Saturday, December 31
P-D: Trump advisers says Cardinal Dolan choice for
inaugural an example of desire to reach out
AP: McCaskill's tweet spree expresses displeasure with
Trump's comments on Putin
P-D's
Chuck Raasch: "<X> questions" journomeme: 4 questions
regarding
Trump: Impact on St. Louis area businesses, McCaskill's
re-election
P-D: Clay says he won't remove painting in U.S.
Capitol tunnel depicting police officers as pigs
TonysKansasCity.com:
Political power rankings: Sen.-elect John Rizzo triumphs over
city's
vindictive girl-power cabal; Sen. Jason Holsman keeps radicals at
arms-length and can work with GOP; Rep. Deron McGee an
up-and-coming
House superminority member
SE
Missourian: Peter Kinder prepares to leave political office after
24 years +
The Missouri Times: Ryan McKenna appointed to State
Tax Commission
The Missouri Times: Inauguration Day 2017: What
you should know
The Missouri Times: Profile: Greitens campaign
manager Austin Chambers
P-D: Greitens brings in former aide Paul Eisenstein to
help in hiring process
KC
Star's Jason Hancock: Former Huffington Post editor Jimmy Soni to
take
role in Greitens administration; Recap of Gawker.com's original
2014
reporting, plus unattributed criticism from former HuffPo co-workers
who didn't like him and/or thought he was flirting with interns +
KWMU:
Jay Ashcroft transition team continues work, names SOS staff:
Steele
Shippy as deputy COS, David Minnick to lead Securities Division
P-D: Ashcroft says he has had "great discussions" with
Kander regarding SOS transition
P-D: Nicole Galloway says birth of third child won't
interrupt work
KWMU: Election Commissioners pick Rick Stream as GOP
director for St. Louis County
P-D: St. Louis County Board of Election Commissioners
taps Stream for GOP director post
P-D: Sweeping changes to Missouri's criminal code take
place tomorrow
CDT: UM Review Commission recommends change to law
capping tuition X
CDT:
Meeting to complain about new school behavior/punishment standards
draws less than a dozen; Woman complains of "cultural bias" in
punishing bad behavior X
P-D: Tesla's license to sell cars in Missouri expiring
The Missouri Times: Cybersecurity Task Force releases
action plan to improve
P-D: New state park in Jefferson County will open next
week
KWMU:
Supporters of convicted rapist/murderer Reginald Clemons uphappy with
request by Jennifer Joyce (D) to move prosecutorial duties to AG office
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Friday, December 30
USA Today: Thanks to Blunt, Trump's inauguration will
have a Missouri flavor
The Missouri Times: New magazine to debut at Capitol
next month: A sneak peek at Top 10 quotes of 2016
Rosenbaum:
A look back at Missouri's eventful and exhausting political year:
Trump landslide, Blunt-Kander, GOP statewide primaries, SJR 39, much
more
KWMU: Mannies, Rosenbaum and statehouse reporter
Marshall Griffin review the year in Missouri politics
KWMU:
Our favorite photos of 2016: 17 featuring African-Americans, 2
(two)
starring Caucasoids - including overhead shot of Missouri House members
SNL:
Top stories of 2016: Man exercises concealed-carry rights to
protect
wife from knife-wielding savage; Primary election coverage;
More X
The Missouri Time: Greitens camp says they're close to
announcing Chief Operating Officer
KWMU: Greitens plans to chart a new path in Jefferson
City, with no parade
The Missouri Times: Greitens camp says new gov is
'serious' about ethics push
Missourinet: Greitens' first State of the State
address won't include budget talk
P-D: Greitens likely to block push for new tax breaks
The Missouri Times: Sen. Bob Onder (R-Lake Saint
Louis) receives 'Family Champion' award from Missouri Family Policy
Council
Drebes:
Rep. Jason Chipman (R-Steelville) was elected House Caucus Secretary -
what does it mean?
KWMU: Democrats Fred Wessels, Donna Baringer leave
behind safe aldermanic seats to join House superminority
P-D: Missouri campaign contribution limits remain in
place after latest hearing
Dexter
Statesman: Thanks to Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, state building to be
named for Mike Keathley +
Columbia Missourian: Marijuana law in Missouri eases
up with new year
P-D: Missouri panel calls for big changes on campus
with regards to tuition
Missourinet: UM System Review Commission releases
report; two-year funding cycle recommended
KWMU: Occupational diversity, 2-year budgets among
recommendations for University of Missouri System
AP: Proposal from Rep. T.J. Berry (R-Clay County)
offers solution for LGBTQIA* marriage debate: Remove the state
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Becky Ruth (R-Festus)
would add two more life-threatening diseases to newborn screenings list
KFEQ (St. Joseph): National Guard training site to be
built in Buchanan County; Comments from Maj. Gen. Stephen Danner
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville) to submit
dicamba
legislation next week; One of three proposals will raise
accountability for farmers who choose to misuse herbicide and damage
neighbors' crops +
The Missouri Times: New report shows decrease in
nationwide crime, increase in Missouri incarceration
P-D:
Judge agrees to assign retrial in Chain of Rocks murders to state
attorney general; Reginald Clemons and pals raped two Hazelwood
East
grads, pushed them off bridge to their death
P-D: Radiation testing concludes after after two
Bridgeton homes are checked
Waters: Greitens and new GOP legislators might be
"relative no-nothings," but life could turn out okay after all X
Huffington Post op-ed: Jason Kander: What being
a liberal in a red state has taught me
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Thursday, December 29
KODE: Blunt visits Boys & Girls Club in Joplin,
reads to children and takes questions from middle-schoolers
KZRG: Blunt visits Joplin Boys & Girls Club
SNL: Blunt, family visit Ozarks Food Harvest;
12-year-old Charlie saved allowance to make donation to group X
Washington Examiner: Kander continues national
campaign by baiting Trump via Twitter, makes cutting remark about
president-elect's relationship with deceased father; No response
from Trump
P-D: A year later, scars from winter flooding remain
The Missouri Times: Greitens announces pre-election
"thank you" tour; List of cities, dates and times
P-D: Greitens to embark on "thank you" tour of state
next week
Missourinet: Nixon reflects on time in office
Drebes:
New state Capitol access protocol, security steps to take effect in
January
Missourinet: Provisions involving changes to
Missouri's gun laws begin January 1
Missourinet: Sen. Jeanie Riddle (R-Mokane) proposal
would provide health-information booklet to women being referred out of
state for abortions
CDT: Charter schools could see growth under Greitens X
SNL: Task force recommends MSU gain flexibility in
expanding doctoral, professional programs
KC Star: Former UMKC Chancellor George Russell dies at
95 +
KMIZ: Mizzou a big factor in 2016's Boone County
tourism increase; Missouri Dept. of Tourism's Dan Lennon says
football team (2-6 in SEC) joining high-profile conference has had
positive impact
The Missouri Times: Ridesharing, fantasy sports
legislation highlight pros and cons of markets acting before
government; Comments from Brian Grace, Rep. Elijah Haahr
(R-Springfield), Becky Lohmann, Danny Pfeifer
The Missouri Times: Major Gregory Kindle's retirement
marks another leadership departure from Highway Patrol
The Missouri Times: PSC files proposed Missouri Energy
Efficiency Investment Act (MEEIA) revisions with Secretary of State
The Missouri Times: Shareholders supporting Ameren,
KCP&L energy-efficiency goals
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Higher ed pathways
clarified; Some schools will be able to offer degrees outside
state-defined mission X
P-D's Kurt Erickson: GOP tax cuts will blow a hole in
the state deficit; Greitens offers few budget specifics, while
Republican legislators seek breaks for the country club crowd
P-D op-ed: Fathers' Support Center CEO Halbert
Sullivan: When Greitens meets with mothers of young miscreants,
he shouldn't forget about the role of their fathers, too
SNL op-ed: Area paleface drives north to deliver
cold-weather gear to Indian protesters, stays in South Dakota fishing
lodge X
KC Star letter: Member of KC gay men's chorus
appreciates coverage of area mom who let 4-year-old son start dressing
up like a girl +
P-D letter: Paper's roundup of 2016 deaths should have
included former state Sen. Betty Sims (R-Ladue), whose worked touched
thousands of area Girl Scouts
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Wednesday, December 28
Missourinet: Blunt emphasizes jobs, opportunities and
nutrition during tour of Boys & Girls Club of Columbia
CDT: Blunt promises work on child nutrition, mental
health during Boys & Girls Club visit
Columbia Missourian: Boys & Girls Club host annual
visit from Blunt
KMIZ: Blunt visits Boys and Girls Club of Columbia,
talks job creation, Trump and Greitens
CNN: Trump's Supreme Court short list includes Spanish
Lake, Mo. native Ray Gruender
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt urges support for
contract air towers
KWMU's 2016 Diversity Fellow Jenny Simeone: Hostility
in high school hallways - caused by Donald Trump - subsides in
Ladue; School district says it will remedy teenagers'
interpersonal drama by giving hiring preference to non-whites
The Missouri Times: 10 This Week in Missouri Politics
episodes to count down the new year: Nixon, Greitens, Don Gosen,
more
Rosenbaum: After 8 years, Nixon's governorship leaves
important lessons
Helling: Q&A with Jay Nixon; Governor shares
thoughts on campaign finance laws, economic accomplishments,
non-partisan approach to job, Ferguson ("perhaps I wasn't the savior or
savant or whatever there"), sports team successes
The Missouri Times: Agriculture community
agrees: Greitens' pick for ag director is a slam dunk
Missourinet: Fifth-generation farmer Chris Chinn
chosen to lead Missouri Department of Agriculture
Columbia Missourian: Greitens names Chris Chinn new
state agriculture director
AP:
Greitens picks Chris Chinn as Missouri's new agriculture director
P-D: Greitens names Chris Chinn new director of
Missouri's Department of Agriculture
KODE: Speaker Pro Tem Ron Richard urges caution on
eliminating corporate taxes, says Missouri doesn't want to be like
Kansas
KWMU: "Curious Louis" series: Jason Rosenbaum
explores why Missourians are forced to pay personal property taxes
The Missouri Times: Speaker Pro Temp Elijah Haahr
(R-Springfield) names Phillip Arnzen new chief of staff
KWMU: Missouri criminal code rewrite includes looser
pot penalties and a new felony class
KWMU: Raising marriage age seen as a weapon against
human trafficking
Missourinet: Record holiday travel nationwide mirrored
in Missouri
Missourinet: Majority of people killed in Missouri
crashes over Christmas not wearing seat belts
P-D: Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City) among dozens
of legislators pre-filing bills; Recent carjacking victim files
bill regarding stolen guns
P-D: EPA begins testing homes in Bridgeton; Area
couple claims their own "independent" test found radioactive dust,
wants cash payout from landfill operators
P-D editorial: Trump warplane trade-in deal just won't
work. Too bad for St. Louis.
