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Wednesday, December 30, 2020
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt, Hawley split on veto
override, $2,000 stimulus
KC Star: Blunt, Hawley offer differing views on
COVID-19 payments
Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Billy Long to file Corps bill
again; three kayakers have died in same spot in past 17 months
KWMU: New Missouri Democratic Party leaders weigh in
on rebuilding after disastrous 2020, unionized staff battle, more
P-D: Former GOP Sen. John Lamping says media just
can't quit Eric Greitens: "Everybody loves to talk about him -
especially the Democrats. The media loves to talk about him."
Missourinet: Missouri's virtual job fairs yield
thousands of job seekers, hundreds of employers
Columbia Missourian: MoDOT 'back on track' despite
COVID-19, but a long road lies ahead
AP: State lawmakers in Missouri, other states face
showdown over COVID powers and spending
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
Rep.-elect Alex Riley (R-Springfield) hopes to ease business
regulations this session
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
Sen. Justin Brown (R-Rolla) seeks to extend expired tax credit to help
businesses clear waste
P-D: Rep. Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin) files marijuana
legalization bill
The Missouri Times: Dogan files bill to legalize
marijuana
Missourinet: Missouri experiences mild flu season so
far
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
Joplin Globe editorial: Keep increased voter access
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Missourian op-ed: Sen. Roy Blunt: Ste. Genevieve: The
rich history of America's newest National Park
P-D's Tony Messenger: Head of Missouri Veterans
Commission won't release full report on COVID-19 deaths
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
KC Star: How Missouri's congressional delegation voted
on relief payments, veto override
Missourinet: Career retrospective: Sen. Gina
Walsh (D-Bellefontaine Neighbors) on 16 years in Legislature fighting
for Bellefontaine Habilitation Center, labor unions, more
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
Sen. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) ignites talk for biodiesel minimum
with new bill
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
Sen. Mike Cierpiot (R-Lee's Summit) tackles rural broadband in new bill
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Cindy O'Laughlin
(R-Shelbina) talks about areas of agreement with Holly Rehder on PDMP
legislation
Missouri Independent: Bills would empower citizens to
recall school board members, alongside officials in fire districts and
ambulance districts
KWMU: Public colleges and universities face budget
realities
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Missourian: National Hero Day - who deserves that title?
Thoughts from Cape Girardeau GOP Reps. Barry Hovis and Kathy Swan
P-D: In first Missouri elk hunt in modern history,
Winfield resident takes one
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update with
nursing home vaccine rollout details
KC Star editorial: Hawley should be commended for
reaching across the aisle on COVID relief checks
P-D letter: Velda Village Hills parents support new
Normandy charter school
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Monday, December 28,
2020
P-D: From dumplings to drumsticks, federal aid boosts
Missouri's meat processors
KWMU: Additional $10 million to go to Missouri's A+
scholarship program
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Moberly Area Community College
President Dr. Jeff Lashley talks legislative priorities
Missourinet: DESE wants extra $200k in budget for
"Grow Your Own" teacher recruitment program in black and poor school
districts
JCNT: Restorative justice program helps inmates make
amends
Missouri Independent: Recertification interviews
suspended for those receiving SNAP handouts
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Missourian: Coronavirus causes Cape airport's drastic cut in
state promotion funding
KWMU: Creighton University study shows pandemic
hurting rural economies more than big cities
SNL: Missouri colleges, universities receive 77k+
rapid-result COVID-19 antigen tests
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D editorial: Missouri Republicans dominated 2020
thanks to "coordinated campaign of ignorance-exploitation"
P-D letter: Lake Saint Louis septuagenarian "incensed"
by Justin Hill's election resolution
P-D letter: St. Louis City man mocks Post-Dispatch
editorial board's desire to punish success and legalize recreational
marijuana
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Sunday, December 27, 2020
SNL: Rep. B.J. Marsh (R-Springfield) gave
cross-country bus tours and renamed Missouri State
KC Star: Legislative advocacy series: Religious
boarding schools find favorable regulatory environment in
Missouri; Former Sen. Pat Dougherty (D-St. Louis City) explains
Democratic majority's failure to pass licensing laws
KC Star: Legislative advocacy series: Ex-Alabama
cop on a crusade to pass religous boarding school legislation in
Missouri
KC Star: Legislative advocacy series: Girls
reform school left three states before settling in Missouri;
Assorted tales of forced jumping jacks, spankings, etc.
JCNT: Pharmacies prepare for roles in COVID-19
vaccination distribution; Insights from Missouri Pharmacy
Association CEO Ron Fitzwater
Joplin Globe: State, local officials lay out
vaccination plan
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D editorial: 2020 in review: Criticizing
McCloskeys and Cori Bush
SNL op-ed: League of Women Voters: Please sign
our petition urging Gov. Parson to relax voting laws
P-D letter: St. Louis City septuagenarian mocks
Hawley's interest in vote fraud, says she wants Claire McCaskill back
P-D: Maplewood sexagenarian mocks Hawley's interest in
vote fraud, suggests constitutional law professor "look up" the
Constitution
KC Star letter: Warrensburg woman accuses U.S. Rep.
Vicky Hartzler of "throwing shade" on liberal states California and New
York
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Saturday, December 26,
2020
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Sara Walsh (R-Ashland)
explains new role as majority caucus chair
P-D: Top local stories of 2020: China virus,
race agitation, Medicaid expansion, "Black Girl Magic" in 3 urban
elections, soaring homicide count
P-D: Christmas Eve killings bring St. Louis City
homicide total to at least 257; Homicides per 100k residents sets
modern-era record
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Missourian: B Magazine: Why are people fleeing urban areas
and moving to Cape Girardeau? Four residents discuss embracing Cape's
strong schools, safe environments, cultural diversity
St. Joseph News-Press: PSC says consumer group fails
to show "immediate danger" of utilities collecting payments from
derelict customers
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D editorial brief: Credit to Missouri AG Eric
Schmitt for shutting down massage-parlor prostitution rings
P-D letter: Kirkwood septuagenarian says Hawley thinks
constituents are "stupid"
P-D letter: NORML wants Missouri to legalize
recreational marijuana
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Friday, December 25,
2020 Merry Christmas!
The Missouri Times: 'Tis the season: Missouri
officials' favorite Christmas traditions
Missourinet: Former state Rep. B.J. Marsh
(R-Springfield) passes away at age 80; Memories from U.S. Rep.
