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Sunday, March 19, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines

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TonysKansasCity.com: MO Sen. Schmitt Shares EPIC Screed Ahead Of Trump Arrest

CDT: Stephen Webber packs Shakespeare’s for state Senate kickoff (avoid Columbia Tribune paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! here)

JCNT: Profile: State Treasurer Vivek Malek settling in

TonysKansasCity.com: Rep. Doug Richey (R-Excelsior Springs) warns Mayor Q against Kansas City marijuana fest

JCNT: Less than half a million returned in first year of Missouri’s gas tax refunds

Jefferson City News Tribune: Missouri DED requests input on cell tower program

JCNT: Corn vending machine company remains silent two years after Missouri Dept. of Agriculture alert to farmers

JCNT editorial: Missouri lawmakers should bring back presidential primary

P-D editorial: In service to Trumpian vote-fraud mythology, Missouri invites the real thing (get around stltoday paywall here)

SNL op-ed: Daniel Romine, who lost 2020 GOP state rep primary to Alex Riley: Conservatives must resist legislative attacks on the citizen ballot initiative process

P-D’s Bill McClellan: How AG Andrew Bailey, local officials and private law firms can fix St. Louis’ criminal justice system (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D’s Tony Messenger: Former cop straddles the thin blue line to defend St. Louis control of police (get around stltoday paywall here)

KC Star op-ed: Council on Criminal Justice’s Marc A. Levin: Missouri Republicans making the right moves on justice – for offenders and taxpayers

JCNT letter: Jefferson City septuagenarian responds to KC Star anti-Hawley editorial, wonders why liberals’ “acceptance” isn’t extended to Christians

P-D letters: Kirkwood sexagenarian criticizes Ann Wagner for banking legislation; St. Louis County septuagenarian criticizes parents subjecting kids to transgender surgeries and hormone treatments; Creve Coeur septuagenarian argues against open enrollment (get around stltoday paywall here)

SNL letter: Missouri Home Dock Cities Association’s Mike Moeller thanks Sen. Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield) for opposing video slot machines

KC Star letters: Sexagenarian woman who chooses to live in Kansas says legislators need to stop worrying about drag shows; Independence man says legislators that “target” LGBTQs are “manipulative shysters” (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on AOL News here)

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