Monday, March 31
Washington Post: Missouri's Jack Oliver among
influential Republicans working to get Jeb Bush into 2016 presidential
campaign
Iowa State Daily: McCaskill gives advice to women in
politics, says things have gotten better for the fairer sex
Kraske: "BuzzChatter" daily quote analysis:
Thoughts on quotes from various articles (McCaskill, tax-cut opponents)
found here
AP: Clay/Cleaver/GOP redistricting map helped protect
incumbents; Sen. Scott Rupp (R-Wentzville) says Missouri is a red
state, with urban KC & STL forming "two blue earrings"
Joplin Globe's Susan Redden: Briefs: McCaskill
subcommittee to hold hearing on GM; 26-year-old college student
seeking to fill Dem ballot slot against Billy Long
KWMU: Republicans hope Ashcroft's son can keep Lamping
district away from presumptive Senator-in-waiting Jill Schupp (D-Creve
Coeur)
The Missouri Times: Whispering Gallery
Tournament: Round 2 voting opens: Schmitt vs. Lamping,
Kinder vs. Aycock, many more
AP: Today is Obamacare enrollment deadline;
Callers should be prepared for long wait times
KMBC: Video: Affordable Care Act "very
unpopular" in Missouri; Missouri Chamber's Brendan Cossette
discusses alternate proposal
AP: New estimate puts cost of Kraus' tax cut bill at
$620M
AP: Analysis: Property tax relief fades at
Missouri Capitol
P-D: Right-to-work vote in Missouri House could have
narrow margin
AP: Missouri Senate could resume debate on criminal
code
KMOX: Missouri lawmakers reconsider food stamps for
drug felons
SNL: State lawmakers fight Common Core
SE
Missourian: Anti-Common Core meeting draws 117; Concerned
Women for America rep explains opposition
P-D: Strange bedfellows emerge in Noranda rate fight
KWMU: PSC hears arguments on Labadie coal ash landfill
AP: Impeachment efforts referred to House Judiciary
Committee
P-D editorial: Dan River spill haunts Ameren's plan
for new coal-ash landfill
P-D's Deb Peterson: Proposal from Rep. Mike Colona
(D-St. Louis) gives legislators another chance to rethink approach to
gay marriage
P-D letter: "Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice"
issues warning to Medicaid-expansion opponent John Lamping: Hell
hath no fury like a woman scorned
P-D letter: Ameren's Ken Varel: Noranda aims to
shift costs to Ameren's other customers
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Sunday, March 30
CDT: University of Missouri Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin
visits D.C., stops by Missouri delegation's offices X
Washington Missourian: Blunt to deliver commencement
speech at East Central College
Drebes: Who's the biggest winner in Missouri candidate
filing? Soon-to-be-re-elected Congressman Jason Smith.
Joplin Globe's Andra Bryan Stefanoni: Social media
changing local political campaigns; Brief mention of McCaskill,
Blunt Twitter accounts X
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: City to EPA: Stop and correct the
science; City of Kennett's attorney says feds are using an
impossible water standard
AP:
Tax-cut foes - labeled "The Flimsy 15" - draw little primary opposition
Missourinet:
Senate tax cut bill ready for passage
CDT: Rep. John Wright (D) continues crusade to ban
lobbyist gifts; Rep. Chris Kelly (D) says dinners play an
important role in building relationships, says sporting events "tend to
be more of a guy thing" X
SNL's Jonathan Shorman: Scenes from a German
Restaurant: The room was "softly-lit," the conversation was
"mostly chit-chat," and Rex Sinquefield has "more money than most can
possibly imagine" X
P-D: Missouri is no longer the meth capital of the U.S.
KC Star: Marijuana advocates make case for Missouri
legalization; Retired man says he needs pot for glaucoma relief,
was busted with 41 plants of "Grandpa's medicine" +
P-D: UMSL study examines Missouri welfare
mechanisms; Distributing handouts via debit cards - rather than
checks - leads to decrease in burglarly, larceny and assault
KC Star: Opponents of Missouri death penalty say they
are cautiously optimistic; Pro-death penalty AG Chris Koster (D)
declines to comment +
Washington Missourian: Missouri Public Service
Commission hearings on Ameren coal ash landfill begin tomorrow
AP: Lawmakers consider funding boost for 911
KWMU: Statewide radio network eases communication for
Missouri State Highway Patrol, city cops
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Blunt is right - The
"Revitalize American Manufacturing and Innovation Act" is needed X
P-D editorial: Health care industry bleeding jobs as
Missouri Legislature sleeps
KC Star op-ed: EPA Regional Administrator Karl
Brooks: Clean Water Act benefits Missouri +
CDT op-ed: Show-Me Institute's Patrick Ishmael:
Medicaid expansion is wrong move X
P-D letter: Ann Wagner is right - stop punishing small
businesses
P-D letter: Missouri Republicans are for sale;
It's going to take Democrats like John Wright to save Missouri
P-D letter: Illinois resident responds to editorial,
weighs in on how Missouri should handle its reporting of alleged sexual
assaults on campus
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Saturday, March 29
SNL: McCaskill hopes to motivate young women;
Senator weighs in on 'ban bossy' campaign, overcoming criticism she was
'too pretty' for politics X
P-D: White House responds to Anheuser-Busch PR
campaign, says it lacks authority to make Opening Day a national holiday
The Missouri Times: MU law prof and Hobby Lobby lawyer
Joshua Hawley talks about his Missouri Liberty Project
Kraske: In auditor race, Dems failed on purpose;
Ds don't want Koster-Hanaway showdown, prefer to face the "herky-jerky
... Barney Fife"-like Tom Schweich +
P-D: Jury awards $1.14 million in age discrimination
suit against Missouri Department of Public Safety
JCNT: Liberal D.C.-based group says Missouri shouldn't
follow Kansas' tax-cut example X
KWMU: Missouri Chamber, Regional Chamber continue push
for Medicaid expansion; Comments from SSM CEO William Thompson
Missourinet: Oral chemotherapy bill will lead to
cheaper cancer treatment coverage
Missourinet: Senate Budget Chairman Kurt Schaefer
(R-Columbia) considers two-tier budget approach by House
Drebes:
A list of bills in the Missouri Senate graveyard
KWMU: African Methodist Episcopal Church, Catholic
Church leaders send area union boss Bob Soutier an anti-right-to-work
letter
Washington Missourian: Counties may get more inmate
funds from state
KWMU: Video: An hour of discussion on Missouri
death penalty from legal, ethical angles
SE
Missourian: Remy, area beagle-terrier, joins Puppies for Parole
program; Officials hope he comes out a good boy +
P-D: Rep. Mike Colona (D-St. Louis) wants to revisit
state ban on same-sex marriage
AP: Colona proposes end to gay marriage ban
KWMU: 'Take Back St. Louis Initiative' heads back to
the courtroom; Comments from ACORN, Peabody attorney Jane Dueker
P-D: ACORN plans anti-Peabody rally for Sunday;
Organizer says protest will be "kind of festive, with some music"
Joplin Globe: Roundabout construction details subject
of MoDOT public meeting X
Joplin Globe editorial: House Republicans strip
funding for Kander's Elections Integrity Unit; Senate should
restore funding X
KC Star editorial: Nixon should listen to Rep. Chris
Kelly (D-Columbia), get on board with criminal code overhaul +
P-D editorial: Cabinet of Interfaith Partnership of
Greater St. Louis joins unions in opposing right-to-work
Washington Missourian editorial: Criminals, bad
schools tough for St. Louis City leaders to overcome as population
escapes via I-70; Still, city leaders shouldn't give up
Washington Missourian editorial: Annual local-election
promo: Voters should be informed, newspapers are still important,
etc.
SNL op-ed: League of Women Voters opposes GOP voter ID
proposals X
Shelly: Medicaid debate shows Missouri Republians are
heartless +
JCNT letter: Republicans should show compassion, love
for all citizens by voting for Medicaid expansion X
CDT letter: 'Pro-life' Missouri legislators put parks
funding over people X
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Friday, March 28
Politico's Juana Summers: Missouri Dems' thin bench
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt: St. Joseph has
attributes for manufacturing hub program X
JCNT: Panel discusses marijuana proposals X
Drebes:
Linda Rallo, formerly of Cole McNary's legislative office and currently
of Missouri Wonk, running for alderman in Town and Country
The Missouri Times: Whispering Gallery
Tournament: First-round results
CDT: Schweich tax credit audit highlights KC penthouse
and St. Louis residence X
Missourinet: House sends $26.6 billion budget to Senate
AP: Missouri House approves $26.6 billion budget
Missourinet: Senate moves on $400 million in bonds
AP: Senate endorses plan for building bonds
CDT: Senate gives tax-cut bill first-round approval X
P-D: Nixon dislikes tax-cut plan, pushes for tax
credit overhaul
AP: Nixon again pushes tax-credit curbs
The Missouri Times: Rep. Kent Hampton (R-Malden), one
of 15 GOP reps who sided with Nixon on tax-cut override, to support
Schmitt's tax cut plan
Missourinet: Rep. Chris Kelly (D-Columbia) calls for
passage of criminal code, encourages Nixon to find courage to overcome
"political timidity"
P-D: Rep. Chris Kelly speaks out against hold up of
criminal code revision
The Missouri Times: Bill to close tobacco loophole
leaves committee
AP: Missouri Senate passes voting-machine phaseout
St. Joseph News-Press: Voting officials embrace paper
trail X
JCNT: Senate advances local pensions bill X
AP: Missouri bill increases fines for failure to yield
AP: Missouri House approves motorcycle sales bill
AP: Missouri bill could allow registry of sick or
disabled residents
Missourinet: Rep. Mike Colona (D-St. Louis) files
amendment to allow same-sex marriage in Missouri
AP: Missouri route announces for wind-energy
transmission project
KC Star: Dispute could lead to higher rates for many
Missouri customers of KCP&L +
AP: City of St. Louis sends letter to PSC opposing
Noranda's request for rate cut
The Missouri Times: Ameren releases financial data for
2013; Comments from VP Warren Wood, FERAF, legislators
P-D: New Ameren customers may need deposit
The Missouri Times: Doorman profile: Senate
doorkeep Marty Drewel
Washington Missourian: State rep misspeaks at Lincoln
Day event, confuses names of liberal black congresswomen; Rep.
Paul Curtman (R-Pacific) calls Sheila Jackson Lee "Maxine Waters"
P-D: Normandy schools are in a holding pattern;
Comments from Superintendent Tyrone McNichols
P-D: Giving low-performing schools to outside
operators draws fire at hearing
P-D editorial: The public's health demands a fix for
Missouri tobacco loophole
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Payday loan trap
awaits real reform X
Priddy: Idea: Require licensing of tax preparers
SNL op-ed: Response to Show-Me Institute piece on
minimum wage X
P-D op-ed: Teacher: I believe in Common Core
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch and Missouri Democrats won't
say where Medicaid-expansion money will come from
Washington Missourian letter: Area residents should
speak out against Ameren at DNR hearing April 8
KC Star letter: Gun people should give up their
nullification crusade +
P-D letter: Red-light camera opponents are crybabies
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Thursday, March 27
Reuters: McCaskill panel sets April 2 hearing on GM
auto recalls
KC Star: Blunt, Mayor Sly James to tour Port of Kansas
City in the West Bottoms tomorrow
SNL: Doug Harpool 'humbled' at being confirmed for
judgeship for Senate, says he appreciates McCaskill's encouragement
SE
Missourian: Obamacare deadline is Monday; Comments from
local navigators
CDT: Former chairman of Ashland-based bank sentenced
for taking TARP funds; Darryl Lane Woods purchased luxury
condominium in Florida
Rosenbaum: For election junkies, 2014 is a great big
bust; Exceptions include GOP primary for Rupp's seat, Roorda vs.