Messenger: Update on man unhappy about being arrested
in Ferguson
P-D op-ed: St. Charles man wants Nixon to commute
death sentences for every murderer on death row
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Tuesday, December 27
P-D: 2016 in review, photo gallery: Biden greets
female stranger at St. Louis campaign stop, presses his face against
hers (#14); Urban Hispanics celebrate Mexico's Independence Day
by bashing Trump pinata, weeks before Americans elect Trump president
(#13)
AP: 2016 in review: GOP dominance, Ferguson
settlement, anti-police violence, changes at University of Missouri
Missourinet: Jason Smith: America's health care
system must be patient-centered
KWMU: One year later, communities still recovering
from flooding
KWMU: City and federal government soon to sign
agreement on land for NGA facility
P-D: Gov. Jay Nixon's exit interview: Paper
assigns retrospective of 30+-year public servant to two first-year
Capitol reporters
97.1FM (St. Louis): Allman in the Morning: Sen.
Bob Onder (Lake Saint Louis) with guest host Tim Jones on how 'right to
work' will help union members (12:45), tort reform (15:30), keeping
law-abiding citizens safe even in St. Louis City (17:00), more
Missourinet: Washington University sociology
professor/union advocate Jake Rosenfeld criticizes 'right to
work'; Comments from Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston)
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Incoming
Rep. Fred Wessels (D-St. Louis City) on expectations upon joining House
Democratic superminority
Drebes:
St. Louis Regional Chamber expects Greitens to support earned income
tax credit
KWMU: Q&A with MoDOT Director Patrick McKenna on
transportation funding, expectations for Greitens, more
SNL: Hoping to spur exports, Missouri advertises trade
shows in the United Arab Emirates X
P-D: Dispute offered over degree offerings from
Missouri State and the University of Missouri
The Missouri Times: Dept. of Higher Education, task
force set to improve degree programs
Missourinet: Ag Director Richard Fordyce:
Missouri's rice and biodiesel industries rank high
P-D editorial: Misbehaving in school shouldn't make a
kid a felon
CDT op-ed: Terry Ganey: Trump & Co. turn to
lies and statistics; At electors' vote, Missouri state rep drives
by liberal protesters and mocks them: "Wah, wah, wah!" X
KC Star letter: Gladstone sexagenarian warns
McCaskill, Blunt and Graves that they better not cut Medicare benefits
- or else +
P-D letter: O'Fallon liberal wants GOP supermajority
and Republican governor to repeal last year's business tax breaks
P-D letter: Valley Park septuagenarian appreciates
Post-Dispatch adding conservative Stacy Washington to help balance
paper's liberalism
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Monday, December 26
KOLR: Missouri State University polisci prof Brian
Calfano: Trump correct in calling out questionable military
spending
Missourinet: Former U.S. Senate candidate Jason Kander
continues raising national profile, appears on MSNBC to criticize
Trump's cabinet picks
Washington Missourian: Nixon lauds progress on future
Rock Island Trail State Park X
AP: With Greitens' blessing, lawmakers aim for
lobbyist-gift ban
KC Star: School-choice advocates see opening in
Missouri +
AP: Cape Girardeau student pulls rare feat:
Perfect ACT, SAT test scores; Minority female chooses to work
hard, achieves success
SNL: New TSA signs at airport note looming deadline
for REAL ID fix X
Daily Journal: Incoming state Rep. Mike Henderson
(R-Desloge) looks forward to working with new colleagues
P-D editorial: With Donald Trump as president,
Missouri schools should spend more money to fight "rape culture"
P-D editorial: Carl Icahn, famed St. Louis business
villain, is now a presidential adviser
Messenger: Nixon's last stand: Does St. Louis
want to be Major League, or not?
P-D's Nicklaus: 'Right to work' passage may be fait
accompli, but St. Louis leaders must focus on all-important
talent-attraction strategy
KC Star letter: Kansas City sexagenarian uses Sheena
Greitens' robbery to criticize gov-elect's position on Second Amendment +
P-D letter: St. Louis City community organizer
disagrees with conservative columnist's suggestions for dealing with
Missouri's budding criminals
P-D letter: St. Charles septuagenarian wishes everyone
would stop being so doom-and-gloom and start embracing 2017
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Sunday, December 25 Merry Christmas!
Missourinet: Missouri electors not penalized if they
fail to back the party's nominee; Insight from Hartzler press
secretary Steve Walsh
SNL: Missouri growing, but not as fast as nation as a
whole
CNN: Minimum wage set to rise yet again in Missouri
AP: Republican majorities in Missouri, other states
will focus on 'right to work' in 2017
SNL: Let hogs loose, pay huge fine under bill from
Rep. Sonya Anderson (R-Springfield)
KC Star: LGBTQIA* advocates in Missouri expect to play
defense in upcoming legislative session
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri counties show high
conviction rates
CDT op-ed: Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia):
Response to Waters' column dismissing ethics legislation
Messenger: Update on woman who left two toddlers alone
for hours to fend for themselves in apartment; Firefighters had
to pull toddlers out of smoky abode after fire broke out
P-D letter: Ferguson septuagenarian wonders why Bruce
Franks left his car doors unlocked while sitting in a dark parking lot
P-D letter: Chesterfield man says rehabbing drug
offenders wastes money that could be spent on social programs for
law-abiding Missourians
SNL letter: Feminist MSU English prof disagrees with
Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) on abortion
KC Star letter: Area octogenarian female says
"good-looking, shapely women" should avoid Donald Trump;
Unattractive and/or amorphous blobs presumed to be safe
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Saturday, December
24 Christmas Eve
The Missouri Times: Jason Smith looking forward to
change in new U.S. House leadership role
P-D: Providers say women are seeking longer-term birth
control before Obamacare is repealed and replaced; Comments from
Planned Parenthood, young woman, hospital rep
P-D: 2016 in review: Voters turn Missouri
redder: Comments from one-half of Post-Dispatch polisci prof
pundit pool (Ken Warren, SLU)
KC Star: Local woman's transgender-tot fundraising
campaign gets boost with National Geographic cover photo; Debi
Jackson's son decided at age 4 that he wanted to be a girl +
Missourinet: South-central Missouri VA office expands
its business hours
Missourinet: Missouri State Highway Patrol to have
more troopers on the road this weekend
The Missouri Times: Sen. Bob Onder (R-Lake Saint
Louis) picks Ryan Nonnemaker as new chief of staff
The Missouri Times: Rep.-elect Bruce Franks (D-St.
Louis City), ArchCity Defenders legal team sue Berkeley Police
Department over 2014 arrest, want cash payout
P-D: Franks wants cash payout for "physical and
psychological injuries" suffered at protest arrest
AP: Nixon pardons 12 more convicted of theft, drug
crimes
KWMU: Despite hysteria, school fights could already
result in felony charges in Missouri
KWMU: New year, old issue: Lawmakers will try
again to change student transfer rules
KC Star: Homeowners associations from hell: more
horror stories, more fraud - and prospect of legislative action;
Comments from Rep. Bryan Spencer (R-Wentzville) +
P-D: Missouri DSS helps in lost-baby case;
Chesterfield woman tells cops elaborate tale of "losing" her baby while
visiting Normandy, gets charged with criminal abuse/neglect of child
McClellan: Former P-D columnist provides health update
P-D letter: Bridgeton man responds to paper's
criticism of Greitens transition, wonders why Post-Dispatch doesn't let
public sit in on all of its private meetings
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Friday, December 23
Buzzfeed: Pro-Obamacare group gears up for repeal
fight; "Protect Our Care" claims credit for rallies in Missouri,
other states
Kraske: The Chat: Obamacare advocate on
enrollment numbers; Nixon on his economic legacy;
Rep.-elect Jean Evans (R-Manchester) on human trafficking +
SE
Missourian: Local car dealers: "Pre-election jitters"
spooked buyers, but sales have been up since election; Ford
dealer says people "feel more comfortable making decisions that involve
a considerable amount of money" +
KWMU: Ads from "Right Way Initiative" urge McCaskill
to support Trump agenda; 501(c)(4) keeps its donors secret
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Peter Kinder
reflects on career, his work to build modern-day GOP supermajorities,
and his future
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement
Brownfield Ag New: Missouri Farm Bureau study shows
agriculture's impact on Missouri's economy
Missourinet: Missouri Chamber, Missouri NFIB
optimistic about chances for tort-law overhaul
SNL: Nixon touts economic achievements in Springfield
visit X
The Missouri Times: Nixon touts growing attendance at
Missouri state parks
Missourinet: MoDOT program to promote traffic safety
to teens gets fresh face
P-D: Festus urges county to set up program to monitor
prescription drug sales
AP:
Appeals court: Missouri college's drug tests of all students
illegal
CDT: Educators use breakfast to lobby legislators for
more state funding X
Columbia Missourian: Despite STEM focus and funding,
low-income students continue to disappoint with poor test scores;
School administrators minimize value of testing
P-D: Schools say violent kids, bullies could be
charged with felonies; State legislation passed in 2014 sought to
protect majority of children from their most savage, disruptive peers
KWMU: ACLU files emergency motion to change
Ferguson-Florissant election process; Group says established
at-large elections, in place for decades, unfair to black candidates
SNL: Missouri Department of Conservation reports
halfway mark on results of deer samples being tested for chronic
wasting disease X
Brownfield Ag News: Former state ag directors
highlight livestock disease successes
P-D: Police nab trio that fired shots at St. Louis
City police officers; Two men, woman lead cops on chase, get
caught in Town & Country
Washington Missourian editorial: It's over, accept
it: Trump dominated in Missouri and won the presidential election X
P-D editorial: The canary in the opioid-epidemic coal
mine
SE
Missourian's Joe Simpson: A few thoughts about all those stadiums
in St. Louis +
SNL letter: Republic man responds to McCaskill
comments about crooked politicians, makes airplane reference X
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Thursday, December 22
SE
Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith: Congress will replace
Obamacare; roundtable discussion focuses on high cost of health
care +
SNL: Less than 200,000 in Missouri sign up for
Obamacare X
KC Star: Report shows 185,000 Obamacare enrollments in
Missouri +
AP: Obamacare enrollments in Missouri grew by less
than 4%
NY Times: McCaskill, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) aim
to stop firms from "buying up drugs and jacking up prices"
AP:
McCaskill urges action to block drastic drug-price hikes
KWMU: McCaskill highlights report showing increased
number of older Americans unable to pay their student loan debts
KWMU: Program created by Blunt will bolster Missouri
mental health clinics
P-D: Missouri one of eight states participating in
mental health treatment expansion pilot program
P-D's Chuck Raasch: 16 marks that '16 left: The
horror wrought by voters turning to non-mainstream ("fake") news, GOP
victories in Missouri, more
KWMU: Missouri's new donation limits bolster power of
political parties - and outside groups; Thoughts from John
Hancock, Todd Graves, Stephen Webber
P-D: Police find car stolen at gunpoint from state
Rep.-elect Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City) in St. Louis City;
Criminals remain on the loose
P-D: Nixon says state tax credits are ideal to clear
St. Louis site, with or without a soccer stadium
Missourinet: Nixon 'unaware' of Missouri Dept. of
Corrections allegations
P-D: Nixon said he had no knowledge of Corrections
Department issues "until some of that stuff burbled out in the press"
The Missouri Times: North Carolina corrections
official Anne Precythe tapped as new head of DOC
KC Star: New chief named for embattled Missouri prison
system +
Missourinet: Greitens names director of Missouri
Department of Corrections
AP:
Greitens chooses new director for Department of Corrections
P-D: Greitens names new Missouri prison chief
Columbia Missourian: Area women push for
developmental-disabilities legislation; Comments from Rowden,
Basye, Stevens
Missourinet: Legislative preview: Medicaid
Missourinet: Empower Missouri unhappy about changes to
state welfare programs
AP:
Onder says he won't revive religious-objections bill
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Auditor Nicole Galloway: Dunklin Co.
