Wednesday, August 31
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill on Merrick Garland
and Senate confirmation; Nicole Galloway on college costs;
Missouri House and Senate leadership on workers who blow the whistle +
KMBZ: McCaskill concerned about election security
KMBC: McCaskill: Military gets its money's worth
in Missouri
KCUR: McCaskill calls on Congress to get serious about
military funding
SNL: McCaskill praises Missouri soldiers, declines
reporter's invitation to criticize Trump or Blunt while making stop at
military facility X
KC Star: McCaskill, Blunt offices warn against
social-media conmen; Female mark fell for Facebook version of
decades-old wire-transfer scam +
KWMU: St. Louis Fed begins big hiring push, filling
more than 200 positions over next two years
KC Star: Senior Americans helping to fuel firearms
industry growth; Comments from Missouri seasoned citizens looking
to protect themselves, their families and their property from criminal
types +
Missourinet: 'Right to work' an issue in governor race
The Missouri Times: Chris Koster receives $100,000
checks from Sam Fox, Bill Danforth, Boeing's John McDonnell
AP:
GOP donor Sam Fox gives Chris Koster $100,000
P-D: Complaints against Greitens dismissed
The Missouri Times: Eric Schmitt forms coalition to
reach out to farmers
KWMU: Overview: The 6 questions currently on
Missouri's November ballot
P-D: Post-Dispatch investigation reveals multiple
cases of voting problems; Some St. Louis City voters say they
never intended to vote absentee, while others say someone else filled
out their ballots
KC Star: Former Democratic state Rep. Ray Salva, a
felon, loses round in legal battle over state pension +
Missourinet: Missouri Highway Patrol will be visible
on roads and waterways during Labor Day weekend
The Missouri Times: Nixon opens first Missouri
Governor's Cybersecurity Summit
JCNT: Nixon opens first cybersecurity summit X
Missourinet: Nixon speaks to group focused on
cybersecurity
CDT: Auditor Nicole Galloway: Universities use
course fees as 'loophole' to avoid tuition caps X
KWMU: Audit finds Missouri campuses raise fees when
they can't raise tuition
AP:
Audit: Less help from state hurts college affordability
SE
Missourian: SEMO students weigh in on national anthem
controversy; Black female attending four-year university says she
is "enslaved" +
P-D: Sen. Jill Schupp (D-Creve Coeur) vows to continue
push for a ban on texting while driving
KWMU: State board says Missouri pharmacies can offer
opioid overdose antidote without a prescription now
P-D: St. Charles County likely to join prescription
drug monitoring program
The Missouri Times: Centralia joins cities
participating in Grain Belt Express' Clean Line
The Missouri Times: Rule change to improve
communication with utilities
KWMU: Collaborative helps "under-resourced" people in
St. Louis achieve financial independence without predatory payday
loans; Heroic "RedDough Money Centers" offers cash to those in
dire straits at miniscule 36 percent interest rate
P-D: Jury hears case of protester who wiped pepper
spray on St. Louis police chief; Elizabeth Vega organized
demonstration outside the home of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer
Joyce (D) last year
P-D editorial: Auditor rates Legislature's management
as 'good.' Asterisks abound.
P-D op-ed: Rep. Michael Butler (D-St. Louis
City): Lead-testing issue shows black lives don't matter to the
EPA
Messenger: St. Louis County residents are being
fleeced by rural sheriffs; Problem stems from fund created by
state legislators in 2008
P-D letter: Olivette man mocks P-D editorial's claim
that it is "fiercely nonpartisan," points to upcoming endorsement of
Democrats
P-D letter: St. Jacob man thinks P-D editorial board
should try acknowledging that Democrats don't have a lock on all the
good ideas
P-D letter: Sunset Hills man responds to P-D editorial
board claims
P-D letter: St. Louis Journalism Review founder
Charles Klotzer: Once upon a time, having a reader's advocate
helped the Post-Dispatch to be self-critical
P-D letter: Hazelwood sexagenarian thinks P-D
editorial board is doing a fine job
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Tuesday, August 30
SE
Missourian: Blunt: America would be better off with Trump +
Kraske: The Chat: Blunt on Kander's
record; Rep. Steve Lynch (R-Waynesville) on heroin antidote +
P-D: At Tea Party rally, Ed Martin talks illegal
immigrants, Islamic terrorism
KWMU: McCaskill wants military to fight cybersecurity
brain drain
P-D: McCaskill: Military culture must change to
keep the best cyber warriors
USA Today: Sex-swinger general slipped past security
screeners; Comments from McCaskill on search for "gaping holes"
KWMU: Blunt, McCaskill expect quick action on Zika
when congressional recess ends next week
NY Times: Beware: That in-room coffee might cost
you; McCaskill bill would roll resort fees into room rate for
more transparency
Columbia Missourian: Springfield man files as write-in
candidate for lieutenant governor, mocks the office
Missourinet: Jay Ashcroft criticizes Kander in bid for
secretary of state
The Missouri Times: With Parks, Soil and Water tax
renewal on the ballot, traditional foes become allies
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Paul
Wieland (R-Imperial) talks with Mannies & Rosenbaum on the lay of
the land before veto session: Guns, voter ID, more
KC Star: Republicans hope for voter-ID override;
Comments from Rep. Justin Alferman (R-Hermann), Sen. Shalonn "Kiki"
Curls (D-Kansas City) +
Missourinet: Lt. Gov Peter Kinder reflects on Sen. Ed
Quick's service and legacy
KC Star: Service for Ed Quick scheduled +
The Missouri Times: Former state Rep. Zach Wyatt
(R-Novinger) returns to Missouri with Missouri Solar Energy Industry
Association
KC Star: More than one year after resigning his state
Senate seat, Tom Dempsey will lobby for California company +
Missourinet: MoDOT to handle winter storms with
beefed-up staff
P-D: Bill from Rep. Don Phillips (R-Kimberling City)
helps Missouri adoptees access their birth certificates
The Missouri Times: Galloway awards House, Senate
"good" ratings in audits
AP:
Audit: Missouri Senate should keep better records
Missourinet: Audit offers legislators several ideas
for improving operations
SNL: Galloway: Legislators too generous in
giving staff time off X
KC Star: Galloway audit looks at House, Senate
operations +
P-D: Audit: Over two-year period,
lobbyist-funded account provided less than $7,000 for legislator meals
The Missouri Times: Kraus returns to Senate with more
tax-busting measures
SE
Missourian: Missouri's composite ACT score dips; Numbers
dragged down by thousands of lesser students
+
Drebes:
Four Missouri teachers among hundreds given "Presidential Award" for
math and science teaching
KWMU: Transition talks for St. Louis Public Schools
remain on hold
CDT: Forums scheduled for proposed University of
Missouri speech policies X
SNL: New law aims to give decent, non-deadbeat fathers
a fair shot in custody disputes X
The Missouri Times: Senate utilities hearing opening
door to grid modernization
Columbia Missourian: For Missouri Dept. of
Conservation, it's all hands on deck for mandatory deer testing
Missourinet: Missouri Dept. of Agriculture testifies
that their goal is to work with Missouri's licensed breeders
AP:
Transgender inmate latest to push for hormone treatment; Missouri
murderer James Hicklin, now living prison life as "Jessica," says she
has intrusive thoughts of cutting off her own testicles
P-D editorial: Circuit judge should grant a new
election for Bruce Franks; Enough red flags about vote fraud have
been raised
Priddy: Campaign finance initiative petition and
rights vs. privileges
P-D op-ed: Area ammunition research and design
consultant: SB 656 gives Missourians more options to defend
themselves
P-D letter: Messenger, others ignore accurate
statistics for Ferguson-Florissant: District's taxpayer burden
falls on more white homeowners than black homeowners
KC Star letter: Area man hopes new editorial page
editor will help bring Star's far-left slant to the center +
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Monday, August 29
Missourinet: Blunt makes campaign stop in Holts
Summit, takes aim at Obama administration regulations
Columbia Missourian: At campaign stop in Columbia,
Blunt talks job, agriculture and the importance of the Supreme Court
P-D: Gregg Hartley's "Heartland Resurgence" to make
independent expenditures on behalf of Blunt
This Week in Missouri Politics: Conversations with
incoming GOP state Sens. Andrew Koenig and Bill Eigel; Panel of
Jeff Mazur, Gregg Keller, Wash U's Jimmy Loomis (D) and Truman State's
Jake Buxton (R)
Student Life (Washington University): Senior Jimmy
Loomis talks about attending Democratic National Convention
Drebes: A look at Fannie Lou Hamer Coalition's
campaign report: Contributions to candidates and itemized
payments to poll workers
Columbia Missourian: Photo gallery: Newspaper
covers Democratic state rep candidate Susan McClintic's canvassing
efforts
KWMU: 106 new laws take effect in Missouri
KWMU: Despite new law, access to overdose antidote
remains limited without a prescription in Missouri
Missourinet: Koster says lead in pipes could have been
avoided, if only schools were properly funded
Kraske: The Chat: Nixon on public defender
funding skirmish; Nixon defends legacy of school funding from
Koster criticism +
Messenger: Sen. Bob Dixon (R-Springfield) sticks up
for head of Missouri public defender system in battle with Nixon
P-D: New law, sponsored by Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape
Girardeau), pushes divorce judges to establish equal custody
time; Missouri grandmother: "The bias in family court is
unbelievable against fathers"
Missourinet: Missouri lawmakers say there was a strong
demand for campground space at 2016 State Fair
AP: Enrollment up at other Missouri universities as MU
drops
Missourinet: Former UM System President Gary Forsee
discusses Review Commission's work
The Maneater: Independent diversity, equity and
inclusion audit conducted over UM system
The Maneater: Failed fee and budget cuts cause changes
at MU libraries
The
Arrow (Southeast Missouri State): New gender-neutral bathrooms
not quite enough for LGBTQIA activist: "To see how much further
the other schools have progressed is disappointing"
Brownfield Ag News: Dicamba injury complaints now
spread beyond Bootheel; Lawmakers to hold hearing in Portageville
on Wednesday
The Huffington Post: Suit takes aim at Jason Grellner
for allegedly forcing people in drug treatment to work as informants
SE
Missourian: Assaults on inmates, officers rise as area's jail
population increases +
SNL editorial: Voter ID bill not needed, probably, but
lawmakers should spend taxpayer money on a study X
P-D editorial: Judge gives Nixon a pass on defense
duty. Too bad.
