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Sunday, August 30, 2020
P-D: Gunman shoots, wounds two St. Louis police
officers; one officer in critical condition
P-D: Video: AG Eric Schmitt addresses media
outside SLU Hospital ER
P-D: Two groups take to streets in St. Louis
City: One calling for peace, one criticizing widow of slain St.
Louis police captain David Dorn
P-D: Congressional primary recap: Democrats Ken
Warren, Rasheen Aldridge, others explain how Lacy Clay lost to Cori Bush
P-D: John Watson, St. Charles County counselor and
former aide to Gov. Jay Nixon, dies at age 61
JCNT: Deadline nearing to finalize Amendment 3
language as lawsuit continues
SNL: Candidate Q&A: District 136: Rep.
Craig Fishel (R-Springfield) vs. Jeff Munzinger (D)
SNL: Candidate Q&A: District 137: Rep.
John Black (R-Marshfield) vs. Raymond Lampert (D)
KC Star: Dozens of protesters outside KC City Hall
bring awareness to child sex trafficking
St. Joseph News-Press: Antibody surveillance shows
Missouri's overall death rate could be less than what has been believed
Columbia Missourian: State health director says
Missouri will have COVID-19 test strips before end of September
SNL: Area liberals complain about COVID-19 among
prison population; House Superminority Leader Crystal Quade
(D-Springfield) joins Black Lives Matter, NAACP, et al.
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D: Regional China virus update
JCNT: Missouri panel to review survey on law
enforcement
JCNT: Missouri utilities assisting in
hurricane-damaged areas
JCNT: State officials, local fire departments keep
tabs on explosive ammonium nitrate hazards
P-D letter: Ballwin woman defends Jill Schupp,
suggests President Trump is a rapist
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Saturday, August 29, 2020
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Missourian: Local GOPers bullish on Trump's chances
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Jill Schupp on her
plan to unseat Ann Wagner
Joplin Globe: Protest against Trump's postal service
improvements draws "a handful of people" in Joplin
Missourinet: USDA currently in 'big hiring phase' in
Kansas City
SNL: Here are the local nonprofits, governments,
businesses and hospitals receiving CARES Act money
AP: Judges weigh Cleaner Missouri ballot language
JCNT: No special session debate Friday by Missouri
Senate
P-D: Move to allow state to help in St. Louis City
homicide prosecutions appears doomed in Legislature
P-D: With more than $1 billion at stake, Missouri
seeking bidders for prisoner health care
SNL: Missouri, Greene County won't follow CDC guidance
allowing them to test fewer people
SNL: AG Eric Schmitt, Marshfield settle traffic ticket
quota lawsuit
The Missouri Times: A look back at Missouri's first
elections
Daily Journal: Missouri Department of Conservation
encourages citizens to be "Bear Aware"; Growing number of wild
animals in state is resulting in more encounters with humans
P-D: Pack of protesters marches downtown, chants
ditties during Cardinals game: "No justice, no baseball!"
P-D editorial: Ann Wagner's anti-Schupp ad signals
desperation
KC Star op-ed: Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi, head consul
of Mexico in Kansas City: Made in USMCA: Missouri benefits
when North America works together
KC Star's Caitlyn Rosen: Missouri makes voting by mail
confusing and cumbersome
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Friday, August 28, 2020
Missourinet: Republican National Convention features
widow of slain retired St. Louis City police captain
Columbia Missourian: Vicky Hartzler tours Missouri
River, praises Corps of Engineers
KC Star: "Save Our Children" rally to take place
outside City Hall tomorrow; Local liberals predict QAnon members
will appear
SNL: Man filling Democratic ballot slot against Jay
Ashcroft accuses incumbent of "campaign of voter suppression"
SNL: Candidate Q&A: District 135: Rep.
Steve Helms (R) vs. Betsy Fogle (D) vs. Vicke Kepling (G)
SE
Missourian: Clerk bracing for extra turnout, rents more space
P-D: Ballots at the ballpark: Cardinals
volunteer Busch Stadium for a voting site
JCNT: Conservation Commission, Conservation Department
sue state
Missourinet: List of some Missouri laws taking effect
today
Missourinet: Missouri's new motorcycle helmet law
takes effect today
The Missouri Times: Jill Schupp calls for special
session to address postal service's expected ballot delays
The Missouri Times: House forms bipartisan Friends of
the UK caucus
JCNT: Missouri reps unite for UK friendship caucus
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SE
Missourian: Nearly 90 new coronavirus cases reported in region
JCNT editorial: Protesters who disrupt legislative
process are crossing the line
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's
Leslie Holloway: Plan ahead to make your vote count
P-D letter: Chesterfield septuagenarian responds to
paper's anti-McCloskeys editorial, asks how citizens are supposed to
defend their homes from roving mobs
P-D letter: University City sexagenarian dislikes Ann
Wagner and GOP ads against Jill Schupp
P-D letter: Bridgeton octogenarian says Post-Dispatch
should give Ann Wagner equal opportunity to respond to Schupp's
complaints
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Thursday, August 27,
2020
KC Star: Missouri GOP delegate Mark Anthony Jones says
Trump has exceeded expectations in his first term; Additional
insight from Annie Presley (R), Jason Grill (D)
AP: Retired St. Louis police captain's widow to
address GOP convention today
The Missouri Times: Annie White Baxter, a 'political
trailblazer,' inducted into Hall of Famous Missourians
Missourinet: 'Political trailblazer for women'
inducted into Hall of Famous Missourians
JCNT: Capitol commemorates women's suffrage
Columbia Missourian: Friends, family and colleagues
gather for motorcade to remember Hank Waters
Columbia Missourian: Photo gallery: A
publisher's final sign-off
CDT: Photo gallery: Friends, former employees
turn out at funeral procession for former publisher
CDT: Gov. Parson, Nicole Galloway differ on COVID
approach
SNL: Candidate Q&A: District 133: Rep.
Curtis Trent (R-Springfield) vs. Cindy Slimp (D)
SNL: Candidate Q&A: Distirct 134: Alex
Riley (R) vs. Derrick Nowlin (D) for Elijah Haahr's open seat
KWMU: Missouri's unemployment rate continues to
fall; Gov. Parson highlights his economic recovery plan
Missourinet: Gov. Parson says House passage of 5
special session bills is "a win for Missouri"
P-D: Annual veto-session campaign fundraiser preview
story
AP: Gov. Parson announces FDA approval of Washington
University saliva test
P-D: Video: Gov. Parson gives coronavirus update
during press conference
P-D: Hospitalizations for China virus spike in St.
Louis area
KWMU: St. Louis hospitals admit 71 patients with China
virus Monday
Missourinet: Federal prosecutors: former St.
Louis charter school headmaster got away with fraud "for years"
SNL: Muskie bites angler in a Missouri first, Missouri
Department of Conservation says
The Missouri Times: Peace Officer Standard and
Training (POST) Commission addresses questions about 'implicit bias,'
etc.
