Saturday, March 25, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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JCNT: 10 honored as Missouri Women of Achievement
P-D: Legislation to protect youth from transgender surgeries could help convince some activists to flee Missouri (get around stltoday paywall here)
Fox4 KC: Marijuana expo in Kansas City helping Missouri businesses meet demand (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
Washington Missourian: State Treasurer Vivek Malek meets with St. Louis Federal Reserve officials; Area bankers say crisis unlikely to impact local institutions
P-D: Missouri edges closer to outsourcing more state operations to private companies (get around stltoday paywall here)
Kansas City Beacon: Move underway to put St. Louis City police under state leadership
KC Star: KC police critic says attorney general’s office won’t enforce ban on ticket quotas: “This is a systemically racist country, Missouri [sic]”; response from AG Andrew Bailey’s spokeswoman Madeline Sieren (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
Columbia Missourian: University of Missouri System scrapping diversity statements for job applicants
JCNT: Columbia man sues Ashcroft over petition allegations
Joplin Globe editorial: Gov. Parson’s I-70 plan not road tested – and why is I-70 more important than I-44? (get around Joplin Globe paywall here)
P-D editorial briefs: Missouri marijuana sales take a bite out of Illinois revenue; vote against this candidate for the “Parkland [sic]” school board (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star’s Glenn Rice: After KCPD accused of illegal ticket quotas, Missouri says it will enforce ban. But how? (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)