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's
Blake Hurst: Regulations create a nightmare for farmers
The Current (UMSL) op-ed: Both tobacco tax proposals
deserve support
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Sunday, August 28
SNL: Blunt, Kander offer clear contrast on pocketbook
issues X
P-D: 'Right to work' puts national spotlight on
Missouri governor's race
St. Joseph News-Press: Chris Koster speaks at union
event, vows to fight 'right to work' X
The Missouri Times: Eric Greitens finishes cross-state
campaign office tour; Former state Sen. Wes Shoemyer (D-Cameron),
HSUS rep attend Columbia event
CDT: Greitens draws 100 to campaign kickoff event in
Columbia X
CDT: Josh Hawley should 'resign immediately,' will
lose tenure if he wins election, Foley writes
X
P-D: Complaint about vote fraud in Democratic state
rep primary hinges on use of envelopes
KC Star: Ed Quick, long-time Democratic Missouri state
legislator who represented Clay County, passes away at age 81;
Reflections from Scott Charton, Roy Temple, Jim Mathewson +
JCNT: Mike McGill chosen as State Employee of the
Month; Sikeston investigator caught inmates conspiring with Iowa
jailbird to commit check fraud X
Missourinet: Dozens of new Missouri laws begin today
AP:
Highlights of new state laws
AP:
Audit: State buildings not maintained due to poor funding
KWMU: Regional Chamber seeks to encourage college
grads to stay in St. Louis area after graduation
JCNT: Juvenile detention alternatives appear to be
working; Youth Empowerment Zone leader says young black men can't
help but get into trouble because "deck (is) stacked against them" X
P-D: Judge calls for swift reworking of
Ferguson-Florissant school board elections
CDT: Mid-Missouri Pride Fest turns 13; Board
secretary says event is a safe place for
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer/intersex/asexual attendees to
"let their freak flags fly" X
P-D editorial: Adhering to Pulitzer's platform means
embracing liberal candidates; Democracy has been hurt by "video
games, YouTube kittens, porn and blogging pseudo-journalism"
SNL letter: Area pediatrician wants Medicaid expansion
in Missouri X
KC Star letter: Man who chooses to live in Kansas
wants Missouri legislators to stop showing up for work +
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Saturday, August 27
Missourinet: Cleaver doesn't buy Trump's softening on
immigration
CDT: Blunt talks Supreme Court vacancy at Columbia stop X
The Missouri Times: Missouri Democrats look to
reorganize, increase rural involvement
Rosenbaum: As Franks-Hubbard saga continues, debate
emerges over releasing absentee applications
KWMU: Nixon, Koster at odds over public school funding
P-D: New Koster ad, recast from old Koster ad, still
claims credit for trial he didn't attend
Washington Missourian: Local GOP lawmakers will back
Greitens, say he needs to mend fences X
CDT: Jay Ashcroft makes Columbia campaign stop X
The Missouri Times: Medical cannabis supporters
looking to connect with conservatives; Eapen Thampy continues
statewide outreach with speech to Columbia Pachyderms
SNL: Medical marijuana advocates: Let voters
decide X
KC Star: Missouri campaign contribution limit
amendment one step closer to ballot +
Drebes: Follow-up on Silvey vs. Bechtold
Missourinet: 2016 Missouri State Fair included two
record attendance days; Comments from Missouri Department of
Agriculture's Tony Benz
Missourinet: 10 state laws taking effect tomorrow
The Missouri Times: SB 656 override vote brings out
coalition of opponents
KWMU: Five years later, Emerald Automotive is still
promising a plant and new jobs in Hazelwood
P-D: New law gives Missouri murderers convicted as
juveniles the chance for parole
P-D: After public defender dust-up, Nixon takes aim at
commission
Columbia Missourian: Circuit court denies attempt to
make governor serve as public defender
CDT: As MU numbers drop, other Missouri universities
gain enrollment X
CDT: After role remained unfilled for a year, MU
settles on enrollment-office candidate; Pelema Morrice will earn
$255,000/yr. X
P-D: Rapid rise in newborns dependent on opioids has
hospitals scrambling; Ferguson woman demonstrates discipline,
changes smackhead ways to improve life of her child
KC Star editorial: End economic border war that is
wasting KC area taxpayers' dollars +
P-D editorial briefs: Before she skips town for
Minnesota gig, Melanie Adams deserves thanks for trying to help St.
Louis Public Schools
Waters: UM review: Budget details undermine
legislators' desire to dish out spankings X
P-D letter: Area woman responds to local lead stories,
says schools should receive more funding
P-D letter: Clayton octogenarian responds to lead
stories, shares tales from the 1970s
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Friday, August 26
USA Today: Facebook scam uses McCaskill as bait to
solicit money; Grown woman fell for money-wiring ruse, called
senator's office in a huff
Kraske: The Chat: Kander on improving Washington
by deleting Blunt +
The Missouri Times: Hanaway joins Trump's call to
investigate Clinton Foundation
KWMU: Gateway Arch is focus of celebrations for 100
years of National Parks
The Missouri Times: Farm Bureau releases Missouri
State Fair straw poll results: Rural-heavy crowd chooses
Republicans in every race - except gov, where Koster edges Greitens
The Missouri Times: Teachers, pork farmers rally
behind Koster
KWMU: Chris Koster and Eric Greitens both run parallel
campaigns: One positive, one negative
KWMU: Both campaign contribution limits and
tobacco-tax proposals can go on November ballot
AP: Campaign-limit measure should stay on Missouri
ballot
P-D: Judge tosses out effort to keep Missouri campaign
contribution limits off ballot
SE
Missourian: Supporters: Cigarette-tax hike offers good
investment in early-childhood programs +
KTVO: Heartland residents meet to discuss Amendment
4; Comments from Missourians for Fair Taxation's Scott Charton
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rosenbaum
chats with incoming state Rep. Cora Faith Walker (D) about her upcoming
freshman session, running a positive campaign, and her desire to serve
constituents as a "policy wonk"
KC Star: Silvey, Corlew seek to have opponents removed
from ballots based on residency +
Missourinet: New House Budget Chair Scott Fitzpatrick
(R-Shell Knob) not sure if deficit can be avoided
Riverfront Times: Nixon doesn't have to serve as
public defender, says no-fun judge
P-D: Court rules public defender can't appoint Nixon
as a defense attorney
SE
Missourian: Southeast Missourian, Rust family's rustmedia host
more than 200 women at first Flourish summit; Rep. Kathy Swan
(R-Cape Girardeau) takes part in panel on leadership +
Missourinet: ACT report: Two-thirds of Missouri
high school grads are not college-ready; Only 35% are
college-ready in math, and only 32% college-ready in science
KWMU: Local school districts to spend taxpayer money
testing for lead in pipes; Ferguson-Florissant among districts
not yet blaming lead for students' poor performance or bad behavior
KWMU: Background on lead testing
P-D: Schools are looking at lead in pipes
CDT: UM Review Commission trudges forward despite lack
of funding X
Missourinet: MU to get federal grant to provide mental
health care in rural areas; School will spend $700,000 delivering
services for drug addicts, people with anxiety disorders, etc.
P-D: After Supreme Court ruling, public defenders may
get their thieving clients' felony charges knocked down to misdemeanors
Missourinet: House Select Committee on Agriculture to
hold Wednesday hearing on illegal application of approved herbicide
KWMU: State wins approval to test groundwater near
radioactive waste at West Lake Landfill
KWMU: Environmental lawyers renew call for state ban
on turtle trapping
KC Star editorial: McCaskill, bipartisan group right
to push for answers on EpiPen profiteering +
P-D op-ed: "Fed Up" campaign's Angela McCall:
St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard should consider the
needs of black women when making interest-rate decisions; Woman
recounts crippling "mental stress" of herculean tasks like working for
a living
SE
Missourian letter: Area man dislikes sales-tax portion of
marijuana-legalization proposal +
P-D letter: University City woman responds to
Democratic judge's ruling on Ferguson-Florissant: If black
residents want more representation, maybe they should get out and vote.
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Thursday, August 25
Missourinet: Columbia College prof says recent poll
underestimates support for Trump, Greitens
Kraske: The Chat: St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay
on mission to turn Missouri blue; Silvey on getting
out-of-district opponent off ballot +
KC Star: New "Deep Background" podcast: Kraske
& Helling - along with Scott Canon and national pollster Neil
Newhouse - talk presidential race and more +
Washington Post: McCaskill leads bipartisan push to
investigate EpiPen price hike
KC Star: Eric Greitens launches statewide tour +
Rosenbaum: Was Koster 'absent' from Ferguson? No.
KC Star: Former state Sen. Wes Shoemyer (D-Clarence)
vows opposition to Koster and "Farm Bureau buddies"; Dem who led
failed fight against "Right to Farm" amendment says he wants a meeting
with Greitens +
The Missouri Times: Missouri State Council of Fire
Fighters endorses Eric Schmitt (R) over Judy Baker (D) for state
treasurer
KC Star: National GOP group drops $1 million into
Hawley's race +
The Pitch: Missouri has the lowest tobacco tax in the
country. Why does a tobacco company want to raise it?
The Missouri Times: Amendment 4 would ban sales tax on
services
Drebes: How Schaefer vs. Hawley affects Rowden vs.
Webber
P-D: St. Louis Election Board to produce records
Thursday; Democratic state rep candidate claims vote fraud
Missourinet: Missouri leads OSHA region in workplace
deaths since October
Missourinet: MU Interim Chancellor Hank Foley tells
University of Missouri Review Commission he'll continue push to drive
down percentage of white students
Columbia Missourian: Chancellor asks UM Review
Commission to polish university's image
Missourinet: University of Missouri Review Commission
member Renee Hulshof asks questions about "diversity" approach, student
retention rates, more
Columbia Missourian: MU changes bathroom labels;
Student government "social justice chair" says the word "unisex" is
offensive to people who do not identify as male or female
KWMU: UM search committee still expects new president
by year's end
KWMU: Average Missouri ACT score down by a point and a
half; Requirement for all graduating students to take test added
18,000 poor performers to pool
CDT: Area high schools say civics test requirement
means little change X
KWMU: Ladue schools settle harassment claim;
Family nabs $75k reward after son is called mean names, complains
The Missouri Times: Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville)
gets hearing on illegal use of approved herbicide
KWMU: Missouri Department of Conservation studying
state's black bear population
AP:
Prosecutors want photos of Michael Brown's carcass restricted;
Attorney Linda Wasserman expresses concern for law-abiding citizens,
fears 'grisly' photos would serve as excuse for "unbridled violence"
from rioter-looter crowd
Columbia Missourian: Area gals mark "African-American
Women's Equal Pay Day" with hashtag; McCaskill tweets her support
P-D editorial: No surprise. Public dislikes being shut
out by utility regulators.
