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Fox Business: Sen. Eric Schmitt: Another attempt against Trump ‘can’t happen’

97.1FM (St. Louis): Mark Reardon Show: Sen. Eric Schmitt on upcoming VP debate, NY Mayor Eric Adams, more

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo), Thursday: 60-second recap of Schmitt vs. Chinese communists story, plus where to recruit the best female Chinaman stenographers (link opens at 19:00 mark)

P-D: Founder of St. Louis nonprofit indicted in scheme to defraud federal meals program; Cymone McClellan used free-lunch money to buy homes, a luxury SUV and Louis Vuitton (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

FLASHBACK: 8/27/22: P-D editorial: Missouri’s worst-in-the-nation stinginess toward poor kids speaks volumes; suspecting foul play in summer lunch program is nonsense (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Swap Meet Louie, alleged free-lunch fraudster Cymone McClellan and the link to Hazelwood Central Cheez-its (link opens at 15:10 mark)

Missouri Independent: Missouri pledges to disperse summer food aid by end of year

Columbia Missourian: DNC will send less than $100,000 to Missouri Democratic Party; Cook Political Report’s Jessica Taylor notes noncompetitive U.S. Senate and gov races

KC Star: 2025-2033 preview: How Gov. Mike Kehoe will handle death penalty cases (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

Fox 2 St. Louis: Marcellus Williams execution leads to St. Louis City looting; young scholars’ social media posts including “Let the looting begin,” “We looting [sic] tonight”

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Recap of St. Louis looting story, plus Brad & John plan a white male looting/riot event (parody) (link opens at 12:10 mark)

P-D: Competing casino projects rekindle age-old fight for Osage land in Missouri (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Kansas City Beacon: Missouri’s Prop A would raise minimum wage to $15 and promise sick leave, but business owners warn of job losses

Brad & John Show, Thursday: Recap of New York black gal cheering Missouri minimum wage/sick leave proposal (link opens at 12:55 mark)

This Week in Missouri Politics Mid-Week Update with Scott Faughn: Rep. Chad Perkins (R-Bowling Green) on running for Speaker pro tem, Kehoe’s victory in gov race, difference between Crystal Quade and Nicole Galloway, whether or not Gov. Parson supports DEI via Chlora Lindley-Myers, more

Brad & John Show, Wednesday morning: Missouri Hemp Trade Association’s Eapen Thampy talks with Brad Hildebrand about state’s September 11 raid of Washington, Mo. VFW, state’s cannabis DEI director, background on Missouri regulation of certain packaged goods, opinion on Gov. Parson’s relationship with marijuana industry lobbyists, more (click “More” on YouTube description to see topic timestamps)

The Missouri Times: Profile: Green Party candidate Frank Lawrence, running in House District 30 (Jon Patterson)

Columbia Missourian’s Vox Magazine: Event promo: Mid-Missouri PrideFest to feature “drag story time booth … and a game called the Tooty Fruity Human Slot Machine”

SNL: Ozarks Tech breaks ground on student union to be named for Gov. Mike Parson

P-D: Spire ordered documents destroyed before trying to hike rates, whistleblower says (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Brad & John Show, Friday morning: Recap of Spire alleged document destroying and discrimination story (link opens at 6:20 mark)

KCUR: Up to Date with Steve Kraske: Margaret Atwood, author of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ criticizes “dark money” groups and says book bans will never work

Brad & John Show, Thursday: Applying 2 Chainz’s lessons to St. Louis Public Schools, Keishas and Millicents (link opens at 6:40 mark)

Brad & John Show playlist on Spotify: Songs from Instagram summary posts (curated by Camellia Peterson)

Brad & John Show, Thursday: DDI Media (Drury billboards) does good deed (1:50), gets punished (7:00), learns its lesson (10:25), and the takeaway for all would-be do-gooders (11:50)

KC Star op-ed: Easterseals Midwest’s Wendy Sullivan: Missouri’s voting system fails to include the handicapped. Let’s loosen voter ID and signature requirements (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

P-D op-ed: Former Washington University Medical School instructor Nancy Cooksey: Missouri’s abortion ban is widely impacting women’s health care (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent’s Annelise Hanshaw: Patients hurt by Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care, providers testify

Combest, The Missouri Times, August 2023: Reject the opposition’s approved buzzwords: “Do you really think your local public radio reporter was sitting alone at her desk one day, brushing vending machine snack crumbs off her FUPA, and came up with ‘gender affirming care’ on her own?”

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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