Saturday, November 30
KC Star: Missouri's push for
Medicaid expansion runs into Republican opposition +
Washington Examiner: Survey
finds doctors rebelling against Obamacare; A look at Springfield
and St. Louis (#3)
P-D: 15 different unions
represented at Ferguson Wal-Mart protest; Coordinated effort
appears to have no impact on store's business
CDT: Some lawmakers skeptical of
Nixon's call for Boeing incentives; Comments from Chris Kelly,
Stephen Webber, John Wright, Ron Richard, Kurt Schaefer, Caleb RowdenX
Missourinet: Speaker Tim Jones
weighs in on Nixon's call for special session, mentions competition
from right-to-work states
KC Star: Nixon calls special
session in effort to woo Boeing to St. Louis County
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon calls
special session to woo Boeing, proposes $150 million a year in state
tax breaks
P-D: Nixon to seek up to $150M
annually in Boeing incentives
KWMU: Gov. Jay Nixon calls
special session in attempt to land Boeing contract
AP: Nixon calls special session
for Boeing incentives
P-D: Food stamp rolls drop as
state slashes in-person help; State officials say centralized
process more efficient, but welfare advocates say there are now more
hoops for handouts
KC Star: Interactive map:
Where are the most deer-vehicle crashes in Missouri? +
P-D: Popular Jefferson County
Sheriff Glenn Boyer (D) won't run for seventh term
P-D editorial: In debate over
school transfers, it's time to seek common ground
P-D op-ed: Missouri Association
of School Administrators' exec Roger Kurtz: Sinquefield's CEAM,
MO DESE standing in the way of meaningful school improvement
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Friday, November 29
KMOX: Coalition of Black Trade
Unionists, Missouri Jobs With Justice to protest outside Florissant
Wal-Mart today
KWMU: Rep. Jeff Roorda
(D-Barnhart) wants to ban Missouri's private businesses from opening on
Thanksgiving Day
Missourinet: McCaskill "angry
and frustrated" over Obamacare website rollout, but says she found 28
different options for Missourians through the site
P-D: Gateway program for
uninsured faces surprising obstacles; "After decades of
alienation, (the poor) harbor deep suspicions of authority"
Helling: Missouri's guns vs.
butter debate: It's better to spend $1.1B on Medicaid expansion
than spending it on F/A-18 planes +
KC Star: Farm bill remains stuck
in the mud; McCaskill, Cleaver oppose House GOP proposal to cut
food stamps by $39 billion +
Shelly: Missouri Education
Commissioner Chris Nicastro too helpful to foes of teacher tenure,
especially "meddling millionaire" Rex Sinquefield +
SE Missourian: Opinions mixed on Bright Flight proposal +
SNL: Sunlight Foundation
provides county-by-county data on political contributions X
Washington Missourian: Franklin
County Clerk Debbie Door is tired of defending her purchase of new
election machines: "I'm going to get disgusted with this"
AP: Nixon appoints Margene
Burnett to circuit judgeship in Jackson County
SE Missourian: Experts address questions about grotto
sculpin +
TonysKansasCity.com: Top 5
Turkeys of 2013: Despite improving economy, dead-tree media
continues its decline
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Rep.
Tom Flanigan responds to Rep. Chris Kelly (D-Columbia): The
economic reality of Medicaid expansion
P-D letter: Expanding Medicaid
more important than helping Boeing
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Thursday, November 28
Happy Thanksgiving!
WGEM: Missouri hospitals feeling
impact of not expanding Medicaid coverage
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon could
call special session for Boeing incentive proposal
KWMU: Nixon reiterates support
for Boeing to choose St. Louis, but no special session yet
P-D: Nixon to seek special
session for big Boeing tax breaks
AP: Nixon pitches bid to land
Boeing aircraft plant
St. Louis Business Journal:
Nixon: Boeing special session could come in 'days not weeks'
Missourinet: Missouri races to
catch a plane
KC Star: Kansas City gets bid
requirements for GOP convention +
Missourinet: Campaign limits
proposal partially approved by judge; Kander's language given
okay, Schweich's numbers must be corrected
AP: Judge rejects cost estimate
for Missouri initiative; Sinquefield's team challenged auditor's
numbers
KC Star's Abouhalkah: Things to
NOT be thankful for: Missouri's "simple-minded" pro-gun
legislators; Rex Sinquefield and others who want low taxes;
"Obama haters," who are actually just racist; More +
SNL: Rep. Charlie Norr
(D-Springfield), Rep. Sonya Anderson (R-Springfield) say they try to
keep Thanksgiving peace at their respective dinner tables X
KC Star: As time passes, child
welfare cases in Missouri are in peril +
CDT: Suit seeks $30 million for
Mamtek bonds X
P-D: Judge's plan to halt
red-light camera program in St. Louis is forestalled
Washington Missourian: MoDOT
won't 'buy job' until deficiencies fixed
KWMU: November deer harvest down
this year from 2012
Washington Missourian editorial:
MoDOT has listened to Highway 47 concerns and is addressing them
KC Star's Diuguid: Stall hits
reactivation of red-light cameras +
Washington Missourian letter:
McCaskill complicit in Harry Reid's power grab
P-D letter: State of Missouri
waited too long to execute racist serial killer Joseph Franklin
Washington Missourian letter: In
union dispute, NEA supporter says paper should have acknowledged
staffer's familial tie to MSTA
JCNT letter: Missouri American
Water failed to pay bills to city; Therefore, no Missouri
official should be re-elected X
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Wednesday, November 27
SE Missourian: Rep. Jason Smith hosts House Majority
Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) for fundraiser and anti-Obamacare
small-business roundtable +
KWMU: University of Missouri
employee says SNAP cuts could increase number of Missouri's
food-insecure
Columbia Missourian: MU
sociology prof says Missouri becoming a leader in food
insecurity; Nixon changed stance on federal food assistance
program after Dem outcry
KWMU: Commerce Department giving
away nearly $1 million in taxpayer money to promote minority businesses
in St. Louis region
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt
greets high-court decision to hear religious freedom case X
St. Louis Beacon: Rep. Paul
Wieland (R-Imperial) hopes Hobby Lobby case bodes well for his
challenge to contraceptive coverage
AP: Nixon heads to St. Louis
County to stump for Boeing plant
KMOX: Nixon, leaders to discuss
Boeing 777X today
CDT: Nixon wants more money for
Bright Flight program X
AP: Sen. Paul LeVota
(D-Independence) and Rep. Genise Monticello (D-St. Louis) urge
Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro to resign, cite "troubling
tendency to abuse power"
KWMU: Two Missouri lawmakers
call on DESE Commissioner Chris Nicastro to resign
KC Star: Democrats call on
Missouri education commissioner to resign +
St. Louis Beacon: McCoy wants
full explanation of why he was suspended; Issues of DESE and
false attendance numbers, school choice, and race converge in Ferg-Flor
P-D: Ferguson-Florissant
superintendent superintendent says he was given no grounds for
suspension
KC Star: KC Public Schools will
reopen two schools for only seventh- and eighth-graders; District
envisions "villages of hope" for urban youth +
Columbia Missourian: Missouri
prioritizes pre-K funding, but programs are 'patchwork'
Drebes: Rep. Karla May (D-St. Louis) may run for
Recorder of Deeds instead of running for re-election
St. Louis Beacon/KWMU "Politically
Speaking" podcast: Journo gang discusses Nixon administrative
troubles, transportation tax opposition, and execution drugs
The Missouri Times: Noranda,
union, Missourians for a Balanced Energy Future's Irl Scissors comment
on closing of an Ohio smelter and possible implications for Missouri
manufacturing
Missourinet: Kander files civil
action against Mamtek underwriter
KC Star: Kansas City's red-light
camera law is again in doubt +
AP: Missouri Supreme Court rules
against felon in gun case
KC Star: U.S. Justice
Department's hate-crime task force to hold one-day public meeting at
UMKC +
P-D editorial: Is Missouri for
education or corporate welfare? Boeing tax breaks vs. Missouri
school funding
St. Joseph News-Press editorial:
Instead of pouring money into Bright Flight for kids who are already
going to get a degree, spend the money to expand college access X
Shelly: Missouri should emulate
the Mexican state of Guanajuato and spend more taxpayer money on
education and transportation infrastructure +
SNL letter: Springfield man
happy with Obamacare marketplace X
KC Star letter: KC woman says
she is angry about food disparity, wants McCaskill and Blunt to protect
SNAP +
P-D letter: Transportation
funding: For the poor, a gas tax is more fair than a sales tax
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Tuesday, November 26
St. Louis Beacon: Immigration
protestors target Rep. Ann Wagner
KWMU: Immigration groups
continue to pressure Rep. Ann Wagner
KSMU: McCaskill weighs in on
Iran; Station still seeking comment from Blunt, Long
Joplin Globe: Briefs: Dem
PR campaign seeking SW MO residents who got Obamacare website to
work; McCaskill on Farm Bill; Rep. Bill Lant (R) holds
child-abuse meetingX
Missourinet: Save the A-10
"Warhog" fighter jets, say McCaskill and Blunt
The Missouri Times: Labor leader
Jeff Aboussie comments on Boeing bid
Stars and Stripes: McCaskill
tries military sexual assault reform proposal as separate bill
Missourinet: Missouri
stakeholders take "wait and see" approach to Kansas study of Missouri
River diversion
KC Star: Lawsuit challenges
ballot measure to raise sales tax to fund Missouri roads +
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri
Association for Social Welfare challenges ballot language for
transportation sales tax issue
Missourinet: Transportation
petition challenged
Missourinet: Chamber says
legislative solutions to be sought in 2014 for unemployment insurance
debt
St. Louis Review: Catholice
legislator - Rep. Paul Wieland (R-Imperial) - seeks court protection in
HHS lawsuit
KSMU: Nixon: New 'Bright
Flight' scholarship deal for students who stay, work in Missouri
AP: Nixon proposes increasing
Missouri scholarship program
Drebes: Jay Hahn adds American
Cancer Society Action Network to his lobbyist registrations
P-D: MO Ethics Commission fines
Jefferson Co. GOP Central Committee, chronic Abe Lincoln impersonator
George Englebach, and Buddy Hardin for illegal campaign activities
P-D: Wash U. partnership boosts
science performance at Hazelwood
P-D: State of Missouri purchases
Camp Zoe, former home of Schwagstock marijuana/music festivals, at
auction
KC Star: Kansas City seeks to
change law, resume red-light camera enforcement +
CDT: First amendment heroine
speaks in Columbia; Mary Beth Tinker wore an armband in 1965,
still available for speeches
P-D editorial: Turn the
red-light camera debate back to safety
Horrigan: Nixon dismisses
Kansas' water pipe dream
P-D op-ed: Rep. Chris Kelly
(D-Columbia): An economic argument for Medicaid transformation
P-D letter: Cities don't have
safety in mind with red-light and speeding cameras
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Monday, November 25
Politico:
Sexual-assault debate could fizzle out; McCaskill-Gillibrand duel
could end with no vote
SNL: Senate committee to vote on
Doug Harpool's bid for federal bench; Sen. Chuck Grassley
(R-Iowa) focuses questions on abortion, Harpool's comments on GOP X
KC Star: Cleaver says KC area
will receive $1.1 million in home repair funds +
KC Star: Civil rights legend
John Lewis speaks to Jewish group in KC +
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri House
probes of former Nixon officials could overshadow new session;
EEOC to examine Gracia Backer's allegations
AP: Analysis: Missouri tax
policy dates to the Depression; Missouri Budget Project,
Sinquefield's Grow Missouri share thoughts on potential reforms
Missouri Wonk's Brian Schmidt:
Who's the farthest left and right of them all? Ranking every MO
state senator - from 1993-2009 - on a Left-Right scale
Drebes: Libertarian may file as
Republican, put name on ballot in Dem district vs. Rep. Mike Colona
Daily Journal: Registrants on
Missouri's sex-offender list can face "lifetime of discrimination"
(link via TonysKansasCity.com)
P-D: Embattled superintendent
had spoken out on school choice; Art McCoy's defenders say
union-backed board members are out to get him; Comments from Rep.
