January 31, 2019
KC Star: Video: Blunt on border security:
'Nobody gets everything they want' X
The Missouri Times: State of the Judiciary 2019:
Zel Fischer emphasizes changes to bail rules
JCNT: Fischer asks lawmakers to support increase in
funding for court operations X
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court chief
justice: the state of the judiciary is good
AP:
Chief justice changes rules governing pretrial release
P-D: Bail will go down in Missouri courts under new
plan X
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers look to tighten
amendment petitioning process
The Missouri Times: Gubernatorial appointments advance
to floor for Senate approval
Missourinet: Parson's plan to fix Missouri bridges
includes about $100 million in interest
P-D: GOP bill enforces work requirements for those
receiving handouts X
Columbia Missourian: Senators take another shot at
encouraging work for welfare
KWMU: UMSL rep wants lawmakers to show "more
generosity" by spending more taxpayer money on social services
CDT: Tourism lobbying for later school start date X
Columbia Missourian: Bill from Sen. Bill White
(R-Joplin) would require public water systems to have asset management
plan
JCNT: Team AgStop is winner of inaugural Show Me
Challenge X
KC Star: Woman who claims she was raped by prison
workers won't be sent back there X
KC Star editorial: Missouri legislation would gut
Title IX and use it to discriminate against women X
KC Star editorial: Expunge convictions for medical
marijuana patients in Missouri. But don't stop there. X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Rep. Holly Rehder
(R-Sikeston): Those boys from Covington could have been my sons
Joplin Globe op-ed: Speaker Elijah Haahr:
Building Missouri's bold future X
Priddy: State should fund steamboat museum (1,774
words)
P-D letter: Bel-Nor sexagenarian threatens to boycott
MetroLink if concealed carry is allowed X
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January 30, 2019
P-D: Hawley says he'd welcome joining with
Ocasio-Cortez in challenging big social media companies; Industry
rep bashes "hipster antitrust" X
P-D: Black college in Virginia wants to honor George
H.W. Bush with statue, but Lacy Clay and his father seek to block it X
Missourinet: Democrat Cleaver wants Trump to deliver
"aspirational" State of the Union address
The Missouri Times: 'New normal' impacting state
revenues, DOR chief Joel Walters tells Senate committee
AP:
Parson's plan for adult tuition grants questioned
Missourinet: Missouri Senate and House committees to
tackle PDMP today
KC Star: Proposed Title IX changes would make Missouri
a leader in protecting due process for the accused X
Columbia Missourian: Teachers pay for classroom
supplies; GOP proposals would help pay them back
SE
Missourian: Missouri's rural license agents: Offices risk
closing without fee hike +
KWMU: Rural Missouri businesses need better Internet
access to expand, but solutions aren't so easy
JCNT: Bill from Sen. Mike Bernskoetter (R-Jefferson
City) proposes steamboat museum for Jefferson City X
P-D: Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis City) wants to
make raise electoral bar for St. Louis City-St. Louis County merger X
KWMU: Better Together's Dave Leipholtz, others debate
St. Louis City-St. Louis County merger
KWMU: Additional Q&A on proposed St. Louis
City-St. Louis County merger
The Missouri Times: House moves forward with updates
to ethics procedures
SNL: Flu season update: Confirmed cases in
Missouri are way down X
KC Star editorial: Parson and Kansas governor should
end border war by meeting in Kansas City X
KC Star op-ed: Joseph Haslag: Missouri's income
tax rates are not the problem X
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January 29, 2019
JCNT: Parson urges Missourians to prepare for
dangerously cold weather X
The Missouri Times: Judge rules Galloway did not
knowingly violate Sunshine Law
Missourinet: Judge strikes down lawsuit alleging
Galloway violated open records laws
P-D: Judge tosses lawsuit alleging Galloway broke
Sunshine Law X
KWMU: Proposed St. Louis City-St. Louis County merger
could go to statewide vote
KWMU: Q&A on proposed city-county merger
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air preview: Better
Together's David Leipholtz to discuss benefits of merger
P-D: Better Together launches campaign to merge St.
Louis City with St. Louis County X
AP:
Better Together launches $25 million campaign to put St. Louis City-St.
Louis County merger on 2020 statewide ballot
JCNT: Show Me Challenge seeks to trim state
bureaucracy, save money X
Washington Missourian: Parson proposes state
cost-share program for 2020, which could include Highway 47 project X
P-D: Missouri's nursing homes for veterans, abiding by
federal law, will not allow medical marijuana
X
The Missouri Times: Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau)
presents bill establishing Fast-Track Workforce Incentive Grant program
P-D: Missouri lawmakers discuss scholarship program
for adults X
Missourinet: Trump tweets support for various states'
Bible-study bills; Sen. Ed Emery (R-Lamar), Rep. Curtis Trent
(R-Springfield) sponsoring Missouri legislation
CDT: House Democrats push higher ed package X
KC Star: UMKC, UMSL and Rolla set to raise food and
housing prices X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Hearing for Hoskins'
sports-wagering bill set for Thursday
The Missouri Times: Judge halts portions of meat law,
says enforcement would be Legislature usurping constitutional authority
The Missouri Times: Dept. of Agriculture lays out
proposed regulations for industrial hemp
AP:
Bill would require evaluations in some animal-abuse cases
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Legislature should
make tax amnesty a priority this year
Joplin Globe editorial: Even if bill in Legislature
fails, Missouri drivers should set an example and put their cell phones
down X
P-D editorial: Parson should grant clemency to woman
who arranged to have her husband murdered X
P-D op-ed: Sen. Gina Walsh (D-Bellefontaine
Neighbors): DOR's miscalculation was compounded by
miscommunication X
P-D letter: Florissant man responds to Galloway op-ed,
says voters should be required to pass competence test X
P-D letter: Affton septuagenarian responds to Galloway
op-ed, says elected officials should take class on government X
P-D letter: Oakville man hopes Post-Dispatch newsroom
distances itself from editorial board's merger cheerleading X
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January 28, 2019
Fox
News Sunday: Sen. Roy Blunt on border security (video)
Fox News Sunday: Sen. Roy Blunt on border security
(transcript)
P-D: Blunt on panel that will try to work out
border-security deal X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Jamilah Nasheed
discusses Parson, bid for Board of Aldermen president, more; Rep.
Tom Hannegan (R-St. Charles) on personalities of Haahr and
Vescovo; Panel of Reps. Mike Colona (D-St. Louis City) and Dean
Dohrman (R-La Monte), Angela Bingaman and Hannah Beers talk DOR
mistake, adding fairness to Title IX persecutions, more
St. Joseph News-Press: State taxpayers may pay for
withholding error
P-D: Advocacy group says Missouri's disability
services rise to be among nation's best X
Columbia Missourian: Advocates for the elderly share
legislative goals
Missourinet: Senate committee hears Chiefs bill;
Schatz hopes to get Mahomes to Missouri Capitol
P-D editorial: Parson's bridge plan lacks KC spending X
P-D editorial: States' policies should be countering
the anti-vaccine movement, not coddling it X
Columbia Missourian letter: Local League of Women
voters group disappointed in black lawmakers, Republicans attempting to
clean up Amendment 1
P-D letter: St. Louis City octogenarian opposes
statewide vote on city-county consolidation X
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January 27, 2019
AP: Kay Hoflander chosen as chairwoman of Missouri
Republican Party; Nick Myers to serve as vice chair, Derrick Good
as secretary and Pat Thomas as treasurer
KC Star: Missouri GOP chooses Kay Hoflander to serve
as chair X
Brownfield Ag News: Blunt co-sponsors bill to reduce
estate tax rate
P-D: Gateway Arch will open today, National Parks
Service says X
KWMU: Even after shutdown compromise, government
employees can still cash in on local freebies; List of charity
drives, restaurant marketing gimmicks
JCNT: New VA clinic to open tomorrow X
AP: Number of female legislators increases in Missouri
AP:
Across state legislatures, women make gains in achieving leadership
positions; Comments from Missouri House Superminority Leader
Crystal Quade (D-Springfield)
CDT: Bills from Sen. Gary Romine (R-Farmington), Rep.
