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Friday, March 30
KCUR: Area illegals fear enforcement of immigration
laws; Advocacy group claims nearly 20,000 anchor babies live in
KC area
JCNT: Missouri River Regional Library hosts discussion
on immigration policy X
Brownfield Ag News: Americans for Farmers and Families
launches project to protect ag from trade retaliation; Former
Rep. Casey Guernsey (R) spearheads effort
St. Joseph News-Press: With November victory, Sam
Graves will set record for 6th District terms
X
St. Joseph News-Press: Video: Graves talks guns,
border wall and Trump X
Clayton Times: Lacy Clay to speak at Clayton Township
Democrats monthly meeting
SE
Missourian: Lincoln Day dinner speaker Alveda King injured, won't
attend; Pro-life advocate Gianna Jensen will headline instead +
JCNT: Mollie Freebairn to try again for state
Senate; Democrat came within eighty (80) points of victory in
2014 nail-biter X
Drebes:
Patricia Churchill to rep Missouri Supreme Court
Kirksville Daily Express: Treasurer Eric Schmitt touts
loan program for small businesses
KTVO (Kirksville): Schmitt's new lending program cuts
red tape for small business owners
JCNT: Missouri lawmakers honor scores of Vietnam
Veterans X
The Missouri Times: In Fox News interview, Hawley
calls situation with Greitens 'very grave'
JCNT: Special House committee investigating Greitens
meets at Capitol X
Missourinet: Missouri House approves $28 billion
budget after Bourbon virus takes center stage
KWMU: Missouri House sends $28 billion budget to the
Senate
AP:
House GOP budget boosts funding for early education
P-D: Missouri House sends its budget to the Senate X
KC Star: Education wins in House budget X
Missourinet: House debate shows diverse views on
sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols
KWMU: Missouri Senate gives first-round approval to
tax cut proposal
AP:
Senate leaders express concerns about plan to overhaul state's taxes
The Missouri Times: Senate votes to lower cap on
historic tax credits
SNL: Citing Greene County's legal bills, Senate votes
to give more power to state auditor X
Columbia Missourian: Opioid, marijuana legislation
making its way through Legislature
The Missouri Times: General Assembly rolls back
restrictions on college degree programs
SE
Missourian: Dicamba lawsuits will play out in Cape courtroom +
Joplin Globe editorial: Statue of Truman should
replace Francis Preston Blair Jr. in Statuary Hall X
P-D editorial: Missouri Senate makes the same insane
tax-cut mistake, hopes for different result X
KCUR's Dan Margolies: State of Missouri pays the price
for trying to undermine Obamacare
P-D letter: Richmond Heights septuagenarian urges
sophisticated St. Louis liberal youths to educate rural hayseeds about
benefits of gun control X
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Thursday, March 29
KC Star: McCaskill asked black leaders to push back on
criticism of her campaign. No one would. X
Politico: Obama will appear at McCaskill fundraiser in
Beverly Hills
P-D: GOP rejoices in news of McCaskill-Obama Beverly
Hills party X
KWMU: Local National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
leader prepares for new headquarters and more demand for analysis
Drebes:
Freedom, Inc. fined by Missouri Ethics Commission for botching
disclosures on 741 expenditures for 21 campaigns
P-D: Greitens goes on offense with new radio ad
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Missouri Chief Justice Zel
Fischer addresses gathering in Moberly
The Missouri Times: Unions rally against 'right to
work' at Capitol
JCNT: Unions rally against 'right to work' X
Missourinet: Unions rally at Capitol against 'right to
work'
KWMU: Unions rally against 'right to work,' other bills
JCNT: General Laws Committee hears from Rowden, 'right
to work' supporters X
SNL: Popular Missouri income tax deduction will
probably double next year X
The Missouri Times: Senate gives initial approval to
Eigel's massive tax overhaul measure
Missourinet: Missouri Senate gives initial approval to
sweeping tax plan
P-D: Missouri Senate passes massive tax-cut package
KC Star: Missouri Senate passes income-tax cut X
KWMU: Missouri House finishes amending state
budget; vote scheduled today
P-D: Gas-tax hike receiving renewed attention from
Missouri lawmakers
JCNT: MoDOT prepares for 9-bridge repair project X
The Missouri Times: Per Rule 47, arbitration bill
shelved
KWMU: GOP bill would require specific signage at
schools where teachers carry firearms
KC Star: Bill from Rep. Shawn Rhoades (R-West Plains)
would expand right-to-carry areas X
Columbia Missourian: Gun debate heats up
The Missouri Times: Missouri AARP pushes for
Franklin's CARE Act to aid family caregivers
The Missouri Times: Rowden's sports-betting bill
advances out of committee
KC Star: Bill from Rep. Becky Ruth (R-Festus) would
help first-time home buyers X
P-D editorial: Court ruling frees "retirement
investors [sic]" to profit
against clients' best interests; Rep. Ann Wagner wrong to fight
regulatory overreach X
P-D editorial: Lawmakers consider reversing
post-Ferguson court reforms passed just three years ago X
SNL editorial: Missouri has processes to hold
officials accountable. They just don't work.
X
P-D letter: Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition
thanks Blunt for preserving incentives for adoption X
KC Star letters: Springfield septuagenarian expresses
resentment over young people's "overpriced, fancy phones," says
Missouri legislators will put olds and the handicapped in dog
shelters; KC septuagenarian says the 250 voters registered at
gun-control rally will flip control of Congress and the Missouri
Legislature X
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Wednesday, March 28
The Missouri Times: Candidate filing ends:
Comprehensive list of all candidates for Missouri's state and federal
offices
KWMU: No big last-minute surprises as Missouri's
candidate filing ends
JCNT: Democrats running against incumbent Republican
congressmen sign "Our Promise to America" document, use imaginations to
describe a world in which they are winners X
CDT: Missouri Democrats take realistic view of
November success, accept fate as legislative minority; Rep. Kip
Kendrick (D-Columbia) says 2018 will be "rebuilding" year X
AP:
Overview of federal, state candidate filings
SNL: McCaskill calls for 'common-sense gun safety' at
MSU forum X
P-D: Clay blasts Dept. of Commerce decision to add
citizenship question to 2020 Census, says asking about legal status is
"racist"
SE
Missourian: Naturalization ceremony to take place in April +
This Week
in Missouri Politics: Mid-week update: Judge Rex Burlison's
wise decision, Greitens' team political and legal strategy, Ike Turner
Republicans, much more
KWMU: Jefferson County could be canary in coal mine
for Missouri GOP
Missourinet: Unions to bus in members for anti-'right
to work' rally at Capitol today
Drebes:
Kids Win Missouri seeks director of policy and advocacy
The Missouri Times: Budget perfected: House
restores proposed cuts to education, agrees to tuition cap with
universities
SNL: House, university leaders strike deal to restore
Greitens' cuts to colleges X
Columbia Missourian: UM stands to get $14 million in
exchange for a 1 percent tuition cap
AP:
Missouri House, state schools work out funding deal
Missourinet: Agreement between schools and legislature
to boost funding for higher education
P-D: House moving to restore proposed cuts to education X
P-D freelancer Virginia Young: Missouri legislators
can go to school on the state's dime X
Missourinet: Budget moving to House floor restores
some funding for MoDOT
Columbia Missourian: Lawsuit limits earn favor in
state legislature
The Missouri Times: Curtman's bill legalizing
industrial hemp approved by Senate committee
Missourinet: MetroLink officials tell Missouri
lawmakers they need a dedicated transit police force
The Missouri Times: Five expedited Certificate of
Needs approved
KWMU: How Missouri is making it easier to transfer
college credits
SE
Missourian: Hawley broadens inquiry into Mississippi County jail +
KC Star editorial: Missouri Republicans taking needed
steps to lift veil of government secrecy X
P-D editorial: Judge Rex Burlison eases concerns about
his impartiality in the Greitens case X
KC Star's Tod Palmer: State Senate candidate Hillary
Shields (D), Lee's Summit students are local heroes in fight for gun
control X
St. Joseph News-Press' Alonzo Weston: Bag Head's not
dead yet; Sexagenarian columnist imagines conversation between
himself and fictitious Jheri-curl adorned grifter regarding guns and
other hot topics X
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Tuesday, March 27
KWMU: McCaskill calls for more federal attention to
rising drug prices
SNL: In Springfield speech, Blunt praises Trump's
results and splits with him on trade X
SNL: Video: Blunt on omnibus spending bill,
gun-control marches, Kudlow, transportation funding, more X
The Missouri Times: As Clinton unfavorability in
Missouri hits 62 percent, Missouri Rising pins McCaskill to Clinton
Missourinet: Hawley ad links McCaskill to Clinton
ripping Trump voters
The Missouri Times: Walsh happy with November date for
'right to work' vote
The Missouri Times: Anti-corporate ag group leader
garners ethics complaint for not registering as lobbyist
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of March 19, 2018
The Missouri Times: Judge denies Greitens' defense
team's request for trial by judge
KWMU: Jury will hear felony trial of Greitens
Missourinet: Greitens trial will be decided by a jury,
not a judge
Missourinet: Judge rejects request by Greitens' legal
team to dismiss felony case
AP:
Judge lets indictment of Greitens go forward
JCNT: 1965 ruling backs judge's trial-by-jury decision
in Greitens' case X
P-D: Judge denies motion to dismiss Greitens case X
P-D: Greitens' appointment czar quietly left
administration in January X
Drebes: Missouri tax policy could use a guy like Joel
Walters
Missourinet: Missouri lawmakers set to begin hammering
out a budget plan
P-D: Missouri House endorses abortion ban for unborn
babies older than 20 weeks X
Missourinet: House gives initial approval to ban most
abortions after 20 weeks
P-D: New mothers grappling with addiction could get
more help getting clean in Missouri X
The Missouri Times: Bills to strengthen Sunshine Law
heard in committee
Columbia Missourian: Sunshine Law would get stronger
enforcement under new bill
KC Star: After actions by Greitens, lawmakers take up
bills to bolster open records laws X
Missourinet: Curtman: Industrial hemp bill would
"keep Missouri economic development dollars in Missouri"
The Missouri Times: Roden unsuccessful in adding
'Champ's Law' as amendment to service dog bill
KWMU: Some rural Missouri schools contract with
private security firm to teach teachers proper firearms use
Columbia Missourian: Update on utility legislation
JCNT: Missouri lawmakers to honor Vietnam veterans
Thursday X
Missourinet: House committee considers bill with
consequences for racial profiling by police
P-D editorial: Hawley puts needed distance between
himself and Greitens X
KC Star letters: Gun-control march reaction:
Teenage girl detests NRA and the "pit" of America; Septuagenarian
woman dislikes "horrible" NRA X
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Monday, March 26
The Hill: On MSNBC, McCaskill distances herself from
Hillary Clinton
Washington Examiner: McCaskill slams Hillary
Clinton: She needs to respect all Americans, 'not just the ones
who voted for her'
Washington Missourian: Feds' new bill would boost
military here; Blunt secures hundreds of millions
St. Joseph News-Press: Effect of federal tax law could
extend to other utilities X
Columbia Missourian: At "Wine, Women and Words" event,
Black Women with Voices endorse Renee Hoagenson (D) over Vicky
Hartzler; Group members read poems about fried chicken,
gardening, other spellbinding imagery
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Sen. Gina Walsh
(D-Bellefontaine Neighbors) talks prevailing wage, choosing when to
filibuster, Greitens, more; Panel of Aaron Baker, Angela
Bingaman, Joe Patterson, Pat White talk prevailing wage, McCaskill vs.
