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Sports Illustrated: Mizzou football coach Eli Drinkwitz says Eric Schmitt’s bill would help solve eligibility crisis

TonysKansasCity.com: Show-Me Dave Helling Vs. Senator Schmitt on college sports legislation

KOMU (Columbia): Abortion Action Missouri, Planned Parenthood and others rally “about 20” activists against Amendment 3; St. Louis Area Young Republicans to hold event Monday

KC Star: Anti-Amendment 3 campaign sending door knockers to Kansas City neighborhoods (avoid KC Star by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

KSDK (St. Louis): “Stop the Ban Missouri” launches statewide canvassing effort ahead of Amendment 3 vote

JCNT: Gov. Kehoe appoints new heads for DNR, OA

JCNT: State funding cuts straining Missouri’s pre-K system

Missourinet: MoDOT reviewing multiple factors before upping rural interstate speed

Fox 2 St. Louis: New Missouri law restores voting rights to 41,000 on probation or parole (link via TonysKansasCity.com)

KOMU (Columbia): New Missouri law could affect east Columbia juvenile shooting case

Missourinet: Mandatory testing brings Missouri school drug program statewide

Joplin Globe: Attorney meets with data center opponents to offer options (avoid Joplin Globe paywall by reading archived version here)

SNL: How city, City Utilities staff are preparing to regulate potential data centers

Columbia Missourian op-ed: Combat veteran Erik J. Anthes: Serving veterans shows Missouri universities their future

McClellan: Eric Schmitt’s humor was on display in a Senate hearing, and Missouri politics could use a class clown (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D op-ed: George Mason University Law School professor J.W. Verret: Missouri banks need a stablecoin rulebook, not new roadblocks (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

KC Star op-ed: 2nd Congressional District candidate Fred Wellman (D): DHS asking if you’re ‘loyal’ to Trump is the opposite of conservatism

P-D’s Lynn Schmidt: Missouri’s expired-tag remedy is still stuck in the slow lane (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D’s Tony Messenger: Mark Twain Hotel’s closure adds to the affordable housing crisis in St. Louis (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D letter: High Ridge sexagenarian opposes Missouri Republicans’ tax cut plans, wants more spending on health care (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Yesterday’s (Saturday, August 29, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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