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Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Farm Bureau’s Garrett Hawkins on federal farm bill: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

CNN: The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024: Missouri not among them

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo) Thursday: John Danforth’s latest spoiler candidate, plus Brad vs. John on “independent” candidates wasting everyone’s time

Brad & John Show, Thursday: Recap of Post-Dispatch’s latest political anthropology story exploring the wonders of southeast Missouri (link opens at 1:10)

Brad & John Show, Thursday morning: SEMO black and gender-vague Missouri Dem DNC delegates rattle tin cup (link opens at 11:00 mark)

Jason Rosenbaum’s Politically Speaking podcast: Mark Osmack filling Democratic ballot slot for State Treasurer Vivek Malek’s election; Osmack took drubbing in 2nd Congressional District primary in 2018, aborted a state Senate bid in 2019

St. Louis Public Radio: SLU/YouGov poll: Support for Missouri abortion rights amendment growing -including with GOP voters

SNL: SLU/YouGov poll: Missouri voters support restricting cellphones in school, split on 4-day weeks

KZRG (Joplin): Rep. Ben Baker (R-Neosho) on arrest of murder suspect in Haiti (0:45); latest Planned Parenthood lawsuit (4:15); USPS slowing down rural mail delivery (8:30)

JCNT: Cannabis industry remains high earner in Missouri

P-D: Missouri officials move to embargo and destroy unregulated hemp THC products (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

SNL: What to know about Missouri’s new rule restricting cannabis edibles

Missouri Independent: Missouri hemp leaders set to file suit to halt governor’s ban on hemp THC products

Brad & John Show, Thursday morning: Missouri Hemp Trade Association’s Eapen Thampy on Delta-8, hemp and cannabis, Amendment 3 possession limits, production boom and supply glut of the CBD market, and the inanity of some regulations (link opens at 2:15 mark)

KCMO: Pete Mundo in the Morning: Sarah DeValkenaere, wife of Eric DeValkenaere, on chances of Gov. Parson taking action (5:15)

Brownfield Ag New: Ag Director Chris Chinn says Missouri pesticide applicators will want to double check certifications for 2025

P-D: St. Louis County Council mounts ethics panel to examine Sam Page’s hospital work; state Medicaid reimbursement records at center of dispute (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Kansas City Beacon: COVID “vaccine” promo: China virus “is sure to surge again once the weather turns cold, a new variant likely takes hold and people go back inside”

Columbia Missourian: COVID “vaccine” promo: MU Health expecting to receive several hundred updated Pfizer boosters over Labor Day weekend

Rochelle News-Leader (Illinois): U.S. Department of Labor’s Ruben Chapa: The US Department of Labor has Illinois workers’ backs on Labor Day and all year long

KC Star op-ed: Department of Labor’s Ruben Chapa: The US Department of Labor has Missouri workers’ backs on Labor Day and all year long (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

KC Star opinion page: Submit a letter to the editor: “Please, no form letters”

Missouri Independent op-ed: Former Post-Dispatch reporter Paul Wagman: St. Louis judge sets trial date for defamation case against Gateway Pundit

P-D op-ed: Tyler Curtis: Raising Missouri’s minimum wage will make people poorer (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D letter: High Ridge septuagenarian urges votes for Missouri Democrats to protect Amendment 3 law from future changes (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Washington Missourian letter: LGBTQIA*+ activist says defacing Ann Wagner signs to read “Ann Fagner” is homophobic and not at all funny (avoid Washington Missourian paywall by reading free Combest-archived version 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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