Billy Long
Missourinet: Rep. Warren Love (R-Osceola) announces
that Missouri Prime Beef Packers to open beef processing plant in
southwest Missouri
CDT: First Columbia medical marijuana dispensary opens
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
JCNT editorial: Valued A+ program gets needed boost
P-D letter: Chesterfield octogenarian says Ann Wagner
and Eric Schmitt officially killed the Republican Party
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Thursday, December 24,
2020 Christmas Eve
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Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith calls for special counsel to
investigate allegations of voter fraud
St. Joseph News-Press: Area farmer awarded more than
$3 million from flooding damages
Missourinet: DOJ releases Missouri's "Operation
Legend" results
The Missouri Times: Dan Kleinsorge named Missouri
Limestone Producers executive director
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske:
Legal Roundtable recap: Panel says attorney for Rep. Wiley Price
(D-St. Louis City) could face potential criminal charges for
"underhanded" tactic of recording committee's closed-door
discussion; Thoughts on duck boat case, medical marijuana and
state residency, more
Missourinet: Missouri state offices to be closed
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Missourinet: Names released of 24 people pardoned, 4
others getting sentences commuted in Missouri
KWMU: Gov. Parson releases the names of 24 inmates
pardoned
JCNT: Missouri Highway Patrol opens new shooting
range, training center
P-D: Missouri disaster agency head gets full-time
appointment
Missourinet: Rep. Donna Baringer (D-St. Louis City)
wants Gov. Parson to extend relaxed voting procedures
The Missouri Times: Missouri issues new rule allowing
pharmacy technicians to administer coronavirus vaccine
P-D: Missouri eases pharmacy rule in bid to boost
capacity for vaccinations
Missouri Independent: Missouri pharmacies prep for
COVID vaccine
SNL: Three things to know about vaccine distribution
in Missouri
Missouri Independent: DHSS' Adam Crumbliss explains
the ins and outs of vaccine distribution
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
The Missouri Times: Ameren Missouri purchases first
wind energy facility
P-D: Ameren takes ownership of newly built wind farm
in northern Missouri - the state's largest
Washington Missourian editorial: State of Missouri
website helps refute vaccine myths
P-D op-ed: Ladue octogenarian believes her local Zoom
calls helped elect Joe Biden president, says she regrets praising Ann
Wagner in a letter to the editor
The Missouri Times op-ed: Gabriella Hoffman:
Science prevails in Missouri black bear saga, triumphs over HSUS smear
campaign
P-D letter: Clayton sexagenarian opposes vote fraud
lawsuit, says Ann Wagner and Eric Schmitt should "go back to the first
grade"
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Wednesday, December 23, 2020
The Missouri Times: White House taps College of the
Ozarks president for 1776 Commission
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske:
Legal Roundtable preview: McCloskey case, medical marijuana
lawsuits, duck boat criminal charges
Missourinet: Sen. Cindy O'Laughlin (R-Shelbina)
proposes to close some underperforming K-12 schools
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series;
Sen. Wayne Wallingford (R-Cape Girardeau) advocates for equal custody
arrangements in new bill
P-D: Missouri Senate embracing technology, installing
audio systems in committee hearing rooms so public can listen in
SNL: Judge rejects key challenge to Missouri's medical
marijuana system; Callicoats to appeal
JCNT: Judge: Parts of new state sexual assault
law unconstitutional
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Missourian: Missouri Housing Development Corporation OKs
affordable housing proposal for Cape
KWMU: New semester means more in-person learning
options for St. Louis area schools
Missouri Independent: State China virus update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star editorial: Spire should let derelict customers
keep getting energy without paying, at least until March
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Tuesday, December 22,
2020
Politico: How the stimulus bill got done;
Missouri's Josh Hawley teamed with Bernie Sanders, spoke to President
Trump frequently
The Missouri Times: Coronavirus response:
Missourians receive about $4.8B in unemployment aid
The Missouri Times: Empower Missouri activist Kendall
Martinez-Wright seeks to fill Democratic ballot slot for Rep. Louis
Riggs' (R-Hannibal) 2022 re-election
Missourinet: Rowden expects 2022 state budget to be
tough, but not as tough as 2023
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Cindy O'Laughlin
(R-Shelbina) files bill dealing with struggling schools
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Denny Hoskins
(R-Warrensburg) refiles sportsbook legislation
Missouri Independent: Judge tosses lawsuit challenging
Missouri medical marijuana license caps
P-D: Missouri judge rejects lawsuit questioning
state's medical marijuana laws
Missourinet: Gov. Parson grants 24 pardons
P-D: Gov. Parson pardons 24, commutes the sentences of
4 offenders
The Missouri Times: Galloway's office receives "pass"
rating from national auditors association group
KC Star: Urban Outfitters chooses Kansas location over
KC urban site; Mayor Quinton Lucas says racism to blame
JCNT: Missouri dips below national average for new
COVID-19 cases
KWMU: CVS to begin vaccinations at Missouri long-term
care facilities next week
Missouri Independent: State China virus update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
The Missouri Times op-ed: Rep. Sarah Unsicker
(D-Shrewsbury): Managed care for Medicaid recipients
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Monday, December 21, 2020
Brownfield Ag News: Blunt says Missouri River
management plan in need of adjustment
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Peter
Merideth (D-St. Louis City) talks with Jason Rosenbaum about
presidential election resolution, state budget realities, bill to
legalize recreational marijuana, more
KCUR: Rep. Andrew McDaniel (R-Deering) experiments
with TikTok, says he enjoys conservative humor
Missourinet: Sen. Greg Razer (D-Kansas City) files
bill to improve access to mental health services
KRES/KWIX: Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) to refile
IEP bill this session
St. Joseph News-Press: New bills target texting while
driving
KWMU: Additional hospital staff to begin working today
in Missouri
KMIZ: DHSS' Williams authorizes medical professionals
to give Moderna vaccine
KC Star: Missouri using 'honor system' to stop people
from cutting in line for vaccine
KC Star: Here's when nursing homes in Missouri will
get COVID vaccine
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Army Corps should
settle flood claims
P-D editorial: Legalized pot is becoming the norm in
America. Missouri should get on board.
P-D editorial: State and local officials should
enforce Missouri gaming laws
Missouri Independent op-ed: Jeff Smith:
Summarizing the most annoying post-election phone calls:
Delusional Dems thinking they'll open a Jeff City lobbying shop or work
for Biden, statewide silver medalists tilting at U.S. Senate windmills,
solipsism, more
SNL letter: Springfield septuagenarian opposes House
bill to protect drivers from protest mobs
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Sunday, December 20,
2020
KC Star editor Mike Fannin: Newspaper offers official
apology for 140 years of excessive whiteness; Paper debuts
"advisory board," promotes white-guilt series, will make online access
to victimhood-themed stories free for minority zip codes
KC Star: Whiteness confessions: KC Star founder
- who died 105 years ago - helped build upscale neighborhoods with
restrictive covenants
KC Star: Whiteness confessions: 1920s KC Star
reporters did not cover officer-involved shooting fairly
KC Star: Whiteness confessions: 1940s KC Star
reporters should have dedicated more coverage to Jackie Robinson,
saxophonist Charlie Parker
KC Star: Whiteness confessions: 1950s KC Star
reporters should have helped promote race protests, boycotts
KC Star: Whiteness confessions: 1960s KC Star
reporters should have fought harder against KC Schools during
desegregation debate
KC Star: Whiteness confessions: 1970s KC Star
reporters focused flood coverage on property damage, should have
profiled black victims
JCNT: A+ program funding boost helps more than 800
State Tech students
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Legislative preview: Rep.