public administrator cited in push for new state anti-corruption law +
The Missouri Times: Rep.-elect Nick Schroer
(R-O'Fallon) looks to pass crime bills in first session
The Missouri Times: Rep.-elect Jean Evans
(R-Manchester) files marriage age bill aimed at fighting human
trafficking
The Missouri Times: PSC wraps up final agenda meeting
of 2016
Missourinet: Record 20 million people visit Missouri
state parks in 2016
SNL: Missouri Dept. of Conservation sets upcoming deer
and turkey hunting dates X
KWMU: Cumulative voting for Ferguson-Florissant school
board on hold
P-D: Ferguson-Florissant School District will keep
at-large voting for April election
P-D editorial: Galloway audit shows Pine Lawn
Municipal Court continues abuses. Time for intervention.
Priddy: Part III of anti-term-limits series
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Wednesday, December
21 First
Day of Winter
SNL: Obamacare defense campaign: Supporters
demonstrate outside Blunt's office; Three liberal groups join
forces to turn out forty (40) protesters X
Columbia Missourian: Obamacare defense campaign:
Missouri Rural Crisis Center press conference features Rep. Kip
Kendrick (D-Columbia), others; Man who chooses to be obese
complains about finding diabetes coverage
KOMU: Obamacare defense campaign: Press
conference features health care crusaders, human backdrops holding
campaign signs
Missourinet: Obamacare defense campaign:
Washington D.C. hunger group supports Obamacare, says repealing it will
hurt Missouri
KWMU: Obamacare defense campaign: Supporters
focus messaging on pre-existing condition themes; Stats from
Kaiser Family Foundation, sad stories from area gals with diseases
Missourinet: Wash U. prof says details of repealing
Obamacare will prove challenging for Republicans
Kraske: The Chat: Blunt on inauguration;
Greitens' transition team's agreement to not speak publicly +
SNL: Bass Pro Shops' Johnny Morris to co-chair Trump
charity event X
McClatchy: Senate's homeland security panel has a new
top Democrat watchdog: Claire McCaskill
Drebes:
McCaskill gives $10k of her own money to Missouri domestic violence
group
P-D: St. Louis prosecutor Jennifer Joyce (D) uncovers
'important evidence' in voter fraud probe, turns over case to feds
P-D: Bruce Franks adds new detail to robbery account,
says thieves took his gun too; Incoming state rep says he
couldn't describe perps, but surveillance video provides details
AP:
Nixon warns Democrats against shifting left; Party should stop
with "identify politics" division, try talking to "working folks"
Helling: Greitens should set strong tone early by
slowing aggressive GOP policy plans and focusing instead on ethics
legislation +
The Missouri Times: MLS stadium vote cancelled by
investors after Greitens' criticism
KWMU: After Greitens opposition, soccer stadium
backers hold off on state tax credits
AP:
Group postpones meeting over St. Louis soccer stadium plan
Missourinet: Nixon says he disagrees with Greitens on
soccer stadium funding
The Missouri Times: Greitens taps Anheuser-Busch exec
Michael Roche as chief of staff, Lucinda Luetkemeyer as general
counsel, Jennae Neustadt as legislative director, Will Scharf as policy
director
AP:
Greitens names Anheuser-Busch official Michael Roche to be chief of
staff
The Missouri Times: Co-ops ask for restraining order
in campaign finance lawsuit
Missourinet: Redmon expects 2017 to be tough budget
year; Speaker appoints Canton Republican to chair powerful new
subcommittee
Missourinet: Missouri ranks in top 10 for high school
graduation rate
KWMU: Two St. Louis schools closing in June; a
third gets a reprieve
P-D: Facing continued enrollment declines, St. Louis
public schools will close two more schools
Missourinet: Airbnb begins PR, lobbying campaign in
Missouri
P-D editorial: Greitens red-cards $40 million in state
spending on soccer stadium
P-D editorial: Greitens condemns backroom dealers,
then hides in a back room
Messenger: CDC issues call to action on opioid abuse.
Will Missouri listen?
St. Joseph News-Press' Alonzo Weston: Bag Head
Christmas 2016: Sexagenarian columnist has anti-conservative
conversation with imaginary homeless friend Baghead Jheri (Curl) X
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Tuesday, December 20
The Missouri Times: Despite pressure from those
unhappy about election results, Missouri electors cast their votes for
Trump
KWMU: Electoral gathering at Capitol draws total of
100 attendees, most anti-Trump; Some protesters break decorum,
scream after electors' votes are read
Missourinet: Trump opponents fail to sway Missouri
electors
P-D: Missouri electors unanimously cast their votes
for Donald Trump
P-D: As chair of Trump inauguration, Blunt puts it in
context of history, tradition
Columbia Missourian: Federal grant would help city
hire four new police officers
AP:
Obama pardons Missouri cocaine dealers: Tammy Twyone Francis,
Derwayne Williams, other dope slingers
P-D: State-rep elect Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City)
robbed at gunpoint in St. Louis City; Carjacking hoodlums drive
off with phones, other possessions after victim visited Schlafly Tap
Room
KTVI: Incoming state rep attempts to enjoy night out
in downtown St. Louis, gets robbed in parking lot of popular restaurant
at 7:30 p.m.
