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St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum: On the Trump indictment and its effect on Missouri Republicans

P-D: Statements on Trump indictment: Hawley, Schmitt, Jason Smith, Mark Alford (get around stltoday paywall here)

States Newsroom, via Missouri Independent: Schmitt, other witnesses testify on ‘weaponization’ of government in hearing on Missouri lawsuit

KCUR: Planned Parenthood of St. Louis and Southwest Missouri unhappy with federal court ruling on Obamacare provision

St. Louis Public Radio: Census data shows population growth in Lincoln and St. Charles Counties, as former residents of St. Louis City and County flee

AP: Missouri House bans diversity funding; Senate likely to undo

Missouri Independent: Diversity debate dominates House action on Missouri state budget; House Superminority Leader Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) says Republicans weep in Democrats’ offices

P-D: Democrats decry racism as Republicans ram budget through Missouri House; Rep. LaKeySha Bosley (D-St. Louis City) lashes out at Doug Richey: “I am shaking.” (get around stltoday paywall here)

johncombest_com on Instagram: Doug Richey and LaKeysha Bosley jam to Crazy Town

Missourinet: Overview of Missouri House budget: What it includes, what it doesn’t

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri House passes $45.6 billion budget with big changes expected in Senate

KC Star: Missouri Republicans use state budget to block diversity initiatives, cut library funding (get around Kansas City Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

KC Star: GOP-controlled Missouri House delays vote on Gov. Parson’s $859M plan to expand I-70 (avoid Kansas City Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

Columbia Missourian: Daniel Boone Regional Library system may see state funding cut

Washington Missourian: Union R-XI School District School Board president rips DESE: “Incompetent … inexcusable.”

KWIX 92.5FM/1230AM (Mid-Missouri): Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch (R-Hallsville) says open enrollment critics use Chicken Little “the sky is falling!” arguments

KSMU: Transgender rally draws “roughly 70” in Springfield; next event is today at 4 p.m.

KSMU: Hero profile: St. Louis transgender activist on why she allowed her 7-year-old daughter to become a trans boy

P-D: St. Charles County prosecutor Tim Lohmar abruptly resigns; Republican’s resume included high-profile cases of murder and regret rape (get around stltoday paywall here)

States Newsroom, via Missouri Independent: Climate-change group says Missouri saw only modest increases in solar and wind energy capacity from 2021-2022

Missouri Independent’s Phill Brooks: Bringing order to the Missouri House – but I have my doubts

KC Star’s Natalie Wallington: What Trans Day of Visibility means to 8 Kansas Citians as KS, MO bills attack rights

4/28/22: KC Star “Service Journalism Team’s” Natalie Wallington: Missouri, your anti-LGBTQ laws made me gayer: “With every hateful bill you write, my hair gets shorter and my Doc Martens get chunkier.”

KC Star letters: Septuagenarian man – who chooses to live in Kansas – says Missouri lawmakers want to keep constituents “stupid”; University City activist wants Hawley and Schmitt to support renter’s tax credit (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

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