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Friday, October 30, 2020
The Missouri Times: #F150CampaignTour: Scott
Faughn talks to voters in St. Louis City and Valley Park about Trump,
Ann Wagner, Nicole Galloway, Doug Beck, other races; Notes from
conversation with Deb Lavender at Kirkwood campaign office
The Missouri Times: 2020 election coverage hub:
Election tipsheets, campaign finance filings, voting/ballot questions
answered, more
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Missourian: November election preview: U.S. Rep. Jason
Smith (R) vs. Kathy Ellis (D)
P-D: November election preview: Cori Bush (D)
vs. Anthony Rogers (R) vs. Alex Furman (L)
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Missourian: Gov. Parson, GOP statewides emphasize conservative
values in Cape visit
Missourinet: Gov. Parson, Galloway make final push in
Missouri governor's race
Missouri Independent: Gov. Parson, Galloway make final
closing arguments in Missouri governor's race
Missouri Independent: Missouri governor campaign
spending down from 2016 - so far
SNL: Defending GOP seat held by Rep. Steve Helms
(R-Springfield) a top priority for HRCC
Missourinet: SOS Jay Ashcroft predicts 70% voter
turnout for general election
The Missouri Times: Mail-in ballots, voter queues,
poll worker training: 3 election officials weigh in on 2020's
challenges
KWMU: Following a ballot through the mail-in process
in St. Louis County
JCNT: Trial over medical marijuana heats up
JCNT: State eyes ways to ease COVID-19 strain on
hospitals
Missourinet: Gov. Parson meets with Cox Health in
Springfield, discusses challenges local hospitals are facing
Missourinet: Free COVID-19 testing continues in
Missouri
KC Star: Regional China virus update
Missouri Independent: Missouri Department of
Corrections settles lawsuit with ACLU over hepatitis C treatment for
criminals
St. Joseph News-Press endorsement: Donald Trump for
president
KC Star endorsement: Alissia Canady (D) for lieutenant
governor
P-D endorsement video: Tod Robberson and Kevin
McDermott discuss their endorsement of Deb Lavender; Robberson
says Andrew Koenig was "very brusque" to him over the phone
KC Star editorial: Is Gov. Parson really belitting
Nicole Galloway for attending Catholic school?
JCNT editorial: Welcome boost for testing rape kits
Joplin Globe op-ed: Drury University political science
professor Dan Ponder: Vote 'No' on Cleaner Missouri
Phill Brooks: My role in breaking the news of the
Carnahan plane crash
Kaiser Health News' Lauren Weber: Mask stockpiling in
Missouri, other states hurts nursing homes and small providers
P-D's Michele Munz: Politicization of pandemic has
frightened female health department heroes; Some have been called
hurtful names, and even criticized in online comments
P-D letter: St. Louis septuagenarian says Amendment 3
will disenfranchise minorities
P-D letter: University City septuagenarian wants Gov.
Parson and state lawmakers to spend more money on veterans homes
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Thursday, October 29, 2020
The Missouri Times: #F150CampaignTour: Scott
Faughn visits with Doug Beck at AFL-CIO hall in Affton, details GOTV
phone banking and more
KC Star: 4Star Politics: Democrat Jason Grill,
Republican Annie Presley predict a Gov. Parson victory (28:00
mark); Grill says Dems' lackluster statewide ticket lacks "juice"
of years past (30:00 mark)
KWMU: Rolla liberals hope left-wing ideology grows in
region; Missouri S&T prof acknowledges GOP will spank Biden
and Galloway in Phelps County
SNL: Gov. Parson, Galloway disagree over state's
administration of medical marijuana program
Missouri Independent: Democrats criticize Gov. Parson
for not wearing mask while visiting Cape Girardeau bakery
P-D: Galloway criticizes Gov. Parson for touting his
public-school background
St. Joseph News-Press: Cleaner Missouri opponents hold
news conference; Comments from Democrats Sly James, Michael Wolff
Missouri Independent: November election preview:
Spotlight on competitive state legislative races
Missouri Independent: In Missouri, fewer than 70,000
criminals are forbidden from voting in 2020
Missourinet: Dozens of Missouri counties have
purchased pens for each voter on Tuesday, because of COVID worries
KC Star: Legislative preview: How Tuesday's
election will affect Missouri COVID mandates
The Missouri Times: Spire's coronavirus assistance
program accelerated with PSC approval
Missourinet: White House ranks Missouri 18th in new
COVID cases
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D: Daily regional China virus update
CDT: Regional China virus update
KC Star endorsement: U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D)
The Missouri Times op-ed: NARAL Executive Director
Mallory Schwarz: Vote for Democrats Jill Schupp and Deb Lavender
KC Star op-ed: House Superminority Leader Crystal
Quade (D-Springfield): Rick Roeber does not meet the standards
for the Missouri House
Joplin Globe letter: Missouri Right to Life's Susan
Klein says Cleaner Missouri opponents are deceptive, urges 'Yes' vote
on Amendment 3
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
SNL: Blunt, Hawley vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett
to Supreme Court
Missourinet: November election preview: U.S.
Rep. Jason Smith (R) vs. Kathy Ellis (D); Ellis came within 49
points of incumbent in 2018 nail-biter
KC Star: Gun-control series: Giffords Center PAC
supports Jill Schupp versus Ann Wagner
KC Star: Fundraising pitch: Please join Report
for America and the Missouri Foundation for Health in funding our
gun-control series (italics, bottom of article)
JCNT: October spending jumps in gubernatorial campaigns
P-D: Gov. Parson, Nicole Galloway criss-cross state in
final days of campaign
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Missourian: Galloway, trailing in polls, insists she is "within
the margin of error"; All Dem statewides except Alissia Canady
attend union event
P-D: Gov. Parson, Galloway weigh in on lawsuits from
failed marijuana license applicants
Columbia Missourian: Issue spotlight: Gov.
Parson and Nicole Galloway on economic development
Columbia Missourian: Issue spotlight: Gov.
Parson and Nicole Galloway on Medicaid expansion
KWMU: Profile: Gov. Mike Parson
The Missouri Times: MOGOP's Jean Evans says Dem AG
candidate Rich Finneran committed perjury, should be disqualified from
race
Missourinet: November election preview: Sen.
Andrew Koenig (R-Manchester) vs. Rep. Deb Lavender (D-Kirkwood)
Joplin Globe: Absentee voters breaking records week
before election day
Columbia Missourian: COVID-19 sparks call to action,
challenges, concerns for poll workers
St. Joseph News-Press: Mid-Missouri clerks give
quarantined, isolated voters chance to cast their ballots
KWMU: Liberal groups complain about curbside voting
access
Missourinet: Missouri program changes lives of high
school students with disabilities
Missouri Independent: Missouri landlords file
thousands of cases against derelict renters; Activists want state
lawmakers to ban evictions
Missouri Independent: Initial shipment of thousands of
antigen COVID tests sent to Missouri schools
KC Star: Regional China virus update
Washington Missourian endorsement: Vicki Englund (D)
for state treasurer
Joplin Globe editorial: Regardless of who wins
governor's race, leadership change needed at DHSS
KC Star op-ed: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe: Helping
Missouri's working families achieve the American dream
Missouri Independent op-ed: Central Missouri State's
Robynn Kuhlmann: Missouri redistricting vote opens door to an
experiment, regardless of outcome
Washington Missourian letter: Washington man says
having a woman as governor would ensure "a government for all the
people"
Columbia Missourian letter: Columbia woman urges vote
for Gov. Parson based on qualifications
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Tuesday, October 27,
2020
Missourinet: November election preview: U.S.