Dean Dohrman (R-La Monte) seek to add fairness to Title IX inquisitions X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Missouri School Boards'
Association's Brent Ghan on Internet sales tax, talk of additional tax
cuts, Foundation Formula
Columbia Missourian: Local lawmakers learn committee
assignments
SE
Missourian: Amanzi farms utilizes hydroponics to produce fresh
produce; Pilot program of employing incarcerated men to be
replicated across Missouri +
St. Joseph News-Press: DHSS data indicates that more
Missourians are killed by opioids than by car accidents
KWMU: Advocacy group reports low vaccination rates
among Missouri teens
P-D editorial: Gov. Parson, despite being a former
sheriff, should start embracing clemency X
Washington Missourian editorial: Killing streets! AG
Eric Schmitt should be commended for effort to reduce urban violence X
KC Star op-ed: State Treasurer Scott
Fitzpatrick: Setting the record straight on Missouri tax
revenue; Lackluster journalists, liberals and bureaucrats are
spreading misinformation about tax withholdings X
SNL's Steve Pokin: Changes in state law give assault
victims more options X
P-D letter: University City octogenarian suggests
Vladmir Putin is blackmailing Roy Blunt X
P-D letter: Kirkwood septuagenarian wants legislators
to ban cell phone use while driving X
P-D letter: Richmond Heights sexagenarian says he'll
withdraw financial support from NAACP if organization continues to
attack newscaster who flubbed King's name X
KC Star letter: Chesterfield man responds to editorial
on Curls' "official pro football team" proposal, wonders why newspaper
doesn't perform simple research before publication X
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January 26, 2019
Missourinet: Delegation weighs in on shutdown
agreement; Collection of statements written by communications
staffers
P-D's Raasch: Government shutdown damaged the
Republican-controlled Senate; Comments from Hawley, Blunt X
SNL: Local veteran reacts to temporary end to shutdown X
The Missouri Times - Clayton edition: Liberals rally
at Clay's St. Louis City office hours before shutdown compromise
P-D: Photo gallery: Liberals hold anti-Trump
rally at Clay's St. Louis City office X
P-D's Raasch: Votes for the week of "July [sic] 21"
X
P-D: Sen. Scott Sifton (D-Affton) eyeing 2020
governor's race, unlikely to face serious primary opposition X
The Missouri Times: Four initiative petitions approved
for circulation
KCUR: Up to Date: Gov. Mike Parson talks to
Steve Kraske about ending the Missouri-Kansas "border war," explains
bonding proposal for transportation and the rural-urban divide,
workforce development, more
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of January 21, 2019
Washington Missourian: Franklin County highway
administrator says lack of communication between county and MoDOT is
ridiculous X
JCNT: Former HR director files discrimination suit
against Lincoln University; White male details violations of
compensation policy, jobs being handed to unqualified
African-Americans, other unlawful acts by state school X
Joplin Globe: New Missouri law, sponsored by Rep. Dean
Plocher (R-Town and Country), requires insurance coverage of 3D
mammograms X
P-D: More abuse survivors and witnesses step forward
in Schmitt's Missouri Catholic clergy probe X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the PSC:
January 23, 2019
Missourinet: Missouri traffic fatalities take a slight
dip in 2018
Columbia Missourian: Feral hog kills increase in
Missouri
P-D: Local newscaster on indefinite leave after
mispronouncing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s name; Kevin Steincross
apologizes "for the pain (he) caused" with one flubbed syllable X
KC Star editorial: United States VA, KC VA Medical
Center must answer questions about veteran's death X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's Eric
Bohl: Agriculture's 2019 legislative policy priorities
P-D letter: WGU-Missouri Chancellor Angie Besendorfer
says Parson's grant program would strengthen workforce X
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January 25, 2019
Missourinet: Rep. Billy Long invites Trump to deliver
State of the Union in Springfield
KC Star: Galloway slams GOP push to change how voters
amend constitution X
AP: GOP state senators form Conservative Caucus
The Missouri Times: The #moleg Podcast: Rep.
Dale Wright (R-Farmington) on his background and motivation
Missourinet: House honors Rep. Cloria Brown (R-St.
Louis County)
Columbia Missourian: State tax error drove $536
revenue deficit, 'April surprise'
Missourinet: $536 million deficit is eye-opener for
Missouri lawmakers
P-D: Onder, Eigel encourage more equitable
distribution of transportation projects X
KWMU: Missouri bill aims to protect babies with
heartbeat
The Missouri Times: Bill aimed at protecting minors,
combatting sex trafficking moves out of House committee
St. Joseph News-Press: Title IX bill proposes
alternate hearing outside of schools
JCNT: Missouri awarded federal early education grant X
The Missouri Times: Policy panel rallies for school
choice
JCNT: State hosts education retreat for lawmakers X
KWMU: Five education issues to watch in Jefferson City
this year
Columbia Missourian: Columbia legislators, UM
president call for more state higher ed funding
CDT: University of Missouri preparing for possible cuts X
The Missouri Times: Missouri Chief Justice Zel Fischer
to deliver State of the Judiciary address on Wednesday
Columbia Missourian: State could see increases in
penalties for drug dealing, manufacturing
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Post-Dispatch
columnist Tony Messenger on "debtors' prisons"
Columbia Missourian: Gun-control group promotes study
blaming Missouri's gun laws for deaths
P-D editorial: It's not Missouri's job to aid
furloughed federal workers. It should anyway.
X
KC Star editorial: Missouri is shrouding medical
marijuana in secrecy, hiding who wants to grow and dispense it X
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Galloway: Don't
change Clean Missouri
KC Star op-ed: Greg Razer (D-Kansas City): My
House colleagues voted no equality for me. X
SNL's Steve Pokin: Readers ask: Why isn't state
law about front license plate enforced? X
The Missouri Times op-ed: St. Louis Police Officers
Association's Jeff Roorda: Hold Kim Gardner, all prosecutors
accountable
P-D letter: Webster Groves man predicts licensed use
of marijuana will increase unlicensed use X
Washington Missourian letter: Washington
septuagenarian says Missouri Republicans are "devils" X
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January 24, 2019
KWMU: Local transsexual activists unhappy with Trump's
military policy
Missourinet: Parson's budget would help 1,529 families
with early childhood development services
Missourinet: House GOP leaders confident $500 million
budget shortfall will turn around
KC Star: Bill from Sen. Mike Cierpiot (R-Lee's Summit)
seeks end to economic 'border war' with Kansas
X
Missourinet: Missouri House Democrats call for more
school transportation funding
The Missouri Times: DOR blasted for lack of
communication on withholding error
KC Star: Missouri taxpayers to see lower refunds this
year; Rep. Robert Ross (R-Yukon) predicts "April surprise" for
taxpayers X
P-D: Missouri lawmakers frustrated as impact of state
withholding error sinks in X
KC Star: Clash over Parson's budget veto may lead to
penalty against "Missouri Department of Health [sic];" Rep. Deb Lavender
(D-St. Louis County) details "line in the budge [sic]" X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport)
named Veterans Committee chair, talks legislative priorities
The Missouri Times: Senate committee approves several
interim gubernatorial appointments
The Missouri Times: First bill out of House honors
late Rep. Cloria Brown (R-St. Louis County)
P-D editorial: Missouri should join other states in
banning cell phone use while driving X
KC Star editorial: The Kansas City Chiefs are KC's
team, not Missouri's - and the losers in St. Louis can eat their hearts
out X
P-D's Kevin McDermott: Local NAACP should rethink
dramatics around newscaster's on-air pronunciation flub X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Rep. Dean Dohrman (R-La
Monte): Title IX investigations are medieval in their lack of due
process
P-D letter: University City man proposes unicameral
state legislature X
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January 23, 2019
St.
