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KC Star: Missouri delegates to help choose Biden replacement. Some decline to immediately back Harris. (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo), Tuesday: Credit to the KC Star for quality #DNC coverage, and why The Media, lispy cucks and blowhards love the Harris delegate drama

P-D: Support for Harris builds among Missouri Democratic delegates (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Joplin Globe: Southwest Missouri Democrats express sadness about Biden, support for Kamala Harris (avoid Joplin Globe paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Columbia Tribune: Missouri state candidates react to Biden stepping aside

KFRU: Columbia Today with Ted Farnen: Missouri-Kansas Laborers District Council government affairs rep Zack Dunn on role as delegate to Democratic National Convention

Fox News: Schmitt demands Cabinet invoke 25th Amendment against Biden

P-D: Biden Administration says climate change poses challenges to Eleven Point’s Ozark hellbenders and trout (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent’s Rudi Keller: Governor candidate profile series: Bill Eigel

JCNT: Kehoe’s campaign for governor visits Moniteau County

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo), Monday: Brief recap of weekend #mogov news, including Kehoe bus and Jewell Patek mini-bio (link opens at 11:25 mark)

KSMU (Springfield): Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas campaigns against Amendment 4

Brad & John Show, Monday morning: How did GOP state rep candidate Max Calfo manage to become a sympathetic character? The wild Lizzie Sparks/Justin Hicks fake assault call story (link opens at 4:20 mark)

SNL: August primary preview: House District 132 (Crystal Quade): Republicans Stephanos Freeman and Bernadean McAfee

SNL: August primary preview: House District 138 (Brad Hudson): Republicans Tom Franiak and Burt Whaley

P-D: Early voting in St. Louis starts Tuesday (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: No-excuse absentee voting has officially begun for Missouri’s Aug. 6 primary

Brad & John Show, Monday: Missouri Facebook liberals mad about The Soda Museum and AFP-Missouri event; who is Tom Smith? (link opens at 0:20 mark)

P-D: Teachers union sues MOHELA over ‘Kafkaesque’ practices (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Teachers union files federal lawsuit alleging MOHELA mismanaged millions of student loans

Brownfield Ag News: Missouri drought committee: conditions much better

JCNT: Beginning Farmer Tax Deduction program to begin accepting applications

JCNT: MoDOT traveler map now available via mobile browser

P-D: AG Andrew Bailey files appeal to keep murderer Christopher Dunn in prison (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Missouri judge overturns conviction of murdered Christopher Dunn

JCNT: Kaiser Family Foundation says Missouri gun deaths rose 66 percent over past decade

P-D: No ‘Harry Potter’? Librarians claim Francis Howell proposals could remove popular books (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio’s St. Louis on the Air: Event promo: Come support “black nerd (blerd) culture” at “Anime After Dark – St. Louis”; area man explains intersectionality of blackness and dork/spaz/geekdom

Combest, The Missouri Times, 8/7/23: “Thank God that state-affiliated media isn’t a meritocracy, or (Jason) Rosenbaum might be hosting (St. Louis on the Air) episodes on ankle bracelets making immigrants’ hair fall out or the institutional racism of public toilets.”

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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