Waters: MU enrollment numbers offer something for
everyone X
Washington Post's Joe Davidson: Federal sexual
violence stats sow confusion; McCaskill requested GAO report and
urged departments to develop standards for sexual violence data
SNL op-ed: Billy Long: Federal policies stifling
strength of agriculture X
P-D op-ed: Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis
City): Expanding Medicaid shows basic benevolence and simple
economic sense
Priddy:
Remembering Betty Sims
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Wednesday, August 24
KWMU: At Clinton office opening in St. Louis City,
Democratic politicos fantasize about candidate spending money to turn
out votes
P-D: Democrats gather in St. Louis City, say they'll
defeat Trump in Missouri; Slay: "We've been a 'red' state
for too long!"
KC Star: Monmouth poll: Trump doing even better
among white women than white men in Missouri; Blunt, Koster lead
in Senate, gov races +
Kraske: The Chat: Aaron Willard on Trump
campaign and Missouri; Nicole Galloway on succeeding Tom
Schweich; Phill Brooks on lobbyists feeding lawmakers at Capitol +
P-D: New Blunt ad slams Kander for St. Louis County
ballot shortage
KWMU: Blood tests show all employees at VA office fall
within normal range of lead
The Missouri Times: Koster, Greitens court NRA
endorsement
KC Star: Pro-life, pro-union candidate to appear on
gov ballot; Meramec Caverns' Lester Turilli supports
campaign-donation limits +
The Missouri Times: Independent candidates, including
Lester Turilli and Keith English, qualify for ballot
The Missouri Times: Raise Your Hand for Kids gets
legal victory, still on the ballot
KWMU: Tobacco-tax proposal can go on November
ballot; ruling on campaign limits pending
Missourinet: Judge reject challenge to ballot
initiative to raise cigarette tax
P-D: Judge rules tobacco tax hike belongs on Missouri
ballot, but critics vow to appeal
AP:
Missouri tobacco tax hike proposal survives court challenge
P-D: Campaign limits ballot question challenged
Drebes:
Sen. Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas City) files suit against his
general-election opponent
The Missouri Times: Silvey challenges opponent's
residency
P-D: Judge rules that absentee ballot applications and
their envelopes are public record; Man who lost state rep race to
Penny Hubbard chooses to wear "Trust Me - I'm a Superhero" comic-book
t-shirt into court
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Shamed
Dogan (R-Ballwin) on Trump criticism, voter ID, proposed laws involving
law enforcement and police-involved killings
The Missouri Times: Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick (R-Shell
Knob) named new Budget Committee chair; Rep. Marsha Haefner
(R-St. Louis) named chair of Fiscal Review
The Missouri Times: Democrats jockey for leadership
positions in House minority
KC Star: Sen. Bob Dixon (R-Springfield) calls for
special session for public defender funding +
Missourinet: Dixon wants special session to ask for
public defender system pilot program and to fix DWI law
Missourinet: Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg)
previews his final veto session
P-D's Nicklaus: Missouri's minimum wage set to
rise; Missouri one of 29 states with wage floor higher than the
federal minimum
SE
Missourian: Court ruling, state suggest businesses may apply use,
sales tax to deliveries +
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: The Silver Haired Legislature works to achieve
priorities; Olds lobby actual legislators in hopes to get more
money for home-delivered meals, more money for Medicaid home-delivered
meals, more money for Medicaid, restriction of payday loans, etc. +
Missourinet: University of Missouri Review Commission
to hear from MU Chancellor Hank Foley today
SE
Missourian: Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville) seeks probe into crop
damage caused by illegal use of approved herbicide +
P-D: Lawmakers reopen discussions on utility-rate hikes
P-D: St. Louis stadium financing fight sent back to
lower court; Residents, including "Jeanette Mott-Oxford" [sic] attempted to join public
board's 2015 suit
KC Star: KC Star hires Jayhawk couple; KU grad
Eric Nelson to lead digital news operation, while wife will head
editorial board; Husband claims the family won't skip town if
other opportunities come along +
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Public must
pressure legislators to let vetoes stand; Gun bill would lead to
"Wild West," and voter ID bill is racist
Messenger: Voting rights case shines light on separate
and unequal schools; People who chose to purchase homes in decent
school districts should subsidize students in lesser areas
P-D op-ed: UMSL social work degree candidate:
Stop making it so hard for good kids to transfer to decent schools
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Tuesday, August 23
KWMU: Trump hires GOP veterans Aaron Willard, Todd
Abrajano to run campaign in Missouri
The Missouri Times: Trump staffs up in Missouri
Missourinet: Trump ramps up campaign in Missouri,
calls state key battleground
P-D: Blunt, other GOP Senate candidates honing in on
Iran nuclear deal and ransom questions
Helling: Mysterious "dark money" shadows elections in
Missouri +
KWMU: Democratic stalwart Joyce Aboussie part of
latest release of old Clinton e-mails
P-D: Clinton e-mails include appeals for meetings with
Peabody Energy from St. Louis Democratic operative Joyce Aboussie
KWMU: McCaskill wants better reporting of sexual
assault
P-D: EPA tells judge why Ameren should install new
pollution controls at plant near Festus
KWMU: St. Louis City gives businesses varying
deadlines to move from NGA site
KC Star: Missouri Democrats hit Eric Greitens for
violent ad images; Greitens airs spot of his own +
P-D: Eric Schmitt's campaign purchased
JudyBaker.com; Democrat is not amused
Drebes:
Childrens Firearm Safety Alliance PAC formed; Stacey Newman's
husband's name used for "treasurer"
SE
Missourian: Cape County GOP Central Committee elects new officers +
KWMU: Former state legislator Betty Sims (R-Ladue)
dies after brief illness at age 80
Kraske: The Chat: Nixon on budget cost of potential
override
The Missouri Times: Missouri Alliance for Freedom
calls for stronger "revolving-door" ban
KC Star: Kansas continues trying to bring Missouri
businesses across state line +
Missourinet: Reps. Paul Fitzwater (R-Potosi), Jim
Neely (R-Cameron) help free man falsely accused of sex crimes
Missourinet: Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg):
Texting-while-driving is a "huge safety issue"; Departing
lawmaker hopes another legislator will sponsor bill
CDT: MU enrollment figures show freshman decline X
AP:
University of Missouri projects drop in freshman enrollment
KWMU: Appointed board that runs St. Louis Public
Schools needs a new member
KWMU: Citing voting rights, judge orders halt to
school board elections in Ferguson-Florissant; Rodney Sippel (D)
says at-large elections not fair to black candidates
P-D: Judge stops school board elections in
Ferguson-Florissant, says they're stacked against black voters
Missourinet: Court stops Ferguson-Florissant elections
AP:
Court told money short for death-row inmate defense
P-D editorial: Dugger resigns, hoping revolving door
will swing his way
P-D editorial: Education officials' meeting seemed
designed to skirt Sunshine Law
The Current (UMSL) op-ed: Editor Kat Riddler: UM
System Review Commission includes too many Republicans
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Missouri Faith Voices'
Cassandra Gould on "Medicaid 23" stunt, consequences
Columbia Missourian letter: Retired doc wants Blunt,
Hartzler to pass Zika funding
P-D letter: Town and Country woman defends constituent
lobbying, says Blunt has been helpful on fighting AIDS and polio - and
she'd be happy to work with Kander on those issues, too
KC Star letters: Area man disagrees with Graves on
guns; Area woman says Koster sounds too conservative +
P-D letter: St. Louis man reveals he suffers from a
tick-borne illness, wants Koster to stop suing EPA
P-D letter: Kirkwood sexagenarian wants Republicans to
expand Medicaid
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Monday, August 22
SNL: Blunt, McCaskill, Long seek to help family of
fallen Vietnam pilot find his remains; White House ignores
inquiry from Blunt's office, News-Leader X
KWMU: Trial begins in federal lawsuit against Ameren
today; EPA alleges that company installed boiler equipment in
2007 and 2010 without proper permits
This Week in Missouri Politics: Incoming state Reps.
Peter Meredith (D), Steve Roberts (D), Hannah Kelly (R) and Nick
Schroer (R) talk expectations for freshman session, Koster vs.
Greitens, Blunt vs. Kander, more
KC Star: Dems, GOP react to Koster's strong list of
post-primary endorsements +
Missourinet: Cursory overview: State treasurer
race: Judy Baker (D) vs. Eric Schmitt (R)
AP:
Missouri judge weighing cigarette tax hike ballot proposal
Kraske: The Chat: Rep. Justin Alferman
(R-Hermann) on veto-session overrides +
Missourinet: Libla says he'll continue push for
increased fuel tax for transportation; Poplar Bluff senator says
he prefers "use tax" concept rather than toll roads
Missourinet: Former Senate President Pro Tem Jim
Mathewson (D-Sedalia) recalls working with Gov. Kit Bond (R) to promote
1982 bond issue; Missouri State Fairgrounds among beneficiaries
Columbia Missourian: Class of 2020 'walk' into their
future at MU; Photo of students taking photos, video for social
media showoffery rather than enjoying once-in-a-lifetime moment
Messenger: National group visits Missouri, hopes to
change state campaign finance laws
Priddy: Speculation on how Jesus Christ felt about
2014 Missouri Senate gallery disruptions (word count: 1,591)
SNL letter: Area woman disagrees with Rep. Eric
Burlison (R-Springfield) on concealed-carry X
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Sunday, August 21
P-D: A broader look at Missouri's insurance exchange
and what Aetna's exit means
P-D: Wait times for medical care now shorter for St.