Joseph News-Press: Blunt on shutdown impasse: Broaden the
options
KC
Star: Blunt: VA's response to query about vet's death
"totally insufficient" X
KC
Star: Cleaver on getting paid during shutdown: "Me taking
my paycheck has nothing to do with anything going on" X
KWMU:
Shutdown hardship: Local federal employee details trauma of
having one (1) delayed paycheck
The
Missouri Times: Missouri Ethics Commission questioning authority
on two Clean Missouri changes related to lawmakers
Missourinet:
GOP lawmakers express concerns about Clean Missouri's impact on
constituent correspondence
The
Missouri Times: Schmitt announces Safer Streets initiative
Missourinet:
Schmitt forms partnership to battle violent crime in St. Louis region
KWMU:
Schmitt pledges lawyers to prosecute violent crime in St. Louis region
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Rep. Louis Riggs (R-Hannibal) reacts to Parson's
"ambitious" State of the State
KRES/KWIX
(Moberly): Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch (R-Hallsville) says being
only non-lawyer on Judiciary Committee provides panel a different
perspective
The
Missouri Times: GOP lawmakers file bill requiring due process for
Title IX hearings
Columbia
Missourian: Lawmakers propose changes to Title IX process
CDT:
Margie Vandeven prepares for release of test scores X
The
Missouri Times: House Democrats file plethora of education bills
P-D:
Missouri House superminority leaders want more money for K-12 funding
X
Columbia
Missourian: Democrats seek to require public vote for charter
school expansion
SNL:
Rep. Ian Mackey (D-St. Louis County) wants to lower state's mandatory
school age by two years X
P-D:
Put down the phone, say Missouri legislators who want to ban cell phone
use while driving X
KWMU:
Missouri Supreme Court to decide whether a part of the state's death
penalty law is unconstitutional
The
Missouri Times: Lawmakers consider designating the Chiefs as
Missouri's official NFL team
KC
Star: Sen. Shalonn "Kiki" Curls (D-Kansas City) wants Chiefs to
be Missouri's official pro football team X
St.
Joseph News-Press editorial: To the Missouri Western student
employees complaining about lack of minimum-wage increase: Sorry
kids, nothing is free
KC
Star editorial: Parson should try again to pass a gas tax for
crumbling Missouri highways X
Priddy:
Imagine if the campaign against Josh Hawley is successful, and his
career turns out like Bill Webster's
Helling:
Rural interests are over-represented in Missouri politics; Urban
areas should not be pressured to care about rural broadband X
P-D
op-ed: Missouri's civil engineers want to see more infrastructure
spending X
KC
Star op-ed: Survivor Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)
former national director: Eric Schmitt should fix Josh Hawley's
feeble Catholic Church investigation X
Keller:
So long, Mamtek's Bruce Cole. It hasn't been sweet. X
P-D
letter: New Haven septuagenarian angry at Gov. Parson for not
returning phone messages about gun control X
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January 22, 2019
KWMU: Martin Luther King, Jr. rally draws fewer than
50 downtown
P-D: MLK march is brief, with sparse crowd X
P-D: Photo gallery: MLK parade: Signs
include "Impeach Trump Now," "Trump Kidnaps Babies," other unifying and
uplifting messages X
SNL: Mayor on MLK Day: "Progress continues to be
made" X
SNL: Photo gallery: MLK parade: Signs
include "Protect Black Trans Women," "No Human is Illegal," etc. X
CDT: MLK march draws crowd of 40; Speaker at
rally praises unsigned NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick for heroic acts
in the face of rampant patriotism X
JCNT: Dozens attend MLK tribute; Speaker
criticizes push to protect country's borders, blames Missouri prison
system for black incarceration rate, other outrages X
P-D: St. Louis County NAACP wants TV newscaster Kevin
Steincross fired for mispronouncing Martin Luther King, Jr.'s name X
AP:
St. Louis County NAACP wants newscaster fired for flubbing MLK's name
KWMU: Leader of local airport employees group claims
federal workers won't stop showing up for their jobs
Missourinet: New State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick
receives bipartisan praise
SE
Missourian: Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau) plays key role in
Gov. Parson's workforce development plan +
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Michael Bugalski, interim
president of Moberly Area Economic Development Corporation, pleased by
Parson's DED reorg
The Missouri Times: House leaders standing firm on new
rule regarding open records
KC Star: Democrats push for no-reason absentee voting X
KWMU: Lawmakers seek funding source for pre-K expansion
Missourinet: No plans for Missouri prison space after
inmates and workers move out
AP:
Urban prosecutors end most pot cases
CDT: Settlement could bring close to Mamtek saga X
JCNT editorial: Proposed state pay raises a good start X
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January 21, 2019 Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Day - A state holiday, per Gov. John Ashcroft
P-D: Farmers weigh in on trade deal, government
shutdown
X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Rep. John
Wiemann (R-O'Fallon) gives perspective on Elijah Haahr and Rob Vescovo,
shares thoughts on Parson's agenda and Todd Richardson's Medicaid
overhaul, initative petition changes; Panel of Rep. Michael
O'Donnell (R-Oakville), Joe Lakin, Jane Dueker, and NAACP's John Gaskin
III talk Parson's State of the State, LGBTQIA* proposal from Rep. Greg
Razer (D-Kansas City), St. Louis County letting chronic deadbeat dads
abdicate their responsibility as fathers, more
St. Joseph News-Press: Local lawmakers learn committee
assignements
P-D: Historic tax credit bottleneck stalling
redevelopment projects, delaying reimbursement
X
Joplin Globe: Missouri PSC to hold hearing on
billion-dollar wind farm X
AP: Man who took part in murderous robbery wants out
of jail; Budding criminal Norman Brown joined a pal in robbing
Chesterfield jewelry shop, where the duo killed owner and left owner's
wife for dead
KC Star editorial: KC families on the dole could see
handouts cut if shutdown continues X
Messenger: Thanks to GOP legislators, when it comes to
Sunshine Law, Missouri is Show-Me State no more X
SNL letter: Ozark septuagenarian says Blunt is a
"commie sympathizer"; Springfield septuagenarian says ALEC has
purchased GOP state legislators, uses ALL CAPS to emphasize IMPORTANT
POINTS X
KC Star letters: KC man unhappy with Blunt over vote
on Russia sanctions; KC septuagenarian unhappy with gas tax
proposal's language, says he wants "clean" proposal to vote on X
P-D letter: St. Charles octogenarian expresses anger
at GOP state legislators over election success
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January 20, 2019
SNL: Anti-Trump rally draws fewer than 100 X
SNL: Photo gallery: Feminist holds sign
proclaiming "Right too [sic]
choice" X
P-D: Anti-Trump march draws smaller crowd than
previous years; Comments from Florissant woman who calls herself
"Emmett," others X
KWMU: Feminists march in St. Louis City; Black
feminist hopes more black women show up next year
KC Star: Feminists hold anti-Trump rally downtown X
Columbia Missourian: Anti-Trump immigrant group joins
