Friday, February 28
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill, Blunt: Guard
units play a critical role X
KWMU: McCaskill, Blunt step up concerns about proposed
National Guard cuts
KC Star: Kansas City among eight cities in running for
2016 GOP convention +
KSMU: Roy Blunt, Billy Long pushing taxpayer
transparency act
P-D: Federal workers mishandle 4,000 documents at
North St. Louis County facility, audit reveals
P-D: Kacie Starr Triplett, former local spokeswoman
for Barack Obama's campaign, fined for using campaign funds for
personal use
KWMU: Former alderman Kacie Starr Triplette used
campaign money to buy herself a wig, clothes, massages, drinks, and pay
her mortgage
St. Joseph News-Press: Russ Monchil seeks to fill
Libertarian ballot slot versus Sam Graves X
Drebes:
A look at state parties and their relevance; Missouri
conservatives can rely on Sinquefield and other orgs, while Koster
helps Dem party infrastructure
The Missouri Times: Rep. Dave Schatz (R-Washington) to
challenge Nieves
Missourinet: House sents photo ID bill, proposed
constitutional amendment to Senate
P-D: Photo ID rule for voters moves closer to Missouri
ballot
KWMU: Missouri House passes photo ID requirement for
voting
Missourinet: Nixon announces trade mission to Canada
AP: Missouri Senate passes business truce with Kansas
Missourinet: Missouri-Kansas 'truce' bill clears Senate
St. Joseph News-Press: Process continues on state
budget talks X
JCNT: Tax forum participants agree outdated Missouri
tax code needs to change X
AP: Missouri bill expands access to proposed rules
P-D: Missouri DHSS disagrees with defense attorneys
over possible DWI loophole; No comment from DOR's Charles Gooch
KWMU: Missouri Senate passes student transfer bill in
less than 24 hours
Missourinet: School transfer bill heads to House
Missourinet: Failing schools could get more help from
the state
KWMU: Normandy pushes for caps on tuition for transfer
students
AP: House passes bill to lengthen child abuse
investigations
JCNT: Bill would allow private employers to refuse
service based on religious beliefs X
JCNT: Sewer permits water testing bill heads to House X
St. Joseph News-Press: Rep. Mike Lair (R-Chillicothe),
hospitalized this week to return to work on Monday X
The Missouri Times: Association profile:
Missouri Alliance for Freedom
P-D: Laclede to hike natural gas rate by 9 percent
CDT: Federal judge rules Moberly not liable for Mamtek
bonds X
P-D editorial: Insurers must catch up with new forms
of cancer
KC Star's Yael Abouhalkah: Trolling local supporters
of 2016 convention effort: KC should withdraw bid +
Shelly: No permit required, and gun homicides spike in
Missouri +
P-D letter: Missouri lawmakers should approve
prescription drug database
SE
Missourian letter: Wallingford's religious-freedom bill should be
rejected +
KC Star letter: Woman says she will not patronize
businesses that support Wallingford's bill +
P-D letter: The best election option is to vote
everyone - regardless of their record or ideology - out of office
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Thursday, February 27
KWMU: Kansas City submits bid for 2016 GOP
Presidential Convention
P-D: St. Louis declines invitation to bid on 2016 Dem
Presidential Convention; Rainford says city focusing on raising
money for Gateway Arch ground
P-D: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith to fight 'tooth and nail'
over Ozark National Scenic Riverways
USA Today: Army disqualifies 588 soldiers after sexual
assault review; Comments from McCaskill
Drebes:
Speaker Tim Jones' campaign says he'll have $1 million in the bank at
end of current reporting period
KC Star: Jeff Roe expands; Former 2006 Talent
campaign intern Courtney Sheehan started at Axiom Strategies this month +
P-D: Lobbyist splits hairs over who bought lunch for
committee hearing; Rep. Caleb Jones (R-California) concedes
arrangement "looks bad"
CDT: Rep. Stephen Webber (D-Columbia) questions
colleagues' motives during hearing on ethics bills X
AP: Missouri Senate backs end to Kansas 'border war'
Missourinet: Debate starts on fairness of farmland
values
AP: Missouri Senate backs limits on medical malpractice
Missourinet: House advances medical malpractice damage
caps
P-D: Missouri introduces fix to newborn Medicaid
enrollment
St. Joseph News-Press: Nixon brings education message
to Chillicothe X
P-D: Missouri Senate endorses transfer law legislation
P-D: Private school transfer option survives chopping
block in transfer law legislation debate
KC Star: School transfer bill clears major hurdle +
JCNT: Senate endorses school transfer bill X
KWMU: Missouri Senate gives first-round approval to
student transfer bill
AP: Missouri Senate passes school-transfer legislation
CDT: Speakers support measure that would provide
funding for preschool X
P-D: The debate on Common Core rages even as teachers
are moving ahead
The Missouri Times: Truman State University has its
day at the Capitol
KC Star: University of Missouri president one of 20
visiting Washington D.C. for sexual-assault meetings +
Columbia Missourian: University of Missouri president
visits Washington D.C., listens to sexual-assault talk
SE
Missourian: Sen. Wayne Wallingford (R-Cape Girardeau) files
'religious freedom' bill; Area Dem party official equates
proposal to Jim Crow laws +
JCNT: Sen. Brian Nieves (R-Washington) targets foreign
laws, again X
JCNT: Senate committee hears two proposals to change
damage awards X
P-D: Drunk drivers get a break from the fine print in
Missouri regulations; Clayton lawyer claims he pointed out
loophole and Mo. Dept. of Revenue attorneys "pretty much laughed"
AP: Senators seeking quicker executions; Sen.
Dan Brown (R-Rolla) cites Hailey Owens' death
SNL: Lawmaker invokes Hailey Owens in filing bill to
speed executions X
AP: Lawmaker wants more death penalty oversight;
Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Springfield) says bill would make lethal
injection process more transparent and accountable to the public
The Missouri Times: In wake of execution, House hears
bill adding oversight to Dept. of Corrections
Daily
American Republic: Outdoorsmen opposes Dept. of Conservation
oversight bills
Missourinet: Parents testify in favor of legislation
to allow investigational drugs to terminal patients
AP: Rep. Jim Neely (R-Cameron) seeks to give terminal
patients access to experimental medications
AP: Rep. Mike Lair (R-Chillicothe), 67, in hospital
with undisclosed illness
St. Joseph News-Press: City still waiting for
red-light camera decision X
KC Star: Liberal group "Good Jobs First" says Cerner
is in top ten of state, local subsidy recipients +
Washington Missourian editorial: Rand Paul was right -
GOP needs more tattoos and earrings
JCNT editorial: The wood stove debate: Where
there's smoke, there's state-federal confrontation X
P-D editorial: Keeping people healthy should be as
important as killing them; "Pretend you're trying to excute
someone, governor. Get it done."
KC Star editorial: Weak payday loan bill would inhibit
reform in Missouri +
SNL editorial: Dyslexia bill from Rep. Eric Burlison
(R-Springfield) a good first step X
P-D's Nicklaus: Conservative DC-based Tax Foundation
dislikes Missouri GOP tax cut ideas, says reforms should focus on
cutting complexity
SNL op-ed: Missouri legislators should put a gun bill
- one's that actually constitutional - on Nixon's desk and force him to
veto it X
KC Star's Sanchez: Free speech at stake in quirky gun
case +
Washington Missourian letter: MoPIRG's Naomi
Roth: McCaskill, Blunt want to give tax breaks to large
corporations
Washington Missourian letter: Koster wrong to side
with Missouri agriculture in egg dispute; Hens should be given
more room to make themselves comfortable and stretch out their limbs
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Wednesday, February 26
AP: Kansas City pushes aggressively for GOP
convention; RNC co-chair insists there is no front-runner, yet
KC Star: Kansas City pitches for the GOP convention,
privately +
Politico: Iran sanctions thwart McCaskill, Gillibrand
proposals' floor votes
MSNBC: The next round on sexual assaults in the
military
AP: First-day-of-filing summary: Overall number
of candidates is down; Candidates say Kander's staff made process
move smoothly
The Missouri Times: Republicans gather before filing
opens; Diehl encourages primary candidates to "keep it clean"
The Missouri Times: Sen. John Lamping (R-Ladue) not
running for re-election, will chair Tom Schweich's auditor campaign
The Missouri Times: Rep. Myron Neth (R-Liberty) not
running for re-election
CDT: First-day-of-filing summary: Democrat Kip
Kendrick to take over Rep. Chris Kelly's seat next year X
JCNT: First-day-of-filing summary: Most area
legislators draw no opposition X
P-D: First-day-of-filing summary: Rep. Dave
Schatz (R-Sullivan) enters 26th Senate district GOP primary, where
incumbent Sen. Brian Nieves is currently a candidate
KWMU: First-day-of-filing summary: U.S.
congressmen draw also-rans; Chris Carter will take on Josh Peters
in Dem state rep primary
Joplin Globe: First-day-of-filing summary: Local
state reps draw no opposition X
SE
Missourian: Missouri Supreme Court rejects petition for
special-election move +
JCNT: Lawmakers look to tweak term limits X
P-D: Ethics bills draw little praise from
legislators; Speaker Tim Jones: "We're down here doing
government work ... this isn't 'House of Cards'"
AP: Missouri lawmakers divided on ethics law process
Missourinet: House gives initial approval to voter
photo ID
AP: Missouri House endorses photo ID requirement
KWMU: Bond pushes Medicaid expansion in Jefferson City
SNL: Bond pushes expansion of Medicaid X
AP:
Bond makes case for Medicaid expansion
CDT: Rep. Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) introduces Fulton
hospital bond plan X
SNL: Sen. Wayne Wallingford (R-Cape Girardeau) files
'religious freedom' bill X
P-D: Hunters in Missouri worry about bill to give
lawmakers greater power over rule-making
KWMU: Missouri Senate begins debate on student
transfer bill
AP: Missouri senators debate transfer legislation
P-D: Race issue is hot topic at hearing on Missouri's
plan for failing school districts; Nicastro says she's not
surprised to hear "chains on their feet," other incendiary language
KWMU: Race at the forefront of public meeting;
Area man says, "I feel like I'm on a plantation," but another resident
suggests rejecting "victim mentality"
AP: U.S. Supreme Court refuses to stop Missouri
execution
AP: Gov. Jay Nixon (D) denies clemency for Michael
Taylor
KWMU: New execution drug performs flawlessly
KC Star: Missouri executes killer of Ann Harrison +
AP: Missouri executes Michael Taylor
Missourinet: Michael Taylor is executed; Audio
of post-execution news conference
Missourinet: AG Chris Koster (D) on bringing convicted
killer to justice: Keep the innocent victim - and her family - in
your prayers
P-D: Three red-light camera case appeals won't be
heard by Missouri Supreme Court
SE
Missourian: ACLU sues police officer on behalf of gun advocate +
SE
Missourian: State award grants for Dutchtown +
Joplin Globe editorial: Find an execution-drug
solution - and continue to use death penalty to bring murderers to
justice X
KC Star editorial: Missouri should help universities
with building needs +
P-D op-ed: Webster University prof: $10 minimum
wage would benefit low-wage workers, Missouri's economy
KC Star's Yael Abouhalkah: Religious freedom bill from
Sen. Wayne Wallingford (R-Cape Girardeau) must be killed +
P-D letter: Unemployed Bridgeton man shares hard-luck
story, says he wants Medicaid
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Tuesday, February
25 Missouri
Secretary of State - Primary candidates filed page (filing opens at 8
a.m.)