Steve Cookson (R-Poplar Bluff)
SNL: City, MoDOT officials to
work on plan for Interstate loop around Springfield X
St. Joseph News-Press: Some
concealed-carry permits on hold; Large class size at issue X
KC Star editorial: Fix Kansas
City's red-light camera law to make streets safer +
P-D letter: President of
Kirkwood Chamber wants McCaskill, Blunt to cut federal regulations on
small businesses
Washington Missourian letter: WA
woman with hard-knock history was helped by state's Medicaid - but
Republicans refuse to expand the program in Missouri
SNL letter: Scooter enthusiast
says Missouri should require all motorized-bike riders to wear a helmet X
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Sunday, November 24
AP: Boeing solicits bids for
site of 777X production
KC Star: Woman's allegation that
sex was not consensual offers glimpse into Air Force justice +
SNL: Issue of Medicaid expansion
in Missouri remains murky; Meeting canceled after dispute between
Nixon, Republicans X
AP: Missouri National Guard
handling IDs for gay spouses
JCNT: Education community gears
up for legislative session; Comments from MSBA's Mike Reid,
MNEA's Otto Fajen X
JCNT: Missouri legislators plan
to review towers bill X
P-D: A caution light for
Missouri's red-light cameras
AP: Feds use fraud cases to
pitch corruption hotline
KC Star's Steve Rose: Chris
Christie pushes teacher tenure; GOP proposals have gone nowhere
in Missouri, and even if they did, Gov. Jay Nixon would crush them +
CDT op-ed: Show-Me Institute's
Joseph Miller: Ballot initiative lets motorists off the
hook; State sales tax for roads is a bad idea X
CDT op-ed: Grass Roots
Organizing's Robin Acree: Ideas better than sales-tax increase
for roads: Gas tax, make upper-income Missourians "pay a little more,"
have corporations pay "their fair share" X
KC Star letter: Death penalty is
uncivilized +
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Saturday, November 23
MSNBC: Sen. Roy Blunt:
With filibuster changes, Senate is turning into the House
MSNBC: Video: Blunt on filibuster changes (video
#5 in rotator)
P-D: Support growing for big
777X push in St. Louis
AP: Senate Majority Leader Ron Richard backs Boeing
777X incentive
Kraske: McCaskill's approach to
military sexual assaults may win out; Nixon to face GOP charge on
hostile workforce environment next session +
AP: Nixon selects new Medicaid
director: Joe Parks
Missourinet: Missouri employers
to pay more for unemployment insurance in 2014
AP: Missouri businesses will pay
higher unemployment taxes in 2014
AP: Missouri-based paper company
opening a plant that will create 200 jobs in Macon, Ga.
SE Missourian: Senior advocacy group shares priorities
with area legislators: Minnie May, others offer comments on
"Silver Alert," property-tax break, phone use while driving, payday
loans, more +
Drebes: Former state Rep. Mary Still (D-Columbia)
registers as lobbyist; First client is Schneider Electric
KOLR: Greene County clerk will
not seek another term after 27-year run; As first reported by
Dave Drebes' MoScout.com subscription service on Thursday morning,
Shane Schoeller intends to run
Missourinet: Nixon urges Kansas
governor to scrap study of Missouri River diversion
AP: Nixon critical of diverting
Missouri River water to Kansas
KC Star: Education
commissioner's emails create flap in Missouri; Comments from Sen.
Paul LeVota (D-Independence), Missouri NEA's Mark Jones +
P-D: DESE says bloated
attendance data may cost Ferguson-Florissant schools $80,000;
Superintendent Art McCoy has been on leave since Nov. 6
KSMU: What rural Missouri
schools do when 75% of student population is out hunting
CDT: Ex-Mamtek treasurer agrees
to settlement, will aid in recovering money X
P-D: UM curators approve
KWMU/Beacon merger
St. Louis Beacon: UM curators OK
merger of Beacon, St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Beacon: Beacon editor
Margie Freivogel: The Beacon and St. Louis Public Radio are now
one: What to expect from the merger
KC Star op-ed: A bracing
celebration of KC's Transgender Day of Remembrance +
Joplin Globe letter: Only those
who pay property taxes should vote X
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Friday, November 22
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill
votes for Harry Reid's change to filibuster rules; Blunt says
Dems are trying to shift focus away from failed Obamacare rollout X
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt
agree on handling of military sexual assaults
St. Louis Beacon: Blunt, Nixon
call for bipartisan effort to persuade Boeing to build 777X here
P-D: Nixon pitches St. Louis as
home for Boeing 777X
AP: Missouri to compete for
production of Boeing 777X
P-D: Nixon will allow health
insurance policy extensions
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon
administration to allow insurers to extend policies that don't comply
with Obamacare
AP: Missouri to let insurers
renew canceled health policies
Missourinet: Missouri health
insurance companies to continue cancelled plans
St. Louis Beacon: Group focused
on health care for vulnerable and elderly releases survey, says
consumers haven't given up on insurance exchange; Comments from
President David Blumenthal
St. Louis Beacon: UM tuition
projected to rise 1.7 percent next year
P-D: Proposed tuition hike for
University of Missouri system would match inflation
Missourinet: Interview:
Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro says she did nothing unusual in
working with lobbyist on development of ballot initiative
CDT: State Board of Education
member says he sees no problem with Nicastro's actions; Comments
from Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R), Rep. Caleb Rowden (R) X
CDT: American Humanist
Association files complaint against Fayette R-III schools, alleges that
teacher participated in prayer sessions before school and promoted
Fellowship of Christian Athletes X
TonysKansasCity.com: Rep.
Brandon Ellington (D-Kansas City) hosts celebrity basketball game to
help feed the homeless; Rep. John Rizzo (D-Kansas City) among
those in attendance
Drebes: John Sutton (D) may take on Rep. Noel Torpey
(R-Independence) again
SE Missourian: Southeast students take part in pilot
project studying e-voting machines +
Washington Missourian: Area
sewer districts faced with costly upgrades due to stricter rules from
Missouri Department of Natural Resources
P-D: Regulators OK delay of
pollution controls for Ameren coal plants
KWMU: Nuclear policy
analyst: radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill must go
P-D: Nuclear critic urges
removal of radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill
CDT: City limited on red-light
ordinance options after cameras removed X
TonysKansasCity.com: Kansas City
begs for another expensive red-light camera fight
AP: Nixon fills opening on
appeals court: Phil Hess, former president of MATA
St. Joseph News-Press:
Schweich's office gives Savannah 'poor' rating X
KSHB: Schweich questions
Excelsior Springs School District lease (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
Columbia Missourian: Jack
Danforth was studying for the bar exam when Kennedy was shot
Columbia Missourian: Rep. Chris
Kelly (D-Columbia) was in high school English class when Kennedy was
shot
P-D: Beacon-KWMU merger gets
vote today; Beacon reporters become state employees; Tim
Eby will lead entire operation, with Margie Freivogel heading up news
department
St. Louis Beacon: Q&A on
Beacon-KWMU merger
SNL letter: Billy Long deserves
credit for not supporting Obama's you-can-keep-your-coverage lie X
P-D letter: Toll roads are not
the answer to transportation-funding woes
KC Star letter: Instead of
busing students from unaccredited districts to suburbs, bring staff
from competent districts to now-vacant urban schools +
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Thursday, November 21
SNL: McCaskill efforts to combat
sexual assault in military moves center stage X
St. Louis Beacon: Blunt joins
McCaskill in Senate debate over military sexual assault cases
KSMU: Blunt joins McCaskill on
sexual-assault bill
Roll Call: Video: Key
moments in the military sexual-assault debate
P-D: Obamacare fallout hits
Missouri; State officials ponder while canceled insurance
customers wait
L.A. Times: Missouri-based
attack plane could be scrapped by Pentagon
Military.com: Blunt among those
moving to block A-10 Warthog retirement (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
Kraske: McCaskill takes note of
2013 calendar: 40 days to pass Farm Bill +
KC Star: Former state Rep. Jason
Klumb (D) is the new chairman of the Federal Executive Board +
JCNT: Public comment sought on 3
early voting petitions X
Hartmann:
Race to the bottom: Missouri need not follow Kansas off a fiscal
cliff
CDT: Nixon, Barnes battle over
Medicaid meeting; Venue, format lead to dispute X
Shelly: Childish behavior sinks
Medicaid meeting in Jefferson City. Who's to blame?
