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Saturday, December 30
Sedalia Democrat: Hartzler talks tax overhaul,
McCaskill, more
Missourinet: Columbia College polisci prof Terry Smith
says Hawley has a good shot at unseating McCaskill
The Missouri Times: Ethics complaint against Humphreys
dismissed, commission finds no grounds of violation
The
Missouri Times: Rep. Travis Fitzwater (R-Holts Summit) launching
'The
Big Risk Podcast' to share stories of risk and success in the business
world
Drebes:
Help Wanted: St. Louis City seeks Democratic director of elections
AP: Minimum wage to rise yet again in Missouri
KWMU: "<X> things" journomeme: Five (5!)
things to know about population growth in Missouri, the country and the
world
SE
Missourian: Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau) pushes for
constitutional amendment to bar state board members from voting before
Senate confirmation +
SE
Missourian: Thanks to new state law, adoptees will have access to
birth certificates Jan. 1 +
Missourinet: Hawley warns Missourians against
insurance billing practice
SE
Missourian: Two Bootheel farmers file lawsuit against Monsanto
over
dicamba herbicide crop damage; Southeast Missouri State
University rep
says Monsanto offered proper warnings to farmers who chose to break
state law +
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello)
presents House Resolution to veteran radio man
Columbia
Missourian: Most-read online stories of 2017: Japanese
beetles (#1),
REAL ID (#5), Sheena Greitens profile (#6), MU budget cuts and layoffs
(#7)
P-D: Post-Dispatch names Lisa Brown as business editor
KC Star: Kansas City posts largest homicide total in
24 years X
JCNT editorial: Missouri must stop trying 17-year-olds
as adults X
SE
Missourian's Jon Rust: A thank-you note to those who read the
Missourian in 2017 +
P-D letter: St. Louis sexagenarian wants Greitens to
pardon Patty Prewitt
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Friday, December 29
AP: Dems hope to use tax overhaul as a club against
GOP; Hawley campaign begins "Claire McTaxall" blitz
Drebes:
Speaker's office news: Kenny Ross and Ryan Nonnemaker
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Craig Redmon (R-Monticello)
talks fuel tax, other revenue possibilities
Missourinet: Missouri commission's decision likely to
dissolve Kansas City, Branson housing plans
Missourinet: Rowden wants to let school districts
lease city buses
Missourinet: Missouri highway safety advocates warn
about holiday drinking and driving
KC Star editorial: Missouri Republicans want to repeat
Kansas' tax-cutting mistakes X
The
American Spectator op-ed: Show-Me Institute's Andrew
Wilson: Five (5)
government-shrinking steps Missouri legislators should take in 2018
P-D op-ed: Missouri NAACP President Nimrod
Chapel: Former prosecutor Jennifer Joyce contributed to the
Reggie Clemons ordeal
P-D letter: Farmington septuagenarian suggests each
section of the Post-Dispatch has a quota for mopey liberal headlines
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Thursday, December 28
KWMU: Blunt expects Congress to leave entitlements
alone in 2018
KMOV: Video: Blunt tours Washington, Mo., touts
tax plan
KC Star: Missouri's Obamacare enrollment numbers
virtually unchanged from last year X
Missourinet: Missouri Hospital Association's Dave
Dillon shares thoughts on individual mandate, Medicare spending
KC Star: Hawley campaign maintains focus on
McCaskill; Comments from James Harris, others X
The Missouri Times: Dates set for 2018 Lincoln Days
Drebes:
Twitter ads against Galloway
The Missouri Times: Rachel Hassani joins Hahn O'Daniel
KWMU:
State legislative preview: Greitens vs. Senate, 'right to work'
ballot
initiative, taxes, health care, campaign finance regulations, more
AP:
Greitens proposes foster care changes
Missourinet: Rep. Jean Evans (R-Manchester) says bill
would strengthen Missouri's competitiveness in sports event industry
Missourinet: Legislative preview: Briefs on bills
P-D: Missouri officials fail to report effects of 2015
welfare cuts, Sen. Jake Hummel (D-St. Louis City) says
KRES/KWIX: MoDOT graded well by Missourians for 2017
JCNT: Governor's Prayer Breakfast next week X
P-D editorial: After divisive 2017, Missourians need
less pizzazz, more progress from Greitens
SNL op-ed: Lt. Gov. Mike Parson: Tax cuts will
bring meaningful change, help Missourians X
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Wednesday, December 27
KTVI (St. Louis): Video: Blunt talks tax
cuts, government shutdown, DACA, Russia, more
P-D:
Overview: McCaskill's 2018 re-election campaign; Thoughts
from 1/2 of
P-D polisci prof pundit pool (Dave Robertson, UMSL), plus one-time
appearance from MSU polisci prof Jeremy Walling
Poynter.org:
As editorial pages shrink, the Kansas City Star chooses to to big
instead; Steve Kraske, Dave Helling, others lead surge in paper's
editorial substance and sway
AP:
Associate Press ranks top news stories of 2017: St. Louis race
riots
(#1), GOP domination of statewide offices and Legislature (#2),
Chappelle-Nadal and Love online agitation (#4), PDMP (#7)
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Victory Enterprises seeks digital account strategist
KWMU:
Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia)
talks
impact of federal tax bill, Missouri Senate's relationship with
Greitens, campaign finance, more
CDT: MU economist: Federal tax plan to cost $58
million loss to Missouri revenue X
KC Star: Schmitt, Eigel, Fitzwater promote tax cuts X
The Missouri Times: Court of Appeals rules governor
did not overstep by withholding funds from public defenders
The Missouri Times: Missouri Supreme Court rejects
Planned Parenthood's challenge to 72-hour law
Missourinet: Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) files bill
aimed at helping disabled have increased insurance coverage
Missourinet: Missouri expected to spend $17 million in
correctional officer overtime costs this year
CDT: Legislators again sponsor school bus bill X
Missourinet:
St. Louis NAACP President Adolphus Pruitt says state uses charter
schools to "keep its foot on the necks ... of black children"
The Missouri Times: Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove)
writes Grinch poem, accuses Dept. of Revenue of 'stealing'
Missourinet: Five Missourians died in Christmas
holiday traffic crashes
The Missouri Times: Missouri leads national effort to
remove X-LITE guard rails
P-D:
Fishing around the Christmas tree: MO Dept. of Conservation needs
Christmas trees for Spanish Lake Park and St. Charles County's Busch
Wildlife Lake #33
KC Star editorial: Missouri must stop prosecuting
17-year-olds as adults X
P-D op-ed: Rep. Tracy McCreery (D-Olivette):
Greitens should grant clemency to Patty Prewitt
P-D letter: Illinois man says he enjoyed paper's "Best
of" photos feature, except for glut of photos of street mobs
P-D
letter: St. Peters man responds to piece about urban homicide
total,
says fathers should start taking responsibility for the children they
create
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Tuesday, December
26 First Day of Kwanzaa
Politico: Top 10 U.S. Senate races:
McCaskill-Hawley rated #2
Drebes:
New committee former to oppose "Clean Missouri" and anti-"right to
work" ballot initiatives
Missourinet: State Treasurer Eric Schmitt continues
advocacy to lower taxes
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating: Greitens
spokesman Parker Briden's statement on education funding rated "Mostly
False"
P-D: Charter-school advocates, critics debate value of
annual performance report score
Missourinet: A snapshot of some pre-filed bills for
upcoming Missouri legislative session
KWMU: Advocates for Missouri's young criminals eye two
major changes in 2018
KWMU: Child psychologist: Spending more money on
child psychologists would keep black students from misbehaving
AP: Urban killings rise in clusters; St. Louis
City murderers have banner year
KC Star editorial: Remembering Neal Patterson, James
Nutter III and Steve Glorioso X
SNL op-ed: The battle against opioid abuse requires
more than just PDMP and more federal funding
X
Waters: To fund transportation, state legislators
should push for tax increases over and over again X
P-D op-ed: Show-Me Institute's R.W. Hafer: Are
Missouri businesses taxed too much? Yes.
