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Tuesday, May 30
Detroit News: Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) credits Billy
Long for convincing Trump to compromise on amendment to health care bill
NY Times: A look at major drug-pricing
proposals; McCaskill-Collins bill would speed approval of generic
drugs
Columbia Missourian: Politifact: McCaskill
statement on steel industry rated "True"
Columbia Missourian: Peace activist cited for
disrupting Memorial Day event
Missourinet: Hartzler speaks at rededication of
Missouri monument in Mississippi
Missourinet: Libla: Steel mill company will
invest at least $82 million in infrastructure
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Dept. of Agriculture
launches MORE campaign to enhance quality of life in rural
Missouri; Thoughts from Director Chris Chinn
Drebes: Critics say education savings accounts benefit
those who contribute
JCNT: Missouri's state universities face dual woes X
P-D: Missouri targets doctor shortage, expands
first-in-nation law
St. Joseph News-Press: New state law tightens
herbicide use; Farmers who choose to apply herbicide on crops for
which it is not approved will face stiffer penalties X
SE
Missourian editorial: Danforth deservingly recognized with
Churchill award +
P-D editorial: Missouri board must halt juvenile
death-in-prison parole practices
SNL's Christopher Dixon: Blunt, Billy Long should meet
with anti-Trump activists X
KC Star letter: Lee's Summit septuagenarian wants
Blunt to meet with anti-Trump activists +
P-D letter: Webster Groves septuagenarian wants Ann
Wagner to meet with anti-Trump activists
P-D letter: St. Charles County woman wants Blunt to
support Planned Parenthood
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Monday, May
29
Memorial Day
NBC News: Blame game is driving up health care
costs; Comments from Blunt
P-D: Gephardt stops lobbying for Turkey as St. Louis
delegation seeks action against security guards
KWMU: St. Louis' International Institute blames Trump
for decrease of immigrants to region, seeks volunteers to spread
talking points
SNL: Springfield to host 50th birthday of Pachyderms,
a Republican club with Missouri roots; Comments from former local
president Eric Burlison, Greene County GOP Central Committee's Danette
Proctor X
Drebes:
Former Rep. Jim Avery (R-Crestwood) says he's considering primary bid
against Sen. Andrew Koenig (R-Manchester)
Missourinet: Mini-profile: Eric Greitens talks
about being a Navy SEAL, "spiritual pain" vs. "being in a gym and
knocking out a hard set," love for Rambo and Top Gun, etc.
KFVS (Cape Girardeau): State Treasurer Eric Schmitt
encourages military families to check for unclaimed medals
P-D: Proposed state pension changes in Missouri
trigger delay in cost of living adjustment
KWMU: A recap of why education overhaul measures
didn't get through the 2017 Missouri Legislature; Comments from
Missouri Education Reform Council's Jerry Hobbs, Missouri School
Boards' Association's Brent Ghan, others
P-D: Opponents want to kill idea of I-70 as a toll
road; Comments from elected officials, A Better Road Forward's
David Barklage, MoDOT's Bob Brendel
P-D: Dozens of projects on hold because lawmakers
didn't pass spending bill
KWMU: SEMO project uses songbirds to investigate lead
levels near old mines
KC Star: University of Missouri struggles to rebuild
image after hits to reputation; Race-based agitation led to
decline in enrollment +
KWMU: St. Louis-area schools adopt new behavior
policies based on change to Missouri criminal code
KWMU: Missouri Court of Appeals to weigh whether
state's Human Rights Act covers gender identity; KC girl, who
decided at age nine (9) that she felt like a boy, says single-stall
restrooms aren't good enough, demands school district let her use boys'
facilities
P-D editorial: In Missouri, as everywhere else,
Trump's budget is an exercise in selfishness; Less money for
welfare handouts shows GOP heartlessness
KC Star editorial: Long list of challenges awaits MU's
new chancellor +
Messenger: Municipal-court overhaul tale: St.
Louis County prosecuting attorney Brooke Hurst is heartless for seeking
warrant against geriatric black woman with dope charge, multiple unpaid
traffic tickets
KC Star letter: Springfield cancer survivor thanks
Blunt for championing medical research +
P-D letter: St. Louis County woman expresses anger
over existence of the wealthy and Republicans, says David Humphreys is
the "enemy of all working families" in Missouri
P-D letter: St. Peters man is scared of coal ash,
wants lawmakers to be harder on Ameren
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Sunday, May 28
CDT: Anthem considers leaving Obamacare marketplace X
KC Star: Health care issues take center stage in early
ads for McCaskill race +
Drebes:
Former Kinder campaign chief Pam Dixon joins Trump administration as
Press Secretary for General Services Administration
Monett
Times: Monett Chamber forum draws reps from McCaskill, Blunt,
Long offices as well as state legislators; Comments from Budget
Chairman Scott Fitzpatrick (R-Shell Knob), others
AP:
Flooding costs in Missouri estimated at $68 million
Columbia Missourian: Political candidates' spending
gets little scrutiny under Missouri ethics laws
AP:
Missouri OKs more than $6M of business incentives for 680 jobs
CDT: Electricity incentive could cost local residents X
Missourinet: Greitens says he is undecided on
employment discrimination bill
P-D: Jefferson County joins drug monitoring program
P-D: Statewide database of missing kids in Missouri
paints unreliable picture
Missourinet: "Uber on the Water" type service starting
up at Lake of the Ozarks; No known opposition from taxi industry
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Blue Cross and Blue
Shield of KC decision upends market X
KC Star editorial: Hastening Obamacare's demise isn't
a solution; McCaskill's plan to allow some Missourians to buy
into D.C. exchange is a good one +
P-D editorial: Electric-rate boost for Bootheel jobs
is a tax increase in disguise
KSPR's Sheena Elzie: Roy Blunt won't meet with
anti-Trump group, and won't grant me an interview
P-D op-ed: Former Mizzou assistant prof Karen
King: Blunt, colleagues should support STEM funding
Helling: Brainstorming ideas for a hypothetical
Missouri constitutional convention: Slash the number of state
reps, get rid of the Hancock amendment, other fantasies +
Quincy Herald-Whig's Doug Wilson: Greitens' shrill
attacks on "career politicans" ring hollow during special session
KC Star letter: Parkville sexagenarian wonders why KC
Star isn't freaking out over voter ID requirements for streetcar
expansion vote +
SNL letter: Ozark octogenarian says school
superintendent shouldn't have to apologize for graduation prayer X
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Saturday, May 27
KC Star: With Blue KC out of Obamacare, attention
turns to Medica and Cigna +
Sedalia Democrat: Insurance changes impact area
residents
St. Joseph News-Press: Blue Cross change has many
looking for coverage X
Quincy Herald-Whig: Insurers abandon Obamacare markets
as rates climb
KMOX: McCaskill survey says local vets more satisfied
with VA
Missourinet: McCaskill reports improving care at VA
facilities
P-D: McCaskill survey says area VA hospitals showing
steady improvement
SNL: Critic drops off alleged cremains as McCaskill
talks vets, health care and 'dark money' X
P-D: McCaskill sends letter to Mallinckrodt seeking
information on drug price
P-D: Congressional votes for the week
USA Today: Democrats focus on voting rights to fight
Trump's voter fraud commission; Jason Kander to chair 13-member
commission
SNL: Former Rep. Eric Burlison confirms state Senate
run X
Drebes:
Capital Enhancement seeks fundraising account manager
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of May 22
The Missouri Times: Bootheel jobs bill heads to
Greitens' desk after Senate passes HB1 unchanged
The Missouri Times: As one special session ends,
Greitens strongly suggests more to come
SE
Missourian: Senate passes electric-rate bill to benefit possible
Bootheel aluminum smelter, steel mill +
KWMU: Legislature's special session ends with smelting
plant bill sent to Greitens
Missourinet: Governor poised to sign electric utility
legislation for Bootheel region
P-D: Senate send Bootheel bill to Greitens, ends
special session
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Tracy
McCreery (R-Olivette) takes dim view of utilities-based special
session, says future special sessions this year are a waste of taxpayer
dollars, more
AP: Some urban activists unhappy with 'Blue Lives
Matter' laws; Comments from Rep. Shawn Rhoads (R-West Plains)
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri lawmakers
respond to attacks on police with 'Blue Lives Matter' legislation X
KC Star editorial: Harrisonville Board of Education
should be embarrassed for lunch-shaming practices +
Messenger: Osage Nation hopes $50,000 gift to Greitens
paves way for casino in Cuba
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Friday, May 26
P-D: Congressional delegation asks Trump for disaster
assistance for Missouri floods
Washington Missourian: Washington city officials meet
with FEMA to discuss flood damage X
P-D: New NGA facility in North St. Louis City would
get $382 million in Trump's 2018 budget
Politico: Lawmakers, led by McCaskill, say Turkey must
waive diplomatic immunity for security guards involved in D.C. crash
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt, Clay, Wagner sponsor
radioactive waste site bills
SNL: McCaskill to visit MSU to to discuss veterans'
views of Missouri VA facilities X
P-D: New ads praise McCaskill on veterans issues, but
she says she wants voters to ignore all dark-money ads
The Missouri Times: Senate's Commerce committee sends
HB1 to the floor unchanged
The Missouri Times: Thursday Senate session begins as
an airing of grievances
SE
Missourian: Wallingford pushes for passage of electric-rate bill +
Missourinet: Reps. Rocky Miller, Tila Hubrecht, Peter
Meredith weigh in on scrapped, contentious portion of special session
bill
KC Star: Latest allegations against Ron Richard
involve parking-spot access; Senate president used influence to
reserve a parking spot for a visiting constituent thirteen (13) times
this year +
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri legislative session was
light on agriculture issues; Thoughts from Sen. Brian Munzlinger
(R-Williamstown), Missouri Farm Bureau's Blake Hurst
SE
Missourian: Institute for autistic students sees funding cut by
state, will remain open; Tailor Institute seeks explanation from
local lawmakers +
The Missouri Times: Expedited certificate-of-need
decision fast-tracks approval of $2.3M MRI machine in KC
Missourinet: 3M to launch $40 million expansion in
Springfield; MO DED says expansion will create 90 new jobs
Missourinet: Missouri State Highway Patrol to place
state troopers at 20-mile intervals on interstates today
P-D editorial: Western Missouri becomes canary in
Obamacare coal mine
KWMU's Durrie Bouscaren: Republican health care plan's
risk pools will hurt Missourians, and Eric Greitens' office didn't
return my call
P-D op-ed: D.C.-based Campaign for Accountability's
Daniel Stevens: Conservative Republicans Bob Onder, Ron Richard,
Holly Rehder, Rob Vescovo show they're on the take by supporting
pro-business legislation
Nicklaus: State funding cut puts St. Louis' startup
momentum at risk
P-D letter: University City liberal wants McCaskill,
Blunt to support Medicaid spending
P-D letter: St. Peters conservative wonders why
liberals supported cops-as-animals painting but want local Confederate
monument removed
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Thursday, May 25
KC Star: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of KC is pulling
out of Obamacare exchange in 2018 +
WDAF (Kansas City): Blue Cross Blue Shield of KC's
departure from Obamacare leaves thousands without coverage next
year; Comments from Blunt, Cleaver, NRSC
KSHB (Kansas City): Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
Kansas City will not offer individual Obamacare plans in 2018
AP:
Insurer pulls out of Missouri Obamacare exchange
Helling: Simple fix for Missourians without Obamacare
in their counties: Let them buy into Medicare +
KWMU Diversity Fellow Jenny Simeone: Trump budget will
hurt St. Louis Urban League
McClatchy: McCaskill says Trump might not understand
impact his budget has on rural voters
KWMU: New Census numbers: Residents flee St.