Rosenbaum: Assessing the emergence of an urban
Republican governor in Missouri
P-D: Greitens transition team members sign agreement
to not discuss publicly their activities
KWMU: Q&A with incoming Mike Parson:
Incoming lt. gov. talks Greitens, thoughts on Russ Carnahan, more
Kraske: The Chat: Nixon on his approach to
governing; Rep. Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) on ethics
legislation +
Missourinet: House Budget Chair Scott Fitzpatrick
(R-Shell Knob): $150 million in spending restrictions likely ahead
The Missouri Times: Lawmakers voice concerns about new
state parks
The Missouri Times: Greitens opposes taxpayer funding
for new St. Louis soccer stadium
Missourinet: Greitens blasts proposal for
taxpayer-funded St. Louis soccer stadium
AP:
Greitens opposes St. Louis soccer stadium funding
P-D: Greitens calls public money for stadium "welfare
for millionaires"
The Missouri Times: Captive cervids bill hopes to
expand ability of farmers to raise deer, elk
AP:
State audit: Pine Lawn fails to fix its municipal courts
P-D: State Auditor Nicole Galloway: Pine Lawn
fails to fix court problem after poor audit
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Corlew's bill a
workable compromise on REAL ID X
Columbia Missourian's C.W. Dawson: Kwanzaa celebration
to take place Dec. 30; Seasoned citizen dislikes his fellow black
men calling each other "dog" or "gangster," yearns for days when men
"called our women 'baby'"
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Monday, December 19
Riverfront Times: Area women organize anti-Trump
"silent demonstration" protest at Capitol today; Liberal gals
seek to prove point by trying to keep their their mouths shut
Missourinet: Missouri NFIB says national group's
"Optimism Index" has skyrocketed since Trump's election
KC Star: KC-area flood control projects receive $565
in federal money
P-D: New leader of St. Louis VA tries to stabilize
embattled health care agency
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Jay
Ashcroft; Panel of Jason Crowell, John Gaskin, Becky Lohmann,
Brian Wahby talk Greitens' first year, Trump, and most impressive
campaigns of 2016
Kraske: Missouri's Teddy Roosevelt: Nixon
cements his legacy as one of state's top conservation governors
KDNL (St. Louis): The Allman Report: Nicole
Galloway: We need to recover lost tax revenue; State
auditor talks bipartisan anti-corruption legislation, more
SNL: Democratic lawmakers push package of
ethics-overhaul bills to mimic Greitens' campaign pledges
Columbia Missourian: GOP supermajority will tweak
concealed-carry law to protect women from domestic abusers
St. Joseph News-Press: Bill from Rep. Galen Higdon
(R-St. Joseph) takes aim at prison overcrowding
Missourinet: Rep. Charlie Davis (R-Webb City) to
introduce proposal involving automated long-haul trucks
SE
Missourian: Rep. Donna Lichtenegger (R-Jackson) prefiles bill to
allow Jackson public-safety tax vote
JCNT: State approves future concerts on Missouri State
Penitentiary grounds
AP: Birds previously rare to Missouri becoming more
common
KWMU: Fate of at least two North St. Louis City
schools top Special Administrative Board agenda Tuesday
SE
Missourian editorial: Jason Smith showing strong signs of
leadership in U.S. House
Washington Missourian editorial: Legislation allowing
guns on campus is asinine
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Bipartisan
legislation puts corrupt public officials on notice
KC Star Public Editor Derek Donovan: Readers are right
- Star headline about Obama and Trump was biased toward Democrat
Priddy:
Thoughts for incoming legislators
KC Star op-ed: Leader of urban "social, therapeutic
and economic community-building services" dislikes Missouri photo ID
laws
Washington Missourian's Bill Miller: What's the future
of St. Louis City? Lots of great attractions easily overshadowed
by near-daily shootings
P-D letter: St. Louis woman wants Legislature to pass
laws cracking down on sex trafficking
KC Star letter: Octogenarian woman who chooses to live
in Kansas expresses anger at H&R Block, other corporations for
donating whopping $5k to GOP campaign committee
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Sunday, December
18 MoDOT traveler
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KC Star: Anti-Trump forces plan massive protest
tomorrow in Jefferson City +
AP: Missouri electors say they plan to stick with Trump
CDT: Columbia Police Officers' Association follows
national group in showing support for Trump; Union leader:
"Conservative politicians are the ones out there talking about law and
order." X
SE
Missourian: Rep. Jason Smith asks Trump to eliminate 14 federal
rules, regulations +
JCNT: Nixon looks back at public career X
Kraske: Two governors may be departing amid clouds,
not sunshine; Lawsuits provide "dark coda" to Nixon's term, but
Speaker Todd Richardson has taken steps to improve Jefferson City
culture +
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
preview: Guest Jay Ashcroft; Panel of NAACP's John Gaskin,
lobbyist Becky Lohmann, former Sen. Jason Crowell and STL City Dems'
Brian Wahby talk Trump, 2016's best campaigns, more
Drebes: Ryan Silvey vs. Dan Brown for approps chair
SNL: Former state Rep. Sara Lampe (D-Springfield) to
receive honorary degree from Missouri State University X
Missouri Farmer Today: Missouri Public Service
Commission's Grain Belt Express hearing draws both sides
KC Star: Missouri Dept. of Conservation seeks to bring
back the dinosaur fish that lost its reproductive mojo: The
pallid sturgeon +
P-D: Mizzou hands honorary degree to centenarian
Frankie Freeman
Columbia Missourian: Civil rights activist Frankie
Freeman handed honorary degree, complains about lack of diversity
JCNT editorial: Let success of prison tours propel
Missouri State Penitentiary redevelopment X
P-D's Nicklaus: Boeing move hurts St. Louis' pride but
should strengthen defense division
SE
Missourian letter: St. Joseph sexagenarian dislikes 'right to
work,' attempts 'right to live' analogy +
P-D letter: Brentwood woman suggests state study
whether four-day school week is effective
SNL letter: St. Louis County man disagrees with GOP
legislators on spending, taxes X
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Saturday, December
17 MoDOT traveler map
KMOX: MoDOT advises to stay off the road through
tonight
Missourinet: MoDOT issues winter weather advisory for
reduced travel; Mizzou graduation ceremonies still on
P-D: MoDOT says it pretreated roads, but slick
conditions persist
KMIZ: Icy roads cause hundreds of crashes,
cancellations
P-D: Anti-Trump activists hassle Missouri GOP
electors; Jan DeWeese received 9,722 e-mail messages in 24 hours
KC Star: Area woman seeking online donations gets
9-year-old son on the cover of National Geographic; Debi Jackson
has enjoyed media attention since 2014 for letting boy dress up as girl
and call himself "Avery," enrolling him in Girl Scouts, other
fundraising stunts +
The Missouri Times: Profile: Alex Zumsteg:
From MSU legislative intern to MRP grassroots director and back to
Capitol - for now
Brownfield Ag News: Study focuses on Missouri
agriculture's economic impact
Missourinet: Missouri Budget Project opposes Kraus'
tax-cut plan
Columbia Missourian: Kurt Schaefer's claims of UM
System funding fall short
Missourinet: Missouri to add three state parks
Columbia Missourian: MU medical students' complaints
describe dramatic emotional struggles; One student unhappy that
attractive females seem to be given preferential treatment;
Female resident accused of "bullying" female student by setting
"impossible expectations"
Columbia Missourian: Missouri Dept. of Conservation
announces next year's deer and turkey hunting dates
P-D: Juror can't reveal details about unanimous
decision in Darren Wilson self-defense case, judge says
P-D editorial: McCaskill on feds' bunny regulations
Waters: Missouri Republicans will take credit for
ethics legislation; Kip Kendrick's idea to impose term limits on
statewide officeholders is a bad one X
Dallas Morning News' Carl Leubsdorf: Missouri
Democrats' weakness forces ambitious candidates like Jason Kander to
tilt at national windmills
P-D letter: Ladue man says MICDS' anti-Trump pandering
has made it clear - the once-proud institution is no longer a strong,
objective school
P-D letter: St. Louis County septuagenarian recalls
days when city's street urchins peddled newspapers, didn't rob
politicians' wives
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Friday, December 16
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Departing
Missouri GOP chairman leaves on a high note; John Hancock talks
Trump's impact, Todd Graves, competitive 2018 primaries, more
Missourinet: Todd Graves to focus on widening GOP
victory gap through more votes in suburban and minority communities
Kraske: The Chat: John Hancock on Todd
Graves; Claire McCaskill on GOP's Obamacare alternatives
AP: Don't look to the Electoral College to upend
Trump; Missouri's Hector Maldonado among electors unmoved by
liberals' pestering
Missourinet: Missouri Ag Director Richard Fordyce
weighs in on future trade relations with Cuba
AP:
Report finds flaws in mental health care at St. Louis VA
Missourinet: Desoto man pleads guilty to role in
conspiracy through kickback scheme involving contracting at Cochran VA
KWMU: Local Muslim group wants stronger U.S. response
to war-torn Aleppo
St. Louis Jewish Light: Missouri legislators visit
Israel on Jewish Federation mission
The Missouri Times: 'Right to work' opponents look to
ban legislation as Republicans push forward
Drebes:
Notes on two 2018 state Senate campaigns
Missourinet: Missouri state workers raise over $1
million for charities
AP:
Pay raises recommended for Missouri elected officials
Washington Missourian: East Central College president
dislikes campus carry law
CDT: Nixon cuts ribbon on engineering school
expansion; Comments from project's legislative sponsor, former
Rep. Chris Kelly (D-Columbia)
AP:
Lombardi won't seek to work under new governor
P-D: Missouri prison chief to depart in wake of
reports of harassment, retaliation among staff
KC Star: Missouri corrections chief signals he's
resigning, but will stay until end of Jay Nixon's term
The Missouri Times: Prevailing wage audit finds issues
with Division of Labor Standards' investigation
Missourinet: Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston) says
needle exchange programs lower cases of HIV
St. Joseph News-Press: Nixon extols regional lake plan
AP:
Missouri psychiatric building to be named after Gov. Nixon
The Missouri Times: Missouri Association of Trial
Attorneys (MATA), Missouri Chamber react to annual "judicial
hellhole" rankings
Missourinet: Missouri's tort system to be front and
center issue in upcoming legislative session
The Missouri Times: Midwest Cyber Security Alliance
urges legislature to focus on Missouri cybersecurity
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Missourian: Ameren putting finishing touches on $84 million
upgrade in Cape
KWMU: State court rejects request by grand juror in
Darren Wilson self-defense case to speak about process
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Thursday, December 15
Politico: McCaskill says she's open to replacing
Obamacare, but skeptical that GOP will produce plan: "They've had
six frickin' years to figure it out."
