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Friday, October 8, 2021 – Missouri political news headlines

Published October 8, 2021 (updated: October 17, 2021) in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, #MOSEN, $AEE, Ameren Missouri, Beth O'Malley, Brian Williams, censoring parental school board feedback, Cori Bush, Critical race theory in Missouri schools, David Tyson Smith Columbia Missouri, elected officials getting emotional over paintings, entitlement, Eric Schmitt, Ernest Johnson Missouri murders, Josh Hawley, Josh Kezer, Kansas City Star liberal bias, Kathy Swan, liberal women signaling latent desire and submissiveness through public cosplay, Mara Rose Williams, Missouri 2022 U.S. Senate race, Missouri eviction "crisis", Missouri Independent, Missouri mask mandates, Missouri Medicaid expansion news, Missouri Medicaid funding abortions, Missouri medical marijuana laws, Missouri political journalism, Missouri Public Service Commission, Missouri vaccine advocacy journalism, pixie-cut power trips, Post-Dispatch online comment bias, Sarah Fenske, Schmitt Derangement Syndrome, Teresa Parson, Tessa Weinberg, Tony Messenger, Vicky Hartzler, victimhood.

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Vicky Hartzler speaks to Randolph County Federated Republican Women; comments on inflation, border, Afghanistan, bipartisan defense legislation

Brownfield Ag News: Vicky Hartzler presses Vilsack on processing grants, vaccine mandates in House hearing

The Missouri Times: Capitol Briefs: Vicky Hartzler endorsed by evangelical author and speaker David Barton

Missouri Independent: Josh Hawley, other GOP lawmakers push back against federal policing of parents’ input to school boards

P-D: Rep. Cori Bush praises steady flow of rental handouts amid pandemic

KC Star: Time running out for Missourians to leech $375 one-time federal food handouts

SE Missourian: Former state Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau) named to local hospital board

St. Louis Public Radio: AG Eric Schmitt says Missouri rape prosecution initiative has tested over 2,000 backlogged evidence kits

The Missouri Times: 4.3K Missourians enrolled in expanded Medicaid program

JCNT: Missouri Medicaid program enrolls 4,300 under expansion, working on efficiency

Missouri Independent’s Tessa Weinberg: Missouri has enrolled 4,300 people in expanded Medicaid program; Comments from MO HealthNet’s “Kirk Matthews [sic]”

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri issues new Medicaid rules for abortion providers

SNL: Missouri issues new safety inspection rules for abortion clinics

Missouri Independent: Sen. Brian Williams (D-University City) wants answers about why Missouri program to aid disabled kids isn’t running

Missouri Independent: Smashed machines put emphatic end on Missouri illegal gambling case

KC Star: Missouri court denies Gov. Mike Parson’s motion to stop records request for ’407.1500’

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske preview: Webster Groves CPA to pitch his business services for Missouri medical marijuana peddlers

The Missouri Times: Missouri Public Service Commission approves lease of Ameren fiber for broadband services

St. Joseph News-Press: COVID cases trending down in Missouri

Missouri Independent: Urban lawmakers voice concerns about spate of inmate deaths

The Missouri Times: Boone County Commission votes to remove controversial courthouse murals; Freshman Rep. David Tyson Smith (D-Columbia) thinks his effort resulted in “an important first step”

P-D editorial: As school boards face threats, Hawley and Schmitt side with the angry mob

St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Partisan local elections not the answer to increase voter turnout

JCNT editorial: Gov. Parson right to not intervene in execution

Joplin Globe editorial: We urge everyone to sign up for their first COVID-19 booster shot at their first chance

KC Star’s Mara Rose Williams: KC pro-choice activists split into two factions; “The Handmaid’s Tail” cosplay is offensive to black women, and yarn-vagina hats are offensive to women with penises

KC Star op-ed: Josh Kezer: I was wrongly convicted in Missouri, but I can’t shed a tear for Ernest Johnson

P-D letter: Hillsboro septuagenarian agrees with Tony Messenger’s latest anti-Schmitt column, offers litany of complaints about attorney general

P-D letter: St. Louis County woman says Gov. Parson and First Lady Teresa Parson are to blame for Missourians rejecting COVID vaccine

P-D letter: Branson man says Post-Dispatch enforces double standard for online commenting

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