Louis City, with big population gains for Wentzville, O'Fallon, other
safe areas
P-D: Clay announces new winner of annual art
contest; Ferguson teenager depicts black girl being abused by
standards of white-woman beauty
Columbia Missourian: Columbia group to offer training
to aid illegal aliens
Missourinet: Greitens requests federal disaster
declaration for Missouri flooding
Missourinet: GOP primary for Ron Richard's state
Senate seat already heating up
Drebes: Brad Hudson running for Don Phillips' state
rep seat
KWMU: Radio station seeks constructive input,
complaints and gripes about Missouri voter ID law
P-D: Greitens nonprofit lobbies for legislation, but
isn't registered to lobby
The Missouri Times: House considering changes to
Rone's steel mill bill
The Missouri Times: House complies with half of
Greitens' call, rejects other half
Missourinet: House approves Noranda/steel mill
bill; McCreery describes bill as "giveaway" to Ameren
AP:
Missouri House advances power-rate bill
KWMU: Missouri House hands Noranda bill to Senate
P-D: "Inspired" by Greitens, Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St.
Louis City) borrows Post-It note gimmick for minimum-wage messages
AP:
Gun control group unhappy with lack of movement on Missouri Democrats'
gun-control legislation
The Missouri Times: Berry, Kolkmeyer seek meeting on
weight-in-motion scales; HELP, Inc. declines
The Missouri Times: PSC gives update on Clean Line
case, slaps Summit with $75k fine
CDT: Choi names permanent Columbia campus chancellor X
CDT: Greitens: University needs strong leadership X
Columbia Missourian: MU welcomes Cartwright as new
chancellor
P-D: With new leadership, Mizzou promises to move
beyond dysfunction
AP:
University of Missouri-Columbia names Alexander Cartwright
chancellor; Caucasoid male says he'll champion diversity
Missourinet: New Mizzou chancellor touts school's work
on diversity
KWMU: Tougher expectations from sponsors lead to fewer
charter school applications in St. Louis
SE
Missourian editorial: Mixed results from Missouri legislative
session; "Sharp and well-educated" Greitens should stop lowering
himself to petty sound-bite attacks on lawmakers +
P-D editorial: Greitens' self-serving antics during
special session are very weird
Washington Missourian editorial: Greitens' special
session X
The Pitch: Former KC Star columnist Barbara
Shelly: With special session bravado, Greitens finally has the
breakout action-hero film role he craved; Sexagenarian feminist
imagines scenes involving Greitens' "muscular neck," passion
P-D op-ed: Sen. Bob Onder (R-Lake Saint Louis):
The immediate need for action on life
P-D letter: Ballwin octogenarian unhappy with Ann
Wagner's support of GOP health care bill
P-D letter: Des Peres conservative Carol Size:
Post-Dispatch's coverage of Ann Wagner shows paper's contempt for
conservative Christian women
P-D letter: Planned Parenthood opposes Missouri
Republicans' budget
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Wednesday, May 24
P-D: Trump's budget freshly ignites the guns vs.
butter argument for the St. Louis region
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill applauds Trump
decision to maintain Office of National Drug Control Policy funding X
Politifact: McCaskill statement on Trump's Mar-a-Lago
trip and Meals on Wheels rated "False"
P-D: Rolla, Mo. unfairly denied marijuana campaign
group's room request, ACLU suit says
Drebes:
Jay Atkins hired as new VP of Government Affairs for AutoReturn
P-D: Missouri's new campaign finance limits law
changes again
SNL: Eric Greitens compares 'dark money' to 'dark
voting' X
The Missouri Times: Curious comments from Greitens on
campaign finance disclosures spark ire of Democrats
The Missouri Times: Greitens takes aim at 'career
politicians' at special session rally
Missourinet: Southeast Missouri residents rally with
Greitens on Noranda issue; Rone predicts House will approve bill
today
P-D: Amid governor's rally, House committee advances
Bootheel proposal
Missourinet: Utility proposal headed to Missouri House
without contentious part - for now
The Missouri Times: Bootheel jobs bill passes House
committees with ease
KWMU: Missouri lawmakers set quick plan to move
aluminum plant bill to Greitens
AP:
House, Greitens push utilities proposal
The Missouri Times: Attendance hits a new low at
Governor's Committee on Simple, Fair and Low Taxes
KSMU: Shortage of psychiatrists leads patients to
costly ER, hospitalization; Comments from MO Dept. of Mental
Health's Mike Neitzel
CDT: New York higher education official to be next
University of Missouri chancellor X
CDT: UM curators increase tuition by 2.1% X
P-D: University of Missouri curators approve 2.1%
tuition increase
KCUR: UMKC Chancellor Leo Morton announces retirement
P-D: UMKC chancellor announces retirement
P-D editorial: Spurned by Supreme Court, irate
Missouri megadonor David Humphreys threatens jobs
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Mid-Missourians
must rally to defeat Vicky Hartzler; Local Democrat Renee Kennedy
Hoagensen totally has a shot to unseat incumbent, who won 2016
re-election by forty (40) points
Missourinet's Jason Taylor op-ed: Taxpayers charged
$22k/day for governor to strong-arm legislators; Lawmakers have
grown weary of Greitens' treatment
P-D letter: Sen. Rob Schaaf (R-St. Joseph): Make
sure legislators pass a real lobbyist gift ban
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Tuesday, May 23
P-D:
Missouri delegation to try again to shift cleanup of West Lake to Corps
of Engineers
Missourinet:
EPA will announce plans soon to address West Lake Landfill
KWMU:
EPA funds St. Louis Community College training program to clean up
hazardous waste
KWMU:
St. Louis 'abortion sanctuary' opponents take their fight to federal
court
Missourinet:
Lawsuit seeks to reverse St. Louis City ordinance
The
Missouri Times: Republican Tony Luetkemeyer announces bid for
Schaaf's open Senate seat
Drebes:
Nick Marshall vs. Tony Luetkemeyer for Rob Schaaf's GOP seat
The
Missouri Times: Rep. Bill White (R-Joplin) in the running for Ron
Richard's Senate seat
The
Missouri Times: Rep. Tila Hubrecht (R-Dexter) resigning from
Legislature after special session
AP:
Hubrecht to resign after special session
The
Missouri Times: Q&A with Speaker of the House candidate
Robert Cornejo: Why he's running, legislative priorities, much
more
Rosenbaum:
Ron Richard says the state should redesign St. Louis region;
local officials balk
Missourinet:
Sen. Scott Sifton (D-Affton): Calling multiple special sessions
would be purely political
SNL:
Greitens' nonprofit busing local Republicans to Jefferson City for rally
X
The
Missouri Times: Senate defends Libla from attacks by Greitens
nonprofit in first day of special session
Columbia
Missourian: Tension carries over into special session
The
Missouri Times: A closer look at what's in Don Rone's
Bootheel-jobs bill language
Missourinet:
Consumers Council of Missouri: Special session is a smokescreen
for legislation to benefit utilities
AP:
Missouri lawmakers power up for electric special session
The
Missouri Times: PDMP autopsy: How Rehder's bill failed to
make it to Greitens' desk
The
Missouri Times: A look at the future of Missouri state workers'
salaries
The
Missouri Times: Opponents call net metering bill's failure a
'victory for consumers'
Missourinet:
Missouri Farm Bureau's Blake Hurst analyzes 2017 session: dicamba
legislation, biodiesel, Clean Line, eminent domain, more
P-D:
Departing Lincoln University president complains about state budget cuts
KWMU:
St. Charles school district bucks area trend, keeps sex ed program tied
to pro-life group
P-D:
Missouri to remove hundreds of GPS monitoring devices recently put on
sex offenders
P-D:
Murderers says Missouri is not giving them fair shot at parole
P-D
editorial: EPA's findings around West Lake Landfill prompt
conflict-of-interest questions
KC
Star editorial: Advice for the Missouri Legislature's special
session: Keep it short +
The
Missouri Times op-ed: Stacy Washington: Taxpayer-funded
West Lake buyouts aren't the answer
Fox
News op-ed: Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft: Yes, voter
fraud is a real threat
KWMU
opinion: Formula grades lawmakers on how many bills passed, not
leadership or other non-quantifiable factors: Todd Richardson
earns "D," Ron Richard "F" for not putting their names on enough bills
Columbia
Missourian op-ed: Randolph County Commissioner Wayne
Wilcox: Grain Belt Transmission Line important for Missouri
St.