Rep. Ann Wagner vs. Jill Schupp
SNL: Gov. Parson to be joined by Sarah Huckabee
Sanders for 'Keep Missouri Red' rally Friday in Springfield
The Missouri Times: 8 days before November election
filing reports: Statewide candidates
The Missouri Times: 8 days before November election
filing reports: PACs
The Missouri Times: 8 days before November election
filing reports: Missouri Senate
The Missouri Times: 8 days before November election
filing reports: Missouri House
KC Star: November election preview: Down-ballot
statewide races
The Missouri Times: Bubs Hohulin says pro-Galloway ad,
recycling footage from 2016 Russ Carnahan ad, is deceptive
KWMU: Politically Speaking: Sean Soendker
Nicholson (D) talks with Jason Rosenbaum about campaign to defeat
Cleaner Missouri, Galloway's role in selecting "nonpartisan"
demographer, more
St. Joseph News-Press: Area state rep candidates
debate in virtual forum
Missouri Independent: Missouri Fraternal Order of
Police revokes endorsement of state rep candidate Rick Roeber (R)
Missourinet: Missourians need to bring ID to polling
stations
SNL: Rules about electioneering, poll watching in
Missouri
P-D: Kirkwood Democrat flying home to vote after
absentee ballot mishap
Missouri Independent: Schmitt calls marijuana license
lawsuit "baseless"
P-D: Missouri veterans homes face financial reckoning
as COVID-19 death toll rises to 73
The Missouri Times: Missouri sending 135k antigen
tests to public, private schools
Missourinet: Initial shipment of COVID-19 tests headed
to Missouri schools
KC Star: Regional China virus update
P-D: Regional China virus update
P-D: Video: China virus press conference
production: Prepared remarks, emotional pleas, waterworks
SNL: Final score: Missouri elk 1, hunters 0 in
inaugural archery season
St. Joseph News-Press endorsements: Missouri
House: Bill Falkner (R), Brenda Shields (R), Dean VanSchoiack (R)
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Missourian editorial: Amendments 1 and 3 explained
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Missourian letter: Cape Girardeau Farm Bureau Board of Directors
says Amendment 3 will right the wrongs of deceptive "Clean Missouri"
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Monday, October 26,
2020
KCUR: Infographic: U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D)
vs. Ryan Derks (R)
Joplin Globe: Quarterly "Pulse of the Voters"
project: Man-on-the-street interviews with six (6) voters
Missourinet: Hawley concerned with COVID-19 deaths at
Missouri Veterans Homes, praises Gov. Parson for taking action
SNL: November election preview: Gov. Mike Parson
(R) vs. Nicole Galloway (D)
Columbia Missourian: November election preview:
Amendment 1
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Missouri
Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst makes case for Amendment 3
This Week in Missouri Politics: Rep. Doug Beck
(D-Affton) talks with Scott Faughn about state Senate bid; Panel
of Reps. Louis Riggs (R) and Wiley Price IV (D), Lane Koch, Planned
Parenthood's Jesse Lawder talk Trump vs. Biden, Gov. Parson vs.
Galloway, more
KWMU: Missouri's few competitive Senate races create
high stakes
KCUR: Liberals lose lawsuit against Ashcroft and local
election authorities
St. Joseph News-Press: Demand for firearms high,
supply is low; Sales spiked in July thanks to rioting and looting
P-D: Thousands of Missourians switch to federal
program after exhausting regular unemployment benefits
The Missouri Times: A look behind the scenes of the
Missouri PSC's staff
JCNT: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report says
obesity rates for some Missouri children growing
Missourinet: Missouri's specialized medical team
continues helping communities during pandemic
P-D: Missouri to use social media 'influencers' to
promote virus safety
KC Star: Regional China virus update
KC Star endorsement: 'No' on Amendment 1
Missouri Independent op-ed: Jeff Smith: The two
ways Democrats can stop their decline in Missouri
P-D letter: Veteran GOP leader Bruce Buwalda says Ann
Wagner has helped residents with West Lake Landfill issue
P-D letter: St. Louis woman says Cleaner Missouri
would undermine children's belief in democracy
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Sunday, October 25,
2020
St. Joseph News-Press: Trump train parades around
northwest Missouri
SNL: November election preview: U.S. Rep. Billy
Long (R) vs. Teresa Montensy (D), who quit in September
Washington Missourian: Gov. Parson: Economic
recovery underway in Missouri
Columbia Missourian: Galloway holds Zoom call with
Boone County Democrats
JCNT: November election preview: AG Eric Schmitt
(R) vs. Rich Finneran (D)
CDT: November election preview: House District
44: Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch (R) vs. Jacque Sample (D)
CDT: November election preview: House District
47: Rep. Chuck Basye (R) vs. Adrian Plank (D)
CDT: November election preview: House District
50: Rep. Sara Walsh (R) vs. Kari Chesney (D)
JCNT: Walsh, Chesney offer thoughts on police tactics,
no-knock warrants, other crime topics
Columbia Missourian: Early voting surging in Boone
County and statewide
Washington Missourian: Franklin County reports almost
6,000 ballots already cast
JCNT: Mid-Missouri county clerks: No delays
expected on election night
KC Star: GOP groups to use poll watchers to defend
ballot integrity; Comments from St. Charles County GOP's Penny
Henke, Jackson County GOP's David Lightner, liberal Brennan Center
lawyer
P-D: Former state Rep. Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson)
reaches agreement with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to campaign
finance fraud
JCNT: Decisions still being made in Missouri's
COVID-19 vaccine plan
P-D: State, regional China virus update
KC Star: Regional China virus update
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Missourian: No new COVID deaths reported Friday
St. Joseph News-Press endorsement: Mike Parson for
governor
Joplin Globe endorsement: 'No' on Amendment 3
Columbia Missourian's Benjamin Brink: U.S. Rep. Vicky
Hartzler wrong about COVID and herd immunity
KC Star's Jonathan Shorman: Imagining Nicole Galloway
as governor in 2021: Finally, a statewide mask mandate,
implementation of Medicaid expansion and a fight against violent crime
Columbia Missourian's David Webber: Vote 'No' on
Amendment 3
Joplin Globe op-ed: Former U.S. Sen. John
Danforth: Vote 'No' on Amendment 3
Joplin Globe op-ed: Rep. Lane Roberts
(R-Joplin): Vote 'Yes' on Amendment 3
The Missouri Times op-ed: HD 16 candidate James
Shackelford (D) responds to opponent's op-ed, admits to attending Black
Lives Matter protest
P-D letter: Crestwood sexagenarian says Ann Wagner's
re-election will lead to roofers falling off houses, contaminated water
and clogged sewers
P-D letter: O'Fallon sexagenarian criticizes Missouri
and St. Charles County leaders for not forcing mask mandate
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Saturday, October 24, 2020
SNL: Court: No changes in Missouri mail-in
ballot rules - mail-in ballots must be mailed in
JCNT: Judge sides with Missouri in liberal groups'
voting rights lawsuit
JCNT: Jefferson City NAACP honors Cori Bush with
first-ever "Trailblazer Award"; Incoming congresswoman explains
thoughts on defunding Pentagon, how Michael Brown's assault on Ferguson
police officer Darren Wilson affected her, more
P-D: State corrections officers' union explains how
Galloway campaign staff has bungled potential endorsement; Union
boss open to endorse, but "we're getting down to crunch time"
P-D: Union boss, liberal law professor say Missouri
prison officials lack transparency
SNL: November election preview: Lt. Gov. Mike
Kehoe (R) vs. Alissia Canady (D)
SNL: November election preview: State Treasurer
Scott Fitzpatrick (R) vs. Vicki Englund (D)
The Missouri Times: A look at Missouri's top 3 state
Senate races
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Missourian: November election preview: Wayne Wallingford
(R) vs. Andy Leighton (D) for Kathy Swan's open House seat
St. Joseph News-Press: November election
preview: Dean VanSchoiack (R) vs. Karen Panalp (D) for Sheila
Solon's open House seat
Missourinet: Fitzpatrick's office returns $186k in
unclaimed property to unemployed Missourians
P-D: Missouri state government responded to flood of
unemployment calls better than other states
Missourinet: MoDOT has had about 2,500 workers resign
since 2016
Missouri Independent: Spire Missouri program will help
derelict account holders pay what they owe
Missourinet: Missouri to reimburse some substitute
teachers taking speedy training
SNL: Missouri DHSS: Marijuana mold growth? Yes.
Safety issue? No.
