-D editorial: Roy Blunt is kept in line by NRA cash
P-D editorial: Hawley steps up for workers in
harassment arbitration cases
KC Star editorial: More women die when domestic
abusers own guns, but Missouri legislators don't care X
Priddy:
To prevent a school shooting in Missouri, legislators should spend more
money on mental health care
KWMU's Rachel Lippmann: Former KWMU reporter Chris
McDaniel now writing for Buzzfeed, still targeting Missouris' execution
drug supplier
JCNT letter: Prolific letter-writer Sue Gibson
responds to letter responding to McCaskill's abortion stance X
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Monday, February 19
KWMU: Missouri could struggle to draw federal funds
with new infrastructure plan; Comments from Regional Chamber's
Hart Nelson
P-D: Tight clamp on immigration hits Marshall,
Mo.; El Salvadorans are in the United States legally, for now
P-D: Jesse Jackson, 76, makes appearance in St. Louis
City
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Rep. David
Gregory (R-St. Louis County) talks audit of Dept. of Revenue;
Panel of Reps. Donna Baringer (D-St. Louis City) and Tom Hannegan
(R-St. Charles), David Barklage, Jane Dueker talk corruption
investigation, budget, more
Drebes:
Annette Read's America First MO, formerly Show-Me Trump, to open office
early next month
KC Star: Date set for special election for Silvey's
state Senate seat X
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Equifax seeks regional director for state government
relations
KWMU: Former St. Louis judge has joined governor's
legal team
Columbia Missourian: MU communications prof, PR pros
offer analysis on how Greitens has handled scandal
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) talks
Greitens' higher ed cuts
Columbia Missourian: Legislators debate prevailing wage
Missourinet: Springfield mayor pushes for Missouri
primary seat belt law
P-D: MoDOT to hold session on plans for I-270 in North
St. Louis County
AP: Missouri works to secure national bicycle route
SNL: Lawyers call case against Springfield massage
parlors weak. Just wait, Hawley's office says.
X
KC Star editorial: No more swanky dinners or free
booze? Missouri lawmakers should ban lobbyist gifts X
P-D editorial: Missouri's rural way of life threatened
by more than wind power
Messenger: Hallmark, Hawley and the #MeToo
movement; forced arbitration falls flat
CDT Managing Editor Charles Westmoreland: Democratic
state auditor gives lesson in fiscal discipline X
KC Star letter: KC sexagenarian dislikes Hawley's
support for military parade X
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Sunday, February 18
P-D: Big military budget refuels St. Louis-built Super
Hornet
JCNT: Pressure to legalize marijuana in Missouri is
high X
The Missouri Times: Rep. David Gregory (R-St. Louis
County) talks $36M in potential savings on This Week in Missouri
Politics
SNL: Bill to empower auditor, backed by local
officials, stalls in Missouri Senate X
Missourinet: The number of Missouri students enrolled
at University of Arkansas has doubled in ten years; Rep. Greg
Razer (D-Kansas City) points out Razorbacks' recruiting success
SNL: MSU, Drury researchers to study opinions on
poverty; Residents of five counties - or those claiming to be -
can take online survey regarding poor people's work ethic, other topics X
KC Star: Neosho gun shop owner helps son's baseball
team by donating rifle for raffle; Facebook post triggers
gun-control proponents, elicits emotional responses X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) says
retirement bill has earned bipartisan support
P-D: Real estate series: St. Louis City couple
complains about redlining, says US Bank lender suggested they consider
a safer neighborhood - and other outrages
P-D: Real estate series: Red-hot O'Fallon, Mo.
keeps growing and growing; Low crime rate, safe schools draw
high-earning homeowners
Washington Missourian: Bill from Rep. Nate Tate (R-St.
Clair) would ban synthetic human urine X
SE
Missourian: Cape Girardeau NAACP holds dinner; Speakers say
every vote counts, tout power of "community," etc. +
Clayton Times: St. Louis NAACP to honor Rosa Parks at
annual event
KC Star editorial: McCaskill, Blunt should compromise
on immigration X
P-D editorial: Auditor Nicole Galloway suggests
common-sense budgeting. What a concept.
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Utility rates due a
reset X
Washington Missourian editorial: Child marriages a bad
idea X
Waters: Senate Bill 612 is a sneaky tax credit X
P-D op-ed: Missouri Chamber's Dan Mehan:
Bipartisan energy legislation is good for Missouri electric customers
P-D letter: University City sexagenarian wants Blunt
to add special section to Senate website so she can complain about his
Second Amendment stance
SNL letter: Local union communications director
disagrees with Eric Burlison on 'right to work' X
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Saturday, February 17
P-D: Congressional votes for the week
AP:
Blunt: Trump to nominate Timothy Garrison as U.S. attorney
SNL: GOP U.S. Senate candidate Austin Petersen says
AR-15 raffle involved 'a lot of due diligence'
X
The Missouri Times: Initiative petition for medical
marijuana raises $250k
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of February 12, 2018
Drebes: Mark Ausmus, former chief of staff to Speaker
Bob Griffin (D), files age-discrimination suit against Missouri
Department of Revenue
KWMU: Missouri House passes 17 bills, kills one, while
the Senate focuses on utility bill
Columbia Missourian: Missouri lawmakers fear looming
infrastructure crisis
St. Joseph News-Press: Historic Preservation Tax Bill
could see work next week X
The Missouri Times: 'Raise the Age' legislation back
again
Columbia Missourian: Conservation Federation of
Missouri's Brandon Butler accuses Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) of
nepotism; Basye says allegations are bovine excrement
KC Star: GOP legislators hope to get rid of mandatory
vehicle inspections X
Missourinet: Sen. Gary Romine (R-Farmington):
Gun control is not the answer to mass shootings
AP:
Missouri Department of Mental Health notifying 1,000 people about
mailing error
The Missouri Times: Legislation would open doors for
Missouri farmers to grow hemp
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: February 15, 2018
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Doug Beck (D-St. Louis
County) would designate a Blake Snyder Memorial Highway
P-D editorial briefs: In support of sex-education
additions from Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston)
CDT op-ed: National Parents Organization of Missouri's
Linda Reutzel: It's time to align Missouri's family courts with
research X
P-D letter: St. Louis man says Trump's EPA budget
shows disregard for St. Louisans' health
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Friday, February 16
St. Joseph News-Press: Senate finds no path on
immigration; Comments from Blunt X
KCUR: Mexican alien could be deported as soon as
today; Crecensio Mendez-Ramirez claims he must stay in Missouri
because he's wanted by Mexican drug cartels
P-D: Blunt says Russian election influence was
marginal; Intelligence Committee report coming soon
SE
Missourian: Former First Lady Laura Bush to speak at Show Me
Center +
The Missouri Times: Missouri Republican Party looking
for paid volunteers to gather signatures for pro-'right to work'
petition
Drebes: New Approach says it's nearing signature
target for cannabis initiative
KC Star: Medical marijuana gaining steam in
Missouri; Comments from New Approach Missouri's Jack Cardetti X
Missourinet: Investigators dispatched by office of St.
