Wednesday, June 28, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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Fox News: Hawley, other GOP senators demand top intel official comply with law, turn over COVID origins info (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
KC Star: Supreme Court ruling means Missouri courts can still review congressional maps (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
TonysKansasCity.com: Pete Mundo calls out Mean Jean over mass shooter suspect’s bail
KC Star: Democrats blast Bailey for seeking to throw out KC cop’s conviction for killing black man (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
AP’s Summer Ballentine and Margaret Stafford: Missouri attorney general seeks reversal of former detective’s conviction in black man’s death; former Missouri AG “Eric Schmidt [sic]” opposed efforts to release the wrongfully-convicted Lamar Johnson and Kevin Strickland
Southeast Missourian: Local property manager Dave Soto to run for Rick Francis’ open state rep seat (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
TonysKansasCity.com: KCUR’s inevitable anti-gun spin on “gun violence”
P-D: Kairos charter school executives get back pay as St. Louis expansion hits roadblock (get around stltoday paywall here)
JCNT: Corps of Engineers forecasts full river navigation season
KC Star: Kansas City Chiefs fans pour into Missouri Capitol to catch a glimpse of Lombardi Trophy (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
P-D: Former Missouri inmate with HIV challenges state prison solitary confinement policy; man was not allowed to mingle with female prisoners (get around stltoday paywall here)
JCNT editorial: Collaborative effort is a healthy remedy for statewide hospital and housing ills
P-D editorial: St. Charles cross-dressing controversy shows how Jay Ashcroft’s slippery slope now threatens libraries (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star editorial: Pedestrian deaths are way up in Missouri. Are we all just driving angry? (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
TonysKansasCity.com: Kansas City Star runs politicized & racially divisive ‘local control’ false flag
P-D op-ed: Cambridge Innovation Center St. Louis’ self-described “queer” John Land: We need diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) to tackle rampant “white supremacy, homophobia, and transphobia”: “With this national wave of legislation targeting queer and trans people, my heart aches.” (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star’s new opinion page editor Yvette Walker: Fill out our reader survey; “We want your rational conservative voices, your sensible liberal voices.” (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
KC Star’s Kevin Hardy (6/6/23): Welcome the Star’s new opinion editor; Yvette Walker, assistant dean for student affairs at University of Oklahoma journalism school, handed editorial page job (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
P-D letter: St. Louis County septuagenarian suggests sponsors of initiative petition legislation are paid off by secret donors (get around stltoday paywall here)