Missourinet: Missouri wraps up probe into moldy
medical marijuana complaint
SNL: First Springfield marijuana dispensary sets
opening date
Missourinet: Missouri flu shots are up 19 percent,
from a year ago
KWMU: State, regional China virus update
P-D: State, regional China virus update
KC Star: KC police put down dangerous felon after he
shot at officers
KSHB (Kansas City): Black Lives Matter crowd gives up
on "occupation protest" outside City Hall; Pack of protesters
quits after zero (0) demands are met
Washington Missourian endorsement: Blaine Luetkemeyer
(R) for U.S. Congress
Washington Missourian editorial: Cori Bush a naive,
far-left rookie Democratic candidate who hurts other Dems like Nicole
Galloway
P-D letter: St. Louis man says Missouri is "backwards"
on mail-in voting
P-D letter: Washington sexagenarians say Cleaner
Missouri is designed to deceive Missourians
P-D letter: St. Louis nonagenarian says McCloskeys
should get in line behind murderers for clemency
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Friday, October 23, 2020
KC Star: St. Louis area voters weigh in on Ann Wagner
vs. Jill Schupp; St. Charles County's Lynn Schmidt: I'm a
Republican, but I support Jill Schupp
KC Star, July 2018: Lynn Schmidt: I'm a
Republican, but I support Claire McCaskill
July 2020: Lynn Schmidt op-ed: I'm a Republican,
but I oppose Gov. Parson and the White House
September 2020: Lynn Schmidt op-ed: I'm a
Republican, but I oppose Jay Ashcroft's plan on mail-in ballots
CDT: November election overview: U.S. Rep. Vicky
Hartzler (R) vs. Lindsey Simmons (D)
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson responds to Cori
Bush's 'defund the Pentagon' comments: 'Irresponsible and
immature'
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Gov. Mike
Parson talks with Jason Rosenbaum about election, COVID, implementing
Medicaid expansion, urban crime, more
P-D: Gov. Parson stopped by Truman State Office
Building for socially-distanced 'thank you' event one week before
testing positive for coronavirus
SNL: November election overview: Attorney
general Eric Schmitt (R) vs. Rich Finneran (D)
SNL: Democratic attorney general candidate Rich
Finneran pays delinquent personal property taxes this week, avoids
disqualification from ballot
Missourinet: Rowden urges public to 'raise the bar'
after family followed
Columbia Missourian: Quarterly report analysis:
Caleb Rowden vs. Judy Baker
Columbia Missourian: Quarterly reports analysis:
Local state rep races
P-D: Court: Missouri voters must return mail-in
ballots by mail
KC Star: Court rules with Ashcroft on mail-in ballots
Missourinet: Missouri county clerks focusing on PPE
for November election
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Missouri
Independent's Jason Hancock, Rebecca Rivas promote new outlet
P-D: Missouri jobless claims drop as state records one
of lowest unemployment rates in nation
SNL: Gov. Parson sets post-election special session to
make budget adjustments
The Missouri Times: Schmitt's office receives $2
million grant for SAFE Kit Initiative
SNL: New funds could get rape kits to the lab
KWMU: Missouri medical marijuana dispensaries are
open, but don't expect any bargains; Jack Cardetti says prices
are at their peak, will drift lower as supply increases
KC Star: A look at upcoming KC-area dispensary openings
Missouri Independent: Medical marijuana lawsuit:
DHSS illegally concealed documents
Missouri Independent: Missouri makes COVID data
available to download, explains difference in positivity rate
Missourinet: Missouri Dept. of Mental Health reports
705 COVID-19 cases, 8 deaths
Missouri Independent: Nearly half of Missouri's COVID
deaths occured in nursing homes
KWMU: Missouri prison officials transfer criminals
cautiously during pandemic
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Missourian: Positive trends seen in coronavirus numbers
KC Star: Regional China virus update
The Missouri Times: PSC waives incentives restriction
for Ameren
KC Star endorsement: Nicole Galloway (D) for governor
P-D editorial: President Trump, Gov. Parson wrong on
coronavirus
Phill Brooks: On Kit Bond, Mel Carnahan, Jim Talent
vs. Bob Holden, and today's meaningless social media snark
The Missouri Times op-ed: Rick Brattin: Vote
'Yes' on Amendment 3
P-D op-ed: Washington University associate law
professor: Cleaner Missouri is a "xenophobic power grab," and its
authors are "incompetent"
The Missouri Times op-ed: Rep. Ingrid Burnett
(D-Kansas City): In light of pandemic, allow schools to create
alternatives to in-person and virtual learning
P-D letter: Ladue resident disagrees with Ann Wagner
on wide range of issues
P-D letter: Teenage gun control activist "begging
everyone to vote against Ann Wagner"
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Thursday, October 22,
2020
P-D: Cori Bush causes stir with call to 'defund the
Pentagon'
KC Star: Jack Danforth, who left U.S Senate in 1995,
says President Trump's comments on debate commission "pave the way for
violence in the streets"
KWMU: St. Louis County to publish polling place wait
times on election day
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air preview: Jason
Hancock to promote Missouri Independent today
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson calls for special
session to pass supplemental budget next month
JCNT: Gov. Parson announces second special session
Missourinet: Gov. Parson calls special session Nov. 5
to access additional federal aid
Missourinet: Budget Chairman Cody Smith
(R-Carthage): Amount of supplemental budget for Missouri special
session has not been determined
KWMU: Gov. Parson calls second special session, gives
more details on coronavirus vaccine plan
KC Star: Special session could potentially fund
witness protection program supported by KC leaders
The Missouri Times: Missouri's food banks receiving $5
million in CARES funds
Missouri Independent: Missouri health department
investigating complaint of 'mold growth' on medical marijuana
The Missouri Times: DHSS investigating medical
marijuana consumer complaint
Missouri Independent: Missouri Medicaid
expansion: Will it bust the budget or pay for itself?
KCUR: In some Missouri school districts, teachers are
essential workers - so they don't have to quarantine
KC Star: Who gets the COVID-19 vaccine first?
Missouri reveals plans and challenges
Missourinet: Missouri prisons have had only 7 COVID-19
associated deaths
Missourinet: Missouri prison system reports 2nd staff
death from COVID
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Missourian: Regional China virus update
KC Star: Join the Giffords Law Center and others today
for the first in our series of forums on gun control and "policing in
communities of color"
KCUR: Up to Date: Some KC newsrooms have stopped
using mugshots, because showing photos of perps is racist
KC Star endorsement: Rich Finneran (D) for attorney
general
KC Star endorsement: 'No' on Amendment 3
P-D editorial: With "defund the Pentagon" tweet, Cori
Bush does her part to help the Trump campaign
JCNT editorial: Mel Carnahan was a statesman among
politicians
Priddy: Vote 'No' on Amendment 1
Missouri Independent op-ed: Aligned VP Linda
Rallo: Missouri teachers work two jobs for the price of one
The Missouri Times letter: Ozarks Technical Community
College System Chancellor Hal Higdon on Second Chance Pell Grants
Washington Missourian letter: Washington sexagenarian
says Gov. Parson governs with common sense
Washington Missourian letter: "Board of Four Rivers
Progressive Coalition" opposes Cleaner Missouri
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Wednesday, October 21,
2020
KWMU: Democrats hope "Trump fatigue" causes
realignment in Republican parts of St. Louis County
The Missouri Times' Scott Faughn: Statewide
tipsheet: October 2020
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Nicole Galloway
insists she can win: "I speak with Trump/Galloway voters all of
the time"
Missouri Independent: 'Big money bat signal:'
Galloway campaign accused of sidestepping ban on coordination
Missouri Independent: China virus and the governor's
race
Missourinet: Galloway visits Joplin, bashes Gov.
Parson for 2018 "right to work" stance
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Jay Ashcroft
talks with Jason Rosenbaum about his upcoming re-election and elections
during a pandemic
Missouri Independent: November election
overview: AG Eric Schmitt (R) vs. Rich Finneran (D)
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Amendment 3
debate: Sean Soendker Nicholson (D) vs. Sen. Bob Onder (R-Lake
Saint Louis)
KCUR: In Missouri's August primary, fewer than 550
ballots rejected for lack of notarization
SNL: USA Today "Strange Bedfellows" heartstring-tug
series: How a bipartisan group of Missouri lawmakers passed a
bill to help vulnerable kids
P-D: Gov. Parson touts new jobs at PPE distribution
center in Overland
The Missouri Times: Schmitt joints federal antitrust
suit against Google
St. Joseph News-Press: AG Eric Schmitt announces
statewide initiative to evict illegal massage businesses
Missourinet: Missouri steps up its pre-K efforts
JCNT: DESE launches early learning office
The Missouri Times: DESE removes barrier to teaching
certification
Missourinet: Missouri Board of Education talks about
ongoing challenges schools are facing during pandemic
SNL: DHSS investigating mold found in medical
marijuana sold in St. Louis
KC Star: Some Missouri counties still lack federal
COVID-19 aid
Missourinet: Fewer than 70 have died at Missouri
veterans homes due to COVID since September 1
JCNT: Cole County health director: High COVID-19
positivity rate from testing symptomatic people
Missouri Independent: Series debut: Daily state
China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
KC Star: Regional China virus update
P-D editorial: Trump Administration's Census
shenanigans are designed to undercount St. Louis City and other urban
areas
KC Star editorial: GOP candidates should stop avoiding
debates arranged by objective groups like newspaper editorial boards,
NPR affiliates and the League of Women Voters
Missouri Independent op-ed: Scott Charton:
Remembering Mel Carnahan, 20 years after plane crash
The Missouri Times op-ed: HD 16 GOP candidate Chris
Brown: Now more than ever, candidates should oppose efforts to
defund police
P-D letter: Ferguson man says Hawley's opposition to
Obamacare proves senator is not "pro-life"
P-D letter: St. Louis City sexagenarian wants 2nd
Congressional District voters to choose Jill Schupp over
"fear-mongering" Ann Wagner
P-D letter: University City octogenarian describes
terror of seeing maskless diner patrons in Rolla, blames Gov. Parson
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Tuesday, October 20,
2020
Missouri Independent: Sen. Karla May (D-St. Louis
City) says 2020 statewide Democratic candidates are not visible in St.
