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Thursday, July 10, 2025 – Missouri political news headlines

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Fox News: Schmitt: Democrats were ‘willing to go along’ with Biden’s cover-up

Politico: Senate Republicans talk tweaks to Trump’s funding cut package; Schmitt sponsoring rescissions bill in the Senate

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Mark Reardon Show with guest host Ryan Wrecker: U.S. Rep. Bob Onder on implementation of Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” plus Dems’ politicization of Texas flood tragedy

Columbia Daily Tribune: Missouri food education program cut in One Big Beautiful Bill Act

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Wednesday: Recap of Josh Hawley-Cori Bush RECA love-in in Hazelwood (link opens at 15:50 mark) (listen on Apple Podcasts here)

KWTO (Springfield): The Elijah Haahr Show: Sandra Karnes and Brett Sterley on the Missouri Republican Education Forum series, beginning in Springfield on August 2

KWTO (Springfield): The Elijah Haahr Show: Rep. Cecelie Williams (R-Dittmer) on lawmakers’ trip to Washington, D.C.

JCNT: Retired engineer Vic Rackers (R) announces plan to run for Rudy Veit’s open House seat

Missouri Independent: Missouri Education Commissioner unwraps vision for state education department

Missouri Independent: Governor signs bipartisan education legislation into law

P-D: Governor signs measure banning cellphones in Missouri schools (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Kehoe signs 13 Missouri bills into law, including school cellphone ban

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Thursday: Mike Killjoy Kehoe bans phones in schools (link opens at 1:55 mark)

Missouri Independent: Governor signs bill banning state from seizing foster kids’ benefits

Missouri Independent: Missouri foster care bill designed to bolster family legal defense signed into law

JCNT: Kehoe signs bill to outlaw child marriage, sex-abuse NDAs in Missouri

JCNT: Legal aid fund, juror pay signed by Kehoe

P-D: Missouri officials reject push to crack down on factory farms (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

Fox 2 St. Louis: Kehoe optimistic about retaining Chiefs, Royals

JCNT: New Bloomfield government forced to refocus after Kehoe budget cuts

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Wednesday: Brad vs. John on state workers returning to office (link opens at 2:00 mark) (listen on Apple Podcasts here)

P-D: Measles outbreak reported in southwest Missouri county as US cases continue to climb (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

Westplex Talk (104.5 FM): Brad & John Show, Thursday: Michele “Hot Cross” Munz and the measles freakout (link opens at 7:25 mark)

P-D: St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery’s lawyers contest claims in Bailey’s removal suit. Trial date set. (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis sheriff survives another day as removal proceedings begin

St. Louis Public Radio: Nepotism, kidnapping, money problems: Here are the 6 charges against St. Louis’ sheriff

P-D: Printing of the Post-Dispatch to move to an Illinois facility (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

KC Star op-ed: Indivisible KC’s Beverly Harvey: Come join the “Good Trouble” anti-Trump protest July 17 on Watermelon Hill (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

Missouri Independent op-ed: SLU law student Katie Quinn: Lawmakers should have passed voting-rights bills from Rep. Melanie Stinnett (R-Springfield) and Sen. Kurtis Gregory (R-Marshall)

P-D letter: Catholic priest criticizes Hawley, Republicans for immigration crackdown (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

P-D letter: Platte City woman wants lawmakers to spend more money on Alzheimer’s care and training (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here)

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