Louis City Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner (D) talk with Speaker Todd
Richardson, Superminority Leader Gail McCann Beatty about Greitens
The Missouri Times: Emery's utility bill passes the
Senate, heads to House
Missourinet:
Missouri Senate passes contentious utility bill after intense debate
Washington Missourian: Schatz advocates for gas tax
KWMU: The jobless could enjoy 13 weeks of benefits
under bill passed by Missouri House
KCUR: Senate committee favors taxing out-of-state
entertainers to bring in millions for arts
P-D: Lawmakers target Anthem's controversial emergency
room policy
KWMU: St. Louis City schools look at residency program
to encourage new teachers to stick it out; Half of teachers throw
in the towel within 5 years
P-D: Missouri teacher preparation program ratings aim
to help keep teachers on the job
Columbia Missourian: Total ban on texting and driving
heard by Senate committee
SNL: Comments solicited by Missouri State Parks oppose
selling closed state parks X
KWMU: Ameren Missouri plans to close all coal ash
ponds but will leave the waste in place
Missourinet: Missouri Dept. of Agriculture makes
budget plea to cover cost of dicamba investigations; Some
pesticide applicators choose to use approved herbicide irresponsibly
Columbia Missourian: Moms Demand Action trying to stop
state campus carry bill
KC Star: Lawmakers discuss domestic abusers and gun
restrictions X
SNL: Fewer gun-free zones or fewer guns:
Missouri lawmakers split on what's safer X
Missourinet: Rep. Gina Mitten (D-Richmond Heights)
talks Florida shooting, gun control
Missourinet: Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City)
promotes resolution to make youth violence a health epidemic
KC Star editorial: Where is the Republican who will
take on the NRA? Blunt should flip-flop on gun control X
Washington Missourian editorial: Historic tax credits
work X
KC Star op-ed: Georgetown University coed wants
McCaskill and Blunt to support path to citizenship for illegals X
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Phill Brooks: Fiscal
notes matter
P-D letter: Webster Groves School Board's Jean Dugan
says state legislators spend too much time talking about charter schools
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Thursday, February 15
Fortune: Blunt warns Trump against starting reciprocal
battle on tariffs
Missourinet: McCaskill report questions $9 million
drug maker/pain management group relationships
The Missouri Times: Elijah Haahr returns from
Washington, D.C. after attending President Trump's infrastructure
rollout
Missourinet: Libertarian group launches ad blitz today
critical of McCaskill's vote against tax cuts
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: Monthly profile of independent
U.S. Senate candidate Craig O'Dear
SNL: Spence Jackson Memorial Scholarship Fund honors
memory of former Ashcroft/Bond/Blunt/Schweich communicator;
Thoughts from Jeff Layman, Joe Passanise, Scott Faughn, others
The Missouri Times: Missouri high court upholds former
Sen. Robin Wright-Jones' (D-St. Louis City) ethics violation fees
The Missouri Times: Investigators from the office of
St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner (D) expand Greitens probe,
begin interviewing lawmakers
Missourinet: Investigators from St. Louis City visit
Capitol as part of Greitens probe
St. Joseph News-Press: Greitens promotes tax plan in
St. Joseph
The Missouri Times: Missouri Municipal League welcomes
Ashcroft, legislators at annual conference
Missourinet: Transportation is a top priority for
Missouri Municipal League
SE
Missourian: Election officials give reasons why local systems are
protected from hacking; Thoughts from Cape Girardeau County Clerk
Kara Clark Summers, others
The Missouri Times: Senate utility bill filibuster
returns, compromise apparently no longer standing
SE
Missourian: Sen. Wayne Wallingford (R-Cape Girardeau) wants
teacher voice on State Board of Education, proposes bill
The Missouri Times: Marriage age bill encounters
resistance during perfection
The Missouri Times: Moon's bill seeks to refund sales
tax from assessments, Budget Committee passes two bills out of committee
JCNT: Bill seeks changes for state workers;
Measure would modify job classifications, offer managers more
flexibility
Columbia Missourian: Legislation would honor officers
killed in the line of duty
P-D: Student journalists would be shielded from
censorship under proposal
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers want to get rid of
residency rule used to attack Hawley
KWMU: Missouri Senate panel revives password
protection efforts
Missourinet: Missouri House committee looks at two
swatting bills after Wichita tragedy
Missourinet: Missouri lawmakers consider doing away
with vehicle safety inspections
Missourinet: Missouri mayors want a primary seat belt
law
St. Joseph News-Press: Tax cuts spur KCP&L rate
update case
P-D: In "#metoo" complaint era, Hawley and legislative
Republicans split on private handling of employment disputes
P-D editorial: Missouri lawmakers take Gov. Eric
Greitens to school on Board of Education
KC Star editorial: 2018 elections in Missouri could be
hacked
P-D op-ed: Institute for Justice attorney:
Missouri Legislature should not repeal Ferguson-inspired laws
JCNT letter: Saint Elizabeth septuagenarian questions
how McCaskill reconciles Catholic faith with support for abortion
P-D letter: Arnold sexagenarian says disgruntled
Americans must rise up, form alternative political parties, realize
every vote matters, etc.
