Sunday, May 7, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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P-D: Work at Jana Elementary site to ramp up before Coldwater Creek contamination cleanup begins (get around stltoday paywall here)
Columbia Missourian: Hero profile: Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia)
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers approve historic rebuild of I-70 across Missouri
TonysKansasCity.com: Missouri GOP demands more than one year moratorium on Kansas City landfill
Missourinet: Missouri Legislature passes public health package
Missourinet: Missouri Senate considering corrections omnibus bill
JCNT: State declining federal funds for Rock Island trail
Fox4 KC: Missouri cannabis expungements likely to miss constitutional deadlines (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
NPR’s Kelsey Snell: Missouri, other state legislatures push bills “targeting education, transgender and LGBTQ rights, housing policy, gun rights and policing“
KC Star’s Kacen Bayless and Jonathan Shorman: ‘It’s not a safe situation’: Transgender Kansas Citians’ rights under attack from two states; 44-year-old KC man fears he won’t be able to use women’s restroom, threatens to move to California; KC doctor “who uses they/them pronouns” says it knows 7 transgenders who plan to flee Missouri; more (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
TonysKansasCity.com: Amid urban homicide crisis: Kansas City Star claims trans safety in jeopardy
P-D’s Erin Heffernan, Katie Kull, and Taylor Tiamoyo Harris: Kim Gardner promised to deliver criminal justice reform in St. Louis. Where did it all go wrong? (get around stltoday paywall here)
JCNT: Missouri courts updating redaction process
JCNT editorial: Missouri Legislature seizes an opportunity by extending postpartum Medicaid coverage
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Protecting girls’ sports probably doesn’t deserve a special session – but protecting minors from transgender surgeries and hormone blockers is another matter
KC Star op-ed: Kansas State University professor: If Josh Hawley wants to shield Social Security, it comes at a price (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
P-D’s Kevin McDermott: Thoughts on Missouri’s “forced-birth zealots” and Trudy Busch Valentine campaign star Mylissa Farmer (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D letters: St. Charles man criticizes Andrew Bailey for taking Torch Electronics contributions; St. Louis City octogenarian says P-D editorial page is her favorite section of the newspaper, praises anti-GOP op-ed (get around stltoday paywall here)