CDT: Deadline looms to enroll in Obamacare X
P-D's Chuck Raasch: For Blunt and other Republicans,
the finessing of Trump takes a turn; Lacy Clay says he's open to
hearing GOP ideas that could benefit constituents
KWMU: Weekly edition of Trump Terror Tale Hour:
Wash U. sociology prof cites Southern Poverty Law Center statistics,
frets over "huge uptick" of meanies hurting feelings
KPLR (St. Louis): Three Clayton High School students
post mean Instagram comments about classmates; President-elect
yet to be named as co-conspirator
SNL: Rabbit regulations have McCaskill hopping
mad; Federal regulations require area magician to submit disaster
plan for his bunny, report all overnight trips
X
Platte County Landmark: Greitens chooses new Missouri
Republican Party chairman; Todd Graves talks about how he was
selected, how much time he plans to dedicate to the role, more
The Missouri Times: Graves gets widespread praise from
Missouri Republicans; Greitens announces support for GOP
stalwarts Pat Thomas, Nick Myers, Kay Hoflander
Kraske: The Chat: Ryan Silvey on his budget
experience; Wash U prof on the future of Missouri labor
unions; Kip Kendrick on Greitens' campaign promises +
Drebes: Doc Brown gifts son's campaign $200,000
KWMU: Missouri House Democrats push ethics bills they
say are based on Greitens' campaign pledges
Missourinet: Kraus looking to double down on his own
tax-cut law
The Missouri Times: Analysis: How Missouri would
fare in another recession
St. Joseph News-Press: Bills aim to protect those who
protect; Proposals would classify anti-police savagery as hate
crimes +
The Missouri Times: Abortion fight enters new chapter
in Missouri after Whole Women's Health decision
The Missouri Times: Prevailing wage audit finds issues
with Division of Labor Standards' investigations
P-D: Recently-departed Richard Teitelman named as top
lawyer
Missourinet: Turnover rate of Missouri's prison guards
continues to climb
Missourinet: House Superminority Leader Gail McCann
Beatty (D-Kansas City) wants Corrections Department leadership changes
The Missouri Times: Superminority Leader Gail McCann
Beatty's letter to Gov.-elect Greitens
P-D editorial: Boeing move to D.C. makes perfect
sense, but it still stings
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Trends in
drugs: Meth to opiates is like going from "bad" to "also bad" X
P-D op-ed: Wash U School of Social Work Dean Mary
McKay: We must protect the feelings of young people;
Trump's election is to blame for teenagers' mean behavior
P-D letter: State should do more to advertise Safe
Place for Newborns Act
KC Star letter: Local sexagenarian reacts to piece on
GOP campaign committee's fundraising, attempts sarcastic analogy +
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Wednesday, December 14
KWMU: Former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves tapped to be
new head of Missouri Republican Party
KC Star: Greitens taps KC attorney Todd Graves to lead
MRP +
KC Star: Trump terror tales: On "farmer" theme
night at Warrensburg High School basketball game, student displays
Trump-Pence sign; Black woman complains, school district
apologizes +
P-D: Four (4) MICDS alumni say conservative students'
complaints are indicative of privilege
P-D: Boeing moving defense headquarters from St. Louis
to D.C.; Move will impact 12 exec and some support staff, total
of 50 jobs
AP: Missouri AFL-CIO President Mike Louis seeks to ban
'right to work' laws via initiative petition
P-D: Efforts to legalize pot hit roadblock via Cole
County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Richardson
CDT: Rowden campaign reports $900k in donations on
latest report X
The Missouri Times: Michael Steelman becomes newest
addition to Catalyst team
AP: Jobs rise, unemployment declines in Missouri
Missourinet: Sen. Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas City) seeks
top spot on powerful Missouri Senate committee
Missourinet: Sen. Dan Hegeman (R-Cosby):
Proposal to modify selection of high court judges meant to help
applicants
KWMU: Bill from Sen. Bob Dixon (R-Springfield) would
strengthen penalties for official misconduct, increase accountability
SNL: Galloway, Dixon push new punishments for corrupt
public officials X
St. Joseph News-Press: Auditor Nicole Galloway,
prosecutor discuss anti-graft measure
The Missouri Times: Democrats file ethics
legislation; Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia) aims to box Greitens
into a corner on campaign-trail pledges
The Missouri Times: Rep. Marsha Haefner (R-St. Louis
County) re-files bill to make assault on law enforcement a hate crime
CDT: Columbia Board of Education focuses on funding in
legislative priorities X
KWMU: City sides with charters in lawsuit filed by St.
Louis Public Schools
P-D: St. Louis City and Confluence Academies file
briefs for charter school parents to have say in lawsuit
KC Star: Current form of Missouri driver's license may
not be accepted ID at KCI in 2018 +
P-D: Lawyers for Missouri botch appeal in $3.8 million
sexual discrimination case
The Missouri Times: Missouri offices honored with
prestigious CS050 Award for cybersecurity program
SNL: Legacy fund in honor of former Sen. Roseann
Bentley (R-Springfield) announces first project: Reading nook at
health center X
The Missouri Times: Women's Foundation testifies in
favor of sick leave rule changes
P-D editorial: Slow growth and faulty assumptions
portend budget problems for Greitens
Daily
Dunklin Democrat op-ed: University of Missouri Extension's Mike
Milam: The economics of soil health: Amendment 1's passage
will help +
P-D letter: Columbia man appreciates pro-Amendment 2
slant and contribution-limits crusade of Post-Dispatch editorial,
reporting
KC Star letter: Raytown woman dislikes Will Kraus'
push to cut taxes +
St. Joseph News-Press letter: Area sexagenarian mocks
'right to work' proposal X
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Tuesday, December 13
KWMU: Trump beats out LBJ when it comes to winning
number of Missouri votes, sets state record for presidential candidate
Missourinet: UMSL's Dave Robertson: Democrats
have tough road to regain statewide offices
St. Joseph News-Press' Ken Newton: Tom Vilsack says
Democrats have forgotten the middle of the country; Clinton
campaign's paltry Missouri efforts hurt statewide candidates
P-D: St. Louis City pulls in nearly $30 million of
federal taxpayer money
KWMU: Taxpayers pump another $30 million into North
St. Louis City
KWMU: Profiles: St. Louisans who joined North
Dakota Indian riots compare situation to Ferguson: Local Indian,
kemosabe describe their valiant struggle against "police brutality,"
"oppression," etc.
P-D: Ballwin officer Michael Flamion honored with
Medal of Valor, Purple Heart; Career criminal Antonio Taylor of
St. Louis City ambushed officer day after attacks on Dallas officers
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Two Missouri Lottery jobs, one Jefferson County
government job
Kraske: The Chat: Phill Brooks on benevolent
lobbyist gifts to seasoned citizens; Kraus on corporate
tax; Munzlinger on the new "deplorable"
Columbia Missourian: RedRightNow seeks to help GOP
candidates raise campaign cash
KC Star: Missouri Senate Campaign Committee's KC event
raised less than $60k
The Missouri Times: What does it take to make a
successful transition of government? Thoughts from Office of
Administration's Doug Nelson, GOP vet Rob Monsees
KWMU: Q&A with incoming Attorney General Josh
Hawley
The Missouri Times: High number of initiative petition
filings puts strain on auditor's office
The Missouri Times: Sen.-elect Caleb Rowden
(R-Columbia) files state earned income tax credit bill
St. Joseph News-Press: Bill from Rep. Kevin Corlew
(R-Kansas City) would make Missouri's IDs federally-compliant
CDT: Pro-life activists rally against lawsuit in front
of Planned Parenthood clinic
Columbia Missourian: Planned Parenthood seeks
preliminary injunction to resume abortions
AP:
Missouri Planned Parenthood seeks to expand abortion access
Missourinet: Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) wants St.
Louis Planned Parenthood's license revoked, investigation of ambulance
visits
SNL: Moon, handful of pro-life activists gather
outside Planned Parenthood
Missourinet: Rep. Stacey Newman (D-Richmond Heights)
says she hopes robbery of unarmed Sheena Greitens by pack of hoodlums
will change gov-elect's stance on guns
The Missouri Times: Missouri Lottery receives clean
audit, on pace for another productive year
KWMU: Ferguson-Florissant school board appealing
changes in election process; Judge Rodney Sippel (D) wants to
change election rules to help elect more black candidates
Quincy Herald-Whig editorial: Pentagon should should
make efficiency report public; McCaskill vows to hold bureaucrats
accountable
P-D editorial: HUD's cash dump will help North St.
Louis City; Businessman Rodney Hubbard is of "questionable
integrity" and shouldn't "have his fingers in the pie"
P-D op-ed: Spanish Lake native Ray Gruender would be
an outstanding choice for the U.S. Supreme Court
Bloomberg op-ed: McCaskill's work shows that
minority-initiated Congressional investigations can be just as
dangerous as majority-initiated investigations
SE
Missourian letter: Area man says GOP will dominate southeast
Missouri for years to come
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Monday, December 12
P-D: Obama's HUD Secretary Julian Castro visits STL
today to deliver more taxpayer-funded gifts for North St. Louis City
residents: More social services, new community center,
beautification of housing project, etc.
St. Joseph News-Press: Trump trade policies will
impact farmers; MO Ag Director Richard Fordyce (D) praises
Trump's selection of Terry Branstad as ambassador to China X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Mike Parson on goals
as lt. gov, helping Greitens understand agriculture, more; Panel
of Sens. Jason Holsman and Ryan Silvey, Sen.-elect John Rizzo, Noel
Torpey talk GOP legislative agenda, Trump, McCaskill vs. 2018 GOP
contenders, more
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Brian
Munzlinger (R-Williamstown) on Dems' demise in rural Missouri,
transportation tax, 'right to work,' Greitens, more
Kraske: The Chat: Nixon, Sen. Dan Hegeman
(R-Cosby) on gov's Supreme Court prerogative; Mike Moon on
Planned Parenthood +
Drebes: Fight over state deer regulations may go to
the voters
P-D: Lobbyist gifts to Missouri legislators have
dropped significantly
Phill Brooks: Exploring lobbyist expenditures reveals
discovery never mentioned by media: Gifts given to elderly Senate
doorkeepers, other staff X
Missourinet: Incoming House Budget Chairman Scott
Fitzpatrick (R-Shell Knob) looking at state's Legal Expense Fund in
light of investigation, payouts
Missourinet: Sen. Rob Schaaf (R-St. Joseph) wants to
stop use of state money for stadiums
St. Joseph News-Press: State increases training
requirements for officers X
Missourinet: Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) to offer
'personhood' amendment again
JCNT: Missouri State Capitol Commission Chair Dana
Miller keeps focus on upcoming 100th anniversary of state Capitol X
SNL: Nixa High School state champions in Missouri
Bar's Show Me the Constitution competition X
KWMU: Student barred by city magnet school presses
bias lawsuit
Columbia Missourian: "Worley Street Roundtable" event
draws 20 to discuss district policy for state anti-bullying law;
Diversity group wants "restorative justice" rather than discipline,
fewer white people in positions of influence, etc.