KC Star letter: Kansas septuagenarian man dislikes
Missouri legislators' approach to gun laws; Kansas septuagenarian
woman says Star prints too many letters from men
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Wednesday, February 14
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill pushes for opioid
makers' disclosures X
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Conservation Federation of Missouri roles
Columbia Missourian: Greitens in favor of revoking
citizenship for Columbia man who aided terrorists
KCUR's Up to Date: Jason Rosenbaum, UMSL's Dave
Robertson talk with Steve Kraske about redistricting, gerrymandering,
and what lies ahead
The Missouri Times: Missouri School Boards'
Association hosts legislative day in Jefferson City; Thoughts
from MSBA's Melissa Randol, others
SNL: Attorneys spar for hours as judge weighs whether
to void Vandeven firing X
Columbia Missourian: Consent may soon be required as
part of statewide sexual education curriculum
The Missouri Times: Senate tax plan moves forward,
Greitens' version stalled
SE
Missourian: Missouri Senate panel passes bill to cut income
taxes, raise gas tax +
The Missouri Times: Audit of Dept. of Revenue from
Rep. David Gregory (R-St. Louis County) highlights $36 million in cost
savings
AP:
Missouri House votes to trim length of unemployment benefits
KC Star: KC restaurant owner's plea to
lawmakers: Let me put more felons to work X
The Missouri Times: Syringe access bill gets
bipartisan support in House
AP:
House advances needle-exchange bill
KC Star: Proposal would raise fee to file initiative
petition X
CDT: Report: Russia used fake KKK news to
instigate more fear during University of Missouri's 2015 race agitation X
JCNT: House approves Adrian's Island bill X
Columbia Missourian: Critics say Clean Water Law
revisions would allow for more pollution
The Missouri Times: Police pensions predicament in St.
Louis City heads to Jefferson City
KC Star: Proposal from Rep. Rusty Black
(R-Chillicothe) would honor home of sliced bread X
Columbia Missourian: Sean Spence seeks to build on
KOPN's 45-year history; Former Dem campaign manager/consultant
serves as general manager for public radio station
P-D editorial: Rep. Phil Christofanelli (R-St. Peters)
right to want to keep tabs on Missouri's plethora of special taxing
districts
SE
Missourian's Jon Rust: AT&T's John Sondag on impact of Trump
tax cuts on workers; Jason Smith on rural broadband +
Jensen:
Yes, I'm a senior citizen - I earned it; Response to KC Star
letter from sexagenarian complaining about use of term "seniors" +
The Missouri Times op-ed: Sen. Bob Dixon
(R-Springfield): You won't believe what's going on at the Capitol
- principled public service
KC Star op-ed: Rep. Lauren Arthur (D-Kansas
City): Forced arbitration keeps Missouri's employees in the dark X
P-D letter: Self-described political independent
frustrated by Post-Dispatch's chronic bias
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Tuesday, February 13
Missourinet: In response to GOP tax cuts, Tyson Foods
to give bonuses to 5,000 Missouri workers
TIME: Americans for Prosperity to run ads critical of
McCaskill for opposing tax cuts
USA Today: McCaskill says advocacy groups became
'cheerleaders for opioids'
P-D: McCaskill says top opioid manufacturers gave
millions to pain groups
SNL: Josh Hawley says Missouri 'would love to' host
military parade desired by President Trump X
KC Star: Silicon Valley entrepreneur, who gave Hawley
$300k for 2016 AG campaign, gave $5,400 in November for U.S. Senate
campaign; Peter Thiel has been longtime critic of Google X
SE
Missourian: Rebuilding roads, bridges, ports requires funding
partnership +
KWMU: What's next for the West Lake Landfill
KC Star: Unions renew 'Fight for $15' minimum wage
increase +
The Missouri Times: Jim Murphy running for Rep. Cloria
Brown's seat
The Missouri Times: Former Rep. Bill Otto to run
against GOP Rep. Tom Hannegan
The Missouri Times: Rodney Boyd, Kate Casas, Brian
Grace, Kelvin Simmons leave Dentons, start Nexus group
Missourinet: Galloway presents her budget to House
committee
SNL: Missouri GOP leaders agree (sort of) about tax
cuts, but the devil remains in the details X
Columbia Missourian: MU medical program, other higher
ed initiatives could lose all state funding
The Missouri Times: House votes down gubernatorial
priority police dog bill, advances labor and liquor legislation
P-D: Boosting penalties for those who assault police
dogs fizzles
AP:
Missouri House passes bill on public union dues
SNL: Bill that could delay state enforcement of water
pollution heard by Missouri lawmakers X
St. Joseph News-Press: Bill aims to keep opioids out
of the wrong hands X
Missourinet: Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston) wants sex
education to include curriculum about sexual harassment, violence and
consent
Missourinet: Legislature considers updating sex
offender registry
The Missouri Times: Chez Monet opens at the Capitol
KC Star editorial: 'The bridge to Kansas': Why
hasn't Missouri learned from Brownback's tax cut mistakes? X
The Missouri Times' Jennifer Bukowsky: Don't gift
medical marijuana to McCaskill
The Missouri Times op-ed: Liquor bill will hurt
Missouri, help Total Wine
SE
Missourian letter: Sexagenarian Democrat says Greitens'
effectiveness has ben hampered +
P-D letter: Easterseals Midwest CEO says legislators
should support fair play for nonprofit workers
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Monday, February 12
Missouri State Holiday - Lincoln Day
Missourinet: Bi-state group supporting illegal aliens
wants looser immigration policy; Mexican pobrecita says she lives
in fear thanks to President Trump
KC Star: Emanuel Cleaver weighs in on alien - living
illegally in Kansas - arrested by ICE; Congressman suggests
letter he sent to Trump might make a difference X
CDT: Nonprofits discuss impact of increase in federal
tax code's standard deduction X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Rep.-elect Mike
Revis (D-Fenton) talks special election win, labor issue; Panel
of Reps. Beck Ruth (R-Festus) and Nick Schroer (R-O'Fallon), Jeff
Roorda, ACLU's Jeffrey Mittman talks utility legislation, Revis' win,
"raise the age" legislation
The Missouri Times: Rep.-elect Mike Revis (D-Fenton)
talks his win on This Week in Missouri Politics
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Craig
Razer (D-Kansas City) talks with Mannies & Rosenbaum about impact
of tax cuts, MoDOT's budget needs, MONA, Mike Revis' win, more
Missourinet: Missouri state and county government
offices closed for Lincoln Day
Columbia Missourian: SOS Jay Ashcroft pushing for more
money to support broadband in libraries
P-D: Judge: Missouri taxpayers must pay for
transgender prisoners' hormone therapy
Washington Missourian: Greitens doesn't support
proposed gas tax increase suggested by 21st Century Committee X
Columbia Missourian: House bill would empower trained
campus faculty as protection officers
P-D: Decision on St. Louis school board and charter
school renewals among delays from state board standoff
Columbia Missourian: What is Native American art?