Louis City; Harris-Stowe prof says McCaskill was too concerned
with "the white vote" in 2018
The Missouri Times: Blunt weighs in on SCOTUS
confirmation: 'Barrett is extraordinary'
P-D: Ann Wagner, Jill Schupp take part in online debate
The Missouri Times: ALEC report names Gov. Parson
among top 15 governors for economic policy
JCNT: In solo event, Galloway cites need for more
housing, minimum wage hike
Joplin Globe: Profile: Nicole Galloway
Missouri Independent: A look at social media spending
in governor's race; Comments from campaigns, academics
The Missouri Times: 'Right leader:' Kehoe
releases first 2020 campaign ad
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: AG Eric
Schmitt joins Jason Rosenbaum and Rachel Lippmann to talk urban crime,
McCloskeys, much more
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air preview: Sen. Bob
Onder (R-Lake Saint Louis) vs. Sean Soendker Nicholson on Cleaner
Missouri
Missouri Independent: Missouri State Highway Patrol
investigating hoax text claiming Rowden quitting politics
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
recap: Andrew Koenig vs. Deb Lavender
P-D: Hollywood celebs continue parade of endorsements
in Missouri: Jon Hamm endorses Deb Lavender in state Senate race
Missouri Independent: Missouri budget bouncing back
from COVID; Thoughts from Jim Moody, liberal Missouri Budget
Project, others
The Missouri Times: Missouri begins medical marijuana
sales
KC Star: First legal marijuana sales take place in KC
area; Patient symptoms include "stress," "minor body aches," etc.
P-D: Regional China virus update
SE
Missourian: No new COVID deaths reported in region Monday
KWMU: Local China virus task force head:
Region's hospitals likely to be overwhelmed by patients "soon"
P-D endorsement recap: Federal and state races:
Six (6) Democrats, zero (0) Republicans
JCNT editorial: Missouri Highway Patrol on right track
with training, transparency
Missouri Independent Editor in Chief Jason Hancock: We
are 'detectives for the people'
P-D op-ed: Former Eastern Michigan University English
professor: Josh Hawley wrong to go on the attack about
"anti-Catholic bigotry"
Columbia Missourian's Ken Midkiff: Department of
Natural Resources? More like Department of NO Resources
KC Star letters: St. Joseph septuagenarian would like
to change his vote for secretary of state, after already voting;
KC woman threatens to "do everything in (her) power" to defeat Blunt
and Hawley unless they vote "No" on Barrett
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Monday, October 19,
2020
Missourinet: Missouri program offers free help during
Medicare open enrollment
JCNT: Free USDA meal program extended at area schools
Missourinet: Drowning deaths of three kayakers in
southwest Missouri prompts Billy Long to file legislation
P-D: November election overview: AG Eric Schmitt
(R) vs. Rich Finneran (D)
P-D: November election overview: State Treasurer
Scott Fitzpatrick (R) vs. Vicki Englund (D)
St. Joseph News-Press: November issue overview:
Amendment 1
SNL: November issue overview: Amendment 3
This Week In Missouri Politics: Scott Faughn hosts
Sen. Andrew Koenig (R-Manchester) and Rep. Deb Lavender (D-Kirkwood) to
discuss their heated race for SD 15
CDT: Caleb Rowden target of text message hoax;
Authorities investigating who sent fake "stepping away from politics"
message
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Missourian: Cape County Clerk Kara Clark Summers discusses voting
rules and regulations
KWMU/Corporation for Public Broadcasting "Sharing America"
racism reporter Andrea Henderson: How to help voters of color
avoid hurdles in this election
KWMU/Corporation for Public Broadcasting "Sharing America"
racism reporter Andrea Henderson: Common Cause's "Election
Protection" recruiting volunteers to report "voter suppression"
AP: Long lines as Missouri medical marijuana
dispensaries open
P-D: Medical marijuana sales begin in St. Louis County
KC Star: Sen. Lauren Arthur (D-Kansas City) led effort
on mammography bill
Missourinet: Missouri National Guard's current largest
effort is supporting state health department
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
KC Star: Missouri Public Service Commission to
consider Evergy request
Joplin Globe non-endorsement: Weigh the pros and cons
of term limits before voting on Amendment 1
KC Star endorsement: Yinka Faleti (D) for secretary of
state
KC Star endorsement: Barbara Anne Washington (D) for
state Senate
KC Star endorsement video: Barbara Anne Washington's
chat with editorial board
KC Star endorsement video: Barbara Anne Washington
imagines what a Democratic agenda for the Missouri Senate would look
like
P-D letter: Olivette octogenarian omniscently reveals
how Tom Eagleton - dead for thirteen (13) years - would feel about Amy
Coney Barrett
P-D letter: League of Women Voters septuagenarian
explains "nonpartisan" group's opposition to Cleaner Missouri
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Sunday, October 18, 2020
KC Star: Hawley's book on big tech companies set to be
released next June
JCNT: County clerks offer advice to avoid voting
problems
CDT: Caleb Rowden leads Judy Baker by wide margin in
campaign fundraising
St. Joseph News-Press: Local GOP state legislative
candidates hold cash lead over Democrats
Columbia Missourian: Politics in a pandemic:
Candidates adjust their strategies to deal with COVID-19 limitations
SNL: Missouri's unemployment rate sees big decline in
September
SNL: Trade association says Missouri's first medical
marijuana sales will be in St. Louis County
P-D: Medical marijuana sales begin in St. Louis
County; patients line up at two dispensaries
KC Star: New gun control series: Who's to blame
for gun violence in Kansas City? The police and "systemic racism."
JCNT: Kids Win Missouri report highlights parents'
concerns during pandemic
P-D: State, regional China virus update
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D editorial: Ann Wagner, other Republicans try
desperately to mask themselves from Trump political plague
KC Star editorial: KC residents' distrust of police
sparks fear, drives violent crime
KC Star's Jonathan Shorman: Gov. Parson offers only
scattered evidence of a forward-looking agenda, but Nicole Galloway
provides Missourians a series of plans on key issues
P-D letter: Creve Coeur man mocks "Boy Wonder" Josh
Hawley, says senator stokes bigotry
P-D letter: Pacific octogenarian questions whether
Josh Hawley is actually a Christian
P-D letter: St. Louis man says Gov. Parson wrong on
Medicaid expansion, mask mandate, marijuana licensing, Cleaner Missouri
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Saturday, October 17,
2020
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Area lesbians call
Amy Coney Barrett a threat, rush to get married; Insights from
"Lot's Wife Trans & Queer Chaplaincy"
The Missouri Times: October quarterly filing
reports: Statewide offices
The Missouri Times: October quarterly filing
reports: PACs
The Missouri Times: October quarterly filing
reports: Missouri Senate
The Missouri Times: October quarterly filing
reports: Missouri House
The Missouri Times: New Jersey's Democrat governor
does press call touting Galloway
SNL: November issue overview: Amendment 1
The Missouri Times: Hollywood liberal Jennifer
Lawrence urges Missourians to vote 'No' on Cleaner Missouri
CDT: Fact check: Caleb Rowden is right - CARES
Act funds weren't paid out
St. Joseph News-Press: November election
preview: Rep. Bill Falkner (R) vs. Colby Murphy (D)
KC Star: Star names Jonathan Shorman as replacement
for reporter Jason Hancock; 31-year-old covered Missouri
Legislature for two sessions (2013-14)
Missourinet: Gov. Parson says box-in strategy is being
used at Missouri veterans homes
SNL: DHSS rolls out COVID-19 vaccine plan
P-D: State, regional China virus update
KC Star: Regional China virus update
KWMU: SLU poll shows nearly half of Missourians say
they will not get China virus vaccine
JCNT: Highway Patrol data portal includes use of
force, pursuits
SE
Missourian: Several options for a Cape urban deer hunt
SNL: MDC wants input on black bear hunting season
KC Star: Why Kansas City can't stop the bloodshed in
deadliest year ever; "Structural racism" to blame
Joplin Globe editorial: Take note of Missouri's good
news on jobs
Washington Missourian editorial: Coronavirus situation
in Missouri is critical
P-D letter: Olivette septuagenarian expresses anger
over writing letters to Blunt and Hawley "every week in September" and
not yet receiving response
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Friday, October 16, 2020
KWMU: UMSL political science professor David
Kimball: Rural Missouri voters supported Trump overwhelmingly in
