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Friday, September 29
P-D: Roy Blunt, Jason Smith join in bipartisan federal
push to grant address anonymity for victims of domestic abuse
AP:
Missouri officials push to expand address-secrecy program
The Missouri Times: Court to hear Missouri Alliance
for Freedom v. Galloway suit over Sunshine Law today
The Missouri Times: D.C.-based group calls for
criminal investigation into Humphreys' Paul Mouton
Kraske: Birthday wish list: On today's milestone
birthday, columnist hopes for Missouri campaign ethics overhaul, an end
to petition-initiative nonsense, and other reasonable asks
Drebes:
Greitens makes State Highways and Transportation appointments
The Missouri Times: Parson's 'Buy Missouri' plan puts
focus on local goods and services
Missourinet: Missouri officials want to eliminate all
traffic deaths; Pedestrian deaths on North St. Louis County road
an issue
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Missourian: 'Epidemic' of addicted, negligent parents puts
pressure on Missouri's juvenile courts +
P-D: Missouri auctions off three more planes for
nearly $200,000
CDT: University of Missouri curators are not counting
on state support for funding X
Columbia Missourian: UM System Board of Curators
approves culture-shifting plans
P-D: University of Missouri curators plan an overhaul
of governing rules
The Missouri Times: Renovate America's business
practices being looked at by FBI, SEC
Missourinet: Green lender that recently expanded in
Missouri under investigation by FBI and SEC
KWMU: Protesters congregate, add to list of
demands: Firing of union leader, resignation of mayor, etc.
P-D: Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City) says
protesters have caused city $11 million in economic losses, celebrates
damage: "That sounds effective to me."
P-D: Apple cider vinegar, milk of magnesia among
projectiles thrown at police during riots
KWMU: Protester profile series: Percy Green and
Cori Bush; Octogenarian, Lacy Clay primary opponent reflect on
1960s glory and current campaign, respectively
KWMU: Hawley wants independent counsel to investigate
dope peddler's death
Missourinet: Hawley's outside counsel to review
allegations involving drug dealer who pulled gun on cop
KWMU: Discretion, interpretation at heart of St. Louis
police use of force policy for protests
Washington Missourian editorial: Mea culpa: We
were wrong about term limits - they're terrible
P-D editorial: Independent probe is justified when
police fail to draw the line on abuses
Columbia Missourian's Tessa Weinberg: Greitens among
elected officials using Twitter's "block" tool to help avoid harassment
on personal accounts
P-D letter: Clayton woman suggests urban protesters
focus on improving their own community, not disrupting traffic in
Clayton
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Thursday, September 28
SNL: McCaskill, Blunt, Long team up to send Riverside
Bridge bill to President Trump X
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt prepare for work on GOP
tax plan
Missourinet: McCaskill requests answers about drastic
increases in ER billing rates
KCUR: McCaskill questions billing practices of company
that staffs area hospital ERs
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating:
McCaskill statement on paid maternity leave rated "True"
P-D's Chuck Raasch: Thoughts on McCaskill's
re-election and GOP's U.S. Senate primary field
SNL: Trump's August visit to Springfield cost
taxpayers less than $7,500 X
The Missouri Times: Missouri Chamber sues for right to
contribute to its own PAC
The Missouri Times: Federalist Society holds its first
meeting in Jefferson City
Drebes:
Shantel Smith to become new Legislative and Policy Director for
Missouri Dental Association; Katie Reichard to Missouri Coalition
for Community Behavioral Health
KWMU: Honoring Rev. Barry Lynn, the outgoing executive
director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
St. Louis Public Radio interview today, ceremony at Wash U. Oct. 1
The Missouri Times: Income tax cut starts first phase
Jan. 1
SNL: Banning passengers from drinking booze could free
up money for Missouri roads and bridges X
Missourinet: Missouri transportation conference