Louis veterans
KC Star: HUD to hear complaints about rising
rents; Overfed fast-food worker who chose to spawn four (4)
children with convenience-store employee complains about budget
struggles +
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
preview: Incoming state Reps. Peter Meredith (D), Steve Roberts
(D), Hannah Kelly (R), and Nick Schroer (R) talk about expectations for
their freshman sessions, Koster, Blunt, more
AP:
Greitens' work 'in Bosnia' was mostly in Croatia
Missourinet: Nixon mum about possibility of special
session to fix typo in drunk driving laws
P-D's Gallagher: Why are there so many uninsured
drivers on Missouri's roads? Missouri Dept. of Revenue officials
are "clueless," won't give an interview or answer questions via e-mail
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Local educators prep for state's new dyslexia
regulations +
JCNT: Missouri schools deal with Obama restroom
mandate; Jefferson City schools prepare bureaucratic steps to
stymie "ornery" boys claiming transgender status X
KC Star: Kansas City Public Schools dumps Daye
Transportation after buses fail safety inspections +
CDT: MU classes start tomorrow amid projections of
lower enrollment X
P-D: New MU students, families forecast school year's
racial drama - or lack thereof: Comments from four black
students/families, two white students/families
P-D: Race-dramatics season preview: Thoughts
from Reps. Caleb Rowden (R) and Stephen Webber (D), others
AP:
Attorneys clash over document release in Ferguson lawsuit
Washington Missourian editorial: Blunt speaks out
about Obama's Iran "ransom payment" X
Washington Missourian editorial: Koster growing broad
base of support, including ag groups; For Greitens, "just being a
former SEAL isn't going to elect him!" X
SNL:
Prioritize streamlined sales tax X
Washington Missourian editorial: Lawmakers need to
sustain Nixon's veto on gun bill X
SNL op-ed: Sen. Bob Dixon (R-Springfield): We
must address public defense problem X
KC Star letter: Sexagenarian Democrat attends Missouri
State Fair, says GOP tent displayed no Donald Trump yard signs +
SNL letter: Area man disagrees with Blunt, NRA X
P-D letter: Sunset Hills woman finds Missouri campaign
spending "obscene"
P-D letter: Bridgeton septuagenarian supports
"Medicaid 23"
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Saturday, August 20
KWMU: VA officials says veterans' care is improving
SNL: In Greene County, health insurance exchange
options to drop from four companies to two X
KWMU: SLU law profs speculate on what's next for
Missouri's health care exchange
The Missouri Times: Post-Dispatch editorial board
criticizes Kander by name, then changes its mind; Reaction from
P-D's Tod Robberson, Rich Chrismer, Kander's Chris Hayden
The Missouri Times: Missouri Chamber endorses Greitens
Columbia Missourian: Ethics complaint against Schaefer
dismissed
Missourinet: Circuit court ruling on cigarette tax
initiative expected quickly
P-D: Opponents and backers of tobacco tax hike make
their case in court
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Mannies
& Rosenbaum chat with Democrat filling ballot slot against incoming
Sen. Bill Eigel; Richard Orr talks opposition to 'right to work'
and skepticism over transfer law that lets Normandy youths into Francis
Howell schools
KWMU: Nixon preaches against expected veto overrides
by Missouri lawmakers
The Missouri Times: Rep. Tony Dugger (R-Hartville)
resigns, citing "revolving-door" legislation
KC Star: Dugger steps down +
P-D: Dugger steps down, cites law that would require
six-month wait to lobby
Missourinet: Dugger resigns, prepares for lobbying
career
KC Star: Kansas City Election Board names Lauri Ealom
new Democratic director +
Missourinet: Nixon grants eight pardons
KC Star: Decades after bitter, vindictive woman forced
boy to make up stories of sexual abuse, Earnest Leap is a free
man; Rep. Jim Neely (R-Cameron) took up man's cause and fought
for justice +
P-D: Riverview Gardens adds bus stops to accomodate
transfer students
P-D: Area group seeking buyouts begins complaining
about Champ Landfill; Residents who choose to live near landfills
complain about odor
Ozark County Times letter: Theodosia man thanks
McCaskill and Springfield office staff for getting veterans their
health care at local clinic
P-D letter: Brentwood man speculates on Paul McKee's
flim-flam plan: Buy deserted land, then sell it back to gullible
St. Louis City or feds at a handsome profit
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Friday, August 19
KC Star: Blunt
accuses Obama administration of misleading Congress on Iran 'ransom'
payment +
P-D: International Trade Commission rules for steel
pipe makers; McCaskill testified on behalf of Missouri companies
KWMU: Q&A with NGA Director Robert Cardillo
KWMU: White House reps' Asian-American community
listening tour makes stop in Creve Coeur tomorrow
P-D's Chuck Raasch: Rehash of Wikileaks-DNC-McCaskill
"backbone" story from three (3) weeks ago
KWMU: Nixon talks ag education, points out Missouri's
superiority to Kansas at last State Fair as governor
The Missouri Times: Missouri Cattlemen's Association
endorses Koster; Group endorses GOP candidate in each of the
other statewide races
Missourinet: Koster nabs Missouri Cattlemen's
Association endorsement; Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg) stops
short of saying he'll vote for Greitens
P-D: Candidates shake hands, sharpen pitches at
Missouri State Fair; Greitens stays for an hour, offers no
comment to reporter
Missourinet: At State Fair, Missouri Farm Bureau talks
about support for state parks, soil and water sales tax
The Missouri Times: Bruce Franks alleges absentee
ballot fraud in loss to Penny Hubbard
Drebes: Missouri Ethics Commission dismisses complaint
against Kurt Schaefer
CDT: MEC dismisses complaint against Kurt Schaefer X
Missourinet: Munzlinger, Basye say they'll seek
override of Nixon's gun-bill veto
CDT: Koster's office backs MU professor in concealed
carry lawsuit X
KC Star: Koster supports allowing professor to conceal
and carry on campus +
SE
Missourian: Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Missouri hopes
selling state tax credits will help expansion into Scott City +
KWMU: Ameren project to allow electric vehicle drivers
more access to charging stations
Columbia Missourian: Missouri Department of Revenue to
open new license office in Columbia
P-D: Koster calls North County cemetery conditions
"deplorable," says grounds will be renovated by new owner
AP:
Senate-gallery disruptors to get fines, not jail time
P-D editorial: Credible allegations of voter fraud
deserve immediate answers
Messenger: Group that made a scene in Senate gallery
will be vindicated; Missouri House GOP members support Medicaid
expansion, and it will totally pass in Missouri
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: Jury wrong to hold Senate
disruptors accountable for their behavior +
Hartmann: Mizzou quiet about honor student athletes
received for racial protest; A look at why the university ignored
prestigious ESPN honor
P-D letter: Former state Sen. Jane Cunningham
(R-Chesterfield): Response to Sierra Club's anti-coal
letter: Moving 'beyond coal' means leaving people behind
SE
Missourian letter: Elk breeders group criticizes Missouri
Department of Conservation +
SNL letter: Springfield woman suggests Rex
Sinquefield, David Humphreys conspire to control the masses through
"poverty and fear" X
P-D letter: Ferguson man says Post-Dispatch editorial
board, and Tony Messenger, should know better than to side with
anti-police protesters or believe whiners' fishy tales
KC Star letter: Area septuagenarian male - who did not
take part in Senate Medicaid protest - compares himself to 8-year-old
female literary character Scout Finch +
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Thursday, August 18
KC Star: Tim Kaine - who attended private high school
in KC - returns to town +
Washington Post: After McCaskill and others advocate
for seniors, Social Security backs off text messaging requirement X
St. Joseph News-Press: Social Security reverses its
texting requirement X
KMOV (St. Louis): McCaskill checking up on phone
companies to stop robocalls
Missourinet: Blunt, GOP members of congressional
delegation will join Missouri Farm Bureau today to talk about EPA
regulations
AP:
Flooding threatens levee at Poplar Bluff
Daily Journal: Numbers matter in Missouri's feral hog
fight; MO Dept. of Conservation says one female hog produces
average litter of six (6) destructive piglets each
KWMU: Area illegal, who spawned five (5) anchor
babies, shares her fears of breaking the law and being deported
KWMU: Democratic state rep candidate Bruce Franks
alleges vote fraud in his primary loss to Penny Hubbard
CDT: Boone County GOP re-elects Mike Zweifel as party
chair X
Columbia Missourian: Males hold only 6 of 13 positions
in Boone County Government; Comments from area gals
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Incoming
state Rep. Steven Roberts (D-St. Louis) on his work history, primary
victory; Freshman member of Democratic minority says he'll help
convince Republicans to expand Medicaid
Missourinet: Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia) seeks
House Democratic Leadership position
Kraske: The Chat: St. Louis Police Officers
Association's Jeff Roorda says that Chris Koster stood tall for law and
order during Ferguson riots +
Missourinet: Koster sues to protect concealed carry
rights on Mizzou campus
KC Star: Catholic bishops oppose gun bill +
Missourinet: Missouri State Highway Patrol: Pay
attention around school buses
P-D: Riverview Gardens makes transportation logistics
harder for students who want to transfer to decent suburban schools
SE
Missourian: Southeast Missouri State now offering 35
gender-neutral restrooms +
Missourinet: Man opposes juvenile sentencing law, says
it doesn't go far enough
CDT: State offices must move from Vandiver Drive
location; Office building for welfare benefits, other
taxpayer-funded handouts was conveniently located on bus route X
KWMU: Group that made a scene in Senate gallery
convicted of trespassing
AP:
Medicaid protesters found guilty of trespassing
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Ferguson celebrity
Brittany Packett talks about new case of supposed police brutality,
getting handed a promotion at Teach for America, more
KWMU: Real estate agents say home sales on the rise in
Ferguson; Comments from black homebuyers
P-D editorial: Prospects improve for the wasteland
where Pruitt-Igoe once stood; With new "urban village" buildings,
North St. Louis City residents will totally turn their neighborhood
around
SNL letter: Area man disagrees with Blunt on abortion,
environmental regulations X
P-D letter: Chesterfield man says Post-Dispatch should
stop referring to violent miscreant Michael Brown as "unarmed"
P-D letter: St. Louis woman responds to
life-expectancy piece, says coal industry - not poor individual
lifestyle decisions - is to blame for African-Americans' health
Columbia Missourian letter: Caucasoid sexagenarian
says she'll miss Carl Kenney's columns, says she enjoyed younger black
man inflicting pain on her "privileged white class"
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Wednesday, August 17
P-D: Aetna chooses to ditch Obamacare; Comments
from area insurance brokers
P-D: Clinton wikileaks: Hillary said "a bunch of
women Senators" - including McCaskill - were worried about Obamacare
costs; Reaction from McCaskill, Blunt, Kander
KMOX: Sex trafficking business faces legal action
after picking fight with McCaskill
Missourinet: Missouri Chamber offers webinar meant to
help businesses prepare for federal overtime rule
SNL: Ben Carson, Newt Gingrich to speak at College of
the Ozarks this fall X
Missourinet: Sen. Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown) to
serve on Trump's Agricultural Advisory Committee
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Kander talks military, guns and Trump in bid to
unseat Roy Blunt
KC Star: Group with anonymous donors - calling itself
"One Nation" - plans $1 million in pro-Blunt ads; Group is
concerned with change in Medicare reimbursements +
The Missouri Times: National partisans weigh in on
Missouri races; New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez's communications
staff writes sentences complimenting Greitens; Biden's
communications staff pens sentences complimenting Kander
KC Star: Biden lends name to Kander fundraising letter +
The Missouri Times: The agricultural community's
endorsement of Chris Koster matters. Here's why.