Missourinet: Military spending cuts would cost
Missouri $34 million, hundreds of troops
KWMU: Rep. Ann Wagner (R) on GOP leadership role, sex
trafficking and 2016
Chicago Tribune: Health fraud lawsuit echoes 'Wolf of
Wall Street;' McCaskill organized 2013 hearing to examine
fraudsters
US News & World Report: How Washington became a
permanent Oscar campaign stop; PR firm attributes "The Invisible
War" Oscar nomination to McCaskill
SE
Missourian: USPS postpones closure of Cape mail-processing
center; Area union boss "cautiously optimistic about this" +
Rosenbaum: Despite national focus, Missouri's minimum
wage vote faces murky future
The Missouri Times: Matt Blunt's family, allies say
history looking back more kindly on his tenure as governor
The Missouri Times: Q&A with Kinder on lengthy
primary seasons, special elections, more
P-D: Lamping won't run for re-election; GOP
still seeking credible candidate to take on Dem candidate Rep. Jill
Schupp (D-Creve Coeur)
SE
Missourian: 120th District committee hopes for earlier special
election +
The Missouri Times: Political neophyte seeks to fill
Democratic ballot slot versus Rep. Noel Torpey (R-Independence)
Drebes: Since departure of Dolan, Missouri Health Care
Association splits duties between Lorie Towe and Nikki Strong
AP: Senators vote to restrict governor's budget power
SNL: Missouri House endorses change to income tax
brackets X
AP: Missouri House endorses plan to adjust tax brackets
The Missouri Times: Committee hears bills to put right
to work on the ballot
AP: Missouri House panel rejects Medicaid expansion
AP: Missouri Chamber of Commerce panel on Medicaid, to
be held today, will feature former Gov. Kit Bond
Missourinet: Legislators announce plan to pay for new
Fulton State Hospital; Nixon supportive
JCNT: House pitches new plan for Fulton State Hospital X
KWMU: Missouri House Republicans unveil plan to pay
for new Fulton State Hospital
P-D: Rep. Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) says Fulton State
Hospital funding proposal would save Missouri taxpayers $120 million
AP: Missouri lawmakers propose plan for Fulton Hospital
The Missouri Times: Lawmakers announce plans to
rebuild Fulton State Hospital
JCNT: Changes sought to welfare system; Rep. Jay
Barnes (R-Jefferson City) eyes tighter rules, access to farmers markets X
The Missouri Times: Committee hears TANF, SNAP bills
AP: Missouri House panel ignores disability wait list
plan
P-D: Assessment shows low marks in reading for St.
Louis Public School students; Nearly 4,300 second-through-eighth
graders are at least two years behind
JCNT: Lawmakers consider sentencing changes for
juvenile murderers X
Missourinet: State says it's ready for execution of
convicted kidnapper/rapist/murderer Michael Taylor tonight
KWMU: Federal judge denies stay of execution for
Michael Taylor
P-D: Labor talks stumble at Harris-Stowe;
Professors will stage "silent stand-in" today
KC Star: Chelsea Clinton visits UMKC for women's hall
of fame event +
AP: Proposal from Sen. Mike Cunningham (R-Rogersville)
will allow non-profits ability to serve home-cooked food at charitable
events
The Missouri Times: Association profile: Jerry
Sage's Missouri Independent Bankers Association
Missourinet: Ameren vs. Noranda update:
Missourians for Balanced Energy Future says Noranda wants lower rates
amid profitable growth
AP: US attorneys challenge Missouri National Guard
policy on civilians called to active duty
Missourinet: Missouri volleyball team drops by
Capitol, poses for pictures
P-D: Update: Former SE Missourian reporter Scott
Moyers receives suspended imposition of sentence, won't go to jail if
he stays clean
P-D editorial: A stinging audit and fast fixes.
Good work by Auditor Tom Schweich and St. Louis Public Schools
leadership
Joplin Globe editorial: MSSU makes right call holding
the line on tuition X
CDT's Waters: Thinking about Medicaid expansion costs X
SNL op-ed: Workers' comp lawyer Darren Morrison:
Bill from Rep. Elijah Haahr (R-Springfield) levels the workplace
playing field X
P-D letter: Olivette man is upset over GOP stance on
health care navigators, offers sarcastic suggestions for legislative
requirements: IQ, Constitution test, etc.
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Monday, February 24
P-D: Missouri Republicans seek a truce - with
themselves
KSMU: Recap of Blunt, Rand Paul Lincoln Day speeches
Missourinet: Lincoln Day Friday night summary:
Brief audio snippets from Jason Smith, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Roy Blunt
Kraske: BuzzChatter weekday quote analysis:
Sentences pulled from four weekend stories via links found here +
AP: Federal wood-burning rule prompts rural backlash
P-D: Boeing machinists approve new contract aimed at
winning new work
SNL: Nixon says GOP govs give insight on Medicaid
expansion; On marijuana, gov says Missouri has "better ways to
grow our economy and improve our schools than legalize recreational
drugs" X
AP: Missouri candidates begin filing for office this
week
St. Joseph News-Press: Preview of likely area
candidate filings X
JCNT: Sen. Mike Kehoe (R-Jefferson City) builds big
campaign warchest; List of all donors in latest reporting period X
JCNT: Jeanette Mott Oxford's Missouri Association for
Social Welfare to hold forum on taxes Wednesday X
Fulton Sun: Rep. Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) to unveil
new Fulton State Hospital funding plan today
X
KC Star: Payday lending rules could change in
Missouri, but not enough for some +
The Maneater: Missouri Senate considers minimum wage
increase
St. Joseph News-Press: Funeral protest law faces
revision X
The Maneater: Rep. Stephen Webber (D-Columbia) says
Michael Sam pre-draft publicity has given new life to
anti-discrimination bill
KWMU: Some Missouri Republicans talk impeachment, but
chances are slim
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: MoDOT holds Highway 412 expansion public
hearing, says funds are available to complete section
Missourinet: Three inmates' attorneys argue against
setting of their execution dates
Drebes: KC
vs. KC: Will Kraus' bill would reconfigure political party committees
in Jackson County
Washington Missourian: Washington Area Chamber of
Commerce will continue to run state license office
P-D editorial: Weaker gun laws mean more deaths in
Missouri
KC Star editorial: Halt the executions, Missouri +
CDT op-ed: Point-counterpoint: Rep. Chris Kelly
(D): Medicaid expansion is right business move X
CDT op-ed: Point-counterpoint: Sen. Kurt
Schaefer (R): New commitments would sink Missouri budget X
KC Star's Diuguid: To improve KC Public Schools,
district should hold "truth and reconciliation" hearings that address
racist transgressions of the past +
P-D letter: P-D caterwauling over death penalty
forgets crime's victim
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Sunday, February 23
KWMU: Rand Paul says GOP future hinges on attracting
folks with tattoos, and without
SNL: Rand Paul says 2016 nominee cannot be
'cookie-cutter' X
P-D: Rand Paul calls for relaxation of drug laws in
Missouri speech
P-D's McDermott: Fact-checking Lincoln Day
speeches: Correcting Luetkemeyer on jobs, Blunt on inequality
KWMU: Missouri Republicans see 'Right to Farm' ballot
proposal as aid to GOP turnout
AP: Missouri GOP endorses 'Right to Farm' ballot
measure
SNL: Gubernatorial candidates compete for attention,
while party endorses "Right to Farm" X
P-D: Catherine Hanaway steps down from GOP committee
to pursue governor's race
AP: GOP stresses unity as gubernatorial primary looms
SNL: Fort Leonard Wood to lose military, civilian
positions in Army realignment X
KC Star: Al Gore brings climate-change message to
Kansas City +
St. Louis Business Journal: Missouri is once again
fastest-growing state for IT jobs
Drebes: Rep. Chris Kelly (D-Columbia) to Nixon:
Stop "throwing incendiary press bombs"
AP: Missouri lawmakers considering changes to payday
loans
St. Joseph News-Press: MoDOT compiles project wish
list, says it needs more money X
JCNT: Accreditation issue likely to touch many
districts X
KWMU: Plaintiffs in school desegregation suit say
goals remain elusive after 60 years
SE
Missourian: Bev Randles, wife of former GOP gov primary candidate
Bill Randles, hosts surgeon and aspiring GOP presidential candidate Ben
Nelson in Sikeston +
JCNT editorial: Death penalty issue deserves direct
approach X
SE Missourian editorial: Missouri's pseudoephedrine
laws may be controversial, but they work +
CDT op-ed: Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation's
Jeff Stack: It's time to halt Missouri's rush to kill;
Nixon's reputation harmed by supporting the racist death penalty X
P-D letter: Rep. Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) should know
better - getting elusive tobacco money is an easy fix
KC Star letter: People should take note and pay
attention to how bad Missouri Republicans are
+
SE
Missourian letter: 18-year-old home-school student defends
state-flag idea he provided to Rep. Jeff Roorda (R-Barnhart) +
P-D letter: Bosley case shows how lawyers use kid
gloves when doling out "punishment"
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Saturday, February 22 The Official 2014 Missouri Lincoln Day
Bingo Card
KWMU: Missouri Republicans predict victory as long as
focus is solely on Dems; Comments from emcee Diehl, 2016
candidates Hanaway and Schweich, Brunner
SNL: GOP seeks unity among members at Lincoln Days X
P-D: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder reminds Missouri GOP
convention of his record - but which office will he seek in 2016?
KSMU: Blunt's legislation would honor Monuments
Men; Movie with same name tells story of men and women who
sacrificed to recover art and artifacts stolen by Nazis
P-D: Students at Reform Jewish congregation travel to
D.C. to lobby for abortion rights
KC Star: Division over Affordable Care Act persists,
even among those it helps +
Politico: Video: Interview with Jay Nixon;
Gov talks Medicaid expansion, tax cuts, 2016
Politico: Nixon emphasizes he's on board with Hillary
Clinton, but won't rule out presidential run if former First Lady takes
a pass
Politico: Sunday talk show tip sheet: Gov. Jay
Nixon to appear on CNN's "State of the Union"
Drebes:
Former Sen. Jon Dolan (R-Lake St. Louis) headed to New Jersey as news
president and CEO of Health Care Association of New Jersey
The Missouri Times: Former state Rep. Dan Hegeman
receives Graves endorsement, Johnson drops out
The Missouri Times: Q&A with Jeff Roe on Axiom's
2014 targets, more
JCNT: MoDOT sales tax petition withdrawn X
Missourinet: State agency says Medicaid expansion
would create 24,000 jobs
AP: Nixon's Department of Economic Development says
Medicaid expansion would great 24,000 jobs
P-D: Long line for Medicaid leaves many unsure of
eligibility
KC Star: College is worth it, UM System President Tim
Wolfe says +
Joplin Globe: MSSU board: No in-state tuition
increase next year X
The Missouri Times: Education leaders to spar over
Stream's school-transfer bill
P-D: Child molester at center of SORTS sentencing
dispute wins freedom on fourth try
AP: Execution date set for another Missouri
inmate; Jeffrey Ferguson abducted 17-year-old girl from her job
at a St. Charles gas station, raped her, then strangled her
AP: Police chiefs seek court action on red-light laws
KC Star "Capitol Watch" editorial: Republicans should
wear dunce hats +
Joplin Globe editorial: Missouri gun bills are bad
policy X
Joplin Globe editorial: Telecommunication industry's
cell-tower legislation should be stopped X
JCNT editorial: Missouri should ban texting while
driving for all motorists X
P-D editorial: Solutions to improve St. Louis
region: Missouri should raise taxes, and area should unify its
school districts
Horrigan: Study from DED shows Medicaid expansion is a
no-brainer
Priddy: Waiting to hear from Americans for
Poverty; Unclear press release headlines; Thoughts on
Insane Clown Posse and "Missouri's Woodstock" of 1974
CDT's Waters: Mary Still (D-Columbia) deserves credit
for laying payday-loan-reform groundwork X
SNL op-ed: Bill from Rep. Elijah Haahr (R-Springfield)
not needed to protect students' religious freedoms X
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Missouri Association of
Prosecuting Attorneys: State criminal code revision would provide
critical tools for public safety
KC Star letters: Missouri Republicans focusing on
issues that don't matter; Right to work a bad deal for workers +
P-D letter: Bill Haas (D): Combining school
districts not going to happen as long as city schools are bad
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Friday, February 21
The Official 2014
Missouri Lincoln Day Bingo Card - participate to win prizes and help
Missourians in need
CDT: Blunt bill seeks recognition, medals for
'monuments men' X
Washington Missourian: Worst yet to be seen from
Obamacare, Luetkemeyer says
AP: Nixon to lead panel on National Guard and
emergency preparedness at national governors meeting
Missourinet: Nixon signs bill making it easier for
military, handicapped candidates to file for office
St. Joseph News-Press: Rep. Delus Johnson (R-St.
