Wednesday, December 7, 2022 – Pearl Harbor Day – Missouri political news headlines
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SNL: Roy Blunt says goodbye to the Senate, urging bipartisan governance and thanking voters
KSMU (Springfield): Sen. Roy Blunt gives farewell speech on Senate floor
Columbia Missourian: Blunt delivers farewell address on Senate floor
KC Star: Roy Blunt stresses the importance of bipartisanship in farewell speech to U.S. Senate (avoid KC Star paywall by reading syndicated version on stltoday here)
P-D: Ray Hartmann leaving KTRS Radio at end of year (get around stltoday paywall here)
KSHB: Sen. Greg Razer (D-Kansas City) proposes legislation on ectopic pregnancies, contraception (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
P-D: Bipartisan effort underway to extend health coverage for new moms in Missouri (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D: Sen. Steve Roberts (D-St. Louis) wants minimum age for carrying firearms in Missouri (get around stltoday paywall here)
SE Missourian: New Federal Communications Commission maps better at showing broadband coverage (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
KC Star: Missouri AG Eric Schmitt dropped school mask lawsuits. Lee’s Summit district demands a ruling (avoid KC Star paywall by reading syndicated version on stltoday here)
SE Missourian: MoDOT gets public input on Gordonville roundabout (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
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KC Star editorial: Arrogant, dictatorial Republicans seek to strip St. Louis’ control of its own police, just like Kansas CityP-D’s Lynn Schmidt: Josh Hawley behaves increasingly like a vice presidential candidate in waiting (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D’s Tony Messenger: Is gun control the answer to St. Louis crime? Lawmakers make the case. Again. (get around stltoday paywall here)
River City Journalism Fund’s Ryan Krull, via St. Louis Public Radio: “Shadow of Death“ anti–death–penalty series: Transgender status could earn Missouri death row inmate a reprieve; Scott McLaughlin raped and stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death, then changed his name to “Amber”
River City Journalism Fund’s Kathy Gilsinan, via St. Louis Public Radio: “Shadow of Death” anti-death-penalty series: It’s getting harder for Missouri to keep the drugs it uses for executions a secret
P-D letter: Kirkwood septuagenarian wants Post-Dispatch to stop mentioning Jay Ashcroft’s 2024 campaign for governor (get around stltoday paywall here)