Wieland in JeffCo
SE
Missourian: Show-Me Cannabis town hall meeting draws 50
KWMU: Missouri Hospital Association, Missouri Chamber
say hospitals will face job losses, service cuts without Medicaid
expansion
JCNT: Missouri Hospital Association survey:
Funding cuts have led to hospital reductions
SNL: Missouri Chamber: 1,000 hospital jobs cut
in 6 months
Missourinet: MHA, MO Chamber push for Medicaid
expansion; Senate Republicans say it's DOA
KWMU: Inside the push for Medicaid expansion:
Comments from Rep. Jay Barnes (R), woman with lost-coverage story,
Missouri Foundation for Health, MHA
P-D: Missouri Senate endorses tax cut, ignores Nixon's
demands
AP: Senate endorses new income tax plan
AP: Missouri Senate endorses unemployment change
AP: House endorses welfare legislation
P-D: House rejects measure providing Normandy $1.5M to
finish school year
JCNT: Lawmakers asked to require more 'Common Core'
study
CDT: House cuts Missouri College Advising Corps
appropriation
P-D: Union rally draws hundreds; Koster, Kander,
Zweifel, Hummer, Rep. Anne Zerr (R-St. Charles) speak against right to
work
KWMU: Unions rally against right to work; Koster
jabs Tim Jones, Tom Schweich
AP: Unions rally against right to work bill
JCNT: Nurses union visits Capitol, pushes
patient-lifting bill
P-D: Breastfeeding mothers could opt out of jury duty
in Missouri
Missourinet: Lawmakers offer messages of support to
sponsor of breastfeeding bill; Rep. Rory Ellinger (D-University
City) is battling liver cancer
JCNT: Committee hears testimony on abortion-related
bill
Missourinet: House wants to block federal wood-burning
regulations
AP: House opposes federal wood stove regulations
AP: Koster silent on Oklahoma execution ruling
KWMU: Death penalty debate: St. Louis County
Prosecutor Bob McCulloch (D) vs. Sister Helen Prejean
AP: Court asked to halt joint taxes from gay couples
KWMU: Opponents seek court order to block same-sex
couples filing joint tax returns
Drebes: Jessica Machetta leaves Missourinet for
Missouri Lawyers Weekly
SNL editorial: Revamp criminal code now
The Hill op-ed: Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer: Relieve
the burden on regional banks
Washington Post's Joe Davidson: More frequent
automated security clearance checks likely in defense and other
agencies; Comments from McCaskill
P-D's Todd Frankel: Does Brian Nieves, fiery state
senator, know how boring the county recorder job is?
SNL op-ed: Sen. Ryan Silvey (R): Medicaid needs
more than a 'no' vote
Shelly: Missouri Senate on Medicaid expansion:
Go find something else to do
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Missouri loses
millions by supporting cheap cigarettes
KC Star's Diuguid: The rich get richer and the poor
get poorer: Four-paragraph piece opposing payday loans
P-D letter: In support of Dems Scott Sifton, John
Wright and their lobbyist-gift-restriction crusade
P-D letter: Wright's proposal should go even further -
legislators who accept any gift whatsoever should be prosecuted
P-D letter: It is appalling that Missouri legislators
received less than $1M in gifts last year
P-D letter: Retirement system is not root of the
problem in urban schools
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Wednesday, March
26 SOS
Candidate Filing List
Missourinet: Dems punt on auditor race;
Interview with Missouri Democratic Party Executive Director Roy Temple
AP: Auditor Tom Schweich draws no opponent
KC Star: Schweich faces no Democratic opposition +
P-D: Filing overview: Scheich unopposed;
Congressional cakewalks; Schatz to take Nieves' seat;
Three-way GOP primary for Rupp's seat
SE
Missourian: No primary opposition for Jason Smith;
Reality-show crooner Neal Boyd files in GOP primary for Hodges' state
rep seat +
JCNT: Mid-Missouri legislative races finalized X
KMOX: Manufacturers: EPA wood-burning stove
regulations are unrealistic; McCaskill wants EPA to come up with
affordable method
SNL: McCaskill pushes Missouri's Doug Harpool for
federal judgeship X
Drebes: The case for marijuana: Bryan Cave
Strategies' Matt Jessee moves family to Denver for access to pot strain
that will help daughter's epilepsy
KWMU: Nixon names Sen. Scott Rupp (R-Wentzville) to Missouri Public Service Commission
P-D: Term-limited Sen. Scott Rupp gets job on Missouri
PSC
AP: Rupp appointed to PSC
Missourinet: House gives initial approval to FY15
budget
The Missouri Times: House begins budget passage
KWMU: Budget debate includes talk of Medicaid
expansion, Ozark National Scenic Riverways
AP: Missouri House keeps funding for park takeover
CDT: Medicaid bills get hearings; Schaefer
pledges to help filibuster expansion in Senate
X
AP: GOP senators vow to block Medicaid expansion
Missourinet: Medicaid expansion supporters optimistic
despite recent rejections
AP: Missouri lawmakers hear pleas to expand Medicaid
The Missouri Times: Medicaid expansion proponents tell
personal stories to lawmakers
AP: House rejects funding for Medicaid expansion
P-D: Missouri House hears fiscal and moral arguments
for Medicaid expansion
KWMU: Schweich casts critical eye toward historic
preservation tax credit
P-D: Schweich's audit: Missouri spending on
historic preservation being siphoned off by middlemen
CDT: Schweich says Missouri historic tax credit
program too expensive X
KC Star: Schweich's audit criticizes historic tax
credit program +
KWMU: Rapist/murderer Jeffrey Ferguson executed;
Father of victim praises Gov. Jay Nixon's dedication in bringing killer
to justice
AP: Nixon expresses sympathy to family of murdered
girl, says "my decision today upholds (jury's) appropriate sentence"
Missourinet: Victim's family speaks out after Ferguson
is executed; "It's over, thank God"
P-D: Man who abducted, raped and murdered 17-year-old
girl is executed; Columnist Bill McClellan observes injection,
speculates that Ferguson felt no pain
AP: Jeffrey Ferguson executed
AP: Senate endorses tax exemption for older cars
The Missouri Times: Plan forming for charter school in
midtown Kansas City
AP: Documents made public in Ameren rate complaint
The Missouri Times: Whispering Gallery Tournament
Round 1 update: Current vote tallies; Bonus:
contestants' adorable baby/pet videos photos, memes
P-D editorial: GOP senators are scared of
Medicaid-expansion debate, want it to go away
P-D editorial cartoonist R.J. Matson: Five white
males, bearing no resemblance to Lamping, Schaefer, Emery, Brown or
Lager, are frightened by a teddy bear
SNL letter: Nieves' pit-bull bill should be pulled X
P-D letter: St. Louis woman offers alternative view to
Sunshine Week's rote editorial blather: We live in a republic,
not a democracy
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Tuesday, March
25 Voting
begins in The Missouri Times' Politico-vs.-Politico NCAA-style
Whispering Gallery Tournament
KWMU: Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer on political past, GOP
role and odd re-election opponents
P-D: McCaskill: Hillary Clinton and I are not
"besties"
KC Star: High court to hear Hobby Lobby case;
Blunt to attend oral arguments today +
CDT: U.S. Supreme Court to hear Hobby Lobby
case; Lawyer Josh Hawley teaches constitutional law at MU X
AP: Candidate filing ends today
P-D: Lamping says Jay Ashcroft, son of former Missouri
governor, will run in GOP primary for state Senate seat
Washington Missourian: Another candidate files to run
for Franklin County Recorder of Deeds
KWMU: Sen. Brian Nieves (R-Washington) files for
Franklin County Recorder of Deeds
Drebes:
Cynthia Davis allegedly turns Republican again, now helping Vicki
Schneider in state Senate primary
KWMU: House Budget Chair Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood)
files for St. Louis County executive
P-D: House Budget Chair Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) seeks
GOP nomination for St. Louis County executive
The Missouri Times: Lobbyist profile: Catalyst
Group's Danny Pfeifer
KWMU: Schweich's audit calls for closer scrutiny for
federal aid money
CDT: North Carolina NAACP leader to rally with
"Columbia Faith Voices;" "Moral Monday" movement engages in civil
disobedience in support of Medicaid expansion, against voter ID laws,
etc. X
KWMU: Second-half legislative preview: Medicaid
expansion, criminal code overhaul, school transfers, more
Missourinet: House to take up Budget debate today
AP: House OKs incentives for businesses to come to
Missouri
KMOX: Audio: Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Glendale)
talks about proposed tax cuts
AP: Missouri GOP senators vow to block Medicaid
expansion
SNL: Senators vow to block Medicaid expansion X
Missourinet: Rep. Noel Torpey (R-Independence), House
Republican Medicaid plan sponsor, undeterred by Senate Republican
comments
The Missouri Times: Right to work faces uphill
battle; Anonymous GOP source takes shot at Tim Jones
Missourinet: Nixon throws cold water on criminal code
rewrite; Sens. Jolie Justus (D), Bob Dixon (R) say Nixon hasn't
talked to them, say they would have appreciated heads-up
SNL: Criminal code revision effort stalls X
AP: Senate endorses changes to voting machines
AP: Missouri House OKs Sunday motorcycle sales
KWMU: Facts on upcoming execution
AP: Missouri readies for 5th execution in 5 months
P-D: Odor logs show rise in complaints about Bridgeton
Landfill
KC Star editorial: Insurance coverage is good for
everybody. Sign up.
JCNT editorial: Missouri marks achievement in mental
health X
P-D editorial: University of Missouri still dragging
its feet on sex-assault policy
Joplin Globe editorial: Sunset of Sunshine Week piece X
SE
Missourian editorial: End-of-filing-period story: Citizens
who put their name on the ballot are appreciated, voters should be
educated, etc. +
Joplin Globe op-ed: Missouri Supreme Court Chief
Justice Mary Russell: Rural women lawyers served as pioneers X
P-D's Nicklaus: Saying goodbye to a modest Main Street
conservative: Murray Weidenbaum
KC Star op-ed: Former state Sen. Tim Green (D-Spanish
Lake, now living in St. Charles): Right to work is wrong for
Missouri +
CDT's Waters: Right to work won't pass this year X
SE
Missourian letter: Missouri Association for Social Welfare's
Walter Wildman: Correcting misstatements on Medicaid expansion +
P-D letter: Response to Planned Parenthood's letter on
abortion protesters
JCNT letter: Noranda request would harm utility
customers X
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Monday, March
24 The Missouri Times' Whispering Gallery Tournament - Same
format as FiredUp's 2011-12 series, new participants
SNL: Blunt bill to revive manufacturing sector gains
steam in Senate X
Joplin Globe's Susan Redden: Candidate in 7th
Congressional primary says he's not "stereotypical Democrat," supports
gun rights; Ruzicka's wife to challenge impeachment supporter
Mike Moon X
AP: Missouri residents wary of flood insurance rates
St. Joseph News-Press: Obamacare deadline a week away X
P-D: New rules on hiring disabled workers, vets go
into effect for federal contractors; Local reaction
AP: GOP senators divided on Missouri tax cut plan
AP: Missouri House to take up state operating budget
KC Star: Missouri lawmakers debate casting Sunshine
Law on themselves +
St. Joseph News-Press: Proposal from Rep. Paul Wieland
(R-Imperial) could aid port's development X
Missourinet: Schools to decide how many snow days to
make up; State has some makeup requirements
P-D: Hazelwood settlement raises questions about
rights of expelled students; 13-year-old sold drugs at school,
now district is paying for his alternative education
KWMU: School-attendance advocacy series, Part 3:
In Riverview Gardens, more eyes on empty desks
AP: Missouri's Conservation and Transportation
departments schedule 'trash bash' effort for April
SE
Missourian: Solar power gains popularity among Cape Girardeau
businesses; New applications expected to drop off after Ameren
meets rebate cap +
Brownfield Ag News: Ag Director Richard Fordyce says
farmers are ready for spring, offers thoughts on overall prospects for
Missouri agriculture
AP: Missouri officials report 20 suspected arson
wildfires
SNL: Promotional piece on News-Leader website
redesign; Paper says "things will definitely be different around
here" for paywall-restricted site X
KC Star: Privacy policy for KC Star website updated +
P-D editorial: St. Louis district right to try a bold
step to lift its failing schools; Superintendent Kelvin Adams
seeks help from non-profits
St. Joseph News-Press: MoDOT developing statewide
freight plan; Taxpayer input indicates desire to promote jobs and
economic development X
SE
Missourian op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's Blake Hurst responds to
HSUS/Wes Shoemyer criticisms; Former state senator "a couple of
centuries behind the curve" +
P-D letter: Rise Community Development's Mark
Stroker: Return on tax credits is better than other
publicly-financed projects
P-D letter: Pro-life response to Planned Parenthood's
Paula Gianino: Pro-choice leader criticizes pro-life forces, but
cleverly avoids the word "abortion"
KC Star letter: Independence woman ashamed of
Missouri's dog-breeding status, offers sarcastic, "Thanks a lot, Gov.