JCNT: Training commission discusses law enforcement
comments
P-D editorial: Republicans are using David Dorn's
murder for political gain
P-D letter: Bridgeton septuagenarian dislikes
"mudslinging" ads from Republicans Ann Wagner and Gov. Parson
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Wednesday, August 26, 2020
SNL: Missouri to start paying $300 Trump unemployment
boost this week
St. Joseph News-Press: Roy Blunt shares historical
view on Missouri's presidential politics
The Missouri Times: Kanye West fails to make it onto
Missouri presidential ballot
SNL: Kanye West falls short on signatures, won't make
Missouri ballot for president
SNL: Billy Long, Vicky Hartzler vote against House
Dems' $25 billion Postal Service aid plan
SE
Missourian: Postal workers' union rally draws a dozen
KWMU: Cori Bush, other Democrats speak at downtown
union rally
SNL: Ashcroft says the state won't distribute ballot
drop boxes to avoid confusion with new law
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air legal roundtable:
Wash U.'s Mark Smith, others discuss Rep. Nick Schroer (R-O'Fallon),
concurrent jurisdiction, more
SNL: League of Women Voters celebrates
centennial; Sexagenarian chapter officer says group is "totally
nonpartisan"
Missourinet: America's first female county clerk to be
inducted into Hall of Famous Missourians today
The Missouri Times: Behind the scenes: A look at
how a special session is put on during a global health crisis
JCNT: Missouri House passes 5 special session bills on
crime
The Missouri Times: Lawmakers warn of second special
session as House approves anti-crime bills
Missourinet: Missouri House gives final approval to
five crime bills; juvenile certification bill is dead
KWMU: Missouri House passes five of six crime bills,
including eliminating St. Louis City police residency
P-D: For Missouri lawmakers, work on crime package
isn't done
KC Star's Jonathan Shorman: Missouri House passes
some, but not all, crime bills; Comments from "Rep. Peter
Meredith [sic]"
AP: Missouri House passes bills on crime
JCNT: Protesters continue seeking attention at Capitol
P-D: State lawmakers rip St. Louis County sales tax
plan in contentious hearing
The Missouri Times: Some Missouri lawmakers don
creative masks during special session
JCNT: Missouri Highway Patrol releases annual school
bus report
Missourinet: Missouri makes progress on building up
its personal protective equipment supply
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update:
daily average of positive cases decreases
P-D: Daily regional China virus update
Columbia Missourian: Motorcade planned to honor Hank
Waters
JCNT letter: Jefferson City septuagenarian dislikes
Gov. Parson campaign ad, compares governor to President Trump
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Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Missourinet: McCloskeys speak at Republican National
Convention: "Your family will not be safe in the radical
Democrats' America."
AP: St. Louis City couple who defended home from pack
of protesters speaks at convention
AP: Operation LeGend puts focus on crime, not politics
SNL: Galloway says she'd mandate masks statewide
The Missouri Times: Missouri mask mandate included in
Galloway's new coronavirus plan
Missourinet: Galloway rolls out China virus
plan: "A mask requirement is our ticket to freedom"
AP: Gov. Parson, Nicole Galloway disagree on statewide
mask mandate
SNL: Candidate Q&A: District 132:
House Superminority Leader Crystal Quade (D) vs. Sarah Semple (R)
JCNT: Missouri lawmakers prep crime bills for vote
AP: Bill would make it a felony to give firearms to
children to avoid felony arrest or criminal conviction
The Missouri Times: House green-lights most anti-crime
measures
Missourinet: Second special session appears likely for
Missouri witness protection
P-D: Two pieces of Gov. Parson's anti-crime agenda
remain in limbo
Missourinet: Rep. Ashley Bland Manlove (D-Kansas City)
offers list of complaints about special session
The Missouri Times: Updated county-by-county tally of
coronavirus cases, deaths
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D: Regional China virus update
AP: St. Louis County closes morgue for victims of
coronavirus
P-D editorial: Legislation ending police residency
requirement could help recruit police, curb downtown mayhem
Joplin Globe editorial: GOP lawmakers must stop
undercutting local control
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Commissioner of
Higher Education Zora Mulligan: Lawmakers should lift the ban on
Pell Grants so more colleges can work with corrections
The Missouri Times op-ed: Don't send troubled youths
to prison
JCNT letter: Jefferson City octogenarian opposes
Cleaner Missouri
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Monday, August 24, 2020
Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler says Republican
National Convention will focus on optimism and heroes
P-D: Widow of murdered retired St. Louis City police
captain to speak at Republican National Convention
KC Star: Profile: Cori Bush (D): Incoming
U.S. representative hasn't spoken to Rep. Emanuel Cleaver;
Missouri Democratic Party "practically silent"
P-D: Jill Schupp unhappy about Ann Wagner's ads
regarding votes on sex offender laws
Brownfield Ag News: USDA officials defend Coronavirus
Food Assistance Program for cattle producers; Comments from FSA
Administrator Richard Fordyce
SNL: Candidate Q&A: District 130:
Bishop Davidson (R) vs. Dave Cragg (D)
SNL: Candidate Q&A: District 131: Bill
Owen (R) vs. Allison Schoolcraft (D)
AP: Associated Industries of Missouri (AIM) survey of
business owners in April showed desire for reopening economy;
Survey was shared with Gov. Parson
Missourinet: Missouri House gets to work today on six
crime bills
St. Joseph News-Press: Special session still has issues
KWMU: Missouri Department of Corrections to expand
Hepatitis C treatment for inmates
P-D editorial: More data is needed to know whether
Ameren's Labadie plant needs scrubbers
Joplin Globe letter: Diamond sexagenarian wants Gov.
Parson to take mask advice from 1962 Bob Dylan song
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Sunday, August 23, 2020
KC Star's Jonathan Shorman and Bryan Lowry: Political
debate over USPS afflicting some rural Missourians with low-grade
anxiety
JCNT: Missouri receives access to additional
unemployment benefit
P-D: GOP councilman says Galloway audit was 'political
missile' to benefit failed county exec campaign; Galloway adviser
Patrick Lynn calls Councilman Ernie Trakas "an idiot"
6/25: Washington Free Beacon: Nicole Galloway
silent after top adviser Patrick Lynn calls Gov. Parson an "illiterate
hillbilly"
KWMU: Three churches in St. Louis region offering
notaries for voters
Joplin Globe: Missouri relaxes requirements to be
substitute teacher
JCNT: DESE lays out three-stage plan to address
learning loss
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SE
Missourian: Cape County adding about two dozen coronavirus cases
each day
KC Star: After beating death of Missouri boy, cousin
asks: 'How many people called' state hotline?