Republicans, again. +
AP: Missouri ed chief advised
ballot group; E-mails, obtained by Missouri NEA via Sunshine Law,
indicate Chris Nicastro met with Childrens Education Council of Missouri
KC Star: KC school district
receives another clean audit +
P-D: State school officials hear
frustrations of Riverview Gardens residents, staff
St. Louis Beacon: Riverview
Gardens plots path back to accreditation
AP: Missouri may carry out more
executions using new method
P-D: Debate over Missouri's new
execution drug doesn't end with death
TonysKansasCity.com: Images from
KC's transgender remembrance vigil; Candle lit for Dee Dee
Pearson, slain after john discovered she was a man
P-D: Red-light tickets suspended
in some Missouri cities
KWMU: Laclede Gas gets tax help
to move
St. Louis Beacon: Vote set for
Friday on merger of Beacon, KWMU
TonysKansasCity.com: Insiders at
The Pitch say Kansas City Star has only two years left
SNL editorial: Rep. Jay Barnes
(R-Jefferson City) deserves credit for creative thinking on Medicaid X
KC Star editorial: Missouri
should stop state-sanctioned killing +
Washington Missourian editorial:
Push by Missouri NEA to be sole representative of Washington teachers
is a threat to the district
The Missouri Times op-ed: Katie
Casas: Missouri Association of School Adminstrators' plan falls
short of quality options for all students
Washington Missourian's Bill
Miller: Building lakes could bring economic hope to depressed
parts of Missouri
Columbia Missourian op-ed:
Missouri women not protected from sexual assault by landlords
SNL letter: On Medicaid
expansion, Missouri Republicans are putting politics ahead of people X
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Wednesday, November 20
Sedalia Democrat: Blunt, Nixon
speak at Missouri Farmers Association event, address relevant and
timely topics: Farm bill, livestock disaster program, growth in
Missouri's crop yield and exports
St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor
Tribune: Activists rally, call on Wagner and Luetkemeyer to vote
on immigration reform; Piece includes comments from workers,
local labor leader, unattributed paragraph from Associated Press
Politico: In military sexual
assault debate, McCaskill arguing for reform, not overhaul
SNL: Sen. Harry Reid chooses
Gillibrand's sexual-assault legislation over McCaskill's X
AP: Senate women unite in
fighting sexual assault
Northeast News: Posty Cards goes green with help from
New Market Tax Credits, gets attention from Blunt (link via
TonysKansasCity.com)
P-D: St. Louis man wins $8.3
million malpractice award against John Cochran VA hospital
KC Star: Georgia congressman
enters tribute to Ike Skelton - who died in October - into
Congressional Record +
KOLR: State unemployment dips to
lowest rate in 5 years
Missourinet: Nixon meeting with
legislative Medicaid committees canceled amid dispute
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon scuttles
meeting with legislative leaders on Medicaid, after they seek to
stipulate the terms
Columbia Missourian: Medicaid
meeting falls through because of disagreement over venue
The Missouri Times: Disagreement
about location, format stall Medicaid hearing planned between
Republicans, Nixon
P-D: Nixon cancels Medicaid
meeting after spat over format
CDT: Political fight could stop
Medicaid meeting between Nixon, Republicans X
KWMU: Meeting between Nixon and
GOP legislators is in jeopardy
AP: Plans falter for meeting
between Nixon, lawmakers
AP: Doctors propose pilot
program for Missouri Medicaid
AP: Speaker Tim Jones names
members of committee looking into alleged Ag Dept. behavior
St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor
Tribune: Black trades honor miners and fast food workers;
Attendees include Dem Reps. Karla May and Clem Smith, Jobs With
Justice's Lara Granich
AP: Missouri executes serial
killer
Columbia Missourian: Protesters
'cautiously optimistic' about serial killer's execution
P-D: Missouri executes serial
killer
AP: U.S. Supreme Court denies
execution stay for mass killer
AP: Deer kill down in Missouri
on opening weekend
Missourinet: Missouri Department
of Conservation blames windy weekend for low deer harvest numbers
St. Louis Beacon: Group launches
to study - and discuss - city-county compact
P-D: Better Together group
launches discussion of city-county governance
KWMU: Better Together? St.
Louis City and County look at reuniting
SNL editorial: Nixon's
gay-marriage announcement reflects good policy X
Joplin Globe editorial: Fraud
and facts: With Election Integrity Unit, Secretary of State Jason
Kander puts transparency to work X
P-D editorial: Let the
city-county Great Reconciliation talks begin
Messenger: Interlopers trying to
buy Missouri judges again. They will lose. Again.
Columbia Missourian's David
Rosman: Medicaid reform must start with care providers
McClellan: Ferguson-Florissant
school district case: Confidentiality can be a handy thing to
hide behind
CDT's Waters: Nixon could have
made an eloquent statement by sparing serial killer, but he didn't X
CDT op-ed: PROMO's AJ
Bockelman: State lags on issues of fairness;
Anti-discrimination bills fail every year X
P-D letter: Reaction to
Nicklaus' piece on fast-food wages; Worker says corporate
shareholders have unreasonable profit margin expectations
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Tuesday, November 19
Washington Post: Upcoming battle
will showcase rising power of women in the Senate; Focus on
McCaskill (D-MO) vs. Gillibrand (D-NY)
CQ Roll Call: Sex-assault
proposal faces uphill battle
AP: 11 members of Senate Armed
Services Committee oppose Gillibrand proposal
St. Louis Review: Archdiocese of
St. Louis and Catholic Charities of St. Louis refile lawsuit on health
care mandate
St. Louis Beacon: New initiative
petition proposals would require Supreme Court judges to run for office
Missouri Wonk's Brian Schmidt: A
look at Missouri Works vs. Kansas' PEAK incentives program - and what's
required to disallow incentives
JCNT: Pastors gather at Quinn
Chapel A.M.E. church, discuss legislative priorities; Group urges
Nixon to push for Medicaid expansion, higher minimum wage, crackdown on
payday loans, more X
Mahoney: Rep. Nick Marshall
(R-Parkville) wants Nixon impeached over same-sex tax-return order,
says he needs help from his GOP caucus
Drebes: Missouri health underwriters form PAC
Drebes: Help wanted at the Capitol: House LA,
House Research, Senate budget analyst
St. Louis Beacon: DESE will look
into irregularities in attendance at Ferguson-Florissant
P-D: Suspended Ferguson schools
chief is under state inquiry for attendance-reporting irregularities
Independence Examiner: Eastern
Jackson County school officials have faith in accreditation plan (link
via TonysKansasCity.com)
AP: Court sets aside guilty
verdict against Rep. Warren Love (R-Osceola) over escaped cattle
AP: Nixon denies clemency to
serial killer
P-D: Serial killer on death row
says he has remorse, is no longer a racist
Columbia Missourians:
Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty to protest Franklin
execution
P-D: Group to begin St. Louis
city-county governance discussion on Tuesday; Comments from Sen.
