Monday, January 23, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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TonysKansasCity.com: Downplayed by MSM: Kansas City Chiefs fans offered Guv DeSantis warm welcome
JCNT: Gov. Parson drives budget to improve roads (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)
KMBC: Video and transcript: Mike Mahoney and KCUR’s Brian Ellison on Gov. Parson’s proposed I-70 improvements (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
SNL: Missouri lawmakers pitch free school lunch plan. SPS official says it’s ‘not as simple as that’
P-D: Three finalists named for next Normandy schools superintendent; state took over control of underperforming district in 2014 (get around stltoday paywall here)
St. Joseph News-Press: State lawmakers already moving on after dress-code histrionics
P-D editorial: Missouri lawmakers unnecessarily focus on Critical Race Theory, slandering teachers while grossly underpaying them (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D editorial: New Mexico violence could happen in gun-happy Missouri (get around stltoday paywall here)
Report For America and the Society of Environmental Journalists, funded by the Walton Family Foundation, by content creator Keely Brewer: Congress approves ecosystem restoration program for Mississippi River downstream of Cape Girardeau (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star’s Kacen Bayless, Jonathan Shorman, Daniel Desrochers and intern Maia Bond: Missouri leads the nation in anti-LGBTQ legislation
P-D letter: Ballwin octogenarian laments Eric Schmitt’s election to U.S. Senate (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D letter: St. Charles sexagenarian says Schmitt’s lawsuits over forced masking of students were “political stunt to gain the support of the MAGA crowd” (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D letter: St. Charles sexagenarian calls Sen. Schmitt a “radical right-wing bully” (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D letter: Massachusetts septuagenarian weighs in on Missouri House dress code, attempts punchline involving Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (get around stltoday paywall here)