Jay Nixon" +
P-D letter: Time for progressive election
overhaul: Same-day registration, looser voter requirements,
public funding of campaigns, etc.
JCNT letter: Amend the Missouri Constitution to make
it harder to amend the Missouri Constitution
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Sunday, March 23
The Hill: McCaskill among Senate Dems asking Obama to
consult with Congress on Iran
KOLR: McCaskill seeks to curb sexual assaults on
campus; Comments from Missouri State official
KC Star: With a week left in open enrollment period,
Obamacare canvassers comb neighborhoods +
P-D: Insurance penalty more than many expect;
Comments from local Obamacare-registration experts
P-D: Uninsured? Calculate your tax penalty
CDT: Former McCaskill campaign worker Nate Irvin seeks
Dem nomination to challenge Vicky Hartzler X
SE
Missourian: Officeholders find late-arriving opponents;
Jason Smith, several area electeds face no serious opposition +
P-D: In weekly radio address, Obama promotes Pi
pizzeria chain for wage policy
KC Star: Conundrum: Preserve a mental health
patient's 2nd Amendment rights, or protect the public? +
Hannibal Courier-Post: Marion County Commission
withdrawing support for power line
Washington Missourian: Drop in meth labs continues in
Franklin County, state; Sgt. Jason Grellner attributes drop to
pseudoephedrine prescription requirement
P-D: Last of Blumeyer housing projects to be
demolished; Comments from Housing Authority Exec Cheryl Lovell,
residents DaVonda McElroy and Sharonda White, others
P-D: Jobs With Justice, CWA Local 6355 lament barriers
to obtaining food stamps, Medicaid, other taxpayer-funded aid
AP:
Nixon reinstates cell phone tower limits
KWMU: EPA to contract with Army Corps to build fire
break at Bridgeton landfill
SNL: News-Leader promotes its "sleek" new apps, says
new website will be launched this week X
Washington Missourian editorial: McCaskill is right -
people in the middle should be more outspoken about their desire for
compromise
KC Star editorial: Expanding Medicaid in Missouri will
take a thoughtful Senate Republican +
JCNT editorial: Cancer patients will benefit from new
oral chemotherapy law X
Jensen: McCaskill is bossy - in a good way - but she
must take some responsibility for helping to increase the national debt +
KC Star's Steve Rose: Legalized pot in Missouri is too
risky, for now +
P-D op-ed: Rep. John Wright (D): The
Million-Dollar Legislature: 1,100 words on lobbyist-legislator
interactions, meals, concert and sporting-event tickets, cost of
utilities, more
Kraske: The Million-Dollar Legislature:
Executive summary of John Wright's treatise, with comments in support
of Dem's push +
SNL's Jonathan Shorman: Sunset of Sunshine Week
piece: Progress has been made, and there's always more to be done X
P-D letter: State Rep. Doug Funderburk (R) vs. Steve
Ehlmann analogy: Term-limited legislators : Government ::
Diseases : Human body
P-D letter: St. Louis County Councilman Hazel Erby
(D): Missouri should preserve low-income housing tax credit
P-D letter: "Places for People" Director Scott
Bayliff: State tax credit helps nonprofit agency develop housing
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Saturday, March 22
Washington Post: Pentagon considers retaking control
of security clearance checks; Comments from McCaskill
KSDK: Video: Reporter Mike Bush travels to D.C.
for 6-minute Obama interview; Minimum wage and Pi pizzeria plug,
Missouri Legislature denying Medicaid expansion, Ukraine
AP: McCaskill staff surveying colleges on sexual
assault
P-D: Loop Trolley planners get key federal green
light, approval for $22,100,000 in federal grant money
SNL: Federal report ranks Missouri's Medicaid fraud
recovery in top 10; Comments from Koster
X
KWMU: House Speaker Tim Jones won't run for Nieves'
seat; Jane Cunningham may announce Tuesday
Washington Missourian: Speaker Tim Jones won't run for
Nieves' seat
Washington Missourian: Dave Schatz, Tim Jones speak at
Franklin County Lincoln Day dinner
CDT: Second Republican files in 47th District;
Boone County Pachyderm President Betsy Phillips full of "righteous
indignation," seeks to fill GOP ballot slot against incumbent Dem John
Wright X
SE
Missourian: Primaries shape up for Hodges' seat:
Octogenarian Bill Burlison vs. Gene Copeland's granddaughter for
Dems; Reality-show crooner Neal Boyd a candidate, but only on
Facebook +
KWMU: House Budget Chair Rick Stream's name floated at
potential county exec candidate; GOP consultants have yet to
secure a strong figurehead for high-expenditure campaign
The Missouri Times: Association profile:
Missouri Cable Telecommunications Association
KWMU: Plan to help struggling Missouri schools wins
approval
AP: Education officials endorse Missouri school plan
P-D: New state plan could be a road map for Normandy
schools
P-D: Missouri Supreme Court sets execution date for
murderer in St. Francois County case
Missourinet: April execution set for cattle
thief/robber/murderer William Rousan
P-D: Koster urges Missouri Legislature to create
gun-docket pilot program for St. Louis
Missourinet: Law enforcement officials recommend
special gun courts for St. Louis City, Kansas City
St. Joseph News-Press: State Agriculture Director
Richard Fordyce talks state beef concept to farmers X
P-D: Army Corps of Engineers to work on burning
Bridgeton Landfill
Joplin Globe: Sunshine Law bill seeks to open some
personnel information
JCNT: MoDOT projects using latest surveying
technologies X
P-D: Murray Weidenbaum dies; Leading
conservative economist taught students at Washington U., served five
presidents
Washington Missourian editorial: McCaskill has worked
hard on reforms; Now, she needs to push to cut foreign aid 10%
and bring that money back to Missouri for roads
P-D editorial: Jane Cunningham's state Senate
campaign, Doug Funderburk's St. Chas County Exec bid will provide lots
of editorial-page fodder
Priddy: TV ads in KC market, funded by Sinquefield
subsidiary, make for a good story
SNL op-ed: Missouri needs a more progressive tax
structure; People who earn more can afford to start making a
greater contribution X
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch should stop reporting just
the problems with Obamacare, and also should stop using the word
"Obamacare"
P-D letter: Missouri Association for Social Welfare's
Jeanette Mott Oxford: Legislature should support food stamps for
felons
KC Star: Missouri prescription-drug-tracking
legislation would be supported by Joe Stalin, Benny Mussolini +
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Friday, March 21
AP: McCaskill, Blunt listen to military needs
St. Joseph News-Press: Senators speak to sanctions
against Russia X
St. Joseph News-Press: Photo gallery: Six
pictures of McCaskill-Blunt event X
Washington Missourian: McCaskill talks transportation,
infrastructure
KC Star: McCaskill, MU look to curb campus rape +
SNL: Colin Powell delivers speech at MSU, calls for
"perpetual optimism" X
AP: With Obamacare, more workers can ponder the I-Quit
option; STL's Stephanie Payne, 62, says she'll quit job to start
promoting her self-published book, perhaps do some blogging
AP: Hobby Lobby lawyer Josh Hawley starts Missouri
advocacy group
AP: Nixon signs cellphone tower measures
Missourinet: Tax refunds available for non-filers in
2011
The Missouri Times: Staff profile: Bonnie
Linhardt, Legislative Assistant for Rep. Bart Korman (R-High Hill)
KWMU: DESE data is used to map chronic absenteeism
P-D: Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
asks Nixon to grant clemency to kidnapper/rapist/murderer Jeffrey
Ferguson
JCNT: Lawyers say Jeffrey Ferguson is a changed man,
deserves a catch a break X
SNL editorial: "Just common sense" series: In
support of Rep. Elijah Haahr's Amber Alert improvements X
KWMU op-ed: Editor Margie Freivogel congratulates her
outlet on its school-attendance advocacy project
P-D letter: Simplify Missouri's teacher pension plans
P-D letter: Planned Parenthood's Paula Gianino
responds to pro-life letter
SNL letter: Progressive Small Business Majority cites
its own poll showing small businesses support minimum-wage hike X
SNL letter: Area liberal disagrees with Koster's
assertion that lowering individual taxes could improve Missouri
business growth X
P-D letter: SLU Law School's "Student Animal Legal
Defense Fund": Koster wrong to side with Missouri agriculture
over California voters and hens
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Thursday, March 20
KC Star: McCaskill brings 'Main Street Tour' to UMKC +
KCUR: Audio: Kraske talks to McCaskill about
Obamacare, military sexual assault
KZRG:
In Joplin, McCaskill shares thoughts on Obamacare, infrastructure
KODE: McCaskill holds Joplin small business
roundtable, hears Obamacare concerns
The Rolla Daily News: McCaskill discusses Fort Leonard
Wood, other issues in Rolla
SE
Missourian: Timber industry overregulated, Rep. Jason Smith says
during HAVCO tour +
SNL: Retired teacher, 26-year-old college student seek
nomination to fill Dem ballot slot versus Billy Long; Jim Evans
reads statement, then "campaign strategist" says schedule is too full
to take questions X
KWMU: Restaurant owner holds press conference to
promote decision to pay employees at least $10.10 an hour
SNL: Springfield-based O'Reilly to expand
health-insurance coverage to gay and lesbian couples X
SE
Missourian: Missouri's agriculture industry not good for
consumers, farmers, speakers say; HSUS' Wes Shoemyer, Joe Maxwell
oppose "Right to Farm" +
KWMU: Missouri's latest abortion debate once again
attracts national attention
KWMU: Former state Sen. Jane Cunningham (R) says she
may run for Nieves' seat - if Tim Jones doesn't run
P-D: Cunningham says her decision to run or not run
for Nieves' seat will be announced Tuesday
P-D: State Rep. Doug Funderburk (R) to challenge Steve
Ehlmann for St. Charles county exec
KC Star: New television ads are rekindling the 'border
war'; Mayor Sly James says Rex Sinquefield is trying to bankrupt
Kansas City +
Drebes: Nixon's nomination of James Kent Emison could
face opposition from Sen. Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown)
KWMU: Loss of rebate clouds Missouri's solar energy
AP:
Nixon signs oral chemotherapy bill
P-D: Developmentally disabled pin hopes on program's
expansion; For now, Nixon and Legislature agree on funding
KWMU: Missouri Budget Project says state should
increase revenue to fund education
SE
Missourian: Missouri Budget Project says schools not getting
enough money +
P-D: Stray Rescue sends dogs to Pacific prison;
Dept. of Corrections' "Puppies for Parole" funded by donations, uses no
taxpayer money
AP: Missouri death row inmate: new evidence
shows innocence
Missourinet: Jeffrey Ferguson, set to be executed for
abducting, raping and killing a 17-year-old girl, says he's "ready to
go"
Joplin Globe: Sunshine Week promo news story:
Missouri journalists weigh in favorably regarding the importance of
their work
P-D: Tony Messenger, Kevin Horrigan win national
Scripps Howard award
KC Star editorial: Landing the 2016 GOP Convention
would be really neat +
Washington Missourian editorial: Annual Sunshine Week
promo: Paper acknowledges cliche of annual piece, offers
commentary on Schaefer's proposal
SNL editorial: Annual Sunshine Week promo: In
support of SB843 X
USA Today op-ed: Mizzou law prof Josh Hawley on Hobby
Lobby: For-profit doesn't mean no conscience
CDT's Waters: Missouri Senate should join the House in
fixing red-light camera law X
Washington Missourian letter: Response to Nixon's
comments on evolution vs. creationism in the classroom
P-D letter: Missouri Legislature should counter
Grocery Manufacturers Association effort and impose mandatory labeling
KC Star letter: Star promotes free KC Zoo day - where
a photo ID is required - but opposes showing a photo ID to vote +
JCNT letter: HB1394 would end unfair discrimination
against felons +
JCNT letter: Ameren critic Bob Kettler reminds readers
to continue opposing the utility; New twist invokes Jesus Christ
and Korean War heartstring-tug +
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Wednesday, March 19
Roll Call: McCaskill, other senators push security
clearance overhaul after Navy yard shooting report
Quincy Journal: McCaskill visits Hannibal, says U.S.
needs to lower corporate tax rate
Hannibal Courier-Post: McCaskill visits Hannibal
SNL: McCaskill tour stops in Springfield;
Senator answers questions on medical marijuana, sexual assault
legislation, more X
KOLR: Video: McCaskill talks support of Medicaid
expansion and gay marriage, possibility of sequestration, college
costs, Keystone XL pipeline
Washington Missourian: Wind-addled audio of McCaskill on
bipartisanship: "No Labels" group is "a little gimmicky" but
still admirable, value of "Third Way"
SNL: Billy Long kicks off manufacturing tour, says
businesses are hamstrung by overregulation X
KC Star: Nixon, McCaskill, Blunt all in town today for
various promotional events +
KWMU: Missouri ProVote drops minimum wage petitions
off at Blunt's office; McDonald's employee Schnett Hooker says
she "deserve(s) $15. Right now we'll just take the $10.10"
P-D: McDonald's protest draws over a dozen;
Schnett Hooker describes "wage theft," says she peformed tasks after
she clocked out and worked through breaks without being properly
compensated
AP: Missouri unemployment rate rose in February
CDT: Shingle manufacturer promises 125 new jobs in
Moberly; Nixon joined by state Reps. Tim Remole (R-Macon) and
John Wright (D-Rocheport) X
AP: Roofing company to build plant in Moberly, Mo.
