Friday, June 2, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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KC Star: Schmitt says he’ll vote against debt limit deal in major Senate vote (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
Fox4 KC: Cleaver’s office handling complaints about passport delays (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
AP: Federal appeals court halts EPA effort to impose air pollution plan in Missouri
Brownfield Ag News: Drought is getting worse in Missouri; interview with Gov. Parson
JCNT: Acting DSS, DHSS directors elevated to full status
Missourinet: Missouri’s first lady challenges kids to pay it forward this summer
Missouri Independent: Missouri could shed up to 200,000 from Medicaid dole
St. Louis Public Radio: Politically Speaking podcast: House Superminority Leader Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) on 2023 legislative session
TonysKansasCity.com: KC Star shares LGBT Pride Guide
Missouri Independent: Gov. Parson appoints staffer to join utility oversight board
JCNT: State Treasurer Vivek Malek trying to connect unclaimed properties, owners
St. Joseph News-Press: Bill would shift tax collection to car dealers
P-D: Car insurance crackdown could be coming to Missouri (get around stltoday paywall here)
Joplin Globe: Summer camp promotes banned books; effort is sponsored by Missouri Southern State University, Joplin Public Library and Joplin’s League of Women Voters sect (get around Joplin Globe paywall here)
P-D: Missouri Hospital Association President and CEO Jon Doolittle says Missouri’s health care staffing shortages will improve (get around stltoday paywall here)
KMIZ (Columbia): Gun-control group cheers Columbia’s “National Gun Violence Awareness Day”; wearing orange curbs urban violence
P-D: St. Louis City aldermen debate plan to rein in open-carry firearms in St. Louis (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star: Ralph Yarl legal team complains about prosecutor’s handling of case; Yarl participated in fundraising race photo op but “still isn’t allowed to jump on trampolines” (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
P-D editorial: Missouri AG bets that he can keep refusing to do his job on illegal gambling (get around stltoday paywall here)
JCNT editorial: Turning page on new rule for libraries
P-D editorial: Never mind Missouri’s library censorship. That guy in makeup is the real threat. (get around stltoday paywall here)
Joplin Globe editorial: Missouri lawmakers won’t act, so it’s time for a ballot measure on “puppy mills” (get around Joplin Globe paywall here)
P-D 3/8/23: Feds probe St. Louis-area church, nonprofit that claimed millions in federal food aid (get around stltoday paywall here)
FLASHBACK: 8/27/22: P-D editorial: Missouri’s worst-in-the-nation stinginess toward poor kids speaks volumes; suspecting foul play in summer lunch program is nonsense (get around stltoday paywall here)