Joseph News-Press letter: Leader of local Bernie Sanders "Our
Revolution" sect wants Greitens to veto minimum-wage bill X
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Monday, May 22
Washington Times: As Obamacare markets tighten,
lawmakers feel squeeze for quick fixes; McCaskill wants Missouri
residents to be able to buy coverage on D.C. exchange
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Lt. Gov. Mike
Parson; Panel of Rep. Steven Roberts (D-St. Louis City), Hannah
Beers, Mark Reardon, and Mark Dalton on education funding formula,
discrimination bill, MONA, special session, PDMP, more
Missourinet: Efforts underway to get medical and
recreational marijuana on the ballot in 2018
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Nick
Schroer (R-O'Fallon) chats with Mannies & Rosenbaum about special
session, Greitens, lobbyist-gift ban, more
KWMU: As special session begins, top Republicans
disagree on key points
Missourinet: Greitens and Schaaf clash over PSC
language issue
Missourinet: Special session preview: Comments
from Schaaf, Libla, Romine, others
St. Joseph News-Press: Local lawmakers react to
special session; Rep. Galen Higdon (R-St. Joseph): "This is
just another special interest thing." X
Washington Missourian: Rep. Justin Alferman
(R-Hermann) gives 2017 regular session a grade of "A-" X
SNL: Springfield lawmakers look back at 2017 regular
session X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Local school superintendent
praises rural lawmakers for foundation formula funding
Washington Missourian: Rep. Nathan Tate (R-St. Clair)
named Legislator of the Year for Transportation - after first year in
Legislature X
KC Star editorial: Needed reforms could fix Missouri's
perverted prison system +
CDT letter: School nurse wants state lawmakers to
expand Medicaid X
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Sunday, May 21
P-D: Congressional votes for the week
P-D: Floods raise concern about coal ash disposal
along Mississippi, Missouri rivers
St. Joseph News-Press: Field still open for 2018 GOP
state Senate seat; Rep. Galen Higdon (R-St. Joseph): "I
wouldn't go back to (Jefferson City) if they paid me three times the
amount. I'm finished with them. All the lying, the bribery, the threats
..." X
The Missouri Times: Over 500 attend Greitens rally in
the Bootheel; GOP Reps. Rone, Cornejo, Lichtenegger, Cookson,
McDaniel on hand
The Missouri Times: Rone says, "In the Bootheel, a
deal is a deal" on special session language
SE
Missourian: Greitens: Special session key to more area
jobs; may call second session for drug-monitoring program +
Washington Missourian: Greitens calls special session
for Monday, with focus on steel mill in Bootheel X
JCNT: Greitens' first special session to mull Ameren
electric rate for proposed steel mill X
Messenger: Greitens calls out career politicians.
Takes one to know one.
SNL: Governor's tax committee coming to Springfield X
JCNT: Health care, tech jobs available outpace
Missourians who want them X
JCNT: Counties pick up opioid monitoring as state
legislative fight continues X
AP:
Missouri headed toward more pre-K funding
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia),
other state lawmakers believe transportation will be addressed next
session
SNL Managed care expansion creates anxiety for some
Ozarks clinics X
CDT: $6.1M (million) of current $27.8B (billion)
budget directed to family-planning services; Liberal groups
unhappy X
Fulton Sun: Dept. of Mental Health opened abuse
inquiries at Second Chance Homes
SE
Missourian editorial: Appreciating the floodwall, and leaders who
built it +
Washington Missourian editorial: Raising the minimum
wage in "urban centers" like STL and KC a bad idea, but conservative
pundit Scott Faughn is right - Republicans' idea of local control is
Jefferson City control X
P-D op-ed: Wash U. adjunct professor wants Ann Wagner
to host anti-Trump activists
KC Star op-ed: "End Citizens United" organizer says
her group has 48,000 "members," wants to pass "Clean Missouri" ballot
initiative +
SNL letter: Springfield septuagenarian wants Billy
Long to call for special prosecutor to investigate Trump-Russia
connection X
SNL letter: Missouri Public Transit Association's
Kimberly Cella says state lawmakers are moving in the wrong direction
on funding X
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Saturday, May 20
AP: Prospect of NAFTA rewrite gives US farmers a case
of the jitters; Comments from Missouri Farm Bureau's Blake Hurst
Politico: McCaskill says Senate discussion on
Obamacare overhaul should include Democrats
Missourinet: McCaskill weighs in on special
prosecutor, FBI picks
KC Star's Bryan Lowry analysis: Republicans Sam and
Todd Graves, Democrats Claire McCaskill and Emanuel Cleaver hold
differing views on President Donald Trump +
KCUR: Local anti-Trump artist mocks President's
immigration policy by creating a "wall" of stitched-together paintings
The Missouri Times: EPA releases another report
showing no radiation danger outside West Lake Landfill
Drebes: Which other Springfield Republican will join
Eric Burlison in the Missouri Senate come 2019?
SNL: Rep. Kevin Austin to run for state Senate X
JCNT: Greitens appoints Social Services, Financial
Institutions directors X
KWMU: Behind the Headlines: Jo Mannies previews
special legislative session
SE
Missourian: Greitens: Mill bill opposition based on 'petty
philosophical points'; jobs are crucial
+
Missourinet: Greitens to rally southeast Missouri
residents Saturday on steel mill special session issue
Missourinet: Greitens: Missouri could have
multiple special sessions this year
The Missouri Times: Rep. Robert Cornejo (R-St. Peters)
to donate per diem from special session
The Missouri Times: ACLU, NAACP, Auditor Nicole
Galloway urge Greitens to veto SB 43 over 'Whistleblower Protection Act'
Columbia Missourian: Draft budget for MU calls for
cutting 328 jobs
AP: UMKC to cut about 30 jobs to save money
KWMU: UMSL to trim another 2.5% from its budget
KWMU: Nasheed vows to pass municipal court overhaul
bill that will survive legal tests; North St. Louis County mayors
say legislators should leave municipalities alone
Washington Missourian: Missouri Dept. of Public Safety
making progress on fixing communication coverage gap
SE
Missourian: Mississippi County sheriff fights efforts by Hawley
to remove him from office +
SNL: Uber expands operations across southern Missouri X
P-D: Telepsychiatry helps with mental health burdens
in rural Missouri
KC Star editorial: Senate-gallery disruptors are heroes +
P-D editorial briefs: Republican lawmakers fail to
pass Shamed Dogan's hair-braiding legislation because the
small-business owners are black
P-D letter: Warrenton man wants Greitens to sign bill
banning toll roads
P-D letter: National Council on Alcoholism and Drug
Abuse's Dan Duncan praises Holly Rehder, criticizes Missouri Legislature
P-D letter: Clayton octogenarian says she has
forgotten what she used to do to service a young John Danforth, but
he's a real dandy
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Friday, May 19
KWMU: McCaskill seeks way to cover about 40 counties
that may lose individual Obamacare insurers
SNL: McCaskill bill would help consumers in 'bare'
insurance markets
KC Star: McCaskill proposes letting people buy
insurance from same exchange as Congress
Missourinet: McCaskill announces plan for Obamacare
health care exchanges
CDT: McCaskill: Too early to talk about
impeaching Trump
Missourinet: McCaskill seeks to push Greitens on state
prescription drug monitoring program
KWMU: EPA reports no evidence of Manhattan Project
waste in Bridgeton homes; Activist/amateur epidemiologist Dawn
Chapman not swayed by scientific data
AP:
EPA: No contamination in homes near West Lake Landfill
P-D: EPA tests show no radioactive waste in Bridgeton
homes
The Missouri Times: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
says agency will soon have plan for West Lake Landfill
SNL: Rep. Elijah Haahr (R-Springfield) to run for
Speaker of the House
The Missouri Times: Q&A with Speaker of the House
candidate Elijah Haahr: Economic development, ethics legislation,
challenges as Speaker Pro Tem, more
The Missouri Times: Rep. Randy Dunn (D-Kansas City) to
resign, pursue community development career: "Despite serving in
the superminority, I loved the work I did in the Legislature."
