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Tuesday, January 25, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines

Published January 25, 2022 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, Bob Onder, Brian Kaylor, Caleb Rowden, Cody Smith, concealed carry on Missouri public transit, Denny Ward, entitlement, Eric Schmitt, Galen Bacharier, gynocentrism, liberal media bias in Missouri, Louis Riggs, Martha Stevens, Missouri 2022 state legislative session, Missouri congressional redistricting, Missouri COVID spread, Missouri General Assembly 2022 legislation, Missouri mask mandates, Missouri Medicaid expansion news, Missouri political journalism, Missouri state employee wage increase 2022, Patrick McKenna MoDOT, Pete Mundo, Peter Merideth, Post-Dispatch liberal bias, Robert Cronkleton, use your period as an excuse to skip school, Vicky Hartzler, victimhood.

SNL’s Galen Bacharier: Springfield-area races kick off 2022 election year loaded with cash: Recap of quarterly campaign finance numbers, with zero (0) PAC data for GOP legislative or statewide candidates

The Missouri Times: Tempers flare in public Senate showdown as redistricting fight looms

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Louis Riggs (R-Hannibal) on Senate Republicans’ redistricting skirmish: “Street theater … just a joy to watch and behold … we’ll see what brilliant solutions they come up with … we have a county that’s not getting all that it wants out of life and is basically taking it out on the rest of the state.”

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo Show: Senate Majority Leader Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia): why he opposes 7-1 map (3:30); why D.C. Republicans prefer 6-2 map (4:15); prospects for COVID mandate legislation (6:15)

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo Show: Gov. Mike Parson on Luetkemeyer’s police funding legislation (2:15); thoughts on congressional redistricting (4:30); caution on executive order on mask mandates (5:30); mask mandate legislation (7:30); infrastructure and workforce development (8:45); challenge of spending federal largesse (9:30); state employee pay wage increase (10:15)

KWOS (Jefferson City): Sen. Bob Onder (R-Lake Saint Louis) says MoDOT Director Patrick McKenna “dishonest” about agency’s spending and must get the boot

JCNT: Lawmakers consider biweekly pay for state employees

St. Louis Public Radio: Rep. Peter Merideth (D-St. Louis City) upset about being forced to wait for supplemental budget hearing: “I keep hoping, I keep looking at my phone to see if they’ve scheduled one yet. And they haven’t.”

Missouri Independent: Gov. Parson pay raise plan in limbo as $5.4 billion spending bill awaits vote

Columbia Missourian: House Democrats push Gov. Parson to spend more

St. Joseph News-Press: Funding still pending for Medicaid expansion

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin (R-Shelbina) concerned for long-term future of Missouri nursing homes

Columbia Missourian: Senate panel considers expanding the period of detention for dangerous felons

P-D: Hundreds of mentally ill patients are stuck in Missouri jails as state struggles with staffing issues

St. Louis Public Radio: Bill from Rep. Martha Stevens (D-Columbia) would put “free” feminine hygiene products in every public school; 2020 survey of one North St. Louis County high school showed 1/3 of girls used lack of tampon/pad access as excuse to skip school

P-D: Gov. Parson’s decision to end emergency declaration puts squeeze on Missouri pharmacies

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri’s attorney general files 9 more anti-mask lawsuits

P-D: Schmitt sues 9 more districts over forced masking of kids

Missouri Independent’s Tessa Weinberg: Schmitt’s campaign against school districts now targets one for students with disabilities

SNL: DHSS asks non-urgent patients to avoid ERs during COVID-19 surge

SNL: Deer-hunting season finishes out with 293,670 harvested in Missouri

AP: Post-Dispatch parent Lee Enterprises asks investors to help fight off hedge fund

Joplin Globe editorial: Organizations representing Missouri nursing home workers wrong to oppose vaccine mandates

St. Joseph News-Press op-ed: U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler: Left’s cancel obsession knows no limit

P-D op-ed: “The State Constitutional Convention Clearinghouse” Editor J.H. Snider: Appellate judges should call a jury to pick state Senate’s redistricting map

The Missouri Times op-ed: Southeast Missouri Transportation Service Executive Director Denny Ward: Concealed carry on transit must be denied

KC Star’s Robert Cronkleton: Climate change causes Missouri’s warmest December on record

Missouri Independent op-ed: Brian Kaylor: Eric Schmitt fails a moral test on school masks

Columbia Missourian letter: Columbia septuagenarian says she can’t decide whether Eric Schmitt is “dumb” or “arrogant”

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