P-D editorial: Clean the swamp? Schaaf puts his
Senate colleagues to the test
Messenger: Trump terror tales: One (1) student
in Rockwood School District mocks city transfer students via
Instagram; President-elect Donald Trump probably to blame
KC Star letter: KC sexagenarian states,
unsarcastically, her belief that the national media was biased against
Hillary Clinton and in favor of Donald Trump
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Sunday, December 11
Washington Examiner: Dems struggle to reclaim coal
country from Trump, GOP; McCaskill says Republicans are trying to
"(intercourse) over the widowers and pension owners"
Drebes:
MoScout poll: McCaskill job approval
P-D: Boeing wants to build Super Hornets in
India; Comments from local union boss
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
previews: Guest Mike Parson; KC panel of Sens. Jason
Holsman and Ryan Silvey, Sen.-elect John Rizzo, former Rep. Noel Torpey
preview legislative session, budget challenges, more
CDT: RedRightNow hopes to become Republican counter to
Dems' ActBlue; Tim Jones, Franc Flotron among GOP stalwarts
advising on project X
KC Star: Nixon accepts job with St. Louis-area law firm +
P-D: Q&A about statewide offices'
transitions: Details about keys and locks, computer hardware,
other logistics
Drebes: MoScout poll: Galloway job approval
JCNT: Profile: Mike Lear: Former Learfield
(Missourinet) news director wears many hats: Multimedia services
coordinator for Missouri House of Representatives, prison tour guide,
father of five girls X
Joplin Globe: Group wants to raise minimum wage even
higher; Comments from Give Missourians a Raise's Lew Prince,
Missouri Chamber's Brian Bunten X
KWMU: Only questions about Missouri's impending 'right
to work' law: Scope and timing
JCNT: Nixon explains $2.3 billion in budget withholds X
AP:
Sen. Will Kraus (R-Lee's Summit) proposes ending business tax slammed
by Trump
JCNT: Fulton State Hospital receives final funding for
project X
JCNT: Nixon: Missouri State Penitentiary tours
example of state's tourism growth X
KWMU: St. Louis Community College will spend resources
on "diversity" efforts
P-D: State plans to place two proposed sulfur dioxide
monitors around Labadie coal plan
KC Star: Katy Trail now links Kansas City area with
St. Louis +
St. Joseph News-Press: Drug update: Local meth
production down, but Mexican manufacturers and distributors fill the
void; Heroin/opiates usage up X
P-D: Lee Enterprises, parent of St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, reports drop in fourth quarter earnings
SNL editorial: Legislative wish list: Spend more
on public defenders; Spend more on education; Spend more on
roads; Tax Internet sales; Restrict payday loans; More X
JCNT editorial: Time to make the Missouri Capitol
completely smoke-free X
SNL op-ed: Claire McCaskill: Why earmarks must
not return X
P-D letter: Richmond Heights' Bill Borst: With
abortion editorial, Post-Dispatch editorial board shows it is "a mean,
old nasty Grinch"
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Saturday, December 10
Kraske: The legacy of Peter Kinder? GOP dominance +
KWMU: "Behind the Headlines": LGBTQIA* beat
reporter Nancy Fowler attributes horror of mean Facebook comments to
Trump's election (1:30); Diversity Fellow Jenny Simeone says
illegal immigrant's tale of woe "stresses me out" (14:45)
P-D: Jury convicts man who shot two officers at
Ferguson protest
P-D: Obama administration official to be in St. Louis
Monday; HUD secretary to announce millions more taxpayer dollars
spent on North St. Louis City social services, beautifying subsidized
housing projects, etc.
P-D: McCaskill says she'll vote against temporary
spending bill
KWMU: Benefits for retired coal workers uncertain as
Congress spars over federal spending; Comments from McCaskill
P-D: St. Louis area delegation's votes for the week
Brownfield Ag News: At annual meeting, Missouri Farm
Bureau sets federal farm bill priorities
The Missouri Times: Funds flood in before campaign
limit deadline
SNL: Political campaigns rake in millions before
deadline X
SNL: Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) says he and pro-life
forces have information that will set Planned Parenthood 'back on its
heels' X
93.9FM The Eagle (Columbia): Rep. Courtney Curtis
(D-Ferguson) questions Hank Foley as permanent Mizzou chancellor
KWMU: Interim UM president tells curators he's
'optimistic' diversity plan will bring change; Middleton, Choi to
dine with Gov-elect Greitens tomorrow night
KC Star: University of Missouri System curators elect
a new chairman: Maurice Graham +
CDT: Before Concerned Student 1950 protests, UM System
enrollment increased 19 percent between 2005 and 2015 X
Missourinet: MoDOT says pedestrian fatalities rising
St. Joseph News-Press: Nixon pardons 15 criminals X
SNL: Nixon pardons 15, including Springfield
businessman X
KC Star: Ex-Missouri House Leader Gracia Backer (D)
wins $2 million settlement in age, sex discrimination case +
Missourinet: Report: Missouri to pay out $1.2
million to settle case with Gracia Backer
P-D: Missouri settles employee discrimination lawsuit
for $2 million
The Missouri Times: Galloway to audit legal defense
fund after claims of harassment
Missourinet: Galloway to conduct immediate review of
fund used for state employment lawsuits
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Bader Farms vs. Monsanto; Attorney Bev
Randles says Monsanto should have predicted that lawbreaking farmers
would choose to damage neighbors' crops +
P-D editorial: Greitens' suggestion that he would have
handled the criminals who robbed his wife is "chilling"
P-D columnist Stacy Washington: Robbery of Sheena
Greitens underscores need for law and order, support for police trying
to do their jobs
P-D letter: Town and Country woman spooked by Greitens'
"vigilante" bravado
P-D letter: Wentzville man appalled by Tony
Messenger's attempt to link robbery of Sheena Greitens with murder
caused by pipe-wielding savage
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Friday, December 9
P-D: Trump to nominate former St. Louis lawyer Andy
Puzder as labor secretary; Hardee's CEO opposes unions' $15/hr.
"living wage" push
P-D's Chuck Raasch: Looking for parallels between
Trump, Greitens transitions
P-D's Kurt Erickson: Trump transition team includes
California consultant hired by Greitens campaign; No
conversations with sources or original reporting, but quotes pulled
from two tweets
St. Joseph News-Press: Congress sends defense bill to
the president; Comments from McCaskill, Blunt X
KC Star: Blunt, Kander, outside groups set Missouri
record by spending $75 million on Senate race
+
SE
Missourian: Jason Smith leads effort to pass insurance bill for
dialysis patients +
KWMU: EPA to propose nutrient pollution rules next
year to settle Missouri Coalition for the Environment lawsuit
KWMU: "Behind the Headlines": LGBTQIA* beat reporter
Nancy Fowler and 2016 Diversity Fellow Jenny Simeone to discuss their
reporting on the terror that Trump's victory has brought hypothetical
victims
KWMU: Greitens, Koster spent close to $60 million in
Missouri's hard-fought contest for governor
Drebes:
MoScout poll: Greitens' top budget priority
The Missouri Times: Lawsuit filed against Amendment 2
Drebes:
Tony Dugger may have waited too long to file as a lobbyist
The Missouri Times: Rob Carson: KC native is
Missouri's 'Music Man' of political satire
Kraske: The Chat: Nixon on Missouri's fiscal
fitness; Speaker Todd Richardson on Dept. of Corrections
complaints +
AP:
Missouri Supreme Court strikes law denying bail to illegal
immigrants; Lawyer for alien won't say what country criminal
client is from
P-D: Missouri Supreme Court: State law barring
bail for illegal immigrants is unconstitutional; Faustino
Lopez-Matias snuck into U.S. and forged Social Security card
KWMU: Nixon says he's 'ready to appoint' Missouri
Supreme Court judge - if he gets the chance
KWMU: St. Louis asks for $40 million in state tax
credits for proposed soccer stadium
Washington Missourian: Local legislators get head
start filing bills for 2017 X
Missourinet: Rehder, Schaaf to go another round in
battle over prescription drug monitoring program
Missourinet: Rep. Diane Franklin (R-Camdenton)
proposing to increase tracking of fetal tissue
Columbia Missourian: Uncertain future of state funding
looms over UM curators meeting
P-D: Missouri utilities gearing up for legislative
fights
SE
Missourian: Utility case prompts Wallingford to file bill to
prevent future steep rate hikes +
KWMU: Legislators to make second push for student
suicide prevention bill
Washington Missourian: Bills to honor slain MoDOT
employee filed last week
Missourinet: National gun-control group unhappy about
Missouri's existing and proposed pro-gun laws
Missourinet: Missouri welcomes 41 million visitors in
FY16, shattering previous tourism record
SNL: Rep. Donna Lichtenegger (R-Cape Girardeau) wants
tougher poaching penalties in Missouri X
The Missouri Times: Conservation Federation of
Missouri offering new monthly podcast
P-D editorial: Missouri Dept. of Corrections paid out
millions to abuse victims. Where's the accounting?
Messenger: What Missouri's blind pension can teach us
about the homeless
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Thursday, December 8
Bloomberg: McCaskill among 8 incumbent Dems running in
Trump states; Senior senator says she's "open" to working with
president
Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal: McCaskill takes aim at
Pentagon waste X
KWMU Diversity Fellow Jenny Simeone: Trump terror
tales: "Reporter" laments campaign's "anti-immigrant rhetoric,"
prods immigrants to discuss feelings
KCUR: Trump terror tales: Public school
librarian wears diaper pin to help comfort students who might feel
"vulnerable and scared" about election results
SNL: Profile: Former state Sen. Roseann Bentley
(R-Springfield) - a champion for children and a pioneer for women - to
retire X
Kraske: The Chat: Greitens wants to meet the
women who spawned young stick-up kids +
AP:
Lawsuit filed over state's campaign contribution limits
KWMU: Opponents file suit against Amendment 2
P-D: Lawsuit seeks to stop campaign contributions
limits; Comments from attorney Chuck Hatfield
The Missouri Times: Blake Hurst re-elected Missouri
Farm Bureau president
The Missouri Times: Daryl Duwe's lobbying firm to
merge with Blunt's Statehouse Strategies
The Missouri Times: Elijah Haahr prepares to assume
pro tem mantle at the apex of Republican power
The Missouri Times: Nixon restricts further $51
million in spending
Missourinet: Nixon restricts another $51 million to
address budget shortfall
KWMU: Nixon withholds $51 milion - mostly Medicaid
money - from state budget
AP:
Nixon blocks budgeted Medicaid spending
P-D: Nixon cuts another $51 million from budget
CDT: State issues $97.2 million to complete Fulton
State Hospital construction X
Missourinet: Speaker Todd Richardson wants Dept. of
Corrections investigation to make culture at Missouri prisons 'better
than it is today'
P-D: Richardson calls for investigation into Missouri
Department of Corrections
Missourinet: Rep. Marsha Haefner (R-Oakville) pushes
bill identifying hate crimes against first responders
KWMU: Appeal filed in charter school funding
case; Black parents want children to attend safe, decent schools
P-D: Charter school parents file federal appeal in
desegregation lawsuit
CDT: UM System releases diversity audit and
response; Photo of overfed student unnecessarily shouting into
megaphone, a device which amplifies sound X
P-D: St. Louis Community College will force Board of
Trustees members to sit through diversity training; University of
Missouri "diversity audit" recommends UMSL hire fewer Caucasoids, spend
more taxpayer money on "diversity and inclusion" office, etc.
