Tuesday, June 27, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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Bloomberg’s Matthew Yglesias, via Washington Post: It’s not Trump’s party so much as Jason Smith’s (link via Gregg Keller on Twitter)
P-D: Blaine Luetkemeyer teams up with Illinois Democrat to fund Mississippi River lock and dam improvements (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star: Biden Administration announces state broadband grants (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
P-D: Cori Bush lends support to $1.75B grant program for abortion tourism (get around stltoday paywall here)
Politico: The sleeper legal strategy that could topple abortion bans: mini-profiles of Missouri pro-choice activists Jan Barnes and Krista Taves (link via Dave Drebes’ MOScout 6/26/23) (subscribe for only $1,155/year here)
P-D’s Joe Holleman: Anti-Wesley Bell Democrat Shalonda Webb praises Lucas Kunce; endorsement “highlights the intraparty opposition on the council to the administration of (St. Louis) County Executive Sam Page” (get around stltoday paywall here)
Missourinet: Judge rules Bailey can wait to hand over cost estimate for abortion ballot summaries
P-D: Judge allows Missouri attorney general to delay action on abortion order (get around stltoday paywall here)
Fox 2 St. Louis: UMSL prof promotes “Sensible Missouri” gun control campaign
Missourinet: Deadline nears for governor to sign state budget
P-D: Missouri moves to address cancer drug shortage (get around stltoday paywall here)
KCUR: Missouri AG seeks reversal of Kansas City police officer’s conviction for killing black man
KC Star: Bailey seeks to throw out Kansas City cop’s conviction in killing of black man (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
TonysKansasCity.com: “Nobody is going to riot for a guy who has been dead for three years.”
KSMU (Springfield): Missouri’s life expectancy has dropped significantly, so what can be done? Legislature should spend more money, and Missourians should get the COVID-19 vaccine
P-D: Two killed, one injured in shooting near The Grove in St. Louis (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D (6/26/23): Same-sex fight leads to stabbing in The Grove after PrideFest; 21-year-old woman says she stabbed galpal in self-defense (get around stltoday paywall here)
Reuters: More than 100 US political leaders – including President Biden, Barack Obama, and every living president except Donald Trump – have ancestors who were slaveholders; Roy Blunt, Sam Graves, Gov. Parson also distantly related to people who owned slaves
Washington Missourian letter: New Haven septuagenarian wants a Missouri “red flag” law
Washington Missourian letter: Pacific sexagenarian cheers COVID vaccine, believes in “long COVID,” says “Missouri politicians playing doctor … are the real threat to citizen health”