Joseph) withdraws from state Senate race X
Drebes: Missy McDaniel laying the groundwork to take
over Mike Colona's Dem state rep seat in 2016
Missourinet: House proposes change to budget
restriction process in Constitution
Missourinet: House approves two tax-cut proposals
along party lines
P-D: Tax cut passes in House without GOP schism that
doomed last year's bill
AP: GOP sticks together on income tax cut
KWMU: Missouri Senate sends gun control nullification
bill to House; House version passes committee
P-D: Federal gun law nullification one step closer in
Missouri
SNL: Sen. Bob Dixon (R-Springfield) lone Republican to
vote against gun bill X
AP: Missouri House panel hears bill to block Common
Core standards
The Week: Video: Jon Stewart mocks proposal from
Rep. Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonville) and his constituents' thoughts on
religion in schools
Missourinet: Governor, lawmakers disagree on emergency
$44K for K-12 education
KC Star: Missouri bill would fund student transfers to
private schools +
AP: Senate panel endorses school transfer
measure; Private-school portion added at urging of Sen. Maria
Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City)
KWMU: Wide-ranging student transfer bill passed by
Missouri Senate committee
P-D: Missouri Senate panel moves closer on school
transfer law bill
Missourinet: Education Commissioner Chris Nicastro
tells Normandy students they will graduate this year
P-D: Nicastro to Normandy: School will stay open
at least through the end of the year
KWMU: Schweich issues St. Louis Public Schools audit
follow-up, encouraged by process
P-D: Schweich praises progress at St. Louis Public
Schools
CDT: Schaefer introduces bill to give state choice of
execution method X
P-D: Missouri finds new drug source, says execution of
murderer can go forward
Missourinet: Despite court challenges, state prepared
to execute Michael Taylor next week
CDT: Sen. Mike Parson (R-Bolivar) criticizes return on
investment in diesel fuel inspection program
X
P-D: St. Louis insurance company, PR consultant Glenn
Jamboretz fined for depicting state senate candidate as "The Mad Hatter"
KWMU: New Bridgeton Landfill data shows underground
fire still far from radioactive waste
AP:
Senate adopts Ozark Riverways resolution
AP: Officials plan burns at Ozark riverways in SE Mo.
P-D: Arnold to stop issuing red-light tickets
SE
Missourian: Show-Me Institute's David Stokes at Pachyderm
meeting: Use tax may help businesses in region +
P-D profile: Legal Services of Eastern Missouri's Dan
Glazier
P-D editorial: Health navigator brouhaha leads to the
return of the Mean Boys Club: GOP Sens. Kurt Schaefer and Mike
Parson
Washington Missourian editorial: Stranger than
fiction: Nieves, Nasheed and legislative nuttiness
Washington Missourian's Bill Miller: Higher ed
costs: Four-year colleges have made life too comfortable for
students; We need community colleges more than ever before
P-D's Nicklaus: Noranda electric-rate case raises
novel questions for Missouri
CDT's Waters: Red-light cameras: A legal mishmash X
P-D letter: University City firehouse a good example
of well-spent stimulus money
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch should extend sympathy for
children in day cares to children still in the womb
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Thursday, February 20
P-D: Fort Leonard Wood to lose 1,000 troops;
Reductions will be part of budget cuts throughout the U.S. military
P-D: Blunt seeks Congressional Gold Medal for
'Monuments Men'
KWMU: Blunt hopes to honor 'Monuments Men'
McClatchy: Ex-Marine's suit over sexual assault case
faces uphill battle; Comments from McCaskill
P-D: Boeing, area machinists union reach tentative
deal on long-term contract
AP: Missouri marijuana advocates will delay campaign,
wait until 2016
SE
Missourian: Some can't afford insurance; Local insight on
Missouri Medicaid struggles
JCNT: Nixon, Barnes add voices to mental-health rally
SNL: Hailey Owens tie-ins: Legislation would
have made child kidnapping a lesser crime until changed earlier this
month
KWMU: Missouri House endorses tax-cut deals
The Missouri Times: House gives initial approval to
multiple tax-cut deals
AP: House backs pair of income tax cut plans
The Missouri Times: Tax plan from Rep. Jon Carpenter
(D-Kansas City) uses tiered system
KWMU: Audio: Rep. Jake Hummel (D-St.
Louis): Minority leader says Dem tax-cut plan will get token
hearing; Dems will continue to oppose right-to-work, photo ID
measures
Missourinet: Republicans say Nixon has turned funding
for Fulton State Hospital into "political football"; Comments
from Rick Stream, Jeanie Riddle
KC Star: House Speaker Tim Jones says Nixon is lying
about denial of funding for new state hospital
P-D: Missouri Senate approves requirement for extended
repayment of payday loans; Sen. Scott Sifton (D) says, "(I)n many
cases, I think it will prevent the cycle of debt"
Missourinet: Payday loan bill advances
JCNT: Senate advances bill to tighten payday loan rules
The Missouri Times: Oral chemo parity bill passes
Senate
AP: Missouri Senate begins debate on abortion measure
lengthening waiting period from 24 hours to 72 hours
JCNT: Bill from Sen. Jason Holsman (D-Kansas City)
targets lawmen's tracking ability
CDT: Senate gives higher education performance funding
initial approval
CDT: Speakers talk UM System funding at Legislative
Day panel
SNL: Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Springfield) seeks
easier access to resources for dyslexic children
P-D: Missouri House committee endorses $100 million
increase in Foundation Formula
CDT: House panel cuts proposals for new education
funding
AP: Rep. Mike Lair (R-Chillicothe) jabs at Common Core
opponents, suggests budget line for "tin foil hats"
Missourinet: "Tin foil hats" line, aimed at Common
Core opponents, puts Rep. Mike Lair at butt end of prank
JCNT: House bill would raise test standards for high
school diplomas
AP: Senate panel to consider Missouri school
legislation
KC Star: Missouri Senate panel will take up student
transfer bill
KWMU: Normandy board members don't like losing
financial control
KWMU: Missouri has a new execution drug supplier
KC Star: Missouri says it has a new supplier for
upcoming execution
AP: New methods of execution would be allowed under
Missouri proposal
AP: Missouri Senate to take up gun nullification bill
AP: Rep. Robert Ross (R-Yukon) to chair panel on
regulations
Drebes:
Mindy Brissey, formerly with American Federation of Teachers, to run
for Jay Swearingen's open House seat
The Missouri Times: Ron Casey's colleagues remember
his life
SE
Missourian: 23-year-old first-year online reporter at Washington
Post speaks at annual event; Michael Davis Lecture series honors
student killed by fraternity hazing
St. Louis Business Journal: Lee Enterprises, parent of
Post-Dispatch, to refinance more debt, implement pay walls in 'larger
markets' - likely including St. Louis
JCNT editorial: Navigating state efforts to change
federal health care law
SNL editorial: Cell towers issue: In battle
between local control versus what is best for state, telecommunications
industry is going to win this one
KC Star op-ed: A border-war truce would hurt KC-area
growth
P-D op-ed: EPA Regional Administrator Karl
Brooks: EPA is working toward a remedy at West Lake Landfill
SNL letter: Billy Long is the "Boss Hogg" of the 7th
District, and is a "tea-party crybaby"
P-D letter: National Council on Alcoholism and Drug
Abuse: Missouri is irresponsible to miss out on tobacco
settlement money
P-D letter: Neglect case shows Missouri needs stronger
caretaker laws
Columbia Missourian letter: Sen. Kurt Schaefer
(R-Columbia) should support Medicaid expansion
P-D letter: Gun, voter ID proposals will keep young
entrepreneurs away from Missouri
JCNT letter: Criticism of Ameren is inaccurate, unfair
P-D letter: Paper's fervent gay coverage a
demonstration of advocacy journalism
P-D letter:
Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transsexual/Queer/Intersex/Asexual citizens need
to start standing up for themselves
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Wednesday, February 19
KC Star: With support of postage-rate increase,
McCaskill may vote against Hallmark on the Senate floor +
KC Star: Court issues order to garnish Emanuel
Cleaver's congressional wages in car wash case
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Drebes: Judy Dungan, former District Office Director
for Kit Bond, joins Missouri Children's Leadership Council as Director
of Policy
KSMU: EPA provides an additional $2.5 million to
Joplin's lead contamination clean-up
SE
Missourian: Rep. Jason Smith visits classes at Central High School +
AP:
GOP committee selects Rolla businessman Shawn Sisco to fill Jason
Smith's long-vacant state rep seat
AP: Judge rules against special-election lawsuit
Missourinet: 2016 GOP gov primary candidate Catherine
Hanaway says she supports right to work
Columbia Missourian: Missouri marijuana legislation
advocates decide to wait for 2016
KWMU: Missouri Chamber of Commerce endorses new bill
expanding Medicaid to low-income workers
P-D: Bill from Rep. Noel Torpey (R-Independence) would
require those receiving expanded Medicaid to work for a living
JCNT: Rep. Noel Torpey (R-Independence) files Medicaid
reform bill X
The Missouri Times: Right-to-work legislation leaves
committee
The Missouri Times: Some conservatives wary of
Nixon/Kraus tax compromise
Kraske: "BuzzChatter" daily quote analysis: Rep.
