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Tuesday, December 27, 2022 – Missouri political news headlines

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St. Louis Public Radio: Photos of the year: Gun-control sign, Roe vs. Wade histrionics and submissive cosplay, urban Dems face trial for taking bribes, Eric Schmitt sips a Budweiser after spanking Trudy Busch Valentine, more

KC Star’s Jonathan Shorman and Kacen Bayless: 2024 GOP governor candidates emerge from the shadows: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe vs. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft vs. “Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Springs [sic])

P-D: Former state Rep. Sally Faith (R-St. Charles) writes about living with early dementia, takes part in state Alzheimer’s task force (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D: Push to phase out Missouri’s personal property tax may gain support in 2023 (get around stltoday paywall here)

Kansas City Beacon: Clean-slate laws could bring sweeping criminal expungements to Missouri

St. Louis Public Radio: As law banning sleeping on state-owned land looms, homeless advocates dread results

St. Joseph News-Press, via Columbia Missourian: Legislation would allow guest tax on Cameron lodgings

KC Star: After Independence OKs 4-day school week, another large KC area district may be next

SE Missourian: State declines to fund Jackson pavement improvement project (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)

Kansas City Beacon: As black women go missing in Kansas City, black community looks to itself for solutions; thoughts from Shirley’s Kitchen Cabinet founder Michele Watley

KCUR: Amid “tripledemic” worries, Missouri hospitals lead four-state region with lowest percentage of occupied pediatric beds

SE Missourian editorial: Blunt leaves Senate championing the promise of America (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)

Joplin Globe editorial: Eric Schmitt should carry Blunt’s conservation torch

P-D editorial: After a pandemic break, corruption and political chaos surge anew in St. Louis: Jefferson City Republicans to blame for urban violence, St. Louis City Democrats take bribes, a political novice beats Rep. Shamed Dogan in GOP county exec primary, and former Rep. Cora Faith Walker’s death leaves more questions than answers (get around stltoday paywall here)

Missouri Independent’s Annelise Hanshaw: Missouri GOP renews push to limit transgender athlete participation in school sports

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