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Thursday, February 3, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines

Published February 3, 2022 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, #MOSEN, Amtrak, Amtrak in Missouri, Bram Sable-Smith, columns defending critical race theory, Dave Helling, Denny Hoskins, Donald Kauerauf, entitlement, Eric Burlison, Eric Schmitt, Fox4 KC, Governor Mike Parson, initiative petitions in Missouri, Jay Ashcroft, Jeanne Kuang, John Holt, Jonathan Shorman, Josh Hawley, journalists coping with decline in COVID cases, journalists defending critical race theory in Missouri schools, Kansas City Star liberal bias, Kratom Missouri laws, League of Conservation Voters endorsements Missouri, liberal media bias in Missouri, Lucas Kunce, Lucas Kunce for Missouri, Lucas Kunce for Senate, Michele Watley, Mike Parson executions, Missouri 2022 state legislative session, Missouri 2022 U.S. Senate race, Missouri congressional redistricting, Missouri COVID spread, Missouri Foundation for Health, Missouri Foundation for Health sponsored content, Missouri General Assembly 2022 legislation, Missouri Medicaid expansion news, Missouri political journalism, Phil Christofanelli, Sarah Fenske, Scott Bell Missouri, Sebastián Martínez Valdivia, St. Louis Public Radio liberal film promos, Steve Butz, victimhood, whites need not apply.

KC Star: White House’s Psaki accuses Hawley of ‘parroting’ Russia propaganda in Ukraine letter

Fox4 KC/Kansas City Star “4Star Politics”: SCOTUS vacancy: Dave Helling and John Holt talk with KC political consultant Michele Watley and KU law prof

The Missouri Times: League of Conservation Voters Action Fund endorses Lucas Kunce in U.S. Senate race

JCNT: Highway Patrol assists hundreds early in snowstorm

Missouri Independent: Judge approves most of Ashcroft’s summary for Missouri school funding ballot measure

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) on why he opposes 6-2/5-3 congressional map, explains why Whiteman Air Force Base and Fort Leonard Wood should be in same district

P-D: Redistricting talks shift toward shoring up Ann Wagner’s seat

LakeExpo: Missouri conservatives beat back governor’s health director pick, who has now resigned (link via Missouri Senate Conservative Caucus on Twitter)

P-D: Intense GOP infighting threatens Gov. Mike Parson’s agenda in the Missouri Legislature

Missourinet: Bill from Sen. Eric Burlison (R-Battlefield) would strengthen Missouri’s “Castle Doctrine” protections

AP: Schmitt’s office n e t s $500,000 in Medicaid fraud case against treatment facility

Kaiser Health News’ Bram Sable-Smith , v i a S t . L o u i s P u b l i c R a d i o : Missouri’s outdated computer technology forced Missouri woman to wait for Medicaid benefits – and she’s still waiting for her SNAP handouts

KBIA: “Health & Wealth Desk” sponsored by Missouri Foundation for Health: Missouri has done little to promote Medicaid expansion; spending more money on outreach could help reduce recidivism

The Missouri Times: Combest, 20 for 20, Part 4 (1 0 /2 1 /2 1 ): Missouri media’s top victimhood narrative for 1H 2022: “Missouri expanded Medicaid too late – solutions include more funding from the Missouri Legislature for … educational materials and outreach, etc.”

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske preview/movie promo: STL Reentry Collective aims to lower recidivism with new documentary project

Columbia Missourian: GOP lawmakers advocate for restitution for wrongfully convicted Missourians

Columbia Missourian: House advances bill to regulate opioid-like intoxicant

P-D: Rail advocates urge state to restore funding for twice-daily Missouri River Runner service

KC Star: Dean left Missouri school investigated for abuse. Now he’s at another unlicensed school

AP: Execution set for man who confessed to shooting and killing De Soto couple

Joplin Globe: Missouri to mark Earthquake Awareness Month with briefings on safety

SNL: Springfield-Greene County Health Department: 30 percent decline in new COVID-19 cases in the past week

Joplin Globe: Seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in Joplin has been dropping for the past week

Joplin Globe editorial: Federal clean-up money for Missouri’s “orphaned” oil and gas wells welcome

P-D editorial: Self-defense bill from Sen. Eric Burlison (R-Battlefield) is a Murder-Protection Act

The Missouri Times op-ed: Scott Bell: Legislative options for clamping down on the abuse of Missouri’s initiative petition process

KC Star’s Dave Helling: Gov. Parson, mainstream GOP thought they could control the radicals who are now in charge; Businesses won’t move to Missouri, and parents won’t send their kids to schools where “history is ignored”

The Missouri Times op-ed: Rep. Steve Butz (D-St. Louis City): Kauerauf hearing was despicable character assassination of a public servant

KC Star’s Jeanne Kuang and Jonathan Shorman: Doomed from the start? How angry conservatives fueled backlash against DHSS chief

NPR’s Grace Widyatmadja: Celebrating St. Louis woman’s grant for “black women and nonbinary photographers”; Tiffany Sutton “has decided to work with black women exclusively”

Columbia Missourian letter: Columbia woman wants masks in schools, says AG Eric Schmitt wants “to let children suffer”

P-D letter: Kirkwood septuagenarian attempts analogy involving masks and car seats, says Schmitt, Hawley and Gov. Parson make Missouri “laughing stock of the country”

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