P-D op-ed: Women's Foundation's Wendy Doyle:
Missouri should lead on parental leave for state employees
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Monday, December 25 Merry Christmas!
NY
Times: After a chaotic start, Congress has made a conservative
mark;
Blunt says Trump has gained appreciation for process, and Blunt values
Trump's "fresh set of eyes"
Drebes: Missouri State Medical Association shuffle
Missourinet: New administrator announced for troubled
St. Louis Veterans Home
CDT: After LIHTC cuts, city leaders revisiting ways to
support affordable housing X
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch (R-Hallsville) says tort
overhaul
has salvaged Missouri from its past as a "haven" for litigious types
St. Joseph News-Press: Revised model could give
Missouri colleges extra funding X
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Moberly Area Community College President Dr. Jeff
Lashley
praises area state reps and senators - "without exception" - for
support of higher ed
CDT: Boone County pushes for state rental regulations X
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Sunday, December
24 Christmas Eve
Hannibal Courier-Post: Local officials relieved tax
bill didn't eliminate tax-exempt municipal bonds
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating:
Statement from Jason Smith on tax cuts and job creation rated "Mostly
False"
St. Joseph News-Press: CDC puts Missouri on
'widespread' levels of influenza activity X
SNL: Greitens uses Facebook to maneuver around
Missouri's mainstream news media X
Drebes: Supporter of Tim Meadows (D-Imperial) says
former state rep is being recruited to run for state Senate
CDT: Housing tax credit cuts stymie Columbia Housing
Authority plans X
CDT: Stores sell cannabis extract despite state
regulations X
Missourinet:
Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville) available to constituents at diner every
weekday morning he's in town; Greitens name-checked Katie's Diner
in
his first State of the State
P-D: St. Louis City's homicide tally hits 21-year-high
with Friday shootings; Three black women shot dead
Columbia
Missourian: Politifact rating: Statement from Rep. Cora
Faith Walker
(D-Ferguson) on black life expectancy rated "Mostly True"
P-D:
St. Louis City gun buyback program attracts peaceful morning
crowd;
St. Charles participant: "The wrong people are turning them in.
The
gangbangers and criminals ... are still sleeping."
P-D editorial: Senior Republicans in Missouri pushing
back against Greitens
P-D letter: Chesterfield octogenarian shares her
thoughts on hens, pecks at Hawley over need for more regulations
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Saturday, December 23
KC Business Journal: KC craft brewing scene cheers
Blunt-sponsored provision in tax overhaul bill
P-D: Congressional votes for the week
Columbia Missourian: Truman Veterans' Hospital
employees outscore their peers in national surveys
P-D: New interim director named for St. Louis Veterans
Home
Drebes:
Joe Adams kicks off bid for Chappelle-Nadal's seat
The Missouri Times: Court of Appeals rules governor
did not overstep by withholding funds from Public Defenders
SNL: Local school leaders meet with Greitens, talk
about ways to move forward X
CDT: Unions back GOP bills to protect mental health of
police officers X
KC
Star: White Missouri prison worker wins $1.4 million lawsuit
against
MO Dept. of Corrections over racial discrimination complaint X
Missourinet: More than 1,500 Missouri children adopted
this year
KC Star editorial: Clay, Cleaver voting against
disaster-relief funding is shameful and hypocritical X
The
Hill op-ed: Indian financial-group leader: McCaskill, drug
companies
plotted to infringe upon sovereignty of St. Regis Mohawks
P-D letter: St. Louis septuagenarian upset he got
voice mail when calling Roy Blunt's office
KC Star letter: Kansas septuagenarian praises Missouri
for making smoking-cessation programs a relatively low priority X
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Friday, December 22
Kraske: Missouri pols' notable quotables of 2017 X
KWMU: Outside groups ramp up presence in Missouri's
crucial U.S. Senate contest
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating:
McCaskill's statement on fentanyl deaths rated "Half True"
KC Star: Local hospital VP wants CHIP extension X
Columbia Missourian: Obamacare enrollment in Missouri
nearly doubles in final days
The Missouri Times: DESE seeking input from public in
search for next commissioner
SNL: Survey seeks input on qualities of Missouri's
next education commissioner X
KWMU: Missouri Department of Mental Health to rule on
proposed location for methadone clinic
Drebes:
Cierpiot files roofing bill
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Cattlemen's Association
encouraged by state tax commission vote
The Missouri Times: How should Missouri assess state
utility regulation?
Missourinet: Additional state troopers will be on the
road for Christmas travel
St. Joseph News-Press: MoDOT planning major projects
for 2018 X
Missourinet: MO DHSS: Missouri's flu cases
continue to take significant climb
Missourinet: Missouri 'safety net' hospital happy a
tax credit will support its joint clinic in KC with YMCA
Missourinet: Hawley: Predator is a pedophile
"with a history of molesting female children"
KWMU: News Director Bill Raack to serve last day
today; Maria Altman to assume his duties
KC Star letter: Seattle, Wa. feminist takes umbrage
with Cleaver's comments on sexual harassment "paranoia" X
P-D
letter: O'Fallon sexagenarian wants defenders of homicidal rapist
Reginald Clemons to apologize for prolonging pain of Kerry sisters'
family
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Thursday, December
21 First
Day of Winter
P-D: On the tax cuts, the information wars have only
begun; Thoughts from McCaskill, Blunt
Missourinet: Missouri delegation, communications
staffers weigh in on tax cuts
The Missouri Times: Impact of federal tax reform on
Missouri
KWMU: EPA's plan to clean up Missouri's lakes may not
be strong enough to prevent pollution
Faughn:
Build that wall - to keep East Coast bureaucrats from infesting our
state; Thoughts on Greitens following Parson and Messenger's
lead,
Hawley and Sunshine, much more
The Missouri Times: Hawley's office launches
investigation into Greitens' and staff's use of Confide app
KWMU: Greitens' use of texting application is under
investigation for breaching open records laws
AP:
Greitens under review over messaging app
Missourinet: Hawley to investigate alleged covert
messaging
Missourinet: Sifton taking a wait-and-see approach to
Hawley's investigation of Greitens
KWMU: Bill from Rep. Nick Schroer (R-O'Fallon) would
relieve firefighters from proving they got cancer on the job
Missourinet: Greitens supports bill to boost workers'
compensation for fire fighters
AP:
Greitens backs workers' compensation boost for firefighters
SE
Missourian: Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau) introduces bill to
control tax credits; seeks to reinstate film tax credit +
Missourinet: Missouri transportation task force to
recommend primary seat belt law
P-D: Sen. Jake Hummel (D-St. Louis City):
Missouri officials fail to report effects of 2015 welfare cuts
Drebes: On
HB 1273, MOHELA, and millennials' habit of borrowing more money than
they can pay back
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Week of December 20, 2017
SE
Missourian: State software glitches affecting revenue
distribution to cities, counties +
Missourinet: Greitens signs order releasing Judy
Henderson from prison
AP:
Greitens commutes life sentence in 1981 crime
P-D:
Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City) wants new investigation into 2013
shooting; Criminal led police on chase, pointed Glock at police
officers before being put down
KC Star editorial: Greitens' secret text messages will
get needed scrutiny in attorney general's investigation X
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Wednesday, December 20
Washington
Post: Democrats unlikely to force DACA vote this week, probably
averting shutdown; McCaskill says she's "not drawing a line in
the
sand" on timing
Columbia Missourian: Missouri's Obamacare enrollment
falls
AP:
McCaskill announces that Dept. of Homeland Security approves St. Louis
Cardinals' Safety Act proposal
St. Joseph News-Press: Area man seeks to fill
Democratic ballot slot in Graves' re-election
X
KWMU: Mannies, Rosenbaum, Marshall Griffin recap top
stories of 2017: Greitens' first year as gov, St. Louis race
riots, more
Drebes:
Rep. Bill White contributes $100,000 of his own money into his campaign
for state Senate
AP:
Missouri revenue chief expects minor federal tax effect
AP:
Missouri unemployment drops lower
The Missouri Times: Parson, Schmitt defend rural
Missouri with 'no' votes on ending low-income housing tax credits
KWMU: Greitens succeeds in push to halt low-income
housing tax credits
Missourinet: Missouri ditches low-income housing tax
credit
The Missouri Times: 21st Century Transportation System
Task Force holds final meeting, report expected within next week
Missourinet: Missouri transportation task force to
recommend gasoline and diesel tax increase
Columbia Missourian: State approves new
performance-based funding measures for higher ed
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Nick Schroer (R-O'Fallon)
would set age restriction for tanning beds
AP:
Missouri House Democrats pitch bill on opioid abuse
Columbia Missourian: Lack of maternal health care puts
pregnant women at risk in rural Missouri
AP:
Missouri sees high mortality rates for pregnant women
Missourinet: Missouri lawmakers differ on fixing St.