P-D: After June rioting, downtown St. Louis became
increasingly lawless: Shootings, drag racing, open-market drug
deals
KC Star: About a month after Operation LeGend starts,
some urban leaders criticize lack of success
KC Star: Black Lives Matter march draws 75 to block
traffic, yell
SE
Missourian op-ed: USDA Director Sonny Perdue: Amid a
pandemic, deploying rural broadband in Missouri is more important than
ever
CDT op-ed: Andy Waters: Remembering Hank
P-D letter: Ballwin sexagenarian says GOP's Cleaner
Missouri plan is "shameless and arrogant"
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Saturday, August 22,
2020
Missourinet: Missouri DNC delegates begin a new age of
convention gatherings
Columbia Missourian: Local Democratic delegates
celebrate Biden from afar; Comments from former Dem state rep Ted
Farnen
Missourinet: USDA officials tout food box program
during Friday visit to Missouri food bank
Columbia Missourian: Federal program bridges gaps in
food supply disrupted by COVID-19
KC Star: Operation LeGend in KC: 288 arrests,
including 24 homicide suspects, prosecutor says
SNL: 'Don't delay': Shane Schoeller says voters
should mail ballots a week before election day
JCNT: National women's group files suit against state,
Ashcroft over voting rules
P-D: Ballot drop boxes put in storage to avoid
confusion, will be deployed for future elections
CDT: Hank Waters remembered as a pioneering,
persisting journalist
Twitter: KC Star reporter Jason Hancock leaves
newspaper to work for States Newsroom, a national nonprofit
The Missouri Times: What is the PQ? A look at the
'nuclear option' procedural move
St. Joseph News-Press: New law for Missouri
motorcyclists allows helmets to be left behind
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
Joplin Globe editorial: There's promising economic
news in Missouri despite COVID-19
CDT Executive Editor Jim Van Nostrand: On personal
guilt over ancestors owning slaves, the Tribune's lack of diversity,
and Gannett's corporate push to hand jobs to minority applicants
P-D letter: Webster Groves sexagenarian flaunts
mind-reading ability, says Ann Wagner is "embarrassed by having aligned
with a hapless leader"
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Friday, August 21, 2020
Missourinet: At online event, Jill Schupp speaks to
Missouri's Democratic National Convention delegates
SE
Missourian: Two area bankers say no hurry on PPP forgiveness
Brownfield Ag News: Southeast Missouri to receive more
broadband access
P-D: Jobless claims inch up in Missouri
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Bob
Onder (R-Lake Saint Louis) talks with Jason Rosenbaum about violent
crime legislation, concurrent jurisdiction, Conservative Caucus, more
P-D: Rep. Nick Schroer's Democratic opponent files
lawsuit, claims rep doesn't live in district; Suit claims private
investigator sees Schroer's truck outside family's new property in
Defiance
KC Star: Dem attorneys Chuck Hatfield, Marc Elias file
suit challenging notarization standards, ballot deadline
P-D: Veteran Dem Chuck Hatfield files suit over
Election Day deadline for ballots arriving by mail, other rules
Columbia Missourian: Former Columbia Daily Tribune
Publisher Hank Waters dies at 90
Missourinet: Rural Missouri prosecutor: victim
tampering "happens everywhere, even in little Johnson County"
The Missouri Times: POST Commission seeks public
feedback on law enforcement
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SE
Missourian: Public input sought for state parks at Sept. 3 meeting
P-D: Group calls for Missouri Supreme Court to suspend
evictions throughout state
JCNT: DNR moves earth in Fulton mine reclamation
project
JCNT: Jefferson City man files employment
discrimination lawsuit against Department of Corrections
CDT: CDT diversity stats: 89% white newsroom,
80% white leadership
Joplin Globe editorial: Missouri should allow mail-in
ballots to be delivered in person
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Crime isn't just a KC
problem, but legislative session is an incremental steps to make all
communities safer
JCNT editorial: More protection needed for nursing
home residents
P-D op-ed: SLU Policy Research in Missouri Education
Center's Kristi Donaldson and Andrew Diemer: No easy way to
reopen Missouri schools in a pandemic
SNL Editor-in-chief Amos Bridges: Thoughts on poor
newsroom diversity stats and Gannett's five-year plan to hand more jobs
to minorities
Washington Missourian letter: Leslie man wants those
who voted against Medicaid expansion to "do some soul-searching"
P-D letter: Septuagenarian husband of former Rep. Sue
Meredith (D-Creve Coeur) "sadly doubts" Missourians are noticing the
atrocities committed by "motley crew" of Gov. Parson, Kehoe, Schmitt,
Fitzpatrick, Ashcroft
P-D letter: Franklin County Presiding Commissioner Tim
Brinker says county's air is clean due to Ameren's diligence
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
KCUR: DNC delegate interview: Manny Arbaca,
member of KC Public Schools Board of Directors
KC Star: Dave Helling talks with Dem delegate Manny
Arbaca about virtual convention
Missourinet: In KC, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr
touts Operation LeGend numbers
AP: Barr, federal authorities detail Operation LeGend
success
SE
Missourian: Big River receives $2.9 million federal broadband
grant
KWMU: Economic gravity in effect as unemployment
benefits end; Thoughts from SLU associate prof, two area residents
KWMU: Yes, there is a difference in Missouri between
mail-in and absentee voting
SNL: GOP lawmakers appeal Democrat judge's decision on
Cleaner Missouri language
The Missouri Times: July jobs report shows continued
recovery despite substantial unemployment rates
KCUR's Up to Date: Lyndall Fraker, Jack Cardetti talk
Missouri's medical marijuana market
Missourinet: Missouri panel to request temporary
removal of districts serving as MOCAP gatekeeper
KCUR: Missouri State Board of Education lowers the bar
for substitute teachers amid pandemic shortage
SE
Missourian: Five dozen new coronavirus cases reported in region
P-D: Expanded coronavirus testing in Missouri prisons
leads to higher positive case count
The Missouri Times: Rep. Peter Merideth (D-St. Louis
City) wants new rule requiring masks in Capitol
SNL: Springfield mayor wants Gov. Parson to force
statewide mask mandate
The Missouri Times: PSC refuses changes to Evergy cost
review
SNL: News-Leader diversity stats: All-white
newsroom, all-white leadership
KC Star editorial: Missouri lawmakers spend most of
their time figuring out how to hurt Kansas City, not help it;
Local control must become an issue in Gov. Parson vs. Galloway race
P-D editorial: Kim Gardner must stop using fictional
numbers - because Missouri Republicans are coming after her
The Missouri Times op-ed: Secretary of State Jay
Ashcroft: Moving election deadline won't instill confidence
P-D: The Bottom Line video series: Business
columnists Jim Gallagher and David Nicklaus praise Medicaid expansion
P-D letter: Clayton man criticizes President Trump and
Ann Wagner over Postal Service budget
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Wednesday, August 19,
2020
SNL: Missouri approved for Trump unemployment boost
program
KWMU: Citing low demand for services, Salem VA clinic
will close its doors; U.S. Rep. Jason Smith assesses VA's mistakes
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
recap: Gov. Parson on back-to-school plans, State Fair, urban
crime, gov race, more
JCNT: Gov. Parson assesses use of COVID-19 funds for
child care
JCNT: Birx: More COVID help coming for nursing
homes
SNL: Birx to Missouri: Wear masks, avoid large
gatherings even with family to slow COVID-19
JCNT: Top U.S. coronavirus adviser: Missourians
should wear masks
The Missouri Times: Missouri's 'box in' testing
strategy 'important example' of protecting vulnerable people during
COVID-19, Birx says
Missourinet: Dr. Birx praises Missouri's 'box-in'
strategy on COVID-19
KWMU: White House coronavirus response director visits
Missouri, stresses importance of masks
AP: Trump's top virus adviser says yes to masks, no to
parties
P-D: Dr. Birx visits Missouri, urges residents wear
masks
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
JCNT: Missouri DSS seeks input on COVID-19 grants
Missourinet: Missouri temporarily allows reduced
training option to become substitute teacher
The Missouri Times: DESE lowers barriers to substitute
teaching certification
P-D: Missouri makes it easier to become a substitute
teacher
Missourinet: Missouri House panel raises age to 16 for
trying juveniles as adults
JCNT: Missouri juvenile certification bill advanced
P-D editorial: GOP convention taps the McCloskeys to
speak. A celebration of recklessness.