Sara Walsh (R-Ashland) on penalties for yard sign and property damage
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star editorial: Whiteness confesssions: Too
often, Kansas City Star editorial board has been silent on race
P-D's Kevin McDermott: By talking about vote fraud,
Hawley chips away at public's faith in democracy
P-D letter: O'Fallon septuagenarian questions Rep.
Justin Hill (R-Lake Saint Louis) logic on voter fraud
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Saturday, December 19,
2020
KC Star: Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) blocks Hawley's
proposal for direct aid to individuals, families
AP: Federal government ordered to pay landowners on
lower Missouri River
JCNT: NAACP, ACLU, League of Women Voters, et al. want
Missouri to permanently lower voting standards
AP: "Missouri Voter Protection Coalition" wants
Missouri to relax voting laws
P-D: Gov. Parson marks 100th bridge replacement since
launching loan plan
St. Joseph News-Press: Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer
(R-Parkville) to carry liability legislation
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
Sen. Lauren Arthur (D-Kansas City) wants alternative path to graduation
for some students
KC Star: Bipartisan bills would crack down on
unlicensed boarding schools
KC Star: KC company that threatened to leave Missouri
without more incentives decides to stay put
The Missouri Times: Missouri utility companies offer
coronavirus, winter relief programs
SE
Missourian: Coronavirus vaccine developments coming fast in
recent days
JCNT: Anticipation rises as mid-Missouri nursing
facilities await arrival of COVID-19 vaccine
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Maryland Heights septuagenarian says Gov.
Parson's support for in-person schooling "outrageous" and
"irresponsible"
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Friday, December 18, 2020
SNL: 79,000 Missourians could see jobless payments cut
off without new stimulus
St. Joseph News-Press: Hawley pushes for further
stimulus dollars as Congress strikes deal
KWMU: St. Louis-area illegal aliens celebrate federal
court program reinstating DACA
P-D: U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen announces he's
resigning post
P-D: LaunchCode, others approved for federal tax
credits
P-D: Rep. Wiley Price (D-St. Louis City) won't resign
SNL: Rep. Wiley Price (D-St. Louis City) maintains his
innocence in intern intercoursing/snitch-shaming case, says he won't
resign
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Denny Hoskins
(R-Warrensburg) talks budget consequences of Medicaid expansion
P-D: Missouri awards millions in state low-income
housing tax credits
Missourinet: Thanks to Missouri Works program,
Missouri recreational equipment maker to expand and create 82 new jobs
P-D: First charter school in St. Louis County to open
in Normandy next fall
The Missouri Times: DESE approves first charter school
outside of major city
KWMU: St. Louis County's first charter school wins
state approval
Missourinet: Gov. Parson touts safety of COVID
vaccine, says changes must be made at Missouri veterans homes
SE
Missourian: Area VA facility expecting COVID vaccine soon
Missourinet: Williams says Missouri will receive "a
little bit less" in next vaccine shipment
KC Star: Vaccine supply expected to be dynamic, DHSS'
Williams says
Missouri Independent: A look at COVID response at
mental health centers; Comments from Missouri Department of
Mental Health's chief medical director, AFSCME boss and capo, others
P-D: Missouri Lottery moves to ban bulk ticket
purchases
P-D: St. Louis area utilities voluntarily suspend
shutoffs through holidays
The Missouri Times: Ashcroft returns Missouri
emancipation ordinance after cleaning
P-D editorial: Disgraced Rep. Wiley Price (D-St. Louis
City) should resign
Columbia Missourian's Simone Esters: Gov. Parson's
statement on COVID data and safety in schools rated "Mostly True"
P-D's Tony Messenger: Area woman who complained about
technical difficulties with food stamp hotline finally gets through -
and finds out she makes too much money to get handouts anyway
P-D's David Nicklaus: Acquisitive Des Peres firm sees
opportunity in troubled water utilities; Thoughts from Missouri
Office of Public Counsel, Consumers Council of Missouri
JCNT letter: Jefferson City sexagenarian unhappy that
Blunt did not refer to Biden as "president-elect" sooner
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Thursday, December 17, 2020
P-D: 2020: The year in pictures: Rep.
Rasheen Aldridge (D-St. Louis City) "delights House members"
(#4); Black Lives Matter agitators vandalize St. Louis City
streets (#41), trespass in neighborhood of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson
(#42); Shorthair Caucasoid BLM vandal resists arrest by
Florissant police (#43); Firefighters extinguish fire at BLM
looting/arson scene (#44); City police officer catches looter in
the act (#45); BLM agitators shoot fireworks at Ferguson police
(#46); BLM agitators throw paint on Catholics (#53), sucker-punch
prayer rally attendee (#54); Cori Bush celebrates primary victory
(#84)
SNL: St. Louis official, Neosho organizer will lead
Missouri Democratic Party
SNL: Gov. Parson announces inauguration plans, will
start with prayer at Southern Baptist University in Bolivar
JCNT: Missouri's jobless rate dips again
Columbia Missourian: Gov. Parson celebrates first
vaccine shipments, rollout plan
Missouri Independent: Missouri may get less of its
second dose of Pfizer's COVID vaccine
JCNT: Gov. Parson: SSM Health to get staffing
assistance
Columbia Missourian: GOP activist Jennifer Bukowsky
donates $300,000 to help with public defender case overload
The Missouri Times: House pursuing censure of Rep.
