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Tuesday, November 22, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines

Published November 22, 2022 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, 2024 Missouri governor race, Amendment 3 marijuana, Amendment 3 Missouri, Anna Spoerre, Bills signed by Governor Mike Parson, Calvert Street Group, Calvert Street Group Tennessee PR, childbirth is racist, Derek Donovan, everything is racist, Governor Mike Parson, how to get around St. Louis Post-Dispatch paywall, humblebrags, Jay Ashcroft, Josh Hawley, Josh Hawley re-election, Kansas City Star editorial board, Kansas City Star liberal bias, Kevin Johnson Missouri death row, liberal media bias in Missouri, Mike Kehoe, Missouri Automobile Dealers Association, Missouri banning books, Missouri candidate fundraising 2022, Missouri COVID spread, Missouri political journalism, Missouri recreational marijuana ballot initiative, Missouri recreational marijuana vote, MoDOT news, Patrick Lynn, Patrick Lynn calling people names, Patrick Lynn Calvert Street Group, Patrick Lynn insults political opponents, Patrick Lynn Missouri, Post-Dispatch editorial board, Senator Josh Hawley, Toriano Porter, Trudy Busch Valentine, Trudy Busch Valentine Eric Schmitt, Trudy Busch Valentine U.S. Senate Missouri, Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice.

SNL: Despite scrutiny and DOJ’s drama, Missouri’s midterm went off (mostly) without a hitch

Bloomberg: Analysis of self-funding candidates: Trudy Busch Valentine contributed $10.4 million of her own money to campaign, still lost by double digits

The Missouri Times: Missouri Automobile Dealers Association endorses Mike Kehoe for governor

KSMU: Missouri health authorities gear up for recreational marijuana

SNL: Amendment 3 explainer series: Edibles

JCNT: MoDOT gifting discounted Lyft rides to discourage drunk/high driving (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)

P-D: Accrediting body puts Harris-Stowe State University ‘on notice;’ HBCU fails in financial and academic record-keeping (get around stltoday paywall here)

Missouri Independent: Kevin Johnson’s attorneys, special prosecutor ask Missouri Supreme Court to stay execution

P-D editorial: How Gov. Parson – “an inarticulate, boring country bumpkin” – became one of the most powerful kingmakers in Missouri’s history (get around stltoday paywall here)

6/25/2020: Washington Free Beacon: Top Galloway adviser Patrick Lynn calls Gov. Parson an “illiterate hillbilly”

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KC Star editorial board: Editorial board members share tales of 2022’s tragedies and triumphs: How great it is to win a Pulitzer Prize, how going unmasked to a restaurant led to COVID, how good it feels to tell teenagers you’re “a certified head bussa,” etc.

KC Star op-ed: In exchange for campaign contributions, Josh Hawley does the bidding for Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel

KC Star’s Anna Spoerre: Missouri lawmakers can fix state’s racist childbirthing system by subsidizing black doulas

P-D letter: Women’s Voices Raised for Social Justice sexagenarian opposes Ashcroft’s proposed library rule (get around stltoday paywall here)

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