KWMU: Series on rural health care shortage:
Advanced practice nurses as a solution
The Missouri Times: Game Changers series: 8th
Congressional District GOP Chair Eddy Justice
Drebes:
Wife of former state Rep. Don Ruzicka (R) files in primary against
impeachment supporter Mike Moon
The Missouri Times: A look at LGBT non-discrimination
act, business groups, and legislative fight
AP: Nixon to sign oral chemotherapy bill today
KWMU: Chronic absenteeism jeopardizes classroom success
AP: National Public Radio reporter Michele
(MEE'-shehl) Norris at UMSL tomorrow to talk about "The Race Card
Project"
KC Star: Tanning bed debate heats up in Missouri and
Kansas +
AP: Missouri bill raises cap on pregnancy center tax
credit
Missourinet: Updates could get Amber Alerts out faster
St. Joseph News-Press: St. Joe has no presence on MO
Tourism Commission, no legislators on tourism committees; Reps.
Anne Zerr (R-St. Charles), Don Phillips (R-Kimberling City) have been
helpful X
AP: Nixon fills posts on Ethics panel, other boards
P-D: Koster calls for faster fix for radioactive West
Lake Landfill
KWMU: Radioactive waste detected closer to the
Bridgeton Landfill fire
The Missouri Times: Lead task force aimed at Doe Run's
future, new processing plant
P-D: Tommy Roberts, former St. Charles County
Democratic Party chairman and current alderman, enters plea for
marijuana and drug paraphenalia
AP: Billionaire philanthropist Jim Stowers dies at
90; Stowers funded $30M stem-cell research campaign in 2006
KC Star editorial: Bill comes due on Missouri's
cigarette addiction; Team Sinquefield on the right side of this
issue +
P-D editorial: Schweich audit confirms the
obvious: Housing tax credit is broken
Joplin Globe editorial: Annual Sunshine Week
promo: Support Senate bill to close loophole X
Priddy: Annual Sushine Week promo
CDT op-ed: MHA and MSHA: State should roll out
the welcome mat for doctors: Med-mal caps and Medicaid expansion X
P-D op-ed: D.C.-based "Justice Fellowship":
Missouri should change policy, allow food stamps for felons
SNL op-ed: Nixon should use his political capital to
target payday lenders X
P-D letter: Parental-notification bill threatens the
health of minors
P-D letter: St. Louis Public Schools supe Kelvin Adams
sells out schools; References to Pontius Pilate, Bill Roberti,
Teach for America greenhorns, more
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Tuesday, March 18
CDT: McCaskill fields questions at Columbia town hall X
CDT: Slideshow: 8 pics from McCaskill town hall X
Columbia Missourian: Marijuana legalization, state
infrastructure among topics at McCaskill forum in Columbia
KBIA: McCaskill in Columbia: On national
deficit, infrastructure, Gillibrand battle, marijuana legalization,
Putin
KRCG: McCaskill holds Columbia town hall
KWMU: In St. Louis, McCaskill touts bipartisan effort
to tackle landfill, fix roads and bridges
P-D: McCaskill calls for Workforce Investment Act
renewal
AP: McCaskill, Slay seek Workforce Investment Act
renewal
SNL: Billy Long visits Springfield, says he's open to
drug sentence reform; Reporter challenges congressman's
suggestion that visits are impromptu X
Missourinet: Union membership continues to drop in
Missouri, reaches lowest point since state data was first
collected; Missouri's rate has declined more than the national
average
AP: Fast-food protests to spotlight 'wage
theft;' Labor's "Show Me 15" campaign to protest outside St.
Louis' Hampton Avenue McDonald's at 8 a.m.
AP:
Kander: Publicly-traded firms should report political spending
Drebes: Justin Alferman, running for Schatz's state
rep seat, endorsed by Franklin County Presiding Commissioner John
Griesheimer
Washington Missourian: Brian Nieves says he will
likely run for Franklin County Recorder of Deeds
Missourinet: 911 funding proposal awaits Senate after
Spring Break
Missourinet: Charcoal bill on back burner in Senate
KWMU: State of Sunshine Law and open records in
Missouri
AP:
Bill seeks lower bar for Sunshine Law enforcement
The Missouri Times: Leadership St. Louis alum Rep.
Vicki Englund (D-St. Louis) welcome current class to Capitol
Washington Missourian: Presiding Commissioner John
Griesheimer tells MO DNR that coal ash landfill would meet local
regulations
NY Times: KSDK's Kirkwood High School invasion raises
ethical questions
SNL:
News-Leader releases updated app for tablets, smartphones;
Non-subscribers can still circumvent paywall and access unlimited
content by clearing browser's cookies X
P-D editorial: Americans working overtime to protect
overtime; $15/hr for burger-flipping a longshot, but there's an
indication low-wage activism may increase
JCNT editorial: On marijuana - like other state v.
federal issues - Missouri lawmakers should demonstrate patience and see
what happens in other states X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Annual Sunshine Week
promo: In support of Senate Bill 843 X
CDT's Waters: Proposal from Sen. Kurt Schaefer
(R-Columbia) would make long-needed improvements to Sunshine Law X
P-D op-ed: Relocating VA services office from city to
county hurts veterans and employees
KC Star's Yael Abouhalkah: McCaskill choosing to spend
her own family's money on a D.C. condo "understandably will give some
more credence" to detractors +
P-D letter: Nieves will probably benefit financially
after leaving office
P-D letter: Veteran Labor Tribune reporter opposes
right to work
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Monday, March 17 Happy St.
Patrick's Day!
AP: As troops exit Afghanistan, US goes high-tech to
monitor taxpayer projects
Columbia Missourian: McCaskill to visit Columbia this
morning
AP: McCaskill, Slay to push for Workforce Investment
Act renewal today in St. Louis
SNL: Fort Leonard Wood drill sergeant faces sexual
assault inquiry X
KWMU: Series on rural health care shortage: Part
one of three
The Missouri Times: Franklin County Lincoln Day:
Candidates Dave Schatz, Tim Jones address crowd
Drebes: Charles Hinderliter moves from Diehl's office
to St. Louis Regional Chamber
AP: The Missouri Legislature is on spring break.
St. Joseph News-Press: Briefs: Rep. Mike Thomson
(R-Maryville) to visit fourth-grade classrooms; College-to-juco
"reverse transfer" credits; Lager on employment rules X
Rosenbaum: As lawmakers debate low-income housing tax
credits, syndicators face more scrutiny
AP: Lack of action leads to loss of Missouri tobacco
money
Missourinet: Budget proposal from House committee
sends message about conservation: State takeover of Ozark
National Scenic Riverways, eradication of otters
SNL: Missouri Department of Conservation tackles
invasive hydrilla X
P-D: Residents, officials discuss plans to build
concrete plant next to nature reserve in Franklin County
KC Star: Missouri is considering faster blood
screening of newborns +
AP: Zweifel promotes personal finance competition for
high school students
AP: Missouri bill could make marriage easier for
inmates
JCNT: Bill from Rep. Brandon Ellington (D-Kansas City)
could make finding work easier for released convicts X
KWMU: Supporters of Normandy School District rally
KC Star's Diuguid: Using hip-hop in the classroom
would help black students close achievement gap; "Stakes Is High"
model named after mid-'90s De La Soul album +
SE
Missourian: Dealing with discipline; DESE tracks discipline
incidents +
Missourinet: Death penalty repeal gets symbolic
hearing, won't go anywhere
AP: Consumer advocate seeks release of Ameren info
AP: Wind power line proposal irks some Midwest farmers
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: EPA's wood-stove rule
misses the mark; State legislation is a sign regulation hits home
and hearth in St. Joe X
P-D editorial: Bill from Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick
(R-Shell Knob) unwisely denies in-state tuition to illegal immigrants
JCNT editorial: Stop tinkering with Missouri
Constitution; Topical punchline references "Robot B-9" character
from a 1960's television show X
KC Star editorial: The people must be protected from
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) bills +
Joplin Globe's Suan Redden: Ron Richard
unopposed; MO Senate takes up ethics legislation; McCaskill
wins Army Women's award X
McClellan: Criminal code revisions need one
more: Jurors should be told about criminals' previous convictions
P-D letter: Rolla man responds to letter on
"gun-totin', anti-feminist Ozarks hillbillies," says state's poor crime
ranking due to urban savagery
JCNT letter: Jefferson City man's sarcastic
proposal: Switch waiting period for executions and abortions X
P-D letter: 72-hour waiting period is good news for
would-be-aborted babies
JCNT letter: Waiting period is degrading to
women: Not everyone applies "personhood" to a fetus X
P-D letter: Missouri Right to Life supports expanded
waiting period
JCNT letter: Medicaid expansion will aid economy X
P-D letter: Former Ferguson-Florissant supe Art McCoy
was paid a lot to do nothing
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Sunday, March 16
KC Star: Obamacare shapes politics in campaigns big
and small; Comments from top Dem consultant Richard Martin,
MOGOP's Ed Martin +
AP: McCaskill to hold "McCaskill on Main Street" town
halls starting this week
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt to speak at literacy
luncheon Thursday X
Washington Missourian: Local VFW completes IRS audit
with "small fine;" Speaker Tim Jones wrote U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa
(R-Calif.) urging IRS to lay off
The Maneater: Missouri legislators push for earlier
primary elections; Comments from Rep. Tony Dugger (R-Hartville),
BoCo Clerk Wendy Noren, Kander's Laura Swinford
SNL: Mid-session summary X
SNL's Shorman: Recap of rodeo and amusement-park
injury debates X
Drebes:
Nixon responds to urbanites' cry that he was doing too much for rural
propane users, adds money to Utilicare bill-pay program
Columbia Missourian: New legislation could make
finding work easier for released convicts
KC Star: After Springfield girl's death, a quicker
Amber Alert system is sought; Comments from Rep. Elijah Haahr
(R-Springfield), law enforcement officials +
AP:
Missouri may break record for executions
SE
Missourian: Public gives ideas for state transportation needs at
two area MoDOT hearings +
KC Star: Profile of MU Chancellor Bowen Loftin:
Obligatory and trite tie talk, then a focus on his thoughts regarding
online education, approach to fundraising +
Washington Missourian editorial: Legalized pot is
coming to Missouri, eventually; First will be medical marijuana,
then recreational pot much later
KC Star editorial: Annual Sunshine Week promo:
Blunt should join McCaskill in filing disclosure docs electronically +
SE
Missourian editorial: Annual Sunshine Week promo:
Transparency laws are vital, etc. +
Time Magazine op-ed: Sen. Claire McCaskill: An
evidence-based approach to military justice reform
KC Star's Steve Rose: Common Core criticisms distort
genesis of the education plan +
CDT op-ed: Family Health Center's Andy Quint:
Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) shows his colors by opposing Medicaid
expansion X
CDT op-ed: A look at the state's debate over deer and
chronic wasting disease X
P-D letter: In support of 72-hour abortion waiting
period
P-D letter: In opposition to 72-hour abortion waiting
period
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Saturday, March 15
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt, Graves pound on the
theme of overreach X
St. Joseph News-Press: 20 years of NAFTA effects on
St. Joe: Comments from Rep. Delus Johnson (R-St. Joseph), uni
prof, MO Corn Growers board member, Chamber official X
SNL: Feds search store that sells firearms
accessories; Owner says he was duped into buying Chinese-made
rifle scopes X
Kraske: McCaskill beats Gillibrand;
Medicaid-expansion backers are failing; Good riddance to Brian
Nieves +
The Missouri Times: Senate Pro Tem Tom Dempsey (R-St.
