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Washington Missourian: Area road projects set for federal funding (avoid Washington Missourian paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Federal budget megabill would shift billions in cost to Missouri taxpayers

KCUR: Trump’s budget would eliminate funds for Missouri developmental disability centers

Missouri Independent: Title X funding returns to Missouri pro-choice group after three-month freeze

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Wednesday: Mark McCloskey on representing January 6 “political prisoners” and hosting event in Rogersville this weekend (link opens at 11:55 mark)

KC Star: Kansas City woman charged with pandemic loan, unemployment benefits fraud; feds found fiduciary monkey business with “Exotic Indiscretions LLC” (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

KC Star: ACLU sues to block ‘misleading’ abortion ban from Missouri ballot (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

P-D: Lawsuit seeks to block Republican bid to overturn Missouri’s abortion law (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

KODE (Joplin): Ex-Vernon County GOP chair faces election law charges; Cyndia Haggard charged with one count of election interference

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Thursday: Cyndia Haggard still leads an official/unofficial version of the Vernon County GOP (link opens at 7:55 mark)

JCNT: Kehoe signs five bills, more to come next week

SNL: Gov. Kehoe cut these Springfield projects from the state budget

Columbia Daily Tribune: Veto nixes funding for Heart of Missouri CASA improvement project

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Wednesday: Urban caterwauler channels Ca$h Money’s Brian “Baby” Williams, complains about Kehoe veto (link opens at 4:05 mark)

P-D: A new state park in Missouri? Governor says not so fast (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Wednesday: Hippies invade Missouri for “Rainbow Family of Living Light” gathering (link opens at 7:40 mark)

St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune: Insulators Local 1, Missouri AFL-CIO, Gov. Mike Kehoe celebrate trailblazing career of former state Sen. Gina Walsh (D-Bellefontaine Neighbors)

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Thursday: Celebrating Gina Walsh – the last white Democrat to represent Bellefontaine Neighbors/Spanish Lake in our lifetime (link opens at 3:45 mark)

SNL: Missouri Supreme Court’s new Chief Justice W. Brent Powell is Springfield native, Greenwood alum

Missourinet: Bailey launches investigation into Grain Belt Express power line project

JCNT: Missouri’s attorney general investigating Grain Belt Express project

97.1 FM (St. Louis): The Annie Frey Show: AG Andrew Bailey says St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery has “fortified his office”

JCNT: Missouri’s lieutenant governor chairing annual state worker charitable campaign

JCNT: MoDOT to pause construction over holiday weekend

Fox 2 St. Louis: Farmers deal with uneven moisture; comments from Rep. Dane Diehl (R-Butler)

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri DHSS says mental health is a top underlying cause of pregnancy-related deaths in Missouri

P-D editorial: Guns kill kids more often in Missouri than in most states. It’s not coincidence. (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

P-D letter: St. Louis Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s Hal Harris: Inviting self-defined ‘chaplains’ to public schools is a problem (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

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