P-D editorial: Try as Republicans did to deceive
voters, a Missouri judge is having none of it
JCNT editorial: Teachers have justified concerns, but
schools are right to reopen
P-D letter: St. Louis County woman supports Jill
Schupp and Obamacare
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Tuesday, August 18,
2020
USA Today: Missouri lost fewer acres to spring storms,
floods in 2020
St. Joseph News-Press: Graves vows to shield schools
from liability
SE
Missourian: Cape County Dem Chairman/SEMO prof Jonathan Kessler
reveals leading indicator of Democratic success: "An
unprecedented number of requests for (presidential) yard signs"
P-D: Mark McCloskey, who defended St. Louis City home
from trespassing mob, to speak at GOP convention
KWMU: Judge strikes down ballot summary for Clean
Missouri redistricting changes
Missourinet: Judge strikes down Cleaner Missouri
ballot summary; State moves quickly to seek appeal
The Missouri Times: Cole County Circuit Court Judge
Patricia S. Joyce (D) scraps Cleaner Missouri ballot language
AP: Democrat judge says Cleaner Missouri ballot
language is misleading
SNL: Judge nixes GOP's 'unfair' Cleaner Missouri
ballot language
The Missouri Times: Ashcroft's Dem opponent:
Secretary of state trying to 'suppress votes'
P-D: Dems offer thoughts on mail-in ballot
procedures; Comments from Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia), man
filling Democratic ballot slot against Ashcroft, others
Missourinet: Democrats outline complaints about
mail-in voting, say President Trump is conspiring to undermine Postal
Service's efficiency
JCNT: Democrats call for special session to discuss
absentee voting
SE
Missourian: National Association of Letter Carriers endorses
Biden-Harris, criticizes Trump; Union capo overseeing Missouri
crew "very concerned" about election
SNL: Schoeller: More Greene County voters need
to vote by mail to keep polls safe in November
Missourinet: Gov. Parson to host White House
coronavirus task force coordinator today
JCNT: Missouri panel expands juvenile-certification
bill
Missourinet: St. Louis Police residency requirement
legislation headed to Missouri House floor
JCNT: First Lady Teresa Parson speaks at Historical
Society luncheon
P-D editorial: Gov. Parson and GOP legislators are
aiding and abetting Trump's plan to sabotage elections
The Missouri Times op-ed: Incoming Sen. Holly Rehder
(R-Sikeston): Schools, small businesses need a legislative fix
for COVID liability
P-D letter: Lifelong St. Louis resident says Kim
Gardner is the worst circuit attorney he has seen, defends Gov.
Parson's efforts to curb crime
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Monday, August 17, 2020
St. Joseph News-Press: Federal levee repair almost done
Missourinet: Missouri Democrats rally virtually before
start of Democratic National Convention
This Week in Missouri Politics: Gov. Mike Parson joins
Scott Faughn to talk special session, urban homicides, Greitens'
attacks; Missouri Farm Bureau's Todd Hays and Missouri
Cattlemen's Association's Mike Deering join in to talk State Fair,
COVID effects, processing facilities, Trump's re-election margin in
Missouri, tariffs, more
Brownfield Ag News: Ag Director Chris Chinn says CFAP
limits frustrate local cattle producers
Missourinet: Rep. Herman Morse (R-Dexter) emphasizes
importance of rural Missouri physicians
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D: EPA declares that Ameren's Labadie site meets air
quality standard; Local environmental activists dispute science
KC Star editorial: Missouri Republicans quiet as
Postal Service dismantled to derail voting by mail
KC Star editorial: With utility shutoffs looming, many
Missourians are in danger of being left in the dark
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Sunday, August 16, 2020
Washington Times: Hawley raises concerns about
"racially divisive" diversity training at national lab
JCNT: Special session to continue with House bills
SNL: Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia) calls for more
time to vote by mail as USPS says it may fail to deliver ballots on time
JCNT: Profile: Leslie Bradley, Department of
Mental Health's Division of Developmental Disabilities incoming
director of federal programs
Joplin Globe: Local dispensaries, patients await
opening of medical marijuana facilities
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SNL: Party for Socialism and Liberation organizes
protest outside Greene County jail
SNL: Photo gallery: Party for Socialism and
Liberation protest draws 30
SNL letter: Springfield octogenarian opposes Hawley's
"God Bless America" idea for NBA jerseys; Republic octogenarian
says Medicaid vote proves Missourians support Obamacare;
Springfield septuagenarian says voters should reject all Missouri
Republicans
P-D letter: St. Charles sexagenarian wants Missouri to
force a mask mandate
P-D letter: St. Louis woman wonders what Post-Dispatch
reaction would have been if Michael Brown succeeded in killing Darren
Wilson
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Saturday, August 15, 2020
St. Joseph News-Press: Woman filling Democratic ballot
slot against Graves visits flood area, "did not offer a specific policy
solution"
P-D: Operation LeGend nabs another St. Louis City
crook; Budding criminal Dariyon Martin, already a felon, tried to
rob undercover St. Charles police officer
Joplin Globe: Galloway makes stop at Joplin union hall
Missourinet: Galloway on campaign tour: "We need
a reset of our coronavirus strategy"
KWMU: How legislative district maps can be challenged
key in Clean Missouri fight
P-D: Postal Service says it may fail to deliver
ballots to election authorities in time to be counted
KC Star: Postal Service says Missouri voters should
mail ballots a week before election to count
CNN: Postal Service removes some mail-sorting machines
from Missouri, union leader says
KC Star: Missouri mail processing machines removed by
Postal Service, union leader says
Missourinet: Missouri House committee to hear crime
bills on Monday; Kendrick wants to expand special session call
The Missouri Times: Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia)
wants expanded special session on mail-in ballots
The Missouri Times: Updated county-by-county list of
positive coronavirus cases
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SE
Missourian: Counties report more than 50 new coronavirus cases
SE
Missourian: Scott County distributes $3 million in CARES Act
funding; $1 million remaining
CDT: Columbia, Boone County dispute control over CARES
Act money
Joplin Globe letter: Kirkwood sexagenerian says Gov.
