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Fox News: Josh Hawley: The lead advance agent at Trump’s Butler rally failed one or more training exams

Fox News: Riley Gaines stars in Hawley campaign ad hitting Missouri Dem’s support for ‘radical trans agenda’

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo), Friday morning: Riley Gaines weighs in on Missouri’s noncompetitive U.S. Senate race (link opens at 8:40 mark)

U.S. News & World Report: New U.S. Senate race rankings: Missouri still noncompetitive, rated “Safe Republican”

KC Star: Trump called for major tariffs at debate; comments from U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

Jason Rosenbaum’s Politically Speaking: 8th Congressional District: Randi McCallian to fill Democratic ballot slot for Jason Smith’s re-election

johncombest.com archives: Search tag: quixotic congressional candidates running vanity campaigns in unwinnable districts

Brad & John Show, Thursday: Recap of Whiteman Air Force Base B-21 news (link opens at 11:10 mark)

Brownfield Ag News: Lower Mississippi River levels being monitored

P-D: Burglars targeting rural pharmacies in the St. Louis region, and the feds are cracking down; urban thieves steal codeine, oxycodone and other high-value drugs (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

johncombest.com archives: Search tag: urban criminals invading safe areas

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Urban thieves hit rural Missouri pharmacies (link opens at 2:45 mark)

KCUR: Up to Date with Steve Kraske: Planned Parenthood Great Plains CEO Emily Wales and Missouri Independent “reproductive health care” content creator Anna Spoerre on Amendment 3 abortion measure

Brad & John Show, Thursday morning: Male-female life expectancies and mainstream media gynocentrism (link opens at 1:45 mark)

Brad & John Show, Thursday morning: St. Louis Public Radio’s political dance party promo! (link opens at 6:50 mark)

JCNT: DESE questioned again over child care subsidy

Washington Missourian: Battle over hemp products comes to Franklin County (avoid Washington Missourian paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Missouri VFW inspected by state regulators as part of ban on intoxicating hemp products

KCUR: Up to Date with Steve Kraske: Missouri’s new weed packaging rules made it a lot harder to get cannabis products on shelves

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: How Missouri cities can ban recreational marijuana dispensaries (link opens at 13:35 mark)

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Brad’s modest 2025 #moleg proposals for perimenopausal and post-menopausal women, plus additional drug legalization for education funding (link opens at 0:35 mark)

KCMO: Pete Mundo in the Morning: KC Mayor Quinton Lucas responds to Fox News’ mocking his weepy press conference: “I’m not your John Boehner or whatever” (topic begins at 4:50)

JCNT: Missouri PSC to hold Missouri American Water rate hearing next month

States Newsroom, via Missouri Independent: Federal officials say no sign bird flu is spreading among humans, despite Missouri case

Kansas City Beacon: Air conditioning is coming to some Missouri prisons. But it will take years and cost millions

Columbia Missourian: MU Faculty Council backs Black Studies Department on ‘Welcome Black BBQ’ complaint

P-D: Judge upholds conviction of murderer Marcellus Williams (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis County judge rejects attempt to free Marcellus Williams

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

KC Star editorial: “US Democracy Day nationwide collaborative” submission: Missourians will get their say on abortion rights. Republicans, quit obstructing (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

Southeast Missourian editorial: As harvest arrives in Southeast Missouri, our agricultural producers face challenges (avoid Southeast Missourian paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Kansas City Beacon op-ed: Mary Sanchez: Trump and Missouri Republicans sow fear and misinformation about immigrants for political advantage

Kansas City Beacon’s Meg Cunningham: Missouri voters have a chance to reverse Missouri’s near-total abortion ban

Hermann Advertiser-Courier op-ed: Governor Parson’s Hemp Witch Hunt: Veterans Be Damned (link via Eapen Thampy on X)

P-D’s Monica Obradovic: Francis Howell School District update: Even after noose debunking, some students still tell tales of racism (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

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