Missouri lawmakers trying to define it
Columbia Missourian: Bills address postpartum care
AP:
Missouri bill would mark official day for sliced bread
P-D: Advocacy group gives Missouri poor score for
traffic safety laws
Messenger: Will old Rock Island rail line get new life
as a trail? Missouri waits.
KC Star letter: Area sexagenarian says use of term
"seniors" is demeaning to olds X
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Sunday, February 11
P-D's Chuck Raasch: Profile: Presidential
candidate Jason Kander and campaign mastermind Abe Rakov
P-D: DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison joins Lacy Clay to
push for minimum wage; Comments from "Raise the Wage" leader
"Betty [sic] Douglas"
KSDK (St. Louis): "Raise the Wage" group rallies in
Ferguson; Bettie Douglas, age 60, explains travails of managing a
household budget
SNL: Speaker-to-be Elijah Haahr to attend
transportation roundtable with Trump and Pence tomorrow X
Washington Missourian: Greitens deflects questions
about affair X
St. Joseph News-Press: Schaaf opposes Greitens' tax
plan
P-D editorial: Lawmakers make it easier for monopolies
to raise electricity and gas rates
SNL op-ed: Eric Burlison: 'Right to work' gives
workers a choice X
KC Star op-ed: Nursing home CEO: Missouri
legislators should spend more money on nursing home
reimbursement; Also, greeting card industry must stop pushing
ageist retirement cards X
JCNT op-ed: Conservation Federation of Missouri's
Brandon Butler: Legislation aims to rob Missourians of
conservation resources X
P-D letter: Bellefontaine Neighbors conservative mocks
Post-Dispatch's liberal bent, stock market ignorance and glee over one
(1) Democratic state legislative win
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Saturday, February 10
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Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith votes against budget deal that
boosts federal spending, debt +
Drebes:
Kit Bond alum Judy Dungan appointed by President Trump to GSA post
KC Star: McCaskill blames state legislators for
women's incarceration rates X
St. Joseph News-Press: Man who stabbed bar employee to
death had a green card; Social media reports suggested Eliseo
Hernandez-Sebastian was an illegal alien X
Columbia Missourian: Hartzler bill would rename
Columbia post office after fallen soldier
AP:
Study: Failure of Mississippi River locks would cost millions
The Missouri Times: Greitens' defense in blackmail
investigation not pro bono
KC Star: Galloway warns state budget 'starting to walk
towards the bridge to Kansas' X
JCNT: Legislators: Broadband, higher state pay
are priorities X
KWMU: Growing discontent with state testing among
school superintendents
CDT: At forum, state reps say higher education funding
a priority X
KC Star: New UMKC chancellor promises 'something
spectacular' for Kansas City X
AP:
Missouri National Guard to partner with Israeli Home Front Command
West Plains Daily Quill: Quail Forever sponsors youth
hunt next Saturday; Rep. Shawn Rhoads (R-West Plains) donates
cash to cover cost of hunter caps and vests kids will receive
KC Star: NAACP's Nimrod Chapel to represent former
corrections officer seeking cash from Missouri Dept. of
Corrections; Latino man claims he was discriminated against due
to race, "adult attention deficit disorder" X
Washington Missourian editorial: Legislators, not
their interns, are the problem in Jefferson City; State
lawmakers, staff should sit through longer versions of anti-harassment
training X
KC Star's Tessa Weinberg: Legislature should pass LGBT
protections, but Republicans stand in the way
X
SNL letter: Rep. Donna Lichtenegger (R-Jackson):
McCaskill failed constituents on late-term abortion vote X
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Friday, February 9
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt talk budget deal
SNL: U.S. Rep. Billy Long talks Nunes memo, Mueller
probe X
AP:
Feds seek to revoke citizenship of man who illegally funneled money to
Iraq; Mubarek Hamed's "Islamic-American Relief Agency" was based
in Columbia, Mo.
