Monday, November 30
Washington Post: As Obama heads to Paris, Blunt,
Manchin (D) and Inhofe (R) seek to check president's ability to make
climate-change commitments
KC Star: Kansas City marchers call for action on
climate change +
KC Star: Video: Rain-soaked hirsute Caucasoid
with bullhorn attempts rhythmic call-and-response using syllable-short
stanza: "Turn on clean energy/Turn on clean energy/Turn on clean
energy/Turn off fossil fuuuu-els" +
KWMU: At a glance: St. Louis' major employers in
the coal industry
Columbia Missourian: PolitiFact check: Vicky
Hartzler's comments about dopehead parents and foster care rate "True"
Kraske: The Chat: Missouri Kids First's Emily
van Schenkhof on fewer dollars for crime victims +
The Missouri Times: Texts from the Trail column:
Missouri politicos, and what they have to be thankful for: Gov
candidates, statewide officials, state senators and state reps,
consultants, more
KOLR: Lawmakers to discuss resettlement of Syrian
refugees
Missourinet: Livestream link: Missouri House,
Senate joint hearing on Syrian refugees (hearing begins at 10 a.m.
Central)
KC Star: Missouri lawmakers holding public hearing on
Syrian refugees +
Drebes:
Video from Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Springfield) on Syrian refugees
employs creative background imagery
Missourinet: Missouri House hearing on stadium deal is
today
KWMU: Affton School District joins national effort to
rethink textbooks
KMOV (St. Louis): Coldwater Creek vs. West Lake
Landfill; County official decries activists' "myth-making" as
federal study finds no immediate public risk from radioactive waste
KWMU: SLU sociology professor studies lawbreakers'
feelings about municipal court system and paying their fines;
Groundbreaking research finds two-thirds believe their traffic stops
were unfair, and the poor dislike paying fines
Missourinet: Astronomy professor weighs in on MU
drama, says rage "has been building up basically since Michael Brown's
death"
AP:
Year after his strong-arm robbery and assault on officer, Michael Brown
lies in relative obscurity; Family has received "hundreds of
thousands of dollars" but hasn't gotten around to buying a headstone
Columbia Missourian: Most-read articles of the
week: 3 of 10 were race-drama articles posted here
JCNT editorial: Nicole Galloway extends scrutiny of
Sunshine Law compliance X
KC Star letter: 15-year-old says grading system put
too much pressure on students, suggests schools give no more grades +
JCNT letter: MU should focus on sexual assaults, not
tired "discrimination" whines; Video via Dana Loesch shows black
students entering library and shouting racial slurs at white students
trying to study X
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Sunday, November 29
KC Star: Three years after Sandy Hook, mental health
overhaul remains out of reach; Comments from Blunt, Cleaver +
AP: Missouri lawmakers seek answers on funding to help
refugees
CDT's Rudi Keller: Nicole Galloway profile: A
look at a day on the job, her staff, meeting Jon Galloway, why she's a
Democrat, 2018 election plans, more X
SNL: Center for Public Integrity ranks Missouri low
for accountability and transparency; Comments from Springfield
GOP Reps. Kevin Austin and Lincoln Hough, Brad Ketcher, Progress
Missouri's Kevin Garner X
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Missourian: Doctor shopping of prescription drugs remains a
scourge in Missouri +
CDT: Legislative questions about faculty teaching
loads add to University of Missouri woes X
P-D: November firearms season ends with increase in
deer harvest
P-D: Missouri's first Jewish state representative
dies; Chaim Zimbalist served two terms in the 1950s
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: University of
Missouri should stand firm and resist demands that it support abortion
services; Siding with Planned Parenthood would put UM at odds
with many taxpayers and MU supporters X
P-D outsourced "freelance editorialists" editorial:
Restore abortion services in mid-Missouri; State has already been
exposed as racist toward minorities, shouldn't perpetuate stigma by
being mean to women too
Washington Missourian editorial: Too many public
officials are ignorant of the Sunshine Law X
P-D's Nicklaus: Small-business owner learns that
Missouri's state tax credits aren't for him
Washington Missourian's Bill Miller: Silly political
correctness: If Mizzou milquetoasts get rid of Jefferson statue,
they might as well change school name to Cave In University;
Thinskins emotional about an NFL team name ignore reality that "Indians
were kinda red skinned" X
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Saturday, November 28
Missourinet: More victims' assistance agencies express
concern about budget deal; No response from Clay, Wagner,
Luetkemeyer, Hartzler, Graves, Cleaver offices
Washington Missourian: National Popular Vote rep stops
by newspaper offices, is looking for Missouri state lawmaker to
introduce bill X
Kraske: 2016 Missouri governor race power rankings and
analysis: Chris Koster the top dog, followed by Peter
Kinder; Eric Greitens rising; Catherine Hanaway and John
Brunner falling +
Drebes:
Help Wanted: Jeff Roe hiring research staffer
AP: Nixon wants settlement money sent to lead-damaged
areas
Missourinet: Missouri Highway Patrol hopes increased
enforcement reduces holiday crashes and violations
KC Star: From the home office in Jeff City, Mo.,
Nicole Galloway presents "Top 5 Most Common Sunshine Law Violations" +
CDT: Former MU chancellor Bowen Loftin continues to
receive university legal defense, protection
X
JCNT: Black students, and those with "disabilities,"
outpace white students in earning suspensions; Sen. Jamilah
Nasheed (D-St. Louis City) offers legislation to help address
"school-to-prison pipeline" X
Washington Missourian: Washington NEA president speaks
up on behalf of transgender students: "I would hate for (our
district) to be seen like Hillsboro" X
P-D: Removed St. Louis County grand juror disputes
circumstances, decries secrecy
P-D editorial: Eric Greitens' choice of words to
incite John Brunner could have been better
KC Star editorial: KC police chief Darryl Forte wrong
to suggest the media back off on officer-involved shootings +
Messenger: Trail of $50,000 in campaign contributions
to St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger highlights Missouri's
ethics problems
Priddy: Capitol Masquerade Ball to be held December
12; Honorary co-hosts probably won't show up, but will at least
send staff, and the auction should be fun
P-D letter: Sen. Roy Blunt talks about supporting move
to spend more taxpayer money on Alzheimer's research
P-D letter: Missouri Farm Bureau's Blake Hurst:
Farmers asked to bear the brunt of costs of ameliorating climate change
P-D letter: Grain Belt Express President Russell
Pisciotta: Transmission line is not the only good supply of wind
energy
KC Star letter: Excelsior Springs man mocks KC Star
editorial board's support of Planned Parenthood +
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Friday, November 27
Kraske: The Chat: Blunt on screening Syrian
terrorists; Kathleen Parker on campus malcontents' "serial
tantrums"; Mike Moon on abortion legislation +
Missourinet: Missouri Catholic Conference calls for
uninterrupted funding of refugee assistance
Kraske: Gov candidates need to say more about how to
solve Missouri's road mess; Koster, Greitens, Brunner offer
unspecifics while Kinder and Hanaway are slightly more detailed +
The Missouri Times: Rep. John Rizzo (D-Kansas City) to
run for state Senate
KC Star: J.J. Rizzo will run for the Missouri Senate +
Drebes:
Emily Lewis, aide to Sen. Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown), headed to
Missouri Bankers Association
KWMU: Hunters donate deer meat to Missouri's hungry
through annual program
Warren County Record: NECAC program to be discussed at
state meeting
Missourinet: Planned Parenthood to discuss all legal
options to continue abortions at Columbia clinic
AP:
Arrests for drunken boating plummet on Missouri waterways
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Governor's Conference on
Agriculture to feature awards, concert; Comments from Ag Director
Richard Fordyce
Fulton Sun: Governor's Christmas tree goes timber in
Fulton, will be delivered Monday
KMZU (Carrollton): Missouri will receive nearly
$100,000 settlement after Medicaid fraud claims
P-D: State lawmakers reimbursed less than $17,000 for
their June-October expenses, including committee hearings
AP: Annual Thanksgiving parade returns to St.
Louis; Last year's parade was cancelled due to Ferguson
protesting/rioting/looting
P-D: After Ferguson behavior causes one-year break,
Thanksgiving parade rolls in downtown St. Louis
Columbia Missourian editor Tom Warhover: 881 words
explaining need for more "discussion" about race
SNL letter: Area woman dislikes protesters' demand of
picking MSU faculty based on the color of their skin X
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Thursday, November
26 Happy Thanksgiving!
KOLR: B2 stealth bomber could halt Iran's nuclear
program
P-D: Missouri parole board finally gets new
appointments: Former state Rep. Gary Dusenberg (R), Jennifer
Zamkus (D), Ellis McSwain (D)
Missourinet: Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) believes
2016 bill could stop abortions in Missouri
CDT: Legal action likely over Columbia abortion clinic
license, Planned Parenthood says X
P-D: Deadline looms for Planned Parenthood to obtain
hospital privileging to continue abortions
The Missouri Times: Planned Parenthood in Columbia
suspends abortion services
CDT: Abortion activists upset at Mizzou leader X
CDT: City prosecutor to decide whether MU professor
will face assault charge X
SNL: MSU protesters issue latest demands: Two
black leaders must be handed top jobs, or else; Group also
alleges that Hispanic leader Juan Meraz does not address black students
warmly enough when he enters multicultural center X
The Missouri Times: Ferghanistan:
The War on Police excelling; Portion of proceeds from
Roorda's book will go to assault victim Darren Wilson
P-D: Ferguson Commission's Traci Blackmon cracks
Ebony's "Top 100" list
KC Star editorial: New MU chancellor should reverse
cowardly decision on Planned Parenthood doctor
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Shelly: Kinder, Hanaway, Brunner use last gasps of
denial to denigrate student and street protesters; Student
protesters will totally end up engaging in the civilized political
process someday +
Kathleen Parker: For thin-skinned MU protesters and
their ilk, we have nobody to blame but ourselves
P-D letter: St. Louis man says stadium cash would be
better spent on improving young urbanites' education
P-D letter: Area woman befuddled by MU grad student's
"I can't be both black and educated" logic
Washington Missourian letter: Area man says protesters
whining about lack of black faculty should go to class and become
professors themselves X
Washington Missourian letter: Wash Mo man says Mizzou
histrionics show what happens when every millennial crybaby gets a
trophy X
P-D letter: Meramec poli sci professor John
Messmer: MU tantrums show what happens when every child gets a
trophy then grows up with the need for coddling
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Wednesday, November 25
KCUR: Blunt says widespread disruption in Syria makes
vetting refugees impossible
P-D: Eric Greitens has testy phone-call exchange with
John Brunner over anti-Greitens website; Brunner campaign tapes
phone call, sends to Post-Dispatch
The Missouri Times: Initiative petitions filed to
shrink the size of government
The Missouri Times: Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis)
plans to pre-file 'ban the box' legislation
CDT: Looming loss of privileges ends abortions at
Columbia Planned Parenthood clinic X
Columbia Missourian: Abortions no longer offered at
Columbia Planned Parenthood
CDT: MU Alumni Association to revive Black Alumni
Network X
Washington Post: 'White Student Associations' pop up
at Mizzou and other schools, though many are simply sarcastic or fake
Rosenbaum: Breaking down the costs, benefits and gaps
of St. Louis' riverfront stadium
The Missouri Times: National Car Rental Field:
Not the first time Missouri financed a football stadium
P-D: Residents gather in North St. Louis for meeting
on riverfront stadium
P-D: St. Louis City Treasurer Tishaura Jones:
'City has 99 problems; financing a new stadium is not one'
SNL: Following trend in smaller schools, Marionville
adopts transgender policy; Kids can assign themselves a new name
once every school year and cross-dress as they please, but humans with
