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Sunday, April 23, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines

Published April 23, 2023 in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: #moleg, #moleg news, 2023 Missouri legislative session, 2024 Missouri state budget, Andrew Bailey Missouri, autism and transgender issues, autism and transgenderism, Bill Lukitsch, Clif Smart MSU, empty threats, everything is racist, get around stltoday paywall, Greta Cross, Greta Cross journalist, how to get around St. Louis Post-Dispatch paywall, how to get around stltoday paywall, Jess Bogan, journalists defending transgender hormone therapy for children, journalists rattling tin cup for story subjects, Katie Moore Kansas City Star, KSMU, liberal media bias in Missouri, Mid-Missouri radio, Mid-Missouri talk radio, Mike Bernskoetter, Missouri 2024 state budget, Missouri General Assembly 2023 legislation, Missouri political journalism, Missouri State University, Rock Island Corridor, sports betting in Missouri, Springfield News-Leader transgender advocacy series, Susan Szuch, Susan Szuch reporter.

SNL’s Greta Cross and Susan Szuch: Transgender hero profiles: Springfield throuple (a three-transgender couple) threatens to leave Missouri, sets up GoFundMe; two autistic women say they won’t seek medical guidance for their autism; Springfield woman heads to North Carolina for master’s degree, threatens to return to Missouri to make transgender films; 33-year-old woman says testosterone gives her the energy to do the dishes; other inspirational tales

SNL’s Greta Cross and Susan Szuch: H o w y o u c a n f i g h t b a c k a g a i n s t Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule

Tuesday, 4/18/23: Post-Dispatch removes references to two transgender heroes; Maplewood nonbinary Fiach Mikunda wants to turn 16-year-old autistic daughter into a boy; a 25-year-old woman “has identified as more masculine but would sometimes act female when (she) did not feel safe”; no response from reporter Michele Munz or the Post-Dispatch on silencing these trans and nonbinary voices

P-D’s Jess Bogan: Cultural anthropology: A trip to Harrisonville reveals a “majority of people interviewed here didn’t feel as strongly as (GOP Sen. Rick) Brattin apparently does about eliminating sales tax on firearms” (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D’s Jess Bogan, August 2021: Cultural anthropology: A trip to Potosi reveals how rural Missourians live, and what they think of COVID vaccine and variant rollouts; some even question government officials’ theories on COVID (get around stltoday paywall here)

KC Star: Bud Light controversy spills over to NFL Draft. Will Kansas City feel a boycott?

KSMU (Springfield): Missouri State University’s “Engaging the Community” program: MSU President Clif Smart on state budget, DEI restrictions and library funding

St. Joseph News-Press: Bill from Sen. Mike Bernskoetter (R-Jefferson City) polices the middleman of pharmaceuticals

JCNT: Funding path for Rock Island Trail unclear in Missouri Senate

P-D: Missouri becomes first state to join national reentry program for people leaving prison (get around stltoday paywall here)

KWIX 92.5FM/1230AM (Mid-Missouri): AG Andrew Bailey reminisces on Randolph County internship

P-D: Kim Gardner blames attorney on leave for office’s no-show in murder trial (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D editorial: For the record, Eric Schmitt was wrong about masks in schools – but at least progressives are winning some school board elections (get around stltoday paywall here)

Washington Missourian editorial: It’s time for Missouri to legalize sports betting

P-D’s Kevin McDermott: Thoughts on Jay Ashcroft and the 3-week-old Bud Light controversy (get around stltoday paywall here)

KC Star’s Katie Moore and Bill Lukitsch: Man dies in Clay County jail after not paying child support – “it’s just one way Missouri’s criminal justice system disproportionately harms the poor.”

KC Star letter: Los Angeles, CA woman says Andrew Lester should teach a gun safety class to make up for giving R a l p h Y a r l a boo-boo

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