Hawley, more
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Scott
Sifton (D-Affton) talks with Mannies & Rosenbaum about cracking
down on dark money, heroin, Greitens and Missouri Ethics Commission
vacancies, more
Columbia Missourian: The dark-money battle over 'right
to work': Business groups vs. "We are Missouri"
Missourinet: Court documents outline strategy of
Greitens' defense team and St. Louis City prosecutors
The Missouri Times: Coalition of media organizations
calls for broadcast coverage of Greitens trial
AP:
Missouri Legislature resumes work amid investigations
AP: Bill targets lawsuits in 'plaintiff-friendly' St.
Louis City
AP: Missouri workplace bill dies amid "#metoo" trend
Missourinet: Missouri Senate bill would phase out most
electronic voting machines
SNL: United Healthcare Foundation report: Too
many Missouri women drinking to excess and doing drugs, as well as
smoking while pregnant X
KC Star editorial: McCaskill and Wagner battle sex
trafficking on Backpage - and score a bipartisan win X
KC Star letter: Ecumenical Leadership Council of
Missouri praises Democratic prosecutor Kim Gardner, insists that
Greitens will be treated fairly X
SNL letter: Springfield man dislikes Elijah Haahr's
tax cuts X
P-D letter: St. Louis woman talks pot brownies, wants
Missouri lawmakers to be "a little less uptight" about marijuana X
P-D letter: O'Fallon man notes Post-Dispatch hypocrisy
in bashing Facebook while requiring commenters to log into Facebook X
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Sunday, March 25
P-D: Thousands march in downtown St. Louis for gun
control; McCaskill poses for selfies X
P-D: Photo gallery: Black Lives Matter activists
pound African drums, shout during separate "silent protest" X
KWMU: Gun-control rally photo gallery: Lacy Clay
primary opponent Cori Bush attempts to march near incumbent;
Youth raise "Black Power" fists; More
KC Star: Gun-control rally in KC draws
thousands; Pro-2nd Amendment attendee draws "rebukes and stares" X
SNL: Former Gov. Bob Holden (D) headlines Springfield
gun-control rally X
SNL: Photo gallery: "Hey, NRA, Stop Being a
DICK," other efficacious signs X
CDT: Residents march for gun control X
Columbia Missourian: Students lead march for gun
control
Columbia Missourian: Photo gallery: Student
holds sign blaming "complissit [sic]"
legislators; Caucasoid
senior citizen sports Kangol hat; more
SNL: Blunt, Long, Greitens speak at Greene County
Lincoln Day event; Hawley attends St. Louis County Lincoln Day X
SNL: Photo gallery: Sen. Roy Blunt talks with
state Senate candidate Eric Burlison, more X
SNL: Auditor Galloway, Greene County saga becomes
campaign issue for GOP state auditor candidates X
Drebes:
Former Sen. Rita Days (D) to run for mayor of Bel-Nor
Washington Missourian: Preview: Second half of
Missouri legislative session
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Industrial hemp bill to be
discussed tomorrow
KC Star: Medical boards don't post disciplinary
actions from other states; KC doctor was sued 13 times in Illinois X
Washington Missourian editorial: Missouri's roads,
bridges may have to become worse before federal and state legislators
do anything X
Horrigan: U.S. Senate matchup likely to pit
private-school product Josh Hawley versus "Country Claire" McCaskill
SNL op-ed: Rep. Sonya Anderson (R-Springfield):
Preserve NAFTA to help agricultural producers
X
SNL op-ed: Ron Fitzwater: McCaskill, Blunt have
opportunity to help stop opioid overdoses X
SNL op-ed: Rep. Steve Helms (R-Springfield):
Real payday loan reform X
Sanchez: Profile: Cheryl Pilate, attorney for
murderer Russell Bucklew X
KC Star op-ed: Stacy Washington: We don't need
larger semi-trucks on Missouri roads X
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Saturday, March 24
P-D: Congressional votes for the week: A look at
who voted "Yes" and "Not" [sic] X
KWMU: Rural schools getting their cut of federal
logging revenue again
KWMU: Event promo: "March for Our Lives"
gun-control rally
KC Star: Event promo: "March for Our Lives"
gun-control rally X
Missourinet: Gun-control groups plan marches in eight
Missouri cities today
SNL: Springfield school walkouts: Area girl
calling herself "Aaron" says she will shoot NRA; Counterprotests
feature patriotic students waving American flags, vowing to make
America safe again X
The Missouri Times: Analysis: What a federal
court's ruling on "dark money" means for Missouri
KWMU: As the Greitens World Turns: Weekly update
on events in ongoing saga
The Missouri Times: Hawley confirms 15 subpoenas
issued in The Mission Continues investigation
The Missouri Times: With subpoena power, Hawley would
reopen Confide investigation
KWMU: Hawley steps up pressure in The Mission
Continues inquiry
Missourinet: Hawley calls on those subpoenaed to
cooperate in Greitens investigation
P-D: Hawley's office has issued subpoenas in
investigation of Greitens' veterans charity X
KWMU: Gardner alleges Greitens could have used
text-erasing app in invasion of privacy case
Faughn: Updating the players in the Greitens
investigation
Messenger: Of judges, appearances of impropriety and
Gov. Eric Greitens: A tale of two cases
P-D: Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner (D): Greitens
used message-destroying app in invasion of privacy case X
KC Star: Prosecutors seek to disqualify Greitens'
defense team ahead of his felony trial X
Drebes:
Ethics complaints against Rep. Mary Nichols (D-Maryland Heights)
dismissed
JCNT: Greitens reports possible Blind Pension Fund
fraud X
AP: Hundreds of licensed Missouri drivers receive
blind benefits
KWMU: Preview: Second half of legislative session
Missourinet: Democrats preview second half of
session; Thoughts from House Superminority Leader Gail McCann
Beatty (D-Kansas City)
KC Star: Marriage-bill advocacy series: Missouri
seeks to toughen child bride law X
CDT op-ed: "Phil [sic]
Brooks": The decline of committee hearings X
SE
Missourian op-ed: Cape Girardeau physician Richard Martin:
Medical marijuana legislation is a bad idea +
KC Star letter: Salisbury farmer glad Blunt, others
understand value of NAFTA to Missouri's ag community X
P-D letter: Sen. Jill Schupp (D-Creve Coeur):
Gun background checks make sense X
P-D letter: St. Charles sexagenarian wants Legislature
to beef up no-call list enforcement X
P-D letter: St. Louis Earth Day's Jennifer
DeRose: Time for Legislature to support ban on Styrofoam X
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Friday, March 23
KC Star: McCaskill undecided on Mike Pompeo as
secretary of state X
Missourinet: McCaskill says metal tariffs will hurt
Missouri's manufacturing and agriculture industries
SNL: Hawley ad tying McCaskill to Clinton draws praise
from Rush Limbaugh X
The Missouri Times: Hawley's office pushes back
against criticism from Democratic lawyers
CDT: At hearing, Hartzler highlights Russian troll
attack during MU race agitation X
Missourinet: Hartzler: Americans "need to wake
up" to nefarious efforts of Russian Twitter trolls
KC Star: New census numbers show Kansas City holding
ground, St. Louis slipping X
The Missouri Times: Amendment 2 provision barring
businesses from contributing to their own PACs being challenged in court
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: State auditor
candidate series: Nicole Galloway offers election preview:
"I am tough and I am thorough"
KC Star: Republicans may move 'right to work' election
to August X
KWMU: Missouri Ethics Commission in limbo without a
quorum
Missourinet: Ex-husband of Greitens' lover seeks order
of protection from the governor
P-D: Top Greitens aides say legal woes are not a
distraction
KWMU: Schmitt seeks to make state loan program more
accessible
KC Business Journal: Missouri revamps loan program to
better support small businesses, farmers
Missourinet: Schmitt launches program to help expand
small businesses and farms
JCNT: Efforts to changes state's employee culture
moving forward X
KC Star: Bill from Sen. Ed Emery (R-Lamar) would
protect whistleblowing professors at Missouri universities X
Columbia Missourian: Moms Demand Action, other groups
recruiting students for gun-control march; Student "organizer"
says Saturday traipse will help candidates "clean of NRA money"
SNL: Students hold gun-control rally; Sen. Bob
Dixon (R-Springfield), local elected officials sit through lectures
from teenagers X
Columbia Missourian: 'How a bill becomes a law'
series: Overview
Columbia Missourian: 'How a bill becomes a law'
series: Drafting a bill
Columbia Missourian: 'How a bill becomes a law'
series: Legislative hearings
Hannibal Courier-Post: Missouri Dept. of Conservation
investigating after white pelicans shot X
Missourinet: Nasheed asks HUD secretary to come to
Missouri for emergency meeting on Clinton Peabody
P-D: Nasheed, Franks lead protest over public housing
project's living conditions
KC Star editorial: Missouri not doing enough to