male genitalia must stay out of girls' locker room X
P-D: Nixon signals action on lead cleanups
KWMU: A look at the players in the West Lake and
Bridgeton landfill sagas: Andy Blunt, Richard Callow, others
P-D: Guns at the zoo? St. Louis judge hears
arguments
Missourinet: Convictions of man who raped and killed
Robin and Julie Kerry thrown out
P-D: Missouri Supreme Court throws out Reginald
Clemons
murder conviction; Hazelwood East graduates were raped, pushed
off bridge to their death
KWMU: Missouri Supreme Court tosses out murder
conviction and death sentence of Reginald Clemons; Criminal
remains in jail for assaulting a corrections officer
AP: Reginald Clemons' murder convictions in sisters'
death tossed
P-D: Protesters congregate in Ferguson one year after
jury's ruling in Michael Brown attack; Group sporadically blocks
some traffic
P-D outsourced "freelance editorialists" editorial:
Missouri needs to raise the gas tax to pay for crumbling roads
KC Star's Yael Abouhalkah: Survey shows McCaskill's
approval rating at 48%, Blunt's approval rating at 45% +
CDT's Waters: Octogenarian uses appearance of six
governors at KC event to write a column about his own career X
KC Star's Diuguid: Columnist wants readers to know
that he volunteers at soup kitchen, notes increasing number of olds
unable to support themselves +
KC Star letter: Lee's Summit woman suggests Missouri
veterans preregister at veterans homes, cemeteries +
P-D letter: University City woman says Missouri must
do more to reduce incarceration levels
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Tuesday, November 24
KOLR: Blunt criticizes Obama's Syrian refugee policy
KY3: Blunt sounds off on brewing Syrian refugee crisis
CDT: Hartzler defends bill requiring stiffer screening
for Syrian terrorists X
Missourinet: Missouri Catholic Conference says letting
in Syrians would be the "humanitarian" thing to do
P-D: Interactive graphic: Where refugees to
Missouri come from, and where they settle; KC and STL impacted
the most, with rural areas generally unaffected
Missourinet: Man faces 6 charges connected to death of
Missouri trooper; Serghei Pavel Comerzan responsible for killing
Trooper James Bava
SNL: VA official confirms Springfield location is
coming X
The Missouri Times: Texts from the Trail:
Politicos line up behind prez candidates; Gov race updates;
Parkinson/Eigel vs. Zerr; West Lake Landfill embers cool as facts
choke out hysteria; More
KWMU: Sen. Bob Dixon drops out of GOP contest for
governor; four candidates remain
The Missouri Times: Dixon ends bid for GOP governor's
nomination
AP: Dixon no longer running for governor
The Missouri Times: Kurt Schaefer starts "Keep the
Feds Off Our Farms" tour
AP: Report shows Missouri unemployment rate drops
slightly
The Missouri Times: Missouri Rural Health Care Summit
proceedings show innovations
KWMU: Municipal court overhaul advocates say using
legal system has been a success
KWMU: Legal Roundtable podcast: Mark Smith,
Esther Seitz discuss Senate Bill 5, Syrian refugees, Mizzou free-speech
issues, more
Missourinet: State Auditor Nicole Galloway lists top
violations of open records and meetings law
AP: Auditor finds Sunshine Law violations in closed
meetings
P-D: PSC approves Laclede Gas request for
infrastructure charge increase
Columbia Missourian: House creates intern ombudsman
position to combat harassment
KC Star: Protests may move from college campuses to
ballot boxes; A look at how protesters are viewed by candidates,
voters +
CDT: Police department expanding "community outreach"
at expense of traffic unit X
Columbia Missourian: Black leaders say Columbia's
white community "has some homework to do on equity"; 47% of
Columbia blacks earned less than $20,000 in 2013
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Missourian: Law-enforcement officials explain fine line between
free speech, criminal acts; Attorneys discuss handling of
"hateful slurs" +
AP: Ferguson marks one year since
rioters/looters/arsonists acted out
P-D: Community marks one year of
rioters/looters/arsonists running loose
Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal editorial: McCaskill
helps military battle wastefulness
P-D editorial: More data needed on police shootings
CDT letter: Indiana man says Mizzou protesters should
stop being such thinskins X
P-D letter: Rolla man says conservative students are
harassed on college campuses
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Monday, November 23
P-D: Supporters of bringing Syrian refugees here rally
in the Loop; Comments from Muslim activist Faizan Syed, Rabbi
Susan Talvi, others
Kraske: The Chat: Speaker Todd Richardson on
Syrian terrorists and Missourians' safety; Peter Kinder on 'right
to work'; Mizzou student on her decision that she cannot be both
black and educated +
This Week in Missouri Politics: First all-XX panel of
Jane Dueker, Mindy Mazur, Rep. Anne Zerr (R), Linda Rallo chats with
Scott Faughn about Syrian refugees, municipal court overhaul, Raise
Your Hand for Kids tobacco-tax effort, Mizzou drama
KWMU: Politically Speaking: Podcast tag-team
Mannies & Rosenbaum chat with Rep. Paul Curtman (R-Union) on Syria
and Muslims vs. Christian immigrants, stadium subsidies, future plans
Politico: FCC proposes millions in fines, collects
$0; McCaskill on Lifeline/Obamaphone penalty: "We might as
well have a big flashing sign that says, 'Doesn't matter, do whatever
you want'"
KWMU: Ann Wagner sees big changes under Speaker Paul
Ryan
KWMU: Obama administration presents "Champions of
Change" awards to photographers with LGBTQIA focus; Area lesbian
Jess Dugan has been documenting transgender subjects for 10 years
P-D: Survey suggests Nixon public approval, damaged by
Ferguson, has rebounded
Drebes:
Former state Rep. Ted Farnen (D-Columbia) to run for Boone County
Commissioner
Missourinet: Nixon calls on lawmakers to focus on
economic development in 2016
AP: Effort to get cannabis oil to Missouri residents
starts slowly
Riverfront Times: Post-Dispatch editor Christopher Ave
withdraws from Webster class after Brittany Burke-related outcry
Missourinet: Trooper says he'll testify against
Missouri in lawsuit over Iowa man's drowning
AP: Princeton student from Missouri among latest
Rhodes scholars; Richard J Lu of Ballwin chooses to work hard,
finds academic success
KWMU: "We Live Here: Race, class, power and
poverty" series: MU alumni share stories of the struggle of being
black on campus
Columbia Missourian: Mizzou Alumni Association forms
Black Alumni Network
SNL: MSU student flip-flops, now supports student
group she criticized days ago X
P-D: Mizzou activists put pressure on university to
continue relationship with Planned Parenthood
P-D outsourced "freelance editorialists" editorial:
Missouri's congressional delegation should reject Trans-Pacific
Partnership
Priddy: By spreading fear about Syrian refugees,
Missouri Republicans are helping the terrorists win
St. Joseph News-Press' Steve Booher: What's a Yik
Yak? A mid-50s scribe take a voyeuristic look inside. X
Gateway Journalism Review's Terry Ganey: The Pulitzer
Prize reporter who carried a gun: A look at the life and
investigative style of Ted Link
P-D letter: State Sen. Jill Schupp (D-Creve
Coeur): Syrian refugees deserve same essential liberties
SNL letter: Lamar man says one Islamic terrorist's
fake ID could lead to killing of thousands of Missourians X
JCNT letter: Jefferson City woman questions
Medicaid-expansion benefits X
P-D letter: University City woman uses Nixon's stadium
comments at school visit against him
P-D letter: Greendale woman glad that North County
municipalities are challenging SB 5
P-D letter: Farmington felon says "Ban the Box"
proposals should be extended to housing applications
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Sunday, November 22
SNL: ProPublica data: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves
outpaces even Emanuel Cleaver and Lacy Clay in missed congressional
votes; Every other member racks up less than 5 percent X
Missourinet: Nixon, lawmakers discuss screening of
refugees and hearing on state's role
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
teaser: Dems Jane Dueker and Mindy Mazur, with Republicans Anne
Zerr and Linda Rallo, talk Syrian refugees, municipal-court overhaul
and Mizzou's ongoing dramatics
The Missouri Times: Profile: Angela Bingaman
joins Richard Callow's St. Louis Public Eye full-time, talks
scrilla-chasing, spin and sundresses
P-D: St. Louis comptroller to oppose stadium financing
bill
SNL: Missouri agriculture grant to help area Hmong
farmers; Asian family immigrated to the U.S. and chose to work
hard, expresses gratitude for opportunities X
The Maneater: Curators hold listening session;
Some minorities complain about "microaggressions," other atrocities
AP: Mizzou facing damaged image after racial issues,
upheaval
P-D editorial: Babies, a Missouri budget casualty
P-D's Nicklaus: UnitedHealth's problems are its fault,
not Obamacare's; Comments from Washington University health care
economist Tim McBride
CDT's Waters: Protesters' 10-percent quota is
impossible to meet; Limited pool of qualified black candidates
snatched up by better institutions anyway X
Washington Missourian's Bill Miller: MU protesters'
demand for 10 percent black faculty is ridiculous X
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Missourian's Bob Miller: 'Microaggressions' are all around us +
Columbia Missourian's George Kennedy: MU race
relationships status: It's complicated: Public disagrees
with protester carping; Andy Blunt handed a no-bid
contract; female alum tells tale of joy and pain, sunshine and
rain
CDT op-ed: Craig Van Matre: 2,094 words on Tim
Wolfe concludes that UM president's resignation may be all for naught,
or maybe not X
St. Joseph News-Press letter: Area man says greedy
types who oppose minimum-wage increases are forcing low-wage workers
onto welfare X
P-D letter: Ferguson man says Ferguson effect
emboldened protester types, and now decent people will rethink sending
their offspring to Mizzou
Washington Missourian letter: New Haven seasoned
citizen recounts glory days of hippie campus protests X
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Saturday, November 21
The Missouri Times: Republican legislators flock to
join Marco Rubio
P-D: Northrop Grunman won the bomber bid over Boeing,
but faces continued legal battles; Comments from McCaskill
KWMU: Missouri lawmakers to hold public hearing on
Syrian refugee resettlement
AP: Missouri Republican leaders call hearing on Syrian
refugees
JCNT: MO DSS Director Brian Kinkade: State has
no role in deciding if refugees come X
Messenger: One Missouri Republican - state Rep. Jay
Barnes (R-Jefferson City) - stands up to fear on Syrian refugees
KOMU: Missouri Democrats draw attention to Blunt's
Paris messages; Blunt's Tate O'Connor calls complaint 'laughable'
KOMU: Gov. Bob Holden organizes visit by Hong Kong
Economic Trade Office; Luetkemeyer attends, McCaskill and Blunt
send staff
P-D: Area congressional delegation's votes for the week
CDT: Black Democrats discuss party shortcomings at
Muleskinners; Former Dem committeewoman says black vote is taken
for granted: "I am kind of done with the Democratic party." X
Drebes:
Cora Faith Walker starts campaign committee for safe Dem seat currently
held by Rep. Sharon Pace (D-Northwoods)
KC Star: Missouri governors tout job recruiting
efforts, economic development initiatives +
AP: Nixon, 5 past Missouri governors discuss economic
development
Maryville Daily Forums: GOP state Reps Dan Hegeman,
Allen Andrews preview legislative session: Chances slim for
'right to work' and Medicaid expansion, say best path to RTW is with
Republican governor
KDNL (St. Louis): Video: Sen. Eric Schmitt
(R-Glendale) talks with Jamie Allman about battle with municipalities
that want to collect more traffic-fine dollars
KC Star: KC attorney Herb Kohn appointed chairman of
Missouri Gaming Commission +
CDT: Transgender event draws less than a dozen to
Capitol X
CDT: Kurt Schaefer reopens Capitol office as threat
investigation continues X
AP: Both sides pressure Mizzou over Planned Parenthood
ties
CDT: UM, labor union hope to find common ground in
federal mediation X
CDT: Union organizers share experiences with MU
students X
CDT: Breitbart's Ben Shapiro challenges protesters at
MU: "If you can't show systematic racism at Mizzou you instead
rely on stupid garbage like 'white privilege' and 'microaggressions.'" X
AP: Curators hear student complaints at forum,
including complaints about timing of forum
P-D: Curators sit through two hours of
complaints; Sociology grad student Teah Hairston shares her
struggle story: "I have to choose to be black or educated:
I can't be both."