P-D: Gateway Arch National Park just needs Trump's
signature to become official name
The Missouri Times: Senate finds compromise during
24-hour filibuster, perfect's Emery's utility bill
P-D: After 24-hour filibuster, Missouri Senate
endorses electricity rate deal sought by Ameren
AP:
Senators filibuster utility rates
Missourinet: Missouri Senate gives initial approval to
utility legislation
Missourinet: Governor faces media at Missouri Press
Association event
CDT: Greitens takes question from Post-Dispatch's
Christopher Ave over photo of woman, says topic has already been covered X
KWMU: As Greitens touts tax-cut proposal, he declines
to get behind fuel-tax increase
KWMU: Reactions to Greitens' proposal to trim higher ed
CDT: Galloway warns of dire budget possibilities in
'stress test' X
The Missouri Times: Galloway: We cannot grow our
way out of a budget hole
Missourinet: Galloway says state budget unstable,
vulnerable to economic downturn
SNL: Jeff Notes briefs: 'X-ray' of Missouri
workforce shows low morale; utility bill sparks filibuster X
JCNT: Administration looks to improve state employee
culture X
KWMU: Proposal would reduce time for seeking
personal-injury payout in Missouri
Missourinet: Rep. Bruce DeGroot (R-Chesterfield) says
bill would prevent 'double-dipping' from those seeking asbestos jackpots
The Missouri Times: Anne Precythe touts numerous
changes at Dept. of Corrections
Drebes:
St. Louis Business Journal endorses Wiemann proposal to put municipal
financial information on a public website
KC Star op-ed: Mizzou Professor Emeritus Art
Jago: Missouri has too many public universities. It must close
campuses. X
SNL op-ed: State Auditor Nicole Galloway:
Petition process plays vital role X
SNL letter: Springfield sexagenarian praises McCaskill
for holding town halls, wants GOP officials to do the same X
P-D letter: St. Louis County feminist angry at
Danforth over Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings from 1991
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Thursday, February 8
WDAF (Kansas City): "National Day of Action" for
supporters of illegal aliens draws crowd of six (6) outside McCaskill's
office
St. Joseph News-Press: Prosecutor says murderer's
potential illegal-alien status "isn't relevant ... not appropriate" X
KWMU: Hawley's allies believe views on human
trafficking will boost support from base; McCaskill calls
comments "stupid and ignorant"
KWMU: Rural ambulances make do while waiting for
Congress to renew funding
CDT: Saundra McDowell enters GOP race for state auditor X
Rosenbaum: Democrats rejoice after capturing Jefferson
County-based state House seat
KC Star's Jason Hancock: A Democrat flips a Missouri
House seat, and infighting ensues; Comments from veteran GOP
brain Scott Dieckhaus, "Rep. Peter Meridith [sic]"
P-D: Hand-wringing for Republicans, rejoicing for
Democrats in Missouri House special election
KMOV (St. Louis): Attorney representing man at center
of Greitens allegations being asked to stop seeking publicity
AP:
Report suggests improvements for Missouri veterans homes
Drebes:
Chappelle-Nadal, mad at Wallingford for signing West Lake Landfill
letter, gives Cape senator a receipt
The Missouri Times: Schaaf, Libla lead filibuster
against Emery's 'utility tax' bill
The Missouri Times: Committee hears Romine's
gubernatorial appointment reform bill, supporters say 'the process is
broken'
KWMU: Senate bill targets Greitens' appointments to
state boards and commissions
Columbia Missourian: Senate bill would restrict when
governor can make appointments
P-D: Critics pan how Greitens' cabinet member is paid
JCNT: Lawmakers again asked to require paper ballots X
Columbia Missourian: Bill from Rep. Rocky Miller
(R-Lake Ozark) on minors' abortion notification given preliminary
approval
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers consider higher
penalties for Missouri protesters blocking highways
The Missouri Times: Columbia Chamber of Commerce
supports easing work-related barriers for convicted felons
Columbia Missourian: Sen. Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia)
seeks to expand Safe at Home confidentiality program
Columbia Missourian: Bill would shrink window to seek
personal-injury payday
The Missouri Times: Eggleston's bill gives more towns
option to be non-election towns
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: February 7, 2018
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Department of
Conservation updating black bear research page; Department uses
ID tags to track movements of young animals X
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Women's Voices
Raised for Social Justice promote "Juvenile Injustice" campaign to
tackle schools' discipline of poorly-behaved black children
JCNT editorial: Proposal to scuttle House internship
program misguided X
P-D op-ed: Wash U. undergrads Anirudh Prahu and Ishaan
Shah: Republicans in Missouri won't expand Medicaid, so state
should make it easier for physicians to monitor care of pregnant women
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Wednesday, February 7
Washington Examiner: Blunt: Republicans,
Democrats "pretty close" to budget deal
Missourinet: Hartzler for budget bill, Cleaver against
it
SNL: Jeff Notes briefs: Aaron Willard joins
pro-Hawley PAC; Conservative Christian writer Jake Meador pushes
back against intentional misrepresentation of Hawley's
human-trafficking remarks X
KC Star: Jack Danforth, Jim Talent reiterate support
for Josh Hawley X
KWMU: EPA seeking public feedback on West Lake plan
The Missouri Times: Republicans handed first special
election defeat in over a decade amid Greitens scandal
P-D: Democrats snag Missouri House seat, Republicans
win 3 others in special election
SNL: Blind ambition: Visually-impaired man sees
himself running in GOP primary against Rep. Steve Helms
(R-Springfield); Deshon Porter failed to gather enough signatures
to run for city council in 2017, says Helms is doing a good job X
Drebes:
Initiative petitions filed for fuel tax
The Missouri Times: A look at grand jury's role in
Greitens case
The Missouri Times: Senate, Greitens offer competing
tax-overhaul plans
The Missouri Times: Steve Corsi drawing salary from
two state agencies
The Missouri Times: Americans for Farmers &
Families talks impact of NAFTA on Missouri; Comments from Casey
Guernsey, Missouri Corn Growers' Shane Kinne, Missouri Dairy
Association's Dave Drennan, others
AP:
Missouri schools get discounted price on tests after company's 2017
slip-up
KWMU: Latest attempt at charter-school expansion would
target failing schools, not districts
Missourinet: Rep. John Wiemann (R-O'Fallon) wants
chiropractic services offered to Medicaid recipients
The Missouri Times: Committee hears emotion-packed
testimony on Neely's medical marijuana bill
Columbia Missourian: Medical marijuana proposal
limited to those with terminal conditions
The
Missouri Times: Report suggests improvements for Missouri
veterans homes
Columbia Missourian: Bill from Rep. Dan Houx
(R-Warrensburg) would address lack of coroner training
KWMU: Senators propose limiting gifts from lobbyists
to $40 a day
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Missouri House looking at
abandoned aircraft bill
The Missouri Times: Credit unions converge on Capitol
SNL: After Greene County sheriff sued over jail, Rep.
