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Sunday, August 6, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines

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GoFundMe.com: Help cover the funeral expenses of Casey Burns’ uncle and grandmother, who died unexpectedly last week (organized by Victory Enterprises Brett Dinkins, with help from Enterprise Holding’s Josh Foster)

Legacy.com: Obituary for Casey Burns’ grandmother, Joy Thurston

Legacy.com: Obituary for Casey Burns’ uncle, Pete Selzer

JCNT: Outspoken Jefferson City native and perennial candidate Leonard J. Steinman dies at 71

Brownfield Ag News: State Fair preview: Ag Director Chris Chinn gives details on U.S. Rep. Mark Alford’s farm bill listening session, more

SNL’s new politics reporter Kelly Dereuck: Analysis: Crystal Quade retains key advantages in gubernatorial campaign, but faces headwinds; “the current social climate surrounding the abortion ballot initiative may also work to her advantage”

P-D’s Jack Suntrup (8/12/19): Democrat Nicole Galloway’s path to victory in gubernatorial campaign paved by support for abortion rights

Kansas City Star’s Jason Hancock and Crystal Thomas (8/9/19): Analysis: Nicole Galloway running for governor, may get national support; “(H)er interest in the race peaked when Parson signed legislation banning abortion in Missouri after eight weeks of pregnancy.”

JCNT: Profile: Healther Dolce starts anew after a decade at Missouri Department of Social Services

JCNT: Local, statewide manufacturing jobs building workforce

KC Star: Missouri state auditor investigates Jackson County property tax assessment complaints (avoid Kansas City Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

SNL’s Susan Szuch: State report: 85 Missourians died during or after pregnancy in 2020; reporter describes pregnant women as “Missourians” and “people,” zero uses of word “women”

johncombest.com archives: Search tags (found at top of page each day): journalists using stilted language to avoid using the word “woman”

johncombest_com on Twitter (yesterday): St. Louis Public Radio inadvertently admits that pregnant women are carrying babies, not “tiny clumps of cells”

johncombest_com on Twitter (yesterday): “St. Louis Public radio acknowledges that only women can have babies. Not a single use of ‘birthing people’ or ‘people with uteruses’ or any other silly circumlocution. Just ‘women.'”

JCNT: Three Missouri prisons have no air conditioning

P-D’s Victor Stefanescu: St. Louis City gas station workers recount strange nights, dangers of the job; tighter gun control laws will help make urban environment safer (get around stltoday paywall here)

Last week: P-D’s Victor Stefanescu: Post-Dispatch reporters exposed data shortcomings from “Missouri Department of Health and Human [sic] Services”; UPDATE: fixed, without acknowledgment of error (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D: Recovery for national convention business expected in 2024 – but not in St. Louis; tourism chief Kitty Ratcliffe blames COVID pandemic (get around stltoday paywall here)

KC Star op-ed: University of Pennsylvania “social policy and practice” professor Susan B. Sorenson: Josh Hawley is partly right about manliness; thoughts on campus sexual assault tales and why parents should lecture young men

P-D’s Tony Messenger: Public defenders are overworked. St. Louis attorney seeks a national solution. (get around stltoday paywall here)

KC Star editorial page editor Yvette Walker: Something new is happening with MOHELA student loans – and it looks like good news

Columbia Missourian “social justice” content creator Kristina Abovyan: Loss of state, federal handouts brings college food insecurity to the forefront

P-D letter: Florissant septuagenarian promotes fundraising campaign for Joseph Amrine, who “spent 27 years in prison, mostly for a crime he didn’t commit” (get around stltoday paywall here)

Amazon.com: John Combest: Stalking, Harassment, Internet Trolling: A Guide to Recovering and Rebuilding After Online Attacks – available in paperback and Amazon Kindle

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