2016, and will do so again in 2020
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Ann Wagner
talks with Jason Rosenbaum about Trump's numbers, Amy Coney Barrett,
stimulus, Afghanistan, more
P-D: Ann Wagner enters home stretch with 2-1
cash-on-hand advantage over Jill Schupp
The Missouri Times: Rep. Sarah Unsicker
(D-Shrewsbury), two urban officials sign nationwide letter urging
Senate to reject Barrett
Missourinet: AG William Barr: Since Operation
Legend, St. Louis City murder rate has declined by 49%
KWMU: Barr highlights success of federal law
enforcement surge in St. Louis
P-D: Urban officials claim Census will miss thousands
Columbia Missourian: Fact check: Anti-police
group Indivisible urges donors to give to Galloway
AP: Pro-Galloway PAC raises $5 million
The Missouri Times: Rowden describes experiences being
followed, shares Ring.com photo of prowler on doorstep
Columbia Missourian: A look at Rowden's ad on his vote
to fully fund education
The Missouri Times: After Roeber abuse allegations, HD
34 not on HRCC target list
SNL: Greene County Clerk Shane Schoeller: Avoid
these common mistakes when voting by mail
SE
Missourian: Curbside voting to be available in Cape County before
election day
The Missouri Times: Tim Jones is breaking down the
news in his latest endeavor - host of the Morning Line on Springfield's
KWTO
KWTO:
Station schedule, "Listen Live" link for Tim Jones' show
Missourinet: Roger Wilson reflects on anniversary of
Mel Carnahan's death
The Missouri Times: Missouri submits coronavirus
vaccination plan to CDC
JCNT: State releases COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan
KWMU: Missouri has a plan to administer coronavirus
vaccine when available
P-D: Gov. Parson says he won't force vaccinations on
Missourians
Missourinet: Missouri schools have a few days left to
request rapid COVID-19 tests from the state
SE
Missourian: State reports coronavirus cases within school
district boundaries
KC Star: KC hospitals continue to see increase in
COVID patients
P-D: Regional, state China virus update
St. Joseph News-Press endorsement: Yes on Amendment 1
Joplin Globe editorial: Leave political signs alone
CDT op-ed: Ted Farnen: The Electoral College is
an intolerable relic
The Missouri Times op-ed: Holly Rehder: Vote
'Yes' on Amendment 3
KC Star op-ed: Missouri Jobs With Justice's Patricia
Jones-Macklin: Cleaner Missouri is a "devious scheme"
Columbia Missourian's Veronica Mohesky: Analysis from
Brennan Center shows Amendment 3 could unfairly benefit old white people
P-D letter: Webster Groves sexagenarian wants Blunt
and Hawley to spend more taxpayer money on SNAP, other handouts
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
SNL: Billy Long asks Corps to study permit process
AP: McCloskeys plead not guilty to two felony charges
The Missouri Times: New ad from Gov. Parson's campaign
highlights longtime campaign aide
The Missouri Times: Missouri Farm Bureau endorses more
statewide officials
KWMU: In-depth: Policy and politics of Amendment
3
Missourinet: Amendment 3 debate in Springfield centers
around "nonpartisan" demographer
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Democrat
state Senate candidate Richard Orr on his 20-point loss to Bill Eigel
in 2016, and why this time will be totally different
Columbia Missourian: Local state legislative
candidates offer their plans on how to deal with declining state revenue
Joplin Globe: City officials issue reminder on
campaign sign rules, thefts, vandalism
P-D: St. Charles County Council OKs election grant
tied to Facebook founder
CDT: Tribune hires replacement for veteran political
reporter Rudi Keller: 22-year-old Langston Newsome, who boasts
"more than a year covering prep sports"
AP: Missouri unemployment rate drops
The Missouri Times: September jobs report shows
decreased unemployment rates
P-D: Missouri reports big drop in unemployment
KWMU: In Missouri, fewer than 4,500 to lose federal
unemployment benefits this week
P-D: Gov. Parson meets in St. Louis with families of
officers killed in the line of duty
The Missouri Times: Federal official touts Missouri as
example of prison reentry efforts on state tour
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Missourian: Some Missouri medical marijuana dispensaries opening
soon, but area outlets could take longer
Columbia Missourian: Missouri awards over $800,000 in
second round of broadband funding
P-D: Shortage of staff leads Missouri to downsize
women's prison in Vandalia
KC Star: One of last KC districts will finally allow
kids back in schools - in January
AP: Missouri COVID database fixed
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D: Regional, state China virus update
KC Star: Liberal group says COVID has spurred
right-wing "militia" to expand; 153 members nationwide, with some
potentially located in Missouri
The Missouri Times: Missouri PSC opens case on
Regional Transmission Organizations
KC Star endorsement: Chris Hager (D) for Missouri
House District 34
P-D editorial: Hawley helps Barrett dodge big
questions on abortion and religion
Joplin Globe editorial: AG Eric Schmitt right to fight
for Eleven Point State Park
P-D letter: Clayton sexagenarian says Hawley has not
done enough to denounce President Trump's "rallying call for white
supremacy"
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Wednesday, October 14,
2020
KFEQ: Profile: Gena Ross, the woman filling
Democratic ballot slot for Sam Graves' re-election
P-D: Ann Wagner and Jill Schupp agree to Oct. 19
virtual forum
Scott Faughn: Thoughts on the Gov. Parson vs. Nicole
Galloway gubernatorial debate: Key themes and Skoal-spitting
moments
SNL: SLU poll shows Gov. Parson leading Nicole
Galloway 50-44
KCUR: Profile: Alissia Canady, Democrat for
lieutenant governor
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Bill
Eigel (R-Weldon Spring) talks with Jason Rosenbaum about St. Charles
County demographics, upcoming congressional redistricting, Conservative
Caucus priorities, other 2020 state Senate contests
Columbia Missourian: Election overview: House
District 50: Sara Walsh (R) vs. Kari Chesney (D)
KWMU: Over 100,000 Missourians in the St. Louis region
have already cast ballots
KC Star: More than 12,000 Kansas Citians have cast
ballots at Union Station
The Missouri Times: Rep. Bill Kidd (R-Buckner) vying
for Speaker Pro Tem
P-D: Rep. Hardy Billington (R-Poplar Bluff) says he's
nearly recovered from China virus
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson awards Missouri Public
Safety Medals
P-D: Pot sales set to start: Missouri medical
marijuana dispensaries just waiting for product
AP: State fire marshal, citing drought, urges no
outdoor burning
SE
Missourian: Jackson resident takes newly-created job aiming to
increase diversity in Missouri Department of Conservation
Joplin Globe: Jasper football coach accused of leading
students in prayer; district opens investigation
JCNT: COVID-19 cases rise at local prisons
KC Star: Regional China virus update
P-D editorial: Snafu in Missouri's coronavirus count
is a serious lapse that demands answers
KC Star's Melinda Henneberger: Josh Hawley would
rather not talk about the GOP's 'Josh Hawley problem' on Roe v. Wade
KC Star op-ed: Hartzler opponent Lindsey Simmons
(D): Vicky Hartzler works for defense contractors, not for
Missouri's military families
P-D letter: St. Louis man says national popular vote
plan would force presidential candidates to visit Missouri
P-D letter: Former St. Louis County Gene McNary (R)
says Post-Dispatch "waved the Democratic flag" by endorsing Dems over
Schmitt, Ashcroft
P-D letter: Former Democratic state rep candidate says
Cleaner Missouri would encourage political extremism
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Missourinet: Sen. Hawley in Barrett nomination
hearing: People of faith are welcome in high office
P-D: Hawley defends Barrett's faith, calls Democratic
attacks "outrageous"
KC Star: Hawley says Democrats' attacks on nominee's
Catholicism are "outrageous"
KC Star: Politico ranks Missouri's presidential status
"likely Republican"
Brownfield Ag News: U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler sponsors
Cattle Market Transparency Act of 2020
Missourinet: $10 million grant awarded to Missouri for
highway/rail improvements in Webster County; 32 deaths there
since 1975
JCNT: Federal funds to cover Jefferson City airport
control tower operations
JCNT: Judge stays order in Missouri voting lawsuit,
awaiting appeals
KWMU: Profile: Nicole Galloway takes on the
challenge of bringing a red state governorship back to Democrats
Columbia Missourian: Candidate profile: Nicole
Galloway
KC Star: Urban Democrat mayor endorses Galloway
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Lt. Gov.