Louis area landfill before EPA head decides
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court sides with Bayer
against 85 out-of-state plaintiffs
KC Star editorial: Children in foster care in Missouri
deserve better X
P-D editorial: More victims of Reggie Clemons:
defendants who might actually be innocent
KC Star's Andy Marso: Mortality rate for pregnant
Missouri women is high. Why? Because legislators won't expand Medicaid X
KC
Star letter: Gravois Mills sexagenarian wants full-time Water
Patrol;
KC sexagenarian unmoved by Graves' pro-tax-cut constituent newsletter X
P-D letter: Chesterfield woman thanks Messenger, Rick
Stream for advocacy on behalf of Missouri veterans
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Tuesday, December 19
P-D: Congressional votes for the week
KC Star: Conservative group says Galloway is violating
Sunshine Law, wants AG to investigate
KC Star: Greitens adviser Nick Ayers linked to
nonprofit that funded attacks against GOP rivals
The Missouri Times: Halfway through FY2018, over $165
million currently restricted
Drebes:
Under Trump, Missouri has more freedom to change food stamp laws;
Hoskins and Sater have pre-filed legislation
P-D: Correction: Paper corrects name of Rep.
Kathie Conway (R-St. Charles) without acknowledgement
P-D: Hearing cancelled for lawmaker who hoped on
Facebook for hanging of vandals
The Missouri Times: Democrats call for rescheduled
ethics hearing for Love
Missourinet:
House Superminority Leader Gail McCann Beatty (D-Kansas City) outraged
that Legislature isn't prioritizing hearing on lawmaker's Facebook post
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Bill Kidd (R-Independence)
would help protect U.S. companies from rulings under foreign law
SE
Missourian: Former Scott City mayor files defamation suit against
Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston), two others
KWMU: Casino deal involves thousands of St. Louis area
workers and millions in taxes
P-D: $2.8 billion deal will change ownership of
several St. Louis area casinos
P-D:
Murderer pleads guilty - a second time - to Chain of Rocks
murders;
Reginald Clemons and pals befriended two sisters at gathering, robbed
them, gang-raped them, then pushed them off bridge to their death
KWMU: Reginald Clemons pleads guilty to Chain of Rocks
murders
AP:
Ex-Missouri death-row inmate re-sentenced to life in prison
P-D editorial: Protect Missouri's employees and make
government accountable with whistleblower protections
P-D letter: Ballwin sexagenarian dislikes Trump, says
he will not be voting for Ann Wagner when she's re-elected
KC
Star letter: Independence septuagenarian mocks Greitens'
incessant
chestpuffery, offers sarcastic suggestions for other macho-man stunts
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Monday, December 18
The Standard (Missouri State): Sen. Roy Blunt speaks
at fall commencement
Missouri
Farmer Today: Missouri officials aim to cut regulations;
Thoughts
from Gov. Eric Greitens, farmer/Ag Director Chris Chinn, rancher/Lt.
Gov. Mike Parson
Kirksville
Daily Express: Missouri Democratic Party promotes "Farmer's Bill
of
Rights"; Chairman Stephen Webber takes aim at Munzlinger Chief of
Staff Pat Thomas
Drebes:
Former state Rep. Sue Allen (R-Town and Country) to run for Town and
Country City Council, replacing Linda Rallo
JCNT: Sen. Mike Kehoe (R-Jefferson City), local
brewery owner hold ring-off for Salvation Army
X
Missourinet: Missouri transportation task force
prepares to make recommendations
St. Joseph News-Press: Lawmakers to discuss
texting-and-driving ban ... again X
P-D: Some I-44 bridge work is nearly done, but there's
a lot more to come
Missourinet: Kansas City charter school loses
sponsorship, two others get probation
P-D's Kurt Erickson: Missouri still grappling with
shortage of prison guards; Comments from St. Charles GOP "Rep.
Kathy [sic] Conway"
SE
Missourian: Forum on juvenile-justice system draws sparse
crowd;
Fewer than 12 show up to complain about discrimination, education
system, other perceived injustices +
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri announces first wave of
dicamba penalties
P-D:
Penn National to buy Pinnacle Entertainment in $2.8 billion deal;
Missouri Gaming Commission will have to approve transfer of control
KC Star editorial: Missouri legislators should stand
up to Greitens in 2018 X
Joplin Globe editorial: Ending low-income housing tax
credits would hurt Joplin's seniors, poor X
KC Star editorial: Missouri should spend tobacco
settlement money on helping smokers kick the habit X
Messenger: Secret texts a metaphor for all that has
gone wrong in Greitens' first year
KC
Star letters: KC liberal thinks calling Blunt's office will
affect
support of tax cuts; Local septuagenarian takes pride in paper's
news/editorial campaign against Greitens X
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Sunday, December 17
P-D:
Ed Martin, CNN's controversial Trump surrogate, keeps smiling
KWMU:
McCaskill opines on federal tax bill and net neutrality at town hall
CDT:
Financial stakes drive battle over tax credits X
CDT:
Mini-profiles: Low-income housing residents X
AP:
Analysis: Board picks help Missouri governors promote policy
change
Drebes: Help
Wanted: MOHELA seeks Chief Information Officer
SE
Missourian: Jay Knudson resigns as president of Board of Regents
at Southeast +
KC
Star: Missouri trooper in handcuffed drowning case slapped with
final discipline protocol X
St.
