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Missourinet: Eric Schmitt, Ann Wagner to attend Pope Francis’ funeral

Brad & John Show (104.5 FM St. Charles/Franklin/Warren Counties), Friday: High spots from Eric Schmitt’s Fox News interview on woke universities and channeling Dean Wormer (link opens at 14:20 mark)

KZRG (Joplin): Morning News Watch: U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison on federal judges vs. Trump’s immigration cleanup efforts, plus Schreiber Foods no longer expanding in Carthage

AP, via stltoday: ICE is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the US, including St. Louis

Columbia Missourian: Local CASA leader complains about DOJ grant cuts

Columbia Missourian: Local Meals on Wheels provider avoids freakout, accepts federal budget unknowns

P-D: Connecticut Democrat visits Chesterfield, holds rally to criticize Ann Wagner (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Brad & John Show, 6/18/24: Ray Hartmann’s claim that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will get involved in his race is silly (link opens at 11:15 mark)

johncombest.com archives: Search tag: quixotic congressional candidates running vanity campaigns in unwinnable districts

Brad & John Show, Friday: The best actionable lesson of the legislative session, via Karla May on #TWMPDaily (link opens at 11:15 mark)

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri attorney general appeals temporary end to state’s abortion restrictions

P-D: Missouri AG appeals orders allowing abortions after governor signs GOP-backed law (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of Missouri attorney general’s new powers

SNL: Gov. Kehoe pulls back Tom Prater appointment to MO Board of Education

Washington Missourian: Kyle Kruse tapped for DESE leadership position (avoid Washington Missourian paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

KY3 (Springfield): Video: Kehoe proposes scholarship program money for home-school & private school students; analysis from Kansas City Beacon’s Celidh Kerns

JCNT: Governor signs tort changes, ballot language bills

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Marc Cox Morning Show: Sen. David Gregory (R-Chesterfield) on Proposition A sick leave fix, marriage age bill, more

USA Today, via SNL: Weekly Missouri unemployment claims data

P-D: Dana Rademan Miller asks Missouri judge to toss Rod Jetton’s lawsuit (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

Kansas City Beacon: An email warned Missouri Western recruiters away from 23 schools in KC and St. Louis; two black freshmen state reps unhappy

P-D: Spire terminates CEO, names new one. Third in 19 months (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free Combest-archived version here)

SNL: REAL ID requirements go into effect May 7. Here’s how to get one in Missouri

Brad & John Show, Friday: FACEPALM: Brad uses ChatGPT to write Mike Elam St. Charles County campaign kickoff story, fails to proofread content (0:00); Elam contacts Brad about wildly inaccurate summary (2:00)

Brad & John Show, Friday: Popular weatherman Anthony Slaughter fired from KSDK: recap of Slaughter’s side of the story (2:00), KMOV vs. KSDK content arms race, and feeding the neverending content machine (6:45); Bill Eigel contacts Brad about artificial intelligence search results (14:20)

Missouri Independent op-ed: Empower Missouri’s Mallory Rusch: Missouri lawmakers on the cusp of legalizing housing discrimination

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