Charles) endorses Catherine Hanaway for governor in 2016
JCNT: Proposal from Sen. Will Kraus (R-Lee's Summit)
would move presidential primary to March, and move state primaries from
August to June X
Joplin Globe's Susan Redden: Medicaid expansion
unlikely this session, local lawmakers say X
Drebes: Governing Magazine calls Medicaid-expansion
plan from Rep. Noel Torpey (R-Independence) the "most conservative
vision yet"
P-D: Panel approves Missouri low-income housing tax
credits
CDT: Missouri Housing Development Commission approves
funds for shelters X
AP: Tax credits for low-income housing unlocked
Missourinet: Plan approved to replace grant funding to
domestic violence shelters
Joplin Globe's Katie Lamb: Cancer patient, doctor,
lawmaker laud chemo-pill cost equalizer X
P-D: Ex-superintendent may have violated privacy
rules, Ferguson-Florissant report says
KWMU: While caught up in court, Missouri House passes
bill on red light, speed cameras
P-D: Red-light camera opponents plan "town hall"
meeting in St. Peters
KSMU: Officials seek facts regarding frac sand mines'
potential effects on health; Comments from Sen. Gary Romine
(R-Farmington)
P-D: Nearby workers, businesses worry about West Lake
landfill
KC Star Capitol Watch editorial: Pro-life Dem and GOP
legislators' proposals are bad for women; Conservatives' "Right
to ... (hunt/parent/rodeo)" bills are also bad
+
JCNT editorial: Limit youthful exposure to tanning beds X
Shelly: More Americans like Obamacare, but Missouri
Republicans continue to oppose it +
Columbia Missourian editor Tom Warhover: Kurt
Schaefer's bill adds some heft to state's Sunshine Law
KC Star Public Editor column: Missouri Senate dog
proposal and the need for paper to print "more positive,
non-prejudicial" photos of pit bulls +
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Friday, March 14
KMOX: McCaskill calls for outside help at Westlake
landfill
NY Times: How a military sexual assault case
foundered; Comments from McCaskill
KWMU: Ann Wagner takes aim at publications
facilitating sex trafficking
AP: Wagner promotes bill to shut down online sex ads
P-D: Wagner takes aim at Backpage and sex trafficking
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Catherine
Hanaway on tax cuts, right to work, early announcement for gov, more
CDT: Missouri Sunshine Coalition names Tom Schweich
"Sunshine Hero of 2014" X
KWMU: Nieves drops re-election bid
Washington Missourian: Nieves withdraws from state
Senate race
P-D: Nieves drops out of primary
Drebes:
Jessica Podhola joins Union of Painters and Allied Trades at political
director
KWMU: Nixon predicts exodus of young workers unless
Medicaid is expanded
AP: Missouri Senate panel backs Medicaid managed care
KWMU: Mid-session summary
P-D: Mid-session summary
Missourinet: Mid-session summary
Missourinet: Mid-session summary: Videos of
comments from Jones, Hummel
CDT: House committee signs off on budget with
contingency spending X
CDT: House budget sends message on otters, carp,
riverways X
JCNT: Rep. Andrew Koenig (R-Manchester) wants to
modify state employee retirement X
SE
Missourian: Rep. Todd Richardson (R-Poplar Bluff) touts
parental-rights amendment +
AP: Missouri GOP senators pass jobless benefits limits
St. Louis Review: Abortion legislation moves forward
in Missouri
CDT: Parents as Teachers lobbies for increased funding X
KWMU: St. Louis Public Schools Superintendent Kelvin
Adams presents school improvement plan, could bring in nonprofit
operators
P-D: St. Louis schools plan includes nonprofit
takeover of failing schools
KWMU: Normandy transition panel will now hold public
meetings
P-D: Normandy seventh-graders show support for
district by leaving school at lunch, chanting; Insight from young
scholars Makayla Jones, Orlondo Williams
KTVI: Video: Normandy students, parents rally to
show support for district; Superintendent Tyrone McNichols
addresses crowd via bullhorn
KSDK: Video: Normandy students walk out of
school; "We will stand until the state knocks us down," reads
seventh-grader Jerell McKinney
Missourinet: Supreme Court issues show-cause orders
for death row inmates Michael Worthington and Leon Taylor
Missourinet: House committee hears non-discrimination
bill
P-D: Business, religious groups oppose Missouri bill
prohibiting LGBTQIA discrimination
JCNT: Marriage-license change advances X
The Missouri Times: House passes bill limiting traffic
cameras
AP: Missouri House passes speed-camera bill
P-D: House approves legal framework for red-light and
speeding cameras
JCNT: Red-light camera regulations pass House X
KC Star: Some states, including Missouri, consider
whether to ban Google Glass while driving +
Missourinet:
Rep. Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonville) 'appalled' by lack of action on
impeachment filings against Nixon
AP:
Missouri House passes bill guaranteeing right to rodeo
JCNT: MoDOT to donate park, monuments to city X
AP: Judge denies former Mamtek CEO's request for bond
reduction
P-D: Post-Dispatch Editorial Page Editor Tony
Messenger wins coveted award from American Society of News Editors
CDT: NPR's Nina Totenberg dishes on U.S. Supreme Court X
P-D editorial: Proposed criminal code revision is a
lost opportunity
CDT's Waters: Payday lending legislation:
Missing the mark X
P-D letter: Voter ID proposals have one purpose:
To hurt Democrats
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Thursday, March 13
KWMU: Panel promotes Obamacare enrollment; SLU
law prof, AIDS-group rep, navigator given forum to correct
misinformation, GOP myths, more
JCNT: Enrollment dates set for health insurance X
Joplin Globe: Affordable Care Act deadline is March 31 X
Columbia Missourian: Less than half of eligible
Missourians have bought health insurance through exchange
P-D: Navigators visit businesses to promote Obamacare
enrollment; Visit to Shack's Barber and Beauty Salon yields no
sign-ups, but navigator Jasmine Brown is undeterred
AP: Federal lawmakers seek Missouri River flood prep
details
St. Joseph News-Press: Delegation pitches local
priorities on D.C. visit X
Reuters: McCaskill's subcommittee to hold hearing in
April on GM recall
Detroit Free Press: GM urged to waive bankruptcy
immunity for recall suits; McCaskill: "We need to find out
who dropped the ball and put millions of Americans at risk"
USA Today: Navy disqualifies 151 sailors after sex
assault review
KMWU: Appeals court resurrects initiative petition
drive for campaign donation limits
P-D: Via statewide ballot, Missourians could lock in
rights to hunt, fish and parent
Washington Missourian: Nieves signals he won't run,
will endorse Tim Jones for Senate seat
Drebes: Barry Aycock - integral to Dems' recruitment
and funding efforts - says he supports Munzlinger's proposal to cap
agricultural land assessments
Rosenbaum: Low-income housing tax credit's impact and
future come into question
Missourinet: 'Little tobacco' squares off vs. Koster's
office, 'big' counterparts in hearing
P-D: Bills ask Missouri legislators to choose:
tobacco settlement bonanza or cheap cigarettes
The Missouri Times: Tobacco loophole could cost state
more than $1 billion
Missourinet: House Budget Committee approves
two-tiered budget plan
AP: Missouri House panel advances two-tier budget plan
KWMU: Missouri state budget for FY2015 passed by House
Budget Committee
Missourinet: Dems' attempt to add Medicaid expansion
to House budget proposal rejected
The Missouri Times: Republican lawmakers battle on key
tax cut bill
Missourinet: House endorses tax credit increase for
pregnancy resource centers
SNL: Bill from Rep. Sonya Anderson (R-Springfield)
would strengthen consent requirement for minors X
The Missouri Times: Missouri Workforce Housing
Association holds annual lobby day; Former state Sen. Jeff Smith
(D-St. Louis) returns to Capitol
JCNT: Rep. Caleb Jones (R-California): Change
authorization for medical procedures X
AP: House bill bars points on traffic camera tickets
Missourinet: Criminal code rewrite focuses on
kidnapping, drug possession
JCNT: Senators asked to change death penalty X
AP: Senate panel reviews Missouri death penalty bills
KC Star: Plan would bring a public charter school to
midtown Kansas City +
KWMU: Art McCoy resigns as Ferguson-Florissant
superintendent
P-D: Ferguson-Florissant superintendent Art McCoy
resigns
SE
Missourian: Inspecting bridges has its thrills;
Pennsylvania-based MoDOT contractor talks rappelling +
SNL: Median salary for Missouri women less than
men; Feds point out that "comparison by sex is on a broad level
and does not control for factors such as educational attainment" X
Columbia Missourian: NPR's Tina Totenberg visits
Columbia
P-D: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough to visit St. Louis for
Opening Day, won't broadcast live
Washington Missourian editorial: McCaskill
sexual-assault legislation is significant and overdue
Joplin Globe editorial: McCaskill's reforms are right
on; 'Good soldier' is no defense X
Washington Post editorial: California's egg law faces
uphill battle - unless Congress steps in
KC Star editorial: Despite GOP opposition, Obamacare
signups going reasonably well in Missouri +
P-D editorial: Andrew Young urges proper focus on
education
P-D editorial: Political ambitions fuel Republican
effort to restrict reproductive rights
KC Star editorial: Fix Missouri's red-light camera law +
Washington Missourian editorial: Dave Schatz vs. Tim
Jones: Both are better than Nieves, but Jones could be considered
"establishment"
Washington Missourian editorial: Pothole time:
Citizens should take part in MoDOT promotional campaign
P-D op-ed: Low-income housing tax credit is worth the
investment
P-D letter: Ameren's Warren Wood: Editorial
misrepresents facts about Ameren's rates, earnings
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Wednesday, March 12
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill hearing focuses on
whistleblower protections X
Fox Business: Congress, DOJ investigate timing of GM
recall; McCaskill's subcommittee to hold hearing in coming weeks
Time: With McCaskill's victory, old "good soldier"
defense is mortally wounded
LA
Times: National health-care signups will fall short of
goal; In Missouri, 74,500 have selected plans
AP: Missouri House endorses 2016 presidential primary
date change - from February to March
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Lincoln Day dinner recap: Comments from
Schweich, Tim Jones, Smith COS Josh Haynes, Todd Richardson, Kent
Hampton, state rep candidate Andrew McDaniel
+
Drebes: Missouri Dems close committees, consolidate
campaign structures
Washington Missourian: Schatz discusses state Senate
bid, says Nieves explained he may not run due to "business opportunity
that could materialize in the next 30 days"
JCNT: Petitions for early voting, teacher performance
evaluations make the rounds X
JCNT: Departing Sen. John Lamping (R-Ladue) discusses
ethics proposals X
Missouri Ruralist: New ag director sets priorities for
2014: Q&A with Richard Fordyce (pdf)
CDT: Inclusion of Ozark Scenic Riverways money in
state budget draws sharp debate X
JCNT: Nixon touts education plan in Eldon visit X
The Missouri Times: Home visits are new tactic in
education reform
KWMU: Panel on Normandy's future begins meeting in
private
P-D: Team named to develop transition plan for
Normandy School District
P-D: Superintendent suspension hangs over
Ferguson-Florissant school board election; Factors include
transfer issue, forged attendance numbers, race, more
SNL: Bill puts city pit bull ban at risk X
KC Star: Missouri bill would ban laws targeting
specific dog breeds +
AP: Minimum-wage hike passes Senate committee
KSMU: Bill from Rep. Charlie Norr (D-Springfield) aims
to clean meth labs, remove provision to disclose site
CDT: Marijuana advocates press case for legalization
at House committee hearing X
The Missouri Times: Witnesses testify for, against
marijuana bill
AP: Missouri House panel considers marijuana
legalization
AP: Harris-Stowe marijuana forum will explore
disproportionate arrests of blacks, etc.