Columbia Missourian: Hispanic female speaks out
against racial quotas, suggests students can succeed despite having
Caucasoid professors
CDT: Students complain to curators; Indian group
now wants an Indian culture center built on campus X
Columbia Missourian: Fact check: Kinder's 'zero
fact' on swastika wrong
SNL: Black student to MSU group making demands:
"You do not represent me"; Asheton Mayfield takes aim at chronic
malcontents "stoking the burning coals of the fiery pit of hell that is
the 'race war'" X
SNL: Responding to protesters' 'demands,' MSU board
supports President Smart X
KWMU: Ferguson interim police chief to step down, to
return to Arizona position
P-D: Ferguson interim police chief departing early
USA Today editorial: Campus adults should protect free
speech
The Missouri Times op-ed: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder:
Halt the relocation of Syrian refugees into Missouri
CDT's Waters: Ann Covington: A career of service X
Shelly: Taking stock of a wacky week: From Jay
Nixon's wishy-washy Syria statement to Mike Moon's silly 'Islamization'
fearmongering +
KC Star's Steve Paul: Mizzou protesters have
super-charged the post-Ferguson atmosphere +
P-D letter: Old Monroe, Mo. (population 265) police
chief supports marijuana legalization, says he has seen dope
prosecutions wreak havoc on his metropolis
P-D letter: West Virginia woman responds to
wind-energy editorial, critizes Clean Line energy project
P-D letter: Creve Coeur man says call for 10 percent
black faculty is unrealistic, suggests boosting pipeline of future
teachers by improving shoddy urban schools
P-D letter: Area man dislikes light sentence for
Ferguson looter, sarcatically suggests the criminal be hired at Mizzou
to fulfill faculty racial quota
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Friday, November 20
Washington Missourian: Bringing refugees to Missouri
warrants much caution, lawmakers say X
JCNT: Blunt: Press 'pause' button on refugees X
Missourinet: Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) explains
letter calling for camps for refugees, preventing 'Islamization' of
Missouri
KC Star: Conservative group says their poll shows
Missourians want Nixon to take stronger stance against Syrian refugees +
Kraske: The Chat: Nixon on letting in Syrian
refugees, Glen Kolkmeyer on gas tax +
P-D: Congressional Quarterly ranks McCaskill, Blunt
voting records
KWMU: McCaskill: Backpage.com CEO faces possible
Senate contempt hearing
KWMU: Area members of Congress vote to shift federal
oversight of West Lake Landfill
P-D: Proposed law would strip EPA of authority over
nuclear waste at West Lake Landfill
AP: Lawmakers want Corps, not EPA, to remediate
landfill
Kraske: Here come da govs, here come da govs!
Six Missouri govs in KC today to discuss economic development +
SNL: Rep. Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield) will not seek
re-election, will run for Greene County commission seat X
KWMU: Homeless numbers drop in Missouri, remain
unchanged in St. Louis area
KWMU: St. Louis County files suit challenging state's
municipal overhaul
Missourinet: St. Louis County cities' suit challenges
constitutionality of Missouri municipal court law
The Missouri Times: Schmitt, Nasheed, Cornejo respond
to lawsuit against SB 5
KTRS (St. Louis): Recently-enacted Senate Bill 5 faces
legal challenge
P-D: North County cities sue to block law that limits
revenue from traffic cases
AP: Suit challenges Missouri law limiting Missouri
court fines
CDT: UM curator Ann Covington resigns for personal
reasons; Nixon will appoint replacement for female slot X
Columbia Missourian: Ben Shapiro slams political
correctness at MU after recent protests
CDT: Facebook page questioning MU protests shut down,
then restored X
KOMU: African-American student charged with making
threats on Yik Yak; Budding scholar Paris Lovett: "It's a new age
and I can write [sic] my
ancestors [sic] wrong and just
start killing ya'll off"
AP: Curators to hear student gripes today
KC Star: Curators plan an audience for MU student
groups on Friday +
SNL: Missouri State protesters issue 'demands,' set
deadlines X
SE
Missourian: Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau) honored as
advocate of music therapy +
The Missouri Times: Prenger Family Center leading way
on truancy court diversion; Comments from Missouri Supreme Court
Justice Mary Russell
KWMU: Federal agency to help study supposed risks from
Coldwater Creek
KWMU: Starbucks breaks ground in Ferguson; new
store is part of new concept
Washington Missourian editorial: Until feds give
assurances about improved security, governors have a point in blocking
Syrian refugees X
P-D outsourced "freelance editorialists" editorial:
McCaskill right to fight drug price-gouging
Washington Missourian editorial: It pays to be
fired: Bowen Loftin got a heck of a deal
X
Washington Missourian's Bill Miller: The pendulum has
swung too far at Mizzou; As Peter Kinder said, fiasco was
governance by "mob rule" X
P-D letter: Kirkwood woman thanks Gov. Jay Nixon for
embracing Syrian refugees
JCNT letter: Jefferson City woman wants Nixon to block
Syrian refugees, keep them from leeching public assistance X
CDT letter: Area woman wants University of Missouri to
terminate relationship with Planned Parenthood
X
JCNT letter: Member of National Organization for Women
(NOW) wants Mizzou to strengthen relationship with Planned Parenthood X
Washington Missourian letter: Warrenton woman says
Gary Pinkel set "horrific" example by siding with petulant protesters
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Thursday, November 19
KC Star: Blunt offers thoughts on Syria, ISIS in
campaign email +
Kraske: The Chat: AG Chris Koster on keeping
Missourians safe from potential terrorist refugees; Kurt Schaefer
on receiving death threats +
The Missouri Times: Petition started to stop Syrian
refugee resettlement
Missourinet: Rep. Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) wants
special session, camps to deal with Syrian refugees
Columbia Missourian: Missouri legislators call for
Nixon to block Syrian refugees
AP: Missouri lawmakers seek special session over
refugees
Missourinet: Advocates for domestic violence victims
dislike cuts to federal program
Missouri Farmer Today: Mini-profile: Missouri
Farm Bureau's Blake Hurst
Drebes:
Jeff Roe's James Thomas III files "Courageous Conservatives PAC" with
FEC
Missourinet: A gas tax proposal will be filed again in
Missouri Legislature
The Missouri Times: Pension committee proceeds despite
lack of quorum, increased security
P-D: Nixon visits award-winning St. Louis City Public
School for gifted kids, answers questions on stadium, running for
president, his suits, more
Columbia Missourian: A look at area's black jobless
numbers; Man who dropped out of St. Louis City's Vashon high
school describes subpar experience
KWMU: Districts want to save money on buses to put
back into classrooms
CDT: University of Missouri faces tough legislative
year, area lawmakers say X
CDT: MU names new head of research, graduate studies
and economic development; Hank Foley's first appointment is
Caucasoid male Mark McIntosh X
CDT: Paper to end "Trib Talks" series with 4 p.m.
session today; Readers encouraged to take part in anonymous chat
with League of Women Voters, 'Minority Mens [sic?] Network' X
Columbia Missourian: Judge reconsiders, sets bond for
suspect in MU Yik Yak threats
CDT: Judge sets bond for MU threat suspect X
P-D: Officials reassure Bridgeton businesses on West
Lake Landfill
KWMU: Ferguson hires new city manager: De'Carlon
Seewood
P-D: Mailers sue Post-Dispatch, allege wage
discrimination based on race
P-D editorial: Greek organizations should join
McCaskill-Gillibrand to fight campus sexual assault
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: Mike Moon's Syrian-terrorist
proposal shows he's ignorant +
CDT's Waters: Octogenarian reacts to MoScout MU poll X
KC Star's Yael Abouhalkah: Obama backs free speech at
MU and conservatives harshly unleash it; Breitbart's Ben Shapiro
to speak at MU tonight, taking aim at "whiny pantywaist fascism" +
Columbia Missourian op-ed: J-School grad student Ben
Kupiszewski: On campus free speech, the perpetually-offended, and
the witch hunt for make-believe "systematic racism"
SNL letter: Battlefield man disagrees with
concealed-carry proposal from Cathy Hannaway [sic] X
St. Joseph News-Press letter: Reponse to Alonzo Weston
column on minimum-wage hike X
P-D letter: Kirkwood woman fact-checks Grain Belt
Express editorial
P-D letter: Mizzou alum dislikes salary paid to Bowen
Loftin and other bureaucratic "fat cats"
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Wednesday, November 18
P-D: Blunt, and the somber walk into the secret terror
threats
P-D: Congressional delegation weighs in on Syrian
refugees
CDT: GOP, Koster call for blocking refugees after
Paris attacks X
Missourinet: Mostly-Republican call for blocking
Syrian refugees from Missouri grows
AP: More call on Nixon to block Syrian refugees in
Missouri
SNL: Area lawmakers disagree with Nixon on Syrian
refugees X
CDT: Syrian refugees months or years from being
accepted in U.S., activists say X
Drebes: McCaskill takes aim at crazy drug price
increases
AP: Justice Dept. brings federal charges in
investigation into dietary supplement deception; McCaskill sent
letter to executives
P-D: Fraternity and sorority organizations back off
sexual assault bill after McCaskill protests
Kraske: The Chat: Missouri Dems on Andy Blunt's
no-bid contract +
KWMU: Most of Missouri's GOP candidates for governor
expected to head to Vegas
The Missouri Times: Race for Dempsey's seat down to
Anne Zerr and Bill Eigel
The Missouri Times: Override of unemployment-benefits
bill upheld, will move to Supreme Court
AP: Judge backs state on unemployment-benefits bill
P-D: Missouri could pay blind residents $19 million
Missourinet: Sen. Jill Schupp (D-Creve Coeur) wants
child suicide prevention education available to school employees
Missourinet: U.S. Supreme Court consideration of Texas
abortion law could affect Missouri laws
The Missouri Times: Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia)
closes office due to death threats
CDT: Schaefer closes offices during threat
investigation X
KWMU: Kurt Schaefer ties death threat to his
leadership role against Planned Parenthood
AP: Planned Parenthood clinic can reapply for
privileges
P-D: MU chancellor's new role hits a snag after Cerner
objects
AP: Cerner raises concerns about University of
Missouri deal
CDT: Board yet to vote on new role for old MU
chancellor X
Missourinet: Some Mizzou alumni say last week's
protests unfairly portray University of Missouri
Columbia Missourian: Fact check: Juan Williams
exaggerates car incident at Mizzou Homecoming Parade
AP: Missouri would likely be alone with 10 percent
black faculty
P-D: Demand for 10 percent black faculty at Mizzou
would put it above norm for peer universities
Columbia Missourian: Former MU faculty emphasize need
to keep - not just recruit - faculty
KWMU: Taking stock at a tumultous time for the
University of Missouri
The Missouri Times: Rep. Jeremy LaFaver (D-Kansas
City) appointed to Missouri Children's Trust Fund Board
KWMU: 3-judge panel to hear Ernest Lee Johnson's
latest appeal
SE
Missourian: Missouri deer harvest up 6 percent from last year +
KWMU: Calling in the ethicist: Reflecting on
Ferguson with understanding of protesters and the police
KC Star editorial: Crackdown by Missouri and other
states on for-profit college chain is good news +
SNL op-ed: U.S. Rep. Billy Long: Ozarks veterans
deserve the clinics they were promised X
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Kurt Schaefer's
actions placing 'undue burden' on Missouri's citizens
St. Joseph News-Press' Alonzo Weston: Minimum-wage
debate: Sexagenarian shares stories from the early 1970s X
CDT's Waters: Overall, the whole Mizzou ordeal was a
positive thing X
P-D letter: Webster Groves woman says 'Ban the Box'
legislation will help alleviate discrimination
P-D letter: St. Louis County man says Mizzou
malcontents view life through the prism of race
JCNT letter: Centertown man compares Mizzou protests
to Ferguson riots, wonders why media does not depict Michael Brown as
near-300-pound strong-arm dopehead that he was
X
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Tuesday, November 17
P-D: Blunt joins call for moratorium on Syrian refugees
KTVI: Kinder asks Nixon to prevent Syrian refugees
from coming to Missouri
Missourinet: Lawmakers call on Nixon to refuse Syrian
refugees' relocation to Missouri
The Missouri Times: Rep. Kathie Conway (R-St.