Wiley Price (D-St. Louis City) for allegedly having sex with a House
intern, threatening staff member for snitching
Missouri Independent: Bipartisan House panel votes
unanimously to seek censure of Missouri Democrat accused of having sex
with House intern
KWMU: Rep. Wiley Price (D-St. Louis City) accused of
having sex with House intern
Missourinet: Missouri House committee investigates
Rep. Wiley Price (D-St. Louis City) for allegedly having sex with a
House intern
P-D: Ethics panel rebukes St. Louis lawmaker accused
of having sex with intern
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Cindy O'Laughlin
(R-Shelbina) files bill dealing with superintendent salaries
KC Star: Hearing held in MOSERS lawsuit against
Canadian private equity fund
Missouri Independent: Missouri PSC will not order a
moratorium on utility shutoffs for derelict customers
The Missouri Times: PSC denies liberal groups' request
to bar shut-offs
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
The Missouri Times: POST commission adds minority
policing history to academy curriculum
Missouri Indpendent: Missouri police recruits will be
forced to sit through lectures on minority-policing history
P-D editorial: Missouri GOP's resolution to overturn
the election is worse than baseless
KC Star editorial: Sen. Josh Hawley was right to push
for second stimulus check
P-D letter: St. Louis sexagenarian expresses anger at
Hawley, Wagner and Schmitt over their desire to investigate vote fraud
claims
P-D letter: Kirkwood man "disturbed" by Schmitt's
support for vote fraud lawsuit, concedes Schmitt will earn re-election
in 2024
P-D letter: Octogenarian former Post-Dispatch liberal
columnist supports Spire's request for rate hike
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Missourinet: Hartzler wants President Trump to sign
defense bill, citing importance to Missouri
The Hill: Josh Hawley, Bernie Sanders embrace odd
couple status in push for stimulus checks
SE
Missourian: Area man votes in the Electoral College
St. Joseph News-Press: Local reps: Swing states
classified as Biden victories should be investigated
KWMU: Missouri liberals unhappy with Biden's selection
of Tom Vilsack for USDA chief
Missourinet: Gov. Parson, DPS Director Sandy Karsten
launch state - and nation's - first HBCU-based police academy
P-D: Missouri police leaders push to curb 'muni
shuffle'; Comments from DPS' Sandy Karsten
Columbia Missourian: Rep. Hannah Kelly (R-Mountain
Grove) seeks to improve Missouri's child abuse hotline
The Missouri Times: Committee questions slow
implementation of child protection law
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport)
previews budget cuts, foundation formula, seeks to allow parents to
reord IEP meetings with school districts
P-D: Bill from Sen. Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg)
would make take-home cocktails permanently legal in Missouri
Missouri Independent: Lawsuit targets residency
requirement for Missouri medical marijuana licenses
The Missouri Times: DSS team wins this year's 'Show Me
Challenge'
Columbia Missourian: Missouri state departments
compete in 'Show Me Challenge'
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske:
How Missouri became 'Bear Country' again after near depletion
P-D: Gov. Parson prepared to make announcements on
prisoner clemency cases; Activist wants preference given to
females, including murderer Patty Prewitt
Columbia Missourian: DHSS answers common COVID-19
vaccine questions
SE
Missourian: State receives first COVID-19 vaccine doses
CDT: Truman VA begins coronavirus vaccinations
SE
Missourian: Local long-term care facilities expect COVID vaccine
soon
Missourinet: Missouri Veterans Commission says homes
need transformation
JCNT: Jefferson City hospitals report no
post-Thanksgiving surge
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
Joplin Globe editorial: The presidential election is
over, Missouri, so let's move on
CDT: Missouri Rural Crisis Center's Roger
Allison: Biden's selection of Vilsack for ag secretary is wrong
SE
Missourian op-ed: Commitee for Affordable Technical Education
Chairman Rich Payne: The proposal to develop Missouri's 13th
community college
Bob Priddy: What President Trump could learn from an
old Sen. Danny Staples (D-Eminence) tale
P-D letter: St. Louis sexagenarian calls Missouri GOP
congressional delegation and AG Eric Schmitt cowards
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Tuesday, December 15,
2020
P-D:
St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds Michael Butler elected to lead
Missouri Democrats
KC
Business Journal: Former Missouri Republican Party Chairman Todd
Graves to lead new Stanley M. Herzog Foundation in Smithville
KC
Star: As chair of bipartisan inauguration committee, Blunt says
he'll work with Biden's team on ceremony
JCNT:
Missouri electors cast votes for president, vice president
The
Missouri Times: Missouri electoral college members cast votes for
Trump
AP:
Missouri presidential electors formally cast votes for Trump
SNL:
Missouri electors cast 10 votes for Trump as GOP calls for inquiries in
other states
The
Missouri Times: House resolution passes committee, but Rep. Rocky
Miller (R-Lake Ozark) won't call a meeting to send to full House
Missouri
Independent: After testy debate, Missouri GOP bill on
presidential election likely dead
Missourinet:
Missouri House committee approves resolution; Democrats criticize
Giuliani
P-D:
Missouri committee approves resolution calling on six states to
investigate voter fraud
The
Missouri Times: Rep. Rick Roeber (R-Lee's Summit) barred from
House Republican Caucus
SNL:
Missouri House Republicans bar incoming lawmaker accused of abuse from
caucus
Missouri
Independent: Roeber denied membership in House GOP caucus
AP:
Missouri House to investigate abuse claims against lawmaker
KC
Star: Republicans bar Roeber from party caucus
The
Missouri Times: First shipments of coronavirus vaccine arrive in
Missouri
Missouri
Independent: Missouri's health care workers receive first doses
of COVID vaccine
AP:
Health care workers in Missouri get coronavirus vaccine
KWMU:
First workers in St. Louis receive coronavirus vaccine
P-D:
Daily state, regional China virus update
KC
Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
The
Missouri Times: Evergy pauses disconnections, promotes winter
assistance programs
KWMU:
St. Louis on the Air: How black bears became a 'huge conservation
success story' in Missouri
P-D
editorial: Blunt must demand that Trump acknowledge defeat
Columbia
Missourian's David Webber: Blunt, Hawley and Schmitt should
acknowledge Biden as president-elect
P-D
letter: Webster Groves man says Hawley battles Facebook because
it doesn't spread lies
P-D
letter: Kirkwood couple says Schmitt's support of fraud
investigations makes him "an embarrassment to Kirkwood"
JCNT
letter: Jefferson City man expresses anger over GOP attempts to
investigate voter fraud
P-D
letter: Chesterfield septuagenarian says Ann Wagner's support of
Texas lawsuit proves she doesn't believe in bipartisanship
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Monday, December 14, 2020
This Week in Missouri Politics: Eric Schmitt talks
with Scott Faughn about presidential election lawsuits, cold case unit,
more; Panel of Reps. Gretchen Bangert (D-Florissant) and Mary
Elizabeth Coleman (R-Arnold), STL County NAACP's John Bowman, Galloway
for Governor campaign architect/Steve Stenger consigliere Patrick Lynn
talk local shutdown laws, 2020 reflections, 2021 predictions
KC Star: Missouri farmers went for Trump, but Biden
spurs hope for increased trade; Thoughts from Blake Hurst, U.S.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D)
SNL: Q&A: What's next for Missouri House
Speaker Elijah Haahr?