KWMU: Koster touts endorsement from Missouri Fraternal
Order of Police
The Missouri Times: Fraternal Order of Police endorses
Koster
Missourinet: After police union endorsement, Koster
pledges to boost officer pay
SNL: Chris Koster stops in Springfield to tout
endorsement from police union X
Columbia Missourian: Fraternal Order of Police
endorses Koster
CDT: Koster, receiving police union endorsement:
Greitens is "self-serving and relatively arrogant" in comments about
Ferguson riots X
Kraske: The Chat: Missouri Right to Life's Dave
Plemmons on Greitens' arrogance toward pro-life community; Office
of Public Counsel's James Owens on Ameren's car-charging proposal +
Missourinet: Columbia College prof: Governor's
race will be expensive
The Missouri Times: Treasurer candidates prepare
campaign kickoffs
P-D: Schmitt continues push for Iran investment ban in
bid for Missouri treasurer
P-D: Democratic state rep candidate alleges vote fraud
in St. Louis City district
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Hornersville fish fry stump speeches:
Woman filling Democratic ballot slot against Rep. Andrew McDaniel
(R-Deering); Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville) on increasing fines
for rogue pesticide applicators; McDaniel on Ferguson lawlessness
and importance of supporting law enforcement
+
Drebes:
Previewing Missouri House leadership races
KC Star: Union boss calls for head of Missouri
Veterans Commission to resign +
SE
Missourian: Local lawmakers voice concern over Hillcrest utility
rate increase +
Messenger: Kurt Schaefer is star witness for group of
protesters who made a scene in Senate gallery
P-D letter: University City Democrat says there's
nothing wrong with Kander meeting with lobbyists
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Tuesday, August 16
AP:
Heavy rains cause flooding, evacuations in Missouri
SE
Missourian: Cape man to serve at least 21 months in prison for
food-stamp fraud; Businessman provided welfare recipients their
desired cigarettes and cash in exchange for SNAP benefits +
Kraske: The Chat: Koster on Greitens' ag
ignorance; D.C. pundit on Blunt vs. Kander +
The Missouri Times: Missouri Right to Life holds firm
on Greitens non-endorsement
KC Star: Greitens campaign presents its first fall TV
spot +
P-D: Greitens debuts general election ad
The Missouri Times: Legal fight still looms for Raise
Your Hand for Kids despite making ballot
KWMU: A tax on lawn care? Never, if Missourians
vote to ban sales tax on services
Riverfront Times: Kander's office, FBI asking
questions about St. Louis City Democratic state rep primary
Missourinet: More than 100 applications submitted to
MoDOT's cost share program
Missourinet: Mother of daughter killed by young
hoodlums dislikes new juvenile sentencing law: "I feel like the
criminals are treated like the victims"
CDT: Pew Charitable Trusts study claims reducing
parole for nonviolent offenders makes system more efficient X
SE
Missourian: Prospective Missouri teachers face new testing for
certificates +
KWMU: City school transition talks set to continue
behind closed doors
Missourinet: Missouri regulators could derail
KCP&L's purchase of Kansas company
Missourinet: Ameren files with PSC to construct
electric car charging stations on I-70
P-D: Ameren seeks to install six electric vehicle
charging stations along I-70
Missourinet: SOS' Consumer Protection Division warns
against scammers hacking into personal computers
AP:
Case against Missouri Capitol protesters moves forward; Group
yelled, made a scene in Senate gallery
P-D: Protesters go to court after acting out in Senate
gallery
KWMU: EPA officials sit through more complaining about
West Lake Landfill; Local group wants buyouts
P-D: Al-Jazeera reporters file lawsuit claiming
mistreatment by St. Charles County officers during Ferguson riots
P-D editorial: Special interests have hijacked
citizens' petition process
Waters: The Odd Couple: Roy Blunt and Wayne
LaPierre X
Sanchez: Making clergy group pay for Capitol protest
is wrong; No penalty needed for yelling, making a scene to
disrupt Senate business +
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Columnist Carl Kenney says
he's skipping town because Columbia is too tough for him: Race
relations haven't improved, he failed to earn more than $30k a year,
there's too much white privilege, etc.
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Monday, August 15
P-D: With mobile units, federal taxpayers foot the
bill for even more "free" lunches this summer; Photos of adults,
children in various states of undress lining up for handouts
KC Star: McCaskill says Trump and "his friend Putin"
are more to blame for ISIS than Obama, Clinton
+
Missourinet: GOP poll shows Blunt with seven-point
lead over Kander; D.C. pundit weighs in on perceived Trump effect
Kraske: The Chat: Kander on seeking votes from
Trump supporters +
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Jason Crowell
talks Trump's chances, Greitens, more; Panel of Byron DeLear,
Gregg Keller, Matt Lieberman (D) and Conservation Federation of
Missouri's Brandon Butler
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri State Fair kickoff touts
agriculture's importance to Missouri; Comments from Nixon
SE
Missourian: Kander, Koster boost attendance at Cape County
Democratic dinner; Koster touts NRA rating and Farm Bureau
endorsement, says Greitens is "still trying to figure out the
difference between a tractor and a combine" +
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Incoming
state Sen. Bill Eigel (R-St. Peters) on 'right to work,' replacing
income tax with sales tax, lobbying gifts and lobbying bans, more
Drebes:
Follow-up on Michael Barrett stunt: Nixon could flex if he wanted
to
SE
Missourian: Crime victims can apply for state compensation, but
few get it +
Stateline.org: States consider access to birth
records; Comments from Rep. Bill White (R-Joplin)
P-D: Corps, conservationists bring back river wetlands
Missourinet: Marijuana enthusiast Jeff Mizanskey
celebrates one year out of the clink
P-D editorial: Missouri's crazy incentive 'war' with
Kansas set to resume
KC Star op-ed: Area woman wants McCaskill to spend
more time talking about mental health care +
Priddy: "The End of White Christian America" could
help liberals understand why GOP legislators propose pro-life,
pro-family legislation; 1,789-word review of first 80 pages of
book
SE
Missourian letter: Dexter woman says expanding Medicaid will help
Missouri get free money from the federal government +
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Sunday, August 14
AP:
Democrats hope Trump at top of ticket will help Kander
KC
Star: Green Party thinks its presidential candidate will appear
on Missouri ballot +
P-D:
Follow-up to Roll Call's original reporting on Kander and Podesta
Group; Dems point to Blunt family's lobbying activities
Pacific
Missourian: Blunt lauds success of Husky plant X
The
Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics preview:
Guest Jason Crowell on Trump's chances, Greitens, more; Panel of
Byron DeLear, Gregg Keller, Democrat Matt Lieberman, Conservation
Federation's Brandon Butler
P-D's
Joe Holleman: State Auditor Nicole Galloway and husband Jon are
expecting their third child
Washington
Missourian: Nixon, Luetkemeyer, local elected officials take part
in Missouri River Bridge groundbreaking X
P-D:
Illegal use of herbicide may threaten survival of Missouri's largest
peach farm; Farm's owner calls for Legislature to raise fine for
applicators who knowingly break the law
P-D:
McKee buys Pruitt-Igoe site; Opened in 1956, taxpayer-funded
"poor man's penthouses" in North St. Louis City took less than 20 years
to be destroyed
KC
Star editorial: Rah-rah rallies will totally get KC public school
students to start performing better; Higher taxes will also be
needed +
SNL
editorial: A few good-news items in Missouri higher education at
MSU, OTC X
CDT
op-ed: MU sociology and religious studies profs:
Legislature needs to spend more taxpayer money on MU X
P-D's
Gallagher: How to keep your clueless student out of debt;
Mizzou adviser, woman who counsels poor kids talk about teaching
concepts of budgeting, needs vs. wants
KC
Star's Mary Sanchez: Area poor women congregate monthly to gab
about how hard their jobs are, how they deserve better pay, how mean
their bosses are, etc. +
JCNT
letter: Area sexagenarian expresses anger that McCaskill,
Luetkemeyer offices ignore his e-mails - but at least Blunt's office
answers some X
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Saturday, August 13
P-D: Kander hits Blunt for his Trump support, while
coveting Trump's voters
CDT: Hartzler campaign says incumbent "will not be
providing daily commentary on the presidential race" X
P-D: Paul Berry - who lost 1st Congressional District
GOP primary - has not filed federally required campaign reports;
Campaign cash from GOP legislators never reported
CDT: Boone County Democrats pick chair as party looks
to Sanders backers for new energy; Septuagenarian committeeman
Bill Romjue doesn't see enough "black or Hispanic faces" X
Rosenbaum: Analyzing the gubernatorial aspirants'
pitches - and the weight of endorsements
AP: Republican Governors Association gives $1M to
Greitens
SE
Missourian: GOP treasurer candidate Eric Schmitt says Missouri
should invest in 'Main Street' +
CDT: Cheri Reisch, GOP candidate for Caleb Rowden's
seat, says she backs 'right to work' and opposes Medicaid expansion X
The Missouri Times: Doug Beck replaces Montecillo on
ballot in 92nd District
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: DED's Mike Downing to receive award from
Missouri Economic Development Financing Association
P-D: As one St. Louis charter school expands, so does
a movement
KC Star: School supply giveaway grows with poverty in
suburban school districts +
The Missouri Times: St. Louis PACE gives preliminary
approval to three projects; Comments from Byron DeLear
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Rosenbaum, two other
KWMU reporters discuss what it's like reporting on Ferguson
Columbia Missourian's Maggie Walters: As interactive
news editor leaves Missourian, "Show Me the Errors" feature will be
discontinued
P-D letter: St. Louis man says voters should avoid
tobacco-tax backers' heartstring-tugs and ignore "for the kids" moaning
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Friday, August 12
Politico: After loss to Blunt in November, Jason
Kander could be among candidates for President Hillary Clinton's U.S.
Trade Representative cabinet spot (link via Drebes'
MoScout.com subscription service)
Missourinet: Missouri Green Party says it gathered
enough votes to put presidential candidate on ballot
CDT: Kander holds Columbia listening session for
veterans X
West Plains Daily Quill: Blunt talks agriculture,
business with citizens
The Missouri Times: NRA's Wayne LaPierre shows support
for Blunt in Columbia
CDT: LaPierre weighs in on Trump's comments regarding
Second Amendment supporters voting against Clinton X
SE
Missourian: Blunt, NRA: Feds should enforce existing gun
laws +
St. Joseph News-Press: Wayne LaPierre, NRA deliver
endorsement to Blunt X
SNL: NRA leaders stump for Blunt X
Kraske: The Chat: NRA, DSCC on Blunt +
Missourinet: McCaskill: Backpage.com continues
to fight subpoena for trafficking investigation
KWMU: EPA orders Maryland Heights' Champ Landfill to
pay $1.6M to improve air quality
The Missouri Times: Missouri Soybean Association
endorses Chris Koster for governor
Kraske: Smart money moving toward Chris Koster in gov
matchup +
The Missouri Times: Unlimited campaign contributions
in crosshairs of new initiative petition
Missourinet: Koster, Sen. Ed Emery (R-Lamar) on ballot
measure to limit campaign contributions
Drebes:
Staff changes in the office of Sen. Paul Wieland (R-Imperial)
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep.-to-be
Peter Meredith (D-St. Louis City) looks forward to serving in
Democratic minority, says he'll help convince Republicans to expand
Medicaid
The Missouri Times: Rep. Ron Hicks (R-St. Peters)
resigns from House
Missourinet: Hicks resigning after moving out of
district
The Missouri Times: Preschools getting more attention
in Missouri; Comments from Missouri Children's Leadership
Council's Judy Dungan, Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis City), Rep.
Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau)
KWMU: Georgia Tech report claims that making buildings
more efficient could cut utility costs in Missouri
Waters: Thoughts on last week's GOP primaries for
governor, attorney general X
Columbia Missourian's Matt Dulin: Paper seeks
applicants for "Readers' Board": Candidates must reveal their
gender and race, "experience and perspectives," etc.
P-D op-ed: Competitive marketplace for energy could
drive lower cost, cleaner air for Missouri
P-D letter: Sexagenarian Webster Groves Democrat
dislikes ads from Roy Blunt and Eric Greitens
SNL letter: Springfield liberal disagrees with Blunt
on guns, abortion, gay marriage X
P-D letter: Muny season-ticket holders disapprove of
Michael Brown supporters' disruption, actor's left-wing screed from
stage
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Thursday, August 11
P-D: New DSCC ad to target Blunt's "D.C. mansion,"
family's success in lobbying
KZRG: NRA's Wayne LaPierre to campaign with Blunt
today in Joplin
SE
Missourian: Blunt to appear at grand opening of Cape GOP
headquarters Saturday +
KC Star: Ethics complaints filed against Chris Koster
and a D.C.-based PAC +
P-D: Ethics complaint filed against Chris Koster
Drebes: Some context on the ethics complaint filed by
Democrats against Greitens
Kraske: The Chat: Koster on
Nixon-as-public-defender stunt +
CDT: Local anti-marijuana group says efforts are not
aimed at defeating possible ballot measure X
Missourinet: Nixon doubles down on voter ID and gun
law vetoes
Missourinet: Pew Charitable Trusts puts Missouri in
8th place in the country in election administration rankings
AP: Missouri Revenue Director Nia Ray picked for same
job in Oregon
KWMU: COLA fizzles: Retired Missouri teachers
won't get pension increase in 2017
The Missouri Times: Preschools getting more attention
in Missouri
SE
Missourian: 15% of Jackson students will be drug-tested;
Eight discipline incidents involved drugs last year +
P-D: Gifted school takes root in
Ferguson-Florissant; New program will help foster skills of smart
kids who choose to challenge themselves and work hard
Missourinet: Galloway audit: Court records
susceptible to compromise and early prisoner release
KWMU: Suit takes aim at 'debtors' prisons' in St.
Louis County cities; Sad tales from people who choose to break
the law and can't manage to pay their fines
The Missouri Times: Lawsuit filed against St. Louis
municipalities for 'debtors' prison scheme'
KPLR: Beware of ticks this summer and fall;
Missouri Dept. of Conservation gives tips on avoiding
disease-spreading, blood-sucking parasites
P-D: More details emerge from incidents involving
protester blocking traffic and getting hit by car, protesters firing
shots at cars, protesters disrupting Muny performance, etc.
SNL editorial: Michael Barrett's stunt was for show,
but should bring change for defenders X
P-D editorial: "Angry mob" of Ferguson protesters
failed to police their own behavior Tuesday night
KC Star letter: Area octogenarian dislikes Greitens'
use of gun in TV commercial +
P-D letter: Missouri Coalition for Oral Health's Gary
Harbison: Legislature, Nixon succeed with oral health policy
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Wednesday, August 10
McClatchy: Donald Trump's Second Amendment remarks
stoke controversy; Missouri GOP veteran James Harris recommends
GOP nominee "stop saying stupid things"
SNL: Opposing TV ads in Senate race put spotlight on
Jason Kander X
KC Star: Kander pops up his first TV ad +
P-D: Kander touts military service in first general
election TV ad
Kraske: The Chat: Cleaver on bipartisan housing
bill; Missouri Corn Growers on Koster's longtime support for
Missouri farmers; Nixon no-sells public-defender stunt +
KWMU: Missourians could vote on four ballot issues -
if the courts don't nix them
The Missouri Times: Kander approves four of five
initiative petitions for Missouri ballot
KC Star: Contribution limits, tobacco tax increase
gain enough signatures to appear on ballot +
The Missouri Times: Raise Your Hand for Kids
celebrates early childhood education measure's certification
AP:
Campaign donation limits, tobacco taxes to go on Missouri ballot
P-D: Kander certifies four petitons for ballot,
including tobacco tax hikes, campaign donation cap
Missourinet: National Council on Alcoholism & Drug
Abuse opposes marijuana backers' lawsuit
Missourinet: Proposal banning "service" sales taxes to
be on November ballot
AP:
Koster says he backs limits on campaign donations
The Missouri Times: State Democrats launch new site
criticizing Greitens
JCNT: Koster: Nixon not likely to defend
criminal case X
The Missouri Times: Nurse anesthetists strike back at
anesthesiologists over VA rule change
P-D: Despite heavy verdict for harassment and
discrimination, Missouri veterans chief back on job
CDT: Former House legislative aide gets suspended
sentence for domestic assault; Kolton Babb argued with girlfriend
about sex, then choked her out X
Columbia Missourian: Missouri researchers study
obesity in lesbians; Experts in fatness say girls who like girls
enjoy freedom to let themselves go, pack on the blubber
Missourinet: MoDOT removes unapproved "Home of Jason
Bourne" tag from Nixa road sign after travelers stop for selfies
KWMU: Franklin County residents to file suit to
protect endangered gray bat
P-D: Ferguson anniversary behavior: Female
driver's car helps remove protester from road, then crowd reacts with
gunfire; Group disrupts performance at Muny; More
AP:
Protesters fire shots during Michael Brown assault anniversary event
P-D editorial: Time for a crackdown as Uber refuses to
play by the rules
KC Star op-ed: McCaskill: More money needed to
fight opioids +
SNL op-ed: Billy Long: Fixing Medicaid for kids
with complicated medical conditions X
Priddy: Magic 8 Ball predicts Missouri elections
USA Today op-ed: Eric Schmitt: No more taxation
by citation in Ferguson
Messenger: Area man shares idea to help reduce city
crime: Raise property taxes for those who choose to live in
decent suburban neighborhoods, so their money can go to the urban core
P-D letter: St. Louis woman notes that paper can't
seem to take a shot at Lacy Clay without also taking one at Trump
SNL letter: Area septuagenarian says Big Tobacco is
using Raise Your Hand for Kids initiative as tool to make money X
P-D letter: Hunger activist wants more school
districts to provide "free" meals
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Tuesday, August 9
KMOX: Blunt talks Zika funding, smaller government
Missourinet: Blunt discusses Mississippi River,
transportation and jobs during Missouri Farm Bureau speech
CDT: NRA to hold event in Columbia on Thursday to
support Blunt X
JCNT: Cleaver, Luetkemeyer pleased with housing
changes bill X
SE
Missourian: Electric co-op finds CEO to replace Jo Ann Emerson,
who suffered a brain hemorrhage last year +
P-D: Phyllis Schlafly loses trademark dispute with
nephew's craft brewery
CDT: New Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital director
eyes off-site town hall meetings X
The Missouri Times: Missouri Corn Growers Association
endorses Chris Koster; Group also endorses Roy Blunt, Mike Parson
P-D: Missouri Democrats jump into governor's race in
on-line attack mode; Microsite targets Eric Greitens
The Missouri Times: Koster, Greitens campaigns launch
into attack mode
Brownfield Ag News: Koster, Greitens speak to Missouri
Farm Bureau; Group makes Koster its first statewide Democratic
endorsement
CDT: Marijuana group apparently short of signatures
needed to force November vote X
The Missouri Times: Marijuana group looks to overturn
invalidated signatures
P-D: Pot backers turn to courts after proposal falls
short of required signatures for ballot
CDT: Independent candidate files against Rep. Kip
Kendrick (D-Columbia): Incumbent: "If he is a serious
candidate, then I will campaign vigorously."
X
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep.
Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson) on standing up to unions, disagreeing with
Koster on tobacco tax increase, more
P-D: Nixon hit again over cuts to state workforce
P-D: Nixon decries public defender 'sideshow,' will
ignore move to make him defense attorney
AP:
Nixon defends record on public-defender budget
KWMU: Missouri test scores, district report cards will
be delayed again
Columbia Missourian: Parents, offspring line up for
"free" backpacks, electronics at back-to-school event
Missourinet: Galloway audit: Missouri Dept. of
Higher Education failed to collect $5 million in student loans
KWMU: State audit finds inadequate oversight of
Advantage Missouri loan program
Missourinet: Rep. Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson) sets
expectations for constituents' behavior today
P-D editorial: Annual post-Ferguson editorial
SNL op-ed: Blunt, Billy Long should renounce their
party's presidential nominee X
KC Star letter: Liberty sexagenarian dislikes
successful businessmen David Humphreys and Rex Sinquefield, says they
are mean-spirited +
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Monday, August 8
SNL: Greene County Libertarians seek to recruit those
disaffected by GOP, Dems X
Drebes:
Obama's commutations: Crack dealers dominate list of Missouri's
forgiven
P-D: Kander seeks to tie Blunt to Trump, while Blunt
seeks to tie Kander to Clinton; Formulaic piece with requisite
quotes from D.C. Dems, D.C. GOP, D.C. pundit
Kraske: The Chat: Shamed Dogan continues
criticizing Trump, Koster begins criticizing Greitens +
P-D: Kinder, Hanaway assess Greitens' "outsider"
campaign, talk about life after the governor's race
This Week in Missouri Politics: Mike Kelley, Mindy
Mazur, Ryan Johnson, Jack Spooner discuss statewide primary results and
preview fall elections
KC Star: Bubs Hohulin, formerly of Mike Parson's
Senate staff, is still upset at former boss +
Drebes:
Don Calloway leaves Anheuser-Busch to start his own firm
Missourinet: Rep. Joe Don McGaugh (R-Carrollton)
running for House Speaker Pro Tem
Missourinet: Maximum awards increase for Access
Missouri scholarships
P-D: Federal data shows high number of teacher
absences in Missouri; Man who chooses to substitute teach in
Hazelwood expresses sympathy for full-time teachers
AP:
Researchers find no evidence of Zika in Missouri mosquitos
KWMU: Black bishop to promote Black Lives Matter in
speech tonight
P-D editorial: Republicans' effort to cut handouts is
shameful; Welfare recipients should be allowed at least five
months hanging out on the dole
P-D editorial: Missouri right to improve access to
heroin antidote; When smackheads are revived, "maybe they'll
realize this is rock-bottom" and totally turn their lives around
KC Star editorial: Lawmakers should sustain Nixon's
veto of gun bill +
JCNT editorial: The defense calls Jay Nixon X
SE
Missourian letter: Peter Kinder is a true public servant +
P-D letter: Illinois woman believes post-election
Post-Dispatch headline was biased toward Eric Greitens and ignored
Democrats
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Sunday, August 7
KC Star: Party leaders, candidates, academics theorize
Trump's impact on Republican party and GOP ballot +
Sikeston
Standard Democrat: Jason Smith includes Sikeston peanut farm on
farm tour; Congressman talks EPA regulations, free trade,
re-election, more +
CDT: Less than two dozen attend Mid-America Peaceworks
event to lament U.S. military's success in Hiroshima, Nagasaki;
Sexagenarian peacenik takes off his shirt in public X
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
preview: Missouri primary analysis from Mike Kelley, Mindy Mazur,
Ryan Johnson, Jack Spooner
Rosenbaum: Assessing Koster's - and Greitens' -
positions on school vouchers, tobacco tax increase
P-D: Health insurers seek rate increases as Missouri
readies for regulatory authority
KC Star: KC Public Schools hold handout event;
More than 6,000 urbanites show up to grab "free" stuff +
Sikeston
Standard Democrat: Sikeston student gets perfect score on
ACT; Julius Hoang chooses to work hard, achieves success +
KSPR: Missouri Department of Conservation helps black
bear population rebound; Collars help monitor females, who pop
out an average of two black bears each year
P-D: Photo gallery: Ferguson marches:
Mothers of strong-arm robber/police assailant Michael Brown and career
criminals Eric Garner and Marlon Brown walk the streets
P-D: Ferguson anniversary series: City
government changes, Ferguson commission, municipal court overhaul,
policing, more
P-D editorial: Congress - along with Zika-carrying
mosquitos - should be swatted; Blunt's compromise on spending
failed to pass
Washington Missourian editorial: Post-primary
assessment of tired Missouri campaign cliches: "Take back our
government" not always sensical, and "outsiders" are acting quite like
insiders X
KC Star editorial: Annual Annie E. Casey Foundation
report shows Missouri should spend more taxpayer money on kids +
P-D editorial: Ferguson anniversary: Some things
have changed, more work still to be done, etc.
Hannibal Courier-Post's Doug Wilson: Remembering a
time when conservative "blue dog Democrats" existed in Missouri;
Blunt has excellent chances for re-election, with Kander faring well in
urban areas X
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Saturday, August 6
Kraske: 40 years ago this week, Missouri lost a
giant: A look back at Jerry Litton, his career, and the plane
crash +
CDT: Mid-Missourians for Bernie not sure how it spent
its campaign cash, or how to file reports; New Democratic
National Committeewoman: "It's just me being an idiot, and I wish
I had a better excuse than that" X
Missourinet: Rep. Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin) continues
to criticize GOP presidential nominee
The Missouri Times: Chris Koster, Josh Hawley earn
Farm Bureau endorsement
KWMU: Missouri Farm Bureau endorses Koster for
governor, Hawley for attorney general
Missourinet: Missouri Farm Bureau hears from both gov
candidates, endorses Chris Koster
KC Star: Koster becomes the first statewide Democrat
to earn Missouri Farm Bureau endorsement +
AP: Democrat Chris Koster wins Missouri Farm Bureau
endorsement
CDT: Koster launches Columbia campaign with show of
Democratic unity X
SNL: Greene County voters bucked statewide
trend; John Brunner, Bev Randles won county X
P-D: Koster, Greitens agree on at least one
thing: State worker wages need boost
KC Star: Backers of Missouri tobacco tax hike tout new
poll +
SNL: Hobbs concedes to Quinn in District 132 primary X
KC Star: Missouri's solar roadways to begin with
sidewalk at historic Route 66 Welcome Center
+
CDT: Access Missouri grants to increase 21 percent,
Nixon says X
AP: Missouri increases money available in college
scholarship
P-D: Judge rules Missouri is on the hook for $156k in
Planned Parenthood legal fees
P-D: Public defender says Nixon-as-defense-attorney
stunt not a "stunt"
KC Star: "Cowboys for Cops" downtown ride honors
Kansas City law enforcement +
KWMU: Youth event - held in coordination with
anniversary of Michael Brown's attack on Darren Wilson - provides "safe
space" from "structural violence"
P-D: Ferguson event features speech from sister of
strong-arm robber/police assailant, others
P-D editorial briefs: Lacy Clay was classless to spike
the football after huge win over Maria Chappelle-Nadal; Giving
every student a "free" lunch helps protect their delicate self-esteem
KC Star editorial: Missouri lawmakers led abortion
battles that wasted public funds +
Messenger: Ferguson anniversary piece:
Caucasoids are opening their hearts to the black struggle, times are
still really tough for the oppressed, more work must be done, etc.
P-D letter: Pacific Democrat wants to see more
Republicans criticizing GOP nominee Donald Trump to reporters
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Friday, August 5
SNL: Democrats want Blunt to go back to Washington and
address Zika virus X
SNL: Blunt talks jobs, small government in Nixa X
JCNT: Kander holds opioid roundtable X
Kraske: Blunt on Kander, Kander on Blunt;
Greitens on Koster's "fear", Koster on Greitens' Rocky Balboa gimmick +
The Missouri Times: Brunner retracts 'sex slave' claim
against Greitens donor
P-D: Emotional wounds between John Brunner, Eric
Greitens yet to heal
The Missouri Times: Democratic Party Chairman Roy
Temple files ethics complaints against Greitens
Missourinet: UCM prof theorizes that some of Greitens'
votes may have come from Democrats
Missourinet: Missouri SOS candidates Jay Ashcroft,
Robin Smith show clear differences; Son of former officeholder,
retired newsreader differ on voter ID
The Missouri Times: Eric Schmitt announces Defund Iran
Plan with Sarah Steelman and Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel
CDT: Mizzou softball coach Ehren Earleywine
contributes $50k to his brother-in-law, Rep. Keith English
(I-Florissant); Incumbent says he decided to run for re-election
since others were unqualified, and he didn't get that job he was hoping
for X
CDT: Mid-Missouri Peaceworks to mark anniversary of
atomic bombings on Saturday; Group to read passages regarding
life-saving Hiroshima, Nagasaki strikes X
P-D: Blind Missourians still waiting for back pension
payment as state appeals $19 million ruling
Missourinet: Another court battle could be next for
Missouri Public Defender Director Michael Barrett and Jay Nixon
KWMU: Missouri public defender assigns Nixon to
criminal case
Missourinet: Mizzou spending federal taxpayer dollars
to prop up "at-risk" students with more financial aid
CDT: Planned Parenthood wins attorney fees for lawsuit
over Columbia clinic license X
P-D: Legislation from Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville)
would increase fines for farmers who intentionally disregard pesticide
label directions
P-D: Missouri Dept. of Public Safety gives a green
light after trampoline accident at Mid Rivers Mall
KMOV: Missouri Dept. of Conservation warns of young
skunk population rising; Stinky animals destroy property, annoy
landowners
KWMU: Ferguson prepares to mark anniversary of Michael
Brown's strong-arm robbery, assault on police officer
P-D: St. Louis County murders, which surged in 2015,
are running higher this year; Chief: 12-14 year olds "so
brazen that they don't care about being caught"
P-D: 2016 homicide map (scroll down): St. Louis
City at 110; St. Louis County at 47; St. Charles County at
0 (zero)
KWMU: Black Pride Weekend offers "safe space" for
black LGBTQIA humans who find Pride St. Louis not quite inclusive enough
Priddy:
In defense of "activist judges"; Ron Richard, other Republicans
need to stop whining
Columbia Missourian's George Kennedy: Primary election
analysis: Mocking, undermining GOP statewide candidates and donors
P-D letter: Area sexagenarian says she didn't see many
other voters when she arrived at her polling place; Ipso facto,
Trump and Sanders supporters are just big talkers
P-D letter: Steelville septuagenarian: Missouri
campaigns are too negative, voters are turned off, candidates should
focus on positive ideas, etc.
P-D letter: Florissant man wants GOP campaign money to
be spent on body cameras instead of conservative candidates
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Thursday, August 4
Rosenbaum: Following up on the 10 big questions from
Missouri's primaries
KWMU: Rosenbaum, KWMU's Rachel Lippmann, UMSL's Dave
Robertson discuss Tuesday's results, ramifications
Faughn: Winners and losers from primary night - and
those with awkward Wednesdays
Kraske: The Chat: Hanaway on Greitens;
Blunt on Kander, Kander on Blunt; Greitens on Koster, Koster on
Greitens +
AP:
Voter turnout for Tuesday's primary was 25%; Kander's office
predicted 31%
USA Today: General election preview: Roy Blunt
vs. Jason Kander
Missourinet: Jason Kander says Washington is broken
KC Star: Kander challenges Blunt to series of debates +
KOLR: Blunt back on the campaign trail in Barry County
CDT: Vicky Hartzler says Trump should focus on
economy, stop trying to respond to every critic X
The Missouri Times: With primary over, Koster takes
the spotlight; Dem AG runs his own new ad, gets targeted by
Republican Governors Association
AP:
GOP candidate goes macho to win Missouri governor primary
The Missouri Times: Missouri Baptist Convention's Don
Hinkle criticizes Eric Greitens, says GOP base will likely skip voting
in gubernatorial race
Lebanon Daily Record: Eric Schmitt hopes to make 'a
bigger difference' as Missouri treasurer
Missourinet: Josh Hawley targets Chris Koster, says
Dem statewide officeholders are to blame for lack of economic growth
CDT: After primary win, Hawley must decide future with
University of Missouri X
Missourinet: Missouri House Speaker Pro Tem Denny
Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) wins state Senate primary
P-D: Pro-business push leaves incumbent lawmakers on
the sidelines
The Missouri Times: Meet Dan Stacy, the man who ousted
Sheila Solon
SNL: Recount possible in House District 132:
Thomas Quinn vs. Tyler Hobbs X
P-D: Assessing the value Rex Sinquefield received for
his $11 million in contributions to Missouri campaigns
Drebes:
Ken McClure, former chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt, to run for mayor
of Springfield
KC Star: Democrats remember stalwart Dutch Newman +
Missourinet: Missouri Budget Project says revenues
won't fill state's budget hole
P-D: Missouri's head public defender assigns case to
Gov. Nixon, cites overburdened staff
AP:
Zora Mulligan named Missouri's Commissioner of Higher Education
P-D: University of Missouri System leader named state
higher education chief
KWMU: Taxpayer-funded federal program aims to improve
St. Louis City students' AP scores
SE
Missourian: In budget-saving move, Perry County district allowing
students to bring own computer devices to class +
P-D: Ballwin officer Michael Flamion flown to Colorado
for special treatment; Career criminal Antonio Taylor of St.