Ken Wilson (R-Smithville) wants law changed X
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Nate Walker (R-Kirksville)
would recognize Grammy Award winner Rhonda Vincent, who grew up in
Missouri
JCNT editorial: Missouri State Penitentiary makes
progress X
P-D's Kevin McDermott and Chuck Raasch: Hawley now
facing whispers of buyers' remorse within party; Recap of Roll
Call, Politico, USA Today's original reporting
CDT op-ed: UM President Mun Choi: Universities
offer solutions to revive rural Missouri X
KC Star op-ed: D.C.-based think tank: Missouri
should keep juvenile offenders from a life of crime
St. Joseph News-Press letter: Local leader of
"Persisterhood" feminist group, a retired college English professor,
wants Greitens impeached X
P-D letter: Florissant sexagenarian dislikes
Missouri-American's request to Public Service Commission
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Roll Call: In Missouri's U.S. Senate race, Democrats
hope for GOP primary; Comments from Jack Cardetti, John Hancock,
Gregg Keller, others
USA Today: Kit Bond hopes Josh Hawley picks up
campaign pace, wants to see AG "gear up and get with it"
The Missouri Times: Ann Wagner rakes in $2 million in
re-election campaign
Drebes:
McCaskill comes out in favor of medical marijuana
The Missouri Times: Four House seats up for grab in
2018 special elections; Republicans 'cautiously optimistic'
Missourinet: Poor People's Campaign holds rally at
Capitol; Attendees include Missouri Faith Voices and
pro-illegal-immigrant group, with Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City)
making late appearance
SNL: Ex-husband of Gov. Greitens' former mistress
subpoenaed by St. Louis grand jury, attorney says X
P-D: Man who released Greitens audio says he was
subpoenaed to appear before grand jury
AP:
Attorney says grand jury is investigating Greitens' affair
The Missouri Times: Greitens looks to continue state
job cuts while bringing in jobs in other sectors
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport)
talks about Greitens' "tough sell" of tax cuts and budget cuts
St. Joseph News-Press: Proposal to cut historic tax
credits moves forward in Missouri Senate X
Missourinet: SOS Jay Ashcroft emphasizes the
importance of libraries during budget testimony
Missourinet: Ashcroft supports legislative proposal to
limit skyrocketing number of initiative petitions
P-D: Missouri taxpayers hit with $23 million in legal
payouts last year; Harris-Stowe State University issued $5.5
million judgment for discriminating against white woman
KWMU: Proposal from Sen. Jeanie Riddle (R-Mokane)
would crack down on protesters who block interstate highways
JCNT: Senate Judicary Committee hears 13 bills, takes
no action; Riddle seeks to protect drivers from humanoid speed
bumps X
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers question whether foster
system should speed search for biological parents
Missourinet: Missouri Senate committee could soon vote
on whether to restore whistleblower protections
AP:
Rep. Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson) wants House intern program suspended
Brownfield Ag News: Democratic bill would limit global
diversity of Missouri farmland ownership
Maryville Daily Forum: Missouri Department of
Conservation eliminates 6,500 feral hogs from Missouri in 2017
KWMU: New team leads regional fight against violent
crime; Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Stephen Ferrier,
U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen join urban leaders in attempt to decrease
homicides
SE
Missourian: NAACP President Nimrod Chapel speaks to Cape Rotary
Club, talks SB 43 and efforts to discourage travel and economic
activity in Missouri +
P-D editorial: Rep. T.J. Berry (R-Kearney) waxes silly
with bid to delegitimize weddings outside religious institutions
St. Joseph News-Press' Ken Newton: Missouri's
congressional districts are drawn in a relatively clean pattern X
Priddy:
Lawmakers should support Ron Richard-Dan Hegeman plan to restore
Capitol building
P-D letter: Green Park liberal applauds reporter Kevin
McDermott for "enlightening" anti-Hawley piece
P-D letter: Oakville sexagenarian, a product of
Mizzou's journalism school, dissects Kevin McDermott's anti-Hawley piece
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Monday, February 5
CNN: Senate seats most likely to flip in
November: McCaskill ranked #3
P-D: Illegal alien evades immigration authorities by
camping out in basement of Mapelwood church
KWMU: Activists react to EPA plan for West Lake
Landfill
AP:
'Right-to-work' holdouts face new efforts to change labor laws;
Missourians to vote on referendum in November
P-D: Democrats dream of beating back their
superminority status; A look at four local state rep races
Drebes: State
Treasurer Eric Schmitt joins adjunct faculty of SLU
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Sen. Bill Eigel
(R-Weldon Spring) talks tax cut for Missourians; Panel of Rep.