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep.-elect
Chad Perkins (R-Bowling Green) talks GOP's ascendance in northeast
Missouri, criminal justice overhaul, COVID, rural broadband
P-D: State affordable housing tax credit returns
P-D: Wannabe marijuana peddlers who failed to earn
license still complaining about process
KWMU: What you need to know about coronavirus vaccine
shipping to Missouri this week
Missouri Independent: State seeks to bust myths about
China virus vaccine
P-D: Federal data showed increase in China virus cases
and deaths in Missouri nursing homes in November
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D editorial: Another court calls out Missouri's
stifling of abortion-rights efforts
P-D letter: Ballwin woman expresses anger at AG Eric
Schmitt for election lawsuit and Gov. Parson for not forcing statewide
mask mandate
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Sunday, December 13,
2020
The Missouri Times: Michael Butler elected Missouri
Democratic Party chair
KRES/KWIX: U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer plans to run
again in 2022
P-D: Rep. Dottie Bailey (R-Eureka) mum on FBI probe of
tracking devices
JCNT: Profile: Former casino worker Chenae
Marble helps lead Missouri anti-fraud bureau
KRES/KWIX: Gov. Parson praises health care workers,
says he has confidence in them
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
Columbia Missourian: Missouri Conservation Commission
approves black bear hunting season
P-D: Homicides fell in St. Louis City after Operation
LeGend; Liberal UMSL professor says drop is due to seasonal
nature of criminal behavior
P-D editorial: Ann Wagner seeks to overturn the will
of voters in presidential election
KC Star editorial: Missouri House must overturn the
will of District 34 voters and deny Rick Roeber the seat he earned
KC Star's Jonathan Shorman: In CAFO debate, state
sides with big ag
P-D letter: Webster Groves sexagenarian says Schmitt's
lawsuit will define career
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Saturday, December 12, 2020
P-D: Trump chalked up big gains in rural
Missouri; Two SE Missouri Dems say Trump supporters have
"systemic racism down in them," are "brainwashed"
Washington Missourian: John Kiehne seeking Missouri
Democratic Party vice chair post; Dems' quota rules require a
woman to serve as either chair or vice chair
KWMU: Elijah Haahr reflects on an eventful eight years
in the Missouri House
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson OKs supplemental
budget bill
Columbia Missourian: Proposal from Rep. Justin Hill
(R-Lake Saint Louis) calls for "full and fair investigation" of
election procedures in battleground states
Columbia Missourian: Clearing crime scenes more
quickly the goal of Walsh's legislation
P-D: Missouri officials predict significant drop in
revenue
Missouri Independent: State economic update:
Unemployment insurance, unemployment rate, hard-luck stories
JCNT: Pfizer vaccine could begin arriving in Missouri
as early as Monday
SE
Missourian: DHSS: COVID-19 vaccine arrives next week
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri's phased COVID
vaccinations could start next week
KWMU: Missouri health workers expected to receive
coronavirus vaccine next week
KC Star: Missouri's first COVID-19 vaccination
expected on Thursday
Missourinet: These are the Missouri K-12 schools
participating in the first-ever COVID-19 study
Missouri Independent: State, regional China virus
update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: State China virus update
The Missouri Times: Spire seeks to invest in Missouri
infrastructure in PSC filing
KC Star: Spire asks regulators for permission to
increase rates in 2021
P-D: Spire asks state to approve an increase in
natural gas rates
P-D: First-ever bear hunt in Missouri moves forward
with Friday's vote
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Eric Schmitt's Hail
Mary
JCNT editorial: A Christmas miracle - Gov. gives state
off for Christmas Eve
The Missouri Times op-ed: Sen. Cindy O'Laughlin
(R-Shelbina): Fix Medicaid now before it sinks Missouri
P-D family columnist/beauty-product reviewer Aisha
Sultan: Lincoln County woman says she regrets voting for Gov.
Parson after her husband got COVID
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Friday, December 11, 2020
St. Joseph News-Press: As vaccine looms, Hawley
introduces stimulus bill
Missourinet: U.S. Senate unanimously approves Hawley's
duck boat bill
P-D: St. Louis judge disqualifies Gardner, her office
from prosecuting McCloskey case
The Missouri Times: Representatives to take up
resolution on presidential election results next week
JCNT: 3 mid-Missouri state reps backing election
resolution
Missouri Independent: Missouri GOP lawmakers call on
battleground states to investigate 2020 election results
SNL: Resolution from Rep. Justin Hill (R-Lake Saint
Louis) calls for "full and fair investigation" into fraud claims
P-D: Missouri House may return to Capitol next week to
address resolution
The Missouri Times: Montgomery City receives $1.7
million federal broadband infrastructure grant
Missourinet: Gov. Parson and legislative leaders
announce consensus revenue estimates
JCNT: Missouri expects $418M less revenue in next
year's state budget
KCUR: Up to Date podcast: Legislative
preview: Rep. Ashley Bland Manlove (D-Kansas City) says Kansas
City needs local control of police
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske:
Missouri Veterans Commission Chairman Tim Noonan talks next steps after
critical report
KCUR: Some Kansas City-area hospitals decline to
participate in state plan to provide more workers
KCUR: Missouri hospitals failed to follow coronavirus
reporting guidelines
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
Missouri Independent: Missouri rental aid program
begins in January
P-D: Liberal groups file for new utility disconnection
moratorium; Hazelwood woman rationalizes failure to pay Ameren
bill
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske:
Local legal nonprofit explains racist-pollution lawsuit; Comments
from Missouri DNR
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: A voice for rural
Missouri: Blake Hurst's success was to the benefit of all of us
P-D op-ed: "Stand Up Republic" rep Lynn Schmidt:
Missouri Republicans should have done more to criticize President Trump
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: GOP members of Missouri's
congressional delegation seek to subvert the will of voters in four
swing states
P-D letter: Ladue octogenarian praises Ann Wagner for
work on human trafficking and recent comments on election integrity
KC Star letter: Kansas City woman wants Gov. Parson
and state lawmakers to stop Schmitt's support of election lawsuit
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Thursday, December 10,
2020
The Missouri Times: Missouri Republicans dive into
presidential election challenges
Missouri Independent: Schmitt joins lawsuit
challenging presidential election procedures in four states
P-D: Schmitt joins Texas suit over presidential
election
KWMU: No excuse? No problem - that's where some want
to move Missouri's absentee ballot system
KC Star: Hawley bill would enable victims to sue porn
sites for hosting their images
Missourinet: Gov. Parson's inauguration to celebrate
Missouri's rich history
P-D: Pandemic alters swearing-in ceremonies for top
Missouri officials
The Missouri Times: Missouri general revenue continues
to outperform last year, November report says
JCNT: Legislative preview: Rep. Cody Smith
(R-Carthage) hopes for cost-saving Medicaid changes, expects tough
budget year
Missourinet: Legislative preview: Rep. Sara
Walsh (R-Ashland) files bill aimed at helping forensic investigators at
crime and crash scenes
St. Joseph News-Press: Legislative preview: Sen.