Mike Kehoe talks with Jason Rosenbaum about upcoming election, Buy
Missouri, LIHTC, more
P-D: Election overview: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe (R)
vs. Alissia Canady (D)
P-D: Galloway, House Superminority Leader Crystal
Quade (D-Springfield) complain about DHSS tracking of China virus
SE
Missourian: The Arrow hosts debate between College Democrats,
College Republicans
Twitch.tv/stlpublicradio:
Jason Rosenbaum guest hosts "Too Much News" show; Rosenbaum and
Jason Hancock discuss Missouri Independent, donor transparency, the
decline of the Columbia Daily Tribune, erosion of the state Capitol
press corps, other political journalism topics
St. Joseph News-Press: Gov. Parson sets aside relief
grants for child care providers
KWMU: Missouri begins testing medical marijuana,
expected to hit dispensary shelves soon
The Missouri Times: Missouri Veterans Hall of Fame to
induct first class of honorees
Missourinet: Virgin Hyperloop still has its eye on
Missouri to transport passengers in tube
JCNT: Missouri State Parks to host public meeting on
Katy Trail, Rock Island Spur
P-D: Missouri S&T in Rolla receives $300 million
donation, largest in state history for a university
The Missouri Times: This Week in Missouri Politics
recap: Mun Choi on COVID precautions, student journalism,
more; Columbia Mayor Brian Treece talks pandemic, economic
development
SE
Missourian's Lucas Presson: Will Democrats attack Amy Coney
Barrett's faith again? Ed Martin says Blunt, Hawley will play
critical roles in confirmation
Phill Brooks: Remembering Wayne Goode
P-D letter: Liberal, Mo. man responds to Post-Dispatch
feature on hometown, says Missouri Democratic Party ignores him and his
fellow Democrats
P-D letter: Chesterfield sexagenarian calls Cleaner
Missouri "a sad, clumsy dirty trick"
P-D letter: Defiance man says Cleaner Missouri would
simply return redistricting back to before 2018
JCNT letter: Jefferson City woman calls Cleaner
Missouri "pure trickery"
Joplin Globe letter: New Florence septuagenarian says
Cleaner Missouri supporters oppose democracy
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Monday, October 12,
2020 Columbus Day
P-D: Urban activists complain about lack of access to
detailed Census data
KC Star: Galloway campaign hopes for high urban
turnout; Analysis from Gov. Parson's campaign manager Steele
Shippy, GOP consultant James Harris, Jackson County Dems' Geoff Gerling
This Week in Missouri Politics: University of Missouri
System President Mun Choi talks with Scott Faughn about campus COVID
safety, budget, free speech, much more; Columbia Mayor Brian
Treece talks COVID, Trump vs. Biden, Gov. Parson vs. Nicole
Galloway, more
Missourinet: Missouri's school nurses are on the front
lines of COVID-19 response within classrooms
AP: DHSS migrating all COVID-19 testing and case data
into one new consolidated system
P-D: DHSS explains database extraction error, fixes
issue
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Department of
Conservation reports decrease in deer disease
KC Star editorial: Gov. Parson wants to pardon
gun-toting St. Louis couple. What happened to a trial?
P-D editorial: This would be a perfect moment for Gov.
Parson to set an example about masks
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Rep. Brenda Shields
(R-St. Joseph) highlights critical issue with virtual learning
KC Star's Katie Moore: Missouri should release more
juvenile lifers
P-D letter: Chesterfield sexagenarian calls Ann Wagner
"spineless," "pitiful" and a coward
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Sunday, October 11,
2020
P-D: David Robertson, oft-quoted UMSL political
science professor, dies at 69
Joplin Globe: Trump supporters celebrate their
candidate with parade; Vehicle parade rolls through 3 counties
St. Joseph News-Press: Gov. Parson headlines Buchanan
County GOP Lincoln-Reagan event
JCNT: November election overview: U.S. Rep.
Vicky Hartzler (R) vs. Lindsey Simmons (D)
SNL: No changes to Missouri mail-in ballot rules after
federal judge stays own order
KC Star: Rules for voting mail-in, early and absentee
in Missouri
Joplin Globe: Mail-in ballots not in demand in most
area counties
JCNT: November election overview: Lt. Gov. Mike
Kehoe (R) vs. Alissia Canady (D)
JCNT: November election overview: Rep. Sara
Walsh (R) vs. Kari Chesney (D)
SNL: Humansville cannabis-grower Flora Farms approved
to operate
Joplin Globe: More state testing for COVID-19
scheduled in Joplin, Neosho
Columbia Missourian: Shifting COVID-19 hotspots create
new realities in urban areas
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D: Regional China virus update
Bob Priddy: Remembering Wayne Goode (2,288 words)
KC Star op-ed: Democratic secretary of state candidate
Yinka Faleti: Missouri's statewide leadership putting up barriers
to voting
P-D letter: Chesterfield sexagenarian claims Ann
Wagner "has never given me an opportunity to hear her voice"
KC Star letter: Uniting Missouri's John Hancock
responds to editorial, says newspaper egregiously omitted critical
context about website
Columbia Missourian letter: Columbia sexagenarian
urges vote for Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch's Democrat opponent
Columbia Missourian: University of California,
Berkeley law school student wants Missouri to punish Webster County
officials over sexual assault ruling
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Saturday, October 10,
2020
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Missourian: U.S. Rep. Jason Smith blasts Brits Harry and Meghan
for anti-Trump campaign
KC Star: NY Times cites "private GOP surveys" showing
Biden closing gap in Missouri; FiveThirtyEight gives Biden 11%
chance of winning Missouri
KC Star: Port Authority lands big federal grant for
major KC project along Missouri River
P-D: Federal court orders change to mail-in voting
while Missouri's high court affirms law
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court: There is no
constitutional right to absentee or mail-in voting
KWMU: Missouri Supreme Court upholds notary
requirement for most mail-in ballots
KCUR: Missouri high court upholds notarization
requirement for absentee and mail-in ballots
KC Star: Notary requirement for mail-in ballots isn't
unconstitutional, court rules
KCUR: Kansas Citians set records for absentee and
mail-in voting
SNL: Gov. Parson, Nicole Galloway face off on crime,
COVID in Missouri governor debate
JCNT: Missouri governor candidates diverge on paths,
perspectives
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson, Galloway spar over
coronavirus response in debate
Missourinet: Gov. Parson and Nicole Galloway blast
each other repeatedly during Missouri gubernatorial debate
Columbia Missourian: Fact-checking claims made my gov
candidates in debate
KCUR: Gov. Parson, Galloway clash over China virus,
riots and economy
P-D: Candidates clash on crime, China virus in what's
likely Missouri's only meeting of governor hopefuls
KC Star: Gov. Parson, Galloway debate dominated by
disagreements over crime and China virus
St. Joseph News-Press: Amendment 3 battle fuels surge
of dark money
P-D: Abortion activist group "Reproaction" wants
Missouri to lift restrictions on abortion pills
SE
Missourian: Gov. Parson announces grants to help libraries access
broadband; Cape Public Library to install free public wifi in
Cape parks
SNL: AG Eric Schmitt appeals order to sell Eleven
Points State Park land
SNL: White House report: Missouri out of top 10
for new China virus cases last week
P-D: Southeast Missouri, after a decade of hospital
closures, sees rising COVID-19 tide
The Missouri Times: PSC reviewing rules on
stabilization mechanisms: What are they?
