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Newsweek: Ann Wagner’s crime victims legislation among the most-popular bills in Congress that can’t get passed

Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison addresses health care, housing and foreign policy

KCUR: Alien woman with felony drug convictions gets banished from Missouri to Kansas, may get booted from U.S.

Brownfield Ag News: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves praises 2026 Water Resources Development Act

Missourinet: Missouri Department of Agriculture seeks reports of livestock lost in Southeast flooding; Director Chris Chinn calls losses “devastating”

Brownfield Ag News: Missouri farmers report cattle losses, flooded fields after historic rain

St. Louis Public Radio: Record rain led to Missouri flash flooding. Climate change could mean more deadly storms

KCMO: Pete Mundo in the Morning: Gov. Mike Kehoe on World Cup and law enforcement efforts; Kansas City Royals’ future; endorsement of Rick Brattin in 5th Congressional District; no endorsement in 6th Congressional primary; Amendment 5

KC Star: Missouri’s next 5th District congressman must move into district

Missouri Independent: Farm backing, Trump loyalty shape GOP race to replace Sam Graves in Missouri’s 6th District

Fox News: Cori Bush, other far-left Democratic candidates push socialist agenda in town hall

NPR, via KCUR: Missouri and other GOP states ask voters to raise the bar for constitutional amendments

KSHB (Kansas City): Amendment 5 would end MO’s income tax, but could mean sales taxes on services; comments from Americans for Prosperity-Missouri’s Camellia Peterson, others

KFVS (Cape Girardeau): Town halls held in southeast Mo. to discuss Amendment 5; comments from Camellia Peterson, state Rep. Bishop Davidson (R-Republic)

The Missouri Times: Property tax records confirm 28th State Senate District Republican candidate Sam Alexander paid late penalties

Missouri Independent: Northeast Missouri state Senate race tests GOP appetite for confrontation: Ed Lewis vs. Greg Sharpe vs. Dusty Blue

KZRG (Joplin): Morning News Watch: House District 162 candidate Walter Hayes

JCNT: News Tribune state government candidate forum set for July 22

St. Louis Public Radio: Kehoe signs into Missouri law an elections bill changing automatic campaign donation policy

KC Star: New pro-life law signed by Kehoe faces legal challenge

Missourinet: New health care law expands doula services, tracks tick-borne illness

KMBC: New Missouri Purple Alert will help locate missing people with developmental disabilities

P-D: Governor approves tax incentive program to help redevelop downtown St. Louis offices (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

JCNT: Governor conveys land to Jefferson City for Main Street viaduct

KC Star: DESE attorney Lindsey Phoenix was fired after celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder. Now she’s suing (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

The Beacon (Kansas City): Missouri ACA marketplace enrollees drop almost 25% as higher costs take hold; comments from Washington University health care policy analyst @jeffreyjonesmo Timothy McBride

The Missouri Times: Combest (10/21/21): Missouri expanded Medicaid in 2021, but experts are still “worried”; “Media coverage to include third-party quotes from health care advocacy organizations, ironically overweight health care policy analysts from liberal universities”

Gregg Keller on X: “Missouri politicos will remember (Timothy) McBride as a paid Missouri Democratic Party staffer who trolled all non-commie electeds behind an anonymous account for years until he was caught, became a running joke to Rs and Ds alike.”

P-D: L.B. Eckelkamp dies at 82. Franklin County banker backed data center, McKee projects (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

JCNT: Data center developer, Callaway officials address concerns at open house

P-D: St. Louis to pay out $35K for aldermanic president’s suit over tear-gassing (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D: Man entered St. Louis NGA campus with pistols, rifles, charges say (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

The Missouri Times editorial: Who is behind Missouri’s anti-data center fake Facebook pages?

Cassville Democrat’s Sheila Harris: Vote “No” on Amendments 4 and 5

Missouri Independent op-ed: Patrick Tuohey: Kansas City keeps approving subsidies without knowing whether they work

KC Star op-ed: St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission President/CEO Brad Dean: Kansas City World Cup proved Missouri can deliver on the global stage

P-D letter: St. Louis man wants Sens. Hawley and Schmitt to oppose Trump AG nominee Todd Blanche (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D letter: Maplewood woman says Amendment 5 is not a tax cut (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Yesterday’s (Tuesday, July 14, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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