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Monday, April 18, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines

Published April 18, 2022 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: @jeffreyjonesmo, #moleg, #moleg news, Bridget Walsh Moore, Cora Faith Walker, Cora Faith Walker death, Elaine Edgar, Eric Schmitt, Jason Rosenbaum, John Combest, John Combest archives, John Voss, Kaitlin Washburn, Kansas City Star liberal bias, KBIA, liberal media bias in Missouri, Mark Dalton, Missouri 2022 state legislative session, Missouri 2023 state budget, Missouri congressional redistricting, Missouri Department of Conservation, Missouri Department of Labor, Missouri foster care system, Missouri Foundation for Health, Missouri Foundation for Health sponsored content, Missouri General Assembly 2022 legislation, Missouri House District 147, Missouri Independent liberal bias, Missouri Medicaid expansion news, Missouri political journalism, Missouri Republican Party, Nate Thomas, Nick Myers Missouri Republican Party, Paul Wieland, Post-Dispatch liberal bias, ranked choice voting Missouri, ranked-choice voting, ranked-choice voting Missouri, Sarah Kellogg, Sarah Unsicker, Scott Charton, Sebastian Martinez Valdivia, Tessa Weinberg, This Week in Missouri Politics, Timothy McBride Washington University, Tishaura Jones, Tony Lovasco, Washington University in St. Louis, Wayne Wallingford.

This Week in Missouri Politics: Sen. Paul Wieland (R-Imperial) talks with Scott Faughn about the “Wieland Caucus” (0:15), breakdown in Senate decorum and trust (2:45), term limits (4:30), pro-life legislation (6:15), congressional redistricting (7:15), Jefferson County executive campaign (8:00); panel of Rep. Tony Lovasco (R), Jim Murphy (R), Bridget Walsh Moore (D) and Carpenters Union’s Mark Dalton on boys playing girls’ sports (13:30), Missouri Department of Labor’s inaction on illegal aliens in Missouri (21:00), who won the week: Mike Kehoe, Rory Rowland, Brian Seitz, Jim Murphy

Missourinet: Better Elections Missouri campaign promotes ranked-choice votin g ; t h o u g h t s f r o m M i s s o u r i R e p u b l i c a n P a r t y ‘s N i c k M y e r s

SE Missourian: GOP aspirants tout state House candidacies for Wayne Wallingford’s open seat

St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Senate pushes back against Medicaid expansion (hop over News-Press paywall h e re)

KBIA: “Health and Wealth Desk,” sponsored by Missouri Foundation for Health: Washington University health care policy analyst Tim o t h y McBride criticizes state leaders over Medicaid application wait times

The Missouri Times: Combest: 20 for 20, Part 4 (10/21/21): Missouri media’s top victimhood angle 1H 2022: Missouri expanded Medicaid in 2021, but experts are still “worried”; “Media coverage to include third-party quotes from health care advocacy organizations, ironically overweight health care policy analysts from liberal universities”

KC Star’s Kaitlin Washburn: Missouri Foundation for Health and Report for America’s “Missouri Gun Violence Project” sponsored series: Columbia residents fed up with little action on gun violence: More government funding will help fix v i o l e n c e , racism

Missouri Foundation for Health 2020 Annual Report: How purchasing journalism coverage through the Missouri Gun Violence Project helps further our mission

The Missouri Times: Combest, 20 for 20, Part 1 (10/18/21): “In Missouri, look at the successful Missouri Gun Violence Project advocacy journalism collaboration between the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFFH) and the Kansas City Star … You may be surprised how affordable it can be to lock in a 24- or 36-month lease on young reporters to generate content for your company or industry’s cause.”

Missouri Independent: House advances funds for doula training program named after Cora Faith Walker

P-D: Celebrating Tishaura Jones’ first year as St. Louis mayor: Tweeting that Missouri AG Eric Schmitt was “literally trying to kill us”, other high points (hop over Post-Dispatch paywall here)

CDT: Heart of Missouri CASA to dive deep into foster care journey with film at Ragtag Cinema

St. Louis Public Radio: Rep. Sarah Unsicker (D-Shrewsbury) on state budget, sex trafficking, more

SNL: Missouri Department of Conservation: 5 things to remember when hunting for morel mushrooms

CDT op-ed: U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler: America’s future depends on farmers. Here’s how we can combat the Biden Administration’s war on agriculture.

P-D’s Tony Messenger: Medicaid expansion reduces crime, out-of-state researchers say. Will Missouri GOP listen? (hop over Post-Dispatch paywall here)

Missouri Independent’s Tessa Weinberg: LGBTQ protections languish while Missouri lawmakers push transgender sports bans

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