Missourinet: Debate starts on rewrite of criminal laws
Missourinet: House approves two abortion bills
The Missouri Times: House gives final approval to
abortion bills
AP: Missouri bill would extend abortion waiting period
to 72 hours
Missourinet: Proposal to require parental consent for
tanning-bed use leads to intra-GOP kerfuffle
The Missouri Times: House moves forward with
parental-rights amendment from Rep. Todd Richardson (R-Poplar Bluff)
AP: Missouri House endorses parental-rights amendment
Missouri Ruralist: Beef producers seek statewide
checkoff; Legislature approved checkoff in 1985, but old statute
language must now be changed (pdf)
JCNT: Missouri Faith Voices holds rally at
Capitol; Group failed to get payday-loan measure on 2012 ballot X
AP: Judge upholds Missouri limit on funeral
protests; Comments from AG Chris Koster
Missourinet: Federal court upholds Missouri law
prohibiting protests at funerals
KC Star: Laclede Group, owners of Missouri Gas Energy,
consider job cuts; Employees facing layoffs are members of IBEW
Local 53 +
P-D: Missouri Supreme Court denies Schnucks' utility
sales tax refund
CDT: NPR's Nina Totenberg to speak at Columbia College
tonight X
JCNT editorial: Dismantling authority invites
chaos; Nieves' anti-fed proposal violates separation of powers X
SNL editorial: Proposal from Rep. Charlie Norr
(D-Springfield) offers important incentive to clean up after meth 'cook' X
Washington Post's "She the People" blog: A rift among
Senate women: It's about time
SNL op-ed: MSU grad student Asher Allman: Voter
ID, Shane Schoeller for County Clerk are both good ideas X
Farm Futures' Mike Wilson: Ruffled feathers;
California hen law won't fly - and Missouri's Chris Koster will win
this battle
Missouri Ruralist's Courtney Leeper: Mizzou senior
Breanne Brammer cites 2010's Prop B as moment of clarity on HSUS, is
currently surveying students on Right to Farm (pdf)
KC Star letter: McCaskill's pro-military stance
undermined by sinking the career of Lt. Gen. Susan J. Helms +
P-D letter: St. Louis County woman says Missouri
legislators should expand Medicaid, forget about abortion
P-D letter: Florissant man says perception of
Missourians as "right-wing, gun-totin', anti-feminist, Ozark
hillbillies" is true
P-D letter: Crestwood woman mocks Missouri-California
hen lawsuit participants, lays "come to roost" punchline
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Tuesday, March 11
KC Star: KC wins big after Bannister Federal Complex
closing; Kit Bond, Brad Scott, Jason Klumb talk about bipartisan
effort to save jobs +
P-D: Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed promotes
petition to stop VA jobs from relocating to suburbs, needs 100,000
signatures in less than one month
Politico: McCaskill's sexual assault bill passes
The Hill: Senate approves McCaskill sexual assault
bill 97-0
AP: McCaskill bill passes 97-0
Time: McCaskill defeats Gillibrand in battle over
sexual assaults
Helling: Comparing McCaskill vs. Gillibrand to "House
of Cards" +
SE
Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith meets with SE MO Drug Task
Force; Board shares concerns on marijuana, and congressman notes
"blatant violation" of federal law in Colorado
+
Bloomberg: Democrats seek repeat of 2006 minimum wage
push; Former MO Dem Party chief Jim Kottmeyer says measure was
put on ballot to help McCaskill
Washington Post: Missouri the next battleground in war
over abortion rights
P-D: Missouri House endorses second parent
notification for minors seeking abortion
AP: House endorses abortion notification requirement
KMWU: Schweich's audit questions efficiency, impact of
low-income housing tax credit
P-D: High cost, low benefit of Missouri housing tax
credit assailed in audit
The Missouri Times: Schweich rates low-income housing
tax credit as 'fair' but lawmakers more optimistic
Missourinet: Schweich: Low-income housing tax
credit a poor investment
JCNT: Housing tax credit program 'inefficient' X
AP: Schweich's audit: Housing tax credit
inefficient
Missourinet: GOP tax cuts snarled in Senate
KWMU: Tax cut language replaced with tax credit
language in Senate bill
Missourinet: Hearing highlights work requirement,
premium in House Republican Medicaid plan
AP: GOP work-requirement proposal not legal, says
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri's Joel Ferber
JCNT: SLU law prof, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri
worried about Medicaid work rules X
P-D: Proposed Medicaid work requirements questioned at
hearing
Missourinet: Parents, officer organizations speak for
and against marijuana bill
AP: Missouri House panel mulls marijuana legalization
AP: Property taxes on farmland set to rise next year
KC Star: Bill in Missouri House could give KC's
red-light cameras a green light +
P-D: Transfer situation upends senior year at
Normandy; Thoughts from Wellston's Raquan Smith
KC Star: Former school board leader responds to audit
of Hickman Mills district +
The Missouri Times: Bill from Sen. Dan Brown (R-Rolla)
would publicize quarterly reports from utilities; Comments from
FERAF, MBEF
CDT: MoDOT promotes "Pothole Patrol" X
Columbia Missourian: MoDOT promotes "Pothole Patrol,"
says process is expensive X
JCNT: State developing new plans for Fulton State
Hospital X
AP: Rep. Rory Ellinger (D-University City) feels ill,
goes to hospital
P-D: Summary of 1,600-word Brian Nieves Facebook
post: He's likely to endorse Tim Jones for Senate seat
Drebes:
Dem rumble in House 18: Kevin Garner vs. Lauren Arthur
KC Star editorial: Missouri should fix troubled
schools, scrap the transfer law +
Joplin Globe op-ed: Missouri NFIB Leadership Council's
Nancy Good: McCaskill, Blunt should fight to overhaul federal
regulatory system X
P-D op-ed: Attorney Brad Desnoyer: Thoughts on
the Founding Fathers, Missouri education spending, more
SE
Missourian letter: Patton, Mo. man says Republican opposition to
Medicaid expansion is stupid, abusive and cruel +
SE
Missourian letter: Jackson man says it's misleading for DESE to
label Common Core standards "Missouri Learning Standards" +
P-D letter: St. Louis County man says payday lenders
are vultures
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Monday, March 10
The Missouri Times: Democrat Days photo gallery:
Koster, Kander speak; Rachel Bringer plays the guitar and
sings; Seasoned citizens dance; More
Joplin Globe's Susan Redden: McCaskill, Blunt agree on
Table Rock Lake; Kander visits Joplin, talks startup-business
help and early voting X
Washington Post's Henneberger: McCaskill's military
sexual-assault bill is meatier than advertised; Senator responds
to critics, uses scatalogical colloquialism
Drebes:
Two St. Louis students win White House internships
AP:
Repeat of 2011 Missouri River flooding is unlikely, Corps says
Bloomberg: For young people, competition for low-wage
work intensifies; 20-year-old UMSL dropout Jeanina Jenkins views
her McDonald's job as "last resort"
Rosenbaum: With Medicaid expansion in limbo, some
lawmakers see promise in collaborating with critics
P-D: Navigators hit final stretch of insurance
enrollments; Cover Missouri, led by Missouri Foundation for
Health, has 130 events statewide this month
St. Joseph News-Press: Briefs: Missouri Farm
Bureau on Right to Farm; Area residents appointed to
boards; State Senate candidate Dan Hegeman (R) announces "farm
team" campaign panel X
KOLR: Bill from Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Glendale) would
give tax credit to homeowners
KC Star: Only 12 families - for total of 23 children -
file for transfers out of Kansas City Public Schools; Low number
could change dynamics of Jefferson City transfer debate +
P-D: Lawmakers compromise as they address school
transfers
AP: Missouri transfer proposals seek options closer to
home
P-D: Missouri lawmakers considering more restrictions
on abortion
Missourinet: 'Nuclear option' on abortion bill
suggested in Senate
Missourinet: Koster's office argues for lifting
impediments to execution of Michael Taylor's accomplice, Roderick Nunley
SNL: Bill from Rep. Charlie Norr (D-Springfield) calls
for meth cleanup registry X
SNL: Rule change affects state DWI cases;
Arrests from Nov. 30 to Jan. 29 could be called into question X
KMOX: MoDOT targets potholes, asks for public input
JCNT: Federal regulators make final ruling on Lake
property; FERC decides Ameren request X
JCNT: Silver Star Families military profile:
Sen. Will Kraus (R-Lee's Summit) X
P-D editorial: Fixing the tobacco loophole:
Right on issue, wrong on methods
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Ag chief Richard
Fordyce, MO Farm Bureau's Blake Hurst to speak at breakfast;
Right to Farm may be necessary to protect state's No. 1 industry X
SNL op-ed: State should reinstate permit to purchase
law for gun owners X
KC Star op-ed: Don't poach Missouri's citizen
conservation commission +
St. Louis Beacon op-ed: Education consultant Susan
Uchitelle: Missouri lags behind on pre-school education
P-D letter: Requiring a photo ID to vote would hurt
blacks, women, the young
P-D letter: "Religious freedom" bill a ploy to
disguise the fact that politicians spend all day eating lunch with
lobbyists
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Sunday, March 9
KWMU: Koster calls on Dems to fight for Medicaid
expansion, dismisses insider chatter that he'd rather run against
Schweich than Hanaway
KWMU: Missouri Democrats solidly against "Right to
Work," less so regarding "Right to Farm"
The Missouri Times: Koster addresses Democrat Days
crowd over breakfast
SE
Missourian: GOP's faithful show enthusiasm during annual Lincoln
Day dinner; Comments from event Chairwoman Kara Clark Summers +
P-D's Nicklaus: Tech companies and McCaskill do battle
with patent trolls
Drebes:
GOP veteran Aaron Baker returns to office of Rep. Sam Graves
KSMU: MSU expects 9,000 to turn out for Colin Powell
speech later this month
AP: Missouri sees effects of declining casino visits
KC Star: Lamping, Kraus offer competing tax-cut
plans; Comments from Show-Me Institute, Missouri Budget Project,
Sens. Ron Richard (R) and Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D), others +
JCNT: Five Missouri bills highlight rifts between
telecom companies, cities X
CDT: Lawmakers push to bar use of state scholarships
at online university X
KC Star: KC union official faces charges; Local
83 Boilermaker allegedly gets mad at woman during walk on the beach,
punches her, sits on her chest, chokes her, slices her shirt with
bayonet, threatens to kill her and her children +
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: If Nixon is sincere
about tax cuts, he'll find middle ground with Republicans X
Washington Missourian editorial: Missouri is a
pro-life state; A 72-hour waiting period has the potential to
limit the "inhumane procedure" of abortion
Washington Missourian editorial: For the Missouri
Press Association, printing the Blue Book is a public-service endeavor
Horrigan: An amalgamation of thoughts and data points
regarding Mizzou football team's visit to Capitol, state salaries,
Legislature, and more
CDT op-ed: Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) responds to
op-ed: Medicaid expansion will hurt taxpayers X
KC Star letter: Independence woman cites GOP silliness
on impeachment, Dollar's rejection - and encourages citizens to travel
to public library for legislative information
+
P-D letter: Chesterfield man offers psychoanalysis of
Missouri Republicans, replete with Shakespeare references
P-D letter: Phyllis Schlafly is old news, and hateful
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Saturday, March 8 Update: For Demo Days, Jason Kander will make
contribution to Douglass Community Services
Washington Post: McCaskill: Reviews of
contractors often fail to note problems
KSMU: McCaskill's bill on military sexual assault
moves forward
The New Yorker's Amy Davidson: What Gillibrand got
wrong about military sexual assault
St. Joseph News-Press: Rep. Sam Graves discusses Farm
Bill, other ag issues at panel
P-D: Minor spring flooding along Mississippi River
expected north of St. Louis
CDT: Public hospital's for-profit partnership
illustrates rural health care struggles X
AP: Missouri health advocates launch enrollment drive
P-D: House Medicaid hearing will focus on reform,
soft-pedal expansion
KWMU: Missouri House sends tax-credit overhaul to
Senate; would cut preservation, housing
P-D: House agrees to renew tax credits for McKee's
NorthSide project
The Missouri Times: Tax relief bill from Rep. Jeremy
LaFaver (D-Kansas City) has bi-partisan support
Drebes:
Who won the week? Schmitt, Schweich, Schatz, others
The Missouri Time: Progress Missouri grows in
influence at Capitol; Comments from Executive Director Sean
Nicholson
The Missouri Times: Pro-life, pro-gun Rep. Jeff Roorda
(D-Barnhart) looking to continue Democratic legacy in 22nd Senate
district
The Maneater: Missouri voter ID legislation passes
House, heads to Senate
Missourinet: Missouri House committee to hear
marijuana legalization proposal Monday
JCNT: Sen. Brian Nieves (R-Washington) seeks distance
from federal laws X
KCTV: Rep. Randy Dunn (D-Kansas City) receives threats
after pushing change to Castle Doctrine (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
JCNT: Transfer bills differ on allowing private option X
Missourinet: Nixon announces emergency funds for
shelters denied grants
SE
Missourian: MoDOT's Dave Nichols speaks at First Friday Coffee,
makes pitch for sales-tax increase +
Washington Missourian: Rep. Dave Hinson (R-St. Clair)
takes aim at red light, speed cameras
P-D: Rep. Mike Colona (D-St. Louis) uses his own
fender-bender to argue validity of red-light cameras
The Missouri Times: Association profile: Freedom
of Road Riders
The Missouri Times: Legislator profile: Sen.