Bryan Spencer (R-Wentzville), Kate Casas, Sam Gladney and Jim Gwinner
talk tax proposals, Hawley and sex trafficking, more
The Missouri Times: Eigel talks tax cuts on This Week
in Missouri Politics
KWMU: Missouri's taxing districts facing increased
scrutiny
JCNT: Sen. Jeanie Riddle (R-Mokane) focused on cutting
boards and cutting government
Missourinet: Missouri legal expense fund legislation
to be heard in House committee Tuesday
CDT: Bill to allow students to use city transit headed
to vote
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Chamber of Commerce to
host transportation conference later this month
Columbia Missourian: State looks at increasing
penalties for assaulting or killing law enforcement animals;
Greitens announces support for proposal via Facebook without advising
bill sponsor Rep. Robert Cornejo (R-St. Charles)
AP:
Missouri National Guard brings training program to Joplin
Missourinet: Missouri Capitol cafeteria to reopen
Friday
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Tracy McCreery
(D-Olivette) targets conversion therapy
SNL: National library group promotes list of books
challenged in Missouri since 2014
SE
Missourian's Lucas Presson: McCaskill stands with far left on
abortion vote
The Missouri Times' Jennifer Bukowsky: A day-by-day
look at January and early February in Missouri politics
KC Star letter: Warrensburg woman dislikes Hawley's
comments on sex trafficking, urges AG to "get off his high horse"
P-D letter: Creve Coeur parent responds to piece on
districts' teacher diversity, says paper should be ashamed of reporter
Kristen Taketa's shoddy journalism and race agitation
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Sunday, February 4
KWMU: Lincoln Days report: Missouri Republicans
believe tax cuts are turning the tide
P-D: GOP unity on display at Lincoln Days
KC Star: Lincoln Day notes: Rasmussen speech,
media speculation on U.S. Senate primary, more
X
Columbia Missourian: NAACP quarterly meeting reveals
tensions; "Race Matters, Friends" activist gets lippy with
Executive Board Member Gov. Bob Holden
SNL: Former Springfield Councilman Craig Fishel (R) to
run for Kevin Austin's open state rep seat X
St. Joseph News-Press: Local state legislative
fundraising totals and their major donors: Tony Luetkemeyer,
Harry Roberts, Martin Rucker, Austin Montee, others X
JCNT: Missouri sets initiative petitions record - again X
SNL: Ashcroft wants U.S. Supreme Court to block other
states' gerrymandering rulings X
SNL: Missouri thinks a popular tax deduction has been
eliminated. Analysts aren't so sure. X
Columbia Missourian: Legislature considers work
requirement for able-bodied Missourians on food stamps
JCNT: Greitens' budget proposes more cuts in state
workforce X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) talks
about retirement benefit legislation aimed at helping soil and water
conservation district employees
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Department of
Conservation updating black bear research page
X
AP: House harassment investigations have cost
taxpayers $22,000; Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City)
accused Rep. Joshua Peters (D-St. Louis) of calling her "boo," other
abominations
Washington Missourian editorial: While not necessary
in Missouri, it's still a smart move for gun owners to obtain a permit
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Drug courts make sense X
SNL op-ed: Sen. Roy Blunt: Tax reform is paying
off for Missouri families X
P-D's Kevin Horrigan: Mocking Greitens via imaginary
"Eric Greitens Organization (EGO)" booster club; 68-year-old
columnist pokes at 23-year-old Parker Briden
SNL letter: Caucasoid coed says Greitens is "just
another white politician who successfully uses his powers to abuse
others" X
P-D letter: Webster Groves man interprets Hawley's
statement as suggesting sex trafficking began 50 years ago
P-D letter: Florissant woman accuses Missouri-American
Water of "weaponization of water," thinks legislators should be "fired"
for not opposing company
KC Star letter: KC sexagenarian attempts topical humor
on Missouri law and property taxes, with punchline involving lobbyists
and "asses" X
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Saturday, February 3
Roll Call: "Take Five" Q&A feature: Roy
Blunt on mental health funding, lessons learned as House Majority Whip,
more
KC Star: Blunt weighs in on House Intelligence
Committee memo; Junior senator says he doesn't plan to weigh in
on every McCaskill-Hawley campaign volley X
KWMU: Behind the Headlines: Missouri Coalition
for the Environment's Ed Smith on EPA's West Lake Landfill decision
KWMU: Former New York Times reporter speaks at Planned
Parenthood fundraiser, says liberal views never affected her reporting
The Missouri Times: Saundra McDowell announces bid for
state auditor
SNL: Attorney with local ties running for state auditor X
SNL: Local state legislative races start shaping
up: Senators-to-be Eric Burlison and Lincoln Hough, more X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of January 29, 2018
SE
Missourian: Local lawmakers: Greitens' budget needs
modification to protect universities' funding
+
Missourinet: MoDOT's Patrick McKenna weighs options
under President Trump's infrastructure plan
Drebes:
New House subcommittees
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri American seeks to grow
low-income payment model X
Columbia Missourian: Environmental advocates support
utility-rate legislation from Riddle, Emery
St. Joseph News-Press: Sen. Dan Hegeman (R-Cosby),
Rep. Pat Conway (D-St. Joseph) meet with social service agencies to
discuss funding X
St. Joseph News-Press: Airbnb starts paying taxes in
Missouri X
The Missouri Times: Bill easing restrictions on bingo
moving through Legislature
Missourinet: Missouri flu cases climb by 1,300 from
previous week
AP:
Lawsuits over herbicide dicamba to be heard in St. Louis
P-D editorial briefs: Short takes on GOP statewide
officials' Twitter bot followers, Parson and budget request, state parks
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: Josh Hawley uses human
trafficking to aid "religious right's idiotic culture wars" X
SNL op-ed: Manhattan Institute for Policy
Research: Keep reforming Missouri lawsuit abuse X
KC Star letter: Gallatin septuagenarian reads Sam
Graves' online poll, deduces that congressional "surveys" might
potentially contain loaded questions X
P-D letter: Illinois septuagenarian expresses anger at
Josh Hawley and "Judeo-Christian culture" over sexism
P-D letter: Creve Coeur sexagenarian attempts sarcasm
regarding Greitens' higher-ed cuts
P-D letter: Kentucky-based Consumer Energy
Alliance: Improve Missouri's electrical grid and limit rate
increases
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Friday, February 2
Missourinet: Blunt says funding local health services
could become incentive to pass federal budget
Drebes: Washington Post notes Missouri native Johnny
DeStefano's role as confidant to Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly
St. Joseph News-Press: Anti-Trump "resistance" group
hears from two congressional candidates; Henry Martin, Jacques