Charles), GOP gov candidates ask Nixon to keep Missouri from accepting
refugees
KMIZ: Nixon not refusing Syrian refugees in Missouri
P-D: Nixon won't bar Syrian refugees from Missouri,
despite Republican calls for a ban
KWMU: Liberal think tank, advocacy organizations says
governors who say 'no' to refugees may not have law on their side
AP: Nixon calls for safeguards after Paris attacks
Kraske: The Chat: John Hancock on importance of
March 15 presidential primary; Catherine Hanaway on Missouri's
lack of leadership +
The Hill: Sierra Club begins running ads urging
McCaskill, Blunt to support Obama's carbon regulations
Wall Street Journal: Lawmakers, including McCaskill,
target high drug prices
KWMU: Greek organizations drop support for bill
opposed by McCaskill
The Missouri Times: New weekly column, Texts from the
Trail, to focus on 2016 campaign news; Nuggets on John Brunner
vs. Eric Greitens (un)friendly fire, Schaefer vs. Hawley, Koster's
week, more
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Mannies
& Rosenbaum chat with Ryan Johnson of Missouri Alliance for Freedom
about anonymous donors, support for some ethics-law changes, and
forecast for 'right to work' legislation
Drebes: Missouri Alliance for Freedom makes Sunshine
request for info on every state rep's bulk mailers
The Missouri Times: Mark Parkinson drops Senate bid,
endorses Bill Eigel; St. Charles Republican calls Rep. Anne Zerr
(R-St. Charles) "pro-tax, pro-spending, anti-family-values"
P-D: Mark Parkinson withdraws from race to succeed Tom
Dempsey
Missourinet: Voter ID, ethics overhaul among top
priorities for Missouri Senate Republicans
Missourinet: Galloway hopes recent audits serve as
reminder for vehicle license offices
KC Star: Columbia one battleground in larger fight
over abortion in the U.S. +
CDT: Protests tarnished university image in Missouri,
poll shows X
KC Star: MoScout poll shows disapproval of MU
protests, football coach Gary Pinkel +
P-D's Ben Frederickson: Tiger football players'
relationship with protest group isn't over; J'Mon Moore says he
might start "community service hours," or maybe just "going to talk to
people"
CDT: MU faculty hold solidarity march; Caucasoid
male balances sound amplifier atop his long-haired cranium X
AP: Black KU students complain about administration,
start "Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk" movement; Protesters say they
were inspired by Mizzou protester behavior, but "not trying to mimic
Mizzou"
AP: Bowen Loftin to keep bulk of old salary
P-D: Ousted Mizzou chancellor will keep most of his
salary
The Missouri Times: Rebate lawsuit dismissed as net
metering rules change again
CDT: Grain Belt Express wind power project gets green
light in Illinois X
Missourinet: CDC: Birth rate among Missouri
teenagers drops 50% due to implants, other contraceptive strategies
P-D editorial: Rural landowners, farmers should give
in a little and allow Grain Belt Express; Seasoned-citizen
editorial board chooses half-century-old protest song for headline
P-D op-ed: Tishaura Jones: Missourians deserve
an end to payday lending
P-D letter: O'Fallon woman responds to McCaskill's
request for men to "shut the hell up," imagines the caterwauling if
gender roles were reversed
P-D letter: Florissant woman wants Missouri
Republicans to expand Medicaid
SNL: Springfield woman exposes the conspiracy to keep
poor people down in Missouri: Mechanisms include opposing
Medicaid expansion and increased minimum wage, support of 'right to
work,' others X
P-D letter: Ballwin man offers practical solution to
urbanites' crime problem: Assign one police officer to every 300
potential criminals and let the positive mentoring relationships bloom
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Monday, November 16
KWMU:
Republicans, Clinton already jockeying for support in Missouri's March
15 primary
KODE
(Joplin): VA to meet with Mount Vernon leaders to try and open
rehab center; Comments from U.S. Rep. Billy Long
KMZU
(Carrollton): Wentworth Military Academy hosts first-ever Ike
Skelton Legacy Dinner; Former COS Bob Hagedorn, U.S. Rep. Emanuel
Cleaver among award-winners
KOMU
(Columbia): Missouri River Relief receives $91,000 EPA grant
This
Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Catherine Hanaway; Panel
of John Hancock, former Sen. Chuck Graham (D-Columbia), Pat White, Rep.
Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin) discuss MU protester demands and state-school
acquiescence, GOP gov primary
Neosho
Daily News: Catherine Hanaway visits Newton County, says she
wants to restore values, jobs
Drebes:
MoScout poll: Missourians slightly favor expanding discrimination
laws
KC
Star: 'Sure shot' Jay Nixon gets his buck on deer season's
opening weekend +
Kraske:
The Chat: House Budget Chairman Tom Flanigan (R-Carthage) weighs
in on Mizzou handing Andy Blunt a $10k/month no-bid lobbying contract
+
Missourinet:
Obama applauds Mizzou protesters
JCNT:
MU alumni combat protests with social media campaign X
Columbia
Missourian: Video: At day three (Nov. 5) hunger-strike hero
Jonathan Butler discusses his his self-inflicted starvation struggle
Columbia
Missourian: "Inclusivity" march draws 300;
Overwhelmingly-Caucasoid crowd barks "No justice, no peace," other
catchphrases
P-D:
In Normandy, Saturday school for some students, teachers
KMOX:
St. Louis aldermen get earful on new stadium; Comments from Rep.
Tracy McCreery (D-Olivette), others
KWMU:
Report from Auditor Nicole Galloway finds Dept. of Conservation doesn't
always follow directions
SE
Missourian: Area students to let MoDOT test their bridges +
Rosenbaum:
County cities band together to oppose Stenger's police standards push
KWMU:
Report: St. Louis banks opening more branches in black
neighborhoods
NY
Times editorial: Policing for profit in St. Louis County
P-D
outsourced "freelance editorialists" editorial: Missouri should
follow other states' lead on legalizing marijuana
Washington
Missourian editorial: Protesters damaged their own cause, and
alumni are disgusted; Handing Mike Middleton the interim
president job "may soften conditions since he is black" X
KC
Star editorial: Renovated Gateway Arch will benefit St. Louis and
Missouri +
CDT's
Waters: Finding blame on campus: Protesters will have to
start adopting reasonable expectations X
KC
Star letter: Citizens for Environmental Action: Koster
should support Obama administration's Clean Power Plan +
P-D
letter: St. Peters man says Ameren makes willy-nilly increases in
electric bills
JCNT
letter: Area man wonders how alleged "slurs" are undocumented in
the smartphone era, expresses disappointment that UM leaders "folded
like a lawn chair" X
JCNT
letter: Area man says curators should be ashamed for giving in to
protesters' extortionist behavior X
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Sunday, November 15
Missourinet: Blunt says Paris attacks evidence of
intelligence community's fears, could happen here
Missourinet: Official says Mizzou students studying
abroad in France are safe amid terror attacks
P-D: Area congressional delegation's votes for the week
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
teaser: Guest Catherine Hanaway; Panel of John Hancock,
Chuck Graham, Pat White, Rep. Shamed Dogan (R)
KC Star: John Brunner, Catherine Hanaway, Peter Kinder
attend Platte County gov forum; Topics include taxes, education,
Mizzou protesters' behavior +
SE
Missourian: Gubernatorial candidates Catherine Hanaway, Eric
Greitens make Cape stops +
P-D: Opponents of transmission line say "right to
farm" amendment precludes project
KWMU: Proposed stadium gets a public hearing
P-D: Football fans and foes gather at St. Louis
riverfront for stadium argument
St. Joseph News-Press: How a gram of meth makes it to
Missouri X
St. Joseph News-Press: Wind project generates concern
about birds; Comments from Missouri Department of Conservation's
Janet Sternberg X
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: University of Missouri Extension's Mike Milam
hosts group to learn about migrant workers and human trafficking
SNL: Officials consider whether MSU's spike in sexual
assaults is an anomaly X
CDT: Abortion politics unlikely to abate for new
University of Missouri leadership X
CDT: Graduate students extend olive branch, but view
new leadership with caution X
CDT: Alumni group starts social media campaign against
protests; "Truth Matters MU" creates #UnityMU hashtag, aims for
"a reasoned response to racial tensions" X
KC Star: Analysis: Outlook for next steps of
agitation - or possible placation - at Mizzou
+
P-D: Mizzou has long history of race complaints,
stalled attempts at action
P-D: Diversity initiative has made headway;
Programs have handed out scholarships to students, and jobs to faculty
applicants
CDT: MU interim chancellor and "interim vice
chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity" discuss next steps X
KC Star: Race relations: Mizzou
tailgater-on-the-lot interviews +
P-D: Race relations: Mizzou tailgater-on-the-lot
interviews
Columbia Missourian: Concerned Student 1950 stages
march, uses bullhorn for "extra loud" instigation through Greek Town
Columbia Missourian: Breaking down the
journalist-bullying videos: Play-by-play of journobumping from
self-described "sturdy" anonymous female protester-sympathizer
JCNT: Jefferson City NAACP promotes hotline for
reporting discrimination, including insults X
P-D: Mizzou professor is latest race-struggle
celebrity; Cyndi Frisby's Facebook posts detail her
overwhelmingly emotional moments, crying fits
JCNT: MoDOT project helps identify Trail of Tears X
P-D editorial: Solutions for St. Louis' high
premature-birth rate: Expand Medicaid, raise tobacco tax
Gateway Journalism Review: Terry Ganey: Behavior
of Mizzou protesters - as well as Ferguson rioters' attacks on P-D
reporter Paul Hampel - lead to teaching moments for young journos
P-D letter: Cottleville man says Kurt Schaefer is a
hypocrite for criticizing Mizzou professor while opposing study on
abortion wait period
P-D letter: Trio of protester-sympathizers - Melissa
Click, Richard "Chip" Callahan, and Janna Basler - are unfit to
represent university; Protesters aren't the only students that
deserve respect
P-D letter: University City woman says Mizzou is
reaping what it sowed via years of liberal pablum and shielding
students from the real world
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Saturday, November 14
KC Star: Missouri Dems backing Clinton in 2016 race +
The Hill: Sierra Club cites poll from liberal Public
Policy Polling (D), says majority of Missourians "generally prefer" EPA
writing environmental rules rather than Congress
JCNT: Sierra Club urges Ameren to reduce coal use X
CDT: Agencies busy as Medicare drug plan, Obamacare
enrollment periods overlap X
The Hill: Missourian Andy Cohen, the creator of "Real
Housewives" franchise, fantasizes of a politics-based show - and would
cast Claire McCaskill as "the normal one"
SE
Missourian: Gubernatorial candidate Catherine Hanaway pushes
'Constitutional carry' during stop in Cape +
KC Star: Anti-Eric Greitens campaign tied to former
John Brunner staffer Adam McClain springs into action; "Patriots
for America" team includes Boston's Vincent DeVito, who also has ties
to current Brunner advisers +
The Missouri Times: Ethics complaint filed against
Missouri Promise initiative
The Missouri Times: Profile: Kyle Garner, who
seeks to fill Dem ballot slot against Rep. Nathan Beard (R-Sedalia)
CDT: UM System hires Andy Blunt to lobby General
Assembly without seeking bids; House Budget Chairman Tom Flanigan
(R-Carthage) says hiring more lobbyists is "kind of a head-scratcher" X
P-D: Mizzou to provide $10,000 of taxpayer money to
Andy Blunt each month to lobby; Rep. Jeremy LaFaver (D-Kansas
City) calls decision "puzzling"
KC Star: Taxpayers, via University of Missouri, secure
lobbying services of Andy Blunt for bargain $10k/month +
AP: Nixon finds black female to fill vacancy on
University of Missouri Board of Curators; Yvonne Sparks works at
St. Louis Fed
AP: Modern-day complaints mirror those of Mizzou
minorities in 1969: Supposed threats from white students, not
enough emotional care and support from administrators, etc.
P-D: From NY to LA, Mizzou protesters inspire stunts
elsewhere; Gimmicks include traditional "die-ins" of not
working/lying down in public to "moment of shouting," in which
Caucasoid allies must remain silent
KWMU: UMSL has highest percentage of black students
(14%) than any other school in UM System; Black student group
leader LaVell Monger says, "There's really no racial tension."