Joseph News-Press: Rep. Stacey Newman (D-Richmond Heights) to
introduce more gun legislation this session X
Washington
Missourian editorial: Schatz's willingness to propose gas-tax
increase sets him apart from "me-first" legislators X
P-D
editorial: Children's deaths should trouble everyone about lax
home-school regulation
Washington
Missourian editorial: MU's 2015 race agitation has not
significantly hurt its fundraising X
SNL
editorial: Sending good thoughts to Springfield Chamber's Matt
Morrow X
Columbia
Missourian's Lucille Sherman: Responses to "NoMORedTape" not what
Greitens was hoping for
P-D
letter: Jefferson County woman would prefer having urban diner
owner as governor instead of Greitens
KC
Star letter: Kansas man attempts punchline involving traffic
tickets and Confide app X
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Saturday, December 16
The Hill: White House still eyeing gas tax hike to pay
for infrastructure plan; Sam Graves says it could be a nonstarter
in the House
The Missouri Times: Hawley unveils 'Claire McTaxAll'
website in first shots at Democratic incumbent
P-D: Top 10 most-read stories of 2017:
Chappelle-Nadal assassination wish (#10), Ferguson rioter/Twitter
celebrity Edward "@eyeFLOODpanties" Crawford kills himself (#6),
Stockley riots (#1)
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of December 11, 2017
The Missouri Times: A look at the Justice Reinvestment
Initiative
AP:
Change in Missouri health-insurance plan would affect fewer than 100
AIDS carriers
Missourinet: Missouri House Ethics Committee schedules
hearing to discuss August Facebook post from Rep. Warren Love
(R-Osceola)
SNL: Galloway offers to investigate Greene County for
'free' X
P-D editorial brief: Legislation from Rep. Justin
Alferman (R-Hermann) will help protect against food-prep sabotage
SNL's Cheryl Whitsitt: Upcoming editorials on Greene
County audit issue will not include participation of editorial board
member married to county spokeswoman X
Waters: Democrats' Alabama fantasy must meet
reality: Liberals who pray for Trump's demise should recognize
that Missouri is no longer a bellwether
St. Joseph News-Press letter: Chairman of Missouri
Association of Veterans Organizations applauds Greitens for shaking up
veterans commission X
SNL letter: MSU English prof calls Greitens a phony,
says he is wrong on every issue X
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Friday, December 15
P-D's Chuck Raasch: Dems hope Alabama race bodes well
for Missouri; Comments from U.S. Senate candidates, 1/2 of P-D
polisci prof pundit pool (UMSL's Dave Robertson)
Kraske: Democrats waltz into 2018 with optimism in
their eyes X
P-D: GOP U.S. Senate candidate Austin Petersen
accepting Bitcoin donations
Missourinet: Blunt praises GOP tax plan
AP: Blunt pleased with FCC vote on net neutrality
Joplin Globe: McCaskill, Blunt: Joplin granted
extension for tornado-recovery funds X
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating: Trump
statement on Missouri unemployment rated "False"
KWMU: Illegal alien living in St. Louis gets the boot
from immigration authorities, heads back to Mexico
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Beat reporters for
arts/culture/protests/LGBTQIA* topics recap favorite stories of
2017: Local feminists coping with pain of Hillary Clinton's
November 2016 loss, area boy dressing up as girl, movie celebrating St.
Louis riots, more
KC Star: Former Missouri Democratic Party Chairman
Mike Sanders takes leave from law practice in wake of FBI probe
SNL: Missouri Democratic Party makes rural stops,
promotes "Farmer's Bill of Rights" X
P-D: Missouri Democratic Party takes aim at Hawley
over appeal of money for blind Missourians
Missourinet: Missouri Alliance for Freedom runs ads
targeting Nicole Galloway
The Missouri Times: Missouri House Democrats look to
expand superminority
The Missouri Times: Fitzwater joins Eigel in push for
tax overhaul in Missouri
Washington Missourian: Schatz files 10-cent fuel tax
hike proposal, files 22 bills for 2018 session
X
Missourinet: Boone County Presiding
Commissioner: I-70 must be highest priority for Missouri
transportation task force
Missourinet: Speedy search underway for new Missouri
Education Commissioner
The Missouri Times: Missouri State Board of Education
to open search to applicants starting Friday
KWMU: Greitens' picks for State Board of Education
accelerate commissioner search process
KC Star: After ousting education commissioner, state
board haggles over hiring new leader X
Reuters: Missouri issues first fines over dicamba in
2016; Minority of farmers chose to break law by misapplying
herbicide
AP:
Greitens praises help for CAFOs
The Missouri Times: Spire rate case could signal
change in precedent at PSC
P-D editorial: Greitens wrong to appoint farmers to
Clean Water Commission
Washington Missourian editorial: Obsessed with
tough-guy photo ops, Greitens doesn't follow through on campaign
promises and runs a secretive operation X
Messenger: E-mails, secret texts and your right to
know. A Missouri Sunshine Law tale
P-D letter: Chesterfield septuagenarian says paper's
anti-Greitens series demonstrates its brand of yellow journalism
P-D letter: St. Louis woman wants a Democratic
governor, as well as a Missouri Nondiscrimination Act
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Thursday, December 14
The Hill: After Moore's loss, Blunt says slim
majorities can be easier to manage
P-D's Chuck Raasch: Lacy Clay, Ann Wagner demonstrate
partisan double-standards on sexual harassment allegations
KWMU: Locals weigh in on net neutrality debate
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Gary
Romine (R-Farmington) talks with journduo about Vandeven ouster,
Greitens' lack of communication with Senate, running for Senate
president pro tem, more
Missourinet: Romine files bill in response to
education commissioner turmoil
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Moberly school board bashes
Greitens' education moves; Superintendent says governor's
approach is short-sighted
Missourinet: Missouri veterans leader resigns, another
put on leave
P-D: Missouri veterans chief resigns under pressure
from governor
The Missouri Times: Greitens targets Schupp with
accusations regarding issues in veterans homes
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri legislators eyeing
their own tax reform X
KWMU: Republican lawmakers seeking more tax relief
Missourinet: Tax overhaul plan gains support among GOP
legislators
Drebes:
GOP Rep. Elaine Gannon's education bill
AP:
University of Missouri endowment tops $1B for the first time
KC Star: UMKC new building project funded with
millions in gifts and state money X
Missourinet: Speeding, seat belts and funding dominate
discussion at Missouri transportation meeting
Columbia Missourian: Task force hasn't given up on
Missouri Hyperloop
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating:
McKenna's statement on Hyperloop rated "Half True"
Missourinet: Missouri First Lady Sheena Greitens
stresses need to improve foster care before legislative panel
Missourinet: Missouri task force to consider
improvements in behavioral health network
Columbia Missourian: Task force recommends mental
health support for released prisoners
Missourinet: Southeast Missouri steel mill
series: New Madrid leader is optimistic about steel mill, and
prepared if it doesn't happen
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Week of December 13, 2017
SE
Missourian: Forum on juvenile justice set for Saturday +
AP:
