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St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum: Overview: With U.S. Rep. Luetkemeyer retiring, 3rd District residents can expect a crowded GOP primary; Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R-Arnold) first and only announced candidate; Sen. Nick Schroer (R-Defiance) “kind of waiting to hear from (Onder)”

Missourinet: Ashcroft give overview of GOP caucus system

Missouri Independent: Missouri political parties prepare for life after the presidential primary

States Newsroom, via Missouri Independent: Child tax credit expansion, business incentives combined in new congressional tax plan; thoughts from House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.)

St. Louis Public Radio: EPA seeks community input on Coldwater Creek cleanup

Missourinet: How cannabis businesses conduct banking business while it’s still against federal law; MoCannTrade’s Jack Cardetti on SAFE Banking Act

Washington Missourian: Missouri State Highway Patrol: Marijuana expungements could take 5 years

BJShow.co: Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (Franklin/St. Charles/Warren Counties): Wednesday morning segments: Missouri marijuana expungements, and how to profit from cannabis expansion without buying weed stocks (Segment A); Coldwater Creek geography (Segment A); Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District primary (Segment A); nuclear energy and a uranium ETF (Segment B); Dr. Drew and a marijuana medical study (Segment B); Joy Reid’s comments on Nikki Haley, and why being “colorblind” ignores “generational traumas” (Segment C)

BJShow.co: Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (Franklin/St. Charles/Warren Counties): Tuesday morning segments: St. Louis Reparations Commission misses deadline, wants more money (Segment A); Billy Long hamming it up with Donald Trump (Segment A); electric vehicle industry overproduction (Segment B); corporations’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) nonsense narratives (Segment B); Rachel Maddow and mainstream media cope and seethe over Trump’s Iowa victory (Segment C)

KMOX: Dave Glover Show: GOP consultant David Barklage on political and cultural divide and how the left and right are the same (5:30); why the U.S. should “let the trial lawyers feast” on Big Tech (6:30); why “civil war” rhetoric doesn’t play in Portageville (7:30); more

P-D: Missouri abortion opponents launch effort against possible signature campaign; Sam Lee to serve as president of Missouri Stands with Women (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

AP: Fundraising off to slow start for pro-choice groups

Missouri Independent: Eigel, Scharf accuse Gov. Parson of using office to meddle in GOP primaries

P-D: Sen. Ben Brown (R-Washington) sued over unpaid rent at his Chesterfield restaurant (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

P-D: Graves Garrett’s bill to defend Missouri’s Jay Ashcroft in fight over ‘anti-woke’ investing rule tops $167,000 (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Louis Riggs (R-Hannibal) pleased to see Missouri House with “a little more discipline” and not “a lot of drama”

KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch (R-Hallsville) on open enrollment bill

JCNT: New House committee to examine education changes in Missouri

Fox 2 St. Louis: Sens. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg), Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Spring) hope to phase out personal property taxes

JCNT: Questions remain about senior tax freeze

St. Louis Public Radio: Clarification sought to Missouri law allowing property tax freeze for seniors

P-D: Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Spring) again pushes Legislature to cut personal property taxes (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

P-D: Missouri lawmakers resurrect rural investment program amid concerns about crony capitalism (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

Missourinet: Rep. Brad Hudson (R-Cape Fair) wants to extend SAFE Act protections for children, eliminate expiration date

KC Star: ‘Kill the fill.’ Proposed Kansas City landfill targeted by MO lawmakers, area residents (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

Missouri Independent: Kansas City-area residents plead with Missouri lawmakers to stop landfill

KRES/KWIX: Representative Tim Taylor (R-Bunceton) on bills dealing with Denali animal waste

JCNT: Missouri still faces a drought

P-D: Sen. Karla May (D-St. Louis City) seeks independent probe after death of top Lincoln U administrator (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

Columbia Missourian: Lincoln University students make a scene at board meeting, want white male fired

P-D: Lawmaker proposes new limits to Missouri Sunshine Law (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

Columbia Missourian: Bill sponsor strips most provisions undercutting Missouri Sunshine Law

P-D editorial: On gambling policy, Missouri voters must once again do lawmakers’ jobs for them (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

JCNT editorial: Missouri must find better solutions on mental health

Joplin Globe editorial: Missouri DNR decision protects Pomme de Terre River (avoid Joplin Globe paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

KC Star op-ed: Missouri Psychological Association’s Amy Beck: Lawmakers should protect audio-only telehealth care (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

P-D letter: University City septuagenarian/former Hazelwood East English teacher Alan Buxbaum says pro-life laws are “dehumanizing” (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

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