Columbia Missourian: UM System diversity task force
issues recommendations for MU
KWMU: "Diversity," "equity," "inclusion": UM
task force issues recommendations for improvement
Missourinet: Nixon praises Missouri Christmas tree
growers, helps decorate Capitol tree
Missourinet: Galloway: Audit shows new,
questionable actions by former Wright County Collector
Chicago Sun-Times editorial: McCaskill, others help
Trump identify where to start cutting wasteful spending
Waters: In chancellor search, Mun Choi should proceed
as if Hank Foley isn't already the predetermined choice X
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Wednesday, December
7
Pearl Harbor Day
The Riverfront Times: Inside the Eagle Forum
internecine war: National, local conservatives criticize Ed
Martin; Martin defends his actions, impact
KWMU: McCaskill sides with Boeing, for now, in dispute
over Air Force One
Politico: McCaskill, others weigh in on Trump's
approach to Air Force One
AP: McCaskill criticizes Pentagon for alleged cover-up
of cost-cutting study
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill takes dead aim at
Defense Dept; Stephen Webber on future prospects of Missouri
Democratic Party +
KC Star: Area federal employees express angst at
rumors of federal hiring freeze
KWMU LGBTQIA* beat reporter Nancy Fowler: Trump terror
tales: Area lesbian claims mystery man driving truck spotted her,
ascertained her sexuality, increased driving speed while simultaneously
rolling down window and shouting full anti-LGBTQIA* sentence, then
swerved to try to hit her; Victim miraculously survives unscathed
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: NPR CEO visits KWMU
studio; Jarl Mohn talks about newsmagazines' efforts to hire more
black faces to put "front and center," networks' "rigorous statistics"
to ensure more non-white guests and sources, etc.
Columbia Missourian: Campaign workers on both sides
process the outcomes, consider their futures; Thoughts from Sara
Walsh, Kander intern Jamie Seibert, Webber's Emily Waggoner,
McClintic's Michael Ousley
The Missouri Times: Bradley Bates joins lobbying firm
started by Jay Hahn and Whit O'Daniel
The Missouri Times: Greitens, wife preach justice,
forgiveness after robbery
Missourinet: Greitens says he and wife will forgive
young criminals who robbed incoming first lady
P-D: Greitens talks about wife being robbed;
McCaskill calls miscreants' behavior "disgusting"; Mugshot of
criminal Marquay Beard
AP: Marquay Beard, 19, charged with tampering, may
face other charges; Juvenile hoodlums may be charged as adults
for car theft, other crimes
Messenger: If Eric Greitens wants to show compassion,
he can begin by pardoning prisoner; Eric Clemmons admitted to
murdering white college student by bashing his skull with a metal pipe
SNL: Rep. Stacey Newman (D-Richmond Heights) uses
robbery for Sheena Greitens to promote gun-control stance; Rep.
Elijah Haahr (R-Springfield) fires back X
KWMU: Pre-filed bill would allow gun owners to sue
'gun-free' businesses
Drebes:
Rep. Kirk Mathews (R-Pacific) on future on Missouri pro-life agenda
SE
Missourian: MoDOT Director Patrick McKenna: Missouri needs
law to ban motorists from using handheld cell phones while driving +
KWMU: EducationPlus names Paul Ziegler new executive
director
The Missouri Times: PSC prepares for hectic schedule,
sets more hearings in Great Plains-Westar merger
The Missouri Times: PSC lays out guidelines for new
legislation on Missouri utilities
P-D: Peach farmer sues Monsanto; Nearby farmers
chose to break law by using old, volatile herbicide formulation - not
sold by Monsanto - atop Monsanto seeds
Missourinet: Bev Randles sues Monsanto on behalf of
peach grower; Company says responsibility for damage caused by
other companies' herbicides belongs to farmers who chose to break the
law
KWMU: Ferguson update: Missed deadlines, but
'significant progress' made in consent decree compliance
P-D editorial: Missouri parole board should consider
inmate's plea to die at home
SE
Missourian editorial: Veteran Cape Chamber of Commerce CEO John
Mehner to be recognized by Missouri Chamber +
Jensen:
Will banning out-of-school suspensions for budding St. Louis miscreants
help their behavior? Unclear, but civilization process begins
with decent parents +
P-D letter: University City man responds to editorial
page editor Tod Robberson's "plaintive" column, blasts paper's
hypocritical partisanship
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Tuesday, December 6
The Missouri Times: Meet Aaron Willard, the man behind
Donald Trump's victory in Missouri
P-D: Student at MICDS says the school has been
unwelcoming to Trump supporters; Young woman imagines outrage if
teacher's anti-white tweets targeted minorities instead
Kraske: Missouri elector on anti-Trump pressure
campaign; Stephen Webber's Knute Rocknian pep talk to defeated
Dems; Todd Richardson talks to gals about paid family leave +
The Missouri Times: Registration begins for Lincoln
Days 2017
Missourinet: Stephen Webber's top priority:
Getting Claire McCaskill re-elected
P-D: McCaskill contractor whistleblower bill headed to
Obama to become law
KC Star: Columbia man, calling himself an
"atheist-civil rights activist-musician-trans woman (he/she)," gains
fleeting attention with vulgar anti-Trump tweet +
Drebes:
Dems' Senate counsel Chris Schappe starts PAC
The Missouri Times: Gov-elect Greitens' wife robbed at
gunpoint in St. Louis City; Three teenage hoodlums captured
P-D: Sheena Greitens robbed at gunpoint in Central
West End; Young miscreants stole a vehicle, robbed other victims
before crashing car and getting captured
KWMU: Sheena Greitens 'safe - but shaken' after being
robbed in Central West End
Missourinet: Details of Sheena Greitens robbery,
including description of perps
AP:
Voters' preference for GOP legislatures nationwide opens door to
amending Constitution
AP:
Increased budget costs add to state budget issues
Missourinet: Local union boss says "corporate
Missouri" does not want 'right to work'; Rehder urges union
members to study issue closely
The Missouri Times: House, Senate leaders prepare for
action on ridesharing bills
AP: Richardson plans push for ride-hail legislation
CDT: University of Missouri System hires contractor
for chancellor search; Foley interested in job X
Columbia Missourian: Search for new MU chancellor
announced
AP:
University of Missouri hires search team for chancellor
Missourinet: State legislators weigh in on Foley as
permanent chancellor; Rep. Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson) says
Mizzou should go in different direction
Missourinet: Nation's top business school is in
Missouri, and it's not a state school
SNL: Another session, another non-starter gun bill
from Stacey Newman; Seasoned liberal legislator says Missouri
Republicans have been "bought and sold" by NRA
X
Missourinet: Environmental group says Missouri DNR
ignores water safety at state parks
Columbia Missourian: Missouri hunters harvest 6,505
wild animals in anterless portion of season
AP:
Eyes of nation on Ferguson, lead monitor tells town hall; City
succeeds in filling slots with black employees, but police force
struggling to recruit officers
SE
Missourian editorial: Proposed 'Blue Alert' system could be useful +
P-D letter: Florissant octogenarian disagrees with
Stacy Washington's column on abortion
P-D letter: Cedar Hill nonagenarian disagrees with
Stacy Washington's column on abortion
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Monday, December 5
SNL: 60k in Missouri have signed up for Obamacare
since enrollment began X
KWMU: Local Obamacare recipients talk about their
care, options
Missourinet: Wash U. law prof weighs in on effort to
disrupt electoral college
Missourinet: Kinder receiving encouragement to join
Trump administration, as non-lobbying offers pile up
AP:
Free trade group says hypothetical retaliation from China against
Trump's trade policies would hurt soybean farmers in Missouri, other
states
CDT: Local activists weigh in on Indians' Dakota
pipeline protest; Comments from Perry Bigsoldier, area palefaces X
Rosenbaum: Stephen Webber aims to lead Missouri
Democrats out of political oblivion; Q&A with new party
chairman
This Week in Missouri Politics: Panel of David
Barklage, Jane Dueker, Jefferson County Exec Ken Waller (R) and
attorney David Sweeney talk Trump, Greitens, future of Missouri
Democratic Party
Kraske: The Chat: Rep. Michael Butler (D-St.