protect elections from foreign meddling X
CDT editorial: Let free market decide University of
Missouri's tuition X
P-D editorial: Missouri prisons shouldn't come
equipped with revolving doors
P-D's Raasch: McCaskill, Blunt, Hawley camps give
statements on Cambridge Analytica
KC Star letter: Kansas man sides with lawmakers versus
DHSS over Bourbon virus data X
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Thursday, March 22
SE
Missourian: McCaskill touts passing of bill targeting sex
trafficking +
P-D: Long fight against online sex trafficking for
McCaskill, Wagner culminates in Senate passage
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt race to avoid sending
federal workers home from looming shutdown
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: GOP U.S.
Senate primary candidate Tony Monetti talks to Mannies & Rosenbaum
about his military service, support for more significant tax cuts, more
Drebes:
Rex Returns: Sinquefield tosses $250k to Missouri Club for
Growth, could play in McCaskill race
SE
Missourian: Cape County Democrats to attend St. Louis gun-control
rally Saturday +
SNL: Mystery Springfield statehouse candidate says his
main concern in eugenic sterilization; Dennis Lee Chilton says
running as a Democrat meant enduring too much "crap" X
KWMU: Census Bureau: St. Louis no longer among
the top 20 most populous metro areas
P-D: St. Louis region falls out of the Top 20 metros
in the U.S.
KWMU: Judge in Greitens' case will not speed up trial
date
P-D: St. Louis judge keeps May 14 trial date in
Greitens case
AP: Experts: Plenty of reasons for Greitens to
seek bench trial
JCNT: Six Democratic lawyers challenge Hawley's
'Confide' investigation X
JCNT: Parson splits with Greitens on sports complex
tax credits X
Missourinet: Rep. Curtis Trent (R-Springfield) talks
rural broadband
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: March 21, 2018
KWMU: Judge finds St. Louis County public defenders
have unconstitutionally high caseloads; ACLU also sued state in
federal court last year
SNL: Condemned man still wants Missouri to kill him
with gas instead of needles X
SNL: Galloway renews call for Greene County audit X
KC Star editorial: Missouri GOP attacks the poor by
saying no cigarettes, booze with welfare money
X
JCNT editorial: Missouri earns A+ for adult education X
KC Star editorial: Community theater is not sufficient
community service in death of Brandon Ellingson X
P-D op-ed: Sen. Claire McCaskill: Combatting sex
trafficking and stopping the next Backpage
KC Star letters: KC man thinks students'
class-skipping will "make a difference" to GOP legislators; Lee's
Summit man says MO DNR ignores the rights of local residents X
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Wednesday, March 21
KWMU: Hundreds of veterans in Missouri lost out on
care at non-VA facilities, report says
SNL: Missouri to get $28 million in federal funding
for conservation, outdoor recreation X
Drebes:
Help Wanted: DESE seeks government affairs coordinator
P-D: Obituary: Visitation, funeral arrangements
for Rep. Cloria Brown
The Missouri Times: Schmitt announces Missouri FIRST
initiative to help small businesses and farmers
KY3: Schmitt promotes loan program in Springfield
SNL: Lifting limits on small-business loans will spur
economy, State Treasurer Eric Schmitt says X
JCNT: State program overhaul to benefit farmers, small
business owners X
JCNT: Galloway launches second audit into income tax
refunds process X
SNL: Hawley's office: 'Not unusual' that
Greitens' lawyer monitored staff's Confide interviews X
KWMU: Greitens' attorneys say prosecutor misled grand
jurors about the law
AP:
Greitens attorneys: No evidence photo was transmitted
Missourinet: Greitens' attorneys question whether key
photo exists
KWMU: A closer look at the House committee that wields
power over Greitens' future
Missourinet: Dixon overhauling bill to bring LGBT and
religious freedom groups together
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rural broadband bill passes out
of House
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Senate passes industrial hemp bill
Missourinet: Anti-payday-loan group supports bill
capping interest
SNL: Springfield Public Schools to let students skip
class Friday for gun-control rally X
KWMU: U.S. Supreme Court grants second stay of
execution for Russell Bucklew
Missourinet: Prosecutor calls murderer who escapes
execution a "homicidal Energizer bunny"
KC Star: U.S. Supreme Court halts execution of Russell
Bucklew at last minute X
AP:
Bucklew gets second stay of execution from high court
JCNT editorial: Raise the age for juvenile criminals -
it's the right thing to do X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Big shift in remedial
higher ed courses at Missouri's state schools
X
P-D op-ed: Rep. Stacey Newman (D-Richmond
Heights): Basye, Cornejo and some Democrats are wrong on gun
control
Jensen:
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P-D letter: Coalition to Protect the Missouri River
calls Messenger's column 'divisive'
P-D letter: Richmond Heights man wants more state
government regulation of opioids
KC Star letter: Man who chooses to live in Kansas
passes judgment on Missouri budget decisions
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Tuesday, March 20
Brownfield Ag News: Blunt, other senators keep
pressure on Trump over Renewable Fuel Standard
Missourinet: Missouri Catholic policy group supports
bill to protect pro-life health providers
JCNT: 'Growing Pains' star charms at Vitae Foundation
event X
The Missouri Times: In campaign ad, Hawley highlights
McCaskill's support of Hillary Clinton
KC Star: NRSC event tomorrow will raise money for
Hawley X
KWMU: Rep. Cloria Brown (R-St. Louis County) dies
after battle with cancer
The Missouri Times: Missourians mourn passing of Rep.
Cloria Brown (R-St. Louis County)
Missourinet: Speaker Todd Richardson: "Missouri
has lost a humble public servant in Cloria Brown"
SNL: Dee Wampler's 10-year-old granddaughter dies
after public battle with cancer X
CDT: Friends, family remember Lizzy Wampler X
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Missouri Republican Party seeks administrative
assistant
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Mini-profiles of
local activist youths: Coed pushing gun control, Black Lives
Matter/girl power/LGBTQIA* teen, pro-life Catholic Caucasoid male
Clayton Times: Greitens defense team wants to move up
trial date
KWMU: Greitens' defense team looks to speed up trial -
again
P-D: Greitens wants trial to start in two weeks and
will ask for judge, not jury, to hear case
AP:
Greitens wants criminal trial moved up to April 3
KC Star: Subpoenas issued as part of investigation of
Greitens' use of charity donor list X
The Missouri Times: Republicans could move 'right to
work' vote to August
Missourinet: Rep. Mike Henderson (R-Bonne Terre) wants
to ban texting-while-driving in Missouri's school zones
SE
Missourian: Judge rejects government defendants' arguments in
personal-injury lawsuit +
Missourinet: Former Missourinet news director Bob
Priddy to be inducted into Missouri Broadcasters Association Hall of
Fame
Missourinet: Three options remain for Missouri man
scheduled to be executed today
KC Star editorial: Missourians can't trust Hawley
investigation into Greitens' use of text-destroying app X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri taxpayers
deserve more from SNAP recipients abusing the system X
SE
Missourian's Adrienne Ross: Turning pupils into protesters;
Students used as pawns for anti-Trump and anti-NRA liberals +
KC Star op-ed: Abortionist Colleen McNicholas:
Missouri's pro-life health clinics must be shut down X
KC Star's Allison Kite: Missouri Republicans' budget
cuts are punishing your grandma X
KC Star letter: Anti-death-penalty group applauds
Star's anti-death-penalty editorial X
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Monday, March 19
Politico: In Missouri and other key states,
Republicans bet their Senate majority on Trump
This Week in Missouri Politics: Panel of Rep. Phil
Christofanelli (R-St. Charles), Gregg Keller, Mark Dalton, JP Johnson
on U.S. Senate race, Haahr's tax cut plan, Greitens and MEC, more
SNL: Local officials don't know Springfield candidate
who registered as Republican and Democrat X
P-D: Halftime report: Despite Greitens
distraction, Missouri Legislature moving forward on key priorities
Missourinet: Richardson is hopeful Missouri House will
decide on transportation funding solution by May
P-D: EPA extends rebates to Missouri schools for
cleaner bus upgrades
SNL: Activists plan gun-control event Friday;
MSU coed says policy goal is "not to take away all your guns," just
"the bad ones" X
Missourinet: Still on Missouri Legislature's
agenda: Seat belt law, texting-while-driving, boat dock safety
P-D: The Bottom Line video series: Business
reporters David Nicklaus and Jim Gallagher talk changes at the St.
