Friday, February 25, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines
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KC Star: Missouri congressional delegation calls for severe sanctions on Russia
SNL: Russia vs. Ukraine: Collection of quotes from elected officials/communications staffers
P-D: Russia vs. Ukraine: Collection of quotes from elected officials/communications staffers
P-D: Former St. Louis Blues player Jim Campbell files as Republican for 4th Congressional District seat
KSGF (Springfield): Nick Reed Show: Angela Romine on why some “grassroots” people encouraged her to run against incumbent state Sen. Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield) (2:30); responds to criticisms about ladder-climbing (5:00); feeling “honored” to perhaps be a member of the Senate Conservative Caucus (8:00)
SNL’s Andrew Sullender: Recap of Angela Romine’s interview with “local right-wing talk radio host Nick Reed”; reaction from Lincoln Hough
St. Joseph News-Press: Former state Rep. Delus Johnson (R-St. Joseph) to take on Rep. J. Eggleston (R-Maysville) for Dan Hegeman’s state Senate seat
TonysKansasCity.com: Former po-po & current council hubby campaigning for Missouri House
Columbia Missourian: Senate redistricting commission plans hearing today
JCNT: Jay Ashcroft requesting $50 million for election costs
AP: Missouri Senate passes expanded Fast Track adult scholarship program
JCNT: Gov. Parson signs supplemental budget, including state worker pay plan
Missourinet: Gov. Parson signs $4.6 billion spending bill; $2 billion in federal funds for Missouri’s K-12 schools, state worker pay raises, and additional Medicaid funding
P-D: Money for raises, Medicaid expansion and schools sent to Gov. Parson and signed into law
Missouri Independent: Governor signs $4.6B spending plan, House approves bill targeting Medicaid expansion
AP: Lawmakers fight Medicaid expansion, Planned Parenthood funds
SNL: MO governor approves emergency spending for state worker raises, school dollars, Medicaid
Columbia Missourian’s Teghan Simonton and Sofi Zeman: Gov. Parson approves emergency spending bill; Comments from Democrat Jill Schupp of “Creve Couer [sic]”
KC Star: Gov. Parson signs bill to boost state worker pay, fund Medicaid expansion
St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri House passes proposed amendment to control Medicaid expansion funding
KC Star: Missouri Senate passes pay raises, renews effort to block Planned Parenthood payments (evade KC Star paywall here)
The Heartlander: Bipartisan support to re-establish Missouri’s film tax credit program
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Louis Riggs (R-Hannibal) says Shelby County broadband efforts are progressing
St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske monthly “Legal Roundtable”: Trio of liberal lawyers applauds Empower Missouri suit against state, discusses ruling on Missouri law barring use of public funds on ballot measures
SE Missourian: Hovis’s ‘right to repair’ bill gets a committee hearing next week
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Danny Busick (R-Newtown) gives overview of “Right to Repair” debate, is uncertain how he’ll vote
KCUR’s Jodi Fortino: Bill from Rep. Martha Stevens (D-Columbia) would require school districts to provide period products for free; Story composed of 1,170 words about girls’ periods: 22 uses of gender-neutral menstruating “students”, zero (0) uses of “girls,” “young women” or “females”
SE Missourian: Fighting floods: MoDOT project to elevate Route 177 begins next month
KC Star editorial: Putin-enabling Trumpists like Josh Hawley need to call a wartime ceasefire on bullsh*t; “There is an F-word for this, and it’s not the one you’d shout if someone cut you off in traffic.”
JCNT editorial: Prosecuting attorney makes right call on ‘hacking’ accusation
KC Star’s Daniel Desrochers: Hawley blames Biden for Russian invasion of Ukraine, says Biden lacks faith in U.S. strength (evade KC Star paywall by reading on McClatchy DC site here)
TonysKansasCity.com: Kansas City Star declares war on Senator Hawley over Ukraine
P-D op-ed: Former U.S. Reps. Russ Carnahan and Tom Coleman: Missouri state politicians vote to limit voters’ constitutional rights
The Heartlander’s Christian Rehder: Dec. 2021: Former Republican Congressman Tom Coleman has built a reputation of slamming conservatives and Trump supporters
P-D’s Tony Messenger: With apology to Post-Dispatch reporter, Rep. Ed Lewis (R-Moberly) offers Missouri governor a lesson in class, civics
KC Star’s Jeanne Kuang: Missouri House Republicans have not given up their quest to unravel the expansion of Medicaid that voters approved in 2020
P-D letter: Dittmer septuagenarian questions Josh Hawley’s manhood, calls junior senator a “human rupture”
Joplin Globe letter: Carl Junction septuagenarian expresses anger at Rep. Bob Bromley (R-Carl Junction) over proposed Medicaid work requirement
Joplin Globe letter: Joplin sexagenarian says Spire heating bills spike at 10 times the 7.5% Consumer Price Index increase
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