Jon Carpenter (D-Kansas City) has a tax plan, too +
AP: House backs measure on budget-cutting powers
P-D: Fulton State Hospital funding not included in
supplemental bill passed by Missouri House Budget Committee
KC Star: Missouri lawmakers look at ethics reform
proposals +
AP: Missouri lawmakers consider Sunday motorcycle sales
Missourinet: Chemotherapy parity bill advances
AP: Missouri Senate passes chemotherapy parity bill
AP: Nixon signs bill making filing easier for military
and handicapped candidates
JCNT: Bill proposes to limit lawmaker/lobbyist deals X
AP: Senate panel weighs cooling-off period;
Measure would force departing legislators to wait two years before
lobbying, disallow current officials from serving as consultants
P-D: Missouri Senate endorses higher education
performance funding bill
CDT: UM System supporters rally at the Capitol for
Legislative Day X
JCNT: Wolfe leads rally for MU funding X
KC Star: Missouri intervention plan pleases Kansas
City school district X
P-D: State surprises Normandy schools by taking
financial control
AP: State Board of Education to oversee Normandy's
finances
CDT: Senate strips stolen-gun provision after NRA
pressure X
SNL: House panel looks to ban all texting for Missouri
drivers; Three STL-area Dems each have their own proposals X
JCNT: Bills target texting while driving X
The Missouri Times: Lobbyist profile: Mark Rhoads
St. Louis Business Journal: Missouri public defenders
"worse off than we thought"
P-D: Sex offender faces different kind of limbo;
Macon Baker has been held in jail for six years as three juries
disagree on his fate
KWMU: Nixon: State still plans to carry out
execution of kidnapper/rapist/murderer Michael Taylor
P-D: Dept. of Corrections says it's ready to execute
convicted murderer - the question is how
KMWU: Another judge criticizes Missouri for haste in
carry out executions
AP: Shortage of execution drugs becomes more acute
Missourinet: Noranda says Ameren raising rates more
than authorized amount
Joplin Globe: Advocates make case for the poor at
hearing on Missouri Gas Energy rate hike X
AP: Barnes, MO Dept. of Conservation disagree over
proposal to block executive branch rules
P-D: Landfill neighbors seek action after surface
fire, more odors
P-D: State of Missouri wants Freeman Bosley Jr.'s law
license suspended for two years; Former mayor admitted to
mishandling clients' funds
SNL editorial: NRA in charge in Jefferson City;
Vote stripping revision to gun nullification law reveals group's power X
SE
Missourian editorial: Flag panel proposal from Rep. Jeff Roorda
(D-Barnhart) appears to be a waste of time +
KC Star editorial: Chris Nicastro's plan for failing
schools in Missouri is sound and flexible +
P-D editorial: Time for the Spainhower solution:
Unify St. Louis schools
P-D op-ed: AG Chris Koster (D): Missouri not as
business-friendly as some claim: State needs to cut taxes and
expand Medicaid
KWMU op-ed: Former Citizens for Modern Transit chief
Tom Shrout: One-cent sales tax for transportation may not help
cities
CDT's Waters: Higher-ed funding: Do schools like
Lincoln - "with student bodies of more middling qualification" -
deserve same level of funding as Mizzou and Truman? X
McClellan: Wellston parents with five kids do their
best to manage school-transfer logistics
P-D op-ed: Build-a-Bear founder and local Democratic
donor Maxine Clark: Suburban school districts acting like bullies
P-D letter: EducationPlus' Don Senti:
Post-Dispatch demanded good schools accept transfer students, now
complain when those districts accept money
P-D letter: Show-Me Institute's James Shuls:
Local school leaders can be the heroes in transfer debacle
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Tuesday, February 18
AP: Missouri lawmakers look to crack down on health
care 'navigators'
AP: Supporters pressing early-voting initiative in
Missouri
KC Star: Jackson County Council puts off
anti-marijuana resolution, sends it to committee +
SNL: Sen. Bob Dixon (R-Springfield) proposes new
process for redistricting X
JCNT: Dixon proposes removing judges from
redistricting process X
AP: St. Louis area technology firm plans
expansion; Nixon's office says Netelligent could create 60 new
jobs
KC Star: Another rumble in border war looms over
Missouri's ban on Sunday motorcycle sales +
Priddy: Dancin' Jay maneuvers around information
access questions; Veteran reporter compares Nixon to gov in "Best
Little Whorehouse in Texas"
P-D: Catholic leaders, public school supporters
disagree on tax credit proposal
Joplin Globe: Educators say bill mandating calendar,
summer attendance reduces local control X
AP: House panel mulls school security issue
Missourinet: Rep. Stacey Newman (R-Richmond Heights)
criticizes KSDK's botched school-security stunt
KMOX: Bill from Rep. Stacey Newman would punish
journalists for causing hysteria
Drebes:
A different kind of cap: Proposal from Sen. Ron Richard
(R-Joplin) would cap attorney fees
Missourinet: Bill proposed to address sentencing of
juveniles convicted of murder
AP: Missouri Senate backing off reporting of stolen
guns
SNL: Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis City), on floor
of Missouri Senate, says Nieves allowed NRA to "punk" him X
KWMU: Missouri Senate strips gun theft reporting
amendment from nullification bill
The Missouri Times: Senate dials back amendment after
NRA announces opposition
Missourinet: Senate reverses itself on gun theft
KWMU: Koster visits Bridgeton Landfill, calls for
improved protocol to handle problems
Fox 2 (St. Louis): Koster looking for answers to
surface fire at landfill
KWMU: Oklahoma pharmacy agrees to not sell execution
drug to Missouri
AP: Oklahoma pharmacy won't give drug for Missouri
executions
KWMU: Missouri reclaims second-highest beef cow count
in U.S.
The Missouri Times: Association profile:
Missouri Insurance Coalition: Comments from Calvin Cal, Brent
Butler
KC Star editorial: JE Dunn takes sides in
contraception case; Can companies exercise religion? +
KC Star's Yael Abouhalkah: JE Dunn and Catholic
hypocrisy +
KC Star's Barbara Shelly: University study argues for
stronger gun-licensing laws +
SNL op-ed: Owner of counseling services company:
Mental health care should remain under state-run system X
P-D letter: GOP photo ID proposal discriminates
against minorities, women, handicapped, poor
P-D letter: IDs already required for most activities
of functional, productive adults; Legislators should help
constituents obtain them
P-D letter: Large electricity users such as Noranda
should not get a rate cut
KC Star letters: Kraus right on taxes; Nieves
wrong on guns; Homosexuals wrong to compare their plight to that
of blacks; Bible seems to send unclear messages on 2014 Missouri
legislative issues +
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Monday, February 17
USA Today: Soldier hired by company she awarded
lucrative contract; McCaskill calls deal "troubling," vows that
her panel will continue to investigate
SNL: Blunt makes push for tighter security standards X
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Mike Downing sworn in as Missouri's Director of
Economic Development +
Missouri Ruralist: A focus on progress, promise:
Richard Fordyce once again attends Governor's Conference on
Agriculture, this time as new ag chief (pdf)
Missouri Ruralist: Governor's Conference on
Agriculture photo gallery: Nixon breaks bread with FFA
youngsters, more (pdf)
Fox 2 (St. Louis): Missouri welfare cards being used
for purchases in Virgin Islands, strip clubs; Comments from
Schweich, DSS' Brian Kinkade (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
Columbia Missourian: Missouri marijuana legalization
advocates use opinion polls to determine next move
Columbia Missourian: Bill from Rep. Chris Kelly
(D-Columbia) proposes regulating marijuana like alcohol
AP: Hanaway vs. Schweich shows early start to
primaries is the new norm
Fulton Sun: Rep. Ed Schieffer (D-Troy) running for
state Senate; Term-limited rep discusses legislation, says he is
"100% pro-life"
Drebes:
Republicans still seeking candidate to take on Schupp; Susan
Benigas, wife of Town and Country Alderman Jon Benigas, visits Capitol
to build support
P-D: Former Rep. Ron Casey (D-Crystal City) dies from
injuries from fall; Visitation on Tuesday, funeral on Wednesday
JCNT: Profile: Rep. Charlie Norr (D-Springfield)
talks about life in the Navy X
KWMU: Missouri voters would have to approve photo IDs
before details are worked out
SNL: Telecom legislation moves forward in Missouri
General Assembly; Correlating campaign contributions and lobbyist
gifts to proposals' progress X
KC Star: Abortion bills multiply in Missouri, Kansas
and other increasingly-conservative states +
St. Joseph News-Press: Capitol Briefs: Schaaf
takes on state health care system; Rep wears red tie for heart
health; Sunday motorcycle sales; Kids take field trip to
Capitol X
St. Joseph News-Press: University leaders optimistic
in tough budget climate X
KC Star: To attract students, law schools at KU and
UMKC engage in a tuition border war +
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Missouri Foundation for Health teams with
Kennett Public Schools to fight child obesity
+
St. Joseph News-Press: State struggles to find
resources to offer child-care subsidies X
AP: Nixon says state is ready to go for next execution
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello)
would help Missouri get out in front of potential EPA wood-burning
restrictions
AP: Zweifel's office returns $1 million in unclaimed
property since November
KWMU: Surface fire occurs at Bridgeton Landfill, is
unrelated to underground fire
KSMU's Scott Harvey: A jocular look at last month's
high-five story; Explanation from Courtney Curtis (D),
cantankerous curmudgeonry from Charlie Norr (D), MSU campus walk-through
SNL letter: Billy Long should have explained CBO job
numbers in more detail X
P-D letter: St. Louis Family and Community
Partnership's Ruth Ehresman: State oversight, standards assure
children's safety in day cares
JCNT letter: Republicans refuse to help the needy by
expanding Medicaid X
KC Star letter: Take the time to contact the Missouri
Legislature - which constantly rescinds women's rights - and urge them
to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment +
JCNT letter: Legislators do not care about average
citizens, or else they would limit campaign contributions and support
red-light cameras X
P-D letter: Call them yellow-light cameras
instead; Documenting only true red-light infractions would cut
into American Traffic Solutions' profits
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Sunday, February 16
P-D: Webster University brings in former NAACP head
Ben Jealous for Black History Month
JCNT: Obamacare series: Affordable Care Act to
cover kids; Missouri Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to
get funding through 2019 X
KC Star: With its support of Hobby Lobby, JE Dunn
joins cultural debate; Comments from Missouri NOW, ACLU, UMKC law
prof +
AP: Gay marriage foes scramble after setbacks
Kraske: Analysis: A long and expensive GOP
gubernatorial primary would not be good for Republicans +
CDT: Liberal, conservative groups aligned against
Nixon's tax-cut compromise X
Missouri Digital News (MO School of Journalism): Nixon
enters negotiations on cutting taxes
Dexter
Daily Statesman: Former GOP Rep. Dennis Fowler says he's done
with politics; "They never even called me to go before the
committee ... it was strong-arm tactics" +
P-D: Missouri Legislature favors Little Tobacco in
cigarette wars; Comments from Koster, legislators, and lobbyists
Missourinet: Arts groups push renewal of athletes,
performers tax
P-D: Missouri lawmakers consider measure to boost
nonprofit startup group Arch Grants
Washington Missourian: Union School District officials
watching bills; Superintendent says district "really supporting
the governor's proposed budget"
CDT: New preschool bill in state legislature has
bipartisan support X
SNL: "Your Tax Dollars" series: $159.9 million
transferred from Missouri Lottery to help fund public education X
SNL's Shorman: Nasheed and Nieves shoulder-to-shoulder
"one of the stranger things I've seen" in year covering the Capitol X
AP: Missouri criminal code bill headed to Senate floor
P-D: Lethal injection questions could delay killer's
execution again
P-D: FAQ about Missouri death penalty
AP:
Noranda's request would raise consumer's power bills
Washington Missourian: Sierra Club, Labadie
Environmental Organization urge governor to halt new coal ash dumps
AP: Missouri lawmakers target municipal traffic cameras
SNL: News-Leader adds more pages to print edition,
throws in syndicated USA Today content for free; Paywall still
limits free access (until reader clears cookies from browser) X
Washington Missourian editorial: Schweich pursues
embezzlers with zeal; Even with our crooks, at least Missouri
isn't as bad as Illinois
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri tax cuts,
tax credits and education funding are all connected X
Washington Missourian editorial: Give Sen. Mike Kehoe
(R-Columbia) credit for pushing transportation funding - instead of all
the silly issues that have distracted MO GOP in recent years
Washington Missourian editorial: Filing for state
office opens - and we need more moderates, not far-out radicals
JCNT editorial: Catering to enhance our majestic
Capitol X
CDT op-ed: MU's William Miller: Missouri must be
realistic on energy; Coal, nuclear power are crucial to power
needs X
KC Star letters: Area man says men who smoked crack
before kidnapping, raping and killing a 15-year-old girl should be
spared, while area woman disagrees +
SE
Missourian letter: By supporting Common Core, Nixon is promoting
the dumbing-down of our children +
P-D letter: Ferg-Flor Board President: Decision
to fire superintendent was not related to school transfers
P-D letter: State should do something about failed
school districts; Getting rid of standardized tests is a good
start
P-D letter: Stop blaming decent districts;
Riverview/Normandy/St. Louis City parents should get off their
collective butts and start taking responsibility
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Saturday, February 15
P-D: Missouri Guard implicated in national recruiting
scheme
KC Star: Farm bill isn't perfect, but it has something
for everybody +
AP: John Brunner announces he's considering run for
governor, says he won't talk about it until after 2014 elections
KC Star: Missouri may lack law, but NFL says teams
must follow its non-discrimination policy +
South County Times: Rep. Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) says
he doubts that efforts of Bond, MO Chamber will change GOP minds on
Medicaid expansion
Missourinet: Video: Rep. Stanley Cox (R-Sedalia)
on criminal code rewrite and drug penalties therein
The Missouri Times: Staff profile: Travis
Gregory, Hazelwood East graduate and legislative assistant to Rep.