Parson wants to turn Missouri students into "test monkeys"
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Friday, August 14, 2020
St. Joseph News-Press: Congress leaves with virus
relief bill stalled; Comments from Blunt, Graves
CDT: Gov. Parson responds to Galloway's attacks over
school reopenings
P-D: Missouri jobless claims fall below 10,000 for
first time since March
Missourinet: Business picks up at Missouri's 13
casinos since reopening in June
Brownfield Ag News: Gov. Parson kicks off livestock
shows at pared-down Missouri State Fair
KC Star: Charges announced in slaying of 4-year-old
LeGend Taliferro in Kansas City
KWMU: Gov. Parson 'disappointed' Legislature extended
special session
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep.
LaKeySha Bosley (D-St. Louis City) talks with Jason Rosenbaum about
urban crime, special session, Senate Dems' support for anti-crime bill,
more
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Kim Gardner
criticizes Gov. Parson's anti-crime efforts
Scott Faughn: What is the Democrats' plan to address
the St. Louis murder epidemic? Plus a look at GOP sects' failure
to communicate on crime legislation
SNL: Missouri 2020 deer season: New rules for
carcasses
The Missouri Times: Pack of protesters demonstrating
against anti-crime bill stage third "die-in" stunt
Missourinet: Protesters yell, cause scene outside Cole
County Jail; Rep. Rasheen Aldridge (D-St. Louis): "Are we
locking up literally babies and putting them in jail with serial
killers?"
JCNT: "People's State of the State III" brings fewer
than 75 to street agitation
Columbia Missourian: Photo gallery: Protester
shirts read, "This Isn't No [sic]
Kumbaya," "Impeach That Freak," "Property of Weirdoville," other
inspirational messages
P-D: Photo gallery: Caption: "'Come out
and be descent [sic]' asks [sic] Democratic nomination [sic] for Missouri's 1st
Congressional District Cori Bush"
JCNT: State health official to help Fulton with mask
ordinance
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D letter: St. Louis County resident wants Cori Bush
to know "there are more constituents in this district than just single
black moms who are pastors of an invisible church"
P-D letter: St. Louis City septuagenarian says Gov.
Parson not "sophisticated" enough to bring businesses to Missouri
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Thursday, August 13, 2020
KC Star's Anna Spoerre: Black Kansas City residents
elated by Biden's pick of Kamala Harris: Thoughts from four (4)
local liberal leaders
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt promotes "shark tank"
effort to make COVID tests cheaper, with quicker results
CDT: Galloway: Gov. Parson has failed on
COVID-19 response for schools, economy
The Missouri Times: Amid special session chaos,
anti-crime bill divides Missouri Democrats
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Political reporter
Rachel Lippmann talks special session, Operation Legend
P-D: County prosecutors oppose Gov. Parson's bid to
strip autonomy from Gardner
AP: Missouri bill targeting Gardner spurs backlash
JCNT: Officials: Reopening schools, keeping
students home both carry risk
Missourinet: Missouri Board of Education to consider
proposal intended to boost substitute teacher population
JCNT:
DESE releases recommendations to address learning loss
The Missouri Times: Flu shots could be a 'bridge' to
coronavirus vaccine, says Williams
P-D: Number of Dept. of Mental Health workers who have
tested positive for coronavirus tops 200
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SNL: 'Temporary' license office coming to Springfield
following reports of long lines
The Missouri Times: PSC requests feedback from
companies over coronavirus' late payments
JCNT: State auditor releases report on former attorney
general Hawley's tenure
Missourinet: Letter of intent reveals new information
about planned $25 million hospital in southeast Missouri;
Thoughts from Rep. Herman Morse (R-Dexter)
P-D editorial: Legislature and Gov. Parson seek
measures to short-circuit the circuit attorney
Joplin Globe editorial: Missouri should end the
practice of subsidizing large retailers
SE
Missourian's Lucas Presson: Sen. Hawley issues clarion call for
judicial originalism
Helling: Another COVID-19 stimulus bill? Cleaver
predicts a compromise in Congress
CDT op-ed: Mizzou biology prof opposes Cleaner Missouri
JCNT letter: Holts Summit man says Missouri's
initiative petition process is mob rule
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Wednesday, August 12,
2020
SE
Missourian: Galloway: Containing China virus is 'most
important' issue
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: "No on Amendment 3"
leader Sean Soendker Nicholson criticizes Cleaner Missouri (23 minutes)
KWMU: Profile: St. Louis activist Tracy Stanton
says criminals on probation or parole should be allowed to vote
SE
Missourian: Gov. Parson announces money for SEMO electric project
The Missouri Times: Anti-crime special session gets
derailed in House; legislation to be broken down
Missourinet: Missouri House GOP leaders will handle
crime bills as single-subject bills; full House to return August
24
P-D: Missouri Republicans hit reset button on Gov.
Parson's call for action on violent crime
SNL: Missouri's health chief says the state is ready
for schools to open
AP: Missouri balks at statewide mask mandate
Missourinet: Missouri cabinet leaders brief panel
about COVID-19 response efforts
The Missouri Times: House Superminority Leader Crystal
Quade (D-Springfield) says special session distracts from coronavirus
Missourinet: At House superminority leader's press
conference, woman blames Gov. Parson for mother's death
The Missouri Times: Missouri could see a teacher
shortage, educators warn
P-D: As Missouri classrooms begin to fill, expert says
lawsuits will follow
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SNL: Springfield property gets marijuana manufacturing
license
KC Star's Melinda Henneberger: White Missouri
Democrats sold out black Senate colleagues on crime bill - and for what?
Priddy: Internet purchases should be taxed, but
lawmakers won't find the courage until next year
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Tuesday, August 11, 2020
JCNT: 10 achieve citizenship on anniversary of
Missouri's statehood
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air preview: Clean
Missouri's Sean Soendker Nicholson campaigns against Cleaner Missouri
SNL: Greene County Clerk Shane Schoeller in quarantine
for contact with COVID-19 case
P-D: Gov. Parson's administration assessing options
for implementing extra unemployment benefits
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson calls on attorney
general to help prosecute St. Louis homicides in expansion of special
session
Missourinet: Gov. Parson wants attorney general to
prosecute murders in St. Louis
KWMU: Gov. Parson wants attorney general to intervene
in St. Louis murder prosecutions
AP: Gov. Parson wants state to intervene in St. Louis
murder cases
KC Star: Gov. Parson introduces proposal allowing
attorney general to prosecute murders in St. Louis City
P-D: Gov. Parson says Kim Gardner not doing enough to
combat crime
KC Star: With 6 killings in 26 hours, KC suffers
deadliest weekend of already bloody year
KC Star: After 6 killed over weekend, KC mayor calls
reducing violence KC's 'existentialist question'
JCNT: Small group of teachers gathers outside
Governor's Mansion, protests going back to school
The Missouri Times: Updated county-by-county list of
positive coronavirus cases, deaths
AP: Missouri reports confirming 1,027 COVID-19 cases
The Missouri Times: Jefferson City leaders break
ground on Bicentennial Bridge project; Gov. Parson, Lt. Gov.
