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P-D’s Jesse Bogan: Cultural anthropology series: Kamala Harris may be energizing Democrats, but southeast Missouri voters aren’t impressed (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D’s Jesse Bogan (4/4/23): Cultural anthropology: A trip to Harrisonville reveals a “majority of people interviewed here didn’t feel as strongly as (GOP Sen. Rick) Brattin apparently does about eliminating sales tax on firearms” (get around stltoday paywall here)

P-D’s Jesse Bogan (8/1/21): Cultural anthropology: A trip to Potosi reveals how rural Missourians live, and what they think of COVID vaccine and variant rollouts; some even question government officials’ theories on COVID (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo), Thursday: Recap of Post-Dispatch’s latest political anthropology story (link opens at 1:10)

Southeast Missourian: Delegates from Cape Girardeau reflect on historic DNC experience; black woman says trip to Chicago was too expensive, so she had local Democrats subsidize her; white male graduate student with long hair took open-mouth selfie; more (avoid Southeast Missourian paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Brad & John Show, Thursday morning: Missouri Dem delegates rattle tin cup (link opens at 11:00 mark)

P-D: Jack Danforth endorses independent for US Senate (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Combest, The Missouri Times (7/29/22): “After his vigorous fluffing of Josh Hawley just four years ago, I thought (John) Danforth’s electile dysfunction would have kept him from pulling the trigger on a spoiler candidate. Turns out I was wrong.”

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Brad & John Show, Thursday morning: John Danforth’s latest spoiler candidate, plus Brad vs. John on “independent” candidates wasting everyone’s time

Missouri Independent: Poll shows Missouri voters back Trump, Hawley, abortion measure and minimum wage hike

KC Star: Missouri voters are on track to overturn near-total ban on abortion, new poll suggests (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

P-D: SLU/YouGov poll: Hawley stomping Kunce, Kehoe spanking Quade (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Former Missouri GOP lawmaker Kathie Conway dies after battle with brain cancer

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo), Wednesday: Breakthrough: In his piece remembering Kathie Conway, Post-Dispatch reporter Jack Suntrup acknowledges that life begins at conception (link opens at 0:30 mark)

Brad & John Show, Wednesday morning: Talking through mid-Missourians’ angst about Bob Onder, plus Bob Onder’s path forward (link opens at 8:40 mark)

Brad & John Show, Wednesday morning: (Cypress Hill voice) Jay Ashcroft ain’t goin’ out like that! (link opens at 15:05 mark)

Brad & John Show on Instagram: Wednesday show recap

P-D: Missouri child care funding ‘crisis’ drawing scrutiny from lawmakers (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Missouri legislative leaders call for hearings over child care subsidy ‘crisis’

P-D: Celebrating with gunfire in Missouri? Think again, because Blair’s Law is now in effect

JCNT: Dept. of Corrections’ prison scanning process underway

Brad & John Show, Wednesday morning: Dolly Parton in KC (link opens at 2:30 mark)

Southeast Missourian: Vargas announces end of tenure as SEMO president (avoid Southeast Missourian paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D: State Medicaid records show St. Louis County Executive Sam Page has side job. St. Louis hospital says he’s just a volunteer. (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D: Family of Missouri senator from Jefferson County buys investment property in St. Louis’ Central West End; Mary Elizabeth Coleman will still live in Arnold (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D: Lawyers fight over evidence in Marcellus Williams’ murder of Felicia Gayle. Judge must decide in weeks. (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: The fate of a murderer on death row is now in the hands of a judge

Murderpedia: Marcellus Williams broke into Post-Dispatch reporter Felicia Gayle’s home in University City, waited until she emerged from the shower, then stabbed her 43 times, “twisting the knife” inside her neck

P-D editorial: A court again backs constitutional supremacy over Missouri’s supreme gun lunacy (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

KC Star op-ed: Quinton Lucas has nobody but himself to blame for Amendment 4 Kansas City police funding failure (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

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