Louis Regional Chamber
AP:
Bucklew execution scheduled for tomorrow
Missourinet: Bucklew set to be executed tomorrow
P-D editorial: Immigration officials should give
illegal aliens in Missouri a break
P-D editorial: It's time for Mike Parson to replace
Eric Greitens as governor
KC Star editorial: Abolish the death penalty in
Missouri X
KC Star's editorial: Why Greitens should halt
tomorrow's execution of a guilty man X
P-D's Samantha Liss: Courageous St. Louis women take
on the gun lobby; Come support "March for Our Lives" and attend
the next Moms Demand Action meeting
Messenger: Corporate donations drive Missouri push to
limit residents' access to courts
P-D letter: Archdiocese maintains opposition to death
penalty
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Sunday, March 18
P-D: Congressional votes for the week
Drebes:
Stacy Reliford going to Pfizer
P-D: Democrats called his Greitens investigation a
'sham.' Now, the investigator is defending himself.
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia)
talks about lack of quorum on Ethics Commission
AP: Missouri lawmakers, DHSS battle over Bourbon virus
data
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Brian Munzlinger
(R-Williamstown) talks gas tax, diesel tax
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Lindall Shumake (R-Hannibal)
talks benefits of prevailing wage bill
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri prisoners to receive
smart tablets X
Washington Missourian: Students split on gun
issues; Some call for gun control, others want teachers to be
able to carry firearms X
P-D: Rockwood sixth-grader repeats as winner of
Post-Dispatch spelling bee; Minority female chooses to study
hard, achieves goal
Missourinet: Bill would make theatre in Arrow Rock the
state's official theatre
CDT: Galloway's office releases report on civil
seizures X
Washington Missourian editorial: Missouri River
flooding: Not nature, the Corps to blame
X
Waters: Columbia Public Schools handled school
walk-outs correctly X
P-D letter: St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society
supports Schupp's bill on "surprise billing"
P-D letter: University City woman upset about decision
to live in a state that is "gun-obsessed"
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Saturday, March 17 Happy Saint
Patrick's Day!
The
Monett Times: District reps for McCaskill, Blunt, Long talks
tariffs, banking bill, gun control at Chamber breakfast;
Fitzpatrick talks state budget, higher ed funding, more
The Missouri Times: Hawley becomes latest Republican
target for a Democratic ethics complaint
Drebes:
Help Wanted: American Cancer Society seeks Missouri government
relations director
SNL: Hawley's office didn't challenge Greitens'
executive privilege claim, fearing backfire X
JCNT: Assistant AG defends Sunshine probes X
KWMU: As the Greitens World Turns: Miniseries
hosted by Mannies & Rosenbaum recaps the week in gubernatorial drama
KWMU: Halftime arrives for Missouri 2018 legislative
session
Washington Missourian: State committee votes for cuts
to DHSS budget over Bourbon virus reporting X
Missourinet: House to debate Haahr tax bill after
Spring Break
Columbia Missourian: Missouri House supports bill
cracking down on welfare abuse
Washington Missourian: Twin Bi-State Development bills
moving quickly through Legislature
The Missouri Times: House approves Gregory's bill for
state to regulate amateur MMA, kickboxing
Columbia Missourian: Bill pushes for mental health
services, active shooter training in schools
Missourinet: Holiday weekend includes statewide
Missouri State Highway Patrol enforcement
AP:
Activists seek release of inmate Bobby Bostic; Budding criminal
and pal robbed and shot at a group delivering presents for the needy,
then carjacked and sexually assaulted a woman, then celebrated with a
dope party
P-D editorial briefs: Greitens and Missouri Ethics
Commission; GOP crackdown on welfare recipients' frivolous
spending
KC Star editorial: Missouri may legalize sports betting X
CDT editorial: Wendy Noren was a legend X
KC Star's Max Londberg: Bobby Bostic should be freed
from jail X
SNL letter: Joplin feminist angry over Dixon's support
of faith-based pregnancy resource centers X
St. Joseph News-Press letter: Faucett man urges
lawmakers to keep historic tax credits X
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Friday, March 16
P-D: Democrat lawyer Jane Dueker says Hawley broke the
law by not disclosing free legal services he received
KWMU: Attorneys for Greitens say they still don't have
photo at center of felony case
SNL: Greitens gets to choose the people who will
investigate him for an ethics violation X
The Missouri Times: Senators not happy about lame duck
Ethics Commission, suggest Lt. Gov. Mike Parson make MEC appointments
The Missouri Times: Before losing quorum, Missouri
Ethics Commission selects new chair and vice chair
JCNT: Senators discuss options without active Ethics
Commission X
AP:
Lawmakers voice concerns about Ethics Commission
Missourinet: Missouri Senate weighing options for MEC
P-D: After complaint, Greitens choosing ethics
committee is a "constitutional crisis," Dixon says
SNL: NYU Law School report: Greitens' nonprofit
an example of 'secret cash' trend X
P-D: Profile: Lobbyist Edens Davis
P-D: Greitens visits Cherokee Street shop whose owner
is being harassed for supporting police
Missourinet: Spring Break update: Mid-session
comments from Speaker Todd Richardson, House Superminority Leader Gail
McCann Beatty
Missourinet: Missouri House members deliver on threat
to cut health department over virus info
The Missouri Times: Kolkmeyer's venue and joinder bill
moving to Senate
The Missouri Times: House moves forward on rural
broadband grant program
KWMU: Senate discusses legislation to bring broadband
to rural Missouri
Columbia Missourian: Grant to improve Missouri
broadband access passes House
AP:
House votes to stiffen penalties for welfare fraud
KWMU: Some Missouri schools allow teachers to carry
firearms to protect themselves, students
Washington Missourian: Bill would raise juvenile court
age
Missourinet: Missouri Senate approves bill on
industrial hemp
KWMU: House Democrats pushing bill to ban foreign
ownership of Missouri farmland
Washington Missourian editorial: Leadership
vacuum: Response to state employee survey story from SNL's Will
Schmitt X
JCNT editorial: Senate takes first step toward fixing
state roads, bridges X
KC Star editorial: GOP lawmaker wrong to want to
install porn-blocking software on computers X
SE
Missourian editorial: Annual Sunshine Week editorial +
KC Star's Melinda Henneberger: McCaskill "helped
shape" a very bad banking bill X
Messenger: Landmark ruling cements flooding
reality: The Missouri River needs room to roam
KC Star's Tessa Weinberg: New limits on food stamps
will hurt children X
P-D letter: Teenage girl who skipped class in name of
gun-control activism says playing hooky was "amazing and inspiring"
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Thursday, March 15
KWMU: Trump touches down in St. Louis to bolster
Hawley's Senate bid
P-D: At Boeing roundtable, Trump hears about benefits
of his tax overhaul package
P-D: Photo gallery: Trump visit
AP:
Trump visits Missouri
Washington Post: In St. Louis speech, Trump pokes fun
at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, describes negotiations
KWMU: Landowners win suit against Army Corps of
Engineers for Missouri River flood damage
KC Star: Judge says Corps of Engineers is responsible
for damaging floods along Missouri River X
AP:
Judge: Corps responsible for flooding on Missouri River
P-D: Man investigating Greitens affair was himself
investigated by the FBI for bigamy
SNL: Complaint alleges Greitens lied to Missouri
Ethics Commission about donor list X
AP: New complaint from Roy Temple cites Greitens' use
of charity resources
The Missouri Times: Uncertainty surrounds Greitens'
legal defense as lobbyist gift from former 'at no cost' attorneys
The Missouri Times: Barnes confirms subpoenas have
been used in investigation
Missourinet: Barnes updates reporters about Missouri
House committee investigating Greitens' indictment
JCNT: Barnes: House investigative committee "on
track" X
KWMU: Committee investigating Greitens indictment has
issued subpoenas, but other details scant
CDT: No deal on tuition freeze as House panel reviews
budget X
The Missouri Times: Still waiting on tuition freeze
deal, House committee signs off on budget bills
SNL: House lawmakers carve out funding for Springfield
medical campus, pharmacy school X
Drebes:
Background on Carol Jones, her Capitol lobbyists and why they're trying
to block HB 1650
KWMU: Advocates see Missouri case as the next frontier
in juvenile sentencing reform
JCNT: Communications workers bring state employee
complaints to Capitol X
The Missouri Times: House bill divides Berry's utility
bill in two, gives initial approval
The Missouri Times: Organizations call on Legislature
to pass utility rate caps, House moving forward with bills
Missourinet's Jason Taylor: Utility legislation moves
further than previous years in Missouri with passage of House
