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SNL: Where is Santa? Follow along as NORAD tracks Santa’s Christmas Eve journey

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (WashMo), Monday: MO Department of Agriculture’s Chris Chinn clears reindeer for travel (link opens at 15:25 mark)

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Marc Cox Morning Show: U.S. Rep.-elect Bob Onder on committee assignments, continuing resolution bill, government shutdown, and what he expects to encounter with lobbyists and donors

P-D: U.S. Attorney Sayler A. Fleming (D) criticizes Biden commuting death sentences of two St. Louis criminals; former U.S. Attorney Ed Dowd (D) “extremely disappointed,” says hoodlums “should have been executed long ago” (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Biden commutes federal death sentences of 4 men with Missouri ties

Brad & John Show, Monday: Will Scharf get his propers in The Hill (link opens at 13:50 mark)

Missouri Independent: Jay Ashcroft says he won’t seek office again after 8 years as Missouri secretary of state

Brad & John Show, Monday: Peter Kinder might become Missouri Republican Party chairman (link opens at 8:40 mark)

Missourinet: Missouri Stands with Women, ACLU weigh in on Friday’s Amendment 3 ruling

KODE (Joplin): Rep.-elect Cathy Jo Loy (R-Carthage) to prioritize education, health care issues

P-D: New year, new laws: Missouri police to begin ticketing for texting while driving (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

Missourinet: Missouri DHSS says state’s drug overdose deaths on decline

JCNT: Missouri cannabis sales reach $3.27 billion

Missouri Independent: Missouri cannabis regulators announce new rules to target ‘predatory’ contracts

Missourinet: Missouri State Highway Patrol beefing up enforcement for the Christmas holiday

P-D: 12 things to know about black bears and their growing population in Missouri (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

KCUR: Up to Date with Steve Kraske: Urban League CEO says Gov. Parson’s commutation of Eric DeValkenaere’s sentence “just is emblematic of the systemic racism that persists in the justice system”

Brad & John Show, Monday: Starbucks workers strike at St. Louis area stores – what to tell the white women in your life (link opens at 3:25 mark)

Public News Service progressive content creator Chrystal Blair via KMALand radio website (NW MO): Liberal group opposes federal FARM ACT bill co-sponsored by U.S. Reps. Mark Alford and Sam Graves (link via TonysKansasCity.com)

KC Star’s Joel Mathis: Rep. Jesus Christ (I-Nazareth) would oppose GOP Rep. Hardy Billington’s Ten Commandments bill (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

P-D letter: Fenton septuagenarian dislikes GOP Rep. Hardy Billington’s Ten Commandments bill (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

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