Tony Luetkemeyer (R-Parkville) would protect law enforcement and their
families from doxxing
Missouri Independent: Legislative preview: GOP
bills would protect drivers trying to flee riots and mob attacks
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
Sen.-elect Greg Razer (D-Kansas City) hopes to tackle mental health
parity among insurance coverage
Missourinet: CDC, Missouri officials begin work on
first-ever COVID-19 study within K-12 schools
SE
Missourian: State-mandated report addresses coronavirus issues at
veterans homes
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske
preview: Missouri Veterans Commission Chairman Tim Noonan to
discuss results of investigation
JCNT: White House Coronavirus Task Force report shows
fewer counties in Missouri in red zone
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
Missouri Independent: Briefs: State China virus
update; derelict utility customers
The Missouri Times: Liberal group wants PSC to bar
utilities from taking action against derelict customers this winter
The Missouri Times: Missouri PSC moves forward with
Grain Belt Express complaint case
P-D: Missouri stops printing income tax forms in bid
to go online-only
KC Star editorial: Missouri AG Eric Schmitt joins
stunt to throw away presidential votes - and wreck democracy
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: Missouri AG Eric Schmitt signs
on to baseless lawsuit over presidential election
SE
Missourian op-ed: Missouri State Historical Society's Gary
Kremer: As state celebrates bicentennial, ask yourself:
What does it mean to be a Missourian?
P-D letter: St. Louis septuagenarian calls Sen. Roy
Blunt a coward, says 74 million Americans who voted for Trump deserve
"slap upside the head"
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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
The Missouri Times: Blunt, Hawley ask U.S. Customs and
Immigration Services to restore 800+ jobs in Kansas City
JCNT: Blunt announces FCC awarding more than $346
million to high-speed Internet expansion in Missouri
Brownfield Ag News: Blunt talks COVID-19 vaccine
availability
AP: Missouri officially certifying election showing
Trump win; Gov race certified, with Mike Parson defeating Nicole
Galloway by 17 points
KC Star: Gun-control series event recap:
Panelists says income inequality, racism to blame for criminals'
behavior; Defunding police will help reduce crime
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air with Sarah Fenske
preview: ACLU's Tony Rothert to celebrate victory in ballot
proposal case
KMIZ (Columbia): Missouri Ethics Commission fines
"Jefferson City Area Indivisible" for failing to report
pro-Medicaid-expansion mailing
Missourinet: Rep. Deb Lavender (D-Kirkwood) reflects
on time served in superminority, takes credit for "educating (her)
district" on Medicaid expansion
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
State gambling regulations
KWMU: Missouri's medical marijuana program sees 67k
eager customers wanting more
St. Joseph News-Press: Firearms become illegal with
medical marijuana possession
Missouri Independent: Missouri students will take
standardized tests, but results won't factor into accountability
measures
The Missouri Times: DESE alters rules on state exams
amid coronavirus shakeups
Missourinet: Missouri K-12 statewide testing to move
forward, but results won't be used for accountability purposes
Joplin Globe: Missouri board waives school
accountability piece of spring testing
KCUR: Newly-formed "Music Entertainment Alliance" asks
Gov. Parson and lawmakers for CARES Act money
JCNT: Missouri commission announces rent payment
program to prevent evictions
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Gov. Parson remains consistent,
says he won't force statewide mask mandate or shut down businesses
P-D: Missouri prisons install air purifiers,
disinfectant machines
JCNT: Missouri Department of Corrections deploys
coronavirus-killing technologies
P-D: State reports 14 China virus deaths among St.
Louis Veterans Home residents
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D editorial: Hawley must adopt McCaskill's
commitment to tackle child sexual exploitation
Washington Missourian editorial: Missouri Veterans
Commission has let our veterans down
Washington Missourian editorial: Local decisions
shouldn't be second-guessed by state legislators
KCUR intern Lucas Cuni-Mertz: Sen. Hawley, Gov. Parson
follow Trump's rhetorical lead in attacking Missouri media
Columbia Missourian's Simone Esters: Blunt quote about
President Trump's percentage of minority vote off by 2%
P-D's Jack Suntrup: Gov. Parson continues to ignore
White House virus-fighting recommendations
KC Star letter: Kansas City sexagenarian says she is
"ashamed" Blunt won't criticize President Trump
Joplin Globe letter: Town and Country woman wants
Blunt and Hawley to support spending for "rental assistance," global
food handouts to third-world countries
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Tuesday, December 8,
2020
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Luetkemeyer says Dems are "scared
to death" of Pennsylvania case, predicts 80% chance Biden is president
in January
Missourinet: Missouri's congressional delegation votes
along party lines to decriminalize marijuana
The Missouri Times: FCC approves $340M for rural
broadband in Missouri
This Week in Missouri Politics: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe
talks with Scott Faughn about COVID vaccine, liability legislation and
highway funding; Panel of Sens. Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield),
Denny Hoskins (R-Warrensburg), John Rizzo (D-Independence), Brian
Williams (D-St. Louis) talk mask mandates, shutdowns and local control
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
recap
AP: Missouri's referendum petition laws ruled
unconstitutional
P-D: Court rules ACLU should have had more time to
circulate proposed ballot initiative
KC Star: Event promo: RSVP now for third lecture
in newspaper's gun-control series; Learn why "poverty, inequality
and housing insecurity" are to blame for criminal behavior
Missourinet: Legislative preview: Sen. Denny
Hoskins (R-Warrensburg) on sports betting
Missourinet: Legislative preview: Sen.-elect
Greg Razer (D-Kansas City) on HIV morning-after medication
The Missouri Times: Missouri Department of Corrections
installing air purifiers, mist cleaners
SNL: Report details multiple failures in COVID-19
responses at Missouri veterans homes
P-D: Office of Administration offers state employees
guidance on personal contact tracing
Missourinet: White House coronavirus task force issues
new report
KWMU: Missouri hospitals could see a
Thanksgiving-fueled corona surge, or not
KC Star: State, regional China virus update
P-D: State, regional China virus update
Missouri Independent: Regional China virus update
Joplin Globe editorial: Missouri's federal and state
lawmakers need to spend more money to help economy
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Sam Graves is correct
- Congress needs to authorize PPP payments
JCNT editorial: Gov. Parson right to delay liability
protection legislation
P-D op-ed: New York City human rights attorney:
Blunt and Hawley should criticize Trump
Missouri Independent op-ed: SLU academics:
Missouri can do more to safely keep schools open during COVID surge
KC Star letter: KC woman wants others to complain to
Missouri PSC about Evergy's use of coal
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Monday, December 7,
2020 Pearl Harbor Day
Roll Call: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith plans focus on
'security' issues in new Budget panel role
The Missouri Times: Garrett Hawkins chosen as next
Missouri Farm Bureau president
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Gov. Parson cites positive
economic news for Missouri
JCNT: Missouri's largest public retirement funds
continue recovery
Missourinet: New statewide report shows 57% of
Missouri K-12 students have access to school-based health care
St. Joseph News-Press: Focus shifts to funding as
special session concludes
JCNT: COVID liability among topics of 600 pre-filed
legislative bills
SNL: Gas tax proposed to fund 'needs, not wants' for
highways
Missourinet: Federal funds to help Missouri school
districts dealing with COVID; lawmakers say resources are needed
SNL: Three reasons local mask mandates are more common
now
KC Star: KC plant makes Missouri's first marijuana
edibles
P-D's Kevin McDermott: Josh Hawley's populist
demagoguery is a smoother form of Trumpism. That's dangerous.