Scott Sifton (D-St. Louis County) is "exceedingly popular ...
principled, moderate and honest"
The Missouri Times: Staff profile: For Ryan
Burke, LA to Rep. Vicki Englund (D-St. Louis County), "youth and
seemingly endless energy have him in high demand"
AP: Wal-Mart seeks to intervene in electric rate case,
says Ameren is overearning
P-D: Koster's office files lawsuits against two travel
club companies
San Antonio Express-News editorial: Setback for
sexual-assault victims; McCaskill's bill ignores clear and
present threat to victims - their commanders
P-D editorial: Ameren vs. Noranda: Missouri
Public Service Commission needs to put gluttonous giants on a diet
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Speed up
justice: Convicted murderers should be executed in a timely manner X
JCNT editorial: It's official: State manual
returning to print X
P-D letter: Take the profit out of managed care for
Medicaid
P-D letter: Missouri Republicans are wrong on guns,
abortion, taxes, education, and voter ID
P-D letter: Voter ID, tax-cut bills are based on
ALEC's model legislation
The Maneater letter: Abortion waiting period extension
is an infringement
KC Star letter: In opposition to Brattin's bill
allowing students to opt out of evolution lessons +
P-D letter: Normandy parents playing the race card and
assessing blame should probably take a look in the mirror
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Friday, March 7
Hannibal Courier-Post: Demo Days begin today;
Kander headlines Sat. dinner, Koster addresses brunch; Shoemyer
to speak against Right to Farm; Rachel Bringer will sing
KWMU: McCaskill defeats New York's Kirsten Gillibrand
(D) in military sexual-assault skirmish
SNL: McCaskill sexual-assault bill survives showdown X
McClatchy: McCaskill leads successful effort to block
bill to remove sex assault cases from military chain of command
National Journal: Kirsten Gillibrand blames White
House for loss
AP: Senate blocks change to military sexual assault
changes
Drebes:
What sort of year is 2014 - and how will it affect Missouri's races?
AP: Nixon reaches trade agreement in Ontario
The Progressive Farmer: States take crack at egg
law; California cannot dictate hen cage requirements, Missouri
and others declare
Missourinet: Five states join Missouri in challenge of
California egg law
AP: Other states join Koster's lawsuit against
California egg law
KRES:
Audio: Rep. Craig Redmon (R-Canton) talks about presenting ag
budget to Budget committee
KSMU: Secretary of State Jason Kander pushes local
business growth, applauds border war cease-fire bill
KY3: Kander visits Springfield as part of statewide
push for business growth
CDT: Budget from Rep. Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) slashes
Nixon spending proposals X
AP:
Missouri House approves midyear spending bill; Money will keep
Normandy afloat, offset drop in casino tax revenue and help fund
Medicaid +
AP:
Business relocation tax break on hold in House
+
KC Star: Missouri contemplates tax breaks for angel
investors +
Washington Missourian: Tax-bracket bill from Rep. Paul
Curtman (R-Pacific) passes House
KOMU: Local districts to give Common Core practice
tests
AP: Senate panel backs college meningitis vaccine
KOLR: Group rallies for Medicaid expansion;
Unemployed man says there's "honest, hardworking people out there and
sometimes they get a hard blow"
AP: Former Missouri State University professor took
cellphone photos of men undressing in two campus locker rooms
KC Star: Laws in Missouri protect women from 'upskirt'
photos +
KC Star: Missouri oral chemotherapy bill goes to
governor's desk +
Missourinet: Chemotherapy parity bill clears
legislature
P-D: Legislature passes bill to lower cost of
anti-cancer pills for patients
The Missouri Times: Oral chemo parity moves to Nixon's
desk
JCNT: Sen. Ron Richard (R-Joplin): 'Previous
question' possible in Senate abortion debate
X
Missourinet: Koster's office: Solution for grant
loss to domestic violence shelters could come next week
Missourinet: Parental termination bill moves to House
KC Star editorial: Keep talking to reduce Missouri and
Kansas business incentives +
Washington Missourian editorial: It's time to pass a
revised criminal code
Helling: Water, water everywhere - except where it's
wanted +
Shelly: Vigilance needed for city school
districts; Schweich's audit revealed shady payments to "Urban
Summit of Greater Kansas City," no-bid contracts for Freedom Inc. +
P-D letter: A photo ID is required to participate even
minimally in our society; Showing photo ID at polling place is
not a burden
JCNT letter: A liberal take on Medicaid
expansion: the Pope would side with Missouri Chamber, and
conservatives believe the poor are lazy X
P-D letter: There are too many counties in Missouri
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Thursday, March
6 Lincoln
Day Bingo raises $500 for Ozarks Food Harvest; What will MO Dems,
MOGOP do at state party events to help local residents in need?
AP: 2-year extension offered for canceled health
plans; Comments from Wash U. prof/Missouri Budget Project
collaborator Tim McBride, Sen. Roy Blunt
The Hill: Congress gets out club for patent
'trolls'; Comments from McCaskill
AP: Landowners sue over Missouri River flooding
KC Star: Water, land and litigation: Lawsuit
renews vigorous debate over future of Missouri River +
KWMU: Defense budget excludes Boeing's F/A-18 fighter
jets
St. Louis Business Journal: St. Louis was first
runner-up in Boeing's 777X competition
KWMU: Nixon announces trade accord between Missouri
and Quebec
Missourinet: Nixon: Trade deal with Canada worth
$3.2 billion
Missourinet: House Budget Chair Rick Stream
(R-Kirkwood) introduces tiered approach to spending plan
P-D: Stream's budget plan includes increases for
schools
SNL: Stream's budget plan less generous to colleges
than Nixon's X
KWMU: Missouri Senate begins debate on Nixon's tax-cut
compromise
P-D: Nixon-Kraus tax cut plan draws fire from all
sides; Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D) says Nixon "is, I guess,
playing puppet-master"
AP: New tax-cut plan criticized in Missouri Senate
Missourinet: Bipartisan opposition stalls Senate tax
cut bill
AP: Missouri House endorses tax credit legislation
The Missouri Times: Medical malpractice bill gets
final approval from House
Missourinet: House sends medical malpractice cap
legislation to the Senate
Columbia Missourian: Medical tort reform would cap
'pain and suffering' damages at $350,000
AP: Missouri House backs limits to medical malpractice
AP: Missouri lawmakers pass cellphone tower change
JCNT: Sen. Ed Emery (R-Lamar) proposes letter grades
for school districts X
KWMU: Lesson plans: Lawmakers work on sweeping
school proposals
P-D: Missouri House committee hears bills addressing
transfer law
Missourinet: Domestic violence shelters still waiting
for replacement of lost grant
The Missouri Times: Changes to child abuse registry
debated in committee
Monett
Times: Bill from Sen. David Sater (R-Cassville) addresses
abortion, stirs battle between pro-life legislators and Planned
Parenthood
KWMU: Missouri House gives first-round approval to
72-hour waiting period for abortions; Senate version blocked
AP: House endorses longer abortion waiting period
P-D: Missouri House gives initial OK to 72-hour wait
for abortion seekers
KWMU: How Missouri got a supply of its backup
execution drug
The Missouri Times: Staff profile: Lisa Buhr,
Legislative Assistant to Rep. Michael Frame (D-Eureka)
St. Joseph News-Press: Robert Stuber files in state
Senate primary, seeks Dem nomination to fill ballot slot against Sen.
Rob Schaaf (R) X
KWMU: Sierra Club sues Ameren over Clean Air Act
KWMU: Missouri same-sex couples should think twice
before marrying in Illinois
Missourinet: Koster's office settles with fundraiser
that pocketed Joplin tornado response donations
Joplin Globe: Koster announces recovery of tornado
relief donations X
Drebes:
Help wanted: AG's office seeking labor lawyer for Cape office
Missourinet: Members of Mizzou football team stop by
the Capitol
CDT: CDT Managing Editor Jim Robertson to facilitate
panel promoting Medicaid expansion; MO Foundation for Health,
others take part in public access television show X
P-D editorial: Missouri Legislators sell themselves
like cheap hookers - nay, expensive hookers - to the payday lending
industry
P-D editorial cartoon: Balding white male legislator
cross-dresses as prostitute
JCNT editorial: Anticipated partisan rancor on capital
improvement funds is averted X
KC Star editorial: Stay wary in the Hickman Mills
School District +
SNL op-ed: Sen. Roy Blunt: Do what is best for
nation; National Guard cuts should not hinge on local economic hit X
KC Star's Yael Abouhalkah: KC won't win the GOP
convention, but the pitch video wasn't bad +
KC Star letter: Photo ID: "Vote fraud" is GOP's
non-existent boogeyman +
JCNT letter: Ameren critic Bob Kettler analyzes
Post-Dispatch coverage of company's profits X
Washington Missourian letter: Response to
Medicaid-expansion plea: Working man from Labadie says he's tired
of carrying society's "lazy, irresponsible" people on his back
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Wednesday, March 5
KMBZ: RNC promotes list-building gimmick: Enter
your personal contact information to "vote" for 2016 host city (link
via TonysKansasCity.com)
TonysKansasCity.com: Show-Me Institute calls out
"absurd" exaggerations of convention's impact
AP: Obama's budget proposes horse slaughter ban;
Missouri businessman says president's budget "is not law and certainly
not the end of the story"
NY Times: Wishing they all could be California
hens; Koster discusses his lawsuit on behalf of Missouri
agriculture
St. Joseph News-Press: Land owners sue U.S. government
over Missouri River flooding X
KWMU: Congressional delegation asks EPA to let Corps
take over at West Lake Landfill
P-D: Members of Congress call for action on West Lake
Landfill
P-D: Visits to National Park Services sites decreased
during 16-day government shutdown
P-D: Who owns the right to Schlafly name? Iconic
organizer and octogenarian Phyllis Schlafly doesn't want her name
associated with beer
Drebes: Man
who filed in '12 primary against Hartzler has now filed against Sen.
