Wednesday, February 1, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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P-D: Will Scharf announces GOP bid for Missouri attorney general (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star: Will Scharf mounts primary challenge to Missouri AG Bailey (avoid KC Star paywall by reading syndicated version on St. Joseph News-Press website here)
The Missouri Times: New member profile: Rep. Jamie Ray Gragg (R-Ozark)
AP: Ex-judge’s Missouri law license suspended for campaign threats, quits powerful state commission
JCNT: Governor tells teachers: Education can change world; Missouri State Teachers Association members visit the Capitol (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)
SNL: Springfield Public Schools board officer supports bill from Sen. Jill Carter (R-Granby) to give districts more autonomy
Columbia Missourian: Regulatory Sandbox Bill passes in Senate
P-D: Missouri lawmakers seek to ease rules for physical therapy (get around stltoday paywall here)
Missouri Independent: Bill would relax rules for receiving treatment from physical therapists
Columbia Missourian: Bills to protect girls’ sports have their day in Senate
P-D: Missouri Senate weighs protecting girls’ sports (get around stltoday paywall here)
SNL: Bill from Sen. Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield) would pay for first responders’ PTSD treatment
P-D: Move to restrict minors with guns gains traction in Missouri House (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star: Missouri controls how much Kansas City pays its police. Legislation would change that
TonysKansasCity.com: Insider: Likely STL local control takeover impacts Kansas City
SNL: DHSS seeking nonprofits to help with Summer Food Service Program
SE Missourian: Ameren public hearing on rate hike proposal postponed due to weather (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
JCNT: NT on Tap audio: Missouri Conservation with MDC Deputy Director Aaron Jeffries on agency‘s current challenges
JCNT: NAACP opposes upcoming execution; rapist/murderer Leonard Taylor to assume room temperature Feb. 7 (get around Jefferson City News Tribune paywall here)
SE Missourian editorial: Initiative petition improvements: Lawmakers should raise vote threshold, not signature requirement to amend Constitution; Amendment 3 the poster child for poorly written amendments (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
Joplin Globe editorial: Lawmakers should stop use of pet gas chambers (get around Joplin Globe paywall here)
TonysKansasCity.com: Kansas City Star champions Critical Race Theory to start Black History Month
P-D’s Tony Messenger: White, rural Republicans should call their crime plan “Operation Take the City Away From St. Louis Voters Because Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner and Mayor Tishaura O. Jones Are Really, Really Awful (and Black)” (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star op-ed: Man who chooses to live in Kansas criticizes Todd Graves’ op-ed on Missouri school choice
P-D letter: O’Fallon septuagenarian opposes GOP efforts to “allow parents to inject themselves into their child’s education” (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D letter: Kirkwood septuagenarian responds to Tony Messenger’s column regarding urban crime, says state should take over policing (get around stltoday paywall here)
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