focuses on zero traffic deaths
The Missouri Times: Military veteran hopes state
officials will consider marijuana for PTSD symptoms, physical ailments
P-D: UMSL is 'alive and well' despite budget
challenges, chancellor says
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Sept. 27, 2017
KWMU: MacArthur Justice Center files suit against
Missouri Dept. of Corrections
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court hears arguments
over law allowing prior sex crimes to be used in new cases
Missourinet: Tyson Poultry pleads guilty to violating
Clean Water Act; 2014 incident killed 108,000 fish in southwest
Missouri
SNL: Tyson pleads guilty to Clean Water Act violations X
AP:
LGBTQIA* groups use transgender's death to rekindle hate-crime debate
AP:
St. Louis City asks for outside investigation of protest response
KWMU: Second suit filed over St. Louis police tactics
in protests; city asks feds to help investigate
KC Star editorial: Why KC's push to raise wages is a
better strategy than Trump's tax cut for businesses
P-D editorial: Economic inequality is the undercurrent
for the region's unrest; If handed higher wages, rioters would
surely act civilized
KC Star's Bryan Lowry: GOP Senate candidate Courtland
Sykes stokes anti-immigrant sentiment, promotes baseless conspiracy
theories
P-D letter: Natural Resources Defense Council's Ashok
Gupta says Ameren, other major utilities see the path forward on
renewable energy
P-D letter: Chesterfield man disagrees with Board of
Aldermen's decision to honor heroin dealer
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Wednesday, September 27
Missourinet: Blunt warns of growing opioid epidemic
SNL: Congressional staffer, Navy vet Courtland Sykes
announces GOP Missouri Senate run as 'political outsider' X
SNL: Austin Petersen says complaints about 'fascist'
Trump have receded X
KWMU: Convoy of old military vehicles is traveling
Route 66 to pay tribute to veterans
Drebes:
Greitens supporters should be disappointed in governor's lack of
follow-through
The Missouri Times: #moleg podcast: Chuck
Hatfield explains how campaign-contribution restrictions are making
candidates creative, pension crisis and state lawsuit audits
The Missouri Times: Humphreys consultant Paul Mouton
fined for acting as lobbyist without registering
The Missouri Times: Rep. Joe Adams (D-University City)
announces 2018 bid for Chappelle-Nadal's open Senate seat
The Missouri Times: Hawley announces campaign to fight
human trafficking in local businesses
JCNT: Businesses join Hawley's fight on
trafficking; Comments from Missouri Chamber's Dan Mehan, Missouri
American Water's Cheryl Norton X
Missourinet: Hawley calls trafficking an epidemic,
launches anti-trafficking business coalition
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating:
Feministing.com columnist's claim about abortion law given worst
possible rating: "Pants on Fire"
Missourinet: Fitzpatrick optimistic about plan to
preserve care for 8,000 disabled Missourians
Columbia Missourian: Mother of "accident-prone"
preteen girl enjoys CHIP coverage, hopes the ride doesn't end in March
AP:
Missouri Democrats unveil health care proposals
Missouri Viewpoints: Education episode: Robbyn
Wahby on the charter school debate; Missouri Online Summer
Institute's Mike Brown talks online-classes expansion, policy
CDT: University of Missouri office, dedicated to
keeping minority students from flunking out, changes its name X
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court issues quick
decision to suspend attorney over his own felony plea
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Department of
Conservation seeks input at forum X
P-D: Protesters block traffic downtown, again
KWMU: Out-of-town "documentary filmmakers" file suit
against St. Louis police after being detained during street riot
Clayton Times: Video: Agitators disrupt St.
Louis County Council meeting, complain about police success in shutting
down mall riot
KWMU: County Council calls for investigation into
police conduct during mall riot
P-D: Agitators attend County Council meeting, yell
catchphrases
KWMU: Deciphering protesters' demands, and what's
realistic
KC Star editorial: The state of Missouri owes Jackson
County more than $800,000. Please pay up.
