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Sunday, January 15, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines

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JCNT: Lincoln University gets $800,000 in taxpayer money to promote diversity in climate change research (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)

JCNT: Tickets still available for NAACP’s MLK breakfast; Guest speaker is Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty co-director (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)

KWIX 92.5 FM/1230 AM (Mid-Missouri): Former State Sen. David Doctorian (R-Macon) dies

JCNT: Police, prosecutors prepare for Amendment 3 changes to marijuana legal landscape (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)

JCNT: Missouri Capitol skylight project nears completion (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)

JCNT: MoDOT handles complaints about damaged mailboxes (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis on the Air preview: Two attorneys fighting back on behalf of people who have suddenly found their survival criminalized by Missouri’s new homeless law (right sidebar)

St. Louis Public Radio: Event promo: Join environmental activists at Missouri Public Service Commission meetings to complain about Ameren’s coal ash procedures

KC Star editorial: Missouri marijuana laws need a complete overhaul. Adam Mace’s case is one reason why

JCNT editorial: Dress code debate trivial, unproductive (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)

P-D editorial: Missouri legislators again move to limit women’s right to choose … their clothes. (get around stltoday paywall here)

KC Star op-ed: U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver: Racists, antisemites and other bigots simply hate the other. Missouri, stand together

KC Star’s Kacen Bayless: Missouri voters legalized weed, expanded Medicaid – so the GOP wants to block more ballot measures

CDT op-ed: Environmentalist Joe Pitts: Dangerous ‘Regulatory Sandbox Act’ would let Missouri business circumvent the law, public scrutiny

Columbia Missourian editorial cartoon: Missouri House dress code: A Handmaids Tale and “right to bare arms” punchline

P-D letter: Town and Country woman wants Eric Schmitt and Jason Smith to focus on “reimagining tax policy for economic justice” and spending more money on tuberculosis research (get around stltoday paywall here)

JCNT letter: Barnett woman takes time out from her “busy life” to tell Missouri lawmakers dress-code debate has made them “a laughingstock all over the world” (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)

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