John Lamping (R-Ladue) fearful of talk "in the shadows" about potential
ballot initiative
KC Star: Former KC Star
columnist Steve Penn dismisses suit against paper because witness
unable to testify, will refile suit +
P-D editorial: Time for
campaign-finance restrictions; Sens. John Lamping (R-Ladue) and
Jamilah Nasheed (D-North St. Louis City) should get together and
propose meaningful reforms
KC Star editorial: Gov. Nixon
makes welcome move toward same-sex couples; Decision is
significant move for "a normally risk-averse governor of an
increasingly red state" +
P-D: University City woman, who
led once-existent Occupy St. Louis group, wants Clay and McCaskill to
take position on Trans-Pacific partnership, says Blunt is already owned
by Monsanto
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Monday, November 18
USA Today: Senators divided on
military sexual assault measure
AP: Senate showdown this week
over military sexual assault bill: Missouri's Claire McCaskill
vs. New York's Kirsten Gillibrand
Fox 2 (St. Louis): Obamacare
troubles: Charles Jaco talks to Missouri Foundation for Health's
James Kinney, Wash U analyst/Missouri Budget Project collaborator
Timothy McBride
Joplin Globe's Redden:
McCaskill, Blunt push for infrastructure spending; Kander
establishes Elections Integrity Unit X
SE Missourian: Passport process slowed because of
understaffing, local business owner says; Request for comment
from USPS branch met with busy signal +
AP: Analysis: Gov. Jay
Nixon shifts left politically; MU, MSU profs weigh in on
gay-marriage stance and positioning for 2016
AP: Analysis: Wariness
greets Nixon's call for KC-area truce
SNL: Rep. Nick Marshall
(R-Parkville) says he plans to file articles of impeachment against
Nixon over gay-marriage tax policy X
Missourinet: Nixon discusses
joint session with House, Senate Medicaid committees
Missourinet: Transportation
sales tax ready to go
SNL: Proposal would let cities,
counties set tobacco tax rates; Ballot measure would require
amending Missouri's constitution X
SNL: KWMU database shows area
lawmakers - except for one - take few lobbyists' gifts; Largest
expense for Rep. Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield) was legislative trip to
Israel X
Missourinet: Nixon shoots deer,
donates to Share the Harvest
Rosenbaum: At UMSL panel, former
state Sen. Joan Bray (D-University City), war reporter Jeremy Scahill
share thoughts on journalism here and abroad
SE Missourian: Scott schools striving to improve MAP
scores +
CDT: Boone County streams, lakes
land on list of impaired waters X
KC Star editorial: Don't use the
Farm Bill to conceal corporate agriculture; In Missouri, Clean
Water Commission set stricter limits on pollutants +
JCNT op-ed: Rep. Jay Barnes
(R-Jefferson City): Market-based Medicaid for Missouri X
Columbia Missourian op-ed:
Show-Me Institute's James Shuls: State's public school retirement
system: Robbing Peter to pay for Paul's pension
KC Star's Sanchez: A life
sentence for racist serial killer is smarter and more just than
execution +
SNL letter: Vicky Hartzler and
Billy Long correct on shutdown, but Roy Blunt voted with the Democrats X
P-D letter: Planned Parenthood's
Paula Gianino responds to letter on Komen Foundation
P-D letter: Residents of states
that do not expand Medicaid will miss out on mental health care access
JCNT letter: Oversight needed
for Ameren and consistent requests for rate increases X
SE Missourian letter: Missouri Corn Growers
Association President Jim Steuver responds to piece on ethanol +
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Sunday, November 17
KC Star: Senators find momentum
shifting on military sexual-assault law; McCaskill says
Gillibrand is "making deals, and I'm sticking with policy" +
P-D: Health insurers face
uncertain future; A look at policy adaptations from Aetna, Anthem
KMOX: Rep. Chuck Gatschenberger
(R-Lake Saint Louis) questions legality of Nixon's order on
gay-marriage tax filings (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
Kirksville Daily Express: Nixon
stops by Kirksville school, talks funding
Washington Missourian:
Washington School Board to vote on policies for recognizing unions
P-D: Up next for
execution: The man who shot Larry Flynt and Vernon Jordan
Joplin Globe: Public comment
sought on watershed plan to improve Spring River; Council
received $30K from Missouri DNR to create plan X
St. Joseph News-Press: City's
red-light cameras will remain off until Missouri Supreme Court issues a
final opinion X
P-D obituary: Sharon Barnes,
"the Republican leader in a city filled with Democrats"
P-D letter: Infrastructure needs
should focus on more than just transportation, and include aiports,
dams and parks
Columbia Missourian letter:
McCaskill, Blunt should work to free small-business owners from
excessive regulatory burdens
Washington Missourian letter:
MSBA's Carter Ward responds to Show-Me Institute's James Shuls' letter
on HB 253 and MSBA membership
Washington Missourian letter:
Common Core needs to be stopped in Missouri
KC Star letter: Correcting
misinformation, scare tactics from opponents of Common Core +
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Saturday, November 16
National Journal: McCaskill
makes it personal in battle over military assaults, "appears miffed at
attention Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is getting"
KC Star: McCaskill wants greater
focus, transparency on search for war remains +
AP: McCaskill plans to introduce
POW legislation
SNL: Health exchange navigators
encouter errors - and some success - during scramble to fix website X
P-D: St. Louis Archdiocese sues
again over Affordable Care Act
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri
Republicans see political opening in fight against Obamacare
St. Louis Beacon/KWMU Political
Speaking podcast: House Budget Chair Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) on
Missouri budget projections and reality, school transfers, Medicaid
expansion and Obamacare
P-D: Former ag chief faces
scrutiny; Jon Hagler says he succeeded in promoting diversity of
his office
CDT: Settlement shows Moberly is
moving ahead after Mamtek debacle X
St. Louis Beacon: Attorney
General Chris Koster supports Nixon's decision to allowing same-sex
couples to file joint tax returns
Phill Brooks: The departure of
indicted Missouri legislators: In light of Rep. Steve Webb
(D-Florissant), looking back at Speaker Bob Griffin (D) and Sen. Jet
Banks (D)
AP: Racist serial killer facing
execution facing execution in Missouri; St. Louis County
Prosecutor Bob McCulloch (D) says murderer's actions were "cowardly"
AP: Salt Lake City NAACP asks
Gov. Jay Nixon to halt execution
WGEM (Hannibal): La Grange, Mo.
casino linked to debit card security breach
P-D: Dick Fleming and Joe Reagan
- RCGA bosses new and old - took home a combined $1.2 million in 2012
TonysKansasCity.com:
Photos: Former state Sen. Charlie Wheeler (D-Kansas City) sells
off his belongings
P-D: Larry Conners loses appeal
on non-compete clause
KC Star's Diuguid: Nixon did the
right thing allowing married same-sex couples to file joint tax returns +
P-D letter: Show-Me Cannabis'
John Payne: Prohibition doesn't prevent teens from using marijuana
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Friday, November 15
Missourinet: Missouri Insurance
Dept. reviewing Obama's extension for those who've gotten cancellation
notices from insurance providers
P-D: Obama will allow insurers
to continue sale of canceled policies; Comments from Missouri
Foundation for Health, Missouri Budget Project collaborator Timothy
McBride
P-D: McCaskill welcomes health
law fix; Blunt questions practical effect
JCNT: Blunt rips Obamacare
failure X
Columbia Missourian: Missouri
health care guides respond to low enrollment figures
KWMU: U.S. Attorney General
praises Missouri federal drug court as national model
Military Times: McCaskill's bill
would give rape victims more say on trial venue
KMOX: Liberal group Progress
Missouri says Show-Me Institute is not independent, and shares funding
sources and research with other State Policy Network think tanks
throughout the country
AP: Missouri to accept joint tax
returns from gay couples
SNL: Speaker Tim Jones rips
Nixon's order on gay couples X
Missourinet: Missouri to accept
joint tax returns for legally married same-sex couples
P-D: Missouri to allow joint tax
returns for legally married same-sex couples
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri's
married same-sex couples can file joint state income taxes
KWMU: Same-sex married couples
living in Missouri will be able to file joint state tax returns
Columbia Missourian: Order to
let legally married same-sex couples file joint tax returns in Missouri
Missourinet: Secretary of State
Jason Kander setting up election integrity unit to look into vote-fraud
claims
JCNT: Jeanie Riddle (R-Mokane)
ready for Missouri Senate bid X
SE Missourian: Home schooling gains popularity in Cape
region +
Kraske: Former Sen. Charlie
Wheeler (D-Kansas City) sells off his memorabilia; Former mayor
talks about meeting Ginger Rogers as he prepares for estate sale +
P-D: KPLR's Melanie Moon defends
hugging man whose murder conviction was overturned
Drebes: Yahoo Sports infographic lists Sam Page's wife
- a former KC Chiefs cheerleader - as elite cheer alumn with "beauty
and brains"
St. Joseph News-Press: Local
NAACP chaptem given preview of March on Washington video X
AP: Black history museum to
shutter in Ozarks
Gateway Journalism Review: Loesch's success turns her
journalism professor into cynic; Webster prof/liberal columnist
Don Corrigan critical of conservative talk radio host's "persona"
P-D editorial: Missouri
Republicans' attempts to sabotage health care law are shameful
SNL editorial: "Just common
sense" editorial briefs: State business groups should accept
annual increases to minimum wage; Pseudoephedrine purchases
should require prescription; more X
Peterson: Nixon grants gay
couples joint tax status; Next battle will be changing Missouri's
constitution
P-D op-ed: Support McCaskill's
effort to stop 'patent trolls' before they squelch our local tech
startups
Columbia Missourian: PROMO
Executive Director AJ Bockelman: Fairness means inclusiive
policies for all Missourians
McClellan: Nixon should grant
clemency to man in jail on marijuana charge
P-D letter: Webster University
economics professor: We don't know what will happen if we pay
fast-food workers $15/hour, so we might as well try
SE Missourian letter: Common Core does not help +
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Thursday, November 14