Bourbon virus not found in ticks at Meramec State Park
KC Star editorial: Missouri Ethics Commission should
do more to find kickback schemes like those of former Missouri
Democratic Party Chairman Mike Sanders
P-D
family columnist/beauty-product reviewer Aisha Sultan: Community
college sociology prof promotes anti-gun postcard sent to Blunt
P-D op-ed: Housing developer: Greitens takes the
money, but not the politics, out of tax credit program
P-D letter: Fenton septuagenarian thanks Post-Dispatch
for its anti-Greitens series
KC Star letter: Kansas septuagenarian wishes Greitens
was more like Gov. Sam Brownback
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Wednesday, December 13
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill fears bill's language
will hinder inspector general probes X
P-D: Wagner's sex-trafficking bill advances, but it's
garnered fresh opposition
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating: Hartzler
statement on Missouri's FEMA cases rated "Mostly True"
SNL: Former Ashcroft aide and current Springfield
Chamber of Commerce President Matt Morrow battling cancer X
The Missouri Times: Democratic lawyer extraordinaire
Chuck Hatfield says Hawley could choose to investigate or sue Greitens
over texting app
Springfield Business Journal: Mini-profile:
Elijah Haahr set to become youngest Speaker of the House in history
The Missouri Times: Employees seek compensation for
lost wages in lawsuit against Dept. of Insurance, Financial
Institutions and Professional Registration
Columbia Missourian: House subcommittee continues
discussion on potential work-study program
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Columbia schools involved in
public transportation bill; Comments from Rep. Chuck Basye
(R-Rocheport)
KWMU: Utilities and environmentalists call for
Missouri to spend VW funds on electric vehicles
AP:
Missouri commission OKs two CAFOs
KWMU: State appeals court blocks Darren Wilson grand
juror from speaking about the case
P-D editorial: A governor devoted to transparency
should have no use for Confide app
KC Star editorial: Officials' text messages are public
records, and we should be allowed to see them
X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Greitens should
embrace transparency X
JCNT letter: Holts Summit woman expresses anger that
Luetkemeyer has not responded to her letters, threatens to plop down in
district office X
CDT letter: Columbia man disagrees with "Vickie [sic] Hartzler" on tax cuts X
KC Star letter: Kansas man attempts analogy involving
Confide app and Revolutionary War muskets X
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Tuesday, December 12
P-D: U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley says
allegations against Roy Moore are "very serious"
Clayton Times: Former candidate for U.S. House
District 2 blasts Democratic primary opponents
Drebes:
Saundra McDowell could join GOP primary for state auditor
The Missouri Times: Republican Danny Busick will seek
Nate Walker's state rep seat
The Missouri Times: Republicans lining up to fill Paul
Curtman's shoes in 109th District
KWMU: Greitens wants state veterans administrators
fired after problems at St. Louis Veterans Home
The Missouri Times: Greitens replaces five Missouri
Veterans Commissioners, calls for removal of Carter and Kay
Missourinet: Veterans home investigation prompts
Greitens to demand new leadership
AP:
Greitens calls for investigations into veterans homes, leadership
change at St. Louis facility
P-D: Problems at St. Louis Veterans Home prompt
governor to call for administrator's firing
Missourinet: Schupp says Greitens may be stacking
veterans commission panel to fire top leaders
The Missouri Times: The search for a new
commissioner: What will they be looking for?
AP's
Summer Ballentine and Margaret Stafford:
Analysis/evaluation: Why is Eric Greitens obsessed with showing
off his physical fitness?
Columbia Missourian: Liberal gals take pride in being
blocked by Greitens' social media
AP:
Hawley to form program to help with legal problems
Missourinet: Greitens downplays KC Star piece on
messaging app, says "liberal media outlet" is desperate to attack his
agenda
AP:
Hawley weighs in on Confide messaging app
P-D: Hawley says text messages are public records
Columbia Missourian: Governor, state agencies largely
exempt from Hawley's scrutiny
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello)
previews budget talks, education and social services funding
Missourinet: Rep. Rick Brattin
(R-Harrisonville): 'We pay for personal property or real property
taxes forever'
Missourinet: Missouri House Committee looks for waiver
from Obamacare while Congress makes moves
Missourinet: Far-reaching foster care study announced
by First Lady Sheena Greitens
The Missouri Times: Rep. TJ Berry (R-Kearney) files
bill to cap electric rates and modernize Missouri's energy grid
SNL: Avoiding state audit lets county sidestep
Sunshine Law X
KWMU: Missouri's Department of Agriculture places
restrictions on Monsanto and DuPont's dicamba products
KC Star editorial: Missouri is making it easier to get
away with sexual harassment in the workplace
X
P-D editorial: Greitens acts, finally, to address
veterans home issues
KC Star editorial: Greitens should have helped
veterans sooner, but he was too busy staging chest-puffing photo-ops X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Jennifer Bukowsky: If
women want to be taken seriously in Missouri politics, they should
avoid sexual misbehavior
Messenger: Greitens finally seeks change at veterans
home. Good. Lives are at stake.
P-D's Kurt Erickson: Greitens travels too much
Waters: UM President Mun Choi is making a difference X
SE
Missourian letter: Poplar Bluff man opposes term-limit extension,
supports ban on lobbyist gifts +
P-D letter: Chesterfield octogenarian opposes
Greitens' appointments to Clean Water Commission, recounts what water
was like in the old-timey days
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Monday, December 11
The
Hill: Spending bill mathletics: House Republicans could jam
bill with defense-first package and dare vulnerable McCaskill to vote
against it
KWMU:
Politically Speaking podcast: State Treasurer Eric Schmitt on
federal tax overhaul, McCaskill vs. Hawley, retooling Missouri
pensions, more
This
Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Eric Schmitt on federal tax
reform, Trump's support in Missouri, Greitens, McCaskill vs. Hawley,
more; Panel of Ray Hartmann, Sarah Wood Martin, Jon Prouty, and
Jennifer Bukowsky on Greitens and Vandeven, federal tax cuts
KWMU:
Area Muslims march against Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital
Drebes:
Missouri House Committee shuffling
KWMU:
Group seeking to prevent infant deaths is raising cash through private
donations; Group finds path forward after $20k state contract was
reallocated
P-D's
Jack Suntrup: Greitens' first year in office: Assessments
of legislative accomplishments, relationships with legislators,
rock-climbing/rappelling machismo, more
Missourinet:
Legislative preview: Rep. Bill Reiboldt (R-Neosho) files
seat-belt legislation
Missourinet:
Legislative preview: Rep. TJ Berry (R-Kearney) to reintroduce
marriage legislation
Missourinet:
Legislative preview: Rep. Richard Brown (D-Kansas City) proposes
gun legislation
KC
Star editorial: McCaskill is correct: More men should jump
on harassment wave
P-D
editorial: Correction to anti-Greitens series editorial
KC
Star editorial: Who else was involved in former Missouri
Democratic Party Chairman Mike Sanders' kickback scheme?