Kehoe attend
P-D: Photo gallery: Michael Brown assault
anniversary rally: Cori Bush wears "Ya'll Gone [sic] Stop Killing Us" shirt;
Revelers dance to "Cupid Shuffle"; more
KC Star editorial: Waiting for $400 unemployment
benefit? In Missouri, prepare to be disappointed
The Missouri Times op-ed: State rep candidate Karan
Pujji: New federal bill would improve upon U.S. Rep. Jason
Smith's original proposal, provide boon to dialysis care
KWMU op-ed: General Manager Tim Eby responds to
minority complaints about "systemic racism," "microaggressions,"
perceived slights and hurt feelings at St. Louis Public Radio
P-D letter: "Doctors for Democracy" co-founder Emily
Bahram-Ahi wants Blunt and Hawley to spend taxpayer money on "safe
vote-at-home methods"
P-D letter: Hazelwood septuagenarian considers
editorial praising Cori Bush to be "demeaning"
P-D letter: Arch to Park CEO Jason Hall applauds
Medicaid expansion
P-D letter: O'Fallon sexagenarian urges vote against
Jay Ashcroft over back-to-school comments
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Monday, August 10, 2020
This Week in Missouri Politics: State Senate candidate
Dave Lenihan talks with Scott Faughn about COVID, violent crime;
Panel of MOGOP's Jean Evans, Victory Enterprises' Brett Dinkins, Rep.
Wiley Price IV (D-St. Louis City), Yinka Faleti's Forrest Richardson
talk Cori Bush victory, state legislative primaries, Medicaid
expansion, Gov. Parson vs. Nicole Galloway, more
Columbia Missourian: Organizers of anti-nuke rally
disappointed by turnout; Septuagenarian peace activist recounts
Vietnam protests, says kids today don't care
CDT: Protest against lifesaving 1945 U.S. military
actions draws 30
SE
Missourian: Cape County Clerk Kara Clark Summers, staff guide
coronavirus-era election, prepare for November
Missourinet: Missouri designates $7.5 million to help
schools cover costs of PPE and cleaning
KWMU: DHSS Director Randall Williams says Missouri's
diversity means "one-size-fits-all strategy" on virus won't work
Missourinet: Missouri's online system to report
allegations of adult abuse and neglect has been restored
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: At some point,
Missouri government must deliver on medical marijuana
SE
Missourian op-ed: Cape County Clerk Kara Clark Summers: A
thank you to those who participate in elections
Joplin Globe letter: Carl Junction septuagenarian says
local voters' rejection of Medicaid expansion shows Globe editorial
board out of touch with residents
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Sunday, August 9, 2020
JCNT: Paycheck Protection Program loans brought nearly
$100M into Jefferson City, retained more than 14,000 jobs
P-D: Anti-police marchers vandalize federal building
downtown; Spray-paint messaging includes "Frederal [sic] po = fascist control," other
pithy catchphrases
Washington Missourian: Area gun sellers see sales
soar; Shop owner says Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots and "defund
police" movement are encouraging citizens to defend themselves
JCNT: Lawmakers discuss impact of special session
crime bill
St. Joseph News-Press: Lawmakers getting closer on
special session bill
SNL: Legislative preview: Lawmakers may fund
Medicaid expansion, or not
JCNT: Stakeholders discuss road to Missouri Medicaid
expansion
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Louis Riggs (R-Hannibal)
discusses 2021 legislative priorities
P-D: Daily regional China virus update
KC Star editorial: Missouri Republicans risk lives to
score political points with push to reopen schools
SNL op-ed: Ozarks Food Harvest CEO Bart Brown:
Blunt, Hawley should ensure stimulus bill includes SNAP funds
P-D's Taylor Tiamoyo Harris: Local heroes lead St.
Louis' protest movement
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Saturday, August 8,
2020
SNL: Gov. Parson, Nicole Galloway commit to Missouri
Press Association debate
SNL: Nicole Galloway attacks Gov. Parson on COVID-19
and Medicaid expansion in Springfield visit
JCNT: Clean Missouri campaign, state make cases over
Amendment 3 ballot language
SE
Missourian: Kathy Swan picks up two votes in Cape County official
results
AP: Technical problems change election count in Clay
County
P-D: Absentees, mail-ins made up a third of St. Louis
County's Tuesday vote total
CDT: Ballot beats deadline as voter works around post
office
JCNT: Crime bill passes Missouri Senate into House
AP: Missouri Senate advances crime bill, which now
heads to House
KWMU: Missouri Senate advances Gov. Parson's violent
crime legislation
Missourinet: Missouri House committee to hear
testimony Tuesday from Margie Vandeven and Randall Williams about
COVID-19
The Missouri Times: Galloway alleges transportation
issues in Hawley's AG office in new audit
SNL: Missouri launches new COVID-19 case reporting
system
P-D: Daily regional China virus update: Missouri
cases fall
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D editorial briefs: Luetkemeyer wrong on questioning
of Fauci
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Make Medicaid
expansion work
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's Blake
Hurst: Missouri's amendment process encourages irresponsible
spending
Messenger: From COVID to Medicaid expansion, Missouri
governor's race revolves around health care
SNL letter: The Nature Conservancy in Missouri's Holly
Neill thanks Blunt, Clay, Cleaver, Long for co-sponsoring Great
American Outdoors Act
KC Star letter: Liberty man wants statewide mask
mandate, castigates Gov. Parson for "total lack of empathy" on
back-to-school topic
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Friday, August 7, 2020
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air preview: Reflections
on the Clay dynasty: Thoughts from Cori Bush, Morning Consult's
Eli Yokley, former P-D reporters Tim Poor and Deirdre Shesgreen
St. Joseph News-Press: Profile: Woman filling
Democratic ballot slot for Sam Graves' November re-election
KWMU: St. Louis gets more federal agents to help tame
violent criminals
P-D: Feds launch St. Louis anti-crime initiative as
homicide rate climbs
Missourinet: St. Louis officials welcome federal
agents' help with violent crime surge
SE
Missourian: Scott, Cape counties reject Medicaid expansion
SE
Missourian: Kathy Swan says primary is 'over' but does not concede
The Missouri Times: Young Americans for Liberty sees
victory in nearly half of its targeted Missouri primary races
The Missouri Times: June 2020 general revenue report
shows dramatic increase over 2019
SE
Missourian: AG Eric Schmitt intervenes in broadband grant
challenge in southeast Missouri
Missourinet: Governor calls on Missouri counties to
send CARES Act funding to health departments
The Missouri Times: Violent crime bill advances in
Senate after heated 12-hour day
Missourinet: Missouri Senate gives initial approval to
crimefighting package
P-D: Gov. Parson's crime crackdown advances
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Public defender, SLU
prof bash anti-crime efforts
JCNT: Anti-crimefighting rally draws 70
Columbia Missourian: Gov. Parson, state university
heads stress safe campus environments
CDT: Gov. Parson meets with University of Missouri,
Lincoln University officials about reopening campuses
P-D: Daily regional China virus update: New
COVID hospitalizations see two-day drop
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SE
Missourian: Cape County faring better than state with coronavirus
The Missouri Times: PSC considers rates and tariffs
filed by Evergy as part of Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment Act
JCNT editorial: Criticism of Ashcroft's back-to-school
comments is fair
KC Star editorial: KC-area voters backed hate in
Democratic, Republican state rep primaries
The Missouri Times op-ed: Ron Calzone: Lessons
from the Mike Moon Senate race
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Thursday, August 6,
2020
Rosenbaum: "Black Girl Magic" defines unpredictable
Missouri primary results: Top election questions answered
P-D: "Black Girl Magic": Successful Democratic
primary candidates celebrate themselves in downtown St. Louis
Messenger: It's a new day in Missouri politics. Black
Women Matter, and can carry Democrats to victory in November.
