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Tuesday, October 19, 2021 – Missouri political news headlines

Published October 19, 2021 (updated: October 23, 2021) in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, #MOSEN, $AWK, $TM, Billy Long, Brian Treece, Claire McCaskill, diversity candidates, diversity for thee but not for me, diversity hires, Don Mayhew, education professionals complaining about the profession they chose, Elyssa Gerstel, entitlement, Eric Greitens, Eric Schmitt, Governor Mike Parson, Jack Cardetti, Jason Smith, Jay Ashcroft, John Combest, John Hancock Missouri, Kalena Bruce, Kansas City Beacon, KC Star whiteness apology series, Kurt Erickson, Lucas Kunce, Mark McCloskey, Missouri 4th Congressional District, Missouri American Water, Missouri congressional redistricting, Missouri DESE, Missouri Medicaid expansion news, Missouri political journalism, Missouri redistricting, Missouri teacher SSN data hack, Missouri unemployment benefits, online political fundraising campaigns, Post-Dispatch liberal bias, quixotic congressional candidates running vanity campaigns in unwinnable districts, quixotic legislative candidates running vanity campaigns in unwinnable districts, reparations in Missouri, Sara Walsh, Sarah Steelman, Scott Faughn, Scott Sifton, Sharon Schneeberger, Springfield News-Leader, Stephanie Bell, Steve Tilley, Taylor Burks, Vicky Hartzler.

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The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics recap

SE Missourian: Possible GOP Senate candidate Jason Smith shows strong cash-on-hand position in latest FEC filing

SE Missourian: Kansas City area’s Lucas Kunce leads the fundraising race for Democratic U.S. Senate primary

KC Star: Campaign finance filings from last week: U.S. Senate and 4th Congressional District

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Joplin Globe: Some agreement cited on legislative redistricting; Recap of Monday morning meeting

Columbia Missourian’s Elyssa Gerstel: Boone County Muleskinners hosts local League of Women Voters klatch on its weekly Zoom call; Comments from LWV septuagenarian “Sharon Scheenberger [sic]”

KC Star: Missouri Republicans line up to oppose IRS plan for reporting on transactions over $600

St. Louis Public Radio: Race activists offer competing reparations demands: Are black Missourians entitled to direct payments, or entitled to having their mortgages paid off?

P-D: ‘Tremendous opportunity’: Missouri could be considered for Toyota battery plant

St. Joseph News-Press: Medicaid expansion sees early progress, local health clinics spread word

The Missouri Times: Providers urge Missouri lawmakers to bolster telehealth systems

JCNT: State to offer dual enrollment, dual credit scholarships for high school students

Columbia Missourian: DESE administrator seeks to speed up quicker path to substitute teaching

Kansas City Beacon: Can you live on retirement benefits as a Missouri teacher? It depends. (link via Missouri Independent)

P-D: Employee of Missouri teacher pension system had e-mail accessed “by unauthorized individual”; Impacted email account was quickly disabled, and unauthorized individual did not gain access to internal data

JCNT: State Tech recognized by Chronicle of Higher Education as Missouri’s fastest growing college

St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Gov. Parson’s ‘OK boomer’ moment: Governor’s statements on DESE web app vulnerability show he is ‘a fool’

Joplin Globe editorial: Missouri’s lead water pipes need to be replaced, and Missouri American Water is making progress

The Missouri Times Publisher Scott Faughn: Missourah owes Sarah Steelman a beer

Missouri Independent op-ed: Phill Brooks: A personal perspective of Todd Akin

The Missouri Times op-ed: 4th Congressional District candidate Kalena Bruce: New IRS surveillance power would threaten local banks, small businesses

P-D’s Kurt Erickson: ‘Conversations,’ not data, led to Gov. Parson’s decision to cut off pandemic jobless aid in Missouri

Missouri Independent’s Jason Hancock: IRS seizes two cars from Kansas man tied to company that once had a short-term contract with Steve Tilley for municipal government lobbying

P-D letter: Kirkwood sexagenarian wants to hear Ann Wagner speak more often about former President Donald Trump

P-D letter: Manchester septuagenarian wants Gov. Parson to thank Post-Dispatch for DESE web app vulnerability story

P-D letter: Kirkwood octogenarian labels Gov. Parson “totally know-nothing and incompetent”

P-D letter: Spanish Lake sexagenarian says Missouri charter schools are a “corporate-sponsored, full-frontal attack on public education”

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