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January 21, 2015 – Missouri political news headlines

Published January 21, 2015 (updated: November 16, 2022) in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, $GCI, $LEE, Ameren Missouri, assault on Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, Brooke Foster Better Together, Brooke Foster Missouri, Brooke Foster Pelopidas, Brooke Foster St. Louis, Chris Koster, Claire McCaskill, David Sater, Eric Fey, Eric Fey elections, Gannett Missouri newspapers, Hank Waters, Jay Nixon, Lewis Diuguid, liberal media bias in Missouri, Missouri Chamber of Commerce, Missouri Medicaid expansion news, Missouri political journalism, Noranda, Patricia Bynes, Rita Days, Roy Blunt, Ryan Silvey, Senator Roy Blunt, Steve Kraske, West Lake Landfill.

St. Louis Public Radio: President’s address generates usual partisan split

Missourinet: Congressional delegation/staff respond to SOTU

Politico: GOP seeking P lan B on immigration; Comments from Sen. Roy Blunt

KC Star: Missouri man one of several guests at SOTU, gets to say cursory hello to President

USA Today: McCaskill investigation shows couple games military recruiting program for $4 million

KTVO (Kirksville): Blunt plays large role in creating mental health grant

KMBC (Kansas City): Blunt: Obama’s “free” community college proposal unlikely to pass

KC Star’s Kraske: The Chat: Hagel on modernization; More

AP: In State of the State, Nixon to call for increased education funding

Missourinet: “5 Things” journomeme: Things to listen for in Nixon’s State of the State

Missourinet: Sen. Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas City) proposes stand-alone veterans Medicaid expansion

The Missouri Times: Ryan Silvey proposes Medicaid expansion for veterans

St. Louis Public Radio: Silvey proposal would expand Medicaid to veterans in Missouri

The Missouri Times: House rejects pay increase

JCNT: Missouri House votes against own pay raises

AP: Missouri House votes to forego pay increases

AP: Sen. David Sater (R-Cassville) proposes restricting welfare benefits

AP: Advocacy groups plea with lawmakers to release millions in restricted funding

P-D: Advocacy groups criticize Nixon’s budget decisions

KC Star: MO Chamber seeks regulatory uniformity to avoid hodgepodge of local laws; Group wants statewide standard for discrimination laws, minimum wage, employee benefits

JCNT: Ameren proposes new Noranda rate plan

Missourinet: Lawmakers push for civics test requirement for graduation

St. Louis Public Radio: STL County Election Chief says new Dem county exec ordered her removal; Rita Days (D) oversaw ballot shortages and mix-ups, late reporting, wildly inaccurate statements about
registration, etc.

P-D: Rita Days is out, Eric Fey is in as director of St. Louis County elections

SNL: Koster announces that Tyson Foods will pay Missouri $530K in fish kill settlement

Missourinet: U.S. Supreme Court orders hearing for Missouri inmate in halted execution; Mark Christeson slashed woman’s throat in front of her children, then slashed and suffocated the kids

St. Louis Public Radio: Low air pollution risk near West Lake Landfill

AP: EPA: No air quality problems at Bridgeton landfill

P-D: EPA says air around Bridgeton and West Lake Landfills is safe

AP: Few candidates file for Ferguson election despite protests

St. Louis Public Radio: Ferguson Commission focuses on economic, racial divides in the classroom

KWMU: St. Louis to spend $50K more on minority recruitment program

Huffington Post: Activists seek to improve community-police relations in St. Louis area; Comments from Ferguson Democratic Committeewoman Patricia Bynes, Pelopidas Director of Communications/Better Together spokeswoman Brooke Foster

P-D: Gannett to close printing plant; Post-Dispatch plant will now print USA Today

P-D editorial: Five years on, Citizens United is worse than anyone imagined

JCNT editorial: Missouri’s diversion of tobacco funds is unconscionable

CDT’s Waters: Republican legislators’ budget process, designed to finish early, will be worth continuing year after year

KC Star’s Diuguid: “Southern Education Foundation” numbers show that 55 percent of Missouri public school children are not low-income

KC Star’s Diuguid: KCP&L compares neighbors’ energy use and helps cheer people to lower electricity bills

P-D letter: North American Elk Breeders Association President Travis Lowe says Missouri’s ag department should regulate deer farmers

P-D letter: Oakville woman notes that Post-Dispatch gave attention to 18 students in Atlanta for MLK junket, but no mention of hundreds of pro-life students in D.C.

P-D letter: Creve Coeur man says racist-courts conspiracy theory has no evidence

P-D letter: Chesterfield man says criminals’ savage behavior can’t be cured by courts

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