feminists for rally; Former state rep runner-up/Missouri
Democratic Party Progressive Caucus Vice Chair Michela Skelton attempts
to lead crowd in chant about breathing
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Dottie
Bailey (R-Eureka) talks with Rosenbaum about "Bryce's Law," criminal
justice proposals, statewide vote on city-county merger, more
JCNT: Capitol awash in 'Clean Missouri' concerns X
Joplin Globe: Medical marijuana cultivation site
proposed for Sarcoxie X
SNL: "Answer Man" feature: Why does Missouri
require two license plates when many other states only mandate one? X
P-D editorial: Bill from Sen. Scott Sifton (D-Affton),
targeting transparency in state government contracts, is worthy of
passage X
KC Star editorial: Lawmakers should pass ban on
texting while driving X
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January 19, 2019
AP:
Temporary government shutdown means SNAP recipients will get their
handouts early
SNL: Local charities discuss new mission:
Explaining to SNAP recipients why they're receiving two (2) months of
taxpayer-funded handouts at one time X
SE
Missourian: Smith apologizes for chiding Democrats about Puerto
Rico junket +
SNL: Profile: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R-Salem) X
KWMU: Organizers of 3rd annual feminist march say
chilly weather won't negatively impact hefty crowd: "We're women,
come on"
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of January 14, 2019
SNL: Parson: Education a 'key factor' in
fighting Missouri opioid crisis; House Speaker Elijah Haahr,
Superminority Leader Crystal Quade join governor at event X
SNL: Photo gallery: Gov. Mike Parson at
Discovery Center X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Danny Busick (R-Newtown)
likes Parson's talk of trimming government, emphasizing workforce
development, building emergency fund
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Louis Riggs (R-Hannibal)
hopes to see $10 million allocated for rural broadband expansion
JCNT: Officials: Prison merger to improve pay,
safety X
Columbia Missourian's Laura Murgatroyd: New minimum
wage offers relief for workers; Comments from two (2) advocates
of wage increase, zero (0) perspectives from small-business owners
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Western spared from
minimum wage increase - for now
The Missouri Times: Court preliminarily halts feedlot
expansion near Powell Gardens
KC Star editorial: No more shutdowns. Sen. Roy Blunt's
bipartisan plan could help avert future budget disasters X
KC Star editorial: Lawmakers rush to undo Clean
Missouri open records regulations. That's unconstitutional X
CDT editorial: Gov. Parson's budget gambit X
P-D editorial briefs: Parson wrong on allowing legal
guns at Capitol; Dept. of Revenue wrong to request office move to
protect employees X
Phill Brooks: Parson a far more substantive governor
than Greitens; New gov should make himself available for
interviews after State of the State X
P-D letter: St. Peters man says those who oppose
LGBTQIA* employment laws are the same religious types who supported
slavery X
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January 18, 2019
AP:
Hawley to keep home in Springfield, will bring wife and sons to D.C. so
family can be together while Senate is in session
Politico: Jason Smith chides House Democrats for
taking 30-member jaunt to Puerto Rico during shutdown
The Missouri Times: Parson signs executive order
initiating major restructuring of four state agencies
KWMU: Parson pares Economic Development Department's
portfolio to sharpen purpose
JCNT: Parson reorganizes DED, narrows focus X
AP: Parson plans to move several hundred employees
from Dept. of Economic Development to Dept. of Higher Education
Missourinet: Parson to vastly reorganize numerous
state agencies
P-D: Parson revamps Missouri's economic development
efforts X
P-D: Missouri government makeover includes moving
state oversight of public radio and TV X
The Missouri Times: State plans to shutter Crossroads
Correctional Center, transfer inmates and employees to Western
Missourinet: Parson to provide details on prison plan
today
The Missouri Times: State leaders applaud appeals
court decision upholding Safe at Home address confidentiality program
AP: Missouri court reverses ruling on victim
protection program
CDT: MNEA legislative forum focuses on funding,
charter schools X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Week of January 9, 2019
KC Star editorial: Hawley right, Blunt wrong on
Russia-sanctions vote X
P-D editorial: Parson's infrastructure focus is
correct, but debt-funding it is a mistake X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's Eric
Bohl: Trump touts work for farmers at American Farm Bureau
Convention
Messenger: Parson wants to close a prison. It's a good
start. X
SNL's Steve Pokin: If you teach sex ed in Missouri
public schools, you must discuss consent X
JCNT letter: Jefferson City man irked by Missourinet
reporter's blatant anti-Trump bias X
P-D letter: Post-Dispatch subscriber highlights the
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January 17, 2019
P-D: 'It's such an inconvenience': Illinois mom
drags kids to Arch before comprehending shutdown effects X
KWMU: "St. Louis on the Air": Local artist
devastated by impact of federal goverment shutdown; Kirkwood man,
traipsing around the country to photograph national parks, describes
emotional hardship caused by "Park Temporarily Closed" signs
KC Star: Missouri medical marijuana: Bills from
KC Dems Shalonn "Kiki" Curls, Barbara Washington would give
preferential treatment to minorities, women X
The Missouri Times - Clayton edition: Rep. Ian Mackey
(D-St. Louis) to speak to Clayton Township Democrats next week
KWMU: Parson pledges to 'chart Missouri's future' in
State of the State speech
JCNT: Parson proposes 3 percent pay raise for all
Missouri state employees X
JCNT: Parson finds efficiency in closing Cameron's
Crossroads Correctional facility X
The Missouri Times: State of the State 2019:
Parson focuses on infrastructure, workforce development
P-D: Bridge repair tops Parson's budget plan, along
with money for schools X
P-D: Photo gallery: State of the State
address: Curtain jerkers, preliminary festivities and the main
event X
AP:
Parson proposes $351 million bond for bridges
AP: Democrats respond to Parson's speech by taking
digs at former Gov. Eric Greitens
Missourinet: Audio: Gov. Mike Parson's 2019
State of the State address
Missourinet: Photo gallery: State of the State
address
Missourinet: Parson calls for state worker pay hike,
spending on bridge repairs
Missourinet: Parson proposes shuttering Missouri prison
Missourinet: Republicans, Democrats react to Parson
address
CDT: Higher ed to maintain funding levels in state
budget X
Columbia Missourian: Parson emphasizes infrastructure,
workforce development in first State of the State
Joplin Globe: Parson outlines 'bold' policy goals in
State of the State address X
The Missouri Times: Schatz names committee chairs
KC Star: UMKC professor resigns amid allegations he
used students as 'slave labor' X
The Missouri Times: Martin Luther King Jr. celebration
delivers on theme of legacy and focus
KC Star editorial: Report from gun-control group shows
cost of firearms to Missouri; Legislators should pass gun-control