P-D editorial: Ameren Missouri makes a timely, welcome
commitment to renewable energy
Helling: Cleaver, others trying to have it both ways
on hurricane relief and other horse-trading votes
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Citizens' Climate Lobby's
Robert Overmann: Left unaddressed, climate change will come for
Missouri
KWMU's Durrie Bouscaren: Area doctor wants Republicans
to expand Medicaid
P-D letter: St. Louis man says Post-Dispatch is too
hard on protesters
P-D letter: Washington man suggests that instead of
blocking streets and chanting catchphrases, protesters should try
volunteering to help children
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Tuesday, September 26
SNL: GOP Senate candidate Austin Petersen says AR-15
giveaway got him banned from Facebook X
Morning Consult's Eli Yokley: Sam Fox hosting
fundraiser for Josh Hawley, says AG will run for U.S. Senate
SNL: Sam Fox hosting fundraiser for Hawley X
KWMU: Mississippi River islands added to Great Rivers
National Wildlife Refuge
Drebes:
State auditor poll: A look at how Paul Curtman, Marsha Haefner,
Denny Hoskins, Kurt Schaefer, David Wasinger stack up against each other
The Missouri Times: Jacob Turk has enough signatures
to make 8th District Senate ballot
The Missouri Times: Top medicinal cannabis researcher
visits Jefferson City
Columbia Missourian: Politifact fact check:
Statement from Sen. Andrew Koenig (R-Manchester) on "first income tax
cut in 100 years" rated Mostly True
KWMU: Riverview Gardens school transfer program
dwindles
The Missouri Times: On TWIMP, House members question
KCI bid process
P-D: Ameren Missouri to spend $1 million on wind
generation projects
Missourinet: Ameren Missouri announces major move
toward renewable energy resources
KWMU: Ameren to generate more wind and solar
power; Sierra Club still not happy
CDT: Bruce Cole denied hearing in effort to overturn
Mamtek conviction X
KWMU: Hawley wants independent counsel to review
Anthony Smith civil suit
P-D: Protesters congregate outside Busch Stadium,
block traffic; Police stymie herd attempting to block highway
KWMU: Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City) promises
more headaches for area working people: "We will continue to
disturb your peace."
P-D: Protesters hold press conference to complain
about police tactics at Galleria mall riot
AP:
Urban leaders unhappy with fallout from weekend mall riot;
Protesters push "police riot" as alternative narrative for mob behavior
Missourinet: Rep. Stacey Newman (D-Richmond Heights),
others express anger over police success tamping down mall riot
The Missouri Times: Union leader Jeff Roorda says
urban pols are responsible for riots, street agitation
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Urban pols
weigh in on dope dealer death, ensuing riots
KWMU: Protesters' new demand: St. Louis City
interim police chief must go
SNL editorial: Federal lawmakers should follow state
example, protect domestic violence victims by protecting information X
P-D editorial: Police badge is not a license to
administer street justice
Columbia Missourian op-ed: MU ethnomusicology and
black studies prof Stephanie Shonekan: Caucasoids' racist
icebergs put black folks up against "a cold hard place"; Two
local black girls pulled over by officers, other bone-chilling
atrocities
The Missouri Times letter: Professional protesters are
asking Trump's EPA to dig up an entire landfill and haul it through
rural Missouri
P-D letter: Dellwood man says Board of Aldermen
resolution is a slap in the face to families affected by heroin
P-D letter: O'Fallon man scoffs at Board of Aldermen
honoring heroin peddler, wonders if city will create drug dealer hall
of fame
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Monday, September 25
KWMU: At St. Louis event, Bannon says Trump's biggest
enemy is GOP establishment
AP:
In St. Louis, Bannon takes aim at 'corrupt' GOP establishment
P-D: Bannon takes aim at 'liberal' GOP establishment
Missourinet: Congress under gun to renew four key
health programs that impact Missouri hospitals
CDT: Anti-Trump climate march draws nearly 30 in
Columbia
This Week in Missouri Politics: Union leader Jeff
Roorda talks about police officers' efforts to control riot mobs,
questions "colossal failure" Krewson and other pols who disregard rule
of law, more; Panel of Reps. Kathie Conway, Marsha Haefner, Peter