AP: U.S. posts low number of
health care signups; In Missouri, just 751 picked exchange plans
KC Star: Only 1 in 4 new health
insurance enrollees signed up on Obamacare website +
KWMU: McCaskill: Obama
should have apologized to those whose insurance was canceled:
"These problems are inexcusable, and it's embarrassing"
SE Missourian: In wake of Obamacare, some experience
major increases in premiums, some see their coverage dropped +
P-D: GOP senators steer clear of
Medicaid expansion, tackle reform
AP: Missouri Senate panel
rejects Medicaid expansion
Missourinet: Republicans,
Democrats split on Medicaid expansion
KWMU: Interim committee accepts
recommendations that don't include expansion
The Missouri Times: Missouri
Senate, House appear far apart on Medicaid expansion
Columbia Missourian: Senate
Medicaid panel splits over expansion; Democrats stymied
Politico: Allies of McCaskill,
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) ramp up lobbying for military sexual
assault bill
KC Star: Kansas City tells
Republicans it wants their convention here +
KC Star: Republican convention
task force named +
AP: Kansas City ramping up
effort for GOP convention
St. Louis Beacon: Lou Susman,
top Democratic financier and former ambassador, talks politics and
foreign affairs
Communist Party USA's People's
World: St. Louis hearing spotlights government subsidies of fast
food giants; Comments from Missouri Jobs With Justice, member of
state workers' union
KC Star: Former Sen. Charles
Wheeler (D-Kansas City), facing money problems, to sell off his
belongings - including Truman autographs - at old Westport Shopping
Center on Friday and Saturday +
Drebes: Missouri lobbyists expenses during
session: Gamble & Schlemeier, Bardgett, Burton Liese, more
The Missouri Times: Nixon,
lawmakers see different paths on 'border war' compromise
JCNT: Local legislators call for
tax discussion beyond economic 'truce' with Kansas; Rep. Chris
Kelly (D) says KS is "simply smokescreen for a philosophical agenda" +
CDT: Moberly settles claim in
Mamtek lawsuit; City agrees to pay $95,000 in deal X
SE Missourian: Kathy Swan, Donna Lichtenegger attend
League of Women voters town hall meeting; GOP reps say hot topics
will include Medicaid, education, health care +
St. Louis Beacon: Reversing
course, Normandy board votes to pay tuition bills
AP: Missouri sees increase of
international students
KWMU: Missouri moving forward
with executions, despite secrecy over drug supply
P-D: Ameren agrees to $92
million in solar rebates
AP: Missouri regulators OK solar
rebate agreements
P-D: Ameren Missouri eyeing
O'Fallon for solar project
P-D editorial: McCaskill, Blunt
wage bipartisan effort to help prevent victimizing military sexual
assault victims
KC Star editorial: United front
needed to resolve 'border war' +
SNL editorial: Road funding fix
needed in 2014 X
Washington Missourian editorial:
Throwaway children: Some parents are truly down on their luck -
others "are lazy, give up and go on whatever dole they can find"
KC Star editorial: When justice
falters: Vast damage from Ryan Ferguson prosecution +
KC Star's Sanchez: Red flags
aplenty in charter school debacle +
Columbia Missourian letter: Idea
from Rep. Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City) to privatize Medicaid only
costs more money
P-D letter: State Rep. Mary
Nichols (D-Maryland Heights): Response to paper's editorial on
Steve Webb: Most elected officials do not expect to get gifts
from lobbyists
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Wednesday, November 13
St. Joseph News-Press:
Sequestration still poses threat in defense bill, McCaskill says X
P-D: McCaskill cites 'painful'
arguments in fight over sexual assault in the military
St. Louis Beacon: McCaskill
prepares for likely final showdown over competing sexual assault
proposals
KSDK: McCaskill's office helps
Korean War soldier get overdue Purple Heart
St. Louis Beacon: Obamacare
discussion, sponsored by Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice, to
be held in Clayton tomorrow
Missourinet: Nixon offers
'border war' solution; Sen. Ryan Silvey says gov's speech is
"side show" and an attempt at a power grab
KC Star: Business border war
must stop, Nixon says; Comments from Silvey, Speaker Tim Jones +
Kraske: Silvey's response
indicates Nixon won't get unilateral authority the governor seeks +
Shelly: Lurching toward a truce
in the border war +
Mahoney: Nixon calls for end to
border war
AP: Nixon seeks moratorium in
'border war' with Kansas
NY Times: Missouri's governor
calls for end to contest of incentives
St. Joseph News-Press: Nixon
visits local school, says fully funding foundation formula will help X
Drebes: GOP candidate files paperwork in Rep. Jeremy
LaFaver's safe Dem district
TonysKansasCity.com: Statewide
marijuana conference coming to Kansas City this weekend
KWMU: Schweich's audit claims
Missouri K-12 schools could save money by changing bond bidding process
P-D: No-bid bonds cost taxpayers
$43 million, says Schweich
P-D: Changes to the GED have
many cramming for the test
KWMU: Tyrone McNichols lays out
plan to earn back state accreditation for Normandy; Comments from
ed chief Chris Nicastro, student Dianitia Butler
St. Louis Beacon: Big board
meeting set in Normandy
Missouri Wonk's Linda Rallo:
Five things we learned from the unveiling of MoDOT's long-range
transportation plan
P-D: October is another slow
casino month
Missourinet: University of
California - Los Angeles study: Missouri needs a law protecting
LGBTQ citizens
AP: Attorney for man convicted
of murdering blacks and Jews asks for execution stay
Missourinet: Koster's office
says it will not retry Ryan Ferguson
CDT: Ryan Ferguson thanks
family, supporters after release X
KC Star: Ryan Ferguson home in
Columbia after court vacates conviction in sports editor's death +
AP: Ryan Ferguson freed after
murder conviction overturned
KWMU: Missouri Supreme Court
strikes down MSD storm water fee
P-D: Missouri high court rejects
MSD stormwater charge
P-D editorial: GOP proponent of
Medicaid expansion, issues strong challenge; Rep. Jay Barnes'
proposal deserves serious debate
KC Star editorial: A bigger
governor-appointed police board is not an improvement for KC +
P-D op-ed: Missouri Association
for Social Welfare and Bread for the World: Missouri hunger
cannot be solved by charity alone
KC Star op-ed:
Chiropractor: Tough choices ahead on Medicaid reform +
Columbia Missourian's David
Rosman: Nullification: The difference between proposed gun
law and proposed marijuana law
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Tuesday, November 12
KWMU: Veterans Day celebration
draws 100 at Missouri Capitol
SE Missourian: Food stamp recipients seeing smaller
checks since Nov. 1 +
Columbia Missourian: McCaskill's
staff to hold "Kitchen Table Talk" today
Des Moines Register: McCaskill
to attend county-level Dem fundraising reception Saturday
Rosenbaum: Tom Schweich and Jay
Swearingen size up auditor's race differently
The Missouri Times: Rep. Chris
Kelly (D-Columbia) endorses Kip Kendrick for his seat
Drebes: Brad Ketcher files initiative petition to
limit campaign contributions
SNL: Report: 47 complaints
of employment discrimination would be filed each year if Missouri had a
nondiscrimination law X
AP: Nixon to address KC Chamber
today, will propose end to Missouri-Kansas "border war"
KC Star's Helling: Nixon should
push tax reform targeted to the middle class, not corporations +
SNL: State to raise minimum wage
in 2014 X
Drebes: Former Sen. John Scott
(D-St. Louis) deletes his registration for city, now repping only
Harris-Stowe
AP: Nixon to attend higher-ed
meeting focusing on expanding "Innovation Campuses"
AP: Failing Normandy district
asks for more time
P-D: Normandy says
transfer law is crippling district
St. Louis Beacon: State
education officials hear plans, passion at Normandy meeting
St. Louis Beacon: City school
superintendent keeps close eye on data, students
KC Star: Keep KC police under
state control, committee says in close vote +
P-D: Judge denies lawsuit from
Rep. Paul Wieland (R-Imperial) over contraceptive coverage
P-D: Hustler magazine publisher
Larry Flynt, represented by ACLU attorney, enters Missouri capital
punishment fray
AP: Larry Flynt joins those
opposing execution of serial killer
The Missouri Times: Larry Flynt
files suit in Missouri execution case
P-D: St. Peters aldermen remove
ban on penalty points for red-light camera violations
P-D: Post-Dispatch parent
company's 4Q loss widens; Gains in digital ad revenue not enough
to offset decreases in print advertising
Joplin Globe editorial: Sales
tax for transportation faces rough road ahead X
Joplin Globe op-ed: Gov. Jay
Nixon: Veterans Day piece X
P-D op-ed: Sierra Club's Sara
Edgar: Activist in her early 30s says she has personally observed
climate change, wants Ameren to move away from "dirty fossil fuels"
CDT's Waters: In Missouri,
red-light camera enforcement should be on the same grounds as parking
violations X
P-D letter: UMSL professor
responds to P-D's Nicklaus regarding fast-food/welfare column
P-D letter: Missouri should
embrace Obamacare, expand Medicaid
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Monday, November 11 Veterans Day
Fox 2 St. Louis: Affordable Care Act still a
mess: Missouri Foundation for Health's Thomas McAuliffe talks to
Charles Jaco about how it happened
Joplin Globe: Newton County GOP
Chair Nick Myers says Rand Paul will headline next year's statewide
Lincoln Day; Billy Long, Kurt Schaefer address county GOP, talk
Obamacare and Common Core X
AP: Missouri's minimum wage set
to rise, again, in 2014; Missouri wage will be 25 cents higher
than federal minimum wage
AP: Missouri ballot could have
two tax questions
St. Louis Beacon: Jason Kander
pledges to resume fight for early voting, ethics changes, when
legislators reconvene
Missourinet: Senate Majority
Leader Ron Richard wants tort reform with Medicaid legislation
SNL: 2 of 7 colleges with
highest default rates are in the Ozarks X
Missourinet: A proposal for
something better for failing districts
Fox 2 St. Louis: Normandy School
District hearings begin tonight
SE Missourian: Many factors contribute to Jackson test
success: "Parents with high expectations, plus 'great teachers
and administrators'" set area apart, say officials +
St. Joseph News-Press: March of
Dimes says Missouri ranks 'average' in premature deaths X
Washington Missourian: Efforts
continue for small modular nuclear reactors
KC Star: Missouri-based rescue
team leaps into action when disaster strikes +
Hannibal Courier-Post: Court's
