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Wednesday, January 29, 2025 – Missouri political news headlines

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Fox 2 St. Louis: Schmitt on Panama Canal: “America is sleepwalking into a carefully laid Chinese trap”

Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner will remain on U.S. delegation to NATO’S Parliamentary Assembly

St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum: Kehoe highlights improving public safety in first State of the State speech

Missourinet: Highlights of Kehoe’s State of the State address, $53.7 billion state budget proposal

P-D: Kehoe calls for state funding of voucher program, takeover of St. Louis police (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Gov. Mike Kehoe dips deeply into surplus as Missouri budget grows to nearly $54 billion

Columbia Missourian: Kehoe lays out family-oriented agenda in inaugural State of the State

JCNT: Kehoe budget to benefit state employees, child care sector

JCNT: Kehoe supports abortion alternatives in address

JCNT: Kehoe touts school choice measures in State of the State address

JCNT: Immigration, fentanyl among top crime priorities for Kehoe administration

JCNT: Kehoe briefly highlights agriculture in state address

Missouri Independent: Kehoe vows state takeover of St. Louis police in State of the State address

KC Star: Gov. Mike Kehoe wants $40M more for Kansas City World Cup effort. Is it enough?

Missourinet: Senate Pro Tem Cindy O’Laughlin (R-Shelbina) responds to State of the State

Brad (Hildebrand) & John (Combest) Show on 104.5 FM (Washington, Mo.), Monday: Flash debate: Brad vs. John on whether Gov. Kehoe has “dropped the ball” his first two (2) weeks as governor

This Week in Missouri Politics Daily: Scott Faughn talks with Missouri Firearms Coalition’s Aaron Dorr on Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA), more

JCNT: Child care tax credits receive support in committee

Missouri Independent: Missouri child care subsidy payment backlog will be resolved next month, commissioner says

JCNT: Missouri House veterans committee hears testimony for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) bill

Columbia Missourian: DESE commissioner sees little DEI presence in her agency

P-D: Lawmakers float possibility of state intervention in St. Louis Public Schools (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missourinet: Missouri’s speed limit is 45 for cotton transports. Bill from Sen. Jason Bean (R-Holcomb) would increase it to 65

Brad & John Show, Wednesday morning: Recap of Jason Bean cotton transport proposal (link opens at 9:45 mark)

Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Ian Mackey (D-St. Louis) would allow terminally ill patients to kill themselves with prescription drugs

Missouri Independent: Appeals court rules Missouri attorney general did not violate Sunshine Law

JCNT: Missouri Department of Revenue is now accepting online tax returns

KC Star: Missouri almost got crucial info on utility shutoffs. Then Missouri PSC’s Kayla Hahn secretly halted it

Brownfield Ag News: America’s Heartland Packing poised to open in April; Ag Director Chris Chinn calls Warren County cattle processing facility a game changer

Brad & John Show, Wednesday morning: Recaps of news on Warren County beef processing opening (1:40), Kehoe State of the State (3:20), Schmitt and Ann Wagner on international politics (5:50), Pete Parisi (14:20)

St. Louis Public Radio: Profile: Adrienne Siddens helped advocate for Missouri’s texting-while-driving law

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Marc Cox Morning Show: Former state Sen. John Lamping (R-Augusta) on the DeepSeek China AI issue

Brad & John Show, Tuesday: How the DeepSeek stock market freakout happened, how knuckledraggers build a portfolio, and how to avoid CNBC financial headline whiplash (link opens at 1:15 mark)

The Missouri Times op-ed: Former state Rep. Dan Stacy (R-Blue Springs): Hawley and Schmitt should continue standing up to Big Tech; Microsoft needs to choose a side as U.S./China tensions intensify

P-D op-ed: St. Louis NAACP President Adolphus Pruitt: True diversity is crucial to Missouri’s cannabis industry (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

JCNT letter: Jefferson City sexagenarian “heartily recommends” attending Missouri PSC meetings, says events “make for great theater”

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