bill; Comments from Rep. "Peter Meredith [sic]"
KC Star's Tessa Weinberg: Marriage-bill advocacy
series: Bill from Rep. Jean Evans (R-Manchester) supported by
U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner, House Speaker Pro Tem "Elijah Haar [sic]" X
Clayton Times: Clayton High School senior one of three
students in the world to land perfect score on AP chemistry test;
Tong Zhao chooses to work hard, achieves success
KWMU: Anti-gun protests give area students reason to
skip class
SE
Missourian: Local students skip class in name of activism +
P-D: Local class-skipping activities include school
assemblies, 'die-ins,' other free time
P-D: Photo gallery: Teen girl weeps, leans on
male shoulder for support; Other dramatic adolescent-angst shots
CDT: Hundreds of students get free time for walk-out X
Columbia Missourian: Photos: Students laugh,
joke during walkout free time
KWMU: Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds
race-conflict series heaquartered in St. Louis; Diversity
champions took no-whites-need-apply approach to hiring for series on
"intersection of race, identify and culture"
SE
Missourian editorial: Smelter is big news, important economically
to region +
KC Star editorial: Why is Greitens leaving the
Missouri Ethics Commission to languish? X
KC Star's Melinda Henneberger: Josh Hawley launches
the Senate campaign we don't need; GOP candidate must stop
deriding "elites on the coasts" X
JCNT letter: Jefferson City septuagenarian
wonders: What if Eric Greitens is innocent? X
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Wednesday, March 14
The Missouri Times: Hawley kicks off U.S. Senate
campaign; Trump to appear with GOP hopeful tonight
KWMU: Trump visit expected to bolster bank account,
and hopes, of Josh Hawley
Rosenbaum: Hawley banking on Trump helping his
campaign against McCaskill
P-D's Chuck Raasch: Trump comes to St. Louis for his
third Missouri presidential visit; Comments from Hawley
consultant "Bradd [sic] Todd,"
1/2 of P-D polisci prof pundit pool (UMSL's Dave Robertson)
P-D: Hawley strikes populist stance at Chesterfield
event
SNL: At Springfield rally, Hawley vows to take on
"D.C. cartel" X
SNL: Hawley rally photo gallery: Protesters hold
handwritten signs with same catchphrase; Morbidly obese protester
tests strength of small folding chair; More X
Missourinet: IRS: More than $23 million in
unclaimed Missouri tax refunds about to expire
SNL: Christian County GOP troubled by infighting X
The Missouri Times: Kristian Starner to join Cerner's
government affairs team
JCNT: Pro-life movement has day in Capitol X
The Missouri Times: Sifton asks Galloway to
investigate whether Hawley's records are open under Sunshine Law
KC Star: Sifton seeks investigation into Hawley's
disclosure of records under Sunshine Law X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Jim Hansen (R-Frankford)
talks Foundation Formula funding, restoring nursing home cuts
The Missouri Times: Full repeal of prevailing wage
passes House with narrow margin
P-D: Repeal of prevailing wage earns bipartisan
support in House
Missourinet: Missouri House gives final passage to
prevailing wage repeal, sends bill to Senate
KWMU: Benevolent tax credit being weighed by Missouri
Senate panel
Columbia Missourian: Effort to create state bridge
repair fund lacks one thing: money
St. Joseph News-Press: New MoDOT district engineer
appointed
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Nate Walker (R-Kirksville)
talks industrial hemp legislation
JCNT: Senate education testimony includes local voices X
KWMU: St. Louis Public Schools transition process
officially starts but there's no hard deadline
SNL: Regulatory uncertainty surrounds payday loans X
Missourinet: Missouri Gaming Commission
official: Your March Madness pool is illegal
JCNT: Clean Water Law amendment to hit House floor X
KWMU: Environmental regulators are trying to turn a
former lead mining site back into a forest
KC Star editorial: Missouri should make a vow:
Don't be a destination for 15-year-old brides
X
JCNT editorial: Missouri deer hunters again show their
generosity X
KC Star op-ed: Lt. Gov. Mike Parson: Trump tax
overhaul reaps benefits for Missourians X
Messenger: From Jetton to Greitens, a lesson in the
political perils of pride
KC Star's Jason Hancock: Public may never know who's
paying Greitens' legal bills X
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Conversion therapy
bill doesn't go far enough
P-D letter: Ballwin septuagenarian responds to letter
about St. Louis County corruption, says corruption lies mostly with
Republican Party and Greitens
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Tuesday, March 13
P-D: Another day, another U.S. Senate poll;
Gravis surveyed fewer than 1,000 Missouri voters, versus Axios' 17,000+
The Missouri Times: Gravis polling shows tight U.S.
Senate race, Greitens disapproval at 50%
P-D: Gravis poll shows poor approve-disapprove number
for Greitens
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Austin
Petersen talks to Mannies & Rosenbaum about running as a
Republican, abortion, Trump tax plan, soliciting endorsements from GOP
congressmen, more
AP:
Greitens unlikely to campaign for Hawley; Comments from SLU
polisci prof/Dem consultant Ken Warren
KC Star: Trump's St. Louis roundtable event to focus
on tax cuts; Reformatted event to focus on workers' stories, not
politicians' messages X
The Missouri Times: Soybean, corn associations oppose
capping RINs
CDT: Tributes to Wendy Noren honor her work to improve
elections X
The Missouri Times: TWIMP panel talks job, the economy
and Greitens
The Missouri Times: Dowd Bennett no longer defending
Greitens in Confide lawsuit
P-D: Source: Prosecutors turn over testimony of
former lover and Greitens phone records to defense
The Missouri Times: Ways and Means passes Haahr's tax
bill with 6-3 vote
Missourinet: House committee approves Haahr tax bill
Columbia Missourian: Haahr's tax package clears
another hurdle in the House
JCNT: 10-cent fuels tax increase passes first Senate
hurdle X
Missourinet: GOP House members keep the pressure on
DHSS to provide Bourbon virus numbers
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Nate Walker (R-Kirksville)
says House will restore much of Greitens' education cuts
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Sen. Jeanie Riddle (R-Mokane)
discusses budget priorities, higher ed spending
Missourinet: House approves welfare bill;
Measure would keep those on the dole from spending taxpayer money at
liquor stores, strip clubs
P-D: Push to allow parole officers to protect
themselves with guns wavering in Legislature
Columbia Missourian: Supporters say House bill would
help rural hospitals and clinics defend against superfluous lawsuits
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Munzlinger talks omnibus ag bill,
hemp legislation
Missourinet: Nasheed wants to consolidate all Missouri
departments to state data center
The Missouri Times: Conservation Federation of
Missouri holds annual convention
KC Star editorial: Forget Trump's proposal. Florida
gun law should be the model for Missouri. X
P-D editorial: A bad discrimination law prompts
federal repercussions for Missouri
KC Star letter: Kearney man dislikes length of
Missouri's tax form X
P-D letter: Wildwood woman expresses fear of firearms
in bars
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Monday, March 12
SNL: Josh Hawley will kick off Senate campaign against
McCaskill with tour this week X
P-D: Josh Hawley kicking off Senate bid with tour
tomorrow
Missourinet: Southeast Missouri official fighting for
area jobs says Trump tariffs a good thing
CDT: Wendy Noren, longtime Boone County clerk, dies
after lengthy battle with cancer X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Panel of GOP Reps.
John Wiemann and Jean Evans, Dem Reps. Brandon Ellington and Gretchen
Bangert talk Trump tariffs, prevailing wage, special investigative
committee, industrial hemp, more
P-D: Once a selling point, Greitens' charity now under
microscope
Drebes:
Greitens, opponents, Mission Continues fortify their positions
Missourinet: Richardson, Kendrick discuss process for
Missouri House committee investigating Greitens' indictment
JCNT: DSS director still being overpaid X
Missouri Farmer Today: Wide-ranging discussions at
Missouri legislative day
St. Louis Jewish Light: Anti-"boycott, divestment and
sanctions against Israel" bill advances in Missouri Legislature
St. Joseph News-Press: Bill could make drug use during
pregnancy a felony
JCNT: Arts campus in Kansas City back on legislative
agenda X
KWMU: School districts' communications staff pen
statements on planned walkouts
SNL: Springfield's first CBD store touts healing
powers of hemp oil. Doctors, a lawyer are wary. X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Annual fly-in puts
St. Joseph region on D.C. agenda X
KC Star editorial: Weapons down: Missouri
lawmakers should curb celebratory gunfire X
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Show-Me Institute's Susan
Pendergrass: What's going on with high school graduation rates in
Missouri?
