Friday, September 3, 2021 – Missouri political news headlines
Published in Missouri Political News - Daily Headlines. Tags: Amos Bridges, Andrea Henderson, Ann Wagner, Bill Kenney, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Carl Bearden, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sharing America, Dan Haug, Dan Hegeman, diversity for thee but not for me, diversity hires, Eric Schmitt, Jason Rosenbaum, Jason Smith, Jeanne Kuang, John Ashcroft, Jonathan Shorman, journalists who promote diversity but don't practice it, Kansas City Star liberal bias, Kenny Hulshof, liberal media bias in Missouri, Margaret Kelly, Missouri 2022 U.S. Senate race, Missouri COVID Delta variant news, Missouri COVID spread, Missouri political journalism, Mitch Boggs, rent is racist, Roy Blunt, Sarah Kellogg, Sharing America, St. Louis Public Radio, Uriah Stark, Vicky Hartzler.
KSGF (Springfield): Nick Reed Show: Tim Garrison, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, on effects of U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, capture/torture/murder of one of his interpreters, more
The Missouri Times: Hartzler, Luetkemeyer, Smith, Wagner back efforts to honor service members killed in Afghanistan
The Missouri Times: University of Missouri Board of Curators votes to name health facility after Blunt
JCNT: FEMA approves funding for June flooding expenses
SE Missourian: Eric Schmitt and Jay Ashcroft to speak at Bootheel Conservative Republicans’ 9/11 event in Scott County
KRCG (Jefferson City): Sara Walsh resumes campaign for Congress
johncombest_com on Instagram: Video clip: Dole/Kemp Labor Day 1996 rally, part 2: A young(er) Carl Bearden, Bill Kenney, John Ashcroft, Kenny Hulshof, others
TonysKansasCity.com: Kansas City Star ‘reimagined’ costs subscribers big bucks; paid print circulation cut roughly in half since end of 2017
St. Louis Public Radio: Politically Speaking podcast: A closer look at federal COVID-19 money that’s flowing to Missouri; Jason Rosenbaum and new hire Sarah Kellogg hear from state Budget Director Dan Haug and Sen. Dan Hegeman (R-Cosby) about what’s already spent, spending priorities, and likelihood of upgrading state’s IT system
JCNT: One in four Missouri state employees have contracted China virus
JCNT: Missouri Housing Development Commission increases support for Missouri projects challenged by inflation
Missouri Independent: November trial set for lawsuit challenging $1.4 billion Missouri prison health care contract
Missouri Independent: Rep. Peter Merideth (D-St. Louis City) promotes letter to Budget Director Dan Haug regarding spending oversight
The Missouri Times: LGBTQ history display moved from Missouri Capitol
KCUR: Power of one: How Uriah Stark, legislative aide to Rep. Mitch Boggs (R-La Russell), got the ball rolling on gay display removal
KC Star: Legislative aide, GOP state reps navigate bureaucracy to move LGBTQ promo
SNL: Nay nay, gay display: GOP Reps. Brian Seitz, Ann Kelley succeed in getting LGBTQ exhibit removed from Capitol
Missouri Independent: Twink twink, nudge nudge: LGBTQ exhibit shoved “back in the closet,” quips Razer
P-D: Grindr to a halt: Gay history exhibit removed from museum at Missouri Capitol
TonysKansasCity.com: No Razer edge: Amid housing crisis, deadly crime uptick and pandemic, Senate Superminority Caucus focuses on historical exhibits
TonysKansasCity.com: Kansas City Kevin Strickland retrial redux roundup
JCNT: State trending upward in fatal crashes
SE Missourian: Regional China virus update
KC Star editorial: Jay Ashcroft’s aim to ban ballot curing in Missouri is really just voter suppression
KC Star editorial: Missouri honoring Confederate traitors is great, but gay history? Back in the closet
SNL Editor-in-Chief Amos Bridges: The News-Leader is far from achieving its corporate-mandated 2025 race and gender quotas, but I found one (1) black and one (1) woman to fill slots this year, and I will double down on recruitment efforts to find more females
St. Louis Public Radio/Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s “Sharing America” racism reporter Andrea Henderson: The racism of rent: Grown women explain how their failure to pay their bills led to “panic attacks,” being “physically ill,” other maladies before state of Missouri paid their rent for them
KC Star’s Jonathan Shorman: As Missouri Republicans entertain baseless conspiracy theories, Jay Ashcroft wants to ban local election workers from helping correct mistakes on absentee ballots
The Missouri Times op-ed: Josh Kezer: Eric Schmitt is devoid of empathy
KC Star’s Jonathan Shorman and Jeanne Kuang: Despite COVID surge, Republican Eric Schmitt tells parents they can ignore vital mask rules for kids
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Retired Teachers Association President Gale Hairston: Eric Schmitt wrong on school mask mandates
P-D letter: St. Louis County man theorizes that Missouri officials seeking to reduce unemployment are motivated by cruelty
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