Drebes:
House 55 GOP primary for Rick Brattin's seat: Forecast calls for
ugly battle between Ryan Johnson and Mike Vinck
P-D's Christopher Ave: Help wanted: Celeste
Bott, the longest-tenured Post-Dispatch statehouse reporter at nearly
one (1) year, leaving post
Missourinet: Schmitt: Dollar Tree's Warrensburg
decision highlights Missouri's place as distribution hub
The Missouri Times: Greitens calls special session
next week to pass steel mill bill
SE
Missourian: Greitens calls special session for job-creation bill
to boost Bootheel economy
Missourinet: Greitens calls special legislative
session to address power rate proposal, more southeast Missouri jobs
KWMU: Greitens calls special legislative session on
Noranda smeltering plant
Missourinet: Libla outlines position on Noranda/steel
issue
JCNT: A historical look at Missouri's special sessions
Kraske: Wielding snark and chutzpah, Eric Greitens
takes dead aim at lawmakers
JCNT: Rep. Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City):
General Assembly did a good job
AP:
Missouri, other states scramble to comply with REAL ID law
KWMU: Judge says no to Missouri's request to stay
order blocking abortion restrictions
The Missouri Times: No established timeline for PSC
ruling on Clean Line
KC Star: KC officer will walk to Jefferson City in
order to stop urban youth murders
KWMU: Remaining "Medicaid 23" defendants receive
probation for Missouri Capitol protest; 2014 stunt featured
singing, yelling in Senate gallery for attention
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air recap:
Gender-identity expert gives update on latest LGBTQIA*
nomenclature: "Transgendered" no longer okay, could be hurtful to
transgenders
Columbia Missourian's George Kennedy: Liberal
columnist unhappy with list of GOP legislative accomplishments
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Liberal columnist
unhappy with list of GOP legislative accomplishments
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Thursday, May 18
P-D's Chuck Raasch: Blunt, Wagner have divergent
opinions on Trump; Comments from 1/2 of Post-Dispatch poli sci
prof pundit pool (David Robertson, UMSL)
The Hill: Ann Wagner, other female lawmakers flee the
House for higher office
KMOX: Ann Wagner says activists are drawing dead-body
chalk outlines on her driveway
SE
Missourian: Greitens still gathering data needed for federal
disaster declaration +
AP:
Senior U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill weighs in on state PDMP legislation
AP:
Liberal groups, unions push ballot initiative on district boundaries,
campaign contributions, lobbyist gifts
The Missouri Times: Cierpiot officially announces 2018
state Senate run
Rosenbaum: Greitens' relationship with the Legislature
could use some repair
KC Star: GOP Sen. Ryan Silvey, House Superminority
Leader Gail McCann Beatty chat with KC Star ed board members about
Greitens' dark money, term limits, more +
The Missouri Times: Eric Schmitt's first months in
office helped influence business legislation; Implementation of
MO ABLE another big win
The Missouri Times: Elijah Haahr announces bid for
Speaker of the House
Columbia Missourian: End-of-session recap of major
legislation
Missourinet: Ethics bills fail in Legislature
Missourinet: Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Frankford) asks
Richardson to keep DOC subcommittee intact
Missourinet: Lawmakers release recommendations to
address Missouri prison issues
KWMU: Missouri lawmakers fail to pass hair braiding
proposal; Lawsuits pending
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Moberly Superintendent Matt
Miller pleased with foundation formula funding, skeptical of
special-session chatter
SE
Missourian: SEMO to close St. Louis outreach office as part of
budget cuts +
CDT: Bill would repeal state law barring some with
criminal records from running for office X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: May 17
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri American wants to get
the lead out - of service lines; Comments from PSC's Kevin Kelly,
American Water's Jody Carlson X
KWMU: Bridgeton residents seeking cash payouts unhappy
with failure of buyout legislation
Missourinet: Chappelle-Nadal seeks to win support for
buyout legislation, calls Rep. Joshua Peters (D-St. Louis) and others
"baby killers"
KC Star editorial: Amid budget cuts and bad publicity,
the University of Missouri-Columbia sits at a critical juncture +
P-D editorial: Shackling sex offenders for life is no
way to administer justice
P-D op-ed: Cato Institute Project on Criminal
Justice's Tim Lynch: A solution exists for Missouri's indigent
defense crisis
KC Star's Jason Hancock: Greitens fails on ethics,
hides from questions +
P-D letter: Operation Food Search responds to "lunch
shaming" piece, wants federal legislation to help prevent hurt feelings
P-D letter: St. Louis County resident responds to
"lunch shaming" piece, suggests irresponsible parents apologize to
school officials for manufacturing hubbub
SE
Missourian letter: Cape Girardeau septuagenarian questions
Wallingford's fiscal conservatism +
P-D letter: Fenton resident wonders why Messenger
doesn't support state legislators' call for city-county merger
P-D letter: Affton sexagenarian dislikes Missouri
House's paper-toss tradition, says lawmakers' annual moment of
exhilaration annoys her
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Wednesday, May 17
P-D: McCaskill, Blunt join in questioning what Trump
told the Russians; Wagner defends president
KC Star: Blunt critical of Trump decision to share
intelligence with Russian officials +
SNL: McCaskill says American military put at risk by
Trump disclosure of intelligence to Russians
X
Missourinet: Luetkemeyer at forefront of GOP effort to
overhaul Dodd-Frank regulations
P-D: Georgetown group ranks federal lawmakers
according to "Bipartisan Index;" Blunt scores high in reaching
across aisle
The Missouri Times: Former Speaker of the House Rod
Jetton heading to Greece in search of Master's degree
Drebes:
Former state Sen. Jeff Smith's (D-St. Louis City) book, Mr. Smith Goes
to Prison, now out in paperback
AP:
Missouri adds counties in flooding, storm damage assessments
The Missouri Times: Jay Ashcroft made his mark in
first legislative session
The Missouri Times: State Auditor Nicole Galloway
speaks to Columbia Chamber, talks about her Budget Integrity Series
Faughn:
The afterglow of special session broken down by national pastime:
Naming names of legislators that had World Series-level performances,
and those who earned a last-place finish
SE
Missourian: Area lawmakers reveal highs, lows of legislative
session +
KWMU:
Analysis: GOP lawmakers achieve goals in passing pro-business
legislation
Missourinet:
House Speaker Todd Richardson (R-Poplar Bluff), House Superminority
Leader Gail McCann Beatty (D-Kansas City) offer their post-session
analysis
KC
Star: Editorial Board members Colleen Nelson, Dave Helling to
host Facebook Live chat at 4 p.m. today with Sen. Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas
City), House Superminority Leader Gail McCann Beatty +
P-D:
Political Fix audio: Reporter Celeste Bott offers unbiased
analysis of legislative session; Reporter Kurt Erickson mocks
Greitens' direct-to-voter communication approach, offers sarcastic
"good luck" (9:30)
KWMU:
St. Louis Lambert International Airport's Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge talks
REAL ID, more
CDT:
PDMP proponents see hope for statewide database X
P-D:
Galloway says a 2016 fee hike could trigger tax refunds
AP:
Galloway says state expungement fees could violate state constitution
P-D:
Hundreds of Missouri sex offenders now required to wear GPS monitoring
devices for life
Columbia
Missourian: Politifact: Statement from Rep. Paul Fitzwater
(R-Potosi) on industrial hemp rated "Half True"
The Missouri Times: Missouri Supreme Court upholds
most provisions of municipal court overhaul law
KWMU: Missouri Supreme Court tosses out parts of 2015
law for traffic fines, fees in St. Louis County
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court upholds portion of
ruling about 2015 traffic ticket legislation for state, St. Louis County
P-D: Court-overhaul law survives Missouri Supreme
Court, but no longer targets St. Louis County
P-D: Missouri lawmakers make recommendations for
overhauling state's embattled prison system
KWMU: Normandy students continue to disappoint;
School district will remain under state control another 3 years
SE
Missourian: Hawley seeks bond revocation for embattled sheriff +
KC Star: HSUS criticizes Missouri over "puppy mills" +
P-D editorial: Shame on the lunch shamers;
Taxpayers should foot the bill for all urban student lunches, to avoid
possibility of hurt feelings
KC Star editorial: Missouri Senate is disintegrating
into a body of angry chaos +
Waters: Legislature wraps up session before May 31 [sic] deadline X
KC Star letter: Macon, Mo. liberal wants Sam Graves to
be more vocal about Trump topics +
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Tuesday, May 16
KTVI (St. Louis): Boeing selects St. Louis to build
new T-X jets; McCaskill, Greitens attend announcement
KWMU: T-X training jet could be assembled in St.
Louis, if Boeing gets the contract
Missourinet: Boeing hopes to add 2,000 jobs if awarded
military contract
P-D: If it wins trainer contract, Boeing will assemble
T-X in St. Louis
KMOX: McCaskill, Clay weigh in on firing of Comey
USA Today: Trump missing the mark on opioids, critics
say; McCaskill says she's concerned by "warning signs"
KC Star: Anti-Trump group targets Blunt, other GOP
elected officials at fundraisers; Noisemaking tactics include
honking horns, blowing whistles to disrupt grown-ups' activities +
AP:
Jack Danforth gets Churchill Leadership Medal
Rosenbaum: Key takeaways from an unruly, but
substantial, Missouri legislative session
KWMU: Putting the 2017 legislative session in
perspective with Jo Mannies
KWMU: Mannies, Rosenbaum, Marshall Griffin review the
legislative session
The Missouri Times: Five topics that may prompt
Greitens to call a special session
The Missouri Times: Rone seeking special session to
attract smelter to Bootheel
Missourinet: Rone calls for special session on
Bootheel aluminum/steel plant issue
KC Star: Greitens to attend Republican Governors
Association event in Miami +
The Missouri Times: Governor's tax commission to hold
first town hall this week
KC Star: Legislators succeed in passing minimum-wage
law +
Missourinet: Missouri Right to Life wants to see more
action on pro-life bills
AP:
GOP budget could expand pre-K funding
KWMU: Charter school sponsorship not always seen as
higher education's higher calling
SNL: Four (4) students complain about prayer at high
school graduation; Teen girl says she felt "extremely ostracized"
by superintendent's invocation X
CDT: University of Missouri enrollment to decline 7
percent; 400 jobs to be eliminated X
P-D: Mizzou to cut hundreds of positions amid expected
7 percent enrollment drop
KC Star: University of Missouri to cut 400 positions
at Columbia campus +
Drebes:
Ron Calzone sues on last year's SB 638
Missourinet: Legislature passes bill to continue organ
donor checkoff program
Missourinet: Missouri's 'Hailey's Law' supporters to
try again in 2018
Missourinet: ACLU: More allegations of eastern
Missouri jail inmate mistreatment could surface
SE
Missourian: Hawley to review request to probe Oran timecard
allegations +
P-D editorial: Greitens should veto GOP discrimination
bill
P-D editorial page editor Tod Robberson: Hypocritical
GOP legislators trample on local sovereignty; Photo of female
Democratic superminority members weeping on House floor
KWMU's Durrie Bouscaren: Rep. Robert Ross (R-Yukon),
other GOP legislators hurt Missouri women with budget legislation
Columbia Missourian letter: Med school student
disagrees with Billy Long on GOP health care bill
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Monday, May 15
AP:
More price hikes likely for Obamacare markets; Missouri among
eight states down to one insurer
Drebes:
Help wanted: The Nature Conservancy seeks external affairs manager
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Peter
Kinder; Panel of Carl Bearden, Joe Lakin, Jeff Mazur, Anne
Schweitzer talk legislative session
AP: Greitens' ethics priorities fail to gain passage
Missourinet: Greitens says lawmakers deserve grade of
"incomplete," calls some lawmakers third-graders
Missourinet: Last-minute bills pass Legislature;
Greitens could call special session
JCNT: Local legislators applaud 'right to work,' tort
overhaul X
AP:
Missouri targets doctor shortage, expands first-in-nation law
AP:
State won't make some flooded districts make up lost days
P-D: School districts deal with complaints about
'lunch shaming;' Thoughts from parents who can't manage to keep
track of spawn's lunch tabs
SE
Missourian editorial: Congratulations to 18 new American citizens +
Helling: Trump, Greitens, Sly James should answer more
of reporters' questions +
SNL letter: Joplin sexagenarian says Billy Long's
health care vote was cowardly, suggests incumbent - who won re-election
in 2016 by forty-one (41) points - is in trouble X
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Sunday, May 14
KC
Star: Anti-Trump rally draws fewer than 50 outside Blunt's office
+
Drebes:
Ryan Johnson may be folding Missouri Alliance for Freedom
SNL:
Greitens not happy with GOP legislators' performance X
St.
