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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

Missouri Independent: Carter proposes local control plan to opt Missouri districts out of state standards

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)

P-D: Audio clips: Sens. Jill Carter, Greg Razer (D-Kansas City), Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) discuss boys playing girls’ sports

Missouri Independent: Rowden’s tweet about school children at drag show helped raise awareness of incident

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 agencys 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)

KC Star editorial: As Black History Month starts, can’t we resolve to be honest about Missouri’s past?

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)

SNL’s Claudette Riley: Missouri Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ and anti-diversity bills could scare off college students

P-D: The Bottom Line video series: Newspaper’s semi-retirees Jim Gallagher and David Nicklaus have a chat about Missouir’s personal property tax

KC Star op-ed: Man who chooses to live in Kansas criticizes Todd Graves’ op-ed on Missouri school choice

KC Star op-ed: “The right to bare arms”: Woman who chooses to live in Kansas has totally original, never-before-heard punchlines about Missouri House dress code debate from three (3) weeks ago

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)

KC Star letter: Kansas City woman cheers critical race theory in Missouri schools, wants white parents to know “it will make their children sad learning their white ancestors raped, killed, enslaved, chained, maimed, experimented on, beat, bred and emasculated the African American society for centuries”

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