Louis City held on $1 million bail
P-D: Lee Enterprises, publisher of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, reports lower revenue in its fiscal third quarter;
Subscription revenue continues decline
SNL editorial: Blunt must talk about Trump X
P-D editorial: Two smart gubernatorial candidates and
a wide open middle ground; Greitens should ditch vain tryhard
approach and show he's more than "muscles, boxing gloves and guns"
Waters: Photo ID proposal shows Missouri Republicans
will try to get away with as much mischief as possible X
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: Hey, Koster and Greitens,
let's be adults; Both should moderate their positions on the
Second Amendment and "court the middle" +
P-D letter: "Women's Voices Raised for Social Justice"
septuagenarian promotes gun locks
Columbia Missourian letter: Member of racial justice
group says liberal columnist's piece on law enforcement matters was
sexist
Columbia Missourian letter: Member of racial justice
group expresses her anger that liberal columnist called local gadfly a
"gadfly"
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Wednesday, August 3
SOS.mo.gov: Final unofficial primary election results
KCUR: Kansas City Star lets go of another dozen
employees; Layoff announcement made on eve of Missouri election
KWMU: Greitens vs. Koster, Blunt vs. Kander will top
Missouri's November ballot
KWMU: Jason Rosenbaum, reporter Rachel Lippmann,
UMSL's Dave Robertson to break down election results today on air
SNL: Blunt: 98 days to ensure Republican victory
SNL: Blunt says he'll spend the fall talking about his
priorities for Missouri, not "talking about every position Donald Trump
has"
P-D: Blunt, Kander easily win their Senate nominations
Missourinet: Blunt easily wins GOP primary for U.S.
Senate
The Missouri Times: Blunt campaign to unveil two new
ads today
Roll Call: Lobbyists woo potential freshmen, long
before election day; Kander "can already count some K Street
lobbyists among his political confidants"
P-D: Lacy Clay rolls in 1st District Democratic
primary; Incumbent calls Chappelle-Nadal's campaign "comical"
CDT: Hartzler wins 4th Congressional GOP
primary; Gordon Christensen to fill Dems' ballot slot in November
SNL: Genevieve Williams to fill Democrats' ballot slot
in Billy Long's re-election
Missourinet: Greitens, Koster face off in Missouri
governor race
P-D: Greitens wins GOP battle for governor
AP: Eric Greitens wins GOP gov primary
P-D: County-by-county map of Dem, GOP gov primary
results
Missourinet: GOP lt. gov nominee Mike Parson: We
must change the tone of Missouri politics
The Missouri Times: Russ Carnahan cruises to victory
in Dem lt. gov primary
The Missouri Times: Jay Ashcroft tops Will Kraus in
GOP SOS primary
P-D: Former KMOV newsreader Robin Smith defeats
also-rans in Democratic SOS primary
The Missouri Times: Judy Baker beats Pat Contreras in
Democratic primary for state treasurer
CDT: Josh Hawley victorious over Kurt Schaefer in GOP
AG primary
The Missouri Times: Josh Hawley outlasts Kurt Schaefer
in bloody primary battle
The Missouri Times: Teresa Hensley wins Democratic
primary for attorney general
The Missouri Times: Eight state senators set to win in
November, return in January
The Missouri Times: John Rizzo defeats Jessica Podhola
in Dem state Senate primary; Rizzo says Democrats no longer need
building trade council support to win
The Missouri Times: Bill Eigel defeats Anne Zerr in
Senate District 23
P-D: Bill Eigel, Andrew Koenig win key GOP state
Senate primaries
The Missouri Times: Andrew Koenig tops Rick Stream in
state Senate primary
The Missouri Times: KC-area Reps. Bonnaye Mims, Nick
King, Sheila Solon upset in primaries
KC Star: Missouri GOP House candidates funded by
pro-right-to-work donor David Humphreys defeat two incumbents
CDT: Newcomer Martha Stevens defeats Cathy Richards in
46th District race
SNL: Fraker cruises to victory over newcomer
SNL: Quade wins Democratic primary in 132nd District
SNL: Curtis D. Trent takes Republican primary in 133rd
District
Riverfront Times: Penny Hubbard wins Democratic state
rep primary - but opponent unlikely to let it go
Riverfront Times: St. Louis City Democratic Committee
elections update: Outsider topples Brian Wahby; Missouri
NARAL Director Alison Dreith, Ferguson celebrity Rasheen "SheenBean"
Aldridge, others on Bernie Sanders/protester slate fail to win
CDT: Boone County Democratic Party Chairman Homer Page
loses committee seat
P-D: Man who dresses up like Abe Lincoln at GOP events
loses Jefferson County Council primary
Missourinet: No problems reported at St. Louis County
polling locations; Election board demonstrates competency in
conducting an election
Missourinet: Luetkemeyer's bill to modernize HUD
regulations becomes law
Missourinet: July budget report shows initial progress
toward balancing deficit
Missourinet: Survey indicates decline in Midwest's
economy
KWMU: Planned Parenthood awarded attorney's fees in
case over Columbia clinic
CDT: Nixon addresses school administrators for last
time as governor
P-D: University City joins other districts in
providing "free" meals to all students; DESE expects more
Missouri districts to hop on taxpayer-funded handout trend
KWMU: Ernest Lee Johnson seeks to die by poisonous
gas; Crack-cocaine enthusiast - who beat three people to death by
bashing their skulls with a hammer - says lethal injection might cause
him too much pain
KWMU: Academics blame North Countians' low life
expectancy on "environmental factors" rather than their poor health
choices
Messenger: More column space for Jack Danforth;
79-year-old complains about state of Missouri politics, explains how
much better things were when he and his friends ran the show
CDT op-ed: Rep. Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin): On
finding the common ground between law-and-order Republicans and Black
Lives Matter crowd
KC Star op-ed: Area divorce attorney: Payday
lenders are to blame for financial stress, and therefore divorce, in
Missouri
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SOS.mo.gov: Primary candidate filing list
AP: Blunt advises Trump to focus on jobs and national
security, not Muslim man who spoke at DNC
KC Star: Graves, Hartzler decline to weigh in on
Donald Trump vs. Khzir Khan brouhaha +
P-D:
Clay campaign levels last-minute campaign finance complaint against
Maria Chappelle-Nadal for allegedly using state Senate campaign money
to benefit congressional bid
KWMU: North St. Louis City pastor to attend EPA field
hearing in Chicago, wants taxpayers to fund a solar-panel handout
program
The Missouri Times: At This Week in Missouri Politics
debate, candidates make final pitch
The Missouri Times: Governor candidates make final
pitch to voters
Kraske: The Chat: Catherine Hanaway says
country's recent epidemic of street savagery can be traced back to
Ferguson +
Missourinet: Columbia College prof: Peter Kinder
would be toughest GOP opponent for Democrat Chris Koster
KC Star: Mayor Sly James 'bothered' by Chris Koster's
pro-Second Amendment, pro-NRA stance +
The Missouri Times: KC-area primary candidates make
last-minute push: Rizzo vs. Podhola, Kevin Corlew vs. Sean
Pouche, Nick King vs. Mary Hill
The Missouri Times: Mail piece in St. Charles County
GOP state rep primary lifts Wisconsin firefighter pic without
attribution
Drebes:
Former state Sen. Chuck Graham (D-Columbia) rips Nixon for appointing
former state Rep. Jeff Harris (D-Columbia) to judgeship
KWMU: Missouri budget project warns of potential for
worse revenue growth drop
KWMU: A 'Jetsons'-like future may be closer than you
think for innovation in travel along Missouri's roads
CDT: Jay Nixon not on list for University of Missouri
presidential search X
KC Star: A new Kansas City Public Schools is looking
to pump up enrollment +
KWMU: Mini-profile: 2016-17 Diversity Fellow
Jenny Simeone; Fellowship is designed to "make the station's
content and staff more inclusive"
KWMU: St. Louis Public Radio to hold first "listening
table" August 4; Station invites citizens to drive to Ferguson,
leave cars unattended in public lot, share story ideas
P-D: Primary election endorsement list
KC Star: Primary election endorsement list +
P-D editorial: Voter ID laws are falling, but Missouri
is still trying; Requiring a photo ID is too much for minorities,
the handicapped and senior citizens to handle
Priddy: A look at WalletHub's statistical assessment
of Missouri: Data on personal spending, "women's equality," joke
from old-timey comedian Myron Cohen (b. 1902)
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Drebes:
DNC wikileaks reveal: McCaskill "doesn't have a backbone"
Rosenbaum: 10 big questions about Missouri's wild
primary election
KWMU: Links to statewide candidates' Politically
Speaking podcast appearances
This Week in Missouri Politics: John Brunner,
Catherine Hanaway, Peter Kinder make their closing arguments to GOP
primary voters
Politico: In Missouri, Ferguson is still
burning; GOP gov candidates highlight their dedication to
enforcing rule of law, stand against looters' behavior and Nixon's lack
of decisive action
Missourinet: A snapshot of key races in tomorrow's
primary elections
St. Joseph News-Press: Rep. J. Eggleston (R-Maysville)
to face primary challenger X
Riverfront Times: Inside liberals' not-so-secret plot
to take over St. Louis City Democratic Party; Bernie Sanders
supporters, Ferguson celebrities criticize Missouri Democratic Party
and the city operatives who have spent decades working to elect
Democrats
KWMU: St. Louis County aims to avoid election problems
of April
SE
Missourian: Area election officials predict low voter turnout
tomorrow; Cape County Clerk Kara Clark Summers says some adults
are mystified by the concept of choosing one (1) party's primary ballot +
P-D: Jamilah Nasheed, Rex Sinquefield, and Mayor
Francis Slay join forces to eliminate St. Louis City's recorder of
deeds office - with hopes of using savings to fund police body cameras
AP:
MO Dept. of Agriculture program helps immigrant farmers extend growing
season; Hardworking Hmong people look for ways to stay productive
and stimulate economy into winter months
KWMU: Area poet plans "Strike for Black Lives;"
Activists hope to convince black workers and consumers to not work or
spend money for a week - which will prove a point about "racial
inequality"
P-D letter: Sierra Club's Rajiv Ravulapati:
Missouri should move beyond coal, promote "clean" energy
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