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Easter basket-stuffers on Amazon: Squishmallows, Legos, candy, and gifts for adults (note: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

Instagram reel: The Baseball Bunch featuring Schmitt, Hawley, Bell, Wagner, Onder, Alford, Graves, Cleaver, and Burlison

Fox News: Missouri v, Biden settlement bars feds from pressuring social media; comments from Schmitt

St. Louis Public Radio: Hawley decries DHS shutdown; senior senator also says social media addiction ruling should end federal protection for big tech

Roll Call: Senate passes bill to fund most of Homeland Security Department; comments from Schmitt

TIME Magazine: Senate reaches DHS funding deal after Trump agrees to fund TSA

Missourinet: Wall Street Journal reports that Congressman Sam Graves is planning retirement

Politico: House Transportation Chair Sam Graves to retire

Kansas City Beacon’s Meg Cunningham: Washington University study claims rural Missourians far more likely to be uninsured than urban residents; comments from Washington University health care policy analyst Jeffrey Jones @jeffreyjonesmo Timothy McBride

The Missouri Times: Combest (10/21/21): Missouri expanded Medicaid in 2021, but experts are still “worried”; “Media coverage to include third-party quotes from health care advocacy organizations, ironically overweight health care policy analysts from liberal universities”

Westplex Talk 104.5 FM: The Brad & John Show, Friday: PSA for congressional staff: TMZ seeks to “shame” member of Congress enjoying themselves over Spring Break (link opens at 15:05 mark)

St. Louis Public Radio: More than a dozen ‘No Kings’ protests are slated for the St. Louis area on Saturday

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis is dead last in population growth of largest metro areas in U.S.

KC Star: Is Kansas City’s mayor running for Congress? The clock is ticking for Quinton Lucas

Missourinet: Sens. Brad Hudson (R-Cape Fair), Maggie Nurrenbern (D-Kansas City) weigh in on Supreme Court’s congressional map ruling

JCNT: ‘Hard decisions’: House passes $50 billion in budget bills, uses Blind Pension Fund to fill gaps

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): Education spending bills pass Missouri House by thin margin

Gray Media (KMOV, WGEM, et al.): Missouri House restores funding for disability services, cuts higher education in state budget

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri House passes $50.3B state operating budget that restructures higher education funding

P-D: Plan to defund some Missouri colleges and universities hits wall in Senate (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Missouri Independent: Higher education funding overhaul finds few takers in Missouri Senate

Westplex Talk 104.5 FM: The Brad & John Show, Thursday: Bipartisan screen time bill (link opens at 3:15 mark) (listen on Apple Podcasts here)

Missouri Independent: Missouri House committee sinks latest bid to revive Second Amendment law

Columbia Missourian’s Erin Hynes: Legislation targeting trans Missourians moves forward at Capitol

Instagram reel (January 2023): Objective, unbiased media agrees: Missouri Republicans guilty of targeting.

P-D: Missouri AG tells St. Louis smoke shops to quit selling cannabis products (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Westplex Talk 104.5 FM: The Brad & John Show, Friday: Young scholar stabs two people in O’Fallon – how do these people slip through Missouri juvenile justice cracks? (link opens at 7:00 mark)

P-D: Missouri to audit St. Louis building division after corruption scandal (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri auditor launches investigation into St. Louis’ Building Division following federal indictments

Westplex Talk 104.5 FM: The Brad & John Show, Thursday: Franklin County wrestles with public hearing logistics: How to fit all data center opponents in one room at one time (link opens at 13:10 mark) (listen on Apple Podcasts here)

Westplex Talk 104.5 FM: The Brad & John Show, Thursday: Live on-air therapy session: John holds Brad accountable for lack of effort and execution; Brad responds with defensiveness, deflection and megalomania

Brad & John Show recap on Instagram: Full show summary

P-D op-ed: Rep. David Casteel (R-High Ridge): Sen. Hawley emerges as key voice in growing AI policy debate

The Missouri Times op-ed: St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann: A decades-old problem continues

Westplex Talk 104.5 FM: The Brad & John Show, Friday: Steve Ehlmann’s piece highlights key St. Charles County immigration examples (link opens at 2:30 mark)

Missouri Independent op-ed: Arizona man who blames his non-Hodgkins lymphoma on spraying Roundup in his yard: Why I’m standing behind the $7.25 billion Roundup settlement

KC Star’s Mara Rose Williams: Female lawmakers in Jefferson City claim they were drugged

Amazon.com: John Combest: Stalking, Harassment, Internet Trolling: A Guide to Recovering and Rebuilding After Online Attacks – available in paperback and Amazon Kindle (note: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

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