Courtney Curtis (D-Berkeley)
KWMU: Update: Judge orders pharmacy not to sell
execution drug to Missouri, for now
SNL: State tried to intervene to help children;
3-year-old girl was starved, kept in cage X
AP: Noranda asks PSC to reduce electric rates
P-D: St. Louis red light cameras can continue as judge
puts hold on own order
KWMU: St. Louis gets green light to turn red light
cameras on for now
KWMU: Report for EPA says underground Bridgeton
Landfill fire poses little risk
P-D: Anti-Peabody group does "valentine" protest at
City Hall, urges Mayor Francis Slay to "break up" with St. Louis-based
employer
KC Star Capitol Watch editorial: NRA and
Nieves-Nasheed; Nixon, GOP and tax cuts +
JCNT editorial: Database would curb prescription drug
abuse X
P-D editorial: Toward a second St. Louis
movement; Metro residents should be willing to sacrifice for
unity and the greater good
CDT's Waters: GOP push for photo ID intended to keep
poor, old, young and minorities from voting X
Washington Missourian's Miller: Michael Sam is very
good, not great; True to form, White House embraces pre-draft
proclamation
Communist Party USA's People's World: Hospital social
worker: My patients suffer because Missouri GOP rejects Medicaid
expansion
SNL letter: Missouri legislators willing to tank
Missouri economy by rejecting Medicaid expansion X
P-D letter: University City woman says the wide gamut
of pro-Medicaid-expansion arguments don't seem to be working
P-D letter: Response to Show-Me Institute's Michael
Rathbone on tax-reform letter
P-D letter: Missouri should remove the barrier of
higher out-of-state tuition
P-D letter: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R) is wrong about
Ozark Riverways plan
KC Star letters: Legislature wrong to stymie Tim
Dollar's appointment; Kansas resident says KC Star wrong to
publish op-eds from Missouri Farm Bureau +
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch editorial should have been
harder on Koster for siding with agriculture over animal-rights
activists
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Friday, February 14
KSMU: Blunt co-sponsors bill to limit IRS targeting of
conservative groups
MSNBC: McCaskill answers military sexual-assault
questions from people who watch/read MSNBC
Politico:
Morning Score: Hanaway leads Koster by two points
The Missouri Times: Sen. Will Kraus (R-Lee's Summit)
says he's reached compromise with Nixon on tax cut, will introduce
measure next week
CDT: Nixon announces support for income tax cut, with
conditions; Governor says he's had productive discussions with
Kraus X
KC Star: Nixon outlines conditions for potential tax
cut deal +
P-D: Nixon outlines state income tax cut that he would
sign
KWMU: Nixon outlines requirements for tax-cut plan he
could support
Missourinet: Nixon lays out specifics of tax cut he
says he'd like to see
AP: Nixon outlines potential tax cut plan
AP: Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) proposes giving
taxpayers refund on unspent money, says it would encourage stewardship
AP: Nixon won't rule out presidential run;
Governor's spox says he still plans on supporting Hillary Clinton, if
she runs
KWMU: Nixon says he'd like to see another public vote
on gay marriage
AP: Nixon says he supports repealing gay-marriage ban
KC Star: MOGOP Chairman Ed Martin slams ACLU's
gay-marriage lawsuit +
CDT: Voter ID rules pass House committee on party-line
vote X
KC Star: Missouri gun rights bill draws NRA opposition +
KWMU: Nieves, Nasheed say NRA misrepresents language
in nullification bill
Missourinet: Nieves says NRA is untruthful in its
opposition to his bill
The Missouri Times: Nieves, Nasheed respond to NRA
criticism
Washington Missourian: ECC president reviews
legislative agenda priorities; Community colleges will ask for
additional $15M
P-D: Sen. Tom Dempsey (R-St. Charles) asks State Board
of Education to let legislative process 'run its course'
Missourinet: House Budget Chairman Rick Stream offers
school transfer law fix
AP: Stream files school legislation
KWMU: Two new bills would help Normandy avoid
bankruptcy
P-D: Sen. Shalonn "Kiki" Curls (D-Kansas City)
proposes ending lifetime food stamp ban for felons
CDT: Department of Revenue guts diesel fuel
inspections in response to outrage from Sen. Mike Parson (R-Bolivar) X
AP: Missouri transportation panel gets new
chairman; Vice chairman Stephen Miller of KC switches places with
chairman Joe Carmichael of Springfield
The Missouri Times: Noranda vs. Ameren, Redux;
Comments from Fair Energy Rate Action Fund (FERAF), Missourians for a
Balanced Energy Future
P-D: Noranda seeks Ameren rate cut to preserve smelter
jobs
Missourinet: Another article of impeachment filed
against Nixon, this one from Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove)
AP: Rep. Mike Moon wants to impeach Nixon over
elections
P-D: Second Republican lawmakers wants Nixon impeached
Kraske: "BuzzChatter" daily quote analysis:
House Minority Leader Jake Hummel (D-St. Louis) pokes fun at GOP
impeachment talk +
CDT: Court picks former judge to oversee Mamtek case X
P-D editorial: National Guard's recruiting fraud needs
full accounting; McCaskill's subcommittee should make sure heads
roll
JCNT editorial: One subjective criteria for letters to
the editor: Don't be mean X
Shelly: For-profit colleges deserve a
comeuppance; Koster involved, to some extent, in nationwide
effort to hold them accountable +
KC Star letters: Blue Springs woman supports CEE-Trust
plan; Ag industry supports Koster; Lawrence, KS
animal-rights activist opposes Koster; "Border war" not a bad
thing for businesses +
JCNT letter: Frequent Ameren critic: Ameren
makes plenty of money and doesn't need any more help X
JCNT letter: Holts Summit woman creates analogy:
lobbyist : legislator :: john : prostitute X
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Thursday, February 13
CDT: Graduate students raise interest rate concerns
with "Grads Have Debt 2" campaign; Comments from McCaskill
NPR: Democrats McCaskill, Gillibrand clash in military
sexual assault debate
Stars and Stripes: McCaskill calls for another JPAC
oversight review
KOLR: McCaskill reacts to National Journal ideological
rankings: 'Compromise is not a dirty word'
LA Times: Obamacare enrollment slows down in
Missouri; almost 30,000 enrolled in December, but only 24K in
January
St. Joseph News-Press: Corps of Engineers has a plan
to abate spring flooding in Missouri
CDT: Committees hear pleas for state funding;
Interests testify in the House
CDT: Voter ID rules pass House committee on party-line
vote
P-D: Photo ID requirement for voters gets OK from
Missouri House committee; Rep. Stacey Newman (D-Richmond Heights)
says bill would hurt women
Missourinet: House gives approval to 'conscience
rights for medical workers' bill; Rep. Stacey Newman says bill
would hurt women
The Missouri Times: House gives first-round approval
to medical worker "conscience rights" bill; Ten Democrats join
GOP in voting yes
AP: Missouri House endorses health care conscience bill
Missourinet: Military proxy bill goes to Nixon
P-D: Fight for gay and lesbian marriage in Missouri
mirrors efforts across country; ACLU lawyer says group has
"50-state strategy," but "we're not ready to discuss it today"
AP: ACLU sues Missouri for not recognizing gay and
lesbian marriages
AP: Bill would make Missouri lawmakers follow Sunshine
Law
CDT: Schaefer explores ways to save higher education
dollars in committee hearing
AP: Some states move to allow in-state tuition for
illegal immigrants; Sen. David Pearce (R-Warrensburg) comments on
Justus' bill
P-D: Western Governor's University students now
eligible for in-state financial aid; Lawmakers voice concern
The Maneater: Senate Committee rejects Nixon's Board
of Curators appointment
JCNT: Bill would check on Missouri scholarships:
Bright Flight, A+ Program and Access Missouri to be evaluated
AP: Hip-hop artist set to deliver lecture at Northwest
Missouri State; Chuck D teamed with Flavor Flav on seminal
early-'90s album "Fear of a Black Planet"
JCNT: Gun law's constitutionality still under debate
SNL: NRA opposes amendment to firearms law
nullification bill
P-D: NRA voices opposition to Nieves' bill that would
nullify federal gun laws
The Missouri Times: NRA may score vote on SB613
Missourinet: Senate advances gun bill; Audio of
debate
P-D: $72K fine for $4 diesel-fuel violation provokes a
Senate inquiry; DOR says it is unsure how long it has been
receiving federal grant money and how much is for inspection program
SE
Missourian: Nixon explains "Good Schools, Good Jobs" proposal to
Jackson Middle School students
JCNT: Change sought in school-district bidding laws
P-D: Missouri Senate committee hears ninth transfer
bill
JCNT: Education panel looks at new school transfer
legislation, condensing nine bills into one or two
AP: House Budget Chairman Rick Stream:
Legislature likely to provide taxpayer money to bail out Normandy
Drebes: Sen. Joe Keaveny (D-St. Louis) introduces
anti-spanking bill
AP: Company blocked from selling execution drug in
Missouri
Missourinet: Effort to update synthetic pot listing
being considered
Missourinet: Drug case might change definition of
'immediate family'; Testimony from Sen. Ed Emery (R-Lamar)
JCNT: Bills advance to allow food, beverage sales at
Capitol and Missouri State Penitentiary
The Missouri Times: Rep. Ron Hicks (R-St. Peters)
receives award for life-saving effort
P-D: St. Louis hopes to rev up its red-light cameras
despite legal setback
Washington Missourian: Ameren puts city on long
waiting list for solar power
Capaha
Arrow (Southeast MO State): Annual event honors black student
killed by fraternity hazing; 23-year-old first-year Washington
Post reporter to speak
P-D editorial: Lawmakers continue to ignore deadly day
cares
SNL editorial: Solar farms being planted; One
could end up on land leased from Sen. Jay Wasson (R-Nixa)
P-D editorial: Traffic-camera conundrum now officially
ridiculous; Missouri Supreme Court needs to clear the issue up
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Now's the time for
area residents to attend Missouri PSC meeting to discuss Missouri Gas
Energy rates - and more
Washington Missourian letter: Union rep opposes right
to work
P-D letter: Legislators should support Nixon's
proposal to help people with developmental disabilities
KC Star letter: Paper shows its liberal bias:
Pages and pages promoting gay football player's public declaration, and
not a single word on National Guard returning from Afghanistan
P-D letter: Maryland Heights man claims P-D coverage
of gay football player shows politically-correct agenda, says not every
effeminate man engages in homosexual activities
P-D letter: Unitarian Universalist Rev. Molly Housh
Gordon says Legislature should pass non-discrimination legislation
P-D letter: Town and Country woman attempts to tie gay
football player to creationism-evolution debate
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Wednesday, February 12
Washington Times: McCaskill predicts success for
Democrats in November
KC Star: McCaskill: If I was running this year,
I wouldn't campaign with Obama +
Politico: McCaskill: Democratic candidates don't
need Obama
KCTV: McCaskill says federal phone-handout program
filled with fraud; Reaction from woman whose mother "don't have [sic] a land line" and exceeds
alotted cell minutes (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
P-D: Schweich announces his campaign for gov - ...er,
auditor
KWMU: Schweich sends 2016 message via fall re-election
announcement: Campaign dignitaries include Danforth, Talent,
moneymen Fox & Walker, fundraiser Karen Mohan Day
The Missouri Times: Schweich lists campaign team for
2014, prepares for 2016 gubernatorial run
AP: Schweich outlines re-election team
CDT: Koster rallies faithful at Boone County
Democratic Party's annual chili supper X
Drebes:
Dem special election and primary for Webb's seat to be held the same
day - but the primary is the one to win
P-D: Fight over Ozark rivers isn't waiting for park
service's decision
AP: Ozark Riverways users criticize feds' park plan
Missourinet: Via Twitter, Kinder and Kelly arrange
debate over Ozark riverway management
CDT: Kelly, Kinder to debate Ozark riverways
management at Shannon County Courthouse X
