Friday, August 11, 2023 – Missouri political news headlines
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Reuters: Missouri v. Biden: Court weighs curbs on administration’s social media contacts
KWTO: Wake Up Springfield: Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Spring) on why he opposes economic development packages (-9:45); how to keep companies like Tyson from leaving Missouri (-8:30); criticism of Gov. Parson’s spending (-6:45); Gov. Parson’s “pork barrell spending projects” (-3:15); foreign farmland (-1:15)
This Week in Missouri Politics Mid-Week Update: NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri’s Mallory Schwarz (she/her) on abortion ballot initiative and lawsuits
johncombest.com (2/23/23): Pro-Choice Missouri’s “Reproductive Freedom Organizer” Kennedy Moore: “It’s Ash Wednesday and all the anti choicers in this hearing have their weird ass cross on their head from their church looking like the spawn of the devil.” (with photo of female Senate staffer in replies) UPDATE: tweet unavailable
Gregg Keller on Twitter: Screenshot of NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri’s anti-Catholic tweet
Sophia Shore on Twitter: “God fearing, baby loving women = spawns of the devil. Quite a take.”
TonysKansasCity.com: Show-Me Guv Parson’s Chiefs tattoo
Southeast Missourian: First woman to head state gaming commission, new statistics released (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
P-D: Financial industry group sues Jay Ashcroft over Missouri’s new ‘anti-woke’ investment rules (get around stltoday paywall here)
P-D: Tired of long waits at the DMV? Missouri’s top revenue official is on the case. (get around stltoday paywall here)
KC Star: Nine more Missouri school districts will have 4-day weeks this year. Here’s where (avoid KC Star paywall by reading syndicated version on stltoday here)
Missourinet: Drought conditions improve in Missouri
Southeast Missourian: Drought conditions ease in Southeast Missouri (get around Southeast Missourian paywall here)
Missourinet: Military comfort home opens at Truman VA Hospital in Columbia
P-D editorial: Always ready with a solution in search of a problem, Ashcroft goes after ESG policies (get around stltoday paywall here)
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Marijuana revenue should go to drug problems
KC Star editorial: Missouri Supreme Court, look at new evidence in Nathan Hawkins’ murder conviction