Thursday, April 20, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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Tuesday: TonysKansasCity.com: No protest & no cash after teen shot dead on Kansas City street; what happens “when violence can’t be used to garner political capital.”
KC Star: Ralph Yarl campaign nabs another $300k to more than $3 million jackpot
KC Star’s Judy Thomas and Luke Nozicka: Andrew Lester was influenced by conservative media (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
KC Star: Hawley, Schmitt, Cleaver weigh in on Ralph Yarl hubbub
P-D: St. Louis black empowerment activists charged with role in Russian propaganda scheme (get around stltoday paywall here)
KFRU (Columbia): The Morning Meeting with Ted Farnen: Missouri Supreme Court Judge Mary Rhodes Russell on childhood and academic background (2:00); mentoring female lawyers (7:15); clerking at Missouri Supreme Court (10:00); most common misperception about Missouri Supreme Court (17:20); judicial reality shows (23:00); more
P-D: Jay Ashcroft predicts Bailey’s transgender restrictions won’t stand (get around stltoday paywall here)
Missouri Independent: Senate committee rejects anti-DEI language, restores library funds in Missouri budget
P-D: Missouri Senate puts library money back in budget (get around stltoday paywall here)
Columbia Missourian: Libraries receive potential lifeline in state Senate committee
Columbia Missourian: Senate removes DEI ban from state budget
Missouri Independent: Missouri Senate committee triples funding for widening I-70 across the state
Missourinet: Crime package receives initial approval in Missouri Senate
Missourinet: Proposed lobbyist gift ban for local leaders receives initial Missouri Senate approval
Missourinet: Missouri becomes first state in the nation to join Reentry 2030 for former inmates
St. Joseph News-Press: “Max’s Law” to protect police animals one step closer to fruition
Southeast Missourian: In conjunction with Missouri Department of Conservation, Cape Girardeau to expand urban deer hunt this year (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
KC Star: KC area cops are on high alert for 4/20: ‘If you feel different, you drive different’
KC Star editorial: Gov. Parson, not President Biden, is who made the Ralph Yarl shooting political
KC Star editorial: Biden isn’t banning gas stoves. But facts don’t stop Missouri GOP outrage
KC Star editorial: Rural Missouri needs food stamps. GOP can’t say hunger’s just a city thing
P-D editorial: Fistfights aren’t gunfights. Knives don’t go off accidentally. Yes, guns kill. (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D’s Tony Messenger: ‘Total collapse’ of St. Louis prosecutor’s office adds urgency to historic case (get around stltoday paywall here)
Missouri Independent’s Phill Brooks: Reflections on Missouri’s decorum disruptions
KC Star letter: Man who left Missouri for California shares “open letter” to Josh Hawley complaining about attending Hawley’s “deafeningly white” high school, other insurmountable atrocities (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on AOL here)