TonysKansasCity.com: Local official's resolution
opposing marijuana legalization in Missouri gets tabled
AP: Missouri Jobs With Justice not collecting petition
signatures, hopes legislators pass minimum-wage increase;
Comments from U. City burrito artist, Washington U. prof, groups
representing employers
Brooks: State lacks radical ideas; Missouri
could use some fresh thinking on highway funding, urban schools,
consolidating higher ed and DESE, welfare, more X
AP: Missouri Senate bill would curb insurance-exchange
navigators
P-D: ACLU suing Missouri over its ban on same-sex
marriages; Comments from PROMO's A.J. Bockelman, area lesbians
CDT: Sen. Scott Sifton (D-Affton) uses Michael Sam
publicity to promote anti-discrimination proposal X
AP:
State panel ponders changes to state flag; Bill from Rep. Jeff
Roorda (D-Barnhart) would create commission
P-D: Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) says college
presidents should answer for schools' success or failure
P-D: Rep. Rick Stream (R-Kirkwood) readies bill on
school transfers, calls for 'serious change'
SNL: Sen. Ryan Silvey (R-Kansas City): Tie tax
cut to funding for education X
Missourinet: Senators debate tax cuts, funding for
elementary and secondary education
The Missouri Times: Rep. Myron Neth (R-Liberty) -
whose district includes Claycomo plant - says right to work could cost
House GOP some seats
AP: Senate panel endorses rules oversight change
Missourinet: Senate advances gun bill
P-D: Missouri Senate endorses bill that would nullify
federal gun laws
AP: Senate endorses gun nullification bill
CDT: Schaefer proposes bill that would require more
details on tobacco sales; Chuck Hatfield says bill is not needed X
AP: Senate panel backs chemotherapy parity bills
Missourinet: House gives initial approval to
prescription drug monitoring program
P-D: Prescription drug database gets first-round
approval in Missouri House
AP: House OKs bill targeting synthetic drugs
P-D: Missouri child-care assistance is Catch-22;
A look at funding proposals
P-D: St. Louis judge orders stop to city's red-light
camera enforcement
NY Times editorial: Army auditors' shock and
awe; McCaskill right to demand accountability
SNL editorial: Blunt's bill for abused children needs
support, and Obama should eventually sign it into law X
P-D editorial: Stop the milk-money shakedown;
Better suburban districts take money from the unaccredited, but don't
hire new teachers or staff
KC Star editorial: Making progress to end the costy
border war +
KC Star's Yael Abouhalkah: A banner week for Kansas'
bible thumpers and Missouri's gun lovers +
Jensen:
Michael Sam being gay is not news - but the mainstream media is
obsessive about their push to expand the openly gay community +
P-D letter: Show-Me Institute's Michael
Rathbone: On tax deduction issue, Missouri Budget Project offers
no proof for its doom-and-gloom claims
KC Star letters: Michael Sam publicity and advocacy
journalism; Reaction to 6-year-old boy dressing up like a
girl; Legislators should reject all gifts, or maybe just those
over $50 +
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Tuesday, February 11
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt sign on to bill that
would bring in offshore money to pay for infrastructure projects
KC Star: KC seeks new Homeland Security funds, but
McCaskill is not optimistic
KC Star: Blunt, Graves criticize Obamacare delay, but
don't want to overturn it
KC Star: CNN says KC among cities meeting with GOP
about convention
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt among Senators signing
letter on propane shortage
KSMU: McCaskill, Blunt sign letter on propane price
relief
CDT: Demand for heating assistance falls, despite
harsh winter
MSNBC: Submit your questions for McCaskill regarding
sexual assaults and the military
AP: Chelsea Clinton to speak this month at UMKC
KWMU: Catherine Hanaway announces bid for governor in
2016, catching GOP off guard
AP: Catherine Hanaway to run for governor in 2016
AP: Hanaway bio
Missourinet: Hanaway says time away from state
government has prepared her to lead the state as governor
P-D: Hanaway running for governor
Kraske: "BuzzChatter" daily quote analysis:
Hanaway announces, so what are Schweich's 2016 intentions? Also,
Dems can't hide the fact they have no one to run for auditor
Drebes:
Dems have candidate for Chris Molendorp's open House seat:
Attorney Patty Johnson
KC Star: Jackson County local official wants county on
the record as opposing legalized marijuana in Missouri
AP: Missouri House committee endorses right to work
JCNT: Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) renews effort to
modify state Constitution's right to bear arms language
Missourinet: Sen. Jason Holsman (D-Kansas City), Brian
Nieves (R-Washington) debate school employees' right to carry on school
grounds
SNL: ACLU plans to sue state over gay marriage
P-D: Sen. Scott Sifton (D-St. Louis County) ties
Mizzou football player's sexual-orientation declaration to
anti-discrimination bill
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri bills support cattle
industry; Comments from Sen. Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown)
P-D: Missouri School Board debates the scope of its
role in failing schools
KC Star: Missouri School Board starts discussing fate
of children in unaccredited schools
JCNT: Education officials eye remedies for struggling
schools
AP: Missouri officials mull struggling school
plans; No ideas voted on during Monday's lengthy work session
AP: Missouri School Boards' Association details
accreditation proposal
JCNT: Education groups offer solution to transfers
controversy
JCNT: Blind federation members lobbys lawmakers on
issues: Braille for blind kids, special voting machines
SNL: Felons could forfeit state pensions under bill
from Sen. Bob Dixon (R-Springfield)
Missourinet: State officials testify to House
committee about execution procedures
KWMU: After controversy surrounding executions, state
officials testify before House committee
KC Star: Missouri corrections chief defends secrecy
surrounding execution drug
AP: Missouri corrections officials defend executions
P-D: Casino revenue drops again
SE
Missourian: Washington Post correspondent Wesley Lowery to
deliver lecture at Southeast
JCNT editorial: A truce in the tax incentive border war
KC Star editorial: Missouri must equalize costs of
cancer treatments
P-D editorial: Paper's reaction to football player's
pre-NFL draft sexual orientation publicity: Republicans wish gay
people would just go away
KC Star's Diuguid: What a brave new world: 2014
Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender Ally College Conference allows
men and women to see each other in the bathroom
P-D's Nicklaus: Analysis of David Stokes'
privatization study: Privatization isn't a step toward smaller
government - it's a step toward better government
P-D letter: Woman treated for depression says Medicaid
expansion would help those with mental problems
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Monday, February 10
KWMU: Ed Martin, Roy Temple lay out visions for state
party success heading into fall elections and 2016
St. Joseph News-Press: Capitol briefs: Ed Martin
says GOP will keep Lager's Senate seat; Nixon appoints area
residents to various boards
Gateway Journalism Review: Sen. Brian Nieves
(R-Washington) bars television coverage of committee session
Politico: Pentagon vexed by inability to solve ethics
lapses; Comments from McCaskill
Missourinet: Veterans to legislature: Stop
spending our money
AP: Missouri lawmakers may fund university buildings
P-D: Missouri's early childhood education needs more
money but lawmakers split on funding
P-D: Transfer funds hurt troubled districts as they
accumulate elsewhere
KWMU: Neighborhood watch programs could get state
funding under proposed bill from Rep. Michael Butler (D-St. Louis)
Fox 4 KC: Push to change Missouri's "Blue Law" on
Sunday motorcycle sales (link via TonysKansas City.com)
Missourinet: Patients, doctors ask lawmakers for
'parity' between oral, IV chemotherapy coverage costs
KC Star: KC company company makes a run at the
marijuana trade with seed-to-weed software; Competitor does not
expect legalization in "red state" Missouri
Quincy Herald-Whig: Koster's office to take over
prosecution in Hannibal, Mo. convenience store death
JCNT: Missouri State Penitentiary repairs moving
forward
P-D: Bridge opens; Comments from people who
drove on it
KWMU: Recap of the first day in court for anti-Peabody
proposal
JCNT editorial: Conflict on budget estimates,
gubernatorial power demolishes hope for bipartisanship
P-D editorial: Koster unlikely to prevail in egg
lawsuit
KC Star op-ed: CEE-Trust CEO Ethan Gray: Let
teachers lead so Kansas City schools can succeed
SE
Missourian op-ed: Show-Me Institute's David Stokes:
Privatization of services - with good results - on display throughout
Missouri
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Sunday, February 9
The Missouri Times: Catherine Hanaway announces that
she's running for governor
Drebes:
Scott Sifton may run for AG in 2016 - but ultimately, Koster gets to
pick his own Dem successor
MSNBC: Video: Secretary of State Jason Kander
discusses opposition to GOP photo ID proposal
St. Joseph News-Press: Infrastructure funding gets a
look from Washington X
Joplin Globe: Blunt seeks funding for child advocacy
centers X
SNL: National expert on poverty visits to boost local
efforts X
Washington Missourian: IRS audit of local VFW angers
post commander
CDT: Lawsuit over Columbia-based Bluebird Network's
use of federal stimulus funds may go to trial soon X
St. Louis Business Journal: 40 Under 40:
Dentons' Brian Grace
St. Louis Business Journal: 40 Under 40: Sen.
Scott Sifton (D-South St. Louis County)
CDT: Bill from Rep. Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) proposes
live video stream of House, Senate hearings X
SNL: Dispute on taxes looms again in Jefferson
City; Comments from GOP tax-cut proponents, Missouri Budget
Project's Amy Blouin X
P-D: Missouri regulators: Autism insurance costs
minimal
AP: Missouri targets developmentally disabled wait list
CDT: Local school districts wonder about funding amid
state budget battles X
JCNT: Bills could bring more academic credits for
career and technical courses, dual-credit reimbursement X
JCNT: With a table full of school-transfer plans,
state officials wrangle with fixing accreditation problems X
KC Star: New Orleans offers lesson for Kansas City
school district +
KC Star: Transgender children face a society slow to
accept them; 6-year-old boy says he'd rather be a girl, while
schools attempt to manage cross-dressing and bathroom logistics +
SNL: Springfield says it has 727 homeless
students; Regional numbers run higher than statewide average of 2
percent X
AP: Criminal code proposal could lower drug penalties
SNL's Jonathan Shorman: Burlison once watched an
execution; Dixon's bill would speed appointments X
Washington Missourian: Differing views on high court
ruling in Franklin County lawsuit; Legislature's wording at
center of debate
P-D: New Mississippi River bridge touted as traffic
reliever
P-D: FAQ about new Mississippi River bridge
Washington Missourian editorial: Scandals a hurt to
veterans; McCaskill's subcommittee investigates
KC Star editorial: Don't embrace the experimental
overhaul of Kansas City schools +
JCNT editorial: Kander's "Safe at Home" proposal,
sponsored by Sen. Gina Walsh (D-Bellefontaine Neighbors), would protect
women from stalkers and other psychotics X
Washington Missourian editorial: Newspapers are not
dying - for example, Seattle residents bought lots of commemorative
copies the day after the Super Bowl
Washington Missourian editorial: Reminder: Keep
your letters to the editor short
CDT op-ed: Missouri School of Journalism's Phill
Brooks: Historical context in the debate to allow greater media
access to legislative actions X
SE
Missourian op-ed: Celebrating Johnson's War on Poverty:
Cape woman's struggle shows we shouldn't blame the poor, but rather
blame external factors +
SNL letter: ALEC supports right to work legislation X
P-D letter: Response to anti-Bright Flight
editorial: Why does newspaper have such a problem with
intelligent students?