red-light camera ruling impacts Hannibal
P-D editorial: Labeling GMOs is
a good idea but may not make a difference
SE Missourian op-ed: Missouri Supreme Court Chief
Justice Mary Rhodes Russell: Veterans Day piece +
KC Star's Diuguid: Minority
parents value high-quality education +
Washington Missourian letter:
Show-Me Institute's James Shuls: Missouri School Boards'
Association (MSBA) fights to keep taxes high
P-D letter: Sad situation of
trooper's gay partner could have been avoided if Missouri legalized gay
marriage
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Sunday, November 10
KOLR: Rep. Billy Long seeks
Southwest Missouri support for Farm Bill, says SNAP fraud/abuse should
be cut to protect the truly needy
JCNT: Cuts to SNAP affect nearly
14,000 Lake residents receiving handouts X
St. Joseph News-Press: Tough
negotiating remains for farm bill; Comments from McCaskill, Blunt X
Boonville Daily News: At
listening post, constituents say they want to hear Rep. Vicky Hartzler
talk more about Obamacare problems, "Amnesty Program for Illegal
Aliens," Agenda 21, voter ID, more
Boonville Daily News: Rep. Vicky
Hartzler visits Caterpillar plant
P-D: As federal health website
stalls, so does marketing; Comments from Missouri Foundation for
Health, others
P-D: Confusion time: How
to pick a health insurance plan; Comments from Kaiser Family
Foundation, others
SNL's Shorman: Missouri not
likely to follow Illinois in legalizing gay marriage X
St. Joseph News-Press: Local
experts discuss pros and cons of marijuana legalization; Sen. Rob
Schaaf (R-St. Joseph) says he supports legalization, wants to see
Missourians vote on issue X
KC Star: Seven out of 10
Missouri school districts are adopting Common Core +
Joplin Globe: MoDOT seeks public
input on roads plan
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme
Court sets new execution date for convicted murderer Allen Nicklasson
AP: Missouri lawmakers to review
catfish regulation
Douglas County Herald op-ed:
Sen. Claire McCaskill: Veterans Day piece
Columbia Missourian op-ed: State
Treasurer Clint Zweifel: Veterans Day piece
KC Star's Abouhalkah: Missouri's
minimum wage is rising - again - in 2014 +
Shelly: Prosecutors who hide
evidence harm justice +
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Saturday, November 9
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt
says nation could see a manufacturing revival X
Joplin Globe: Decrease in
federal food-stamp funding increases demand on local pantries X
Washington Post: New census
report: Poverty rate rate is lower in Missouri than originally
thought (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
The Hill: McCaskill wants help
from patent troll whistle-blowers
The Hill: McCaskill issues
deadline to deal with POW 'mess'
AP: Plan calls for new Missouri
riverways restrictions
KWMU: Draft management plan
released for Ozark National Park
Columbia Missourian: Ozark
riverways management plan calls for change
AP: Ronnie White nominated for
federal judgeship for the third time
P-D: Obama nominates Ronnie
White to federal judgeship he was denied
Kraske: Nixon is forced to
confront complaints of workplace hostility +
AP: Ballot proposal seeks cap on
Missouri tax credits
P-D: Rep. Jay Barnes
(R-Jefferson City) invites critiques of his Medicaid analysis
Drebes: Sen. Maria
Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City) tweets that education chief Chris
Nicastro talks out of "both sides of her mouth"
St. Joseph News-Press: MoDOT
maps vision for future X
KSMU: MoDOT asks for feedback
after release of 20-year plan
KSMU: On proposed landfill, City
Utilities says they won't "jeopardize the environment"
AP: Missouri Supreme Court will
impose new fee on lawyers to aid the poor
AP: New execution date set for
Missouri inmate; Pentobarbitol will be used to close chapter on
murderer Allen Nicklasson
KC Star: Secrecy around Missouri
execution drug is drawing criticism +
CDT: Special prosecutor named in
Ryan Ferguson case at county prosecutor's request X
AP: Assistant attorney general
Susan Boresi named as special prosecutor in Ryan Ferguson case
KTVI: Video: Elliot Davis
vs. Monarch Fire District and former state Sen. Jane Cunningham (R)
P-D editorial: Alleged
activities of Rep. Steve Webb (D-Florissant) aren't any worse than what
others - especially Republicans - do
KC Star editorial: Numbers look
good for Medicaid change in Missouri +
Joplin Globe editorial:
Protecting Missouri's water X
KC Star editorial: A red light
for cameras in Missouri +
P-D editorial: State
penitentiary opens in Jefferson City
SNL op-ed: Missouri Association
for Social Welfare's Jeanette Mott Oxford: Tax reform needed to
support services X
P-D op-ed: Local director of
anti-drug group: Legalizing marijuana in Missouri means children
will be targeted
KC Star letter: Missouri should
expand Medicaid +
P-D letter: Missouri should
expand Medicaid to help the mentally ill
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Friday, November 8
Politico: In wake of special
elections, Blunt says GOP needs to return to model of pushing forward
"the most conservative candidate that can be elected," not unrealistic
fringe types
Politico: University of Missouri
study: Televised debates help moderates pick candidates
SE Missourian: Rep. Jason Smith says EPA emission
proposals are too costly +
The Rolla Daily News:
Congressman Jason Smith meets with Rolla Municipal Utilities on new EPA
regulations
The Licking News: Rep. Jason
Smith at Intercounty co-op: Stopping EPA bans on coal plants
KWMU: At the St. Louis VA, it's
a mixed bag for veterans waiting on claims
JCNT: Blunt: Changes
needed for health care plan to work X
Politico: White House map colors
outside Medicaid lines; Missouri named among states hostile to
Medicaid expansion
Missourinet: Plan to save money
on Medicaid expansion would mean reduced eligibility to children
KETC (PBS): Video: The Health Insurance
Marketplace in Missouri; Coverage supported in part by the
Missouri Foundation for Health
The Pitch: State senators
Shalonn "Kiki" Curls and Ryan Silvey (R) are the top lobbyist
schmoozers in all of Missouri (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
Missourinet: House Minority
Leader Jake Hummel says Rep. Steve Webb (D-Florissant) should resign
The Missouri Times: Reps. Steve
Webb, Jake Hummel make contradictory statements on resignation
AP: Missouri Republicans want
Nixon to call special election for Jason Smith's state rep seat
Missouri Viewpoints with Mike
Ferguson: Video and text: Rep. Vicki Englund (D) previews
Missouri legislature's most contentious 2014 issues
The Missouri Times: Five
questions with Rep. Wanda Brown (R-Lincoln)
AP: MoDOT: More money
needed to keep up with demands
KWMU: MoDOT unveils 20-year plan
for transportation, but state can't afford it
Missourinet: MoDOT talks
long-range plan
SNL: MoDOT looks down the long
road, says desires exceed budget X
SE Missourian: MoDOT says its long-range funding falls
short of what the public wants +
St. Louis Beacon/KWMU "Politically
Speaking" podcast: State Sen. Joe Keaveny on school transfer
debate, more
AP: DESE: Districts are
rolling out new standards
KWMU: Panel talks accreditation
process overhaul, school transfers
AP: Education Commissioner Chris
Nicastro lauds effort to fix failing schools
Joplin Globe: Board of Education
expresses support for formation of LGBTQ group; Board member
anticipates objections from parents and taxpayers who are "intolerant" X
SE Missourian: SEMO foundation launches public
fundraising campaign +
AP: SEMO's $40M fundraising
drive enters public phase
KSMU: Sierra Club says coal ash
landfill could lead to water contamination
KC Star: Peter Brownlie, local
chief of Planned Parenthood, is retiring +
St. Louis Beacon: City of St.
Louis' red-light cameras will stay in place, as court kills those in
Ellisville
St. Joseph News-Press: Red light
cameras suspended in St. Joseph X
The Turner Report: Longtime
blogger Randy Turner opens up about firing, future of his
blog(s); Former teacher begins drawing pension, adds PayPal
button for reader donations
St. Joseph News-Press editorial:
Red-light cameras' future in doubt X
P-D's Nicklaus: Burger activism
isn't the answer to social problems: Outrageous $15/hr. demands
for unskilled jobs would increase unemployment
Messenger: Speaker Tim Jones
makes a mistake in appointing Rep. Casey Guernsey to lead Hagler
investigation
KC Star letter: Reminiscing over
Ike +
SNL letter: Grass Roots
Organizing's Robin Acree: McCaskill, Blunt should vote to make
corporations "pay their fair share" X
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Thursday, November 7
Sikeston Standard-Democrat: U.S. Rep. Jason
Smith: War on coal is war on Missouri
Missourinet: Patent trolls draw
McCaskill's attention; Senior senator wants to crack down on
"bottom feeder" scam artists
KWMU: McCaskill, Blunt introduce
legislation to protect sexual assault victims in the military
KSMU: Food pantries gather to
discuss possible impact of SNAP cuts
P-D: Terry McAuliffe once worked
for Dick Gephardt
Columbia Missourian: As
pressures mount, Ozark National Scenic Riverways updates management plan
Columbia Missourian: Health care
'navigators' push forward despite website setbacks
KWMU: Rep. Jay Barnes
(R-Jefferson City) presents 'cost estimates' of potential Missouri
Medicaid expansion
Columbia Missourian: Rep. Jay
Barnes unveils budget with Medicaid expansion saving the state money
P-D: Potential for savings from
Medicaid expansion draws support, skepticism
AP: Missouri lawmaker projects
savings if Medicaid changed
St. Louis Beacon: Rep. Steve
Webb (D-Florissant) faces campaign finance-related charges
KWMU: Rep. Steve Webb accused of
stealing, numerous campaign violations
P-D: Rep. Steve Webb charged
with stealing political funds; Minority Leader Jake Hummel
anticipated resignation, but Webb now says he has no plans to resign
Missourinet: State rep charged
with theft of political funds
AP: Missouri lawmaker charged
with stealing
P-D: Missouri Ethics Commission
fines former Rep. Eileen McGeoghegan (D-St. Ann); Candidate and
campaign consultant Rory Riddler made "multiple false statements" to
investigator
SNL: Legislative town hall
addresses education funding X
AP: Schweich to review KC
charter school
KC Star: KC School Board
President Airick Leonard West a finalist for 2013 Urban Educator of the
Year +
P-D: Hearings planned for
Riverview Gardens
AP: Public hearings set on
Riverview Gardens schools
KWMU: NPR host Michel Martin
coming to St. Louis tomorrow, says school transfer is "a hot story"
CDT: Hickman forum explores U.S.