The
Hill op-ed: Brain & Behavioral Research Foundation's
Scientific Council President Herbert Pardes: Heartening to see
Roy Blunt, others lead the way on mental health funding
Washington
Post's Jennifer Rubin: Distinguished pols of the week:
McCaskill, other Dem gals show coordinate their disposal of Franken
SNL
op-ed: Greitens did right thing on Board of Education
P-D
letter: Fenton man says P-D anti-gun editorial was hypocritical
P-D
letter: Manchester feminist alarmed by provisions in Senate Bill
5 six (6) months after passage
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Sunday, December 10
KBIA (Columbia): Area alien shares feelings on
DACA; Mexican coed tells harrowing tale of paperwork required for
Europe jaunt
Drebes:
Kate Whiting joins St. Louis Realtors as new Assistant of Government
Affairs
CDT: As costs increase, state funding for school
busing goes down X
P-D: Starved, beaten and forgotten: Child deaths
in Missouri and Illinois expose how predators exploit home-school system
Joplin Globe: Prefiled bills tackle bump stocks,
prevailing wage, abortion
JCNT: Rep. Karla May (D-St. Louis) files land-grant
funding bill for Lincoln University X
SNL: In critical statement, Galloway again calls for
Greene County to request investigation X
P-D: Best of photographer Christian Gooden's 2017
shots: Black Lives Matter crowd burning American flag, protesters
attacking police officers, protesters attacking motorists, more
P-D editorial: Anti-Greitens series promo, Part
II: Centerpiece quote from "state Rep. [sic] Doug Libla (R-Poplar Bluff)"
McClellan: For 2020 presidential hopes, Claire
McCaskill offers Dems a much better chance than fake Indian Elizabeth
Warren
P-D letter: Local Democratic campaign consultant Mark
Travers: Ann Wagner, Jason Smith wrong on guns
P-D letter: St. Louis Equity Fund's John Kennedy wants
state to continue low-income housing tax credits
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Saturday, December 9
P-D: Ann Wagner's bill on online sex trafficking gets
key test in House next week
KY3: McCaskill, Blunt say they support CHIP funding
Sedalia Democrat: Local Presbyterian pastor thanks
Hartzler for opportunity to give opening prayer for U.S. House of
Representatives
The Missouri Times: Activist group claims
congressional delegation supports their position on West Lake Landfill
Drebes:
Former Missouri politico Gina Loudon pens Breitbart piece in support of
Alabama's Roy Moore
Washington Missourian: Despite internecine GOP
battles, Rep. Justin Alferman (R-Hermann) anticipates ethics bill
passing the House
SEMO Times: Sen. Gary Romine (R-Ste. Genevieve) talks
with Scott Faughn about discrimination bill, Greitens' team not sharing
information, praise for Democratic Sens. Scott Sifton and Gina Walsh,
transportation funding, more
P-D's Kevin McDermott: Greitens' onetime vows of
transparency now lost behind a veil of dark money
P-D's Kurt Erickson: Lack of sunshine under Greitens
leads to information underload
P-D: Sen. Scott Sifton (D-Affton) calls for
investigation after report of Greitens' use of text-deleting app
KC Star: Greitens' self-destructing texts inspire call
for AG investigation; Letter to AG sent by "Sen. Scott Sifton
(D-St. Louis [sic])" X
P-D correction: Editor Gilbert Bailon acknowledges
error in yesterday's kickoff editorial for anti-Greitens series
P-D: Change in law could end residency questions for
Missouri AG Josh Hawley; Bill sponsored by "Republican state Rep.
Lindall [sic] Shumake"
KWMU: Pre-filed bill would strike down requirement for
Missouri attorney general
Dunklin
Democrat: Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Stephen Webber
promotes "Farmer's Bill of Rights" in rural areas +
P-D: Greitens' long-awaited prescription drug
monitoring program is up and running
St. Joseph News-Press: Area independent living center
hopes for funding this legislative session X
P-D: Agencies weigh options to fight Big River erosion
and lead contamination
P-D: David Steelman elected to be next chairman of
University of Missouri Board of Curators
CDT: Board of Curators elects David Steelman as
chairman X
Missourinet: UMSL-sponsored urban charter school to
close; Students produced disappointing test scores
SNL: Advocates for raising Missouri's criminal
prosecution age make their case X
P-D: St. Louis City could break 200-homicide mark in
2017; Mayor blames guns
KWMU: Mayor's Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards
talks gun buyback: "I don't expect the criminals and crooks to
come in here and bring me a gun."
KC Star editorial: Cleaver was right to vote 'no' on
Trump impeachment X
P-D editorial brief: Mocking Chillicothe GOP Rep.
Rusty Black for seeking to honor his hometown
The Weekly Standard's Tony Mecia: McCaskill and other
Dems' phony, vapid case against tax cuts
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Americans for Prosperity's
Jeremy Cady: McCaskill's stance on tax overhaul is politics as
usual
P-D letter: Man who lives in Wildwood claims to make
only $25,000/yr., disagrees with Blunt on tax cuts
P-D letter: St. Louis septuagenarian says Chris Koster
lost votes for governor because he sided with Missouri egg producers
over animal-rights activists
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Friday, December 8
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill, Blunt push for fair
rewriting of NAFTA X
Missourinet: Blunt, Hartzler take to Senate and House
floors, respectively, to promote GOP tax cuts
Missourinet: Missouri's liberal advocacy groups oppose
GOP tax cuts
JCNT: Protest at Luetkemeyer's office draws fewer than
20 to complain about tax cuts X
JCNT: Luetkemeyer hosting annual constituent days X
Missourinet: McCaskill defends Obama-era Internet
regulations
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Immigration law
expert Jim Hacking, area Muslim activist promote town hall on Trump
terrorist ban
Missourinet: EPA to roll out plan in January for West
Lake Landfill
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating: Blunt's
pro-accuser statement regarding sexual harassment rated "Half True"
KC Star: Former Missouri Democratic Party Chairman
Mike Sanders used quadriplegic friend to run illegal kickback scheme X
The Missouri Times: Seasoned feminist Rep. Stacey
Newman (D-Richmond Heights) endorses Joe Adams over Sharon Pace for
Chappelle-Nadal's seat
Drebes:
John Simmons to run for Paul Curtman's House seat
The Missouri Times: A 30-year retrospective on the
career of Jay Nixon: Part IV
The Missouri Times: A 30-year retrospective on the
career of Jay Nixon: Part V
P-D: Preview: "Mission accomplished?" weekend
series to focus on Greitens' dark money, lack of transparency, frequent
travel, and inattentiveness to Post-Dispatch reporters' demands
The Missouri Times: Some Greitens staffers use Confide
app on their personal phones
P-D: Missouri owes $19 million in refunds for federal
child care subsidies, audit says
The Missouri Times: Looking to 2018: Prefiled
bills that could play a major role in the upcoming session
Missourinet: Munzlinger's plan would increase size of
Missouri Conservation Commission
P-D: Hundreds of homes planned on University of
Missouri-owned land around Missouri Bluffs Golf Club
SNL: In sign of the times, homeschool group from
southwest Missouri calls it quits X
P-D: The secret world of investigating prison deaths
in Missouri
KWMU: Missouri Air Conservation Commission approves
plan to show EPA that Jefferson County air is cleaner
P-D: State says Jefferson County meets sulphur dioxide
standards
KWMU: Area transgenders hope online telethon raises
cash; Facebook-streamed show to feature makeup-for-men tutorials,
burlesque from "The Derriere Beyond Compare"
P-D editorial: "Mission accomplished?" weekend series
kickoff: Greitens attacks Nicole Galloway with dark money, as
she's "the only Democrat on the 2018 statewide ballot [sic]"
