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KWTO: All the Above with Garett Bowles: First-hand account from the Tucker Carlson-Megyn Kelly event in Kansas City (begins at 22:30)

Tucker Carlson on YouTube: Megyn Kelly in Kansas City: Taylor Swift’s Extremist Transgender Ideology, Debate Reaction, & Cable News Collapse

TonysKansasCity.com: Megyn Kelly in Kansas City: “Screw you, Taylor Swift!”

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo), Friday morning: No “mercy rule” in politics: Riley Gaines weighs in on Missouri’s noncompetitive U.S. Senate race, helps Josh Hawley run up his margin (link opens at 8:40 mark)

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Feds get involved after urban thieves hit rural Missouri pharmacies (link opens at 2:45 mark)

This Week in Missouri Politics: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R-Arnold) talks with Scott Faughn about Amendment 3 case (0:15); extreme measures in Amendment 3 including “gender-affirming care” (2:00), need for the pro-life community to unite (3:30), campaign against Amendment 3 (5:15), DEI and the Missouri Department of Insurance (7:15), Gov. Parson’s record of legislative and election success (10:00); panel of Democrat Reps. Keri Ingle and Ashley Aune and Republican Reps. Doyle Justus and Bill Hardwick on Amendment 3 (13:45), Missouri Dept. of Insurance, DEI and bureaucrats gone woke wild (21:00), Trump-Harris debate (24:50), who won the week: Kamala Harris and childless cat ladies, Democrats and Missouri women, Aaron Willard, Bill Hardwick’s daughter, Karla Eslinger (26:45)

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Mark Reardon Show: Sen. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R-Arnold), Rep. Steve Butz (D-St. Louis City) and Democrat consultant Jane Dueker on Haitian immigrants eating pets (4:00), blatant media bias (9:00), whether or not debates matter (13:45), Butz on “these illegal people” in Ohio (20:55), Trump and abortion (25:15), what’s really in Missouri’s Amendment 3 (26:50), national polls (32:00), Trump’s unforced errors (34:30), Tyreek Hill (35:50), “climate change” (39:15)

Missouri Independent: Missouri initiative campaigns launch TV spending after surviving court challenges

SNL: Kelli Jones with Gov. Parson’s office takes state DESE leadership job

SNL: Missouri teachers who break contracts face suspended licenses; thoughts from State Board of Education President Charlie Shields, others

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

Brad & John Show, Friday: 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)

St. Louis Public Radio: Latest census data shows the largest-ever Hispanic population increase in the St. Louis region

Washington Missourian: Jordan Dalaviras named MoDOT area liaison

P-D: Police cut ties with St. Louis entrepreneur after observations about lady cops; Andy Frisella co-founded Supplement Superstore and 1st Phorm nutritional supplements (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Mercy warns of dropping Anthem, potentially affecting in-network coverage for patients

P-D editorial: Hand counting Missouri ballots is a horrible idea driven by a conspiracy theory (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Student Life (Washington University): Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion editor and staff writer Hadia Khatri: “Disagree without being disagreeable:” Chancellor Martin hosts panel on free speech, protest, and democracy

KC Star op-ed: “PEN America” research director James Tager: Missouri politicians want to censor libraries. If Trump wins, it goes nationwide (avoid Kansas City Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

P-D’s Tony Messenger: New nonprofit collaborative tackles lack of economic mobility in Missouri (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

KC Media Collective’s Missouri Business Alert content creator Tadeo Ruiz Sandoval: Planned Parenthood needs to fill a big funding gap after Missouri cuts its Medicaid funds

Missouri Independent op-ed: Former Kansas City Star reporter Barbara Shelly: Jay Ashcroft politicized the Missouri secretary of state’s office – but “far-right” conservative Denny Hoskins will be even worse

Columbia Missourian’s Rose Metro: One year of the CoMo Collective no-white-men-allowed series has gone “pretty well” – but “it’s harder than I thought” to get minorities and women to write a whole 800 words about victimhood

Columbia Missourian’s Rose Metro (9/15/23): Introducing the Columbia Missourian’s new “Collective Local Columnist” series to counter the unfortunate depth of white male columnists; if you’re a minority, please send us your screeds on “climate change,” “gun violence,” “bans on gender-affirming care or restrictions on abortion”

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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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