P-D letter: O'Fallon sexagenarian mocks rural
Missourians, suggests "hog-tying people and making them watch ...
cautionary videos" on COVID
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Sunday, December 6,
2020
Brownfield Ag News: At Missouri Farm Bureau annual
meeting, President Blake Hurst looks back; U.S. Rep. Sam Graves
calls Hurst an icon
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer says
he's recovered from tick bite, COVID
KWMU's Jason Rosenbaum's "On the Trail" column: Some
Missouri election officials want more time to prepare absentee ballots
for counting
Columbia Missourian: Boone County clerk reports
resounding absentee voting success
KC Star: Missouri health officials prepare for
questions on China virus vaccine
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D editorial: Rep. Suzie Pollock (R-Lebanon) wrong to
voice skepticism over China virus vaccine
P-D letter: Creve Coeur sexagenarian mocks Sen. Andrew
Koenig (R-Manchester) for lack of public health knowledge
P-D letter: Maryland Heights man says Missouri not
prepared to distribute COVID vaccine
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Saturday, December 5, 2020
L.A. Times: COVID in Missouri: Maryland Heights
couple who chose to earn college degrees, work hard and save money
prospering during pandemic; other St. Louisans blame racism,
"income inequality" for personal failure to thrive
The Missouri Times: AG Eric Schmitt's office unveils
new cold case unit
The Missouri Times: Profile: Rep.-elect Betsy
Fogle (D-Springfield)
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
Sen.-elect Jason Bean (R-Holcomb) files bill to establish renewable
natural gas program
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep.-elect Ed Lewis (R-Moberly)
plans to tackle how initiatives are placed on ballot
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
Bill from Sen. Jill Schupp (D-Creve Coeur) would mandate employers
grant unpaid time off to family/household members of domestic violence
victims
The Missouri Times: Legislative preview series:
Rep. Ingrid Burnett (D-Kansas City) wants local governments to regulate
plastic bag use
The Missouri Times: Missouri holds 'all hands on deck'
coronavirus vaccine drill
Missouri Independent: Missouri expects to receive over
300,000 initial doses of COVID vaccine this month
KWMU: Missouri plans to give coronavirus vaccine to
health workers within weeks
St. Joseph News-Press: 339,000 to be vaccinated by the
end of the month, officials say
Columbia Missourian: Missouri to distribute 339,000
doses of COVID-19 vaccine by end of December
KC Star: Missouri anticipates COVID-19 vaccines for
all nursing home residents by end of 2020
Joplin Globe: Missouri may see post-Thanksgiving COVID
cases in the coming weeks, state health director says
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
JCNT editorial: Highway Patrol's crime lab expansion
is a welcome step toward crime-fighting
Phill Brooks: Residency issues have long history in
Missouri: Jet Banks, Josh Hawley, Nick Schroer
St. Joseph News-Press op-ed: Rep. Sheila Solon (R-St.
Joseph): Let's end the cycle of abuse at unlicensed boarding
schools
Columbia Missourian's William Skipworth:
Conservatives' criticisms of Missouri Independent are wrong
P-D family columnist/beauty-product reviewer Aisha
Sultan: Doctor from Oregon angry over Gov. Parson's refusal to
force statewide mask mandate, threatens to leave Missouri for a state
where she feels more appreciated
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Friday, December 4, 2020
KWMU: Lacy Clay makes farewell address after 20 years
in Congress
Missourinet: Congressman Lacy Clay says goodbye to
Congress, constituents
P-D: End of federal unemployment benefits could affect
85,000 Missourians
SE
Missourian: Army Corps of Engineers says low water shouldn't
disrupt Mississippi River barge traffic
KCUR: Federal judge throws out criminal charges in
duck boat disaster that took 17 lives
The Missouri Times: 30 days after November 2020
election filing reports: Statewide candidates
The Missouri Times: 30 days after November 2020
election filing reports: PACs
The Missouri Times: 30 days after November 2020
election filing reports: Missouri Senate
The Missouri Times: 30 days after November 2020
election filing reports: Missouri House
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Missourian: Sen.-elect Holly Rehder (R-Scott City) talks
legislative priorities for next year
KWMU: AG Eric Schmitt launches cold case unit with
charges in Franklin County
KC Star: AG Eric Schmitt announces new unit to
investigate unsolved homicides across the state
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri sets plan for vaccine
distribution
Missourinet: The latest on Missouri's upcoming
distribution of COVID-19 vaccines
P-D: Missouri health chief says additional COVID
vaccine doses coming
The Missouri Times: Missouri schools, CDC partner on
COVID-19 mitigation
SNL: CDC coming to Springfield in pilot project to
track COVID-19 transmission in K-12 schools
JCNT: Gov. Parson names hospitals, systems to receive
out-of-state aid
SNL: State contracting out for more nurses to handle
COVID surge
Missourinet: Gov. Parson reacts to investigative
report he ordered on COVID deaths at Missouri veterans homes
The Missouri Times: Missouri Veterans Commission
failed to respond to COVID-19 outbreak in homes, report says
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
JCNT: Christmas evergreens celebrated at Capitol
P-D editorial: "Defund the police" mantra from Cori
Bush and other liberals is counterproductive to Democratic objectives
Joplin Globe editorial: Federal, state vaccine
distribution plans make sense
SE
Missourian's Lucas Presson: Lanie Black represented the best of
politics - and accomplished the impossible; Memories from Peter
Kinder, Lloyd Smith, Jason Crowell
Missouri Independent op-ed: Empower Missouri's
Jeanette Mott Oxford: Black and "Latinx" Missourians feeling pain
of China virus; Blunt and Hawley should support more handouts
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Thursday, December 3, 2020
KC Star: Hawley will vote against defense bill, says
legislation "should not be hijacked for the Democrats' woke leftist
agenda"
St. Joseph News-Press: Hawley: 50,000 COVID-19
vaccine doses could be coming within 10 days
SNL: Missouri Senate OKs $1.3B plan to spend remaining
COVID-19 relief money
The Missouri Times: Senate passes COVID-related
supplemental budget amid local control talks
Missouri Independent: Missouri Senate approves COVID
spending bill, closing action in special session
KWMU: Missouri Senate approves $1.3 billion budget bill
Columbia Missourian: Senators pass COVID-19 budget,
look ahead to regular session
SE
Missourian: Sen. Wayne Wallingford (R-Cape Girardeau) supports
brief delay in passing coronavirus liability protection bill
Columbia Missourian: Liability protection legislation