Merideth, Steve Roberts discuss dope dealer's death, Josh Hawley's
appetite for U.S. Senate race, KCI brouhaha, more
Drebes: Willis Jones opens Capitol City Research
office in Jefferson City
SNL: SOS Jay Ashcroft visits Harmony House, touts
state law to protect victims
Missourinet: State owes counties $19 million in jail
payments; Missouri sheriff feels the pain
P-D: Football fans fill dorms left empty at Mizzou
after enrollment drop
AP:
7 charged with rioting after protest in St. Louis County
KWMU: Day 9 after Stockley verdict: Protesters
show solidarity for those arrested
Columbia Missourian's Ken Midkiff: Citizens must be
vigilant over state boards, commissions
Columbia Missourian op-ed: MU romance language prof
Michael Ugarte: UM System should not have hired PR firm Edelman
after race agitation
Messenger: Letters from readers responding to police
chief 'help wanted' column
P-D letter: Wentzville man says Greitens should have
taken a harder line on rioters
KC Star letter: KC woman says state should ban dicamba
herbicide
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Sunday, September 24
Communist Party USA's People's World: Missouri's
Blaine Luetkemeyer, GOP colleagues kill payday loan bills
Drebes: Sen. Gary Romine (R-Farmington) sets up
leadership PAC
AP: Savings from four-day school week not as great as
expected
Reuters: Riots could derail St. Louis' bid for second
Amazon hub
P-D: Fighting for the narrative: St. Louis area
police use social media to set the record straight, correct protesters'
tales
Washington Missourian: Blood samples collected from
state park workers to check for tick disease; Bloodsucking
parasites cause untold damage to humans X
P-D: Rioters assault police officer, throw trash cans
at Galleria protest
P-D: Photo gallery: Rioters assault police
officers; Civilized patrons pick up trash cans thrown by
rioters; More
P-D: Video: Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis City)
delivers stump speech to protesters downtown, reads his professional
resume; Member of Democratic superminority claims he "makes laws"
KWMU: Police arrest 22 after riots at Galleria mall
SNL: State NAACP meeting features police chief, woman
who runs reading program for poor kids X
JCNT editorial: Greitens' handling of rioters much
better than Nixon's X
SNL op-ed: Before Maria Chappelle-Nadal and Warren
Love, there was Democrat Danny Staples - who suggested Lacy Clay's
tardiness was due to "stealing hubcaps" X
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Journalism students take
pictures of rioters destroying property, get detained by police for
several minutes - and live to tell the tale
P-D letter: University City septuagenarian applauds
Bernie Sanders' call for Medicare expansion
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Saturday, September 23
Branson News: Blunt wants Army Corps of Engineers to
suspend Table Rock Lake Shoreline Management Plan
Missourinet: McCaskill: More than 2.5 million
Missourians affected by Equifax hack
JCNT: Luetkemeyer visiting mid-Missouri next week X
KWMU: Join St. Louis on the Air for a live
recording: Nick Pistor discusses "Shooting Lincoln" on Sept. 27
Columbia Missourian: MU evaluating new Title IX
guidelines but no immediate changes expected
KC Star: McCaskill says DeVos' action makes coeds less
safe on campus
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of Sept. 17, 2017
Missourinet: Greitens headed on trade mission to the
Orient
KWMU: Galloway's K-12 cybersecurity initiative, two
years later
Columbia Missourian: House committee irked by
governor's funding method for drug monitoring program
CDT: Inching forward: More Missouri cities,
counties monitoring painkillers X
P-D: Planned Parenthood asks Supreme Court to
intervene in effort to expand abortion access in Missouri
Drebes:
State issues RFP for annual external quality review of Managed Care
Programs
Brownfield Ag News: Taiwan letters of intent signed
with Missouri ag department
KC Star: Missouri prisons to go smoke-free as
double-murderer wins in court
SNL: MO Dept. of Conservation says black bears are
preparing for period of dormancy; Humans must avoid dispensing
free food, as wild animals will become reliant upon handouts X
KWMU: Agitators attempt disruption at St. Charles'
Oktoberfest, smash car windows with black-liberation flag; St.