CDT: Gary Pinkel, citing health, to leave Missouri
football team at season's end X
SE
Missourian: SEMO public safety director arrested for DWI +
JCNT: Audit criticizes Missouri Department of
Conservation spending X
CDT: Missouri State Teachers Association delegates
adopt legislative agenda; Some disagreement about need for
schools to create policies to deal with young gender-benders X
P-D: St. Louis Regional Chamber study calls new
stadium 'critical,' adds 7,500 jobs
P-D: Hearing on guns at the St. Louis Zoo rescheduled
SE
Missourian: As Missourians head into hunting season, Dept. of
Conservation urges basic and life-saving tips
+
P-D: Pedestrian in Ferguson struck by car,
killed; Female Ferguson protester arrives at scene, manages to
get herself arrested
P-D: Protest figure Umar Lee withdraws from mayoral
race; After prolific two-month campaign, cabbie still believes
City should secede from state of Missouri
Messenger: University of Missouri has long, anguished
history with racial strife
Priddy: What in the world is going on at Mizzou?
Retiree offers 5,000+ words on race, state-school administration,
Ferguson riots, much much more
CDT's Waters: New faces at Mizzou are
encouraging; Mike Middleton has instant credibility with "black
protesters on the street" X
CDT's Waters: Jeff Harris is a superb choice for
circuit judge X
CDT letter: M.D. of Bellair (Mo.): Koster should
have supported Obama's clean-energy regulations X
KC Star letter: Tim Wolfe shouldn't have let himself
be bullied and, instead, should have thrown the hunger-striker off
campus; Handing someone a title like, "vice chancellor for
inclusion, diversity and equity" is nonsense
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P-D letter: Arnold man says today's hypersensitive
students can hardly comprehend what real civil-rights fighters endured
P-D letter: St. Louis woman says protesters should
have worked out their emotions, demands in private like adults
P-D letter: Chesterfield man says at Mizzou, a mob
runs the school and a football coach fires the administration
P-D letter: Clayton man says petulant football players
should lose their scholarships; While we're at it, let's demand
all sports teams have proportional makeup of the school's demographics
P-D letter: Lake Saint Louis man expresses disbelief
that furor was due to one racial slur and one piece of graffiti
P-D letter: Clayon's Barry Freedman says Mizzou
protesters should be congratulated for doing what Ferguson Commission
and Black Lives Matter members could never do
P-D letter: St. Louis Caucasoid objects to portrayal
of his ilk in editorial cartoon
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Friday, November 13
P-D: Nearly every prominent Missouri Democrat has
lined up behind Hillary Clinton
Missourinet: Sierra Club finds 60 farmers in Missouri
to support Obama's Clean Power Plan
Kraske: The Chat: Blunt, Kander camps will find
a way to spin Drebes' MoScout poll +
Politico: Summary of Q&A with Jason Kander
The Missouri Times: St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay
endorses Jake Zimmerman in Dem AG primary over Teresa Hensley
Drebes: MoScout poll: Banning gifts tops voters'
ethics list
KC Star: Former state Rep. Ray Salva (D) says federal
conviction shouldn't affect his state pension
+
Missourinet: Missouri Public Safety Director Lane
Roberts gives updates on improvements for Mexico veterans home
The Missouri Times: Profile: Newly-elected Rep.
DaRon McGee (D-Kansas City)
The Missouri Times: University of Missouri System
hires Dave Smith as new executive director of state government
relations; Andy Blunt handed lobbying contract
CDT: Semester of strife capped longstanding issues
with Tim Wolfe, Bowen Loftin X
CDT: Curators name Mike Middleton as interim president
to replace Wolfe X
Columbia Missourian: Mike Middleton is named interim
UM System president
KWMU: Curators find black man to fill interim
president role at University of Missouri
The Missouri Times: Mike Middleton steps into role as
UM System president
Missourinet: Middleton will seek to satiate demands of
Concerned Student 1950
CDT: Middleton says he will address complaining
students' demands X
Missourinet: Statements on Middleton from Democratic
officials' communications staff
KC Star: Third Missouri man charged with posting Yik
Yak threats against college campuses +
Missourinet: Indiana professor says other colleges,
universities may have to deal with similar campus dramatics as Mizzou
SE Missourian: SEMO Black Student Union draws 30 to
Mizzou solidarity rally; Black male describes struggle of
Caucasoids assuming he'll always be tardy +
KWMU: Normandy schools focus on improving attendance
P-D: Open-carry gun group plans rally, march in
Ferguson
KWMU: Missouri gun laws face challenges in the courts
and on the streets
KWMU: Stadium proponents forced to work for yardage
before St. Louis aldermanic committee
P-D: Stadium proponents present financing plan to St.
Louis aldermanic committee
Washington Missourian: Ameren bemoans 'D+' grade of
state's energy infrastructure
KWMU: Working group studying municipal court overhaul
hears overwhelming call for consolidation
P-D: Consolidation of area municipal courts urged at
hearing
P-D: Post-Dispatch publishes "news" article about
winning awards in its own company's competition
P-D editorial: Missouri has an embarrassing trifecta
of ethics-free zones
KC Star editorial: Mike Middleton is a good choice to
lead University of Missouri system out of upheaval +
JCNT editorial: University should take a stand against
all forms of intolerance - including protesters' KKK fairy tales and
bullying of the media X
Washington Missourian editorial: Mizzou students
called a hurtful name should be mature and not throw a tantrum;
Protesting students have hurt the university, and now decent people
will question sending their kids there X
P-D op-ed: Former PSC commissioner Terry
Jarrett: EPA's Clean Power Plan oversteps federal authority
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Heartland Institute's Logan
Pike: Providing facts and context to last week's hard-luck
SUV-driving welfare-mother profile
CDT's Waters: Postponement of Ernest Johnson's
execution might potentially mean the end of the death penalty in
Missouri, maybe X
KC Star letters: Area man says Mizzou football players
on scholarship should show a little more gratitude; Another area
man says black students won because they're on the right side of "the
issue" +
JCNT letter: Area man sarcastically suggests Americans
throw more hunger-strike tantrums to get their way X
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Missourian letter: Mizzou grad student dislikes hunger-strike
histrionics and threats, compares hysterical female bullies caught on
camera to Stalin and Mao henchmen +
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Thursday, November 12
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill urges men to quit
talking so much; MU bullyprof Melissa Click issues mea culpa +
Vox: Google data: Most-googled Obamacare
questions by state; Missouri an outlier with "How to get
Obamacare?"
Drebes:
MoScout poll: Blunt leads Kander
National Journal: Blunt's insider profile a danger in
outsider year (subscription required)
KSDK (St. Louis): VA hands out millions in bonuses
despite scandal; Comments from McCaskill
KFVS (Cape Girardeau): Missouri honoring Heartland
veterans; Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder started award program in 2012
Brownfield Ag News: USDA gives $19,000 to Ferguson
organic group for "feasibility studies"
KWMU: Bloomberg's attack ad against Koster may be a
political blessing
Missourinet: Rep. Lindell Shumake (R-Hannibal) will
try again to ask Missouri voters to approve bonds for new veterans home
KWMU: As funding bill waits in the wings, stadium
backers make case to NFL owners
P-D: NFL owners vow to exhaust 'every option' before
letting teams move
KCTV: Kansas City hospitals deny cannabis oil to
severely epileptic patients
CDT: University of Missouri Board of Curators pledge
announcement today X
CDT: Wolfe still acting president until curators name
interim leader X
U.S. News & World Report: Missouri police solicit
reports on 'hurtful' speech, startling scholars; Comments from
Joshua Hawley
Missourinet: MU Director of Greek Life Janna Basler
placed on administrative leave for hazing young journalist
P-D: Director of Greek Life at Mizzou placed on
administrative leave after confrontation with minority journalist
Columbia Missourian: MU Director of Greek Life put on
leave; Title IX complaint filed against her and Melissa Click
The Missouri Times: Kurt Schaefer calls for Mizzou to
fire professors who denied press
P-D: Mizzou professor tells students he is quitting
over decision to hold exam as racial tensions boil
Washington Times: Mizzou associate professor resigns
amid backlash after refusing to cancel exam: "I will be there,
and there will be an exam administered in our class"
Washington Post: 'Grow up,' tweets former Mizzou
football star to students who slammed 'hero' professor
Missourinet: Protesters demand meeting with Nixon
KWMU: The protester demand that virtually no college
meets: Fill 10% of faculty spots with qualified blacks
Columbia Missourian: Concerned Student 1950 holds
segregated meeting: Black students could remain in basement,
while Caucasoids and other "allies" sent upstairs to separate but equal
meeting place
P-D: Hazelwood Central students gather in commons
during lunch, then follow orders and return to class; Last
December, Hazelwood East students walked out of school to protest grand
jury's ruling on Michael Brown's attack
The Missouri Times: MU police make arrest in terror
threat after unsubstantiated rumors grip campus
P-D: Lake Saint Louis man, 19, charged with making
online threats against Mizzou
KFEQ (St. Joseph): Northwest Missouri State University
student arrested for making online threats
Washington Post: What is Yik Yak, the
anonymous-comment service at the center of "threat" stories?
The Maneater: "Black Culture Center" sign spray
painted overnight, changed to "Culture Center"
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Missourian: Perry County finishes season with acceptable ozone
numbers +
JCNT editorial: Resignation amid escalating
frustrations X
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Missourian op-ed: Positive experiences with Missouri's VA
hospitals +
Fox Sports' Clay Travis: The entire Mizzou protest is
based on lies
CDT's Matt Sanders: Lesson for Concerned Student
1950: Local media covers your protests because we care X
P-D's Koran Addo: Missteps, not student revolt, led to
Mizzou chancellor's demise
CDT Darkow cartoon: Melissa Click: Sarcastic
take on hysterical protester-sympathizer and hunger-strike histrionics X
P-D letter: University City man mocks editorial board,
St. Louis City leaders for support of stadium
St. Joseph News-Press letter: St. Joseph man says
Mizzou problems stem from white privilege X
KC Star letter: Nevada, Mo. man says Mizzou racial
controversies and MO DSS issues show Nixon is not a leader +
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Wednesday, November
11 Veterans Day
KWMU: Missouri environmental activists to sue over
clean water rules; Comments from MO Coalition for the
Environment's Liz Hubertz, MO Farm Bureau's Leslie Holloway
Roll Call: Senate seeks bipartisanship in rules
overhaul; Blunt agrees with Alexander, Schumer on need for 67
votes to update rules
Missourinet: McCaskill: Many veterans pleased
with care at VA facilities
KWMU: Water activities part of many area veterans'
therapy
KC Star: VA foster care program offers a new kind of
veterans home +
CBS: Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Video of
McCaskill, Amy Klobuchar
Jezebel: Missouri's Sen. Claire McCaskill begs men to
consider shutting up more
Mother Jones: McCaskill wants her male colleagues to
learn to "shut the hell up"
Drebes:
White House fall interns with Missouri connections: Five coeds,
zero males
KC Star: Video: Chelsea Clinton stops in KC to
promote book, speaks at school +
P-D: McDonald's employees keep doors locked in
morning, leave protesters out in the cold; Burger
chefs/janitors/Black Lives Matter members protest for one (1) hour
Missourinet: St. Louis area workers participate in
nationwide strike for higher wages and union rights; McRib
pitmaster Frances Holmes shares theory of economic stratification,
declares that there is no middle class
KC Star: Downtown rallies end long day of StandUp KC
protests; Woman who chose to take on $90k in student-loan debt
laments her budget struggles, phone bill +
The Missouri Times: Catherine Hanaway releases
proposal for nine GOP debates across Missouri
KC Star: Hanaway, who balked at limiting debates,
wants nine showdowns +
KC Star: Missouri labor unions spend big to fend off
'right to work' +
Dexter
Daily Statesman: Rep. Tila Hubrecht (R-Dexter) examining options,
alternatives to Medicaid expansion +
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Alderman
Jack Coatar chats with Mannies & Rosenbaum about St. Louis stadium
details, more
P-D: Stadium financing deal includes 'transformative'
plans to attempt to hire qualified minorities
KWMU: Municipal League director pans county exec's
police-standards plan
CDT: University of Missouri Board of Curators calls
for special meeting this afternoon X
CDT: Political reaction to Wolfe, Loftin resignations
colored by liberal, conservative viewpoints; McCaskill hints she
played a role in pushing Wolfe out, while Kinder denounces "mob rule" X
P-D: Missouri hunger-strike celebrity is from Omaha,
son of top railroad exec; Struggle symbol Jonathan Butler's dad
made at least $8.4 million last year
KC Star: MU football coach Gary Pinkel distances
himself from "Concerned Student 1950" protest group in radio interview +
CDT: Pinkel: "I did the right thing, and I'd do
it again" X
Columbia Missourian: MU Police Department asks
students, faculty to report "hateful or hurtful speech"; Police
should be called immediately upon awareness of hurt feelings
The Missouri Times: MU Police Department faces
backlash to e-mail asking for reports on hate speech
The Maneater: Missouri Student Association President
Payton Head spreads rumor that KKK showed up on campus, then apologizes
for untruth
Washington Times: Melissa Click, caught on video
bullying journalist, resigns
Missourinet: University of Missouri to remove courtesy
title for professor who blocked reporters
NBC News: University of Missouri teacher who sought
'muscle' to block journalist apologizes; Comments from Lt. Gov.
