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P-D: Shutdown bill quietly banned hemp products. St. Louis businesses are braced for disaster (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

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Nexstar, via Fox 2 St. Louis: GOP Senators, Hawley back away from controversial payout bill

KOMU (Columbia), via KBIA: Missourians will receive full SNAP benefits for November

Missouri Independent: Missouri moves to resume full federal food benefits after shutdown disruption

AP: Missouri Republicans “targeted” Emanuel Cleaver in redistricting; Cleaver’s son fears dad will be replaced by someone who “never had any interaction with people of color”

Riverfront Times, May 2002: Joyce Aboussie profile, part 6 of 7: Missouri Democratic Party bankrolls effort to gerrymander black votes away from a black congressman

KBIA: Hearing on redistricting ballot signatures delayed again

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo in the Morning: State rep candidate Jeremy Clevenger – running for Peggy McGaugh’s open House seat – promotes Missouri Republican Party’s Monday night event honoring the late Stan Herzog, emceed by Pete Mundo and featuring AG Catherine Hanaway & others

SNL: 25-year-old “public education advocate” seeks to fill Democrat ballot slot for Rep. John Black’s open House seat

Columbia Missourian: Attorney General launches foreign funding whistleblower portal

Southeast Missourian: Attorney General Hanaway speaks to Cape Girardeau chamber members regarding crime, elder abuse, unlicensed cannabis shops and artificial intelligence (avoid Southeast Missourian paywall by reading archived version here)

Kansas Reflector, via Missouri Independent: Missouri passes new rules, costs for data centers and large power users

P-D: Developer is pitching data center in Festus, promises transparency this time (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Gray Media (via KFVS): Missouri invests in veteran mental health with new report

JCNT: DHSS drafts rules for reimbursement of baby box installations

KSDK (St. Louis): Kehoe’s regional crime task force sees success under expansion

KOMU, via KBIA: Missouri Department of Natural Resources creates survey for Lake of the Ozarks State Park

St. Joseph News-Press: All hands on deck as Missouri Department of Conservation prepares for start of firearms deer season, CWD testing

P-D editorial: Eliminating Missouri’s income tax would do nothing but shift costs to the poor (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

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