Louis) on Chris Koster; Budget Chair Scott Fitzpatrick (R-Shell
Knob) on Nixon, Greitens and budget cuts +
KWMU: Latest Missouri budget challenge recalls money
woes when Nixon became governor
Drebes: Eric Schmitt seeks general counsel
St. Joseph News-Press: Schaaf brings ethics
legislation to top of agenda X
Columbia Missourian: Suicide series: Mental
health professionals in Missouri not required to receive specific
training
Columbia Missourian: Suicide series: Mental
health professionals face stigma, discrimination in workplace for
personal struggles
KWMU: Riverview Gardens transfer parents react to
district's classification upgrade
St. Joseph News-Press: Utility outlines stance ahead
of hearings X
KWMU: Sierra Club: Missouri air quality
regulators need to better represent urban areas; DHSS says blacks
five times more likely than whites to visit ER for asthma "emergencies"
P-D editorial: Abortion restrictions will mean more
children in Missouri foster care system
Messenger: Richard Teitelman dispensed compassion,
love one note at a time
P-D letter: St. Louis County woman relishes voting
against Post-Dispatch endorsement selections
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Sunday, December 4
KWMU: Missouri Democrats select Stephen Webber as
their new leader
The Missouri Times: Democrats select Stephen Webber as
new chairman
CDT: Stephen Webber elected to lead Missouri
Democratic Party X
Columbia Missourian: Stephen Webber elected as
Missouri Democratic Party chairman
AP:
Stephen Webber elected chairman of Missouri Democratic Party
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
preview: Panel of David Barklage, Jane Dueker, Jefferson County
Exec Ken Waller (R) and attorney David Sweeney talk Trump, Greitens,
future of Missouri Democratic Party
JCNT: Sen. Mike Kehoe (R-Jefferson City), Rep. Travis
Fitzwater (R-Holts Summit) preview legislative priorities X
JCNT: Uber, Lyft prospects driven by state legislation X
KWMU: Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston) pre-files needle
exchange bill
AP:
Missouri meth lab seizures down sharply in 2016
KC Star: Overview of major bills pre-filed for 2017 +
JCNT: City to exert its voice, issues to legislators X
SNL: MSU revises, clarifies campus firearms policy X
P-D: Traffic fatalities are rising in Missouri
P-D editorial: Legislative forecast calls for
conservative with a chance of extremism; Cutting taxes, passing
'right to work' are bad ideas
Washington Missourian editorial: Wishing good luck to
new University of Missouri President Mun Choi
X
SE
Missourian letter: Area woman advocates for prescription drug
monitoring program +
P-D letter: Crystal Lake Park Democrat Norman Pressman
remembers Richard Teitelman
P-D letter: Manchester woman lays out minimum wage
logic: Donald Trump is wealthy, and other people are wealthy
too; ipso facto, fast-food workers should be paid $15/hr.
KC Star letter: Octogenarian who chooses to live in
Kansas mocks UCM College Republicans for high guy-to-gal ratio +
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Saturday, December 3
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Missourian: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder weighs in on Trump's win,
possibility of joining Trump administration +
Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith urging Trump to
overturn some Obama executive orders, including Waters of the U.S. rule
P-D: Former St. Louis lawyer and current Hardee's CEO
Andy Puzder being considered as Trump's labor secretary
CDT: University of Missouri Health Care CEO Mitch
Wasden: Obamacare repeal could mean more patients pay up front X
KTVI (St. Louis): Anti-Trump activists wants Missouri
electors to vote for Hillary Clinton
KWMU: Missouri Democrats meet today to select new
leader; Stephen Webber, close to McCaskill, is the current
frontrunner
The Missouri Times: House Speaker Todd Richardson (R)
speaks at gals' KC confab, promises paid family leave
SNL: Bill could lead to prescription drug monitoring
program X
SNL: Bills would make attacks on law enforcement
officers a hate crime X
SNL: Bill would allow lawsuits over gun-free zones X
SNL:
Bill would take marriage out of government, let churches decide X
KC Star: UM System's new president gets grand welcome
at UMKC +
SNL: University of Missouri president stresses safety,
diversity X
KWMU: Riverview Gardens gets stamp of approval from
state board for January upgrade
KC Star: Nixon to connect KC with the Katy Trail +
The Missouri Times: Missouri Housing Development
Commission re-approves $9 million in funding for 2017
P-D editorial briefs: Unions foolish for orchestrating
rush-hour protests that divert police resources
Kraske: A trip home to see dad reminds us all of some
valuable life lessons +
Columbia Missourian letter: Missouri Farm Bureau's
Leslie Holloway: Missouri should hold firm on Grain Belt Express
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Friday, December 2
Washington Post: Trump's Midwest swing could have
implications for Senate races, including McCaskill's
SNL: Springfield elder abuse expert testifies before
McCaskill committee X
The Hill: McCaskill leads effort to tackle retaliation
against military sexual assault victims
Missourinet: Cleaver wants to see Nancy Pelosi go -
but not just yet
P-D: St. Louis City hopes final round of Obama-era
grant helps north side
Kraske: The Chat: At Mizzou, male
"gender-equality" speaker emotional about Trump's victory; House
Superminority Leader Gail McCann Beatty (D-Kansas City) says GOP is
"obsessed" with 'right to work' +
SE
Missourian: Trump terror tales: Jackson High School "Cool
Kids Against Bullying" sponsor Marissa Higuera says one student claims
to have heard "go home" once, and another claimed to have been called a
mean name +
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Michael
Butler (D-St. Louis) chats with Mannies & Rosenbaum, says Dems
"sold our soul" to support Chris Koster, talks about Missouri Dems'
failure to engage rural Missourians, more
The Missouri Times: Missouri Ethics Commission looks
to provide answers about Amendment 2
KWMU: Politicians fatten coffers before Missouri's new
campaign-donation limits kick in
Drebes:
New state rep committees: Sara Walsh, Damon Haymer
KWMU: Hundreds mourn Judge Richard Teitelman,
remembered as gracious, generous, brilliant
The Missouri Times: Richard Teitelman celebrated at
memorial service
KWMU: 'Right to work' among bills pre-filed on the
first day Missouri legislators could act
KWMU: 'Right to work' overview: Thoughts from
Missouri Chamber's Dan Mehan, St. Louis Labor Tribune's Ed
Finkelstein; Context and analysis from Jo Mannies
Missourinet: House Superminority Leader Gail McCann
Beatty (D-Kansas City) dislikes 'right to work' bill
Missourinet:
Rep. Diane Franklin (R-Camdenton) hopes incoming administration will
help make Missouri water patrol changes
Missourinet: Missouri Dept. of Conservation is
conducting detailed pay study; Comments from Rep. Craig Redmon
(R-Canton)
Missourinet: Rep. T.J. Berry (R-Kearney) says his bill
would diffuse some controversy in gay weddings resolution
The Missouri Times: Ameren, business leaders stress
grid modernization at symposium
CDT: Mun Choi promises focus on student success,
research during MU campus visit X
P-D: New UM System president's tour makes stop in
Columbia
Columbia Missourian: Mun Choi emphasizes UM System
growth, land grant mission in visit to MU
AP:
Missouri won't be forced to reveal supplier of drug used to put down
the condemned
SE
Missourian: Mary Frances Berry to speak at MLK dinner;
Septuagenarian East Coast "social thought" prof will appear at Jan. 18
event +
KC Star letter: Area liberal, upset over Trump's
election, mocks op-ed from Americans for Prosperity's Jeremy Cady +
P-D letter: St. Louis man wants Greitens to make
mental-health spending a priority
P-D letter: Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis'
Felipe Martinez: Trump's election has led to anxiety, and school
leaders must protect the feelings of legal immigrants and illegal aliens
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Thursday, December 1
KC Star: Trump's call for ban on flag-burning is the
latest round of fiery debate; Comments from UMKC history prof +
Columbia Missourian: At Mizzou talk, male "gender
equality" activist laments Donald Trump's victory
SE
Missourian: Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission to
meet Tuesday in Cape; Commissioner Michael Pace says he's
encouraged by Trump's comments on infrastructure +
KC Star: Independence neighborhood deals with Syrian
refugees and their offspring; Ibraheem Alkhwaja, wife don't work
or speak English +
P-D: St. Louis employers adjust as overtime rule now
in limbo
Columbia Missourian: Columbia employers brace for new
overtime rules but federal judge puts them in limbo
Kraske: The Chat: St. Louis City Police Chief
Sam Dotson (D) on nuisance created by minimum-wage protesters;
Sinquefield's Travis Brown on futility of Amendment 2 +
Drebes:
In NY Times transcript, Trump says he helped Blunt in final days of
campaign
KC Star: Jason Kander to speak to liberal group
Progress Iowa +
Drebes: GOP alternative to ActBlue donation platform
launched; List of Missouri consultants on board
CDT: Democrats make second attempt to elect state
committee members; Protests were lodged after Nov. 11 vote X
KDNL (St. Louis): The Allman Report: Follow-up
to piece on Post-Dispatch editors'/reporters'/beauty-product reviewers'
post-election caterwauling over "fake news"
AP: Missouri Supreme Court resumes work after Richard
Teitelman's death
The Missouri Times: Nixon orders flags at half-staff
to honor Richard Teitelman
Missourinet: Richard Teitelman's replacement likely to
be picked by Eric Greitens
SNL: Greitens attends new-governor seminar X
Missourinet: Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston) to file
'right-to-work' bill today
Missourinet: Departing Rep. Keith English
(I-Florissant) says passing 'right to work' may take Republicans more
than one year
KWMU: Planned Parenthood sues to overturn Missouri
abortion restrictions
SNL: Lawsuit aims to allow Springfield's first
abortions since 2005 X
AP:
Planned Parenthood sues in three states, including Missouri
Missourinet: Planned Parenthood sues in Missouri,
other states
P-D: Planned Parenthood files federal lawsuit
challenging Missouri's abortion restrictions
Washington Missourian: Rep.-elect Nathan Tate (R-St.
Clair) prepares for first state legislative session X
KWMU: Profile: Missouri Public School Charter
Commission's Robbyn Wahby
The Missouri Times: Missouri Public Service Commission
finalizes format for Grain Belt Express hearings
P-D editorial: Trump will harm Missouri's working
families - and the Post-Dispatch, and others, tried to warn them
P-D editorial: Planned Parenthood's lawsuit to expand
abortion rights is gutsy move
P-D editorial page editor Tod Robberson: Rationalizing
how zero (0) of Post-Dispatch's endorsed statewide candidates
won; three weeks after election, criticism of longtime dedicated
public servant Chris Koster for failing "impromptu civics test" from
editorial board
P-D op-ed: Former Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice
Mike Wolff: Remembering Richard Teitelbaum
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Liberal columnist
provides "advice" to Gov.-elect Greitens, works in mention of former
career working for feminist Pat Schroeder, quotes favorite t-shirt
slogan, etc.
P-D letter: Oakville man dislikes Schaaf's proposal on
campaign contribution tax deductions
SNL letter: Springfield woman wants state legislators
to cap payday loan rates X
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