Peter Kinder
P-D: MU professor apologizes for bullying student
journalist
KC Star: Professor apologizes for confrontation during
MU protest +
CDT: Protesters' bullying of journalists sparks First
Amendment debate X
CDT: Concerned Student 1950 dismantles campsite X
Columbia Missourian: Tents begin coming down after
campus protests
Missourinet: Former curator expects many applicants
for next University of Missouri System president
KWMU: New Missouri diversity officer urges patience
KWMU: Tavis Smiley calls student protest behavior and
leaders' resignations "heartwarming"
CDT: MU police make arrest after social-media threats X
P-D: Mizzou apprehends person suspected in online
threats
P-D editorial: Winning the battle at Mizzou is signal
for hard work to begin
KC Star editorial: Lesson learned: MU employees,
student protesters wrong to block media +
CDT's Waters: Tim Wolfe didn't commit any hanging
offenses, but his bosses felt otherwise X
USA Today op-ed: Sen. Claire McCaskill: Cruel
and unusual service: There is still time to help American
veterans abused in mustard gas experiments
Jensen:
What is "white privilege" anyway? Reflections of a humble,
hardworking man whose accomplishments are due to sweat and sacrifice,
not skin color +
P-D letter: Ladue resident says protesters need to
show tolerance themselves; Demand for Wolfe to plead guilty to
'white privilege' was silly
P-D letter: Florissant man says football players'
stunt was shameful
P-D letter: St. Louis man says football players should
be proud of forcing resignations so quickly
P-D letter: St. Louis man wonders why minority
protesters aren't upset about Planned Parenthood's role in killing
black babies
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Tuesday, November 10
Kraske: The Chat: Harry Reid talks up Jason
Kander; Show-Me Cannabis' John Payne on pot initiative;
Paul Wieland on opposing death penalty +
KWMU: 29-year-old nursing student stuck in the
coverage gap; Planned Parenthood's Laura Burbank calls such
situations "heartbreaking"
KC Star: Unions stage minimum-wage rally in KC
today; Child-care and fast-food workers are current organizing
targets +
KC Star: Chelsea Clinton's book tour stops in KC today +
Drebes: Raise Your Hand for Kids cigarette-tax
campaign announces team: Consultants, global public relations
firm, others
Rosenbaum: Mizzou's racial tensions grab the attention
of state leaders - and the nation
The Maneater: Concerned Student 1950 holds press
conference; Member shuts down crowd's "M-I-Z" chant:
"That's still traumatic for us because it was used against us."
KWMU: Amid racial controversies, UM system president
and Mizzou chancellor step down
KWMU: Curator who picked Wolfe says his resignation
'sets a terrible precedent'; Former state Sen. Wayne Goode
(D): "It's almost an invitation for chaos"
Columbia Missourian: A day of celebration and
confusion; Aged Caucasoid female assaults student photographer
with backpack
KC Star: President, chancellor resign amid racial
strife +
KC Star: After Wolfe steps down, students push
photographer +
P-D: Mizzou protesters thwart media coverage;
Comments from journalists
L.A. Times: Video captures Missouri protesters' clash
with media; Caucasoid university professor Melissa Click
confronts minority journalist
Washington Post: Video shows protesters, university
employees barring media coverage
New York Daily News: Protesters, faculty shoved
journalists away from protest tent area; Caucasoid Greek Life
Assistant Director Janna Basler, professor Melissa Click caught on
video confronting minority photojournalist
Gawker: University of Missouri professor calls for
"muscle" to remove minority reporter from protests; Melissa
Click's current research projects include 50 Shade of Grey, Lady Gaga
topics
Slate: University of Missouri employees, protesters
force media out of quad
Huffington Post: Why is a Mizzou communications
professor telling reporters to 'get out'?
Columbia Missourian: Loftin resigns as MU chancellor,
effective at end of the year
Columbia Missourian: Concerned Student 1950 issues new
demands: Meeting with Gov. Jay Nixon, etc.
CDT: Activists say fight is not finished after UM
president resigns X
CDT: Loftin to transition to new role at MU X
Missourinet: Wolfe resigns as University of Missouri
president after student, faculty protests
Missourinet: University of Missouri chancellor to
shift to a new job after UM president's resignation
Missourinet: Change of role at University of Missouri
for Loftin comes after calls for his dismissal
AP: University of Missouri president leaves over race
complaints
AP: Timeline of Monday happenings
The Missouri Times: Protesters celebrate and plan next
steps
P-D: At Mizzou, an upheaval leads to a campus
celebration; Heroic protesters launch "a remarkable and swift
revolt"
KWMU: SLU student reacts to Mizzou race controversy
KWMU: Ferguson Commission mulls over passing the baton
to FOCUS St. Louis
P-D outsourced "freelance editorialists" editorial:
Let's give ex-cons a real second chance
KC Star editorial: After student protests toppled MU
leadership, cool heads and wise choices prevailed +
National Review editorial: Dear Mizzou: Life is
hard, and it's harder if you're stupid: "When men with souls made
of cotton candy wilt in the face of this sort of absurdity, it
encourages it"
Fox Sports' Clay Travis: Mizzou protest is total
charade; Entire hysterical scene is now an absurd satire
CDT's Joe Walljasper: Admire the activism, but
question the endgame X
KC Star's Sam Mellinger: Why the last few days at
Mizzou have college administrators everywhere scared +
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: MU upheaval means more chaos
ahead +
P-D letter: St. Louis County man says city voters
should demand a vote on "whack-a-doodle" stadium money
P-D letter: Overland man says that after Ferguson
riots and St. Louis City's homicidal behavior, a new stadium won't
paper over image problems
P-D letter: St. Louis man says stadium deal is
guaranteed loser for taxpayers
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Monday, November 9
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Missourian: Tax credits can make big effect in local
health-insurance costs; Certified Obamacare counselor says
program has done "amazing things" +
KWMU: "Five things" journomeme: Cinco reasons
why Missouri is suing the feds over hospital overpayments
Politico: Democrats hope to ride Hillary wave to
Senate control; Harry Reid calls Jason Kander "stunning in his
approach ... That guy is good."
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Bob Dixon;
Rep. Gina Mitten (D-St. Louis), Rep.-elect Dean Plocher (R), Democratic
donor and Missouri ag leader Barry Aycock, former Speaker Tim Jones on
GOP gov primary, UM drama, more
P-D: Missouri could decide medical marijuana issue in
2016
Drebes:
Brian Schmidt, of Missouri Capitol and Missouri Wonk fame, now engaged
to Sarah Clark
P-D: Center for Public Integrity gives Missouri subpar
ranking for campaign finance restrictions and lobbyist activities
Missourinet: Three weeks left in Missouri tax amnesty
program
JCNT: Profile: Interim MoDOT Director Roberta
Broeker X
Missourinet: Sen. Paul Wieland (R-Imperial) to
reintroduce bill to end death penalty in Missouri
AP: Missouri executions expected to slow as 16 of 26
condemned inmates have yet to exhaust their appeal
AP: Execution updates: Chain of Rocks
rapist/murderer Reginald Clemons and others
KMWU: Universities create new, simple application tool
to attract more poor and minority students
SNL: Colleges to mark Veterans Day with music, special
events; Students will have an opportunity to honor veterans and
show gratitute for living in a free society X
Missourinet: "Concerned Student 1950" issues list of
demands: Tim Wolfe must hand-write an apology - and hold a press
conference - acknowledging his "white privilege," etc.
P-D: University of Missouri president becomes the
focus amid protests at Mizzou
CDT: MU football coaches show support for players amid
boycott; Anonymous player: "Half the team and coaches -
black and white - are pissed. If we were 9-0, this wouldn't be
happening." X
P-D: Status of Mizzou's next game up in the air;
University would owe BYU $1M, plus attorney fees, if it reneges on game
contract
The Maneater: Football players will take time off from
practice
CDT: Graduate students to skip work today, Tuesday X
The Maneater: Graduate students decide to take two
days off
The Maneater: "Concerned Faculty" will skip out on
teaching responsibilities for two days
KC Star: Racial tension smolders amid calls for
outster of President Tim Wolfe +
Missourinet: Statement from UM President Tim Wolfe
The Maneater: Wolfe releases statement, will not
resign; President acknowledge "passion" of protesters
Missourinet: Statement from Gov. Jay Nixon
Missourinet: Statements from House Committee on Higher
Education Chairman Rep. Steve Cookson (R-Butler County), Rep. Gail
McCann Beatty (D-Kansas City)
KC Star: Statement from Rep. Caleb Jones (R-Columbia) +
Missourinet: Statement from Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder
Missourinet: Statement from U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill
Columbia Missourian: List of 10 most-read stories of
the week: 8 of 10 about campus race issues, one about Maty Mauk's
suspension, one about the family of victim in triple-murder case
KMWU: Exploring the data behind punishing
badly-behaved kids
KC Star editorial: Tim Wolfe's removal needed to quell
crisis at University of Missouri +
P-D editorial: Coal companies, not taxpayers, owe
miners
P-D letter: University City woman disagrees with
Catherine Hanaway on abortion
P-D letter: Area woman says SLU should be more
welcoming of abortion supporters
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Sunday, November 8
P-D: Veterans honored at downtown St. Louis parade
SNL: Military families enjoy Veterans Day Parade X
USA Today: Obama says he'll visit city with most
Obamacare signups; Kansas City one of 20 target cities
KQTV (St. Joseph): Possible funding cuts could affect
YMCA; Local director urges residents send e-mails for
congressional staffers to read
P-D: Peabody retirees again face loss of
benefits; Lacy Clay one of 58 co-sponsors of legislative remedy
SNL: Competing proposals spark fight over curbing
sexual assault on campus; Comments from McCaskill, national IFC
and Panhel organizations, MSU officials X
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
teaser: Gov candidate Bob Dixon, plus discussion of GOP gov
primary, Dean Plocher's election and University of Missouri's
state-school histrionics
Missourinet: Schaefer says MU study of Missouri
72-hour abortion wait violates state law
JCNT: MoDOT's new director not concerned by Missouri's
'super size' X
JCNT: State recycling coordinator brings environmental
initiative to employees, agencies X
Missourinet: Missouri House to hold hearing on St.