Washington Missourian editorial: Imagine Nicole
Galloway, as governor, trying to work with GOP's 2021 supermajority
KC Star's Jonathan Shorman and Bryan Lowry: Missouri
Republicans, including Gov. Parson and Ann Wagner, forced to confront
reality of President Trump's COVID hypocrisy
SNL op-ed: Faith Voices of Southwest Missouri
volunteer: Thomas Jefferson would be appalled by Cleaner Missouri
Messenger: Missouri reduces subsidies to child care
centers serving low-income families with no explanation
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Friday, October 9, 2020
P-D: Indictment claims McCloskeys altered gun, leading
to evidence tampering charges
Missourinet: Blunt, Lacy Clay, Ann Wagner make another
push for Curt Flood's Baseball Hall of Fame induction
SNL: Army Corps: Landowner working in 'good
faith' to restore damaged Bull Creek
KWMU: New podcast "Where It Hurts," produced by Kaiser
Health News and KWMU, to feature complaints about health care system
and hospital funding; Series will run through November election
KC Star: Join our digital series on gun control as we
explore "the history of policing in communities of color," "root
causes" of street savagery, and other injustices
The Missouri Times: Exclusive: Ashcroft responds
to Galloway as investigation into misuse of auditor's state resources
forges ahead
The Missouri Times: On press call, Democratic
Governors Association says Gov. Parson's illness "has made voters lose
trust in his leadership"
Joplin Globe: Cleaner Missouri opponents hold "virtual
news conference" to criticize measure
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Sen. Andrew
Koenig (R-Manchester) talks with Jason Rosenbaum about re-election
campaign, mask mandates, concurrent jurisdiction, Wayfair, more
CDT: Claire McCaskill holds impromptu press conference
at Boone County Courthouse, criticizes Caleb Rowden
Columbia Missourian: Rowden stands by claims alleging
Judy Baker mismanaged funds
CDT: In state Senate candidate debate, Rowden cites
power of majority leader position
CDT: Recap: Missouri House candidates face off
at forum
JCNT: Candidate forum: Rep. Dave Griffith (R)
vs. Joshua Dunne (D); Dem says Gov. Parson, GOP legislators use
"racist dogwhistles"
JCNT: Video: Griffith vs. Dunne forum
P-D: St. Louis City, St. Louis County get big election
grants from national nonprofit
KWMU: Gov. Parson, urban leaders celebrate
emancipation of St. Louis City police officers
SNL: Hyperloop test track sought by Missouri heading
to West Virginia instead
KWMU: Hyperloop test track headed to West Virginia,
but Missouri could land high-speed route
Missourinet: Missouri not chosen for Virgin Hyperloop
test track
St. Joseph News-Press: States, colleges aim to reduce
teacher shortage
Missourinet: Getting meals to Missouri students
learning online: "Where there's a will there's a way"
Missourinet: Missouri Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline
calls reach pre-pandemic rate
KWMU: Pandemic worsens staff shortages at St. Louis
nursing homes; Institutional racism to blame
SNL: Missouri Department of Conservation switches to
voluntary CWD testing in 30 counties on opening weekend of deer season
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Blunt, Clay and
Wagner are right - Curt Flood deserves to be in Cooperstown
KC Star editorial: Like President Trump, Gov. Parson
learned nothing from COVID-19 diagnosis
KC Star editorial: Missouri's Confederate memorial
skips over the evils of slavery
Columbia Missourian's William Skipworth: Gov. Parson
wrong about high-risk areas and mask mandates
P-D letter: St. Louis man says he enjoys reading
Post-Dispatch endorsements, then voting the opposite
P-D letter: Maplewood sexagenarian calls Amendment 3
"Dirty Missouri," attempts trash/garbage punchline
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Thursday, October 8, 2020
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: New NPR podcast "No
Compromise" targets Second Amendment groups and "the culture they
foster among their followers"
SNL: How to watch local Missouri House candidates
debate; Cleaner Missouri debate Oct. 14
Missourinet: On the election ballot: 53 Missouri
judges who want to keep their jobs
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson releases $100 million
to education
SNL: Gov. Parson halves cuts to state university,
community college aid
JCNT: Some state funding restored
Missourinet: Gov. Parson releases $133 million in
funding; says he'd pardon McCloskeys
AP: Gov. Parson says again he would pardon couple who
defended home from protester mob
AP: Gov. Parson to release $133 million in funds for
state services
KWMU: Gov. Parson touts economic recovery, frees up
education funding
Missourinet: Missouri Board of Education discusses
attendance problems with students learning remotely
KWMU: Missouri National Guard's Levon Cumpton pinned
to rank of major general
JCNT: Missouri National Guard leader promoted
SNL: As Missouri prepares for medical marijuana sales,
Cassville Dispensary makes 'dry run'
The Missouri Times: Updated numbers:
County-by-county tally of coronavirus cases, deaths
The Missouri Times: PSC approves Empire's fuel
adjustment rates despite objections
SE
Missourian: Peter Kinder to urge reconsideration of urban deer
hunting in Cape
P-D letter: St. Louis County sexagenarian calls for
"more outrage" against Blunt and Hawley over SCOTUS, wants Gov. Parson
to mandate masks
CDT letter: Columbia LGBTQIA* activist urges vote for
Judy Baker
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Wednesday, October 7,
2020
P-D: St. Louis City grand jury indicts McCloskeys on
gun, tampering charges
AP: Indictments issued against couple who defended
Central West End home
Joplin Globe: Neosho begins process of obtaining
federal money for flooding mitigation projects
Missourinet: Rep. Peggy McGaugh (R-Carrollton) says
northern Missouri's flooding in recent years could affect Census numbers
KWMU: St. Louis City trails St. Louis County in 2020
Census responses; Institutional racism to blame
KC Star: NAACP complains about President Trump's
executive order on anti-American scapegoating, say KC VA problems are
due to "systemic racism"
KWMU: St. Louis area contact tracers confront a lack
of trust; Institutional racism to blame
The Missouri Times: Galloway's use of state resources
subject of new complaint
CDT: State rep, state Senate candidates to debate
tonight
Twitter: Former KC Star reporter Jason Hancock
announces launch of "Missouri Independent," vows to "expose the
relationships between people, politics and policy and we hold the
powerful accountable"
Columbia Missourian: Absentee ballot numbers rise in
Boone County
JCNT: American Women voting trial continues
JCNT: Missouri Supreme Court hears liberal groups'
voting lawsuit
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court hears notary
requirement arguments; no word on when court will rule
The Missouri Times: Missouri Supreme Court hears
arguments on mail-in voting
P-D: ACLU, others make arguments against notary
requirement
AP: Liberal groups argue against ballot-security
standards
KWMU: Local urban activists seek to register criminals
to vote
Missourinet: 1,400 Missourians enroll in rapid
substitute teacher training option
The Missouri Times: DESE votes to extend alternate
attendance rule
JCNT: State school board adopts new attendance
reporting rule
St. Joseph News-Press: New White House 'red zone'
report shows improvements in Missouri
SE
Missourian: Missouri veterans homes see spike in coronavirus cases
AP: Greene County passes 100 coronavirus deaths
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
SE
Missourian: MoDOT seeks comments on proposed Highway 177 work
P-D: Missouri board approves plan for nation's first
police academy at black college
AP: KC Black Lives Matter activists create encampment
outside City Hall, say they're not leaving until police chief is fired
and police defunded by 50%
P-D editorial: Missourians must make sure they're
registered to vote - and kick out President Trump, Gov. Parson and U.S.
Rep. Ann Wagner
KC Star editorial: Not a dog whistle, 'a damn
bullhorn': Gov. Parson allies inject race into crime debate
Messenger: Gov. Parson's campaign against Nicole
Galloway "a full-on racist train"
KC Star's Jonathan Shorman: Gov. Parson pleads
ignorance on President Trump's most recent coronavirus comments
P-D letter: Kirkwood woman calls Hawley "arrogant" for
not wearing mask at White House event
Columbia Missourian letter: Columbia sexagenarian says
GOP Rep. Chuck Basye undermines Missouri education
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Tuesday, October 6,
2020
Missourinet: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver says college
athletes should make money: "They are used."
Missourinet: Flood effect: Navigation damage
threatens barge traffic on Missouri River
KC Star: GOP poll shows Trump leading Biden 51-46 in
Missouri
The Missouri Times: 'Defund the police': Where
do Missouri Democrats stand?
The Missouri Times: New York City resident Andy Cohen
opposes Cleaner Missouri
KMIZ (Columbia): Caleb Rowden ad hits Judy Baker on
work record
KWMU: Missouri voter registrations soar in 2020
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Jason Rosenbaum
explains differences between absentee and mail-in voting
SNL: Q&A: Greene County Clerk Shane
Schoeller (R) talks mail-in voting, the pandemic and Trump
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court to hear liberal
groups' lawsuit over notary requirement
Missourinet: Peter Kinder describes the late Wayne
Goode as "one of the real giants of the Missouri Senate"
KWMU: Former Missouri legislator and UMSL 'architect'
Wayne Goode dies
The Missouri Times: Missouri general revenue continues
to climb, September report says
St. Joseph News-Press: Unemployment locally continues
decline
P-D: Missouri taps federal stimulus money to promote,
protect tourism during pandemic
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson: Ready to get
back to work after coronavirus diagnosis
P-D: Gov. Parson returns to office, travels across
state after COVID quarantine
Missourinet: Governor's office: Four staffers
who've tested positive for COVID have fully recovered
KC Star: Four staffers to Gov. Parson have recovered
from China virus
P-D: China virus has infected more than 1,800 state
employees in total
CDT: Only 1,700 people in Missouri have a MO ABLE
savings account - the Columbia and Missouri chambers of commerce want
to change that
SNL: State yet to appropriate money for expanding
juvenile system
Missourinet: Illinois State group's annual rankings
put Missouri low in state funding for higher education
Missourinet: Missouri hospitals, labs brace for flu,
COVID-19 collision
The Missouri Times: POST commission approves first
HBCU police academy
Joplin Globe op-ed: Cleaner Missouri excludes
children, will hurt communities
P-D letter: St. Louis City man calls Blunt and Hawley
cowards for supporting President Trump
P-D letter: Fenton septuagenarian says Amendment 3 is
designed to trick voters
P-D letter: Eureka septuagenarian unhappy with
Missouri's low corporate tax rate, wants state to pay urban areas more
for prisoner reimbursement
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Monday, October 5, 2020
P-D: Election overview: Ann Wagner vs. Jill
Schupp
SE
Missourian: 'Pro-life witness' held Sunday in Cape to mark
National Life Chain
Missourinet:
Census wrap-up: Missouri 2020 Complete Count Committee aims to
submit final report by November 30
This Week in Missouri Politics: Gov. Parson talks with
Scott Faughn about COVID diagnosis, state's handling of pandemic, and
2020 elections; Panel of Rep. Brad Pollitt (R-Sedalia), reporter
Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Missouri Farm Bureau's Eric Bohl, Brian Grace
discuss presidential debate, school and sports restrictions, Gov.