Joseph News-Press: Schaaf shoots back: Senator claims
Greitens acted in illegal, unconstitutional way X
P-D:
End-of-session recap: Greitens gets mixed results
Missourinet:
Rehder plans to file PDMP bill again next year
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Sen. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) says he plans to
bring back prevailing wage legislation
JCNT:
Prevailing wage repeal fails; Local contractors react X
KRES/KRES
(Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) reflects on session,
special Dept. of Corrections committee, praises new DOC Director Anne
Precythe
JCNT:
Missouri lawmakers pleased with pension changes X
P-D:
Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City) tweets that landfill
buyout opponents are 'baby killers,' should 'burn in hell'
Washington
Missourian: Legislature passes bill to name bridge for MoDOT
worker
CDT:
Columbia begins to see impact of declining enrollment at MU X
JCNT:
DHSS employee Cindy Reese honored for career in early childhood advocacy
X
KC
Star editorial: Legislative scorecard: Failing grades for
Legislature and governor +
P-D
editorial: Missouri Chamber enjoys successful session, but
everyone else will suffer
St.
Joseph News-Press editorial: Legislature failed Missourians by
ignoring transportation funding and killing PDMP X
JCNT
editorial: State workers might get pay raises ... next year X
SE Missourian
op-ed: Consumer Energy Alliance's Brydon Ross supports SB 190
+
Messenger:
Missouri removes its conflict in trucking dispute, but the taint remains
SNL
letter: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) praises McCaskill for work on
retired miners X
SNL
letter: Local "Indivisible" organizer unhappy with Billy Long
X
SNL
letter: Ozark man disagrees with Billy Long on health care vote
X
P-D
letter: Children's Education Alliance of Missouri's Laura
Slay: Failed study gives wrong picture about school vouchers
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Saturday, May 13
KC Star: McCaskill sends letter to Trump on opioid
epidemic, says she wants to work with him on issue +
P-D: Congressional votes for the week
Washington Post: Democratic Senatorial Campaign
Committee uses YouTube ads to hit Senate hopefuls Vicky Hartzler, Ann
Wagner on health care
Drebes:
Josh Hawley the early favorite in GOP U.S. Senate primary
JCNT: Jay Ashcroft seeks high court's support in
concealing assault victim's address X
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
Senate
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
House
KWMU: Final day of session recap: What passed,
what died, and who took credit
The Missouri Times: Greitens forces boxing analogy
into post-session press conference, says he finished "the first round
of a 10-round fight"
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Greitens hints at special session
The Missouri Times: Legislators share thoughts on
value of a special session
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Craig Redmon (R-Canton) says
REAL ID was example of good compromise, says he's proud of funding
foundation formula
SNL: Legislature's final day marked by chaos X
P-D: Missouri legislative session ends in chaos,
accomplishment
P-D: How major legislation fared in 2017
The Missouri Times: House Republicans tout
session-long successes as misfires underscore final day
The Missouri Times: Senate's final hours of session
saw a PQ and a budget win
Columbia Missourian: Legislature passed much of
pro-business agenda, flailed on other items
Columbia Missourian: Bills targeting medical lawsuits,
drug overdoses pass
KC Star: Republicans pass budget, minimum wage measure +
Missourinet: Recap of Senate battles: Schaaf vs.
Greitens; Ryan Silvey; Jamilah Nasheed; Maria
Chappelle-Nadal
Missourinet: Lawmakers pass ban on minimum wage hikes
P-D: Legislature sends bill blocking minimum wage hike
to Greitens
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia)
talks about minimum-wage victory
P-D: Prescription drug monitoring proposal dies on
session's final day
The Missouri Times: West Lake Landfill bill dies in
the House
KWMU: State appeals decision blocking abortion
restrictions
SE
Missourian: Southeast regents approve tuition increase +
CDT: For first time in 30 years, CDT to get new
managing editor; To fill Jim Robertson's shoes, paper turns to
Alaska Legislature's IT employee Charles Westmoreland X
KC Star editorial: Missouri seals fate as only state
without a drug monitoring program +
KC Star editorial: Missouri highway task force will be
a giant waste of time +
KC Star's Jason Hancock: 2017 session's winners and
losers +
P-D letter: Manchester liberal angry at Ann Wagner for
declining to attend anti-Trump rally
P-D letter: Arnold conservative applauds Ann Wagner
for standing up to local Democrats' "organized hysteria"
P-D letter: Pacific man says white people's desire to
live in safe neighborhoods causes flood damage
KC Star letter: Springfield lesbian expresses anger at
GOP Rep. Rick Brattin, attempts analogy involving sapphic kisses and
werewolves +
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Friday, May 12
KC Star: Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield undecided about
participating in Obamacare exchange in Missouri +
Drebes:
Unions create "We Are Missouri" campaign committee to overturn "right
to work;" Former state Rep. Tom George (D-Florissant) to serve as
treasurer
St. Joseph News-Press: Democrat Days hopes to
resuscitate party in region; Stephen Webber, Nicole Galloway,
Scott Sifton to speak X
The Missouri Times: Pat Contreras, who ran in 2016
Democratic state treasurer primary against Judy Baker, to lobby for
construction firm
The Missouri Times: Rep. Rocky Miller (R-Lake Ozark)
the latest to join race for Majority Floor Leader
Kraske: Pushup puffery: At post-session press
conference, Greitens will take credit for GOP successes - but the
governor is more lucky than good +
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
Senate
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
House
The Missouri Times: REAL ID passes through the House
Missourinet: Legislature passes REAL ID bill in the
nick of time
P-D: Missouri House sends REAL ID fix to Greitens' desk
KC Star: House passes REAL ID
+
SNL: Cuts to disabilities care could be restored if
Missouri makes enough money this year X
The Missouri Times: House and Senate remain at odds on
senior services; Silvey calls House GOP plan "dumb"
Missourinet: House, Senate yet to agree on in-home care
AP:
Missouri House backs proposal to restore in-home care cuts
The Missouri Times: Senators sign off on Blue Alert
bill and amendment
Missourinet: Legislators pass Blue Alert as part of
illegal re-entry bill
SNL: Hailey's Law added to Blue Alert bill in Senate X
The Missouri Times: PDMP headed to conference after all
The Missouri Times: House Conservative Caucus
reaffirms opposition to PDMP bill
Columbia Missourian: Statewide prescription drug
monitoring program in peril as deadline nears
P-D: State worker pension changes advance in Missouri
Legislature
AP:
Missouri lawmakers seek to limit medical costs in lawsuits;
Comments from Missouri Chamber's Brian Bunten
P-D: Lawmakers send Greitens more pro-business
legislation
KWMU: Legislative briefs: REAL ID, Blue Alert,
zoo tax, more
The Missouri Times: Rone attempts last lifeline for
Bootheel jobs against Libla opposition
The Missouri Times: Hundreds of jobs in Missouri's
Bootheel at stake as session winds down
Missourinet: Rone blasts Libla, Romine, Schaaf in
emotional floor speech
The Missouri Times: Collateral source makes it to
Greitens in final days of session
P-D: Missouri is poised to fully fund its school
formula, but only after reducing its costs
KC Star: Hefty budget cuts in store for University of
Missouri campuses +
Columbia Missourian: Missouri Supreme Court Chief
Justice Patricia Breckenridge, DNR Director Carol Comer among Mizzou
commencement speakers
Washington Missourian: East Central College Board of
Trustees awaits Greitens' signature on budget
Missourinet: Rep. Steve Cookson (R-Poplar Bluff) wants
to continue organ donor checkoff donations
P-D: St. Louis Zoo bill heads to Greitens
Missourinet: St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson hopeful
about public safety tax legislation
Missourinet: Hawley investigating sheriff in Bootheel
after inmate dies in altercation
P-D editorial: Campaign donation limits remain. So do
loopholes.
P-D editorial page editor Tod Robberson: Reporters
should not let their liberal bias be obvious
Columbia Missourian's George Kennedy: Seasoned
Democrat columnist hopes Stephen Webber runs for office soon
SNL op-ed: Missouri Budget Project's Traci
Gleason: Missouri Senate acts to protect seniors X
P-D op-ed: David Warner criticizes GOP Reps. Justin
Hill and Scott Fitzpatrick, says he lives in Clayton
Columbia Missourian op-ed: David Warner criticizes GOP
Reps. Justin Hill and Scott Fitzpatrick, says he lives in Columbia
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Thursday, May 11
P-D: McCaskill, Blunt react to Comey firing
KCUR: Congressional delegation weighs in on
Comey; No response from Sam Graves' office
KODE (Joplin): Southwest Missouri Democrats want Billy
Long to hold town hall
P-D: Local "Indivisible" rally turns out small crowd
to hear Comey "cover-up" conspiracy complaints
SE
Missourian: Local Tea Party group to host discussion about Sharia
law +
AP:
Disaster specialists assessing Missouri storm, flood damage
Drebes:
Missouri Ethics Commission issues two new opinions: Guidance on
taking primary and general contributions at the same time, and third
parties paying for travel
KMOV (St. Louis): State Treasurer Eric Schmitt's MO
ABLE a 'game-changer' for people with disabilities
KOMU (Columbia): Launch of MO ABLE program brings
relief to Columbia families
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
Senate
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
House
KWMU: Legislative updates: Robert Cornejo
announces bid for Speaker of the House; House bans 'sanctuary
cities' for illegals; Democratic superminority complains about
discrimination bill; more
The Missouri Times: Nasheed, House Democratic
superminority want Greitens to veto GOP discrimination bill
Missourinet: Democrats write letters to Greitens, ask
him to veto discrimination bill
SNL: Discrimination bill complicates lawsuit against
Springfield police X
Missourinet: Nasheed filibusters minimum-wage bill
Faughn: Funds-sweep proposal shows legislators' faith
in Sarah Steelman; Richardson's leadership evident on
discrimination-bill passage; GOP legislators show courage on
MONA; PQs on deck for Senate
Missourinet: Rowden says senators need to learn "to
pick their fights a little better"
AP:
Missouri lawmakers pass REAL ID compliance measure
SNL: Drug-monitoring proposal stalls in Missouri House X
P-D: PDMP in doubt in Legislature's final days
P-D: Missouri lawmakers target out-of-state plaintiffs
Missourinet: Missouri Senate gives stamp of approval
to create transportation task force
The Missouri Times: Public employees leave HELP, Inc.