Louis NFL stadium plan
P-D: Complicated and expensive: What recent NFL
stadium deals can teach St. Louis
P-D: New state traffic ticket cap a factor in 2
villages' switch to city status
St. Joseph News-Press: License office's future
direction remains unclear; Paper receives "scant comment" from MO
DOR and office's current operator, James Montee X
CDT: Kinder Institute to be housed in Jesse Hall X
CDT: Grad students discuss rights, unionizing X
CDT: Tensions high as students continue protests X
CDT: Missouri football players threaten boycott:
"We are black. Black is powerful"; Team is 1-4 in SEC with no
hopes for bowl consideration X
KC Star: Blacks on MU football team vow not to play
until President Tim Wolfe is gone; Team has only three games
remaining +
P-D: Mizzou football players say they won't play
unless Tim Wolfe is ousted
Columbia Missourian: Black Missouri football players
plan to join Wolfe protest through boycott
Columbia
Missourian: Video: "Concerned Student 1950" marches across
campus; Members shout, chant, weep
KWMU: Ferguson police turn to residents for input on
community policing
KC Star editorial: Tainted study reveals desperate
attempt by payday loan industry to shape debate X
JCNT editorial: House action on interns and harassment
on the edge of completion; Providing outside legal counsel will
finish it off X
CDT op-ed: Show-Me Institute's James Shuls:
Thanks to an archaic system catering to the lazy, Missouri's teachers
have no financial incentive to get better X
Shelly: An open letter to Jonathan Butler, the MU
student heroically starving himself until Tim Wolfe leaves +
P-D letter: Texas student says he wrote senior thesis
on prescription drug monitoring program, shares his advice for Missouri
P-D letter: Clayton religious leader notes that 98
percent of city's homicide victims are black, says the answer is to
"find a young black male at risk and mentor him"
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Saturday, November 7
P-D: McCaskill, Blunt, Luetkemeyer, Wagner criticize
Obama Keystone decision
KC Star: Blunt, Graves criticize Obama's pipeline
decision +
P-D: VA head says finding people to run veterans
health care systems, like the long-vacant St. Louis slot, takes
time; McCaskill, Blunt not pleased
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Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith teaches students lesson about
paying attention to politics +
The Missouri Times: Koster targeted by Bloomberg PAC
on EPA lawsuit; Koster campaign manager Andrew Whalen says AG
fights onerous federal regulations to keep Missourians' utility bills
low
Roll Call: Rothenberg/Roll Call ratings move Blunt's
re-election from "Safe Republican" to "Republican Favored"
KWMU: Missouri GOP plan to organize gubernatorial
debates fizzles; Greitens team says opponents are scared, while
Brunner's Michael Hafner labels notion "ridiculous and insincere"
AP: Plan to limit Missouri GOP governor's debates
falls through
CDT: NORML official speaks to Muleskinners X
AP: New spending cuts further test the tension between
GOP, Nixon
CDT: Pro-life groups deliver petitions urging MU to
end ties with Planned Parenthood X
CDT: Union brings labor dispute to Mizzou football
game; Comments from UM's John Fougere, labor group's Regina
Guevara X
CDT: Tim Wolfe apologizes to students who disrupted MU
Homecoming parade, says he should have gotten out of his car to chat X
AP: Wolfe meets with student staging hunger stunt
KC Star: Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-University
City) joins in Mizzou hunger strike, says she didn't feed herself for
two (2) whole entire days +
The Maneater: Students confront Wolfe in KC about
"systematic oppression"; Video of Wolfe's comments, activists'
shouting and high-pitched shrieks (language NSFW)
Columbia Missourian: Group of 15 activists escorted
out of private UMKC fundraiser; Transcript of intelligible
portion of protester shouting, Wolfe's statement
KWMU: Artsy film about prescription drug abuse to play
at Tivoli; Filmmakers criticize drug industry's "false
advertising"
KWMU: Most heroin dopeheads are also prescription
pillheads, Wash U. researchers find
P-D editorial: On Catherine Hanaway's tour bus logo
issue; Punchline involves state-school rivalry with state to the
west
P-D editorial: Aldermen can hate the new stadium deal
then pass it
Messenger: In the Capitol or in Chesterfield,
harassment is no joke; Area mayor's potty-mouthed interactions
with employees are out of line
Hartmann: It's buyout time in Bridgeton; The
federal government needs to face responsibility for the suffering it
has caused
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: Nitpicky town ordinances -
like those of Pagedale, Mo. - become instruments of oppression +
P-D letter: Valley Park man says Missouri prisons
should begin releasing more drug criminals onto the streets
P-D letter: St. Louis man "disgusted" by current
generation of smart-mouth savages who disrespect the police
P-D letter: St. Louis County man laments the fall of
the Post-Dispatch, from reputable news source to sensationalist rag
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Friday, November 6
P-D: Senate votes to block controversial "Waters of
the U.S.A." rule"; Comments from McCaskill's John LaBombard, Blunt
KOLR: Water regulations rule halted in federal court
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill on drug companies'
price-gouging; Missouri Highway Patrol on why crime has dropped
in most parts of Missouri +
KWMU: Feds set to hand out $1M of taxpayer money for
violence-prevention program in North St. Louis City;
Alderman: "I was brought up to never turn down money"
P-D: Author of George H.W. Bush biography to stop in
St. Peters next month
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Gov. Bob
Holden speaks with journoduo on saner era of campaign fundraising,
guns, his role in promoting Midwest to the Chinese, Eric Greitens'
pre-GOP days, more
The Missouri Times: Rory Rowland's win gives House
Democrats one more vote in superminority
Columbia Missourian: NORML official draws 30 to talk
about marijuana laws; Newspaper staff unable to resist urge to
make "blunt" pun
Missourinet: Gov. Nixon, Rep. Justin Alferman
(R-Hermann) see path to ethics overhaul differently
The Missouri Times: Patrick McKenna named new MoDOT
director
P-D: New MoDOT chief says toll roads will be discussed
KWMU: Patrick McKenna hired as new MoDOT director
AP: Missouri turns to New Hampshire's Patrick McKenna
to serve as new transportation chief
The Missouri Times: Bowen Loftin to receive letters of
support from religious community
CDT: Kurt Schaefer objects to MU study on effect of
72-hour abortion wait period X
CDT: MU finalizes new Planned Parenthood clinical site
agreements X
P-D: MU administration deals with critics;
Comments from John Fougere
The Missouri Times: Activists, English department
express anger about Mizzou's top leaders
CDT: MU students take part in walkout over campus race
issues X
KC Star: Student who claims he won't eat until Wolfe
resigns says he is already too exhausted to speak +
Columbia Missourian: Activists back down from planned
football-game protest, say they don't want to deal with "drunk white
people"
Columbia Missourian's Jacob Bogage: Inside the tent of
the heroes protesting university leaders
P-D: Panel examines hardships of adults who choose to
borrow money and then are expected to pay it back; Advocates want
state to toughen laws governing lenders
Missourinet: Missouri House intern policy debated, but
could face changes
KC Star: Missouri House committee adopts changes to
sexual harassment and intern policies +
CDT: House panel approves new policies on interns,
sexual harassment X
The Missouri Times: Committee approves intern, sexual
harassment policy changes
KWMU: New Missouri House rules counter sexual
harassment of interns, staff
P-D: Missouri House committee toughens intern,
harassment policy
AP: Lawmakers will be required to sit through annual
sexual harassment lecture
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Legislators have the
chance to show they're serious about ethics overhaul; Richardson
has already taken the lead on intern issue X
Shelly: Bowen Loftin is learning the high price of
appeasement +
Kraske: Peaceful, civilized KC rallys - even after
Ferguson - are a clear contrast to St. Louis area's riots +
SNL letter: Area man mocks Billy Long's statements
about House's legislative accomplishments X
P-D letter: The criminal caught setting fire to
Berkeley QuikTrip should be called an arsonist, not a protester
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Thursday, November 5
AP:
McCaskill crosses party line on water-regulation vote
The
Hill: McCaskill, others reveal bill to repeal budget deal's
robocall provision
KWMU:
Senate committee to scrutinize sharp increase in pharmaceutical drug
pricing; Comments from ranking Dem McCaskill
AP:
Senate panel summons price-hiking CEO of Turing Pharma; Comments
from McCaskill
Washington
Post: Senate launches investigation into 'Pharma bro' company
Turing, three others
AP:
Nixon joins other Dems lining up behind Hillary Clinton
CDT:
VA whistleblower considers filling Democratic ballot slot against Vicky
Hartzler X
KC
Star: Chris Koster returns $10,000 AT&T check, then picks up
another one +
CDT:
GOP governor hopefuls show little disagreement in first forum X
Drebes:
A look at initiative petition campaigns' quarterly reports: Brad
Ketcher's marijuana committees, minimum wage and home health care
workers, Jay Ashcroft's "Voter ID" promotional vehicle, others
KWMU:
Nixon, legislative leaders share quest for stiffer ethics laws;
Top two recipients - Reps. Don Gosen (R) and Mike Colona (D) - each
accept less than $3500 in gifts over nine months
KWMU:
Why the push for a new NFL stadium in St. Louis is at a critical
juncture
Missourinet:
GOP candidates for governor say funding a St. Louis football stadium
needs voter approval
Missourinet:
Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston) plans to bring "paycheck protection"
bill back in 2016
The
Missouri Times: Schaefer seeks more answers on latest MU Planned
Parenthood pact
The
Missouri Times: New study says prescription-only laws fail to
address meth supply and demand
JCNT:
House panel revisits Water Patrol/Highway Patrol merger X
NY
Times: Lawsuit accuses Missouri city of fining homeowners to
raise revenue; Comments from Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Glendale),
others
St.