Columbia Missourian letter: Form letter against
asbestos legislation, "written" by Jefferson City man
Daily Journal letter: Form letter against asbestos
legislation, verbatim language as above, "written" by Hillsboro woman
CDT letter: Form letter against asbestos legislation,
verbatim language as above, "written" by Columbia sexagenarian X
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Sunday, March 11
SNL: Federal, state lawmakers weigh in on Anthem
ER-visit policy; Comments from Missouri Hospital Association's
Dave Dillon X
CDT: Profile: Despite media hysteria, local 2nd
Amendment supporters Larry and Brenda Potterfield stand with NRA X
Washington Missourian: Washington School District to
let high school kids skip class Wednesday X
SNL: Photo gallery: 2nd Amendment enthusiasts
sport patriotic gear X
Drebes: Jeanie Lauer to run for Jackson County
Legislature
Missourinet: Missouri House week in review:
taxes and investigation dominate attention
Columbia Missourian: What's next for Greitens?
Missouri Constitution provides multiple possibilities
Columbia Missourian: Legislators weigh in on
hypothetical Gov. Parson scenario; Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal
(D-University City) wants Greitens to remain in office since "Parson
would be worse"
Columbia Missourian: Protest for more higher-ed
funding draws small crowd; Coed seeking to become social worker
angry at Greitens over her decision to take on excessive debt
JCNT: Sparse crowd attempts chants outside Governor's
Mansion; Student from North St. Louis County expresses resentment
about humble upbringing, complains about future salary in career she
chose X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Industrial hemp bill almost
through the Senate
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Pensions bill from Rep. Tim
Remole (R-Excello) presented to Senate committee
St. Joseph News-Press: CDC data: Some expectant
mothers still smoking in Missouri X
KC Star: Marriage-age bill advocacy feature:
Teen bride, lawmakers weigh in on raising Missouri's marriage age X
KC Star: Marriage-age bill advocacy feature:
Years later, 15-year-old male who married 17-year-old girlfriend is
happy with his decision X
KC Star: Marriage-age bill advocacy feature:
Some Missouri grooms could have been charged with "rape" in other states X
JCNT: Conservation Federation of Missouri committee
votes to promote 5 new state parks projects X
SNL editorial: Leaked employee survey shows Missouri
must fix its leadership problem X
Washington Missourian editorial: Nonresident hunting
and fishing bill should be shot down X
Washington Missourian editorial: Hawthorn Foundation
turns 35 X
McClellan: The Greitens affair is a matter for the
electorate
P-D op-ed: Lt. Gov. Mike Parson: Free trade is
vital to Missouri's economy
P-D's Samantha Liss: Missouri lawmakers must fix
insurers' "balance billing" scheme
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Saturday, March 10
P-D: Trump to visit Boeing on Wednesday afternoon
prior to Hawley event at night
SE
Missourian: Jason Smith, Greitens, Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville)
speak at smelter event; Former Noranda worker, now employed at
new site: "We wouldn't be here without Trump." +
Missourinet: Aluminum smelter expected to create 450
new jobs with average salary of $64k
SNL: Conservative activist Georjene Tilton announces
bid for Lyndall Fraker's state rep seat X
Drebes:
Rep. Cora Faith Walker (D-Ferguson) to hold D.C. fundraiser next week
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of March 5, 2018
KWMU: As the Greitens World Turns: New weekly
Q&A series to focus on governor's saga
AP:
Husband of woman who had affair with Greitens testifies
The Missouri Times: Ex-husband's attorney accuses
Greitens and supporters of 'slut-shaming'
JCNT: Lawyer accuses Greitens' legal team of
'slut-shaming' X
P-D: In evolving realm of privacy law, Greitens case
has little precedent
KWMU: Missouri House and Senate pass 41 bills this
week as Spring Break approaches
Missourinet: Rep. David Gregory (R-St. Louis County)
eager to get his Revenue Department savings plan moving forward
The Missouri Times: Lack of state oversight for
private probation services leaves system open for abuse
CDT: No movement on budget deal tied to tuition freeze X
Missourinet: Bill would allow universities and
community colleges to offer higher degrees
JCNT: Senate sends STEM bill to House X
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers suggest prohibiting
local bans, fees and taxes on disposable food containers
JCNT: Missouri Department of Natural Resources,
Callaway County work toward clean water X
Clayton Times: Rep. Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson) to
hold special committee hearing on airport oversight
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: 'No' on gas tax?
Offer a better idea. X
JCNT editorial: State must strike a balance with
opioid initiative X
KC Star editorial: Gov. Greitens, say yes this time to
UMKC's downtown arts campus X
SNL letter: Springfield sexagenarian who testified in
favor of Equal Rights Amendment calls testimony "brilliant" X
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Friday, March 9
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill one of 16 Democrats
to support GOP bill to roll back Dodd-Frank red tape X
P-D: Poll: McCaskill is 8 points behind Hawley
Missourinet: Poll shows Hawley ahead of McCaskill in
U.S. Senate race
KWMU: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith wants to restore
timber-revenue payments to rural school districts
Delta
Dunklin Democrat: Rep. Andrew McDaniel (R-Deering) speaks at
Dunklin County Lincoln Day dinner, talks defending 2nd Amendment from
liberals +
P-D: Greitens' defense lawyers ask about rewards,
threats made by prosecutors to woman
The Missouri Times: Richardson fields questions about
investigative committee and transparency, asks for patience
SNL: Consent and the Greitens case:
Pontifications from legal types, female lawmakers X
KTVI (St. Louis): Kim Gardner asked why she's putting
more effort into Greitens case than she does St. Louis City's violent
crime
SNL: Leaked workforce survey data show widespread
leadership problems in Missouri government X
The Missouri Times: Missouri's unemployment rate
remains steady
Missourinet: Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville) invites
public to attend today's smelter event at former Noranda site
Drebes:
Alex Zumsteg to serve as chief of staff to Sen. Caleb Rowden
(R-Columbia)
The Missouri Times: Missouri House approves of 23 bills
AP:
House passes changes to asbestos lawsuits
KWMU: Missouri House passes pro-business asbestos bill
Missourinet: Missouri House passes asbestos bill
The Missouri Times: Senate rolls through third-read
calendar, knocks out Raise the Age, captive cervids, and MO ABLE bills
AP:
Senate approves Wallingford's bill to increase age for adult courts
KWMU: Missouri Dept. of Labor and Industrial Relations
working with HUD to clear up misinterpretations of last year's Senate
Bill 43
CDT: Missouri House budget plan offers relief for
higher education X
CDT: Campus abortion foes, MU dispute reason for
poster removal X
Columbia Missourian: Posters removed in Ellis Library
not related to student group's petition
P-D editorial: In Iron County, the rural health care
catastrophe comes home; Missouri Republicans wrong to not expand
Medicaid
CDT editorial: At UM, cuts are unfortunate, but
necessary X
P-D Editorial Page Editor Tod Robberson: A look at how
Eric Greitens' list of accumulated enemies made his scandal the story
of the year
Messenger: Lawyer who filed Confide lawsuit takes
Hawley to school
Phill Brooks: The House has two ways to deal with
Greitens
SNL letter: Battlefield sexagenarian outraged over
Billy Long's effort to extend 529 options X
P-D letter: Brentwood sexagenarian wants Republicans
to expand Medicaid
P-D letter: Greendale sexagenarian baffled by concept
of campaign nondisclosure agreements
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Thursday, March 8
KSDK: McCaskill, Blunt team up for gun
background-check legislation
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Luetkemeyer weighs in on
teachers, school resource officers protecting themselves and students
with firearms
Columbia Missourian: Columbia gun shops uphold
existing laws related to firearms purchases
Washington Post: Branson business owners attend
'Hispanics 101' for Puerto Rico lessons; City businesses seek to
attract hardworking Boricua
KBIA (Columbia): Local marijuana activists describe
health ailments, pot pilgrimages to Colorado and weed's mellowing
effects
Gateway Journalism Review: Are social media accounts
public records? Court will decide.
