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Sunday, January 16, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines

Published January 16, 2022 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, #MOSEN, Andy Arnold, Ann Wagner, Ann Wagner for Congress, Broadband expansion in Missouri, Chuck Basye, Emily Manley, Eric Schmitt, Governor Mike Parson, Holly Rehder, Josh Hawley, Kansas City police funding, Kevin McDermott, liberal media bias in Missouri, Louis Riggs, Missouri 2022 state legislative session, Missouri 2022 U.S. Senate race, Missouri COVID spread, Missouri General Assembly 2022 legislation, Missouri mask mandates, Missouri overdose deaths, Missouri political journalism, Missouri Second Amendment Preservation Act, Missouri vaccine mandates, Pete Mundo, Post-Dispatch editorial board, Post-Dispatch liberal bias, Quinton Lucas, rural broadband expansion in Missouri, Second Amendment Preservation Act, sports betting in Missouri, The Pitch KC, Tony Luetkemeyer, Tony's Kansas City.

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo Show: Sen. Josh Hawley on Dems’ filibuster scheme and voting rights (1:00); Dem senators “wanting to get off the (Biden) train” (2:25); bill to ban “insider trading” by members of Congress (4:30); how inflation and Dems’ spending is “waking folks up”(8:30)

JCNT: State of State to detail Gov. Parson’s priorities, plans for COVID relief

P-D: As overdose deaths hit new peak, Missouri’s response is divided; Comments from Sen. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston)

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo Show: Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer (R-Parkville) on KC police bill hearing, Andy Arnold and Quinton Lucas (1:20); KC’s “gamesmanship” with revenue math (4:45); how Gov. Parson might react to bill (7:30); prediction for sports betting legislation (9:30)

TonysKansasCity.com: Kansas City police funding lawsuit part deux: Missouri lawmakers hear proposal to increase minimum Kansas City police funding

KMOV (St. Louis): Missouri lawmakers seek to legalize sports betting; Comments from Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer (R-Parkville)

SNL: Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) wants process to recall school board members, allow ‘willful neglect’ lawsuits

Fox 2 (St. Louis): Lawmakers, police weigh in on potential changes to Second Amendment Preservation Act

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Louis Riggs (R-Hannibal) says Ralls County provides template for broadband goals

JCNT: Latest surge in COVID-19 hasn’t peaked, Missouri health officials warn

P-D editorial: Conservative zealotry from Gov. Parson and others is hobbling the pandemic response. It will cost lives.

TonysKansasCity.com: Clueless Kansas City progressive scribe idealizes political violence; Tony’s thoughts on “progressive white ladies who are far too quick with tough talk” and his experience with early-90s KC violence; Plus, memories of violent threats from the “skinny old drunk lady senior citizen who used to run The Pitch”

KC Star op-ed: Sacramento, Calif. gun-control activist opposes Basye’s bill to defend Missourians’ Second Amendment freedoms

P-D letter: Ballwin septuagenarian wants Ann Wagner to feel “ashamed” about opposition to COVID vaccine mandates, says “we need more governmental interventions”

KC Star letters: University City form letter enthusiast urges Missouri’s senators to support Biden spending bill; Blue Springs sexagenarian cheers Eric Schmitt’s fight against “COVID tyrannists”

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