Charles residents stand up to rioters, jeer "moment of silence"
P-D: Photo gallery: Mob attacks cars driven by
white people, breaks windshields
P-D: Video: Woman with bullhorn vows to not let
Oktoberfest attendees have fun
KWMU: New round of race riots means more political
competition for limelight
KWMU: St. Louis Board of Aldermen honor heroin dealer
Missourinet: ACLU sues City of St. Louis, claims
protesters were mistreated
KWMU: ACLU of Missouri sues St. Louis police over
protest tactics
P-D: Several people swept up in protest crowd Sunday
night complain about police tactics
P-D editorial: Hawley residency hubbub is silly;
Legislators should broaden law
Washington Missourian editorial: Hardly doom and gloom
at Mizzou X
Fulton Sun op-ed: State Treasurer Eric Schmitt:
Sanders, Churchill and the battle for economic freedom
KWMU's Durrie Bouscaren: GOP health care bill would
gut funding for those in need
West Plains Daily Quill op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's
Dan Cassidy: Rural broadband poised for success
CDT Editor Charles Westmoreland: Trib Talk is
repugnant, but I can't kill it yet - so here are some new rules X
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Friday, September 22
Missourinet: McCaskill, Blunt prepare for vote on GOP
health care plan
SNL: Bernie Sanders talks war on terror, climate
change and inequality during Missouri speech
X
Missourinet: Sanders emphasizes diplomacy during
Missouri lecture
Missourinet: Full audio: Bernie Sanders at
Westminster College
CDT: Sanders stresses diplomacy, cooperation over
military might X
CDT: Photo gallery: Bernie Sanders speech:
Young man wears "Make America Great Again" hat and Trump jersey, more X
KWMU: St. Charles County businesses, property owners
enjoy population boom; Area features state's second-largest GOP
voting block, 88% white population, no MetroLink
The Missouri Times: Assessing Jacob Turk's chances in
8th Senate district special election; Thoughts from Palm
Strategic's Jonathan Ratliff
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Monroe City Mayor Neal Minor
running for Lindell Shumake's House seat
SE
Missourian: Anne Limbaugh, wife of former Judge Stephen N.
Limbaugh, dies; Reflections from Peter Kinder, former state Rep.
Mary Kasten +
CDT: Aging election equipment comes with estimated $1
million replacement price tag X
The Missouri Times: Missouri's unique Corporate
Apportionment laws may help provide the 'stable, business-friendly
environment' Amazon wants
SNL: 'Let's work together,' state school board member
Peter Herschend says to Greitens X
Columbia Missourian: UM System hired top-tier PR firm
Edelman after race agitation of 2015
The Missouri Times: Commissioners say Missouri is
falling behind in reimbursing counties for jail per diems
The Missouri Times: Missouri, Alabama natural gas
companies become Spire
Missourinet: Despite bipartisan agreement among group
of state lawmakers, KC City Council OKs airport plan
CDT: Columbia School Board members will be required to
sit through "equity" and "inclusion" lectures
X
P-D: Local students earn Missouri AP award for
2017; Minority students Haran Kumar, Lucy Zhu choose to work
hard, achieve success
KWMU: HUD Secretary Ben Carson calls for peaceful
resolution of protests
KWMU: 'White allies' hold separate-but-equal
rally; Caucasoids unironically chant "No justice, no concerts!"
whilst concert takes place
AP:
'White allies' rally outside Billy Joel concert; Zero broken
windows or assaults on police reported
P-D: Protesters fail to shut down Billy Joel
concert; Separate group marches through Cheshire Hotel during
work day, bangs on guests' doors
KWMU: Civil rights leaders gather at forums, complain
about police and Krewson
P-D editorial: State agencies spend twice what was
reported to settle legal disputes. What are they hiding?
