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Sunday, December 5, 2021 – Missouri political news headlines

Published December 5, 2021 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, #MOSEN, $SR, Billy Long, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Critical race theory in Missouri schools, David Webber, Eric Schmitt, Ewell Lawson, Governor Mike Parson, Grain Belt Express, Joe Biden in Missouri, Joe Biden Kansas City visit 2021, Josh Hawley, Kevin Strickland, liberal media bias in Missouri, Missouri 2022 U.S. Senate race, Missouri COVID spread, Missouri COVID vaccine for children advocacy journalism, Missouri DESE, Missouri Independent, Missouri Independent liberal bias, Missouri political journalism, Missouri vaccine advocacy journalism, omicron variant in Missouri, Post-Dispatch editorial board, Roy Blunt, Rudi Keller, same-sex sexual assault in Missouri, Spire, Spire STL Pipeline, Tony Messenger, Vicky Hartzler, WorkMoney, WorkMoney Missouri.

KC Star: President Joe Biden to visit Kansas City next week as he promotes infrastructure law

TonysKansasCity.com: Will President Biden honor Kevin Strickland during Kansas City visit?!?

Brownfield Ag News: EPA sending more than $147 million in taxpayer money back to Missouri to fund water projects, create jobs

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Blaine Luetkemeyer says Democrats are “playing games” with budget; Congressman says two-year budgeting approach would avoid “little dance” of brinksmanship

JCNT: Missouri lawmakers anticipate a fast start for the upcoming legislative session

SNL: Here’s what bills Springfield, Greene County lawmakers have filed ahead of 2022 session

KC Star: Kansas City area disabled student victim of same-sex sexual assault. Parents sue district, seek change

KC Star: Kansas City area school staff shortages could hurt most vulnerable: Handicapped students

The Missouri Times: Spire STL Pipeline preserved while FERC weighs its fate

CDT: Book promo: Pulitzer winner Tony Messenger to discuss “Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice” at Skylark

P-D: Nearly 54% of St. Louis City residents decline COVID vaccination; among the large counties of the St. Louis region, only Jefferson County ranks higher

P-D editorial: Gov. Parson keeps opting to shoot the messenger rather than listen to the message

SNL op-ed: Vicky Hartzler: Liberal politicians shut down communities over virus and riot in the street over police interactions, but ignore hundreds of thousands of Americans dying each year to abortion

SNL op-ed: WorkMoney’s Peggy Farmer: I’m an 81-year-old struggling to pay my bills, and Republicans Roy Blunt, Josh Hawley and Billy Long are to blame

Politico, October 2020: New union-linked liberal group WorkMoney spending big to target swing states

CDT op-ed: Missouri Public Utility Alliance COO Ewell Lawson: The way of the American genius continues to build with the Grain Belt Express

Columbia Missourian’s David Webber: Not much policymaking progress will be accomplished if Missouri legislators focus on critical race theory

JCNT letter: Jefferson City septuagenarian corrects factual errors in anti-Luetkemeyer/Trump letter

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