laws, dump more money into urban governments for anti-violence programs X
KC Star editorial: Parson's vision includes more
spending for infrastructure but not much else; Governor should
push to expand Medicaid, raise taxes X
Joplin Globe editorial: Legislators should not attempt
to alter Amendment 1 X
P-D editorial: Legislators wrong to pass
document-confidentiality protections X
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Thoughts on 4th
Congressional District silver medalist Renee Hoagenson, campaign
fundraising, and Caleb Rowden's "new potion [sic] as Senate floor majority
leader"
P-D op-ed: Missouri's death penalty jury deadlock
provision is unconstitutional X
P-D letter: Ellisville septuagenarian mocks
Post-Dispatch's hypocrisy regarding statewide vote on city-county merger X
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January 16, 2019
Missourinet: Hawley defends Trump, calls accusations
against president 'stomach turning'
St. Joseph News-Press: Hawley joins in questioning of
AG nominee
Missourinet: McCaskill reports to work at MSNBC, will
join group of panelists criticizing Trump's State of the Union on
January 29
The Missouri Times: January 2019 quarterly
filings: Statewide
The Missouri Times: January 2019 quarterly
filings: Committees
The Missouri Times: January 2019 quarterly
filings: State Senate
The Missouri Times: January 2019 quarterly
filings: State House
The Missouri Times: 19-year-old from St. Louis suburb
says he's running against Jay Ashcroft in 2020 GOP secretary of state
primary
Joplin Globe: (Jay) Nixon hall opens to students at
Missouri Southern X
P-D: Preview: Gov. Mike Parson's State of the
State address X
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court looks at case
claiming Legislature writes bills too broadly
JCNT: State high court considers legislative powers X
The Missouri Times: First bill moving through the
House honors the late Rep. Cloria Brown (R-St. Louis County)
KWMU: Missouri Senate leaders pan proposal for
statewide vote on city-county merger
P-D: Missouri House votes to protect privacy of
constituent case files, declines to advance LGBT proposal X
AP: House takes voice votes on document
confidentiality, expanding LGBT "protections," more
P-D editorial: Ann Wagner, other Republicans wrong to
minimize effects of shutdown X
KC Star editorial: With investigations and tough
questions looming, will Josh Hawley learn from his mistakes? X
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: Hawley attacks FBI, uses
attorney general confirmation hearing to steal spotlight X
Jensen:
Requiring Medicaid recipients to work is a smart move - and,
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Waters: The Missouri Department of Revenue's
fortuitous tax mistake X
Messenger: Thoughts on Twitter discussion with Robert
Cornejo regarding "Clean Missouri" and beer X
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January 15, 2019
KSDK: McCaskill joins MSNBC as political analyst
KSMU: Shutdown means Missouri food stamp recipients
will get taxpayer-funded handouts early
SNL: Federal employees can use temporary government
shutdown to get zero-interest loans at local credit union X
SE
Missourian: Shutdown causing temporary cash-flow crunch for some
Missouri farmers +
KC Star: Missouri Republican Party wants investigation
into Jean Peters Baker; Executive Director Ray Bozarth says
union's strong-arming amounts to "pay to play politics" X
AP: GOP: FBI should review union's pay-to-play
demands on Dem chair
The Missouri Times: Fitzpatrick sworn in as state
treasurer
Missourinet: Fitzpatrick: "Government works for
the people, not the other way around"
AP: Fitzpatrick sworn in as Missouri state treasurer
JCNT: Fitzpatrick, Galloway sworn in X
The Missouri Times: Galloway begins second term as
auditor, announces Public Corruption and Fraud Division
AP: Galloway sworn in for another term as Missouri
auditor
Missourinet: Galloway sworn into office: "If you
steal from taxpayers, my office will find you"
Missourinet: Galloway slams Missouri Dept. of Revenue
mistake
P-D: Nicole Galloway, lone statewide Democrat in
Missouri, sworn into four-year term X
P-D: Parson's budget does not include funds for DOR
office move; Agency wants to move from St. Louis City to Clayton
to protect employees from crime X
AP:
House looks to undo some minimum sentences
AP: Springfield News-Leader publisher gets $1.36
billion buyout bid
P-D: New House rules largely forbid dogs; Ban on
smoking in offices a possibility X
P-D editorial: Young futures hang in the balance as
Warren County adopts four-day school week X
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January 14, 2019
KWMU: MoDOT warns of slick roadways as melting snow
refreezes
Missourinet: MoDOT brings in extra crews for
Monday; Missouri troopers assist about 1,800 stranded motorists
This Week in Missouri Politics: State Treasurer-to-be
Scott Fitzpatrick talks with Scott Faughn about getting the call,
priorities as treasurer, advice for rookie legislators, more;
Panel of freshman Reps. Mary Elizabeth Coleman (R-Arnold), Dirk Deaton
(R-Noel), Steve Butz (D-St. Louis City) and Wiley Price IV (D-St. Louis
City) on legislative priorities, Speaker Elijah Haahr's leadership,
federal government shutdown, more
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: House
Superminority Leader Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) on playing defense
in Legislature, split with black Dems on effects of "Clean Missouri,"
DOR's tax withholding error, more
JCNT: Profile: Parson spokeswoman Kelli Jones
embraces fast pace of governor's office X
JCNT: At session-opening speech, Jay Ashcroft
challenges leaders to act with integrity, humility, grace X
St. Joseph News-Press: Tony Luetkemeyer dives into the
Senate
JCNT: State agencies still considering red-tape
cutbacks X
AP: Meat producers seek to make Missouri's "real meat"
bill a model for other states
P-D: Warrenton becomes latest Missouri school district
to move to four-day school weeks X
CDT editorial: Columbia should pay for Trump's
campaign stop - this time X
P-D editorial: State's secrecy behind medical
marijuana permitting is a bad start to new law
X
SNL op-ed: Anti-death-penalty activist Donna
Walmsley: State lawmakers should give responsibility for capital
punishment sentencing to jurors, not judges X
KC Star letter: Independence liberal says Josh Hawley
has no spine X
P-D letter: Fenton septuagenarian applauds Schmitt,
Tony Messenger for work on 'debtors' prisons'
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January 13, 2019 MoDOT Travel Map
KSMU: Blunt co-sponsors bill that would change
president's role in budget process
SNL: New VA clinic in Springfield expects 350,000
outpatient visits by end of first year X
KC Star: Poor revenue outlook complicates upcoming
budget deliberations for Missouri lawmakers X
Joplin Globe: Advocacy group: Missouri ranks low
in money spent on tobacco prevention X
CDT: Inmates seek bill allowing chance for parole or
death X
Joplin Globe: State regulators yet to play role in
reservoir talks X
P-D editorial: Let Missouri voters decide on a St.
Louis City - St. Louis County merger X
Joplin Globe editorial: Legislators should spend more
tobacco-tax settlement money, and voters should support raising taxes X
SNL letter: Joplin septuagenarian unhappy with Gov.