SE
Missourian editorial: Cape, Jackson make right decision to pay
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KC Star's Melinda Henneberger: 'Shouty old man' Bernie
Sanders still stokes Missouri students' passions
Messenger: From the streets to the pulpit: There
can be no peace without justice
KC Star's Jason Hancock: How has Greitens' handling of
St. Louis riots matched campaign rhetoric? Follow-up to theme explored
earlier in week by The Missouri Times, KWMU, AP, P-D
KC Star letter: Kansas sexagenarian dislikes how
Greitens talks about rioters
P-D letter: St. Louis man mocks urban legislators who
play protest superhero for TV and social media fame
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Thursday, September 21
Missourinet: No tickets left for today's Bernie
Sanders lecture in Fulton
SNL: Blunt, Greitens support new Obamacare repeal
Talking Points Memo: McCaskill's path to re-election
more complicated thanks to race riots; Liberals want senior
senator to more visibly side with protesters over police
SNL: Aaron Hedlund eyes Senate race even as D.C.
conservatives warn him to go easy on Josh Hawley
CDT: Hawley vote was legal in August special election
P-D: Hawley cleared over residency questions
SNL: FCC chair, Billy Long talk Internet in Ozark
SNL: Billy Long protects Springfield district staff by
using locks on office doors
SNL: Springfield veterans cemetery gets millions in
grant money to expand; Comments from McCaskill
CDT: Local groups afraid they'll get less money for
utility-assistance programs under Trump
Daily
American Repubic: Carter County says FEMA will cover only 50
percent of flood repairs
Drebes:
Democrat Sam Gladney to run for Stacey Newman's safe Dem seat
Missourinet: Rep. Paul Fitzwater (R-Potosi) to resign
to take patrol board post
Missourinet: Transportation task force meets in
Kirksville; Comments from Chairman Kevin Corlew (R-Kansas City),
MoDOT's Patrick McKenna
SNL: Missouri school board not in 'any rush' to
replace commissioner
CDT: University of Missouri enrollment figures show
decline
Columbia Missourian: Mizzou to hand out college credit
hour for students who sit through racism lectures
SNL: MSU boasts largest freshman class since mid-1990s
P-D: St. Louis City circuit attorney asks state's help
prosecuting traffic tickets in legal limbo
Missourinet: Missouri state park workers being tested
for tick-borne virus; Blood-sucking parasites cause headaches and
fatigue
KWMU: Protesters say they used Clayton as "decoy,"
move disruption to Galleria mall
P-D: Protesters block Brentwood Boulevard near
Galleria during rush hour, disrupt commute of working people
AP:
Galleria escapes violence, vandalism at mall protest
AP:
Analysis: Greitens' handling of St. Louis riots
P-D: Pi Pizzeria owner takes on police union and "Blue
Lives Matter fanboy(s)"
P-D: Reporter-support series: Post-Dispatch
demands charges be dropped against reporter covering protest
KWMU: Protester-support series: ACLU's Jeffery
Mittman offers tips on how to disturb the peace while avoiding arrest
Missourinet: More Missouri school districts going to
four-day weeks
KC Star editorial: Missouri spends millions of
taxpayer dollars on legal expenses with no system to track the payments
SNL editorial: Greitens must answer on education board
moves
P-D editorial: Greitens stumbles in bid to politicize
the state education board
KC Star letter: KC man offended by St. Louis police
chief comments, want department control returned to state
P-D letter: St. Louis man responds to Messenger piece,
asks why columnist lives in safe municipality with 2% black population
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Wednesday, September 20
P-D: GOP seeks to influence McCaskill, other Dems on
Graham-Cassidy health care proposal
St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt, GOP leaders back new
health bill
P-D: Mayor Lyda Krewson calls interim police chief's
anti-riot remarks "inflammatory" but stands by him
KWMU: Krewson postpones town hall meeting
Clayton Times: Clayton Police Department ready in case
rioters attack city taxpayers, businesses
KWMU: Protesters set up encampment outside of St.