military interventions; Guests include Marine/state Rep. Stephen
Webber (D-Columbia) X
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri
Western event focuses on oppression; "Tunnel of Oppression"
display includes eating disorders and bullying alongside racism, sexism X
P-D: Missouri panel OKs
long-overdue water-quality standards
SE Missourian: Stoddard County sheriff disputes
auditor's claims +
Missourinet: Agreement announced
between between Jefferson City, state on use of historic prison
KWMU: State of Missouri and
Jefferson City to split cleanup costs at old Missouri State Penitentiary
JCNT: State commits to reopening
MSP X
AP: Costs to be split for fixes
at former Missouri prison
Joplin Globe: Grand jury indicts
man in Planned Parenthood arson attempts X
AP: Westminster College to host
state appeals court
P-D: Battle over red-light
cameras continues with ruling in Ellisville case; Ruling says
ordinance is in conflict with state law
KC Star: Missouri court says
red-light camera laws like those in KC are invalid +
AP: Missouri appeals
court: Red-light camera law invalid
P-D: Lack of accord with park
service threatens to delay Arch project
P-D: Larry Conners goes back to
court today in fight with KMOV
P-D editorial: Illinois embraces
gay marriage, while Missouri embraces discrimination
Messenger: Justice served in
Ryan Ferguson case; truth remains elusive X
SNL op-ed: Kelley Ryun:
Tweet from Sen. Kevin Elmer (R-Nixa) about LGBTQ school club was foolish X
Columbia Missourian letter:
Mizzou football attendees were booing Obama, cheering the soldiers
P-D letter: Illinois man says
McCaskill, other Dems should experience the wonders of Obamacare
themselves
P-D letter: Chesterfield woman
says UMSL professsor "should get off her high horse" and experience
difficulty of standing over fast-food grill for eight hours
SE Missourian letter: Missouri Militia is a
state-sanctioned volunteer group; Unlike other militias, is is
not for "kooks," "anarchists" nor "racists" +
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Wednesday, November 6
Rosenbaum: Courage and kindness
on Skelton's journey from Warm Springs to Capitol Hill
St. Joseph News-Press:
McCaskill, Blunt introduce bill addressing sexual assault cases X
KC Star: Sen. Barbara Boxer
(D-CA) wants to change how military investigates sexual assault;
Comments from McCaskill +
97.1FM (St. Louis): Rep. Ann
Wagner talks to Dana Loesch about health care, says members of her
staff will subject themselves to Obamacare
SNL: Man challenging Billy Long
for Congress speaks to masked group as part of Anonymous event X
P-D: Video: Immigration
advocates protest in St. Louis
KMOX: Immigration reform
activists demonstrate downtown
St. Louis Beacon: Illinois gay
marriage impact on Missouri uncertain
Missourinet: House members say
they're please with Nixon's call for joint Medicaid hearing
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon calls
meeting of legislative panels to discuss Medicaid; Speaker Tim
Jones responds
P-D: Nixon seeks meeting to
chart course on Missouri Medicaid
AP: Nixon proposes
Thanksgiving-week meeting on Medicaid
Missourinet: Committee to
investigate Dept. of Agriculture, Hagler
KWMU: State House committee
created to investigate allegations at Missouri Department of Agriculture
SE Missourian: Tax cuts topic of Missouri School
Boards' Association regional meeting; MSBA's Brent Ghan says HB
253 epitomized "race to the bottom" +
AP: State officials: KC
charter school inflated attendance numbers
KC Star: At KC public school,
parent assaults elementary school principal, kicks over flower pot
during dress code dispute +
TonysKansasCity.com:
Trend: Hickman Mills parents continue bad behavior and beatdowns
TonysKansasCity.com: Roundup of
KC Public Schools news of the day: Attendance fudging, failing
students being passed to next grade anyway, more
P-D: Superintendents pitch plan
to aid struggling schools
Drebes: Former state Rep. Melissa Leach won't run
again, will attend law school instead
The Missouri Times: Rep. Chris
Mollendorp (R-Cass County) named executive director of ConnectCASS
The Missouri Times: Staff
profile: Caitlin Kerber, legislative assistant for Speaker Pro
Tem Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg)
AP: Schweich's audits: Money missing from
southeast Missouri sheriffs' offices
AP: Child support contractor to
pay over late cards
SNL: State to hold meeting
Thursday on City Utilities coal ash landfill proposal X
JCNT: MoDOT crews prepare for
first winter storms X
AP: Officials to discuss
Missouri State Penitentiary
CDT: Appeals court sides with
Ryan Ferguson X
AP: Missouri appeals court
overturns conviction of man accused in murder of Columbia newspaper
editor
P-D editorial: Republicans'
failure to expand Medicaid in Missouri was a moral failure
KC Star's Maria Rose Williams:
Rep. Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) asks KC supe a probing question:
Should a teacher's race match a student's race? +
Columbia Missourian's Rosman:
Sen. Ron Richard's gun bill is a waste of time; Republicans
should be removed from office "before Missouri becomes politically and
morally bankrupt"
P-D letter: Poverty
activist: Those who want more taxpayer dollars spent on food
stamps should contact McCaskill, Blunt
KC Star letter: 5th
Congressional District liberal is happy she's not represented by 4th
Congressional District conservative Vicky Hartzler +
P-D letter: Rep. Stacey Newman
(D-Richmond Heights): Sen. Ron Richard ignores gun violence
victims
P-D letter: Reaction to Glossip
coverage: State trooper's gay partner has a sad story - and had
plenty of options to avoid being left in current sorry state
P-D letter: New Missouri law
might allow unwanted protests
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Tuesday, November 5
Missourinet: Ike Skelton praised
as 'warrior'; Audio of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's eulogy
JCNT: Skelton remembered as
'regular guy' X
AP: Military, officeholders
mourn ex-U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton
Fox4 Kansas City: Ike Skelton
remembered for service to country
KMBC:
Never-before-seen-video: In 2003 interview, Ike Skelton talks
about polio fight and how it changed his life
Missourinet: Fans at Mizzou game
boo reference to Obama; Rep. Clem Smith (D-Velda Village Hills)
"embarrassed and angry"
KSHB: Fans at Mizzou football
game boo reference to Obama
TonysKansasCity.com: Roundup of
Obama-booing Mizzou football coverage
AP: Missouri's senators miss
gay-rights vote due to Skelton's funeral; McCaskill would have
voted yes, Blunt would have voted no
Newton: A past vote that lingers
in Missouri: In 2004, 71 percent of Missourians voted against gay
marriage X
KWMU: Nearly 100 attend
immigration reform rally, call on Rep. Ann Wagner (R) to take stand
The Hill: Senate postal bill
hits a setback; Comments from McCaskill
P-D: Clashing views on climate,
coal plant regulation on display at EPA listening session
KWMU: Delmar Boulevard urgent
care center, sexually-transmitted disease clinic to shut doors
St. Louis Beacon: ConnectCare, a
St. Louis City facility for the poor, tells workers it will close
urgent care center; CEO says services will keep being cut until
Medicaid expands
P-D: Closure of Smiley Urgent
Care Center hurts patients; About 60 percent of patients at
Delmar Boulevard center are uninsured
St. Louis Beacon: Latest
Missouri revenue numbers show slower growth in October
Missourinet: Former Ag Director
Jon Hagler speaks about allegations of hostility, threats;
Includes full 37-minute interview
St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor
Tribune: Chris Koster pledges funds to elect Dems, fight
right-to-work in Missouri
Drebes: In Senate 24 and House
90, Dems Jill Schupp and Deb Lavender get jump start on yet-unnamed GOP
candidates
The Missouri Times: Attorney
Robert Butler (D) pursues Rep. Paul Wieland's House seat
The Missouri Times: Paul Berry
to run against Rep. Mary Nichols (D-North St. Louis City); Bail
bondsman awaits trial date for lawsuit against incumbent
St. Louis Beacon: Bipartisan
panel of former legislators - Mike Gibbons, Joan Bray, Emmy McClellan,
Rita Days - extol the seemingly-lost art of true compromise
The Missouri Times: Budget
lawmakers weigh in on foundation formula promise
SE Missourian: Local housing projects among dozens
seeking state tax credits +
KC Star: School superintendents
offer solution to student-transfer woes +
Columbia Missourian: Community
honors Deaton at retirement reception; Comments from Sen. Kurt
Schaefer (R-Columbia)
St. Louis Beacon: A.T. Still
University teams up with Grace Hill to expand dental care
SE Missourian: Computer glitch creates 'big headache'
for courts; Missouri system crashes, leaving paperless courts out
of luck for most of day +
AP: Federal appeals court halts
horse slaughterhouses in New Mexico, Missouri
Joplin Globe op-ed: Missouri
State Board of Education President Peter Herschend: Common Core
presents an opportunity for Missouri X
P-D op-ed: Think tank president
and St. Louis native Michael Petrilli: Common Core is a
conservative win for Missouri
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
op-ed: Think tank president and St. Louis native Michael
Petrilli: Common Core is a conservative win for Wisconsin
Deseret News op-ed: Think tank
president and St. Louis native Michael Petrilli: Commond Core is
a conservative win for Utah
News Observer op-ed: Think tank
president and St. Louis native Michael Petrilli: Common Core is a
conservative win for North Carolina
Greenville Journal op-ed: Think
tank president and St. Louis native Michael Petrilli: Common Core
is a conservative win for South Carolina
P-D letter: Blunt wants to cut
the budget yet spend billions on military jets
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Monday, November 4
JCNT: Hundreds offer condolences
at Ike Skelton's visitation X
Lebanon Daily Record: Rep. Vicky
Hartzler delivers Halloween-themed speech to Rotary, says Obamacare is
a threat to families in her district
Fox2 St. Louis: What Obamacare
means to the self-insured; Charles Jaco talks to insurance broker
Kraske: Peter Kinder bows out of
another race +
AP Missouri workers to get
Friday off after Thanksgiving
Drebes: Missouri Association for
Social Welfare (MASW) opposes transportation tax ballot initiative
AP: Interview: Ag Director
Jon Hagler says departure was his own idea, and that timing was
"horrible coincidence"
Brownfield Ag News: Gov. Jay
Nixon joins Missouri Corn Growers Association's Gary Marshall to
celebrate corn harvest, laud ethanol
KMOX: Rise in homeless students
brings high transportation costs
KSMU: Nerf guns used at MSU
"Humans Versus Zombies" make some nervous; Poll indicates
overwhelming majority of students not frightened by soft-projectile toys
The Missouri Times: The mystery
behind Missouri's execution drugs
AP: Analysis: Texas
abortion case could impact Missouri
P-D editorial: Voter ID laws
disenfranchise women
SNL op-ed: Lawmakers must agree
to negotiate; Vicky Hartzler, Billy Long guilty of "hijacking"
legislative process and "holding hostage" reputation of U.S. government X
KC Star op-ed: Ike Skelton
leaves a legacy of military education reform +
The Current (UMSL):
Point-counterpoint: Should Missouri become a "right to work"
state?