KC Star editorial: Greitens is making Hillary Clinton
look like a secrecy amateur X
P-D editorial: Missouri wrong to embrace "the more
guns, the better" philosophy
P-D op-ed: The trucking industry should foot the bill
for Missouri road improvements
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Thursday, December 7 Pearl Harbor Day
P-D: McCaskill, other Senate women call for Al Franken
to resign
KCUR: McCaskill, other Democratic women call for
Franken to resign
SNL: McCaskill: Male senators need to lead on
sexual harassment X
Missourinet: Blunt holds hearing to explore options
for fighting opioids
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Luetkemeyer talks tax cuts and
repeal of individual mandate, says his barbershop crew would rather pay
fines than be forced into Obamacare
Brownfield Ag News: House Agriculture Committee's
ranking Democrat, Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), talks 2018 Farm Bill at
Missouri Farm Bureau forum
SeekingAlpha.com: Lee Enterprises, parent company of
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Q4 earnings call transcript: Revenue
down, with more price increases for subscribers on the horizon (free
registration required)
Columbia Missourian: Sean Spence named KOPN general
manager; Former Democratic campaign consultant previously served
as director of Mid-Missouri Better Business Bureau
Washington Missourian: Lucas Dieckhaus to seek state
representative seat
AP: Greitens praises Trump's decision on Israel
KWMU: Dueling philosophies between Greitens and
Democrats on Missouri's agriculture industry
P-D: Chesterfield trial lawyer unhappy with Greitens'
pro-agriculture appointments to Clean Water Commission
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Moberly superintendent opposes
Greitens' charter-school agenda, wants to hear governor's vision for
education
Columbia Missourian: Eddy Justice says he wasn't
pressured by Greitens to fire education commissioner
JCNT: House committee questions safety on LU, MU
campuses
KWMU: National Council of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
St. Louis Chapter leader Howard Weissman wants Jefferson City to "get
its act together" on PDMP
SNL: Galloway: Whistleblowers need protection X
Missourinet: Galloway, Democratic superminority wish
to change SB 43
SNL: Galloway urges investigation of Greene County
after potential misuse of public resources X
SNL: Why Galloway is asking permission to investigate
Greene County X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: December 6, 2017
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court to decide if
self-defense was improperly left out of murder case
Missourinet: Rep. Alan Green (D-Florissant) wants
legislators to sit through "Unconscious Racial Bias Training;"
Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City) questions efficacy
SE
Missourian editorial: Pearl Harbor Day is time to reflect and
thank World War II vets +
SNL editorial: Teacher pay report shows need for
collaboration X
P-D editorial: Greitens' platitudes don't match the
numbers on education
KC Star editorial: Josh Hawley's egg lawsuit
unnecessary
KC Star editorial: To catch more rapists, Missouri
must test more rape kits
CDT op-ed: Tim Jones: Three ways the Senate tax
plan helps Missourians X
KC Star op-ed: Missouri Charter Public School
Association: Charter schools play a major role in educating
Kansas City
KC Star's Jason Hancock: Greitens' penchant for
secrecy goes digital with messaging app that leaves no trace
P-D letter: St. Louis man disputes claims from
low-income housing tax credit critics, including Post-Dispatch
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Wednesday, December 6
P-D: McCaskill, Blunt weigh in on potential victory of
Alabama's Judge Roy Moore
P-D: Lee Enterprises, parent of Post-Dispatch, reports
fourth quarter 2017 results: Lower total revenue, with 0.6% rise
in subscription revenue from charging customers more
The Missouri Times: A retrospective on the 30-year
career of Jay Nixon: Part III
Dunklin
Democrat: Dunklin County Democratic Women host holiday
party; Comments from MDP Chairman Stephen Webber, woman seeking
to fill Democratic ballot slot against Jason Smith, others +
Missourinet: Missouri State Employee Charitable
Campaign raises more than $1 million
SNL: Eigel's big tax overhaul proposal involves slowly
doing away with personal income taxes X
KWMU: Galloway report finds school superintendents'
pay increases outpacing teachers
SNL: Vandeven: Greitens never shared vision for
education X
KWMU: Board of Education Member Eddy Justice defends
Vandeven ouster
Columbia Missourian: Educators unsettled, state board
divided after Vandeven's ousting
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Gina
Mitten (D-Richmond Heights) weighs in on Vandeven brouhaha, campaign
contribution restrictions, and Dem dreams of picking up GOP legislative
seats in 2018
CDT: Rep. Martha Stevens (D-Columbia) proposes needle
exchange to prevent disease X
Missourinet: Missouri prisons struggle with critical
correctional officer shortage
KWMU: State appeals court sides with Tesla in dispute
over dealerships
KWMU: Environmental activists demand tougher laws to
address runoff in Missouri's large lakes
Missourinet: Hawley releases investigation on Stockley
civil lawsuit wrongdoing
P-D: 'Clear discovery violation' during negotiations
with Anthony Lamar Smith family, Missouri AG says
P-D editorial: Josh Hawley takes another crack at the
great Missouri egg case
SNL op-ed: U.S. Rep. Billy Long: No time to
waste in addressing opioid crisis X
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: List of Missouri
GOP transgressions, with attempted punchline involving climate change
and "hot air"
P-D op-ed: George Washington University coed dislikes
Missouri's new laws for abortion providers and their customers
KC Star letter: Lee's Summit septuagenarian opposes
GOP tax cuts, thinks writing letters to Congress will make a difference X
P-D letter: Wentzville sexagenarian says Greitens was
too soft on urban rioters and too ham-handed with Vandeven
P-D letter: Manchester woman responds to letter
responding to poverty coverage, says men should take responsibility for
the children they create
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Tuesday, December 5
Hoosier Ag Today (Indiana): McCaskill opposes GOP
estate tax break, says it does not benefit Missouri farmers
The Missouri Times: Retrospective on the 30-year
career of Jay Nixon: Part II
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Supreme Court of Missouri seeks government relations
counsel
The Missouri Times: Parson calls for ouster of St.
Louis Veterans Home administrator
Missourinet: Lt. Gov. Mike Parson wants new leadership
at embattled veterans home
AP:
Parson wants new veterans' home head
KWMU: Hawley continues Koster's legal fight against
California over egg regulations
AP:
13 states, including Missouri, launch new legal challenge to California
egg law
Missourinet:
Hawley announces renewed push in egg lawsuit against California
SNL: State audit supports Greitens' claim about
teacher pay disparity, especially charters X
P-D: Missouri schools are spending more on
superintendent pay, other non-classroom costs
SNL: Missouri school board to start commissioner
search next week after controversial firing X
SNL: Greitens' education tactics could spark filibuster X
JCNT: Missouri Democratic Party promotes "Farmer's
Bill of Rights" to oppose large agriculture companies X
Missourinet: Members of House Democratic Superminority
to introduce symbolic spending bills
Missourinet: Rep. Cora Faith Walker (D-Ferguson)
introduces CHIP-funding bill
Missourinet: Missouri DHSS: Flu season hits
Missouri hard and early
SNL: #lovemynewspaper day promotion: Compliment
the News-Leader for their coverage and win beer, other prizes X
KWMU: The Evening Whirl keeps on spinning in St.