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2019 MoDOT
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KC Star: KC labor leaders claim union-busting by
Missouri Democratic Party Chair Jean Peters Baker, vow to withhold
support
X
P-D: Federal shutdown leads to early food stamp
handouts X
NY Times: Shutdown profiles: St. Louis County
woman, who earns nearly $50k as federal government paperwork processor,
laments inability to budget past next paycheck
KWMU: Local union boss complains about shutdown
P-D: Weekly congressional delegation update: Ann
Wagner to White House for anti-trafficking bill; House votes on
rural broadband; More X
P-D: Anti-NRA group claims organization coordinated
with Hawley campaign X
P-D: Illegal Chinese alien gets time served for
employing illegal Mexican aliens, faces possible deportation X
Brownfield Ag News: Parson supports Trump's trade
discussions with China
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of January 7, 2019
The Missouri Times: Seven new initiative petitions
filed, bringing total to 37
Washington Missourian: Three rookie lawmakers take
oath of office X
P-D: Missouri Dept. of Revenue seeks to protect state
workers by moving them from downtown St. Louis City location; New
office in Clayton would provide safer environment X
AP: Court: State of Missouri, governor can't be
sued over public defender complaints
SNL: DNR promises public meeting on Litton pollution X
KWMU: Longtime St. Louis journalist Linda Lockhart
reflects on career and current state of journalism: From good old
days of copyboys running errands to present day of too many white men
making decisions
KWMU: Newspaper veteran Tim O'Neil, formerly of the
Post-Dispatch, talks about paper's office downsizing
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Make sure Missouri
benefits from sports betting
KC Star editorial: How bad are starting salaries for
Missouri teachers? Even Mississippi pays more
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The Missouri Times op-ed: Tim Jones: Missouri
should look to low- and no-income-tax states to experience expansive
economic growth
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January 11, 2019
KWMU: Longtime political journalist Jo Mannies
reflects on career, major stories
P-D: Local federal workers claim they are delaying
retirement, facing other hardships due to one (1) postponed paycheck X
KC Star: Local federal workers use free time to
protest time off X
The Missouri Times: Photo gallery: 2019
Legislative Ball's Grand March
The Missouri Times: Photo gallery: 2019
swearing-in
Missourinet: Governor's prayer breakfast draws packed
house; St. Louis City Sheriff Vernon Betts notes that real men
"have got to be careful" these days
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Speaker
Elijah Haahr talks to Rosenbaum about criminal-sentencing overhaul,
black legislators' desire to clean up Amendment 1, more
The Missouri Times: Schatz stresses quality over
quantity for 2019 legislative session
AP: Missouri Senate debates proposal to add four new
committee positions
P-D's Kurt Erickson: Senate debates four new committee
positions; Expansion has support of "Sen. Gina Walsh
(D-Bellfontaine [sic]
Neighbors) X
The Missouri Times: DHSS begins rulemaking process for
medical marijuana program
Missourinet: Early interest in Missouri's legalized
medical marijuana is robust
AP: Strong interest in medical marijuana in Missouri
CDT: Ben Hurst resigns from Missouri Clean Water
Commission X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the PSC:
January 9, 2019
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: UMSL's Terry Jones
gives background on St. Louis City-County merger attempts and
challenges of current push
The Missouri Times - Clayton edition: Tony Messenger
to speak at Clayton Chamber of Commerce event Jan. 22
P-D: Hawley, other Republicans wrong on pre-existing
conditions X
Washington Missourian editorial: Legislators should
keep their hands off Amendment 1 X
P-D editorial: Missouri taxpayers deserve a break
after the state's withholding glitch X
KC Star editorial: Demand answers to why a 53-year-old
man died in a Missouri jail, and why it was kept secret X
KC Star op-ed: U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver: Facts
vs. myths in the debate over immigration X
Kraske: No more free meals? Life in the 'Clean
Missouri' statehouse will never be the same X
CDT op-ed: Missourians can now talk medical marijuana
with their doctors X
P-D op-ed: Ferguson-Florissant School District
attorney Cindy Reeds Ormsby responds to editorial advocating fixing
elections help prevent white representation X
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January 10, 2019
P-D: Blunt, Hawley, Clay weigh in on shutdown X
KWMU: Ann Wagner sees suburban St. Louis district
trending blue, urges GOP to stem national tide
AP: Government shutdown will keep HUD Secretary Ben
Carson from speaking at Governor's Prayer Breakfast
SNL: Area union leader complains about shutdown X
Farm Journal: Farmers battling the Muddy Missouri and
the Army Corps of Engineers
Brownfield Ag News: U.S. Supreme Court won't hear
state animal ag challenges; Comments from Attorney General Eric
Schmitt
KSMU: Parson appoints John Russell, former deputy
chief of staff to Gov. Matt Blunt, as Greene County commissioner
KWMU: Parson promotes black female judge to Missouri
Court of Appeals
AP: Parson appoints Robin Ransom to appeals court
KWMU: Missouri Legislature opens 2019 with an
ambitious agenda
The Missouri Times: Haahr takes role as Speaker,
promises "bold solutions"
Missourinet: Speaker Elijah Haahr outlines 2019
priorities
AP:
Lawmakers convene, pledge to work on improving education and creating
jobs
SNL: Speaker of the House Elijah Haahr (D),
Superminority Leader Crystal Quade (D) carry Springfield voices to
Capitol X
KSMU: On Day One in the Missouri House, Greene County
takes center stage
Missourinet: Springfield will have strong clout in
Missouri House in 2019
JCNT: State House optimistic about 100th session X
P-D: With new leaders in place, Missouri lawmakers
launch 100th session of the General Assembly
X
Columbia Missourian: Missouri lawmakers kick off new
legislative session with pomp and promises
Missourinet: Schatz gives glimpse into GOP's direction
this session
Missourinet: Schatz says 'right to work' passage this
session "probably unlikely"
CDT: Sen. Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) assumes new role
as Senate majority leader X
JCNT: Senate launches session with 9 new members X
Missourinet: Democratic legislative leaders hold
realistic expectations as superminority
P-D: MO DHSS following the law, will not
disclose medical marijuana applications despite reporter's request X
P-D: Parson's staff does not use "Silent Phone"
app; Missouri Highway Patrol recommended Greitens staff install
security app prior to traveling to China and Middle East X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): DESE Deputy Commissioner Roger
Dorson says fully funding foundation formula is a priority
P-D: State says air ambulance companies overly
aggressive in pursuing payments X
P-D: Gateway Journalism Review event features
impressive liberal lineup: Environmentalist Kay Drey, former Sen.
Wayne Goode (D-St. Louis), PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor X
Columbia Missourian: MoDOT to hold informational
meeting about proposed construction on bridge on U.S. 63
Washington Missourian editorial: Earmarking online
sales taxes for transportation
Joplin Globe editorial: Suggestions for GOP
supermajority: Fund transportation, create PDMP, don't change
Clean Missouri, more X
JCNT editorial: Suggestions for GOP majority:
Fund transporation, create PDMP, overhaul criminal sentencing, more X
P-D editorial: 'Clean Missouri' means what it says,
Gov. Parson. Don't mess with it. X
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: Josh Hawley - unlike his
predecessor Claire McCaskill - can't answer questions on his
feet; McCaskill did a better job dishing, spending time with
reporters X
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January 9,
2019 First day of legislative session
Priddy: Convening the session: Words of wisdom
from Jay Barnes and Jeff Smith
KWMU: Lacy Clay, black state legislators among those
hoping to fix "Clean Missouri" gerrymandering
SE
Missourian: Retiring Rep. Donna Lichtenegger (R-Jackson) embraces
'my government,' talks term limits and Greitens +
P-D: Advice from former legislators Jake Hummel, Jay
Barnes, Kevin Engler, Gail McCann Beatty +
The Missouri Times: Ashcroft says he plans to overhaul
initiative petition process in a content-neutral way
Missourinet: Marijuana bills on the upswing in
Missouri Legislature
SNL: Missouri medical marijuana trade show announced X
The Missouri Times: Rep.-elect Mary Elizabeth Coleman
(R) aims to protect minors while combatting sex trafficking
KWMU: Missouri Board of Education says you can't buy
lower teacher turnover
Missourinet: Pennsylvania-based rankings/review site
claims most neighboring states pay teachers more than Missouri;
Comments from Missouri School Boards' Association's Melissa Randol
CDT: Federal shutdown not affecting Missouri school
breakfast/lunch handouts X
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Dan Stacy (R-Blue Springs)
would institute instant runoff voting method
The Missouri Times: Former MOGOP Chair David Cole
joins Health Facilities Review Committee; 5 new Certificate of
Need applications approved
Missourinet: Capitol renovation project running on
schedule
KC Star editorial: Temporary government shutdown
affecting residents of Missouri, Kansas; Kansas Indian tribe
could face delayed improvements to HVAC system, other harrowing
atrocities
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: The case for career
politicians: We could use more like Mike Parson and fewer like
Eric Greitens
P-D editorial: Schmitt's stand against debtors'
prisons is an apt start to his new job X
P-D editorial: Changing the election system will help
prevent voters from choosing white candidates for Ferguson-Florissant
school board X
Columbia Missourian's Steve Spellman: On the Dept. of
Revenue tax-withholding tables snafu
Messenger: Schmitt joins the fight against debtors'
prisons in Missouri X
