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Missourinet: Hawley weighs in on congressional approval for short-term and long-term Iran attacks

The Missouri Times: Andrew Bailey takes lead role in FBI’s Operation VIPER crackdown

Spectrum Local News (St. Louis): Missouri’s Eric Schmitt co-sponsors bill to reform college sports, bring national standards to NIL

Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner warns of Open Source Intelligence threat

St. Louis Public Radio: Colombian president blasts U.S after illegal alien dies in ICE custody while held in Rolla

KCUR: Illegal alien seeking asylum claims stress has forced her to think about going back to Costa Rica

The Missouri Times: Nathan Willett announces agriculture steering committee for 6th Congressional District campaign

This Week in Missouri Politics #TWMPDaily: Scott Faughn and Erin Schrimpf talk with David Barklage about Royals, Chiefs and Drew Dampf (1:45); Alex Riley (5:20); 2026 legislative session (6:30); Jim Avery (8:20); spam messages from Scott’s hacked Twitter account (12:50); Axiom, Jeff Roe and Nick Maddux (14:00); Chris Stigall vs. Nathan Willett (17:40); Rick Brattin vs. Taylor Burks (18:55); August ballot initiatives (24:55); St. Charles County Executive primary (39:45); Mike Deering vs. Tricia Byrnes (42:10); Ed Lewis vs. Dusty Blue vs. Greg Sharpe (43:30); Jon Patterson vs. Dan Stacy (44:50); Mike Jones vs. Sean Pouche vs. Ryan Gerster (45:50); Jill Carter vs. Ellen Nichols (47:00); Bill Hardwick vs. Hannah Kelly (48:10); Jake Vogel vs. Derrick Spicer vs. Rudy Veit vs. Todd “Ike” Skelton (48:50); Scott and Erin introduce new News Tribune education reporter Maddie Madison (50:50)

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): Get ready for a summer of political ads in Missouri; insights from Missouri Times Editor Jake Kroesen

93.9 The Eagle (Columbia): Wake Up Missouri: Gov. Mike Kehoe on 2026 legislative session, initiative petition changes, state income tax, “Clean Slate” legislation, and how suspending state gas tax would cost Missouri jobs

Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court unanimously upholds special session to pass new congressional map

KMBC (Kansas City): Missouri Supreme Court upholds Gov. Kehoe’s authority to call special session

KMIZ (Columbia): Hanaway calls unanimous Supreme Court decision a win for Missouri and a loss for “left-wing lawfare and the NAACP”

Missouri Independent: Missouri Supreme Court rejects Missouri NAACP’s challenge to governor’s power to call special sessions

Missourinet: Pro-choice group launches campaign in Missouri ahead of vote on Amendment 3

St. Louis Public Radio: Jason Rosenbaum’s Politically Speaking podcast: State Rep. Ian Mackey (D-St. Louis County) says ballot items have hurt Democrats, weighs in on LGBTQIA*+ issues, charter schools and open enrollment, St. Louis City-County merger

JCNT: 589 kinds of disposable cannabis cartridges were placed on recall by Missouri DHSS

Missourinet: Missouri Department of Mental Health launches Life Launch guide to strengthen youth and family engagement

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis economic development panel takes aim at data center critics, calls many concerns ‘myths’

P-D: Data center boosters in St. Louis work to sway public amid intense opposition (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

JCNT: Moniteau County to put regulations on data centers

KC Star: Why did Ray County Sheriff’s Office buy beer, TVs and 76 hams? See what the report from State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick’s office says (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

JCNT: 32,000 Monsanto cases open in Cole County as federal fight over Bayer settlement continues

Medill News Service, via Missouri Independent: Northwestern University graduate student Rebecka Pieder: Missouri Department of Agriculture Director Chris Chinn says a return to predictable trade relations between the U.S. and China would benefit farmers

Missouri Independent op-ed: Scott Rupp: The power grid doesn’t work in pieces, and we shouldn’t plan it that way

KC Star’s Mara Rose Williams: This is a callout: black Missouri churches, stand up and help black MU students take on “evil” Mizzou

KC Star’s Mará Rose Williams (4/12/24): New “Voices of Kansas City” blacks-only business recognition program a natural follow-up to our December 2020 whiteness-apology series

KC Star’s Bill Lukitsch (1/9/23): Kansas City Star creates “assistant managing editor for race and equity issues” position; Mará Rose Williams handed job after leading paper’s 2020 whiteness-apology series

KC Star Editor Mike Fannin (12/20/20): Newspaper offers official apology for 140 years of excessive whiteness; paper debuts “advisory board,” promotes white-guilt series to criticize work of predecessors, will make online access to victimhood-themed stories free for minority zip codes

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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