Dan Brown (R-Rolla)
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Clint
Zweifel shares views on low-income housing tax credit and pro-military
efforts, sets realistic expectations for Dem legislative races
AP: Missouri adds jobs while jobless rate stays steady
AP: Missouri revenues up 2 percent over last year
KWMU: Missouri general revenue shoots up in February,
prompting Nixon's release of withheld money
Missourinet: Missouri House joins Nixon in supporing
Keystone XL pipeline; Rep. Margo McNeill (D-Florissant) suggests
Canada may be outsmarting America by avoiding risks
Missourinet: House passes proposed cease-fire in jobs
'border war' with Kansas
KC Star: Border war truce finds support in Missouri
General Assembly +
AP: Missouri House backs business truce with Kansas
KWMU: Missouri House passes border-war 'cease-fire'
bill
AP: Missouri has backlog of Medicaid applications
Missourinet: Debate over how to pay for Fulton State
Hospital continues
AP: House panel endorses new primary election date
The Missouri Times: Three election bills heard in
committee
AP: Missouri Blue Book to be printed by Missouri Press
Association
JCNT: Revised criminal code gets new push X
SNL: Time for a tougher criminal code in Missouri,
backers say X
AP: Bill could allow for alcohol sales at Missouri
Capitol
The Missouri Times: House Committee on General Laws
hears slew of gun bills
JCNT: Bill would arm school protection officers X
Missourinet: House advances supplemental budget with
money for education, Normandy
P-D: Missouri House gives $5 million to Normandy
KC Star: Schweich's audit of Hickman Mills School
District exposes past turmoil
KSHB: Schweich's audit of Hickman Mills School
District finds misspent funds, frivolous expenses
Fox4KC: Hickman Mills School District hears results of
audit
KCTV: Hickman Mills receives "fair" grade in state
audit
Joplin Globe: Advance Placement test-takers rising in
Missouri X
JCNT: College students set up displays under Capitol
Rotunda, attempt to explain science to lawmakers X
Joplin Globe: Opponents of power line waiting to see
next step X
KSMU: Missouri Department of Conservation receiving
calls about fish kills; MDC explains annual and natural phenomenon
SNL editorial: Billy Long's travels are
excessive; Congressman should consider working closer to home X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Rein in medical
malpractice awards X
JCNT editorial: On photo ID, learn from examples
elsewhere; Missouri should wait and see how other states handle
2014 elections X
P-D editorial: Senate earns an incomplete grade on
schools bill
Joplin Globe op-ed: Democratic National Committee
member Doug Brooks: Missouri conservatives should get on board
with Medicaid expansion X
Joplin Globe op-ed: Cover Missouri officials:
Still time to enroll in the Missouri Health Insurance Marketplace X
P-D op-ed: St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob
McCulloch: Revising Missouri's Criminal Code is the right thing
to do
Joplin Globe op-ed: Phill Brooks: Legislature
has had difficulties with education X
Shelly: Schweich's audit details Hickman Mills School
District shenanigans
Columbia Missourian's Rosman: Wallingford's
religious-freedom bill is discriminatory and bad
KC Star letter: Star editorial board a bunch of
hypocrites for criticizing Republicans, then supporting GOP convention +
P-D letter: Reaction to "Misery" editorial:
Post-Dispatch editorial board is consistently negative and moany
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Tuesday, March 4
KMBC's Mahoney: RNC's Reince Preibus says business
factors will trump politics in picking 2016 host; KC makes its
pitch
McClatchy: Hotels count more than politics as GOP
considers Kansas City, other cities for 2016 convention
KC Star: GOP money man Jack Oliver, Linda Bond among
those at KC convention pitch; Mayor Sly James sings version of
"Kansas City" +
KWMU: State Rep. Rory Ellinger (D-University City),
one of state's most outspoken liberals, stepping down
P-D: Rep. Rory Ellinger (D-University City), 72, pulls
out of House race for health reasons
The Missouri Times: Ellinger withdraws from House
race; Comments from Rep. Chris Kelly (D-Columbia)
AP: Nixon endorses Keystone oil pipeline
AP: Nixon's trip to Canada delayed a day by weather
AP: Missouri lawmakers cancel sessions due to weather
Columbia Missourian: Health care regulation an
obstacle to some Missouri residents' insurance enrollment
JCNT: Quest for space: Area lawmakers pleased by
release of funds for capital improvements X
Missourinet: House Budget Chair Rick Stream
(R-Kirkwood) talks legislative effort to stem tobacco settlement cuts
Drebes: A look at agricultural land assessments
proposal from Sen. Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown)
P-D: Religious freedom bill from Sen. Wallingford
(R-Cape Girardeau) has opposition; Comments from PROMO, Sen.
Jolie Justus (D-Kansas City), ACLU
Missourinet: Advocates seek more time for at least
some child abuse investigations
Missourinet: Prison costs: State vs. counties
KWMU: Missouri reconsiders how many tests students
must take
KC Star: Common Core's greatest challenge:
Getting students to think +
CDT: Accreditation change might affect district X
P-D: 95 meth labs seized near Mountain Grove, Mo.
believed to be record
P-D: Former state Sen. Jane Cunningham
(R-Chesterfield) says she's considering GOP bid for county executive
KC Star editorial: Despite posturing from McCaskill
and Blunt, military belt-tightening and priority shifts might be a good
thing +
P-D
editorial: Missouri GOP is up to its usual voter suppression games
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Voter ID need not
offend; Supposed inconvenience of obtaining an ID is not the same
thing as having democratic rights denied X
P-D op-ed: Obama's "My Brother's Keeper" national
initiative will help young black men
Missouri Ruralist's Mindy Ward: Do you have the right
to farm? Proposed constitutional amendment will protect that
right in Missouri
Priddy: Onion-esque take: Wallingford's bill
could keep one Christian denomination from serving another
SE
Missourian letter: Cape woman supports Wallingford's
religious-freedom bill +
KC Star letters: Sarcastic responses to bills from
Wallingford (test suspected homosexuals for knowledge of "Broadway show
tunes, interior design") and Dem Rep. Courtney Curtis (high-fives and
the middle finger) +
CDT letter: Missouri Republicans put "grotesque"
pro-business policies ahead of needs of the people X
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Monday, March 3
Joplin Globe's Redden: Briefs: McCaskill to
appear at fundraiser for Dems' 32nd District committee; House
Dems warn against danger of unopposed Republicans X
AP: Rep. Ann Wagner to speak at Human Trafficking
conference in St. Louis
KC Star: Workers at a local union find a union for
themselves; Local ladies bargain for office-manager benefits +
KC Star: Amber Alert's screeching loud tone can
startle, but it can help rescue children; Officials do not
approve of disabling WEA alerts +
AP: Missouri E15 ethanol rule on track to take effect
AP: Midwest economic survey index drops slightly
Drebes:
Rep. John Wright (D-Columbia) does not file for re-election, leading
Dems to engage in wishful thinking on auditor's race
P-D: Small number of donations fuel Missouri political
spending; Comments from LeVota (D) and Kraus (R) on legislation,
MSU's George Connor on reality of stopping money
P-D: Housing tax credit untouchable because of
industry's clout
P-D: A look at who benefits from low-income housing
tax credits
P-D: Biggest purchasers of low-income housing tax
credits: McCaskill's Joe Shepard, Stephen Holden, Mark Gardner,
Jeffrey E. Smith
Missourinet: Ethics bill slow to move in Legislature
AP: Bill from Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Glendale) would
give tax cut to homeowners
AP: Missouri Senate to resume debate on abortion
waiting period
KC Star: Hickman Mills district confronts tough state
audit with hope for the future +
JCNT: Alzheimer's Association seeks to maintain $500K
in Service Grants as part of DHSS budget, will lobby at Capitol on
Wednesday X
JCNT: Regulation sought on new kind of 'loan';
Bill from Sen. Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown) targets
pay-if-you-get-your-settlement lawyers X
Missourinet: Nixon moves swiftly to back domestic
violence shelters after loss of grant
St. Joseph News-Press: Briefs:
Investigational/experimental drugs for terminal patients; MSTA
shares thoughts on transfer students; Schaaf co-sponsors FERAF
bill on utility reporting X
AP: Workshops help officials prepare for flood season
KWMU: Q&A on Bridgeton and West Lake landfills
JCNT editorial: Don't tamper with existing term
limits; Legislators' self-absorption with self-serving interests
is one reason voters adopted term limits in the first place X
McClellan: Reaction to Gov. Jay Nixon's pro-Hillary
comments from two weeks ago
SE
Missourian letter: Gay man is critical of Wallingford's
religious-freedom bill +
P-D letter: Area lesbian will fight back against
Missouri businesses that discriminate against LGBTQIA community
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Sunday, March 2 MoDOT: "No Travel" advisory, other
updates on road conditions
SNL: Rep. Billy Long one of Congress' top travelers in
2013; Congressman says trips help keep him informed on
international issues X
The Maneater: Blunt gives speech on Monuments Men
recognition at MU
Drebes: Schweich campaign touts upcoming fundraising
events: Bert Walker (Ladue), Doug Russell (Lebanon), Rust family
(Cape), Mercy boss Donn Sorensen (STL)
KRES: Ag Director Richard Fordyce speaks to Randolph
County Pachyderm Club, discusses adverse weather and rising food prices
AP: Missouri Revenue Dept. cuts may be permanent
AP:
State sales tax hurting gyms' financial fitness
Washington Missourian: Rep. Bart Korman (R-High Hill)
says he's not generally a fan of tax credits, but that his bill could
help area microbreweries and distilleries
P-D: Home lender under fire for questionable
practices; Two state agencies investigating
JCNT: Senators introduce 42 measures on bill-filing
deadline day X
Washington Missourian: Rep. Paul Curtman (R-Pacific)
says more funding for drug courts could help Franklin County
St. Joseph News-Press: Lawmakers propose 'Good
Samaritan' law to help speed response to heroin overdoses X
Washington Missourian: Ameren customer rates will rise
due to $170 million project, officials say
KSMU: MoDOT's salt use this season: 200,000 tons
Washington Missourian editorial: Early support means
Claire McCaskill, Jay Nixon would be well-positioned under President
Hillary Clinton
SNL editorial: Time for real payday loan reform X
Horrigan: Sen. Wayne Wallingford's religious-freedom
bill "good news for anyone who wants to bring back the good old days of
racial segregation"
P-D editor Gilbert Bailon: Paper will continue to
editorialize in favor of city-county unification, transfer reform,
etc.; Bonus: brief profiles of editorial board members
SNL's Shorman: Most local races not very
interesting; Also, reporter has provisions in anticipation of
snowfall X
St. Joseph News-Press' Booher: How our state should
deal with monsters: Considering castration as punishment X
P-D letter: Ballwin man embarrassed that state
legislature has not expanded Medicaid
P-D letter: More lawmakers should see what Teacher of
the Year is doing
P-D letter: Legislature should focus on equal parental
rights in divorce
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Saturday, March 1
Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal: Blunt discusses
military cuts
SNL: Blunt warns against National Guard cuts X
KC Star: National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration will stay in Kansas City; GSA's Jason Klumb
credits both U.S. Senators, Cleaver +
Washington Post: Bill would prevent contractors from
performing quality reviews; Comments from McCaskill
NBC: McCaskill to appear on Meet the Press tomorrow
KWMU: Former U.S. Sen Richard Lugar (R-Indiana) speaks
at SLU Law School, says combining governments can bring new life to
urban communities
JCNT: Osage County Republicans attract young
members; Comments from 2016 GOP gov candidate Catherine Hanaway X
KWMU: Nieves gains attention by not discussing
political future; Speaker Tim Jones: "I don't think anyone
saw this situation coming"
Drebes:
Former reality-show crooner Neal Boyd considering bid for Steve Hodges'
open state rep seat
P-D: Rep. Doug Funderburk (R-St. Peters) may take on
St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann in primary
AP: Nixon releases money for buildings
The Missouri Times: Bill to restructure tax brackets
passes out of Missouri House 146-4
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Farm Bureau visits
Capitol, says Right to Farm is gaining support among voters
Columbia Missourian: Missouri cities resist
legislation that would change control over telecom companies
KC Star: Nixon rebukes bill giving Missouri business
owners the right to refuse service on religious grounds +
KC Star: Missouri's debate on gay rights is losing
hostility +
CDT: Study ties repeal of state gun law to more
homicides in Missouri X
KWMU: St. Louis City Board of Aldermen, comprised of
28 Democrats, opposes Missouri Legislature's right-to-work bills
KWMU: Art McCoy, currently on leave from supe post at
Ferguson-Florissant, considered for presidency at Harris-Stowe
The Missouri Times: Bill extends aircraft part
exemption indefinitely
The Missouri Times: Staff profile: Tucker Jobes,
Chief of Staff for Sen. David Sater (R-Cassville)
P-D: Meredith Corp. closes on $177 million purchase of
KMOV
P-D: KTVI's Charles Jaco leaving the news station
P-D editorial: Ethics and the Missouri
Legislature: Sen. John Lamping (R-Ladue) writes his profile in
courage on his way out the door
KC Star "Capitol Watch" editorial: This week's GOP
transgressions: Voter ID proposal, religious freedom bill +
P-D editorial: Kacie Starr Triplett gets to the root
of the problem - greed
P-D editorial: Reaction to Missouri's ranking as
unhappy state, plus a sarcastic swipe at Missouri Legislature
P-D letter: Long delays in death penalty cases are
costly, troubling
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