Tuesday, July 18, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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AP: Southwest Airlines adds Roy Blunt to its board of directors
KC Star: Josh Hawley outraises Democratic opponents for 2024 (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
P-D’s Joe Holleman: Wesley Bell taps local lawyers, business bosses for early US Senate money (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D: Kehoe keeps fundraising lead over Ashcroft, Eigel in Missouri governor’s race (get around stltoday paywall here)
KWTO (Springfield): Uncommon Sense with Cass Bowen Anderson, with guests Sen. Jill Carter (R-Joplin) and Carter chief of staff Sophie Shore; Carter on her first legislative session (-46:30); the “uniparty” and Senate leadership pushback against Republican ideas (-44:35); Shore on Republicans undercutting transgender bill (-42:15); Carter on how transgender debate should have been handled (-41:15); how Senate Republican leadership uses conservative legislation as bargaining chips to keep conservative senators in line (-38:00); refuting notion that conservatives were “holding up” legislation (-36:30); deep dive on initiative petition debate and specifics (-31:30); Democrats celebrating “sludge” in GOP budget (-22:30); Senate leadership blocking Sen. Denny Hoskins’ efforts on DEI (-21:30); budget votes taken “so last minute and so unintentionally” (-19:15); Carter on being told to “sit down and shut up” (-17:30); more
Apple podcasts: Listen to Cass Bowen Anderson’s “Uncommon Sense” on your Apple device here
JCNT: Missouri’s marijuana sales average $4M daily
KC Star’s Katie Moore and Kacen Bayless: Move out of Missouri is painful, but necessary, says KC family with transgender child; parents decided 12 years ago that their four-year-old boy was a girl, now declare the 16-year-old boy a “nonbinary”
KC Star: AP’s “race and ethnicity news editor” handed The Star’s managing editor job; Andale Gross’ work in Chicago explored “how the coronavirus pandemic disproportionately ravaged communities of color,” now “plans to work hard to ensure underrepresented communities” in KC have their tales told (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)
Missouri Independent: Missouri utility regulators plan for peak pricing prompts pushback from Sen. Cindy O’Laughlin (R-Shelbina)
P-D: Judge rules death row inmate’s insanity plea for St. Louis County girl’s murder ‘misses the mark’; Johnny A. Johnson to be executed August 1 (get around stltoday paywall here)
Joplin Globe editorial: First year of 988 hotline shows good outcomes (get around Joplin Globe paywall here)
Mother Jones’ Madison Pauly: Missouri Republicans are going to absurd lengths to stop voters from having their say on abortion (link via TonysKansasCity.com)