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This Week in Missouri Politics Mid-Week Update: Scott Faughn on MO Dept. of Insurance Director Chlora Lindley-Myers testifying before U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters’ House Committee on Financial Services to tout DEI efforts, plus preview of what to expect from Legislature on DEI and appointments next session

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo), Friday morning: Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia’s Chlora on our minds (link opens at 13:25 mark)

Missourinet: Sen. Eric Schmitt explains opposition to Democrats’ IVF proposal

St. Louis Public Radio: Although unclear how many, Boeing will soon furlough employees in St. Louis region

TonysKansasCity.com Kansas City Fundraiser Evan Barker Rebukes ‘Elitist’ Democratic Party

Brad & John Show, Thursday: Don’t weep for Lucas Kunce, he’ll be fine in D.C. (link opens at 9:30 mark)

TonysKansasCity.com: Kansas City Middle-Class Political Ladies Celebrate Progress

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Brad claims Bill Eigel is leaving Missouri (link opens at 3:45 mark)

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Where to hear/how to download Will Scharf’s new weekly radio show (link opens at 6:25 mark)

Brad & John Show, Thursday: Union rally draws 75 in St. Peters; manual labor makes grown man cry (link opens at 12:15 mark)

JCNT: Missouri unemployment rises slightly

KC Star: Why are nearly half of KC-area marijuana micro-licenses tied to secretive companies? Local black woman: “It makes me angry.” (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

Combest, The Missouri Times, 8/21/21: Top victimhood angle for 2023: “Missouri voters approved recreational marijuana in 2022, but experts are worried that minorities will be left out in the cold … Even worse, (aspiring marijuana peddlers) see other urban entrepreneurs profiting from the cannabis market and suspect foul play.”

P-D: MOScholars private school program struggles to raise donations (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Lawsuit seeking to block Missouri ban on transgender surgeries and hormones for minors heads to trial

Columbia Missourian: Sealed settlement to be filed in trans lawsuit against UM Board of Curators

Missouri Independent: New federal lawsuit pins blame for inmate’s death on Missouri prison officials

P-D: Parents of former Ritenour student accused of threatening school facing tampering charge (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis region’s black population is slightly increasing, but the city’s is declining

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Join John and scholar Tyrone Chase, Jr. in celebrating St. Charles County cultural enrichment (link opens at 7:35 mark)

P-D: St. Louis is sending pandemic cash to businesses. Vacant, boarded-up buildings are in line. (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Recap of Post-Dispatch story on bogus pandemic grants (link opens at 10:05 mark)

St. Louis Public Radio’s St. Louis on the Air: Dads to Doulas educates black fathers on prenatal and postpartum stages

P-D: Missouri execution leaderboard since 2000: Jay Nixon (21), Bob Holden (15), Mike Parson (11), Matt Blunt (5), Mel Carnahan (4 in 2000, 38 over two terms), Roger Wilson (1), Eric Greitens (1) (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here) (Wikipedia entry here)

Brad & John Show, Thursday morning: Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams murder and the #mogov execution leaderboard (link opens at 3:55 mark)

JCNT: MoDOT says to expect traffic delays through end of U.S. 54 construction

P-D editorial: It’s time for an independent audit of the city’s shady grant program (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D op-ed: University of Kansas professor/”gender and culture” researcher Meggie Mapes: Andy Frisella’s rant voiced a dangerous trend of violent hate-speech toward women (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio’s Lauren Brennecke: Francis Howell school board lifts ban on hate speech, false claims in educational materials

P-D letter: St. Louis septuagenarian calls Denny Hoskins “an election-denying extremist” (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Southeast Missourian letter: Cape Girardeau septuagenarian urges vote against Amendment 3 abortion measure (avoid Southeast Missourian paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D letter: St. Louis man says city’s push for more immigrants is just another gimmick (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

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