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Missourinet: Mizzou Athletic Director Laird Veatch supports college sports bill authored by Schmitt

KWTO (Springfield): The Elijah Haahr Show: Missouri Farm Bureau President Garrett Hawkins on Trump’s beef import policy and what it means to Missouri cattle producers

Axios: House Dems’ pro-Israel wing gains power on key panel; U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell appointed to Foreign Affairs Committee

POLITICO: The Iran war is already on November ballots; comments from 2nd Congressional District candidate Fred Wellman (D)

Cook Political Report: 2026 CPR House Race Ratings (updated Tues., Aug. 25): Ann Wagner’s race rated “Solid Red” (not competitive)

KSGF (Springfield): Mornings with Nick Reed: Abolish Abortion Missouri’s Wes Scroggins on Amendment 3

The Missouri Independent: Introducing the Missouri Independent 100: Tracking the PACs funding state legislative races

The Missouri Times’ Capitol Calendar: Melanie Stinnett/Alex Riley/Bill Owen event tomorrow; The Missouri Times’ annual roast; veto session events; many more

JCNT: Gov. Kehoe announces retirement of OA Commissioner Ken Zellers

P-D: Top Kehoe aide Ken Zellers announces retirement (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

JCNT’s NT Daily with Erin Schrimpf from the Missouri State Fair: Missouri DNR Director Kurt Schaefer on Amendment 1 victory and more (link opens at 7:09 mark)

JCNT’s NT Daily with Erin Schrimpf from the Missouri State Fair: Missouri DNR Deputy Director Jake Buxton (link opens at 14:30 mark)

JCNT’s NT Daily with Erin Schrimpf from the Missouri State Fair: Incoming state Sen. Jake Vogel (R-Jefferson City) (link opens at 4:20 mark)

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo in the Morning: Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway on violent crime and her back-and-forth exchange with KC Mayor Quinton Lucas

KSHB (Kansas City): Missouri AG talks 7-OH efforts, public safety priorities at KC Board of Police Commissioners meeting (link via TonysKansasCity.com)

KC Star: Missouri AG to seek damages, more plaintiffs as KC contracting lawsuit continues

P-D: Live from Jeff City? Missouri Senate to consider video streaming (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D: Higher speed limit, downtown St. Louis tax incentives among new Missouri laws (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

KCUR (Kansas City): This Friday, Missouri will up highway speeds, restrict adult content and make divorce easier

Gray Media (KCTV, KMOV, KFVS, KY3): New Missouri law allowing pregnant women to get divorced may cause custody dispute complications

KC Star: Can Missouri lawmakers strike down Royals funding law? Supreme Court to decide (avoid KC Star by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

P-D: League of Women Voters can’t register voters in St. Louis federal courthouse, court says (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Columbia Missourian: Missouri teens struggled to find summer jobs as workforce participation rate declined

Missouri Ruralist: Missouri farmers losing the water battle; key resource causes problems across the state, from either too much or too little

Joplin Globe: New MoDOT rendering shows proposed changes to Fidelity interchange (avoid Joplin Globe paywall by reading archived version here)

Missourinet: Missouri State Epidemiologist Nathan Koffarnus on salmonella outbreak; what to know about cases, symptoms and prevention

P-D editorial: When tornado ‘recovery’ becomes fiscal folly (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Business Journal column: MoScout’s Dave Drebes: Missouri’s budget storm is already rumbling

Missouri Independent op-ed: The Marshall Project’s Jess Bogan: How Missouri left one man in jail for years waiting for mental health treatment

JCNT letter: Jefferson City man says anti-Jake Vogel campaign backfired with scummy, low-quality attack mailers

Yesterday’s (Tuesday, August 25, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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