Helling: Statewide vote on St. Louis area merger is
silly; "Old and poor" St. Louis City combining with "rich and
growing" St. Louis County is of little interest to most Missourians X
P-D letter: Ferguson man says lobbyists have been
purchasing Missouri lawmakers' votes via sports tickets, free food and
"who knows what else" X
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January 8, 2019
The Missouri Times: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) to speak at
2019 Missouri Lincoln Days
P-D: Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) to keynote Missouri
Lincoln Days X
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Missourian: Oliver North to speak at Cape County Lincoln Day in
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Missourinet: Cleaver, Hartzler weigh in on border wall
AP:
Missouri revenue down 2.9 percent through first half of fiscal year
Missourinet: Schmitt wants to stop modern-day
'debtors' prisons'
Columbia Missourian: Schmitt files first amicus brief
opposing 'debtors' prisons'
P-D: Rep. Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) says House
Dems looking into allegations against Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis
City); KMOV report showed Franks falsified timesheets at
taxpayer-funded job, hid income on bankruptcy filing X
Missourinet: County officials don't want lawmakers to
transfer road maintenance to local governments
KWMU: Judge: 15,000 inmates eligible to join
lawsuit over Missouri parole practices
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep.-elect Louis Riggs
(R-Hannibal) says higher ed background will be a plus
AP:
Ferguson school district must change election board method;
Traditional at-large elections resulted in voters choosing too many
Caucasoids
KWMU: U.S. Supreme Court upholds ruling on
Ferguson-Florissant School Board elections
The Missouri Times: ACLU responds to Supreme Court
denial of elections case appeal
P-D: Parkway West eighth grader Wilson Gao earns
perfect score on SAT; Minority student chooses to work hard,
achieves success X
KWMU: State officials sit through another public
meeting on Bridgeton Landfill; Woman who chose to purchase house
near landfill complains about odor
P-D: Adam Crumbliss, other public servants hear from
landfill neighbors who dislike findings of scientific report X
P-D: Post-Dispatch to downsize, move to smaller office
building in St. Louis City X
KC Star editorial: Suggestions for GOP legislative
agenda: Repeal tax cuts, expand Medicaid, leave Clean Missouri's
gerrymandering as is, other fantasies X
JCNT editorial: Legislature bolsters local economy X
Joplin Globe editorial: Specifics needed from Missouri
Department of Conservation on Wildcat Glades Conservation & Audubon
Center X
P-D letter: St. Louis woman wonders why family
columnist/beauty-product reviewer Aisha Sultan is the sole
diversity-quota selection for editorial board - and relegated to
"adjunct member" status X
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January 7, 2019
KWMU: Parson's PAC goes public as it raises big
dollars from big donors
KWMU: Forecasting legislative issues: Early
childhood education, transportation, low income housing tax credits,
redistricting, 'right to work,' more
St. Joseph News-Press: Legislature opens with new
governor, old problems
Missourinet: Parson shares thoughts on transportation
funding, opportunies presented by Panama Canal expansion
AP:
Lawmakers to consider redistricting, sports betting
St. Joseph News-Press: Lawmakers to consider sports
betting proposals
P-D: Annual legislative preview X
KC Star: Annual legislative preview X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Panel of David
Barklage, Reps. Jean Evans, Tracy McCreery and Donna Baringer talk
about personalities of Scott Fitzpatrick, Elijah Haahr and Crystal
Quade; Tort overhaul; "Clean Missouri"; Statewide
vote on St. Louis City-St. Louis County merger; More
Washington Missourian: Legislative rookies, veteran
head to Capitol for first week of session
KWMU: Galloway finds changes to home health care saved
far less than expected
CDT: Bill from Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport) would
set limits on how early school districts can begin classes X
JCNT: Medical marijuana a step closer to reality
today; Pre-filing for license applications begins X
Phill Brooks: The art of Missouri budget
compromise: Lessons from Bob Holden and Mel Carnahan X
SNL letters: Area feminist thinks legislators should
take Equal Rights Amendment proposal seriously; St. Louis County
liberal opposes Medicaid standards; Battlefield woman threatens
to vote against Parson if he supports Amendment 1 cleanup X
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January 6, 2019
P-D: Trump supporters rally in Clayton for border wall X
St. Joseph News-Press: New to Congress, Hawley settles
in
P-D: U.S. House opens 116th Congress with party-line
votes X
KTVI (St. Louis): Minimum wage increase already
costing Missouri jobs; Local auto shop, hardware store letting
employees go due to higher wage costs
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Missourian: Local business leaders discuss negative effects of
Missouri's minimum wage increase +
Lake Sun: Businesses brace for damage caused by
minimum wage increase
SNL: Missouri lawmakers have filed 10 marijuana bills
since Amendment 2 passed. Here's a roundup. X
JCNT: 100th General Assembly convenes Wednesday X
JCNT: Jay Barnes reflects on 8 years in Missouri
Legislature: "I will not miss this at all"; Thoughts on
Mamtek, Greitens, life after politics X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep.-elect Louis Riggs
(R-Hannibal) talks primary victory, freshman bus tour
Columbia Missourian: State program for special-needs
students has failed to help a single one; Comments from former
Rep. Dwight Scharnhorst (R-High Ridge)
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Bill from Rep. Tim Remole
(R-Excello) aims to help DNR move faster on business permits
Joplin Globe: Federal, state agencies will weigh in on
plans for reservoir; Growing demand from Joplin-area residents
requires new water source X
Joplin Globe: Missouri Dept. of Conservation: No
timeline for reopening of Wildcat Glades nature center X
AP: Joplin Globe has new owner: Alabama pension
fund
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Most counties in
Missouri don't look like Kansas City or St. Louis City; Great
Northwest Day at the Capitol provides an important forum for rural
issues
JCNT editorial: Department of Corrections continues to
embarrass our state, and problems need immediate attention X
McClellan: On decision to vote for Roy Blunt over
Jason Kander, and St. Louis County Republicans hosting Joe Arpaio +
CDT's Rudi Keller: Missouri lawmakers' days of free
meals are over X
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January 5, 2019
KC Star: Most local federal workers still getting paid
during temporary shutdown; Area woman laments inability to
finance new hardwood floors X
P-D: Mass protest of federal workers opposing shutdown
draws crowd of nearly ten (10) in St. Louis City X
The Missouri Times: Initiative petition focuses on
voting by mail
Missourinet: Parson to address hundreds at Missouri
Cattlemen's Association event today in Columbia
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: December 31, 2018
P-D: Greitens records show campaign adviser Austin
Chambers communicated with governor's official staff; Comments
from former Jay Nixon spokesman Scott Holste
X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch
(R-Hallsville) jobs bills aimed at helping both military veterans and
felons find work
KFVS (Cape Girardeau): Southeast Missouri prison
inmates nurture a career in agriculture
P-D: Anti-gun advocates complain about Capitol
policy; State receives fifty (50) e-mails, letters over one-month
period X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the PSC:
January 3, 2019
KC Star editorial: Josh Hawley lectures that Democrats
'need to do their jobs.' But he didn't do his as AG. X
KC Star editorial: State screwup could be unpleasant
surprise for Missouri taxpayers. Lawmakers should help. X
KC Star's Jason Hancock: Hawley's legacy as AG centers
on unfinished Greitens investigation; Limited number of gov
office documents have been turned over by "Gov. Mike Paron [sic]" X
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Missourian letter: Jackson woman says Gov. Parson is wrong on
Amendment 1 +
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January 4, 2019
P-D: Sen. Hawley takes oath in D.C. X
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Mannies, Rosenbaum
debate which was the biggest story of the year: Hawley's defeat
of McCaskill, or Greitens' self-defeat
KWMU: Local government workers' union official
complains about government shutdown, details personal failure to
conserve her funds until next paycheck
KWMU: Activists not pleased with Trump's efforts to
roll back regulations; Comments from Sierra Club Missouri's John
Hickey
Missourinet: Missouri hospital groups respond to new
federal pricing transparency rule; Comments from Missouri
Hospital Association's Dave Dillon
The Missouri Times: Eric Schmitt sworn in as
Missouri's 43rd attorney general
AP:
Schmitt sworn in as Missouri's attorney general
Missourinet: Eric Schmitt takes office
P-D: Missouri gets a new attorney general, officials
hope for calm X
Missourinet: Fitzpatrick to be sworn in as Missouri
treasurer on January 14
The Missouri Times: Missouri conservatives' next
generation: Elijah Haahr and Scott Fitzpatrick step into the
spotlight as leaders of tomorrow
The Missouri Times: Missouri Ethics Commission fines
Kim Gardner $63k for campaign violations; Former Democratic state
rep used campaign money for Planet Fitness membership, other personal
expenses
KMOV (St. Louis): Investigation shows Rep. Bruce
Franks (D-St. Louis City) signed falsified timesheets at
taxpayer-funded job in St. Louis City
KMOV (St. Louis): Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City)
calls for boycott of TV station after news story regarding falsified
timesheets
Twitter.com/BruceFranksJr: "When you really [sic] a 24hr mentor but KMOV doesn't
u [sic] Deray's day [sic?] the ripple effect of tearing
down black leadership!"
