Sunday, October 31, 2021 – Missouri political news headlines
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SNL: GOP showdown in the 7th: Who’s running for southwest Missouri’s open U.S. House seat in 2022?
P-D: Hawthorn Foundation oppo roundup: Rep. Peter Merideth (D-St. Louis City) criticizes increased state funding; Bayer tardy with annual $50k check; hiring process for Executive Director Becky Willard; other criticisms
St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske Monday preview: Book promo: “A ‘recovering engineeer’ makes his confession”; White male to explain why he feels guilty about his career building roads, which are “destroying neighborhoods”
St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske weekly preview: Wednesday’s show to promote “Ferguson Rising” film about aftermath of Michael Brown’s attack on officer Darren Wilson; Friday’s show to promote “A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy” book
P-D editorial: Missouri, other red states seek to revive a rule gagging doctors on abortion
SNL op-ed: Missouri State assistant sociology professor Kyler J. Sherman-Wilkins: By opposing Dems’ elections bill, Blunt and Hawley pose “clear and present danger to our republic”
The Missouri Times 10/19/21: 20 for 20, Part 1: “In Missouri, look at the successful Missouri Gun Violence Project advocacy journalism collaboration between the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFFH) and the Kansas City Star … you may be surprised how affordable it can be to lock in a 24- or 36-month lease on young reporters to generate content for your company or industry’s cause.”
KC Star 10/23/21: Newspaper “launching a new fall fundraising campaign” to raise money for gun-control advocacy series; “You can help us put more eyes on issues that need more attention and give a boost to our clear-headed watchdog approach“
KC Star’s Hurubie Meko, 10/25/21: Please sponsor me, Humera Lodhi, and Kaitlin Washburn so we can continue our gun-control advocacy series; send donations to McClatchy corporate office in California
KC Star’s Kaitlin Washburn: Gun control advocacy series, sponsored by Missouri Foundation for Health and Report for America: Missouri repealed a key gun law, leading to more deaths than ever
KC Star’s Humera Lodhi: Gun control advocacy series, sponsored by Missouri Foundation for Health and Report for America: Missouri lawmakers recall the vote to lift gun permit requirements in 2007
KC Star interactive graphic: Gun control advocacy series, sponsored by Missouri Foundation for Health and Report for America: How the 2007 Missouri General Assembly repealed a key gun law
KC Star’s Kaitlin Washburn: Gun control advocacy series, sponsored by Missouri Foundation for Health and Report for America: Want to contact your state legislators about strengthening Missouri’s gun laws? Here’s some tips from the ACLU
Joplin Globe’s Andy Ostmeyer: Starting Tuesday, the Globe will rely on USPS delivery of the daily newspaper instead of using delivery men
P-D’s Aisha Sultan: Why critical race theory belongs in schools; Parents who fight white-guilt curriculum “might win the censorship battles, but they are going to lose the war”
P-D letter: St. Louis County octogenarian responds to Aisha Sultan’s abortion-nostalgia column, says Post-Dispatch lacks balance
P-D letter: Ladue businessman “Phillip [sic] Skelly” criticizes Post-Dispatch’s liberal bias; newspaper responds parenthetically in body of letter
KC Star letter: Kansas City sexagenarian says hosting Republican National Convention would be “kryptonite” to KC’s reputation for celebrating “truth, science, the environment, health care access, voting rights, and combating discrimination and inequality”
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