Board, Drivewyze ready to install; Comments from Missouri
Trucking Association's Tom Crawford, others
Columbia Missourian: Industrial hemp could be
re-legalized in Missouri
The Missouri Times: PSC finds compromise in KCPL rate
case, still says they lack authority on electric-vehicle stations
Missourinet: Hawley: Mississippi County sheriff
has been ousted
CDT editorial: CDT editorial board - comprised of "top
editors and the publisher" - will now pen editorials, with Hank Waters
jettisoned to thrice-weekly sidebar X
JCNT editorial: Legislature breathes new life into
shelved Missouri State Penitentiary plan X
KC Star editorial: AG Josh Hawley sends strong message
to jailers - but Jackson County facility may require federal, not
state, intervention +
P-D letter: St. Louis County man says Missourians
elected Republicans, in part, to dismantle Obamacare
P-D letter: St. James woman says House GOP health care
bill would harm rural Missourians
P-D letter: Pacific septuagenarian applauds Jason
Kander's statements on Democrats and empathy, cites study showing
liberals are superior because they "care more" than conservatives
JCNT letter: Jefferson City septuagenarian says state
lawmakers are "backward" on REAL ID, and everything else X
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Wednesday, May 10
St. Joseph News-Press: Senate begins its health care
considerations; Comments from Blunt X
P-D: Feds OK $2 million for bridge, road repairs as
MoDOT continues looking for damage; Comments from McCaskill
KMOV: Veterans at risk, tax dollars wasted at new VA
facility; McCaskill puts pressure on VA for answers
Columbia Missourian fact check: McCaskill claim on
opioid use rated "False"
Missourinet: Luetkemeyer at forefront of GOP effort to
overhaul Dodd-Frank regulations
The Missouri Times: Lt. Gov. Mike Parson steps up to
respond to floods
The Missouri Times: Candidate Greitens vs. Governor
Greitens: A look at how State of the State promises are tracking
in Legislature
The Missouri Times: Hourly update: Missouri
Senate
The Missouri Times: Hourly update: Missouri House
KWMU: Legislative briefs: Senate passes REAL
ID; Rehder accepts PDMP changes; Legislators eat food
The Missouri Times: Senate picks up REAL ID ... and
then puts it back down
The Missouri Times: REAL ID passes Senate after
midnight, now returns to the House
Missourinet: Missouri Senate passes REAL ID
bill; Measure goes back to House
P-D: Missouri Senate passes REAL ID bill, overcoming
staunch opposition
The Missouri Times: PDMP falters at finish line as
Rehder dissolves conference committee
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello)
expresses doubt about PDMP's chances
The Missouri Times: Port authority bill, now turned
economic development omnibus, heads to conference
SE
Missourian: Missouri Senate unlikely to repeal prevailing wage law +
P-D: Facing cuts to senior programs, Missouri Senate
puts budget pressure on House
KC Star: House, Senate differ on funds-sweep gambit +
KWMU: The Missouri Partnership, the state's
business-recruiting arm, gets no funding in state budget
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Lindell Shumake (R-Hannibal)
doubts passage of bonds for veterans homes this session
Missourinet: Democrats unhappy with discrimination
legislation headed to Greitens
Drebes:
Americans for Tax Reform approves overhaul of liquor-advertising
regulations
SNL: Bill to classify cities and counties by
population heads to Greitens X
Columbia Missourian: Efforts underway to expand access
to virtual education
The Missouri Times: Chappelle-Nadal eyes new tactics
to pass West Lake bill
KWMU: Chappelle-Nadal threatens filibuster unless West
Lake demands are met
Missourinet: Chappelle-Nadal says she'll halt Senate
business unless House acquiesces on West Lake payoffs
P-D: Missouri officials removed from trucking company
board that does business with state
AP:
Missouri officials leave trucking tech company board
P-D: Hawley to investigate Backpage with new human
trafficking unit
SE
Missourian: Federal suit: Lack of medical care by jailers
led to woman's death +
SE
Missourian: Hawley seeks to remove embattled sheriff after
inmate's death +
JCNT editorial: Shine a light on dark money X
KC Star editorial: Republican Rick Brattin's statement
on proposed LGBTQIA* legal protections is deplorable, and he had better
apologize +
KC Star op-ed: Jay Ashcroft: Judge's ruling puts
Safe at Home participants in jeopardy +
Jensen:
MU's fall due to cowardly leadership, media narrative +
P-D letter: Missouri Sierra Club's Ravi Ravulapati
applauds Claire McCaskill for opposing Trump on energy issues
P-D letter: St. Charles man says Post-Dispatch's
treatment of Stacy Washington shows how worthless the paper has become
P-D letter: Hazelwood sexagenarian expresses
frustration at paper's treatment of Stacy Washington, recalls golden
days of the conservative St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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Tuesday, May 9
The Missouri Times: Will Missouri be declared a
federal disaster zone? It all depends on Trump.
AP:
Roads gradually reopen as floodwaters recede in many areas
KWMU: St. Louis Public Radio joins ProPublica campaign
to solicit reader/activist tales of "hate crimes"; Reporting
categories include perceived meanness to immigrants, "status as a trans
person," etc.
The Missouri Times: Rep. Robert Cornejo (R-St.
Charles) says Republicans across the state want better choices for
Speaker of the House
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Budget
Chairman Scott Fitzpatrick (R-Shell Knob) has a chat with Rosenbaum
about education funding, suggests Greitens would best serve
conservative agenda by not meddling in House matters during final week
Missourinet: Fitzpatrick says Senate funds-sweep
gambit unconstitutional
P-D: Fitzpatrick's warning about funds sweep sends
Senate scrambling
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
Senate
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
House
St. Joseph News-Press: Lawmakers face Friday deadline
to pass legislation X
KWMU: Legislative briefs: Discrimination bill,
PDMP, in-home health care, other bills
SNL: Several members of Missouri House Democratic
superminority protest discrimination bill by not voting; Measure
heads to Greitens X
The Missouri Times: House sends Romine's
discrimination bill to Greitens
Missourinet: Workplace discrimination bill heads to
Greitens' desk
P-D: GOP lawmakers send discrimination bill to Greitens
KC Star: Republicans pass discrimination bill +
AP:
Missouri lawmakers OK ban on sex offenders by kids' museums
KRES/KWIX: Moberly Area Community College President
Dr. Jeff Lashley says cuts to higher ed funding put more emphasis on
enrollment
Columbia Missourian: Mizzou students talk enrollment
decline, higher tuition
SNL: Mayor's Commission for Children highlights early
education gender gap; Heading into kindergarten, girls more
likely to be ready to learn than boys, 83 percent to 66 percent X
AP:
Motorcycle helmet exemptions stall in Missouri Legislature
Missourinet: Schupp, Rep. Judy Morgan (D-Kansas City)
oppose GOP abortion language
Columbia Missourian: Legislature demographics
feature: Small business dominates Missouri legislators' occupation
Columbia Missourian: Legislature demographics
feature: Female elected officials talk recruitment, perceived
discrimination
P-D: Law firm claims "independent" studies show
elevated levels of radioactivity in Bridgeton homes; Actual
scientists from EPA, CDC, MO DHSS say levels are safe
P-D editorial: FCC shouldn't bless the huge
Sinclair-Tribune media marriage; Editorial board chooses photo of
97.1FM host Jamie Allman to accompany editorial
Six Months Ago: Jamie Allman corrects misinformation
from Post-Dispatch staff about TV show production and station ownership
KC Star editorial: Missouri's mentally ill will be
worse off under U.S. House health care bill +
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Real ID's time has
come X
CDT Darkow cartoon: Missouri's decline in enrollment
and freshman coeds packing on the pork X
P-D letter: Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice's
Mary Clemons opposes Ann Wagner's vote on health care bill, claims
grandchildren are distraught over congressional action
SE
Missourian letter: Cape Girardeau septuagenarian wants Blunt and
Smith to stop supporting military, and instead spend taxpayer money on
health care +
KC Star letter: Belton sexagenarian says Missouri
Republicans' stance on campaign finance laws shows bias toward
corporations +
P-D letter: Clayton man who lost children to drunk
driver thanks Rep. Kathie Conway (R-St. Charles) for defending sobriety
checkpoints
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Monday, May 8 Truman
Day
NBC's Meet the Press: Sen. Roy Blunt (17:00) says
House health care bill is not dead on arrival, talks Russian
interference in elections
SNL: How Billy Long ended up at the center of health
care fight X
AP:
Vicksburg memorial to Missouri soldiers to be rededicated
Jason Rosenbaum for NPR: Secretive nonprofits back
governors in Missouri and across the country
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Robert Cornejo
(R-St. Charles) signals bid for Speaker of the House (4:30), talks
Greitens' relationship with House (8:15); Panel of Mindy Mazur,
Sam Gladney, R. Gregg Keller and Aaron Baker talk foundation formula,
dark money
Missourinet: Truman Day is a Missouri state holiday
KWMU: The final countdown: What to look for in
the last 5 days of the Missouri legislative session
Missourinet: Dixon, Libla take aim at Greitens' dark
money
SNL: Missouri Senate unifies to pass budget but argues
over 'dark money' X
P-D's The Bottom Line video series: Sexagenarian
columnist Jim Gallagher reveals he is nearing retirement age, suggests
state employees who take MOSERS pension buyout could end up "eating
peanut butter and dog food"
Missourinet: Sen. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg)
praises two major economic development projects in his district
The Maneater: Year in Review, Top
Disappointments: Budget cuts continue to plague the university
The Maneater: Year in Review, Top
Disappointments: UM System officials given inappropriate bonuses
Missourinet: Sen. Dave Schatz (R-Sullivan) is
"cautiously optimistic" about Scottrade Center bill; time may be
its biggest opponent
Missourinet: Bill addresses costs for solar