The Missouri Times: Graves Garrett forms legal expense
fund for Greitens' staff
SNL: Briefs: Lawmakers investigate Greitens in
police station
KWMU: Nasheed, Schaaf urge committee investigating
Greitens' indictment to be more transparent
Drebes:
Kehoe's civil service overhaul could help state employees get promoted
faster
St. Joseph News-Press: Prevailing wage repeal passes
House
SNL: Ticked: Missouri lawmakers pledge budget
cut if health officials withhold Bourbon virus data
Washington Missourian: DHSS director blasted for
withholding Bourbon virus info; Budget cuts threatened
Columbia Missourian: House panel plans to restore
higher education cuts if tuition stays flat
AP:
Fitzpatrick finds funds for higher education
The Missouri Times: Budget tops Ozark Technical
Community College's priorities
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Moberly Area Community College
work approved with HB19 money
KWMU: Parents flock to meetings on how to use 529
plans for private K-12 tuition
KWMU: Greitens' plan for CHIP money seeks to
revitalize rural Missouri
Columbia Missourian: Bill from Rep. Hannah Kelly
(R-Mountain Grove) would allow some nurses to practice independently
JCNT: Bill increasing coverage for chiropractic visits
passes Senate
Columbia Missourian: Obstacles for telehealth would be
removed in proposed bill
KC Star: Bill from Rep. David Gregory (R-St. Louis
County) targets frivolous lawsuits
The Missouri Times: 'Asbestos Bankruptcy Transparency
Act' perfected by the House
JCNT: Landowner rights discussed in rural broadband
bill
The Missouri Times: Senate gives initial approval to
Munzlinger's industrial hemp bill
The Missouri Times: House committee hears three
different liquor bills
SNL: Alzheimer's rally in Missouri Capitol draws more
than 100 in purple and with flowers
JCNT: Alzheimer's advocates lobby for continued
respite funding
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Week of March 7, 2018
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch
(R-Hallsville) explains poaching-fines bill
KC Star editorial: Secretive investigation into
secretive Gov. Greitens can't be trusted
The Missouri Times' Jennifer Bukowsky: Hawley correct
to join anti-Obamacare lawsuit
P-D's Kurt Erickson: Police station stakeout creates
jocular environment for political reporters young and old
KC Star op-ed: Missouri Chamber's Dan Mehan: Not
enough Junior Mints in a box? That shouldn't be grounds for a lawsuit,
and bill would prevent such nonsense
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Wednesday, March 7
P-D: Missouri exporters share thoughts on Trump
tariffs; Comments from American Automotive Policy Council's Matt
Blunt, Missouri Farm Bureau's Blake Hurst
The Missouri Times: Coalition fighting to preserve
NAFTA grows as Trump puts pressure on Canada, Mexico; Comments
from Missouri Corn Growers' Shane Kinne, others
Delta
Dunklin Democrat: At Lincoln Day dinner, U.S. Rep. Jason Smith
gives update on efforts to rescind regulations, Trump, biased national
news media, Pelosi's "crumbs" condescension, more +
SE
Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith, Rep. Don Rone (R-Portageville)
welcome new aluminum smelter to New Madrid +
Missourinet: Revival of aluminum plant gives hope to
New Madrid
P-D: Amazon opening first Missouri fulfillment center
in St. Peters, creating 1,500 jobs
SNL: Steve Forbes to speak in April at College of the
Ozarks X
P-D: At Bridgeton meeting, EPA officials sit through
complaints about West Lake Landfill cleanup plan
The Missouri Times: The Mission Continues continues to
distance themselves from Greitens
AP:
Charity backs probe into 'misuse' of resources by Greitens
KWMU: Special committee investigating Greitens'
indictment holds brief first meeting
The Missouri Times: House investigative committee to
hold closed hearing today
Missourinet: Missouri House committee investigating
Greitens indictment to meet today
P-D: Secrecy concerns send Greitens investigation to
Jeff City police station
KC Star: House investigation of Greitens begins X
P-D: Greitens trial will stay in St. Louis;
Jurors could be sequestered
SNL: Greitens campaign staff signed nondisclosure
agreements X
KWMU: Politicians and candidates ponder the impact of
Greitens' troubles at the ballot box
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Missouri Republican Party seeks regional field
directors
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Jill
Schupp (D-Creve Coeur) talks Greitens, whistleblower protections,
'paycheck protection' and prevailing wage, more
The Missouri Times: House perfects Justus' prevailing
wage repeal bill
AP:
Missouri House votes to repeal prevailing wage law
Missourinet: Prevailing wage bill moves forward
Missourinet: Cierpiot bill would have gov, gov lite
run on same ticket
The Missouri Times: MLB, casinos back differing sports
betting bills in Senate
AP:
House bill would relax university meal plan mandate
SE
Missourian: Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau) seeks to revise
condemnation law in wake of her court battle with city of Cape Girardeau +
KWMU: Federal court upholds execution of Missouri
inmate; Rapist/murderer Russell Bucklew scheduled to assume room
temperature March 20
KWMU: Ferguson monitor says city is on pace to meet
requirements of consent decree
AP:
Court-appointed monitor: Ferguson needs more staff to implement
policies
P-D editorial: Missouri, other states betting Supreme
Court will legalize sports wagers
P-D editorial: Rep. Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson) wrong
to address intern harassment issue
Jensen:
'Hate' label potentially harmful to Sikeston; Southern Poverty
Law Center fabricated tale of a cross lighting
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P-D letter: Bridgeton septuagenarian angry over
Homeland Security enforcing immigration laws
P-D letter: Fenton man says "incompetent" Kim Gardner
loves to burn through taxpayer money
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Tuesday, March 6
Rosenbaum: At Democrat Days, party leaders home in on
GOP rivals, Trump tariffs and a critical election
KCUR: Jason Kander sticks to Democratic talking
points, says 'maybe' he'll run for office again
Missourinet: McCaskill weighs in on Missouri gun
giveaways, further firearms restrictions
SNL: Springfield man announces Libertarian bid for
U.S. Senate X
KC Star: Activists rally after illegal immigrants are
arrested; Despite online petitions and other keyboard jockeying,
lawyers for aliens say situation is "all bleak," "pretty hopeless" X
The Missouri Times: Missourians for Patient Care
boasts about fundraising lead over other pot initiatives
Columbia Missourian: 'Serial petitioning' becoming a
trend for policymaking
The Missouri Times: Legal defense fund for Greitens
created, House investigative committee prepares for first meeting
The Missouri Times: On This Week in Missouri Politics,
Rowden talks 'doing the right thing' regarding Greitens
Missourinet: St. Louis City Prosecuting Attorney Kim
Gardner adds high-profile member to team prosecuting Greitens;
Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. represented family of police assailant Michael
Brown
AP: Lawyer for Michael Brown's estate joins Greitens
prosecution
P-D: House probe of Greitens starts today
The Missouri Times: Seasoned Democrats twitstigate
Greitens over "executive privilege"
AP:
Second Satanic Temple member sues over Missouri abortion laws
AP:
Missouri Senate passes bill on parental rights, rape
AP:
New Missouri initiative to target opioid over-prescription
AP:
Missouri House passes prescription drug take-back bill
The Missouri Times: House Ways and Means Committee
hears Haahr's tax bill
Missourinet: Haahr optimistic about tax-overhaul bill
KWMU: Haahr sponsoring proposal to cut Missouri's
income tax
CDT: Enrollment losses, state cuts put MU in $60
million budget hole X
AP:
House passes bill to require legal names on ballot
St. Joseph News-Press: Proposal would legalize sports
betting in Missouri X
JCNT: PSC hosting water rate hearings beginning today X
Delta
Dunklin Democrat: St. Francis Street Committee Chairman
Chancellor Wayne visits Jefferson City, talks chiropractor
reimbursements and block grants +
AP:
Missouri Senate boosts training on sexual harassment; Lawmakers,
staff will now sit through lectures every other year
P-D editorial: Hawley sees no evil, speaks no evil in
Confide probe against Greitens
Washington Missourian editorial: With Hawley report on
Confide, Greitens team celebrating any win it can get X
Joplin Globe editorial: Missouri's historic tax
credits protect city's history X
P-D op-ed: SLU med school prof: EPA solution for
West Lake Landfill doesn't go far enough; Republic Services is a
profitable corporation and must be punished
Columbia Missourian's Kathryn Hardison: Hypocritcal
Greitens criticizes lobbyists, then gains three in a week
KOLR: MSU's Brian Calfano: It is too soon to
call for Greitens' resignation
Priddy:
Succession: A historical view of the lieutenant governor
replacing the governor (2,036 words)
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Monday, March 5
KWMU: Illegal immigrants, supporters lead march on
Delmar Loop Friday night; Group arrives at McCaskill's office
after it's closed for the week
Clayton Times: Ann Wagner files for re-election
P-D: Second Amendment rally in Jefferson County draws
200
Missourinet: Jason Smith, asked about Greitens, shares
thoughts
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Caleb Rowden
talks Greitens; Panel of Reps. Donna Baringer (D), Shamed Dogan
(R), Bruce Franks (D), Mike Henderson (R) talk Greitens, investigation
committee, more
Hannibal Courier-Post: Nate Walker, Cindy O'Laughlin
disagree on Greitens
AP:
Missouri Senate approves changes to education board make up
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Macon Superintendent wants more
state money for foundation formula, transportation
CDT: Bill to loosen state tuition cap stalled in Senate X
AP:
Bill would require legal last names on candidate filing
Columbia Missourian: Proposed conversion therapy bill
from Rep. Tracy McCreery (D-Olivette) misses the religious mark
Missourinet: Southern Poverty Law Center says number
of Missouri "hate groups" has declined
KC Star editorial: After Florida school shooting,
Missouri lawmakers want to make gun laws even worse X
P-D editorial: Pregnant drug addicts need treatment,
not punishment
P-D editorial: Low funding and large caseloads put
Missouri's public defenders at sharp disadvantage
Messenger: Greitens accused of using Boys State emails
to benefit his campaign
P-D letter: Local pipefitters official disagrees with
Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston) on 'right to work'
P-D letter: Chesterfield sexagenarian says he's tired
of Messenger tying every issue - including Greitens' alleged blackmail
- to race
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Munday, March 4
KWMU: Demo Days coverage: As Missouri Democrats
gear up for elections, a divide emerges about Greitens' future
Clayton Times: Visitation Academy student one of two
Missourians selected for United States Senate Youth Program
Washington Missourian: Gun-control group holds signs
outside local gun show X
Clayton Times: Former Clay staffer Brian Williams to
run against former Reps. Joe Adams and Sharon Pace for
Chappelle-Nadal's seat
CDT: Hawley won't defend Greitens in lawsuit X
JCNT: Barnes: Lawmakers' sole duty is to
determine facts behind Greitens indictment X
Hartmann: The hypocrite: Eric Greitens
solidifies his legacy
Drebes:
Anthem drops plan to change reimbursement for multiple-procedures
doctor visits
CDT: Bill would help families with children with
developmental disabilities X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) says
Ameren bill a 'win-win' for everyone
P-D editorial: Greitens drags the charity he founded
into ethical muck
SNL letter: Springfield man says Billy Long is
reasonable on immigration X
P-D letter: St. Louis septuagenarian says Kim Gardner
should focus on St. Louis City crime, not her vanity prosecution of
Greitens
P-D letter: Kirkwood septuagenarian applauds
Post-Dispatch for focus on Greitens
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Saturday, March 3
KWMU: On St. Louis County visit, Blunt touches on
Trump tariff talk - and Greitens' woes
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri agricultural groups
express concern over impact of potential trade battles X
JCNT: McCaskill aims to end tax breaks for pharma
industry ads X
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: Monthly profile of independent
U.S. Senate candidate Craig O'Dear X
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: February 15: Monthly
profile of independent U.S. Senate candidate Craig O'Dear X
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: January 10: Monthly
profile of independent U.S. Senate candidate Craig O'Dear X
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: U.S. Rep.