Joseph News-Press: State Auditor Nicole Galloway makes return
trip to St. Joseph, talks about local schools and cybersecurity X
CDT:
MU English Department votes no confidence in Chancellor Loftin X
Columbia
Missourian: English Department votes no confidence in
chancellor's leadership
Columbia
Missourian: Students hold "emergency" meeting to call for Tim
Wolfe's resignation
Columbia
Missourian: Video of activists' rally/press conference:
Shouting, raised fists, call-and-response ditties, more
KWMU:
Union program trains minorities for a life working in trades;
Quotes from Jeff Aboussie, others
SNL:
Advocates still pushing for Medicaid expansion in Missouri;
Comments from legislators, non-working woman who racked up $35k in
debt, others X
KWMU:
Black mothers three times more likely to have offspring die in infancy
than white mothers; Researchers are baffled, but advocates say
expanding Medicaid, providing jobs would help
Missourinet:
Livestream of public hearing on Missouri House's intern/harassment
proposals
Missourinet:
Missouri's senior United States senator weighs in on Missouri House of
Representative intern policies, offers ideas
Missourinet:
Ernest Lee Johnson's execution on hold
AP:
Missouri execution cancelled pending appeals court review
The
Missouri Times editorial: Five takeaways from the GOP gov debate
Washington
Missourian editorial: Nixon has challenged legislators to pass
ethics overhaul; Results are bound to be "interesting" +
KC
Star's Lewis Diuguid: Ohio vote against legalizing marijuana
could affect efforts in Missouri +
SNL
op-ed: Jeff Munzinger, candidate seeking to fill Democratic
ballot slot against Rep. Kevin Austin (R-Springfield): Missouri
should expand Medicaid X
Washington
Missourian letter: Glendale sexagenarian dislikes Ann Wagner's
financial-services proposal
P-D
letter: Harris-Stowe - with its eight (8) percent graduation rate
- has survived by playing into the soft bigotry of low expectations for
years; Time to merge it with UMSL
P-D
letter: Creve Coeur woman mocks Missouri PSC, labels it "Ameren
Service Commission"
KC
Star letter: KC man wants Jackson County to change name to avoid
honoring slaveowner; Also suggests voting become mandatory +
P-D
letter: Sexagenarian still subscribes to print edition of
newspaper, contemplates conundrum of falling gasoline prices and rising
subscription cost
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Wednesday, November 4
KWMU: McCaskill joins Republicans to stop Obama
Administration's "Waters of the U.S." rule
AP: McCaskill joins Republicans in voting to nix Obama
clean-water rule
USA Today: "Travelers United" nonprofit says travelers
want hotels to disclose resort fees; McCaskill wants FTC to take
more aggressive stance on the practice
Kirksville Daily Express: Northeast Missourians paying
more for health insurance than residents in other parts of the state X
Kraske: The Chat: McCaskill displeased with
Citizens United ruling; MU on Hanaway's use of a state-school logo +
The Missouri Times: Video: Cole County GOP
gubernatorial primary debate
Missourinet: Preview of GOP gov debate, plus video of
debate
KWMU: Crowd of Missouri GOP candidates for governor
accentuate their positives
KC Star: GOP gubernatorial hopefuls debate +
P-D: Five GOP candidates discuss 'right to work,'
transportation funding, more
AP: Forum shows GOP gov candidates' agreement on
red-meat issues
JCNT: Similarities, differences on display in GOP gov
debate X
JCNT: Lawmakers, audience respond to debate;
Comments from Ron Fitzwater, others X
Columbia Missourian: GOP candidates for governor talk
'right to work,' rural issues in first forum
The Missouri Times: On RV tour, Hanaway calls for
stricter measures on abortion, Planned Parenthood
AP: Hanaway proposes 20-week abortion ban in Missouri
KC Star: Low voter turnout as Dems win both area
special House elections; Rory Rowland picks up Noel Torpey's
seat, DaRon McGee wins in urban district +
AP: Dems pick up Torpey's seat, trim GOP House
advantage to 72 seats
P-D: Dean Plocher takes over John Diehl's seat
Drebes: Amber Watson, wife of beloved lobbyist Trent
Watson, joins office of Sen. Brian Munzlinger (R-Williamstown)
part-time; Bonnie Linhardt will serve as legislative assistant
AP: Missouri revenues up 3 percent from last fiscal
year
Columbia Missourian: Photo gallery from yesterday's
TANF-limits piece: Welfare recipient driving her SUV, more
Columbia Missourian: Missouri allows "hardship
exemptions" for welfare recipients seeking to spend more time on the
dole
SE
Missourian: Rep. Kathy Swan (R-Cape Girardeau) headed to D.C. to
discuss future of federal education law +
AP: Planned Parenthood says supporters met with Loftin
yesterday, pressured him to reinstate training contracts
Columbia Missourian: Activists deliver pro-Planned
Parenthood petition to Loftin
P-D: Planned Parenthood supporters move event off
SLU's campus to local hotel
Columbia Missourian: UM President Tim Wolfe takes time
to meet with protesters; Group still angry
Columbia
Missourian: Video: Wolfe attempts to talk to protesters
Columbia Missourian: Protesters announce boycott,
promise to stop attending MU football games
CDT: Activists argue with Tim Wolfe; DeShaunya
Ware says she and pals will sleep outdoors every night until Wolfe
resigns X
P-D: Stadium task force 'ready to present' to NFL
KTVI (St. Louis): Eureka approves permit for hemp
production facility
KC Star: Missouri House will hold public hearings
tomorrow on sexual harassment and intern policies +
Missourinet: Missouri execution of man who bludgeoned
three at Columbia Casey's delayed
KWMU: Ernest Lee Johnson's execution on hold pending
federal court appeal
KWMU: Station's West Lake Landfill coverage appears on
NPR Morning Edition
JCNT: Missouri has big turkey harvest; Missouri
Department of Conservation provides details on youth hunting, urban
kills, more X
KWMU: Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce (D) will not
charge officers in death of Kajieme Powell; Knife-wielding man
stole items from convenience store, advanced on officers before being
put down
AP: Antonio Whiteside, who set fire to Ferguson Market
after last November's Michael Brown attack ruling, given 5-year sentence
P-D: Cancelled last year thanks to Ferguson rioters,
Thanksgiving Parade is on again this year
CDT: Bradley steps aside in DWI case involving Nixon's
son X
JCNT editorial: Missouri poised to set example on
mental health X
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Legislature should
pass MONA to protect
lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer/intersex/asexual Missourians
P-D op-ed: Parkway South High School student says
Missouri should pass "Good Samaritan" law to help heroin enthusiasts
who overdose
P-D letter: St. Louis City Board of Education
President Susan Jones says her board and residents should have a voice
in St. Louis City school district
P-D letter: Florissant man likens stadium supporters'
tactics to Roman caesars providing "bread and circuses to the plebians"
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Tuesday, November 3
Columbia Missourian: Open enrollment for health
insurance marketplace begins this month
The Hill: McCaskill to push bill repealing "stupid"
robocall provision of budget deal
P-D: McCaskill says audit of $43M gas station in
Afghanistan made her 'jaw drop'
Washington Post: How the Pentagon spent $43M on a
single gas station; Comments from McCaskill
JCNT: McCaskill promotes her book X
Politico: McCaskill urges Florida Democrats to think
about the general
KWMU: Senate Majority PAC sends "exclusive" seven-page
opposition research file on Roy Blunt to KWMU
The Missouri Times: Missouri Republican Party, Sen.
Bob Onder (R-Lake Saint Louis) take aim at Jason Kander over sanctuary
cities
The Missouri Times: One year after The New York Times
targeted Koster, AG has returned one percent of contributions
Missourinet: Livestream of GOP gov debate available
here at 6:30 p.m. tonight
The Missouri Times: Livestream available at 6:30
p.m.; Link to be shared via Twitter, Facebook and Google +
CDT: Hanaway to remove tiger logo from campaign RV
after objections from MU X
Drebes: Bob Priddy to keynote Empower Missouri
fundraiser tonight
Columbia Missourian: Missouri welfare overhaul limits
the amount of time recipients can stay on the dole; Area woman
"Kenya" talks about her decision to reproduce at age 16, shares
emotional tale of heartache and struggle
KWMU: UMSL changes course amid budget crunch, will
dissolve newly-created public policy school
P-D: UMSL facing an $8 million budget shortfall;
Ferguson riots lead to waning interest from out-of-state students
P-D: White female instructor at Harris-Stowe gets
almost $5 million in discrimination suit; Suit alleged Latisha
Smith subscribed to "Black Power" mantra, discriminated against
Caucasoid
CDT: ASUM student "lobbyists" gear up for legislative
session X
Columbia Missourian: MU student embarks on hunger
strike, demands Wolfe's removal from office; Jonathan Butler
claims he won't eat, handicaps his odds at martyrdom at "more than 90
percent"
Columbia Missourian: Activists camp out to protest
Wolfe and support hunger strike; Ten (10) students gather, feed
on Domino's pizza
The Missouri Times: Health care organizations question
current Certificate of Need (CON) process
Bloomberg: Police agencies fold in St. Louis area as
ticket blitzes stop; Comments from Sen. Eric Schmitt
(R-Glendale), U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver
KC Star: Missouri Supreme Court again considers
whether convicted felons can possess guns +
P-D: Missouri lawmakers weigh in on Oregon County
state park discussion
West Plains Daily Quill: Eleven Point park proposal
not popular; Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, area state reps speak at town
hall X
Missourinet: Natural gas rates lessened for some
Missourians
The Missouri Times: Ameren, Great Plains Energy to
announce quarterly earnings this week
Missourinet: Proposed Missouri House intern policy
public hearing is Thursday
AP: Lawyers for triple-murderer Ernest Lee Johnson say
lethal injection might trigger severe pain
P-D: Ferguson protester pleads guilty to setting fire
at Berkeley QuikTrip
KMOX: Protesters angry that Mayor Francis Slay, AG
Chris Koster, others didn't show up to "Radical Reconciliation" weekend
event
P-D: Protesters gather at St. Louis City Hall
KWMU: Latest post-Ferguson report sounds similar notes
KC Star endorsements: Democrats for District 29 and
District 36 state rep seats +
P-D editorial: The path for ballot initiatives in
Missouri is an expensive one
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri's Cold
Weather Rule keeps the heat on for those who have not payed their debts X
P-D op-ed: Ernest Lee Johnson cannot be legally
executed; Man who staked out convenience store, orchestrated
triple-murder and destroyed evidence has a low IQ and should be spared
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Monday, November 2
Kraske: The Chat: Blunt on budget deal;
McCaskill on Obama Administration's water rule +
P-D: What Missourians can expect from HealthCare.gov
this year; Comments from Missouri Foundation for Health's Nancy
Kelley, others
KWMU: 90,000 St. Louisans eligible to sign up for
Obamacare; Effort for AIDS counselors target the "underserved,"
with fruitful sojourns to "beauty salons and barber shops"
This Week in Missouri Politics: Guest Kurt
Schaefer; Panelists discuss ethics legislation, GOP presidential
primary, St. Louis stadium deal
Missourinet: John Hancock previews tomorrow night's
GOP gov debate; Topics could include transportation, urban crime,
job development and the economy, unaccredited schools, more
Rosenbaum: What do the gubernatorial contenders think
about Nixon's stadium push?
KC Star: Two state rep seats on the ballot tomorrow +
Drebes: Ron Calzone to organize rally highlighting
"betrayal" by Ron Richard
AP: Missouri judges get raise despite lack of lawmaker
approval
KWMU: SEIU organizing effort at St. Louis Community
College is successful
Columbia Missourian: Victim's family prepares for
execution of their mother's killer, Ernest Lee Johnson; Mary
Bratcher came from humble beginnings and chose to work for a living
Missourinet: Lawyer for triple-murderer Ernest Lee
Johnson tries to block execution, asks for lethal gas instead of
injection
KWMU: Ernest Lee Johnson set to be executed tomorrow
for 1994 triple murder
KWMU: News outlet debuts "Curious Louis":
Revolutionary idea is based on readers asking questions then
journalist(s) tracking down answers
P-D outsourced "freelance editorialists" editorial:
Republicans in Missouri, elsewhere continue the war on voting rights
KC Star editorial: Legislators should move quickly on
harassment proposals; Also, lobbyist-supplied meals and drinks
must stop too +
Washington Missourian's Bill Miller: Lack of
leadership on transportation means citizens must lead pro-revenue
effort themselves
P-D letter: Missouri's National Alliance on Mental
Illness Executive Director Cynthia Keele says lawmakers should stop
being "so stingy" and expand Medicaid
P-D letter: University City liberal responds to
conservative's minimum-wage letter, says conservative argument is "a
tad insensitive"
P-D letter: St. Louis County resident says stadium
financing won't satisfy conditions for NFL loan program
JCNT letter: Chamois man says Missouri beef check-off
picks pockets, uses bovine-excrement expression as punchline X
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Sunday, November 1
CDT: Premiums, penalties to increase as Obamacare
enrollment period opens X
KOLR: Obamcare enrollment begins; Insurance
broker offers tips to consumers
SNL: Local health care providers dubious of Medicaid
changes X
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri corn grower says federal
funds for ethanol infrastructure 'good news'
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
teaser: Guest Kurt Schaefer, panel of Reps. Mike Colona and Caleb
Rowden, Jack Spooner, attorney David Sweeney
P-D: Rep. Kathie Conway (R-St. Charles) says she'll
push to get more pay for state's corrections workers; No comment
from Nixon's office
Columbia Missourian: State Auditor Nicole Galloway to
hold public hearing about court reform laws
SNL: Poverty special: A look at the increasing
number of area adults who can't provide for themselves: Comments
from city officials, grown men and women with sad stories, local state
legislators, and a man making an effort to improve his own situation X
JCNT: 42 percent of Jefferson City Public Schools
provisionally accredited; Official says district isn't making
excuses, but notes lagging numbers are due to "subgroups" of the poor,
learning-disabled, and minorities X
CDT: Appeals court denies motion to stay execution of
Ernest Lee Johnson, whose savage hammer attack left three
convenience-store employees dead X
CDT: A look back at Ernest Lee Johnson's grisly
triple-murder case: Public defender says crack-cocaine enthusiast
who shot, stabbed and bludgeoned victims "is not a violent person" X
SE
Missourian: Lawyers for rapist/murderer Russell Bucklew file new
complaint with execution method; Koster's office will file a
motion to dismiss the case tomorrow +
P-D: Chicago power company says feds knew radioactive
waste was being dumped at West Lake Landfill more than four decades ago
KWMU: Ferguson activists to hold "public
accountability meeting" today; SLU grants use of campus building
P-D: Ferguson police investigating fatal shooting,
third in a year at same apartment complex; No reports of rioting,
looting, or "Black Lives Matter" marches at press time
SNL editorial: State should enact real payday-loan
reform X
P-D's Leah Thorsen: "Along for the Ride" column:
Local transportation planning adapts to conservative times;
East-West Gateway's Jim Wild: "We live in Missouri and we're very
conservative ... at some point, you can't get blood from a stone"
P-D letter: Area coed is happy University of Missouri
nursing students can head back to Planned Parenthood for training
P-D letter: Fenton woman says Koster should not cede
Missouri's right to regulate online gambling
P-D letter: Green Park septuagenarian says citizens
should take "torches and pitchforks" to Jefferson City, or else
Missouri Ethics Commission will keep behaving like the Three Stooges
(Moe, Larry and Curly Joe, sans Shemp)
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