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This Week in Missouri Times: KMOS Special Presentation: The life and legacy of Governor Mike Parson

This Week in Missouri Politics Mid-Week Update with The Missouri Times publisher Scott Faughn, Jake Kroesen and Kelton Turner; highlights of 2024 Stein of Knowledge Awards (0:45), over/under betting line for Justin Sparks votes today (10:00), feasibility of Gov. Kehoe solving urban crime (21:35), more

P-D: With leadership challenge pending, Missouri lawmakers set to launch new session (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

KWTO: The Elijah Haahr Show: Rep. Bill Owen (R-Springfield) raises ethics questions about Justin Sparks’ budget request

Instagram reel: The Get Along Gang featuring leader Jon Patterson, hype man Chad Perkins, prankster Justin Sparks, logical Dirk Deaton, lean machine Alex Riley, and the Ashley Aune Caboose

Missouri Independent: House speaker fight, battles over abortion rights and taxes loom as Missouri lawmakers return

St. Louis Public Radio’s Sarah Kellogg: Legislative session preview: Abortion, tax cuts, public safety, “gender-affirming care”

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?”

KCUR: Up to Date with Steve Kraske: Missouri Gaming Commission Chairwoman Jan Zimmerman says sports betting likely won’t start in Missouri until summer

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (Washington, Mo.) (11/19/24): Brooke Foster, spokeswoman for the anti-sports betting campaign, wins quote of the year: “f*ck this backward state” (link opens at 14:30 mark)

Southeast Missourian: Holly Thompson Rehder reflects on decade of service as Missouri legislator (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

JCNT: Angela Nelson named head of Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance

KC Star: Missouri Republicans want income tax cuts. But services could be taxed instead under plan (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

JCNT: Rep. Rudy Veit (R-Wardsville) proposes change to jury duty pay

JCNT: DESE says interventions working to recruit, keep teachers

St. Louis Public Radio: Teacher retention in Missouri sees its first increase since the pandemic, new state data shows

P-D: Member of the state board of education calls for downgrade of St. Louis Public Schools’ accreditation (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: St. Louis schools remain fully accredited despite criticism from state education board member

Missouri Independent: Rolla rejects initial pro-life push to become ‘sanctuary city for the unborn’

P-D: Councilman calls for state audit of St. Louis County prosecuting attorney’s office (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D: Kim Gardner spent hundreds of hours on nursing degree while serving as St. Louis prosecutor (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Audit finds widespread problems in St. Louis prosecutor’s office under Gardner

St. Louis Business Journal: St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones was out of town on work trips at least 64 times during her first 42 months; St. Louis Development Corporation paid for Las Vegas trips (avoid St. Louis Business Journal paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D: Radio exec John Beck leaving iHeart to focus on political lobbying (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D: Post-Dispatch print facility ends 146-year run in St. Louis (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

JCNT editorial: Response to year’s first storm was exemplary

P-D op-ed: University of Tulsa sophomore Grant Musick: Here’s how Missouri can break its ‘ballot candy’ addiction (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D’s Tony Messenger: Rep. Tara Peters (R-Rolla) looks to stop Missouri from taking inmates’ money (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

P-D’s Joe Holleman: Starting with a defeat at the hands of Gov. Parson, Sam Page continues to rack up political losses in new year; Page’s St. Louis County Democratic Central Committee allies puts pressure on Melissa Price Smith (D) on her first day (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

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