P-D: Political climate was just right for Bush to
topple Clay dynasty; Comments from SLU prof Ken Warren (D)
AP: Cori Bush claims to have been beaten by police
during 2014 Ferguson riots: "I will be holding every single one
of them accountable"
Washington Missourian: Franklin County votes 62-38
against Medicaid expansion
P-D: Medicaid expansion roll-out talks just getting
started
Columbia Missourian: Missouri's Medicaid expansion
won't happen until July 2021
St. Joseph News-Press: Medicaid expansion will provide
resources for local clinics
KC Star: Gov. Parson says he will respect voters'
decision on Medicaid expansion
Joplin Globe: Gov. Parson on Medicaid expansion's
budget toll: "We'll just have to find the money to pay for it,
and we'll figure that out"
AP: Galloway says she's best suited to expand Medicaid
KC Star: Yinka Faleti, filling Democratic ballot slot
against Jay Ashcroft, criticizes incumbent for back-to-school comments
The Missouri Times: Holly Rehder narrowly wins SD 27
nomination
The Missouri Times: Jason Bean, Mike Moon win
Republican Senate primaries
The Missouri Times: Karla Eslinger upsets Robert Ross
in SD 33 primary
The Missouri Times: Steve Roberts, Angela Mosley win
St. Louis-area Senate primaries
The Missouri Times: Barbara Washington sails through
primary to represent SD 9
St. Joseph News-Press: Hawley: Relief should
focus on 'real people, real jobs'
Missourinet: VP Mike Pence calls Gov. Parson to offer
additional resources during pandemic
Missourinet: DHSS: Four have tested positive for
COVID during special session testing at Missouri Capitol
AP: 4 test positive for virus as Missouri lawmakers
return to work
Columbia Missourian: Gov. Parson praises Missouri
school districts as they brace for COVID-19
P-D: Gov. Parson says he's disappointed Lake of the
Ozarks crowd ignored social distancing
P-D: Daily regional China virus update: St.
Louis area sees dip in new coronavirus hospitalizations
P-D: St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann has no
plans to bow to critics, force mask mandate
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
JCNT: As schools prepare to open, state releases more
guidance
P-D: Lawmakers to review coronavirus response and
Missouri school plans
AP: Missouri lawmakers advance crime bill
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air preview: Missouri
State Public Defender's Sara Johnson, SLU law prof to criticize Gov.
Parson and GOP lawmakers over crime proposals
JCNT: Protesters plan second agitation stunt in
Jefferson City today; Group opposes lawmakers' efforts to curb
crime
P-D editorial: Voters who picked Cori Bush over Lacy
Clay made a legitimate, though not necessarily realistic, choice
Joplin Globe editorial: Gov. Parson, GOP lawmakers
should accept voters' decision on Medicaid expansion
KC Star editorial: Nearly two years later, why are
Missouri patients still waiting for medical marijuana?
KC Star op-ed: Central Park Five's Yusef Salaam:
Missouri must reject law to put children in prison
P-D letter: St. Louis man says Post-Dispatch and
Wesley Bell seem disappointed in truth about police assailant Michael
Brown
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Wednesday, August 5,
2020 Primary election
results
Jason Rosenbaum for NPR: Activist Cori Bush ousts Rep.
Lacy Clay in Missouri primary upset
P-D: Cori Bush shocks Lacy Clay in congressional
primary
KWMU: Cori Bush upsets Lacy Clay in Democratic primary
Missourinet: Longtime Missouri congressman defeated in
Democratic primary
JCNT: Luetkemeyer rolls in GOP primary
St. Joseph News-Press: Graves benefits from strong GOP
showing
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson first sitting governor
in 3 decades to be nominated by Republicans for second term
JCNT: Missourians advance incumbent Republicans in
governor, lieutenant governor races
Missourinet: Gov. Mike Parson and Nicole Galloway
square off in Missouri governor's race
KC Star: Missouri Democrats pick candidates to fill
ballot slots in November
P-D: Missouri voters narrowly expand Medicaid expansion
SNL: Missourians OK Medicaid expansion
Columbia Missourian: Missouri voters approve Medicaid
expansion in tight statewide race
The Missouri Times: Missouri expands Medicaid with
Amendment 2 approval
Missourinet: Missouri becomes 38th state to expand
Medicaid
KWMU: Missouri becomes 38th state to expand Medicaid
KC Star: Medicaid expansion passes in Missouri
The Missouri Times: Bill Eigel wins primary despite
last-minute dark money effort
SE
Missourian: Holly Rehder ekes out state Senate win;
Wallingford, Burger win House races
Missourinet: Rehder beats Swan by 141 votes in heated
GOP primary
The Missouri Times: Gannon wins SD3 GOP nomination
The Missouri Times: Brattin edges out Bondon in close
Senate race
Missourinet: Brattin clinches nomination for Missouri
Senate District 31
Missourinet: Mike Moon to replace term-limited Sater
in southwest Missouri
P-D: Steve Roberts wins Democratic primary to succeed
Sen. Jamilah Nasheed
JCNT: 'Pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-military'
Willard Haley wins in District 58
JCNT: Bruce Sassmann earns Republican nomination for
Missouri House District 62 seat
JCNT: Lisa Ann Thomas of Four Seasons will take
District 124 seat
St. Joseph News-Press: Dean VanSchoiack advances in
House District 9 GOP primary
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: 'Election Insiders'
book goes behind the scenes with the St. Louis County Election Board
P-D: Mask mandate causes St. Louis County man to walk
away from poll without voting
The Missouri Times: Ryan Rowden branches out with own
firm
Missourinet: President signs Blunt-backed bill to help
spruce up national park system
KWMU: States look to federal coronavirus funds to help
meatpackers
Joplin Globe op-ed: U.S. Rep. Billy Long:
Once-in-a-generation conservation effort wins support
P-D letter: Woman who helped her children escape
Riverview Gardens School District encourages parents to utilize
Missouri Course Access Program and virtual learning
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Tuesday, August 4,
2020 Primary election
results (available after 7 p.m.)