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Sunday, November 3
St. Joseph News-Press: A year
after election, politics remains polarized: Comments from
McCaskill, Blunt, Missouri Western prof, Jeff Roe X
Missourinet: Blunt introduces
bipartisan cybersecurity measure
JCNT: 'Frequent fliers' ground
health care; Repeat visits to emergency rooms driving up costs X
SNL: How much will insurance
cost Missourians on new exchange? A look at the options X
KC Star: Young people, the key
to Obamacare, ponder whether to enroll; Comments from area
millennials +
JCNT: Two community health
groups say health exchange enrollment is improving X
Kraske: Another adult in
Missouri politics is leaving the room; Thoughts on Rep. Chris
Kelly's mid-October announcement +
Washington Missourian:
Legalizing marijuana is a tough sell
Drebes: Rep. Jeremy LaFaver
raises $15K - pretty strong for a House Dem busted for pot
TonysKansasCity.com: A reality
check: Republicans can't actually beat Jeremy LeFaver in an
overwhelmingly Democratic district
JCNT: PROMO eyes more
legislative involvement, says Missouri Supreme Court's 5-2 ruling
marked "a difficult day for equality and justice in Missouri" X
P-D: Lost Supreme Court battle
redoubles survivor's pain; Man at center of gay-trooper ruling
has run out of savings, feels that legal system let him down
P-D: St. Louis County Election
Board short at voters head to polls; Nixon, Schmitt disagree over
why lack of quorum exists
AP: Agreement reached in
Missouri renewable energy program
P-D: EPA 'listening tour'
precedes coal-plant carbon rule
Washington Missourian: Proposed
coal ash landfill delayed
SNL: City councilwoman: 'I
hope it's not going to take a dead child' to restrict cold meds X
P-D: McKee talking team-up with
McCormack Baron on NorthSide
Washington Missourian editorial:
Ike Skelton had strong ties to Franklin County
P-D editorial: Gov. Jay Nixon
owes explanation for departed department heads; Questions about
dept. heads' alleged hostility toward women draws silence from Nixon
administration
Washington Missourian editorial:
Evolving attitudes on marijuana: Missouri reps not ready to
legalize, but willing to listen to smarter policy approaches
KC Star letter: Republican
analogies around voter ID are flawed +
P-D letter: Not enough
living-wage jobs to go around
P-D letter: UMSL's Susan
Feigenbaum: Public deserves to foot welfare bill for fast-food
workers; it's a proper penalty for letting public schools churn
out unskilled youths
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Saturday, November 2
MSNBC: Video: Blunt, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
discuss bipartisan mental health bill; Blunt weighs in on
Congress' no-compromise mood (video #2)
JCNT: National Organization for
Women, Missouri ProVote, Grass Roots Organizing protest outside
Luetkemeyer's office for immigration reform
KRCG: NOW, ProVote, Grass Roots
Organizing turn out "more than a dozen" for immigration rally
Columbia Missourian: Food stamp
benefit decreases take effect
KSMU: Liberal think tank says
food-stamp decreases will keep $96 million of taxpayer dollars from
heading to Missouri
SE Missourian: Kinder won't run for Congress in 2014 +
St. Louis Beacon: Peter Kinder
drops plans to run for Congress in 2014, will remain as lieutenant
governor
P-D: Peter Kinder won't run for
Congress
KMOX: Kinder decides against
2014 congressional run
AP: Peter Kinder won't run for
Congress
St. Louis Beacon: Major Tom
Schweich fundraiser at home of Sam Fox could be harbinger of 2016
gubernatorial bid
St. Louis Beacon/KWMU Politically
Speaking: Former Sen. Jane Cunningham (R) on Kurt Schaefer
eliminating her district (4:00); right-to-work "squishies" and Eric
Schmitt (20:30), much more
AP: Speaker Tim Jones wants
hearings on allegations of hostile work environment in Nixon
administration
KFVS: Members of pro-marijuana
group want retired narcotics officer to apologize for Facebook
post; Area smoker starts local pro-legalization offshoot
KC Star: MU's next chancellor
will set the tone for years to come +
KC Star: Missouri
superintendents want to stop student transfer law +
St. Louis Beacon:
Superintendents list recommended school changes
P-D: Plans to open charter
school in Riverview Gardens scuttled
SE Missourian: Former state Rep. Mike Sutherland
(R-Warrenton) talks to area groups about the use tax +
Drebes: State Sen. Tim Green (D), formerly of Spanish
Lake and now of St. Charles County, is the new Director of Government
Relations for St. Louis Electrical Connection
JCNT: State to lease two floors
of Jefferson City post office
Daily Dunklin Democrat: Missouri Department of
Conservation sets youth deer season for this weekend +
P-D: Judge in New Mexico clears
way to slaughter horses for meat, but local lawyer says Missouri
packing plant still blocked
AP: Missouri Supreme Court
considers lawsuit against Royals from fan injured by hot dog
KC Star editorial: Sales tax is
the wrong vehicle to fix Missouri roads; Increasing gasoline tax
is a much better option +
P-D's Horrigan: Plenty of
warning that Legislature will waste more time on guns
Shelly: What the food stamp
debate says about us: We're not spending enough taxpayer money on
education, and wages should be raised +
P-D letter: Former state Sen.
Ted House (D-St. Charles County: Ike Skelton was one of America's
staunchest defenders
KC Star letter: Banker/donor
Crosby Kemper III: Skelton video available at kclibrary.org +
CDT letter: Rehabilitation
center CEO: Hartzler right to express rehabilitation-hospital
concerns to Sebelius X
P-D letter: Alliance for Healthy
Communities: Increasing access to marijuana will not help
Missouri educate its children
P-D letter: GOP activist Herman
Kriegshauser on value of education tax credits
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Friday, November 1
St. Louis Beacon: McCaskill
claims victory in FAA decision to allow broader use of electronic
devices on planes
P-D: McCaskill praises end of
'dumb rule' limiting in-flight gadget use
KC Star: Rules for electronics
during air travel are eased +
Washington Post: FAA to allow
gate-to-gate use of personal electronics; McCaskill has led push
for easing of restrictions
USA Today: FAA loosens rules for
electronic devices during flights
Washington Post: Focusing on
Navy Yard shooting, McCaskill and others examine security clearances
JCNT: Blunt, Sen. Debbie
Stabenow (D-MI) push for improved mental health care X
CDT: Former Sen. Scott Brown
(R-MA) draws 40 to Columbia event, discusses views on D.C. and GOP X
AP: Creighton University
economist says shutdown hurt Midwest business conditions
P-D: Automatic cut in federal
food stamps kicks in today; Comments from Missouri Association
for Social Welfare's Glenn Koenen
KC Star: Cuts in food stamp
benefits begins today; About 15 percent of Missourians are on the
dole +
KWMU: Blunt: Website
problems not really what's wrong with Obamacare
KWMU: Second day of Medicaid
hearings: Several GOP House members remain opposed to expansion
CDT: House Medicaid panel talks
about political hurdles; Some lawmakers cite inevitability X
SE Missourian: Retired state patrolman posts
observations of pro-cannabis meeting; Sgt. Kevin Glaser says
marijuana supporters unfamiliar with library, should "go back to
drawing their welfare check" +
AP: Cattlemen say Mo. ag chief
Jon Hagler made threats
St. Louis Beacon: House panel
recommends cutting state vehicle fleet, bolstering state auditor's
powers
Missourinet: Rep. Paul Curtman
(R-Pacific) wants to look for more opportunities for government
downsizing
KWMU: Missouri House committee
recommends ways to downsize state government
Missourinet: Senate Majority
Leader Ron Richard releases draft of new gun legislation
AP: Senate Majority Leader Ron
Richard releases new gun legislation
KMBC: Missouri program helps sex
offenders get early release; Soccer coach serves just 120 days of
15-year sentence (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
SE Missourian: University of Missouri President Tim
Wolfe's higher-ed advocacy tour makes stop in Cape Girardeau +
St. Louis Beacon: Normandy votes
to pay student transportation bill; Comments from Superintendent
Tyrone McNichols, board members
P-D: Normandy School Board
reverses decision on transportation payment, chooses to pay bill
AP: Hearings planned on
unaccredited Normandy schools
Fulton Sun: State auditor Tom
Schweich gives Callaway courts 'poor' rating
CDT: Schweich rates Callaway
courts 'poor,' cites missing money X
AP: Audit: Money missing
from circuit clerk office
AP: Missouri utility 'cold
weather' rule takes effect; Those who have not paid their bill
are guaranteed to receive service from now through March
St. Louis Beacon: Nevada
official to speak here about water issues
Sikeston Standard-Democrat: National commander of
American Legion to speak at Sikeston +
Joplin Globe: Jedidiah Stout,
who burned down mosque and botched similar attack on Planned
Parenthood, is ordered to remain in jail without bail X
Washington Missourian editorial:
Remembering Ike Skelton: A Democrat who was moderate,
conservative on a number of issues, and not flamboyant
P-D editorial: Piling on the
Missouri Public Defender system
Helling: Ike Skelton's approach
departs along with him; Today, ideology trumps accomplishment +
P-D op-ed: Sen. Roy Blunt:
Preserve St. Louis-built fighter jet innovations for our troops
Columbia Missourian letter:
Christians outside Planned Parenthood demonstrate "abuse of their
inherent white, middle-upper class privilege"
P-D letter: Response to unions'
organizing push: Fast-food companies are employers, not parents
of minor children
KC Star letter: In support of
minimum-wage increase: Most workers live paycheck-to-paycheck,
which is why they have no savings +
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