Parson vs. Nicole Galloway, more
P-D: Missouri Democrats, Republicans make last-minute
push to register voters
SE
Missourian: Ballot question overview: Amendment 3
P-D: Longtime Democratic state legislator Wayne Goode
dies at 83
SNL: Gov. Parson, first lady finish COVID-19
isolation, back to normal Monday
AP: Gov. Parson returns to office after battling
COVID-19
Joplin Globe: Number of COVID-19 testing sites
increases in Joplin area
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
KC Star editorial: With COVID-19 cases increasing, why
isn't Missouri spending millions in relief funds?
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Public Utility
Alliance CEO John Twitty: Missouri's power and gas utilities
deserve our thanks this week
P-D letter: St. Louis County man says Ann Wagner does
not meet with the public
P-D letter: Webster Groves man celebrates Gov.
Parson's July comment that students will "get over" COVID-19
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Sunday, October 4, 2020
SNL: Hawley says he's negative for coronavirus as
President Trump, colleagues test positive
KC Star: Hawley tests negative for China virus a week
after White House event
SNL: Fate of Obamacare, Missouri Medicaid expansion up
to SCOTUS
JCNT: MAGA rally held in Jefferson City
Washington Missourian: Absentee ballots up over 2016
election
St. Joseph News-Press: Among recent governors, Jay
Nixon "takes the cake" with plane travel; Comments from senior
Democratic consultant Jane Dueker
JCNT: Violent crime down, homicides up in Missouri
SE
Missourian: No coronavirus deaths reported Friday
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D endorsement: Nicole Galloway (D) for governor
P-D endorsements: Yes on Amendment 1, No on Amendment 3
JCNT editorial: A call for civility in the final weeks
of election
CDT: Rudi Keller's farewell column
KC Star letter: New Florence septuagenarian says
Amendment 3 is designed to trick voters
Joplin Globe letter: Joplin septuagenarian says
Amendment 3 is designed to trick voters
SNL letter: Rogersville septuagenarian claims Cleaner
Missouri and SCOTUS nomination turned him into a Democrat
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Saturday, October 3,
2020
Missourinet: Missing rural Missouri absentee ballots
discovered in St. Louis City USPS facility; Postal Service says
incident "is currently under internal review"
Sedalia Democrat: USPS locates missing Pettis County
ballots - in St. Louis City
P-D: Cultural anthropology series: Reporter Jess
Bogan ventures to rural Missouri to observe people who support
President Trump
Joplin Globe: Ozark Mountain Proud Boys to have booth
at today's Neosho Fall Festival, will sell "anti-racist, anti-racial
guilt" t-shirts and hats
Missourinet: Candidates for Missouri governor prepare
for Oct. 9 debate
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Nicole
Galloway talks with Rosenbaum about COVID-19, schools, violent crime,
race, more
St. Joseph News-Press: Political signs a target for
vandals, thieves
Missourinet: Gov. Parson orders review of COVID-19
procedures within Missouri nursing homes
JCNT: DHSS receiving $19M+ in federal pandemic aid
P-D: Gov. Parson's office to maintain privacy of
staffers who took coronavirus tests
KC Star: Daily regional China virus update
P-D: Daily state, regional China virus update
The Missouri Times: A look at Missouri's TIF program
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Department of
Conservation reports hemorrhagic disease in Missouri deer
KWMU: Minority groups file complaint with EPA over DNR
permits; Comments from "community empowerment organizer," others
KC Star: Black Lives Matter protesters begin occupying
area outside City Hall, harass diners at Power & Light District
KSHB: Video: Black Lives Matter protesters storm
Power & Light District restaurants, scream at diners
P-D letter: University City septuagenarian explains
why Gov. Parson's illness means he's unfit to lead Missouri
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Friday, October 2, 2020
St. Joseph News-Press: Hawley meets with Trump's
Supreme Court nominee
KC Star: Hawley meets with Barrett
Missourinet: Hawley ready to go to Senate floor to
demand unanimous consent on duck boat bill
Columbia Missourian: New date set for gubernatorial
debate
JCNT: NAACP, others hold Zoom call to criticize
Cleaner Missouri
KWMU: Tim Eby lands consulting contract after taking
the fall at St. Louis Public Radio
Missourinet: Gov. Parson hopes to bring stability to
Missouri Children's Division
P-D: Missouri lawmakers may be returning to Capitol
for more work on pandemic spending
The Missouri Times: Rapid coronavirus tests going to
HBCUs, health care facilities
Washington Missourian: State provides vaccine plans to
local health authorities
P-D: White House task force report keeps Missouri in
"red zone" for China virus
KC Star: Governor's office will protect privacy of
staffers who took coronavirus tests
P-D: Stark differences in COVID-19 case numbers noted
in Missouri prisons
Missourinet: Rep. Brenda Shields (R-St. Joseph)
focuses on teachers struggling to reach students learning remotely
SE
Missourian: Cape School District works to keep non-wired kids
connected
SNL: A record 105 Missouri school districts - 20
percent - embrace four-day weeks
P-D endorsement: Deb Lavender (D) for Senate District
15
SE
Missourian editorial: What you need to know about voting in the
upcoming election
Joplin Globe editorial: Across all levels of
government, leaders should focus on saving lives - not politics
SNL op-ed: Gov. Jay Nixon and former Parks Director
Bill Bryan: Protect our Eleven Point State Park
KWMU's Becca Clark-Callender: Forward Through
Ferguson's report on the systemic racism of property taxes and
education funding is sobering and jarring
Columbia Missourian letter: Columbia octogenarian
wants Gov. Parson to force mask mandate
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Missourinet:
Pettis County clerk: 1,200 ballots remain missing in the mail
KC
Star: 4Star Politics show: Nicole Galloway criticizes Gov.
Parson over COVID response
P-D:
Ashcroft announces probe of complaint against Galloway
KCUR:
Profiles: Candidates for attorney general, secretary of state,
treasurer
KCUR:
Up to Date podcast: Q&A with AG candidate Rich Finneran (D)
KWMU:
Politically Speaking podcast: GOP state Senate candidate David
Lenihan talks with Jason Rosenbaum about campaign for Scott Sifton's
open seat, Medicaid expansion, charter schools, more
JCNT:
Political sign vandalism, theft reported locally
The
Missouri Times: KC-based Women's Foundation rebrands to "United
Women's Empowerment"; Comments from Gov. Mike Parson
KC
Star: Kansas City poll workers will earn higher stipend this year
JCNT:
Missouri state employees' efforts, service saluted
Missourinet:
Gov. Parson and first lady will continue to isolate this week;
Governor praises COVID dashboard expansion
JCNT:
Gov. Parson: New, more COVID-19 tests coming to state
The
Missouri Times: Missouri to receive more than 100,000 rapid
coronavirus tests from the federal government
Missourinet:
Missouri to receive 120,000 rapid COVID-19 tests this week
SE
Missourian: State tracking coronavirus data among school-aged
people
SNL:
Fewer calls means reduced hours for COVID-19 hotline; Line still
open from 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. seven days a week
KCUR:
DHSS to focus data-posting efforts on new dashboard, will rely less
upon social media
P-D:
Daily regional, state China virus update
The
Missouri Times: Missouri PSC amends in-person education
requirement amid coronavirus concerns
Missourinet:
Missouri Chamber to host annual Manufacturing Day event
SE
Missourian: Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft presents bicentennial
flag to Cape County officials
P-D
op-ed: Former Idaho Supreme Court justice: Hawley wrong on
Barrett, Obamacare
SE Missourian's
Jeff Long: The education of a November absentee voter
P-D
letter: Olivette sexagenarian expresses outrage over Blunt's
support of Barrett
P-D
letter: St. Louis sexagenarian says President Trump, Sens. Blunt
and Hawley, Gov. Parson are to blame for Missouri COVID deaths
P-D
letter: University City sexagenarian says Amendment 3 is designed
to trick voters
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