P-D letter: Say no to minimum-wage increase;
Raising the earned income tax credit is better option for the working
class and the poor
KC Star letter: Koster wrong to side with Missouri
agriculture instead of animal rights +
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Saturday, February 8
P-D: National Journal's annual ideological ranking
places McCaskill at 49th most-liberal, Blunt as 42nd most-conservative
SNL: Blunt backs funding of child advocacy centers X
AP: Nixon endorses federal plan for Ozark Riverways
Kraske: Impeachment talk is silly; "It would
just be our luck to go through an impeachment trial without any talk of
illicit sex" +
Drebes:
Missouri Scout poll on state's top issues: Right track/wrong
track, right to work, minimum wage, contribution limits, Right to Farm,
marijuana legalization, more
P-D: Pro-pot backers in Missouri trying bills and
petitions to change law
Missourinet: House budget chief shuns Nixon proposal,
reverts to FY14 spending plan
P-D: Bill would end rules for Missouri's rural day
cares
AP: Union submits plan for failing Missouri school
districts
CDT: Many Columbia teachers like new Common Core
standards, despite national controversy X
CDT: Columbia schools expanding digital teaching
tools, but state lags behind X
Joplin Globe: Local high school counselor, parents
support Missouri taxpayers footing the bill for ACT exams X
KC Star: Execution secrecy draws criticism +
Missourinet: Openly-gay Rep. Mike Colona (D-St. Louis)
discusses impeachment effort over same-sex tax filing
AP: Rep. Steve Hodges (D-East Prairie) apologizes for
DWI arrest
AP:
Missouri State Highway Patrol says snow caused over 1,000 accidents in
two-day period
P-D: No need to pay red-light tickets in Arnold;
Court ruled municipality's ordinance was in conflict with state law
P-D: New I-70 bridge aglow in 'aesthetic' lights
AP: St. Louis river bridge set for weekend opening
P-D: Missouri approach to new Mississippi River bridge
named for worker who died
JCNT: Federal court orders Moniteau County to issue
inmate marriage licenses X
St. Louis Business Journal: Lee Enterprises - parent
company to Post-Dispatch - profit falls in Q1, a 17.7 percent drop from
same period in 2012
P-D editorial: 'Dinin' Doug' Funderburk (R-St. Peters)
takes lobbyist largesse to delicious new heights; A look at the
recent trend of hosting public meetings at private restaurants
Joplin Globe editorial: With cell-tower vote, Missouri
Senate shows it's ready to hand over power to telecommunications giants X
KC Star "Capitol Watch" editorial briefs: Weekly
update on GOP transgressions: Brattin and creationism, GOP reps
and impeachment talk +
SNL op-ed: Blunt, Billy Long and the Republican Party
pander to old white voters and don't care about the poor and middle
class X
Joplin Globe op-ed: Missouri Dept. of Mental Health
Director Keith Schafer: Fulton Hospital is state's moral
responsibility X
KC Star op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake
Hurst: Farming deserves more respect +
KC Star Public Editor column: Family featured in
snow-days-are-tough article not covered by cold weather rule, as they
had stopped paying their bills long before freezing temperatures kicked
in +
Washington Missourian op-ed: Cell towers emit
electromagnetic frequencies that have an unknown effect upon our bodies
KC Star letter: In support of cell-tower legislation +
JCNT letter: Area liberal says Luetkemeyer is less
popular than Obama X
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Friday, February 7
P-D: Crunch time nears for Boeing's Super Hornet
line; McCaskill, Blunt have urged more funding for program
Washington Post: McCaskill plan would require military
health plan to cover breast pumps
The Hill: McCaskill, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)
expand data breach probe
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt says movie could help his
bill honoring 'Monument Men' X
The Hill: McCaskill vs. Gillibrand sexual assault
fight renewed
AP: Nebraska congressman to host Graves at
small-business forum in Omaha
Kraske: "BuzzChatter" daily quote analysis: GOP
impeachment bill, McCaskill on rural post offices +
P-D: Missouri House won't use Nixon's budget, plans
smaller education increase
KWMU: Missouri GOP scraps Nixon's budget proposal
KOMU: Rep. Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) wants shoppers to
know where tax money goes
The Missouri Times: Senators weigh in on tax-cut
proposals; Comments from Schmitt, LeVota, Justus
AP:
Missouri Senate takes no action on Fowler nomination
AP: Missouri Senate blocks appointment of Tim Dollar
to Conservation Commission; GOP says it is frustrated by lack of
communication with governor
P-D: Missouri Senate approves two appointments to
state Board of Education
P-D: Bill highlights tug-of-war over Missouri day care
regulation
AP: Missouri Senate backs cellphone tower legislation
JCNT: Rep. Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City) pushes 4
privacy-rights bills X
SNL: The propane predicament: Shortage of
propane puts big hurt on Missourians X
Washington Missourian: East Central College president
'interested' in Bright Flight expansion
JCNT: Lincoln University curators approve helping
Missouri A+ students X
AP: Senate panel plans hearing on proposed
constitutional amendment protecting schools from budget cuts made by
governor
Drebes: "Protect Missouri Children" campaign committee
created; Proposal would allow criminals' prior convictions to be
admissible in court
St. Louis Review: Guttmacher Institute reports
abortions at all-time low; Missouri among states with lowest
rates of abortion
St. Louis Review: Bills would give women more time to
consider abortion
The Missouri Times: Bill from Rep. Eric Burlison
(R-Springfield) would give legislative oversight to state execution
procedures
Missouri Viewpoints: Death penalty in Missouri:
St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch (D) vs. Missourians for
Alternatives to the Death Penalty's Kay Parish
P-D: Lawsuit claims Missouri's program for sexually
violent predators should be shut down
AP: Missouri public defenders seek pay raise
AP: Senate bill lets candidate's proxy file for the
disabled and soldiers abroad
AP:
Missouri Senate committee OKs mammogram notice measure
The Missouri Times: Breastfeeding bill needs
discretion language to move through committee
AP: Rep. Nick Marshall (R-Parkville) seeks to impeach
Gov. Nixon
SNL: Republican files impeachment orders against Nixon X
KOMU: Rep. Steve Hodges (D-East Prairie) arrested for
DWI
KC Star: Missouri Gas Energy failed to follow safety
rules on day of fatal JJ's explosion, Missouri Public Service
Commission says +
AP:
Missouri Public Service Commission staff says Missouri Gas Energy
violated rules before blast
P-D editorial: Access to sex education and birth
control yield 40-year low in abortion rate
St. Louis Review editorial: What we should take away
from the Guttmacher study on the decrease in abortions
P-D's Nicklaus: Pass-through tax cut a tax break for
lobbyists; Comments from Missouri Budget Project's Amy Blouin
KWMU op-ed: Normandy School District instructional
coach Inda Schaenen: When is Normandy's plan not a plan?
When nobody knows it's there.
CDT's Waters: Cell towers: Pushing to bypass
city control X
KWMU op-ed: St. Louis Beacon's Margie Freivogel:
The Beacon was - and KWMU is - much better than Patch, and will be
better than next wave of outlets, too
P-D letter: Republicans want to help rural Missourians
with propane needs, but not help people who want Medicaid
SNL letter: 700 people will die if Missouri does not
expand Medicaid X
KC Star letter: Right to work would lower wages +
P-D letter: Riverview Gardens NEA: State's plans
for Riverview Gardens inject instability, chaos
P-D letter: Difficult to trust Ameren on coal ash
pollution
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Thursday, February 6
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill, Blunt vote for farm
bill; Measure provides safety net for farmers and ranchers, cuts
billions in spending X
P-D: Michelle Bachmann to headline St. Louis Eagle
Forum luncheon in March
KWMU: Missouri general revenue income drops
dramatically in January
KWMU: Missouri lawmakers try to end 'border war'
between Missouri and Kansas
AP: Missouri lawmakers hear plans to end Kansas tax
break war
Missourinet: Proposed tax increase for transportation
considered in House committee
P-D: Caps on medical malpractice lawsuits wins OK from
Missouri House panel
AP: Missouri Senate defeats Medicaid expansion in
party-line vote
P-D: In first vote this year on Medicaid expansion,
Senate says no in party-line vote
SNL: Program helps thousands - including those no
longer on Medicaid - pay for prescriptions; Missouri Foundation
for Health provided seed money for program X
JCNT: Bill defines who can make health care decisions
for you X
AP:
Missouri Senate panel blocks MU curator appointments; Sen. Eric
Schmitt (R-Glendale) says J. Michael Ponder failed to ask tough
questions as a member of state ed board
The Maneater: HB1308 from Rep. Mike Thomson
(R-Maryville) would allow forgivable loans for in-state students
The Standard (MSU): Missouri tuition freezes - as long
as you're a resident
Washington Missourian: Union School District
superintendent wants Chamber to lobby legislators for school funding
P-D: Senate committee hears two additional bills
addressing the transfer law
KWMU: DESE hears pleas to keep public in charge of
public schools; Normandy School Board member attributes
district's poor performance to racially-biased tests
KC Star: Snow days can be miserable for low-income
families; In some KC areas, more than 90% of parents rely upon
schools to provide children free or subsidized meals +
P-D: Ruling could clarify Missouri's executioner
secrecy law
SNL: State's execution rules need legislative
oversight, Burlison says X
CDT: Rep. Caleb Jones (R-Columbia) sponsors bill to
target mugshot websites X
SNL: Lawmakers asked to clarify status of 911 board X
JCNT: Senate committee hearing tackles water-quality
control X
KMIZ: Officials warn about tow-truck price gouging in
winter storms; Comments from Assistant AG Joe Bindbeutel
KWMU: Court hearing set on anti-Peabody
proposal; Mayor Francis Slay says measure would force many major
businesses to leave the city
AP: Missouri Supreme Court: Archdiocese must
release names of those accused of sexual abuse
P-D: Missouri's top court orders Archdiocese to name
accused priests
AP: St. Louis man, affiliated with Anonymous,
sentenced for Koch subsidiary cyberattack
Washington Missourian editorial: Keystone XL would
hook into a pipeline in northern Missouri - and the project deserves to
move forward
KC Star editorial: Chris Koster is off the mark with
bad egg lawsuit +
P-D op-ed: Money to boost Bright Flight can be spent
better
SNL op-ed: Former state Rep. Tom Long
(R-Springfield): I started out flipping burgers - and with a
decent work ethic, created a pretty good life
X
KC Star's Sanchez: UMKC's acceptance of bisexual,
lesbian, gay and transgender students is welcome +
P-D letter: Response to employees at North County
federal center dumping veterans' records in the woods
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Wednesday, February 5
P-D: Medicaid applications from Healthcare.gov called
flawed; Missouri enrollment dips
AP: Obama administration IDs 25 key metro areas for
Obamacare signups, none in Missouri
KC Star: Farm bill gets 'Yes' votes from every member
of Missouri delegation - except Lacy Clay, who didn't vote +
KWMU: McCaskill blames military recruitment scandal on
lack of oversight
USA Today: McCaskill, others blast Army over
recruiting fraud scandal
NY Times: Fraud in Army recruiting bonus program may
cost nearly $100 million
Washington Post: Army probes allegations of fraud by
recruiters and others in enlistment referral program
National Journal: The Army's recruiting-fraud problem
LA Times: National Guard recruitment bonus scandal
probed by Senate panel
AP: Army probing hundreds in recruiting scheme
Reuters: U.S. Senate panel holds hearing on fraud in
Army recruiting program
P-D: Local employer Emerson sees potential in Keystone
pipeline
P-D: Another delay for Arch grounds renovation;
Current projection: 14 months behind schedule
KWMU: Winter storms blow into government coffers
AP: Snow prompts Missouri House to cancel hearings
AP: Missouri revenues up slightly for the budget year
Missourinet: Proposed change to governor's budget
powers gets bipartisan approval
AP: Missouri Senate endorses limit on government
vacancies
Missourinet: Kehoe lays out road-funding strategy,
discusses sales-tax ballot initiative vs. legislative action
AP: Missouri Senate panel mulls one-cent
transportation sales tax
CDT: Rep. Chris Kelly (D-Columbia) files bill to
legalize marijuana X
The Missouri Times: Sen. Will Kraus (R-Lee's Summit),
Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis City) weigh in on voter ID proposal
CDT: Bill from Rep. Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) would
make it easier to find new state rules and tax rates X
AP: States look to rein in government
surveillance; Comments from Sen. Rob Schaaf (R-St. Joseph)
JCNT: Mid-Missouri lawmakers: State still needs
nuclear expansion X
SNL: Rep. Elijah Haahr (R-Springfield) wants state to
look at alternative college payment program X
SNL: Koster among those looking into business
practices of for-profit colleges X
AP: Koster challenges California egg law
SNL: Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) wants to see Nixon
impeached over special elections X
KWMU: Bridge opening should give commuters more
breathing room; Comments from MoDOT
P-D: Man convicted in rape, murder of Kerry sisters on
Chain of Rocks Bridge appeals to Missouri Supreme Court
KWMU: Missouri Supreme Court hears Reginald Clemons
case
AP: Missouri death row inmate seeks new trial,
again; Walter Barton sexually assaulted 81-year-old Gladys
Kuehler, then stabbed her at least 50 times
Columbia Missourian: Decline in Share the Harvest
donations consistent with deer harvest
KC Star: Missouri Supreme Court gives Clay Chastain a
victory in light-rail case +
KC Star editorial: Give American workers a reasonable
raise; Missouri wages already above the federal minimum, and STL
Mayor Francis Slay is even more generous to city employees +
SNL editorial: Bill from Rep. Elijah Haahr
(R-Springfield) would protect students' faith
X
JCNT editorial: Assessing the validity - and
constitutionality - of requiring governor to fill vacancies in a more
timely manner X
P-D editorial: Let the cleanup of West Lake Landfill
begin
CDT op-ed: Veteran lobbyist Terry Schlemeier:
Incentives hand taxpayer money to stockholders
X
KC Star's Maria Rose Williams: Implementing a
prove-it-or-lose-it funding plan for Missouri colleges +
P-D op-ed: University of Missouri President Tim
Wolfe: A college education is still valuable
Shelly: Missouri's payday loan industry won't like
plan to offer loans at Post Office +
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Sarcastic take -
"handshake lobby" punchline, etc. - on high-five legislation news from
last week
KC Star letter: Retired nurse Bertha Payne shares her
passion for Obamacare; STL animal activist accuses Koster of
siding with agriculture over HSUS as part of 2016 campaign +
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Tuesday, February 4
KC Star: McCaskill to hold hearing on "one of the
biggest fraud investigations in Army history"
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USA Today: Recruiting fraud, kickback scandal rocks
Army; McCaskill calls episode "discouraging and depressing"
Joplin Globe: Plan for Joplin VA clinic remains
tentative X
SNL: Nixon: $15M for heat bills; Federal
grants to be given to help relieve rising propane prices X
AP: Nixon announces increased propane subsidy
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri dairy bill on margin
insurance; Rep. Casey Guernsey (R-Bethany) says legislation will
"dovetail nicely" with federal farm bill
St. Joseph News-Press: Rep. Delus Johnson, former Rep.