on hold until next month
P-D: Gov. Parson ask Legislature to hold off on
liability protection until regular session
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Gov. Parson says Missouri is in
better shape than surrounding states, talks COVID vaccine and resource
website
The Missouri Times: Missouri partnering with
Texas-based company to increase hospital staffing across state
JCNT: Out-of-state workers to help staff hospitals
Missouri Independent: Company bringing hundreds of
staff to Missouri
P-D: Missouri hiring company to provide nurses to
relieve pressure on overtaxed hospitals
KWMU: Missouri hires Texas company to provide workers
for overburdened hospitals
Missourinet: Missouri hires company to boost hospital
staffing levels during COVID-19 surge
KC Star: Gov. Parson hires firm to boost hospital
staffing
Missourinet: Armstrong Teasdale: Missouri
veterans homes should undergo a COVID-19 reset
Missourinet: Report: COVID-19 outbreak showed
failures of Missouri Veterans Commission leadership, planning and
response
P-D: Investigation ordered by Gov. Parson details
Missouri Veterans Commission's 'failure to recognize the outbreak' in
homes
P-D: China virus hits Missouri's controversial program
for sexually violent predators
KC Star: White House task force says China virus
spread across Missouri remains "significant"
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
Missourinet: Sen.-elect Holly Rehder (R-Scott City)
urges Missourians to get involved to pass PDMP legislation
Columbia Missourian: Missouri Legislative Black Caucus
wants Gov. Parson to make "immediate" call for special election to fill
Kip Kendrick's safe Dem House seat
SNL: Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick urges Missourians to
snag unclaimed cash for the holidays
KWMU: Court ruling revives limits on fines and fees,
police standards in St. Louis County
The Missouri Times: Missouri State Highway Patrol
unveils crime lab expansion
JCNT: Missouri State Highway Patrol expands crime lab
The Missouri Times: PSC offers feedback on coronavirus
late payments
KWMU: How a Missouri Department of Conservation
project has saved Missouri's hellbenders for another generation
SE
Missourian: Gun-control group issues state rankings on women
murdered by men
P-D editorial: Gov. Parson faces leadership conundrum
amid push to rein in local pandemic powers
The Missouri Times op-ed: Sen. Lincoln Hough
(R-Springfield): A pathway for Medicaid expansion implementation
and improvement
SE
Missourian letter: Cape Girardeau septuagenarian wants Gov.
Parson to force statewide mask mandate
P-D letter: St. Louis man wants Gov. Parson to force
statewide mask mandate, says St. Louis area hospitals should start
rejecting rural patients
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AP: Missouri senators advance $1.2B coronavirus aid
package
Columbia Missourian: Senate set to vote on COVID-19
funding after committee approval
P-D's Kurt Erickson: Missouri Senate poised to give
Gov. Parson power to spend unused federal stimulus money;
Comments from "Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Springs [sic])
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson asks lawmakers to
consider COVID liability during regular session
JCNT: Fate of COVID-19 liability bill uncertain
Missourinet: Proposed COVID-19 liability protections
for Missouri businesses will wait until next year
Missouri Independent: Gov. Parson wants lawmakers to
take up liability legislation in January
The Missouri Times: 2021 legislation: A look at
what's on deck for the Missouri Senate next year
KWMU: Legislative preview: Medicaid expansion
KWMU: After St. Louis County Executive Sam Page's
COVID-19 restrictions, GOP lawmakers take aim at local mandates
The Missouri Times: Koenig introduces legislation to
restrict county powers amid COVID-19 shutdowns
SNL: GOP lawmakers seek ability to review, cancel
local health orders
Missouri Independent: Missouri lawmakers hope to curb
city and county authority on health orders
Columbia Missourian: Legislation would curb local
control over COVID-19 response
AP: Confidence in Midwest economic future plummets in
monthly Creighton University survey
KC Star: KC may lobby Missouri lawmakers to grant
local control of KCPD
The Missouri Times: Lawmakers promote legislation to
'decriminalize HIV' on World AIDS Day
Missouri Independent: Missouri lawmakers file HIV bills
KWMU: Missouri DNR investigates odors coming from GM's
Wentzville plant, others
St. Joseph News-Press: MoDOT reminds drivers to travel
safely this winter
JCNT: State's local death count is higher than Cole
County's tally
KC Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
SNL outdoor reporter Wes Johnson: Retirement
column: A few last words at the end of a 40-year journalism career
KC Star op-ed: Sierra Club's "Beyond Coal" rep Ty
Gorman: Missouri's derelict utility customers are entitled to
keep receiving energy
P-D letter: Ferguson man says Livingston County
residents who complain about CAFOs are getting what they deserve
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Missouri Times: Ashcroft: Missouri 'showed rest of the
country' how to handle elections
KWMU:
Politically Speaking podcast: Rep.-elect Betsy Fogle
(D-Springfield) on joining House superminority, Cleaner Missouri,
Medicaid expansion, absentee balloting, more
Missourinet:
$1.2 billion supplemental budget heading to Senate floor today
The
Missouri Times: Senate pre-filing: What to know about the
legislative process
P-D:
GOP lawmakers to debate local coronavirus restrictions when session
begins in January
Missourinet:
Missouri Bicentennial leaders say every county and town has a story to
tell
Missourinet:
Missouri to launch 'Project Echo' to help reduce COVID-19 strain on
hospitals
SE
Missourian: More students return to classrooms in Cape public
schools
P-D:
Daily state, regional China virus update
KC
Star: Daily state, regional China virus update
Missouri
Independent: State China virus update
P-D:
Some St. Louis City aldermen sign letter to Gov. Parson urging
statewide mask mandate; Aldermanic President Lewis Reed does not
sign letter
KC
Star editorial: Sen. Blunt's double-talk on election fraud is
downright dangerous
P-D
editorial: Blunt's refusal to say three words - 'president-elect
Biden' - is a slap at 80 million voters
P-D
editorial: Gov. Parson, other politicians chose votes over saving
lives. Hospitals confront the aftermath.
Missouri
Independent op-ed: Aligned VP Linda Rallo: As they navigate
a pandemic, grant public school officials some grace
KC
Star op-ed: Sen.-elect Greg Razer (D-Kansas City): Let
Missouri pharmacists give drugs to stop new HIV infections
P-D
letter: Clayton septuagenarian responds to Show-Me Institute
op-ed on gas tax, says voters have shown preference for Republicans and
no tax increases
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