Missourinet: Despite earlier plans, GM has been able
to keep third shift at Wentzville plant
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
recap: Sen. Andrew Koenig (R-Manchester) on St. Louis City's
murder epidemic; Panel talks special session, COVID, more
P-D: Parson PAC fined for reporting lapses tied to two
fundraising trips
Missourinet: August election preview: Three
Republicans seeking to replace term-limited Cunningham in southern
Missouri
Joplin Globe: August election preview: 159th
District seat to be decided in primary again: Rep. Dirk Deaton
(R-Noel) vs. Mark Bartley
The Missouri Times: Jackson County sheriff candidate
addresses voter fraud concerns
SNL: Missouri set to report election results at usual
schedule
P-D: 'Door monitors' to hand out masks at St. Louis
County polling places for today's primary
St. Joseph News-Press: Governor confers with campus
leaders on COVID
P-D: COVID-19 hospital projections in St. Louis area
starting to improve, pandemic task force says
The Missouri Times: Updated county-by-county list of
positive coronavirus cases
P-D: China virus claims more than 500 Missouri nursing
home residents, federal report says
P-D editorial: If the truth won't defeat Amendment 2,
let lies do the job
P-D editorial: In helping Greitens' Navy quest,
administration again politicizes the military
KC Star letter: Kansas woman agrees with Hawley on
Supreme Court 'disappointment'
P-D letter: Manchester sexagenarian offers mock praise
to U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner for "finding her voice" on coronavirus
P-D letter: American Lung Association in Missouri's
Chris Scaglione encourages 'Yes' vote on Medicaid expansion
KC Star letter: St. Joseph septuagenarian says
expanding Medicaid shows care for others
P-D letter: University City woman says GOP state
lawmakers shows disdain for children
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Monday, August 3, 2020
Missourinet:
Sen. Blunt optimistic a compromise can be reached this week on stimulus
package
Joplin Globe: Blunt stumps for HEALS Act relief package
Joplin Globe: Video: Blunt discusses vaccine
options
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Farm Bureau President
Blake Hurst set to wrap up his tenure
This Week in Missouri Politics: Sen. Andrew Koenig
(R-Manchester) talks with Scott Faughn about violent crime package,
concurrent jurisdiction bill, kids returning to schools, more;
Panel of Reps. Doug Beck (D-Affton), Phil Christofanelli (R-St.
Peters), attorney Brad Bakker and St. Louis Young Republicans President
Frank Catanzaro on violent crime, COVID and schools, Medicaid
expansion, more
Missourinet: August election preview: Amendment 2
Missourinet: August election preview: Holly
Rehder vs. Kathy Swan
SE
Missourian: Missouri secretary of state's office answers
frequently asked primary questions
KC Star: What to expect at the polls on Tuesday
P-D: Positive COVID cases slow in Missouri, St. Louis
Joplin Globe endorsement: 'Yes' on Amendment 2
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's Eric
Bohl: Amendment 2 not the answer to Missouri's health care
problems
P-D letter: St. Louis County septuagenarian sasy GOP
opposition to Medicaid expansion is based on "hatred" for former
President Obama
Joplin Globe letter: Lamar sexagenarian urges 'Yes'
vote on Medicaid expansion, says feds will pick up the tab
P-D letter: Louisiana sexagenarian says GOP lawmakers
will kill Medicaid expansion no matter election outcome
P-D letter: Webster Groves woman wants state lawmakers
to focus on "root causes" of urban violence, like "racism, inequality
and lax gun control laws"
Columbia Missourian letter: Woman new to Missouri
offers litany of complaints about state, wants Missouri to be more like
California, Oregon and New Jersey
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Sunday, August 2, 2020
St. Joseph News-Press: Sen. Blunt talks Senate
stimulus act at Mosaic Life Care
Brownfield Ag News: U.S. Rep. Billy Long, others work
to protect ag fairs
St. Joseph News-Press: Area residents'
nightmare: First the flooding, then the looters and lawyers
St. Joseph News-Press: August election preview:
Medicaid expansion
Joplin Globe: August election preview: Medicaid
expansion
Columbia Missourian: Candidate bios: Governor
Columbia Missourian: Candidate bios: Lieutenant
governor
Columbia Missourian: Candidate bios: Secretary
of state
Columbia Missourian: Candidate bios: State
treasurer
Columbia Missourian: Precautions will be in place
during 2020 primary election Tuesday
KWMU: Election Day preview: Safety measurers,
key regional races
P-D: NAACP, City Dems, others complain about postal
delays for mail-in ballots
JCNT: Profile: New Missouri Veterans Commission
Executive Director Paul Kirchhoff
KC Star: Some Missouri counties slow to implement
programs funded by fed's coronavirus dollars
KC Star editorial: Missouri, other states must protect
our elections during COVID-19. Sen. Roy Blunt can help
P-D editorial: New investigation, same disappointing
result for Michael Brown's family
P-D's Jack Suntrup: Mailer advocating "No" vote on
Medicaid expansion is xenophobic
Washington Missourian letter: Washington
septuagenarian says Gov. Parson and GOP legislators opposed Medicaid
expansion because they "didn't want to support any programs by a black
Democrat president"
P-D letter: St. Louis City septuagenarian mocks Gov.
Parson and "backwards, rural legislators," wishes "St. Louis would
secede from the land of Misery"
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Saturday, August 1, 2020
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KC Star: Operation LeGend in action: Man
arrested by federal agents for illegal firearm possession
KC Star: Operation LeGend in action: Feds detail
more than 100 arrests for dope, guns
JCNT: Governor extends work of state's Census committee
Rosenbaum: 9 questions about Missouri's Aug. 4 primary
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Medicaid
expansion: Siteman's Tim Eberlein and Missouri Foundation for
Health's Ryan Barker in support, Show-Me Institute's Patrick Ishmael in
opposition
SE
Missourian: August election preview: Holly Rehder vs. Kathy
Swan
SE
Missourian: August election preview: Three local state rep
races
KC Star: Navy gave Eric Greitens 'red carpet' return
after involvement of VP Pence
The Missouri Times: Missouri Farm Bureau's Eric Bohl
takes readers inside a 'Fractured Republic' with new novel
The Missouri Times: "Next Steps" legislative preview
series: Rep. Travis Fitzwater (R-Holts Summit) seeks to ban
non-compete agreements
Missourinet: Missouri's online reporting system for
adult abuse is out of service
The Missouri Times: Updated list of coronavirus
executive orders signed by Gov. Parson
The Missouri Times: Updated county-by-county list of
positive coronavirus cases
P-D: Daily regional China virus update
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SE
Missourian editorial: The arguments for and against Medicaid
expansion
Joplin Globe editorial: Gov. Parson should mandate
masks statewide
KC Star op-ed: Missouri Rural Crisis Center's Darvin
Bentlage: Support bipartisan Hawley-Duckworth plan to help U.S.
meat industries
The Missouri Times op-ed: House Budget Chair Cody
Smith (R-Carthage): Medicaid expansion will result in cuts to
Missouri public schools
The Missouri Times op-ed: Independence Mayor Eileen
Weir: Vetoing HB 1854 was the right thing to do
Messenger: From Chillicothe to Pacific, COVID-19
spreads like wildfire through Missouri prisons
SE
Missourian letter: Scott City woman supports Medicaid expansion
SE
Missourian letter: Ste. Genevieve man says loving your neighbor
means voting for Medicaid expansion
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