AP:
Mid-America business index rises in December
Missourinet: Sen. Bill Eigel (R-Weldon Spring)
introduces multiple bills to limit taxation and government spending
CDT: Columbia Chamber of Commerce lists MU funding,
tax on Internet sales as priorities X
Columbia Missourian: Chamber of Commerce 2019
priorities include funding for MU, public education
CDT: Dept. of Revenue Director Joel Walters discusses
tax refund errors X
P-D: Missouri agrees to collect St. Louis Zoo sales
tax after weeks of confusion X
SNL: Missouri to release student test scores in
February X
KWMU: St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson (D), St. Louis
County Executive Steve Stenger (D) open to using statewide vote to
decide upon proposed city-county merger
KC Star editorial: St. Louis County GOP wrong to
invite Joe Arpaio to speak X
Washington Missourian editorial: State legislature
should not cap local sales taxes X
P-D editorial: Consolidation proposal for police in
smallest St. Louis County towns has merit X
P-D letter: Kirkwood man wonders why diversity
champions on Post-Dispatch editorial board do not value ideological
diversity X
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January 3, 2019
P-D: Rural Missouri voters hope Hawley remembers the
conservative principles that got him elected X
KWMU: Southeast Missourian nail manufacturer talks
tariffs
Daily
American Republic: Carter County receives $8.6 million to replace
flood-damaged courthouse, jail, sheriff department +
P-D: Missouri Ethics Commission fines Kim Gardner
$63k; Former Democratic state rep used campaign funds for
personal expenses including gym membership, hid numerous contributions
and expenditures X
P-D: Jefferson City restaurant owner discusses
negative effects of "Clean Missouri" on local economy X
The Missouri Times: Four lawmakers trade in General
Assembly for local government
KWMU: Missouri's medical marijuana program has long
road ahead
Missourinet: Extended deadline proposed for some
taxpayers as Missouri recovers from withholding error
P-D: State balks on collecting St. Louis Zoo sales tax X
Missourinet: Rep. Curtis Trent (R-Springfield)
optimistic about "Hailey's Law" in 2019
P-D: Missouri fund can help families of crime victims
pay for burials, and the process is now clear
X
Missourinet: Missouri State Highway Patrol: six
motorists killed over New Year's weekend, none wearing seat belts
SNL: Greene County says yes to state audit X
KC Star editorial: What are KC-area laws for cannabis
extract CBD? The answer is still hazy X
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Missourian editorial: Paint for a Cause project to help celebrate
state's birthday +
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: It's time for
legislators to act on PDMP
P-D op-ed: Rep. Donna Baringer (D-St. Louis
City): PDMP, heat map will help combat drug abuse in Missouri X
P-D letter: Rep. Fred Wessels (D-St. Louis
City): Parson, GOP legislators wrong to propose changes to
initiative petition process X
P-D letter: Clayton man responds to Dan Mehan, says
Missouri Chamber gets what it deserves when out-of-state liberal
interests pour money into Missouri initiatives
X
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Missourian letter: Cape Girardeau man says "Clean Missouri"
language was misleading, would taint southeast Missouri districts with
urban voters +
P-D letter: St. Louis woman says urban schools will
improve performance if state legislators stop cutting taxes and stop
supporting charter schools X
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January 2, 2019
Missourinet: Carter County gets $8.6 million to
rebuild from flood damage
The
Missouri Times - Clayton edition: Q&A with St. Louis County
NAACP President John Gaskin III
JCNT: Number of female legislators hits all-time high
in Missouri X
KWMU: Margie Vandeven, returning as Missouri's
education commissioner, wants to focus on future
Missourinet: Margie Vandeven returns to job today
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Deputy Education Commissioner
Roger Dorson discusses budget work
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Missouri School Boards'
Association's Brent Ghan says virtual school bills may resurface
Missourinet: Advocacy group backs legislation to cover
kids' developmental disabilities
Missourinet: SSM: MU Health Care is the right
candidate to purchase St. Mary's Hospitals in mid-Missouri
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: A spring rise, by any
other name; Congress must take action to protect Missouri farmland
P-D editorial: Legislature's to-do list for
2019: Expand Medicaid, ban Confide, other fantasies X
KC Star editorial: Missouri petition process needs a
tweak, not an overhaul X
St. Joseph News-Press' Alonzo Weston: Bag-Head Jheri
looks ahead to 2019: Sexagenarian columnist prints fictitious
conversation with imaginary homeless man; Topics include Trump's
stupidity, Kansas City Chiefs' upcoming defeat, other cheerful and
substantive topics
P-D letter: St. Louis man says legislators should stop
complaining about the cost of Medicaid X
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KWMU: "Our favorite photos of 2018": High school
students protest "priveleged [sic]
white boys"; Michael Brown Sr. smokes a cigarette while placing
objects in the middle of street; Illegal alien evades authorities
in Maplewood; Anti-Trump protesters march on Delmar
Boulevard; etc.
KWMU: Chairman of House committee that investigated
Greitens again calls for Ethics Commission action
The Missouri Times: House committee investigating
former governor releases final report
AP: Lawmaker review of Greitens over; MEC
complaint remains
KC Star: Rep. Jay Barnes (R-Jefferson City) says he
hopes inquiries into Greitens campaign continue
P-D: Committee investigating Greitens releases final
report X
P-D: Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio to headline St.
Louis County GOP dinner X
AP: GOP Reps. Kurt Bahr, Rick Brattin resign Monday,
shortly before terms end; Both were elected to county offices
The Missouri Times: Taylor Burks to head Division of
Labor Standards
SNL: How the minimum wage increase will affect
Missouri's smallest paychecks X
Missourinet: Minimum wage hike takes effect today
Missourinet: Missouri expects 2 percent revenue hike
P-D: Facing a potential tax bill surprise, Missourians
could get extension to pay X
Missourinet: Missouri still looking to expand rural
broadband access
St. Joseph News-Press' Ken Newton: Parson should give
up on attempt to change "Clean Missouri" provisions
The Missouri Times op-ed: Pat Dougherty: Four
gifts for the 2019 General Assembly
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Missourian letter: Local septuagenarian Democrat unhappy with
delay on implementing marijuana law, GOP efforts to clean up Amendment
1, other transgressions +
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