customers; Comments from Budget Chairman Scott Fitzpatrick
(R-Shell Knob), former state rep/current solar energy official Zach
Wyatt
CDT: Advocates: State guardianship law should
focus on well-being X
KC Star editorial: The top eight things Missouri
lawmakers should do this week +
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Thanks to Eric
Schmitt, disabled receive a lifeline X
Messenger: Greitens' promises on ethics come back to
haunt him
Priddy:
Hundred-year-old article details strife, ungentlemanly decorum in
Missouri Senate
Springfield Business Journal: Missouri Chamber's Dan
Mehan: After 10 long years, Missouri House must move on
employment law overhaul
SNL letter: Area man agrees with Billy Long on
opioids, says legalizing marijuana would help solve issue X
SNL letter: Springfield sexagenarian says Billy Long
should have opposed health care bill X
P-D letter: Florissant sexagenarian says Missouri
Legislature has been "sold" to corporate interests, expresses anger at
President Ronald Reagan
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Sunday, May 7
The Hill: Blunt to appear on NBC's "Meet the Press"
this morning
P-D: Congressional votes for the week
St. Joseph News-Press: Contrary to initial hysteria,
school lunch changes smaller than expected X
P-D: River constriction and wetter climate leave area
vulnerable to more frequent major floods
Drebes:
Young Guns Missouri PAC formed; Treasurer is Jeff Roe's James
Thomas III
The Missouri Times: Rep. Kirk Mathews (R-Pacific)
joins Vescovo in majority floor leader race
AP: Overview: Status of legislation still before
Missouri Legislature: REAL ID, PDMP, gift ban, more
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Denny Hoskins
(R-Warrensburg) talks about fully-funded foundation formula
Washington Missourian: Higher ed bill moves to
Greitens' desk; East Central College to get 6.5 percent budget cut X
JCNT: Higher education cuts less than governor's
proposal X
JCNT: Contractors weigh in on prevailing wage repeal X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Missouri State Highway Patrol
embracing Twitter to get information to drivers
P-D editorial: Now's the time to demand legislative
action on REAL ID
KC Star editorial: A list of questions for Eric
Greitens, Missouri's man of mystery +
Horrigan: To understand Missouri's governor, turn to
EGO (Eric Greitens Organization) boosters; Sexagenarian editorial
board member takes aim at governor's dark money duplicity, workout
showoffery, and more
SNL letter: Springfield sexagenarian wants Blunt to
stop representing Missouri employers like Cargill, Monsanto and
Walmart, and instead promote "an earth-friendly economy as gentle and
survivable as possible" X
SNL letter: Springfield nonagenarian unhappy with
Billy Long's vote on GOP health care bill X
KC Star letter: Show-Me Institute's Patrick
Ishmael: Ryan Silvey, other obstructionists should "grow up" +
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Saturday, May 6
P-D: How the new health care fight resembles 2010 -
and how it doesn't; Perspectives from McCaskill, Blunt, Clay
KC Star: McCaskill, Blunt weigh in on health care
debate; In video, McCaskill says Democrats have been excluded
from talks +
Joplin Globe: Anti-Trump organizers draw 30 outside
Billy Long's office; Amorphous human dresses up as Grim Reaper to
protest health care bill X
KSMU: Group protests outside Billy Long's
office; Elderly woman's sign suggests incumbent - who won 2016
general election by forty-one (41) points - is politically dead
Washington Missourian: Pro-Obamacare rally draws six
(6) outside Luetkemeyer's office; Woman's sign suggests incumbent
- who won 2016 general election by forty (40) points - could lose next
election X
Columbia Missourian: Area man promotes online
petition, wants Columbia School Board to oppose immigration-enforcement
efforts
SE
Missourian: Mississippi River to see lower crest; U.S. Rep.
Jason Smith says levee system works +
KWMU: Residents near Meramec River fear levees,
development will cause more floods; Comments from Great Rivers
Habitat Alliance Executive Director David Stokes, others
CDT: Speaking at Muleskinners meeting, MDP Chair
Stephen Webber says Dems needs to build enthusiasm X
St. Joseph News-Press: Pony Express Chapter of the
Friends of NRA to hold first banquet to raise funds
The Missouri Times: Campaign contribution limit
largely overturned in federal court
KC Star: Federal judge blocks part of Missouri law
meant to curb influence of money in politics
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P-D: Campaign donation limits stay, but other parts of
Missouri's new campaign finance law blocked by federal judge
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
Senate
The Missouri Times: Dark money debate turns into a
question of honor on the Senate floor
P-D: Senators tee off on Greitens' nonprofit as
dark-money disclosure effort fizzles
Columbia Missourian: Ethics debate stalls over fight
on dark money
KWMU: Missouri budget: A look at funding for
each state department
SNL: Video: Reporter Will Schmitt gives recap of
week's dark-money controversies and Greitens nonprofit's planned
attacks on GOP senators, budget debate, more
X
The Missouri Times: Bootheel reps Holly Rehder, Tila
Hubrecht oppose cuts to social services
The Missouri Times: Amended West Lake Landfill buyout
bill moves forward in House
The Missouri Times: Rob Vescovo tosses his hat into
majority floor leader race
P-D: Freshman enrollment at Mizzou to take a steep
drop in August
Columbia Missourian: For second year since protester
agitation, MU expects smaller freshman class
JCNT: Lawmakers to prioritize finding state MIAs X
P-D: Unions celebrate, business owners worry on first
day of new city minimum wage; Comments from St. Louis Zoo's Billy
Brennan, Regional Chamber's Austin Walker, others; Rep. Tracy
McCreery (D-Olivette) joins small group of workers in mini-march
Columbia Missourian: Faith Voices criticizes
legislators of both parties for failing to move on payday-loan
restrictions; Area man blames lenders for his poor financial
choices
The Missouri Times: Rep. Cora Walker (D-Ferguson) says
she'll keep pressuring Ferguson to improve court performance
Waynesville Daily Guide: Missouri Dept. of
Conservation reports success in eliminating feral hogs from
population; Death of wild animals helps avoid destruction of
property, spread of diseases
P-D: Edward Crawford, captured in iconic Ferguson
photo, kills himself; Twitter's "eyeFLOODpanties" gained fame for
throwing tear gas canister at riot officers
P-D letter: Ameren supplier applauds company's effort
on alternative energy
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Friday, May 5
Washington Examiner: Blunt says Senate Republicans
will write their own health care bill
St. Joseph News-Press: House GOP celebrates Obamacare
repeal; Pithy catchphrases from Cleaver and Graves written by
communications staff X
Joplin Globe: Area liberals to protest Long's health
care vote today X
SNL: Security concerns cancel Dana Loesch's live show
at Bass Pro X
The Missouri Times: Government officials, private
sector both look to provide relief to flood victims
Missourinet: Greitens: West Plains is a
blueprint for disaster management
The Missouri Times: Greitens' dark money group set to
attack Libla despite extensive record of supporting law enforcement
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: The Senate
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: The House
The Missouri Times: House passes balanced budget,
touts full funding of formula
AP:
Missouri lawmakers pass $3.4B in basic aid for K-12 schools
Washington Missourian: Education bill not good for
district, Washington superintendent says X
The Missouri Times: Senate delivers circuit breaker
along with budget
Missourinet: Missouri Legislature beats clock to get
key pieces of budget to governor by deadline
KC Star: Missouri Senate strikes deal on final budget
issue: Aid for the elderly, disabled +
Columbia Missourian: Senate compromises on Medicaid
cuts while rushing to beat budget deadline
P-D: Missouri lawmakers sign off on key pieces of
$27.8 billion budget
SNL: Senate dysfunction might close Springfield clinic X
KC Star: Residents who chose to purchase homes near
landfill see taxpayer pie sliced +
Kraske: Overview of Ryan Silvey vs. Ron Richard +
KRES/KWIX: Sen. Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown) says
obstructionist senators have no respect for the rest of the body
Missourinet: REAL ID bill sits before Senate
KRES/KWIX: Rep. Nate Walker (R-Kirksville) says REAL
ID needs to happen
AP: Missouri may be most entrenched holdout on REAL ID
mandate
KWMU: For St. Louis charter schools, success is in the
eye of the beholder
The Missouri Times: St. Louis City minimum wage
increase takes effect today
AP:
Judge allows St. Louis City minimum wage hike, will start today
KWMU: $10 minimum wage to take effect in St. Louis City
P-D: New St. Louis City minimum wage goes into effect
today
P-D: Post-Dispatch parent company Lee Enterprises
reports drop in revenue, earnings, subscriptions; Stock loses
nearly 25% of value in one day
Talking New Media: McClatchy, publisher of Kansas City
Star, announces drop in revenue, steep decline in advertising sales
SE
Missourian editorial: Congratulations to Peter Kinder for Boy
Scouts of America award +
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: K-12 funding is a
contentious issue in the Legislature; Thoughts from "Sen. Gina
Walsh, D-Bellefontaine [sic]"
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Thursday, May 4
SNL: Billy Long reverses position on Obamacare repeal
bill to 'yes' X
P-D: Ann Wagner votes no on budget bill, criticizes
Republican leadership
Politico: McCaskill, other red-state Dems seek to
scrape out legislative wins; Senior senator frustrated that
Republicans leave vulnerable Dems out of policy debates
The Missouri Times: U.S. Dept. of Transportation
revises lobbying, subscription rules for grantees
The Missouri Times: 'Holly PAC' and the campaign
contribution atmosphere after Amendment 2; Jeff Roe's team will
run and staff Sikeston Republican's Speaker of the House vehicle
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: The Senate
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: The House
The Missouri Times: House, Senate compromise on
budget, still on schedule to pass before deadline