Ann Wagner talks to Mannies & Rosenbaum about sex trafficking,
Greitens, Trump, midterm outlook for GOP
KWMU: Behind the Headlines: Ann Wagner talks
sex-trafficking bill
Missourinet: Lacy Clay files for a tenth term
KWMU: Study shows more Missourians are vulnerable to
river flooding than previously estimated; Comments from Great
Rivers Habitat Alliance's David Stokes, others
Washington Missourian: Rep. Kirk Mathews (R-Pacific)
won't seek third term X
Columbia Missourian: Veterinarian files to run as
Democrat against Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch (R-Hallsville)
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of February 26, 2018
AP:
Greitens criticizes St. Louis City Prosecuting Attorney Kim Gardner (D)
KWMU: Missouri lawmakers keep moving forward on bills
despite cloud of Greitens' indictment
Missourinet: Sen. Dan Brown (R-Rolla) plans to use $80
million in new CHIP money for programs in "crisis mode"
AP:
Greitens, lawmakers at odds on how to spend $80 million
The Missouri Times: Missouri Ethics Commission could
soon be short of a quorum due to expired terms
KWMU: Bill to reduce juvenile population in adult jail
gets first-round approval from Missouri Senate
Columbia Missourian: Amendment limits bill to ban
cellphone use while driving
SE
Missourian: State rebuffs court report on David Robinson's
conviction +
KC Star editorial: Trump's tariffs on steel and
aluminum will do economic damage in Missouri
X
KC Star editorial: Greitens' secret texting app has no
place in Missouri government X
P-D family columnist/beauty-product reviewer Aisha
Sultan: The NRA better watch out in Trump country; Liberal
gals' anti-gun klatch will totally change political climate and
election results in Missouri
SE
Missourian op-ed: Edison Electric Institute's Philip
Moeller: SB 564 will provide a smarter energy grid for Missouri +
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Friday, March 2
Washington Post: Blunt concerned with impact tariffs
could have on Missouri businesses
KWMU: McCaskill zeroes in on guns, drugs and Greitens
SNL: Trump to visit St. Louis for Hawley on March 14 X
P-D: Planned Parenthood announces $20 million campaign
push - but won't bother spending money in Missouri
Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith says Malden tornado
highlights why changes are needed in disaster aid
P-D: Moms Demand Action chapter declares victory after
"packed" meeting; Gaggle of gals posts pics to Instagram, plans
road trip
Sedalia Democrat: Parson speaks to Pettis County GOP,
talks McCaskill-Hawley, 2nd Amendment, Buy Missouri
AP:
Greitens faces inquiry into using political invite on a charity e-mail
P-D: Hawley announces probe into Greitens' former
charity
KWMU: Hawley looking into The Mission Continues,
clears Greitens for use of Confide app
SNL: No sign Greitens or his office broke law by
sending self-destructing texts, Hawley says X
Missourinet: Hawley closes one inquiry into Greitens'
office, opens another about charity Greitens founded
The Missouri Times: AG report says Greitens' office
didn't break any laws with use of Confide app
AP:
Hawley says no apparent violation with Greitens' use of confidential app
P-D: Top aides to Greitens called to testify in probe
of governor
KWMU: Missouri House unanimously authorizes special
committee to investigate Greitens' indictment
AP:
House authorizes own probe into Greitens
Missourinet: House launches investigation into Greitens
KTVO (Kirksville): State Treasurer Eric Schmitt brings
to light affordable education savings plan
The Missouri Times: University of Missouri System
looks to showcase work with legislative day
Missourinet: Missouri House committee considers
separate proposals on tuition and tenure
AP:
Missouri agrees to pay $21M to underpaid blind residents
The Missouri Times: House energy bill moves out of
committee
Missourinet: Contentious 2016 religious freedom
measure part of wide-ranging Senate bill
KWMU: Missouri lawmakers weigh changes to indigent
defense
Washington Missourian: Union city officials closely
watching House bills
The Missouri Times: Compromise moves working animal
bill forward with bipartisan support
KC Star editorial: Back off, Missouri lawmakers. KC
school district should decide future of Southwest High School X
Kraske: Electing a political outsider like Greitens
has its risks X
Messenger: A high school student studied The Missouri
Continues, and then the Greitens campaign came calling
P-D letter: Grover man wants Messenger's column placed
in opinion section, not next to news
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Thursday, March 1
March
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March
2014 Missouri political news headlines
KWMU: William H.T. 'Bucky' Bush, brother and uncle of
presidents, dies
Missourinet:
Hawley makes U.S. Senate bid official
The Missouri Times: Former Rep. Keith English
(D-Florissant) found dead in apparent suicide
KWMU: Former Rep. Keith English has died
SNL: Republicans reserve ability to change date of
Missouri's 'right to work' vote X
P-D: 'Right to work' vote could move to August
The Missouri Times: Rep. Kirk Mathews (R-Pacific) pens
letter saying he will not run for re-election
Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith to tour
tornado-damaged Malden today
Delta
Dunklin Democrat: Greitens visits Malden to view damage +
KWMU: Greitens to go to trial May 14
Missourinet: May court date set as prosecutors in
Missouri admit they don't have key photo
P-D: St. Louis judge sets May 14 trial date for
Greitens; photo "does not exist," lawyer for Greitens says
KC Star: St. Louis City prosecutors don't have photo
at center of Greitens case +
The Missouri Times: Barnes files resolution to launch
House investigation of Gov. Greitens
KC Star: Law firm defending Greitens hires statehouse
lobbyist
P-D: At least 13 GOP House members want Greitens out.
Just don't ask who they are.
KC Star: Greitens reaching out to Missouri GOP
leaders, including Ann Wagner +
SNL: Americans for Prosperity won't back Senate's tax
overhaul plan
KWMU: Missouri Senate panel considering 'paycheck
protection' bill
The Missouri Times: One step forward, two steps
back: The Senate dance around joinder and venue continues
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Farm Bureau talks Waters
of the U.S. rule, farm bill at state legislative day
Missourinet: Speaker Todd Richardson emphasizes
agriculture and broadband in address to Missouri Farm Bureau
The Missouri Times: Major League Baseball backs
Hoskins' sports betting bill
KWMU: Senate proposes bill to limit fee increases at
public universities
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers clash over proposals to
eliminate tenure and tuition caps
Missourinet: At committee hearing, Rep. Chuck Basye
(R-Rocheport) fires back at Conservation Federation of Missouri's
Brandon Butler
SNL: Heftier poaching penalties proposed by Rep. Jered
Taylor (R-Nixa) win Missouri House's approval
The Missouri Times: House votes to increase fines for
poaching
P-D: Senate approves bill to raise age to be tried as
an adult from 17 to 18
The Missouri Times: At Capitol Day, Dept. of
Corrections touts programs aimed at reducing recidivism
Clayton Times: St. Louis area state legislators file
resolutions to support local control for St. Louis consolidation
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Week of February 28, 2018
P-D editorial: Greitens must get one thing
straight: There was no consent to the photo; Governor has
no right to challenge woman's version of events
P-D editorial: Think Missouri's gun laws are dangerous
now? Just wait.
P-D's Raasch: At Senate committee hearing, McCaskill
tells folksy tale about chatting with woman at Missouri supermarket
P-D letter: Pacific woman says Kim Gardner (D) is
engaging in political bigotry
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