Saturday, July 8, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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Fox Business: Sen. Eric Schmitt: Weakness has been the hallmark of the Biden admin
Fox News: Schmitt vows to enforce court‘s decision against Biden’s free-speech suppression
Missourinet: Sen. Eric Schmitt weighs in on defense authorization bill
Columbia Missourian: Democratic attorney general candidate Elad Gross speaks to Muleskinners, discusses strengthening Sunshine Law
Missourinet: Rep. Kurtis Gregory (R-Marshall) will challenge Rep. Doug Richey (R-Excelsior Springs) for Sen. Denny Hoskins’ open seat
Southeast Missourian: Gov. Parson signs senior tax relief bill, all area lawmakers supported (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
Missouri Independent’s Jason Hancock: Missouri bill creating transitional benefits for SNAP, TANF signed into law; Rep. Keri Ingle (D-Lee’s Summit) praises legislation from Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman of “Arnald [sic]”
KC Star: Missouri public schools will be allowed to teach electives on the Bible under new law sponsored by Sen. Karla May (D-St. Louis City) (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
SNL: Health care for new mothers, marijuana banking among final bills signed by Gov. Parson
Missouri Independent: Gov. Parson signs bills impacting cannabis banking, employee background checks
KSDK: St. Louis mayor’s office says her text messages doubting effectiveness of strict gun laws lacked context; Jones ally Wesley Bell defends mayor‘s comments; city staff yanks 137-page pdf document from transparency website, replaces it with short excerpts
97.1 FM (St. Louis): Mark Reardon Show: Veteran Democratic consultant Jane Dueker, GOP mastermind Gregg Keller and former Alderman Jack Coatar (D) on Mayor Tishaura Jones’ text messages to “shadow mayor” and consultants (4:00); Dueker on Jones’ “minion army” of keyboard warrior sycophants (6:45); Keller on how these texts will affect mayor’s working relationships (13:15); more
St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis on the Air: Missouri Sierra Club “environmental justice” rep, others complain about systemic air particle racism and Missouri Department of Natural Resources; more spending “investments“ will help
St. Louis Public Radio’s Jeremy Goodwin: Event promo: “Conservative legislators and judges have targeted LGBTQ rights lately” – so come support WerQfest and celebrate black and queer creativity
KC Star editorial: Gov. Parson’s refusals to help wrongly convicted and ban celebratory gunfire make no sense (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
Southeast Missourian op-ed: America is the land of boundless opportunities: Remarks from Rep. John Voss (R-Cape Girardeau) at July 4 citizen naturalization ceremony (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
P-D op-ed: Tim Jones: Missourians need greater direct access to and from D.C. (get around stltoday paywall here)
Joplin Globe Editor Andy Ostmeyer: Tough times in the newspaper business, and don’t count on bloggers to fill the void in local coverage; Globe ditching Sunday e-paper, scaling back Monday e-paper (get around Joplin Globe paywall here)