Missourinet: House, Senate negotiators approve $27
billion budget
Columbia Missourian: Missouri budget back on track to
meet deadline
AP: House, Senate negotiators reach budget deal
P-D: Democrats unhappy with some budget provisions
The Missouri Times: Senators present list of bills
they will not filibuster
KWMU: Missouri Senate moves at a snail's pace as 2017
session ticks away
The Missouri Times: Humphreys denies knowledge of
Richard's Joplin airport hangar line item
SNL: Missouri Senate infighting gets increasingly
personal X
The Missouri Times: Silvey takes part in The Missouri
Times Facebook live interview, talks skirmish with Ron Richard, ethics,
Greitens, more
The Missouri Times: Hailey's Law, other bills in the
balance as Senate squabbles persist
Missourinet: Rally for 'Hailey's Law' looks to draw
attention to slow-moving Senate
Missourinet: Greitens not ruling out special session
to handle REAL ID, other issues
SNL: Americans for Prosperity begins direct mail and
digital in support of 'paycheck protection' bill X
CDT: Judge orders state of Missouri to process
abortion license applications 'promptly' X
KWMU: Planned Parenthood to move quickly to offer
abortions in Kansas City, Columbia
AP:
Eleven (11) women dress up as characters from Hulu TV show to protest
pro-life legislation
P-D: Post-Dispatch owner Lee Enterprises reports
disappointing earnings, lower revenue
Washington Missourian editorial: Eric Greitens' dark
money epitomizes Sunshine vs. Secrecy; Nondisclosure rapidly
becoming his albatross
KC Star editorial: Romine's bill would allow employers
to discriminate +
P-D editorial: Sens. Schaaf and Silvey should keep
standing up against Greitens and Ron Richard
KC Star letter: Kansas City man unhappy about
Greitens' small ethics fine +
P-D letter: Disabled woman opposes cuts to Consumer
Directed Services program
P-D letter: Florissant septuagenarian expresses her
anger over teacher pension control, Missouri lawmakers' extravagant
$36k/yr salary
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Wednesday, May 3
P-D: McCaskill, Blunt weigh in on Obamacare changes,
Trump's shutdown threat
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt critical of Trump's
shutdown talk
KWMU: Blunt softens stance on piecemeal Obamacare
repeal
Missourinet: Long's opposition to health care plan not
swayed by Trump's call
SNL: Billy Long attacked, praised for opposing GOP
health care bill X
St. Joseph News-Press: St. Joseph improvements get
mentions in Washington by McCaskill, Blunt X
Roll Call: Democrats take omnibus victory lap;
Blunt talks NIH funding
The Missouri Times: The ten best - and five worst -
days of the Greitens administration so far
The Missouri Times: Greitens named to Council of
Governors by Trump
AP:
'Right to work' backers fundraising to protect Missouri law
Drebes: Conservative groups urge Greitens to take on
public unions
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
Senate
The Missouri Times: Ryan Silvey "thanks" Ron Richard
for leaving him off budget conference committee
KC Star: Silvey pens sarcastic letter to Richard +
SNL: 'Dark money' bill finally gets hearing after
secretive attack ads, Senate slowdown X
The Missouri Times: Schaaf gets hearing on 'dark
money' legislation
P-D: Senators push for 'dark money' disclosure in
final days of legislative session
Columbia Missourian: Schaaf gets hearing on 'dark
money'
AP:
Work in Missouri Senate slows as end of session nears
The Missouri Times: Vintage Dick Webster C-Span clip
shows why Missouri Senate is unique
The Missouri Times: Budget conference scheduled again,
House members find out through tweet
KWMU: Critics of managed care sound off on shift
Missourinet: Bill to boost coverage for
developmentally disabled children dead, but could return
AP:
Missouri House advances proposal with pro-life provisions
KWMU: Missouri House provisions address fetal tissue,
parental consents
KWMU: Charter school 101: The basics
P-D: After two years of wrangling, St. Louis' new $10
minimum wage could be in effect within days
KWMU: Court fees and fines studied as part of new
multi-state report, including Missouri
KC Star editorial: Eric Greitens should sign measure
for UMKC arts campus +
KC Star editorial: Eric Greitens should stay out of
Kansas City police chief search +
P-D editorial page editor Tod Robberson: Stacy
Washington columns will no longer appear after she failed to disclose
conflict of interest
P-D op-ed: Nursing home administrator opposes Medicaid
cuts and caps
KC Star op-ed: Rep. DaRon McGee (D-Kansas City):
Sen. Gary Romine (R-Farmington) is corrupt, shows audacious display of
abuse +
P-D op-ed: Missouri Online Summer Institute helps
rural students
P-D letter: Crestwood woman says Rex Sinquefield and
Show-Me Institute are trying to turn teachers against each other
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Tuesday, May 2 MoDOT travel map - flooded roads
SNL: Billy Long to oppose new GOP Obamacare
replacement bill X
KC Star: McCaskill-requested audit finds Dept. of
Energy is lax in fighting fraud +
KC Star: Anti-Trump groups rally downtown for May Day
march +
SE
Missourian: 18 take oath of citizenship at Cape courthouse
ceremony; Asians, Europeans and Africans follow U.S. immigration
laws to become Americans +
Columbia Missourian: Mid-Missouri Peaceworks, others
to complain about Trump policies at Thursday night potluck dinner
SNL: Report shows local use of federal seizure dollars X
Columbia Missourian: Sheltered workshops persevere
under pressure from federal rules
Missourinet: Jason Smith says he's had multiple
conversations with White House about federal disaster declaration
Missourinet: State officials expect number of road
closures to increase
SE
Missourian: Severe floods ravage Doniphan, Van Buren; river
at Cape keeps rising +
KWMU: As Meremec rises again, environmentalists say
levees make flooding worse
The Missouri Times: Gov. Bob Holden to receive
lifetime achievement award from St. Louis County NAACP
KWMU: State Auditor Nicole Galloway preps for 2018
election
Drebes:
Phil LeVota appointed to local college board of trustees
AP:
Monthly survey suggests improvement in Midwest economic conditions
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
Senate
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates: Missouri
House
The Missouri Times: Senate leadership snubs Silvey,
keeps him off budget conference committee
Columbia Missourian: Senate focuses on ethics squabbles
Columbia Missourian: Major steps are still left as
budget deadline approaches
Columbia Missourian: At-a-glance updates on bills in
Legislature
The Missouri Times: Despite absences, Greitens' tax
committee close to doing work
SE
Missourian: Cape Girardeau City Council unanimously backs repeal
of prevailing-wage law +
Missourinet: Legislation to create education savings
accounts heads to House committee
Missourinet: Bill requiring transparency in land
purchases for parks still alive in Missouri Legislature
CDT: Falling short: State share of school
funding shrinks while local burden grows X
JCNT: Transfer of historic prison sent to Greitens X
Washington Missourian: Jason Grellner, longtime
anti-drug advocate, joins Mercy as security manager after 25 years in
law enforcement X
CDT: Federal judge dismisses execution challenge in
Columbia case X
KC Star editorial: Poor Missourians will have to pay
for lawmakers' budget mistakes +
Priddy: Relax - a special session to finish the budget
isn't that big of a deal
P-D op-ed: Mental Health America's Mark
Utterback: Balancing the budget on the backs of those living with
mental illnesses
P-D op-ed: Mesothelioma series, St. Louis
edition: Ladue woman signs op-ed against state legislation
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Monday, May 1 MoDOT travel map - flooded roads
P-D: Without Anthem, many Missourians would have no
Obamacare options; Company may pull out of unprofitable markets
Roll Calll: Former Blunt communications director Brian
Hart to serve as new director of media relations at Federal
Communications Commission
CDT: Veterinarian shortage: Federal, state
programs aim to combat lack of rural practices
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Missourian: Rise in region's household income outpaces state,
nation +
KC Star: Relentless rain swamps Missouri as Greitens
declares state of emergency +
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Doug Libla talks
foundation formula; Panel of Rep. Paul Curtman (R-Washington),
David Barklage, Jane Dueker, AFL-CIO's Mike Louis talk education
funding, dark money and Greitens' anti-Schaaf campaign, more
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Dean
Plocher (R-Des Peres) chats with Rosenbaum about dark money, term
limits, PDMP, discrimination bill
St. Joseph News-Press: Schmitt's program helps with
disability expenses X
KWMU: Unions hold out hope they'll get voter repeal of
'right to work'
AP:
New Medicaid system set to take effect today for 240,000 Missourians
KC Star: Budget battles looming in final two weeks of
session +
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Missourian: Cape Girardeau City Council to take stand on
prevailing wage repeal effort +
Drebes:
Dixon suggests "Blue Alert" is superfluous, window-dressing puffery
CDT: MU braces for small class of first-time freshmen X
Columbia Missourian: Recent arrests at north Columbia
brothel raise questions about extent of sex trafficking
Washington Post's Joe Davidson: Trump could save big
bucks following GAO report's recommendations; Comments from
McCaskill
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Missourian letter: Ameren Missouri Division Director Russ Burger
on SB 190 +
P-D letter: Warrenton sexagenarian opposes changes to
teachers' retirement system
P-D letter: Richmond Heights retired teacher says "fat
cats of Jefferson City" are trying to steal pensions
P-D letter: Brentwood man disappointed that
Post-Dispatch editorial board is unaware of columnist Stacy
Washington's compensation from NRA
P-D letter: Labadie man responds to anti-gun letter,
says stricter laws won't stop hoodlums from violence
KC Star letters: Lee's Summit conservative imagines
editorial board's hysteria if city hosted "Black Entitlement
Conference"; Missouri Retailers Association's David Overfelt says
Kansas tobacco tax hike could be great for Missouri +
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