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Saturday, March 21, 2026 – Missouri political news headlines

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St. Louis Public Radio: Judge rewrites ballot summary for referendum on Missouri’s new congressional map

AP: Missouri judge strikes ballot summary for Trump-backed congressional redistricting plan

TonysKansasCity.com: Does Kansas City Mayor Q have support for congressional run?

Fox4 KC: Will he run? Mayor Quinton Lucas weighs high-stakes congressional run (link via TonysKansasCity.com)

Missouri Independent: Nearly $100M in Missouri marijuana tax revenue sits unused despite voter mandate

SNL: Southwest Missouri warrant sweep operation results in 85 indictments; law enforcement agencies seize guns and drugs

JCNT: Liberal groups hold ‘emergency meeting’ to protest state income tax cut

Gray Media (KMOV, KFVS, et al.): Missouri lawmakers propose phone fee to support growing 988 crisis line demand

Brownfield Ag News: New Soybean Cyst Nematode lab to expand SCN testing capacity; Missouri Soybean Association collaborated with state lawmakers and Governor Mike Kehoe to secure $4 million for the lab

AP; Liberal lawmakers in Missouri, other states seek to unmask federal immigration agents — and their own police

Missourinet: Missouri DHSS records nation’s 13th and 14th known cases of clade I monkeypox

P-D: Ex-superintendent of St. Louis schools Millicent Borishade alleges wrongful firing, says work was ‘exemplary’ (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

JCNT: Missouri DNR seeking comment on Unilever facility remedy

Missourinet: Missouri Judiciary warn of scam websites targeting Missouri Case.net users

Washington Missourian: Local Missouri S&T student takes part in Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis demos 2 tornado-damaged homes as test case for large-scale action; air monitoring not required by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources

P-D: Festus reaches ‘framework’ for data center deal, mayor says (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Mid River Newsmagazine: Foristell leadership approves land annexations amid data center debate

St. Louis Public Radio: Three local St. Louis TV stations under same umbrella after FCC-approved $6.2B merger

P-D editorial: Ed Martin episode highlights need for bar oversight of federal lawyers (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

The Missouri Times op-ed: Vinnie Clubb: American Farm Bureau sounds alarm for Missouri farmers on Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger

Missouri Independent op-ed: Consumer Energy Alliance’s Maddie Milam: Why energy restructuring could leave Missouri in the cold

Missouri Independent op-ed: William David Hehemann: In rural Missouri classrooms, a new approach to reading is taking hold

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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