Dan Hegeman to run in GOP primary for Lager's seat X
P-D: Liberal group Progress Missouri files complaint
about GOP Sens. Kraus, Nieves blocking video access to Senate committee
hearings
KWMU: Nieves, Missouri Journalism School icon Phill
Brooks disagree over tripod placement and committee access;
Nieves says he's ignoring activist phone calls on issue
AP: Committee hears GOP "paycheck protection" bill
KWMU: SEIU, CWA oppose GOP "paycheck protection" bill
SNL: Bill from Rep. Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) proposes
tool to check all taxes X
JCNT: Lager renews effort to limit 'whistle blowing' X
AP: Panel mulls proposal over governor's budget power
AP: Sen. Ed Emery (R-Lamar) wants to alter state's
impeachment proceedings
JCNT: Impeachment process scrutinized X
The Missouri Times: Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove)
seeking GOP support to impeach Nixon over special elections
SNL: OTC's Hal Higdon part of push for "fair
funding;" Community college leaders want same state funding as
4-year schools X
AP: Missouri Legislature will be considering whether
to triple preschool funding
SE
Missourian: DESE, partners develop "Smarter Balance" revised
assessment plan +
SNL: State wants all juniors to take ACT X
KCTV: Schweich reveals problems uncovered in Lee's
Summit schools
KC Star: Lee's Summit earns 'good' audit, but with
some issues +
P-D: Far fewer students are transferring from Normandy
and Riverview Gardens
AP: Riverview administrators seek $5M bailout
AP: Nationwide, a record number of exonerations;
In Missouri, Reggie Griffin and Ryan Ferguson set free
SE
Missourian: Limbaughs Sr., Jr. tell area's proud history of
advancing civil rights +
JCNT: Council endorses Kehoe bill to allow alcohol
sales at Capitol, Missouri State Penitentiary
X
The Missouri Times: House committee passes red-light
camera bill
AP: Autism insurance beneficiaries rising under
Missouri law
Drebes:
Paul Snyder, formerly of KCP&L, moves to solar-power company
Brightergy
P-D: Ameren says study shows no coal ash threat to
drinking water
CDT: Judge to appoint 'master' for Mamtek case X
KWMU Politically Speaking podcast: St. Louis
Comptroller Darlene Green has no plans to run statewide, says she likes
Chris Koster
Joplin Globe editorial: More of the silly
season: Berkeley Democrat Courtney Curtis and high-fives,
Senate's self-involved obsession with seersucker "debate" X
P-D op-ed: Missouri Farmers Union: Right to Farm
would favor the corporations - even the Chinese - over Missouri family
farms
P-D letter: GOP state rep candidate Dennis
Broadbooks: Right to Farm amendment would protect Missourians
from HSUS' radical agenda
JCNT letter: Response to Luetkemeyer on economy, jobs X
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch should catalog all the
terrible things about Missouri in one big story, and then the people
would be motivated to rise up against injustice
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Monday, February 3
KOLR: U.S. Rep. Billy Long: Propane is
available, hard to get
St. Joseph News-Press: Cold weather blast hits area
propane supplies X
AP: Feds plot future of Ozark Riverways in Missouri
P-D: Transportation sales tax backers postpone
signature-gathering
Drebes:
Sen. Joe Keaveny (D-St. Louis City) takes McKenna's spot on Senate
Economic Development Committee
JCNT: Proposed law would give state boards,
commissions new members X
KC Star: Missouri debates rules covering pill-based
chemos +
Missourinet: Rep. Mike Thomson (R-Maryville) talks
about plan to add loan feature to Bright Flight program
St. Joseph News-Press: School officials cautious on
full funding X
Missourinet: Legislation would give students more
digital offerings
SE
Missourian: Local group forms to oppose Common Core, other
federal and state initiatives; Concerned Women for America rep to
speak at meeting +
Missouri Digital News: Missouri lawmakers move to
protect rodeos (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
KWMU: After supplying for three Missouri executions,
pharmacy plans to register in state
P-D editorial: Farm bill cuts food stamps out of
meanness or greed - either way, McCaskill and Blunt should vote no
P-D editorial: Park Service plan to protect Ozark
Riverways is a good one
Washington Missourian editorial: Missouri is a
conservative state - and tuition freeze shows state schools reflect
that mentality
The Maneater letter: Opposing 72-hour waiting period for
abortion
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Sunday, February 2
SNL: Medicaid expansion: Hospitals feel pinch as
Missouri, other states debate X
SNL: As Missouri digs in again over Medicaid
expansion, other states push compromise plans
X
SNL: Some Missouri lawmakers warm to idea of expanding
Medicaid in Missouri X
JCNT: Medicare, insurance companies placing caps on
rehab visits X
St. Joseph News-Press: Immigration reform might have a
new pulse this year; Comments from McCaskill, Blunt, Graves X
Joplin Globe's Susan Redden: At local Lincoln Day
dinner, Billy Long says GOP can take U.S. Senate; Gov hopefuls
Tom Schweich, Catherine Hanaway speak X
KC Star: Missouri enlisting in the egg wars;
Koster sues state of California on behalf of Missouri farmers +
KC Star: Power line opponents surge against wind
energy transmission project +
JCNT: Nixon administration cites savings from efforts
to reduce leased spaces X
SNL's Jonathan Shorman: Dixon and fitness-center
tax; Missouri criminal code wording; Nieves is being a
bully just because he can X
JCNT: Pro-life group wants tax credit to exclude
research on human cloning, stem cell X
AP: Missouri lawmakers plot new plan for juvenile
lifers
KC Star: Mayor convenes private meeting on Kansas City
school district plans +
P-D: Crowd turns out in response to Normandy school
crisis
AP: UMKC hosts gay, transgender conference
JCNT: House bill from Rep. Mike Kelley (R-Lamar) would
raise speed limit X
P-D: An in-depth look, and update, on former SE
Missourian news reporter Scott Moyers' battle with addiction
St. Joseph News-Press: Graves' vote on farm bill
advanced interests of the region X
SNL editorial: Right to work bad for Missouri X
JCNT editorial: The cost of inaction on mental hospital X
P-D's Nicklaus: Washington University prof authors new
study on income inequality
St. Joseph News-Press' Ken Newton: The people pushing
voter photo ID proposals probably aren't very smart X
P-D letter: American Automotive Policy Council
President Matt Blunt responds to Nicklaus piece: Trade agreement
must protect against currency manipulation
KC Star letter: Unintended effects of minimum wage
increase +
P-D letter: Legislature has done nothing to address
school transfer issue
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch should stop blaming
Republicans and the Legislature - Normandy's community created its own
school mess
P-D
letter: Daisy resident Pee Moore [sic?] opposes Common Core
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Saturday, February 1
KC Business Journal: McCaskill warns of infrastructure
funding crisis
National Journal: Subcommittee report sides against
Gillibrand on military sexual assault; Comments from McCaskill
US News & World Report: Powerful panel says
commanders should keep sex assault oversight
KWMU: Sebelius puts a price and face on health
insurance coverage in Missouri
P-D: Sebelius, in St. Louis, pushes
Healthcare.gov; Slay will mail letter encouraging sign-ups to
3,000 area businesses
KSMU: Poverty expert coming to Springfield this month
SNL: Local pastor to give opening prayer for Congress X
KWMU: Nixon calls special elections for vacant House
seats
Missourinet: Nixon sets special elections
AP: Nixon sets August vote for vacant House seats
P-D: Nixon sets special elections date for House seats
St. Joseph News-Press: Rep. Casey Guernsey (R-Bethany)
not running for re-election, Senate seat X
Missourinet: Lawmakers move against Nixon's
appointments power
P-D: Medicaid-expansion advocates say that among more
than 6,000,000 Missouri residents, between 218 and 700 people could die
if coverage isn't expanded
P-D: Transmission line to send Kansas wind-generated
power eastward through Missouri and Illinois concerns some lawmakers
P-D: Hazelwood, Fort Zumwalt districts to receive more
money under Nixon's foundation-formula proposal
The Missouri Times: Rep. Elijah Haahr (R-Springfield)
files Student Religious Liberties Act
Columbia Missourian: Moldy books in Columbia cavern
leave large price tag for MU Libraries; "This disaster is a
direct result of underfunding," says curator professor
Joplin Globe: Lawmakers introduce bill opposing
power-line plan X
KWMU: Tilley on right-to-work lobbying news from
earlier in the week
SE
Missourian: Jim Maurer wins Rush H. Limbaugh Award for
contributions to community; Cape's Sen. Wayne Wallingford, Rep.
Kathy Swan present resolutions +
Drebes:
Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life seeks assistant director
P-D: Lawsuit seeks to block anti-Peabody measure from
ballot; Top Dem attorney/adviser Jane Dueker says activists
deceived signers of the petition
Joplin Globe editorial: Firing-squad idea is silly,
but transparency around executions deserves discussion X
JCNT editorial: Voter ID considerations, including
requiring photo ID to register X
KC Star "Capitol Watch" editorial briefs: ALEC and
cell-phone towers, Nieves and press/public access, high-five proposal +
Priddy: Execution-themed parody of "One Day More" from
Les Miserables
JCNT letter: Time to build new Fulton State Hospital X
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