Chery will compete for chance to finish runner-up to Sam Graves in
November X
The Missouri Times: Pollster Scott Rasmussen to speak
tomorrow at Lincoln Days
The Missouri Times: EPA opts for partial excavation of
West Lake Landfill
Missourinet: Rep. Mark Matthiesen (R-Maryland Heights)
pleased with EPA decision
KWMU: EPA proposes partial removal of West Lake
Landfill nuclear waste
P-D: EPA wants to do partial excavation of
contaminants at West Lake Landfill site
Missourinet: Lacy Clay's communications staff pens
statement on West Lake Landfill and EPA decision
KWMU: Greitens holds all the cards in embargo of state
low-income housing tax credit
SNL: Senate showdown over Greitens' appointees sets
stage for Board of Education battle X
The Missouri Times: Senate does not confirm MHDC
appointees, but questions still remain
Missourinet: Senate declines to take action on
Greitens appointees
KWMU: Greitens seeks funding boost for college
scholarships while cutting higher ed budget
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia)
says rising tuition costs could become a crisis
Delta
Dunklin Democrat: Malden mayor says news of college campus
closings devastates small town +
SNL: Under Greitens' budget, deep cuts to school
busing remain X
Columbia Missourian: Senators express doubt about
governor's tax plan
KWMU: Lawmakers send human trafficking bill to Greitens
Missourinet: Legislature passes human trafficking bill
KWMU: Missouri lawmakers inch closer to getting more
bills ready to be voted on
SNL: 'Cliff effect' bill from Rep. Crystal Quade
(D-Springfield) receives support despite witness' 15-minute
anti-capitalist screed X
P-D: Romine's proposal would give arbitrators more
power in employment disputes
SE
Missourian: Juvenile officer says juvenile-justice bill would
burden counties with costs +
The Missouri Times: Ag committee approves of bill
ensuring right to use working animals
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Week of January 31, 2018
P-D: At public hearings, PSC receives feedback on
water rates; Comments from Missouri-American Water's Brian
Russell, others
Columbia Missourian: Using shackles on incarcerated
women in labor addressed in Nasheed's bill
Columbia Missourian: Sexual assault care inconsistent
throughout state, so nurse examiners lead the way
P-D editorial: EPA's solution to West Lake will leave
region exposed to nuclear dangers
KC Star editorial: How many billions of dollars does
it take to keep Missouri prisoners healthy? X
P-D editorial: Hawley ignores centuries of human
trafficking in his spin on morality
KC Star op-ed: Association of American Railroads' CEO
Ed Hamberger: McCaskill and Blunt are right - Missouri's economy
needs a modernized NAFTA X
P-D Editorial Page Editor Tod Robberson: Eric
Greitens, defender of freedom and phone app installation dates
KC Star op-ed: College student government leaders
oppose cuts to higher ed X
KC Star's Tessa Weinberg: Greitens' social media
should be subject to open-records law X
P-D letter: Ellisville man expresses outrage over
Parson's request for "chauffeur"
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P-D: Post-Dispatch parent Lee Enterprises announces Q1
earnings, says company benefits from Trump tax package
St. Joseph News-Press: Local employees reaping
benefits of Trump tax cuts
AP:
Trump's plan calls for states to pay for most of infrastructure
SNL: Springfield-area Republicans in Congress are safe
after train crashes en route to GOP retreat
Missourinet: Vicky Hartzler, Ann Wagner both unharmed
after train crash in Virginia
KWMU: Hawley's campaign money for U.S. Senate lags
well behind McCaskill's total
Columbia Missourian: MoDOT faces poor employee morale,
strained resources
The Missouri Times: Parson corrects Post-Dispatch's
mischaracterization of budget request for 'personal driver'
AP:
Greitens' tax cuts will shift burden to businesses
Missourinet: State budget proposal includes using
consultants to find efficiencies
The Missouri Times: Senate filibusters the withdrawing
of Greitens' appointees
Missourinet: Senate holds lengthy debate on whether to
ditch Greitens' appointees
P-D: Greitens appointees subject of Senate debate in
Wednesday night marathon
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Jeanie Riddle (R-Mokane)
praises Greitens' appointees, talks legislation to protect businesses
from frivolous lawsuits
KC Star: Greitens' attorneys say ban on using
text-erasing app would violate free-speech rights
P-D: University presidents sound alarm to lawmakers
over governor's proposed budget cuts
Columbia Missourian: Finding additional cuts a
daunting task for state universities
CDT: Bill would revise tuition caps at Missouri's
public universities
Columbia Missourian: Senate bill would raise tuition
cap at public universities statewide
The Missouri Times: Missouri Alliance for Historic
Preservation study highlights benefits of historic tax credits
Missourinet: Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis City)
hopeful about human trafficking legislation: "This is a human
rights issue and this is a civil rights issue"
KC Star: In December speech to pastors, Hawley
attributed sex-trafficking epidemic to decline in moral values
Drebes:
Sen. Bob Onder (R-Lake Saint Louis) pounds Anthem for "unconscionable
policy of denying ER claims," more
The Missouri Times: Charter school bill from Rep.
Rebecca Roeber (R-Lee's Summit) packs hearing room
Missourinet: House to consider 'paycheck protection'
bill
Fulton Sun: Compromise bill addresses prevailing wage
concerns
St. Joseph News-Press: Senate bill would permit video
lottery games
Columbia Missourian: Pair of proposed bills seek to
stop flow of opioids
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Marceline students win DESE
contest for anti-opioid video
Columbia Missourian: New legislation would cut special
state fund for the blind
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers are asked to ban state
contracts for supporters of Israeli boycott
Missourinet: Missourians will not be voting on
daylight savings time proposal in November
The Missouri Times: Bill from Rep. Bill Reiboldt
(R-Neosho) puts regulation of seeds, chemical fertilizers in hands of
agriculture agencies
KWMU: Galloway to review St. Louis City spending
policies
KC Star editorial: Who should take the blame for
Harley-Davidson closing its Kansas City plant? Eric Greitens.
SNL op-ed: CEO of old folks' home: Missouri
should spend more money on Medicaid
P-D op-ed: Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-University
City): Legislators who oppose action on West Lake Landfill
perpetuate "genocide"
P-D letter: St. Albans septuagenarian opposes new 529
rule, says it will help Missouri kids attend private schools
P-D letter: Eureka sexagenarian expresses anger over
Greitens' salary, opposes use of consultants to find efficiencies
P-D letter: Ballwin sexagenarian says Greitens' budget
shows Republicans only care about the rich
P-D letter: Creve Coeur sexagenarian mocks Greitens
for Harley-Davidson leaving Missouri
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