Louis; City's premier black newspaper takes pride in calling
suspects 'crooks,' other politically-incorrect straight talk
KC Star editorial: Republicans Blunt, Graves wrong to
support GOP tax bills X
P-D editorial: A win for Greitens is a big loss for
Missouri public education
KC Star op-ed: Blue Springs teacher: Some
questions for Greitens about education priorities X
P-D letter: St. Louis liberal disagrees with Blunt on
tax cuts
KC Star letter: Sugar Creek man seeks to punish GOP
lawmakers for tax cuts, assumes he'll still be around to vote against
Blunt in 2022 X
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Monday, December 4
JCNT: Hartzler talks new farm bill at Missouri Farm
Bureau forum X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Jay Nixon on
campaign contribution limits, tone of political discourse,
transportation funding, advice for new candidates; Panel of Jack
Cardetti, David Barklage, Reps. Robert Cornejo (R-St. Peters) and Tracy
McCreery (D-Olivette) talk Nixon's legacy, Greitens and DESE
The Missouri Times: Retrospective on the 30-year
career of Jay Nixon: Part I
Drebes: MO SOS filing shows Leadership for America's
board of directors
SNL: Hawley challenges California egg law again X
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Missourian: Rep. Donna Lichtenegger (R-Jackson) proposes change
to term limits +
Missourinet: Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Spring)
introduces major tax overhaul
Missourinet: Rep. Nick Schroer (R-O'Fallon) says
Missouri is one of only five states that prosecute all 17-year-olds
like adults
KSMU: Springfield Public School superintendent issues
statement following firing of Margie Vandeven
Missourinet: Missouri Board of Education Member Mike
Jones (D) says next education leader will be "tainted"
Washington Missourian: Opioids not only drugs killing
area residents - meth still on the scene X
CDT: Most local pharmacies selling overdose antidote X
P-D: Cash-strapped St. Louis City could see a state
audit if some residents get their way
P-D: Small groups of protesters traipse through
Galleria, chant anti-profit ditty
USA Today op-ed, 11/28: Former Obamacare chief Andy
Slavitt: "The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office expects
everyone's insurance to rise 10%"; Bad news for "Americans who
have serious chronic conditions or pay for nursing home care or
high-cost medications"
P-D family columnist Aisha Sultan: "The non-partisan
Congressional Budget Office expects everyone's insurance to rise
10%"; Bad news for "Americans who have serious chronic conditions
or pay for nursing home care or high-cost medications"
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: Josh Hawley speaking to
evangelical group this weekend - and Christians should disavow Donald
Trump
CDT op-ed: Phill Brooks: A challenge to
constitutional independence: On Greitens' Board of Education
machinations X
CDT op-ed: National Institute for Labor Relations
Research's Stan Greer: 'Right to work' states have a higher
standard of living X
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Sunday, December 3
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating: Blunt's
statement on Missouri's mental-health leadership rated "Mostly True"
Drebes:
In St. Charles, Trump praises historic tax credits - though they may be
stripped from tax bill
P-D: Greitens speaks at ribbon-cutting for Monsanto's
$400 million Chesterfield expansion
SNL: Ban on bump stocks, teen tanning among Missouri
lawmakers' early proposals X
AP: Missouri a 'high risk' state for deer accidents
P-D photo gallery: Photographer David Carson's best of
2017, from rioters to wild animals on the loose
P-D editorial: Attendance records at Riverview Gardens
merit thorough audit
CDT Editor Charles Westmoreland: Please detach
yourself from the Tribune of the past and accept the better version
that exists today; Don't compare us to the Columbia Missourian,
which has "the advantage of free labor and government subsidy" X
P-D letter: St. Louis woman wants state lawmakers to
pass "Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights"
KC Star letter: Kearney septuagenarian dislikes Trump,
Greitens, Cierpiot - and the Democratic Party too
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Saturday, December 2
NY Times: Senate tax bill votes: McCaskill no,
Blunt yes
Missourinet:
Blunt: New tax policy puts us in great position for coming growth
The Hill: McCaskill: Lobbyists gave Dems a list
of GOP amendments to tax bill
The Hill: Democrats defeat GOP bid to shield
conservative college from endowment tax; McCaskill says provision
was written for DeVos family
P-D: Blunt says he's tried to limit contact with Trump
as Intelligence Committee probe continues
SNL: Blunt won't say if Trump pressed him to 'wrap up'
Russia probe X
KC Star: Obamacare enrollment brisk in Missouri, but
deadline looms
KWMU: Behind the Headlines: Jo Mannies talks
Trump visit, says she knows better than to take Trump's "fake news"
applause line personally
KWMU: Behind the Headlines: St. Charles Police
Department Lt. Chad Fisk talks preparations for Trump visit
The Missouri Times: HRCC names Wes Sutton finance
director
Drebes:
Newly-minted House Floor Leader Rob Vescovo staffs up with esteemed Joe
Engler and Leslie Korte
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of November 27, 2017
The Missouri Times: Greitens gets his way in second
round; Vandeven fired as commissioner
KWMU: Greitens gets his way on second try;
Vandeven fired as education leader
SNL: On second try, state school board fires
commissioner X
Missourinet: Vandeven departs, says "schools are the
soul of Missouri"
AP:
Greitens appointees oust Missouri education leader
KWMU: Normandy sheds unaccredited status in long
turnaround effort; Students still lag far behind state average
for achievement, graduation rate
AP:
Missouri's only unaccredited school district gets upgraded
Missourinet: Under Munzlinger plan, Missourians would
vote in 2020 on conservation sales tax
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Week of November 30, 2017
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Missourian: Sunday newspaper delivery to be replaced with
Saturday "Weekend Edition" delivery, adapting to shopping habits and
weekend schedules +
Dunklin
Demorat: Jeff Dorris named editor of Dunklin Democrat +
KC Star editorial: Greitens bullies his way to firing
the Missouri education commissioner. But for what?
P-D editorial briefs: St. Louis Regional Chamber
should not have honored Sen. Ed Emery (R-Lamar); Conservative
blogger Jim Hoft is "trash"
The Missouri Times op-ed: Margie Vandeven: I
know Missouri will stay strong in its commitment to our children
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Missourian op-ed: Former Sen. Jason Crowell (R-Cape
Girardeau): Lawmakers must reform Low Income Housing Tax Credit
program +
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Missourian letter: Jackson septuagenarian conservative T. Robin
Cole III wants McCaskill to support tax cuts
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P-D letter: Ladue septuagenarian wonders why
Post-Dispatch highlights black social justice warriors, but never black
murderers, rapists and robbers
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Friday, December 1
P-D: Blunt, GOP leaders increasingly confident tax
cuts will pass
Drebes: Staff
updates: Kyle Aubuchon headed to work for U.S. Rep. Jason
Smith; More
KWMU: St. Louis On the Air: Area humanoids
provide update on politically-correct transgender lingo: Proper
pronouns, "non-binary," "queer," "dead name," etc.
Faughn: November's winners and losers:
Post-Dispatch and Tony Messenger, for their coordinated campaign
against low-income housing tax credits; Greitens' preference to
build more Pruitt-Igoe slums rather than meaningful rural housing
projects; More on Eigel, Romine, Ron Richard, KC Star, and
Governor's Five Dwarves of DESE
P-D: Democratic fundraiser Matthew Liberman charged
with racially-motivated gun crime in St. Louis City
The Missouri Times: Galloway requests dismissal in
Missouri Alliance for Freedom's Sunshine case
Missourinet: Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Spring)
discusses proposed tax cut and St. Charles County's superior growth
The Missouri Times: PSRS/PEERS concerned pensions
could be hurt by provisions in federal tax reform legislation
SNL: Planned Parenthood unhappy over costs of new
abortion regulations X
SNL: Locals plead to save low-income housing tax
credit that Greitens says wastes money X
The Missouri Times: Lawsuits and resignations:
What you need to know ahead of the next Board of Education meeting
KWMU: Court decisions, state Board of Education
resignation once again put Vandeven's job in jeopardy
AP:
Appointee resigns from embattled Missouri education board
SNL: Greitens' appointee to state school board resigns X
SNL: Judge rules against man removed from state Board
of Education X
SNL: Missouri State Teachers Association:
Turnover on state school board unprecedented, troubling X
Missourinet: Judge blocks ousted state school board
member from keeping his seat ahead of Friday meeting
P-D: Judge rejects plea to stop Greitens' ouster of
Missouri school board chief
KWMU: Normandy schools poised to move up from
unaccredited status
Missourinet: Munzlinger says Missouri is "missing the
boat" on industrial hemp
CDT: Law making it easier to expunge criminal records
in Missouri takes effect Jan. 1; Comments from Missouri Bar's
Farrah Fite X
Missourinet: Hailey's Law to be pre-filed today
P-D: Merger could affect four of six St. Louis-area
casinos
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Voter fraud is found
in Missouri X
P-D editorial: Missouri lawmakers should place more
regulations on gun stores
P-D letter: Creve Coeur liberal wants McCaskill to
oppose GOP tax cuts
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