Louis City jail
KWMU: Business leaders assess riots' economic damage
to St. Louis
P-D: Black Lives Matter stickers used to agitate
restaurant owners through "Whites Only" message
P-D: Pi Pizzeria owner mocks police tactical gear,
calls officers "dimwits" - then deletes his Twitter account
KWMU editor Shula Neuman: Newsroom rules:
Reporters should avoid using words favored by police and taxpayers
(e.g. "agitators," "riots," "looting," "thugs") to avoid offending
thuggish looting and rioting agitators
Jensen:
Reimagining Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" as "All About The
Race"; Perpetually-offended crowd ignores facts surrounding
dope-dealer death, would rather cry racism
The Missouri Times: Missouri AFL-CIO's Mike
Louis: Submitting petitions "best day I ever had"
Missourinet: Hawley's office to investigate Equifax
data breach
AP:
Third Greitens appointee to board of education withdraws
Missourinet: Missouri Board of Education proposes $6.1
billion for next fiscal year
KWMU: DESE requests nearly $100M more for school next
year
Columbia Missourian: Minorities potentially
discriminated against in Title IX processes
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Moberly Area Community College
and and Missouri Dept. of Higher Education reach memorandum of
understanding
Missourinet: Transportation task force gathers in
Kirksville today
Missourinet: Missouri state trooper sentenced for 2014
drowning case at Lake of the Ozarks
KC Star: Trooper gets 10 days 'shock time' in Brandon
Ellingson drowning
P-D: Missouri trooper gets 10 days 'shock time' plus
two years probation in handcuffed drowning death
JCNT: Dept. of Corrections employee gets $1.97M in
harassment case
The Missouri Times: Agenda items from canceled
Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee near automatic approval
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: September 19, 2017
The Missouri Times: Bipartisan group of lawmakers
question KCI bid handling
P-D editorial: The protests are about police abuse.
The response must not be more abuse.
KC
Star editorial: "Whose streets? Our streets" chant okay for
protesters, must not be spoken by law enforcement
St.
Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri utilities require scrutiny
KC
Star letter: KC woman mocks faux-diversity posturing of
anti-DeVos employees at KC school
P-D letter: St. Louis man hopes for more riots, says
peace is too much to ask from the oppressed
P-D letter: St. Charles man wonders why black pastors
don't focus on daily black-on-black murder
P-D letter: Kirkwood woman tired of Post-Dispatch's
cheerleading of rioters
P-D letter: Creve Coeur man suggests criminals stop
running from police
P-D letter: Webster Groves woman dislikes
Post-Dispatch's promotion of street savagery
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Tuesday, September 19
The
Missouri Times: Ferguson vs. Stockley riots: How Greitens'
campaign promises are holding up
The
Missouri Times: Police vs. rioters: Whose side are
legislators on? Thoughts from union leader Jeff Roorda, St. Louis
City Dem Reps. Bruce Franks and Peter Merideth
P-D:
Protesters unhappy with police tactics used to herd, corral criminals
P-D:
Protesters, sympathizers outraged by police officers' trolling
chant: "Whose streets? Our streets!"
Messenger:
St. Louis City needs a new police chief; Some chanting required
P-D:
Weekend of riots takes economic toll on St. Louis
KWMU:
St. Louis on the Air: Black police group complains about Stockley
verdict
KWMU:
Day 4: Business clean up after rioters' destruction, students
seize opportunity to skip class
KWMU:
Rainfall keeps rioters at bay Monday night
P-D:
Monday pics: Protesters block streets to keep working people from
getting to their jobs; Rainfall keeps nighttime rioters at
bay; More
Missourinet:
AG Josh Hawley: "Violence is not protected by the First Amendment"
Columbia
Missourian: Minority students sound off on DACA at forum;
Latina coed complains about dearth of Latina "authority figures," other
travesties
JCNT:
McCaskill seeks postal service answers X
KWMU:
Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Rob Vescovo (R-Jefferson
County) talks to Mannies & Rosenbaum about urban riots and
legislative response, 'right to work' and other
anti-union/worker-freedom laws, more
Drebes: Jacob Turk
could play spoiler in Mike Cierpiot's Senate election
SNL:
Greitens swaps out appointees on education board X
CDT:
Race was most talked-about concern in MU 2016 campus climate
survey; Some white students provide counter-argument to
"diversity" dogma X
Missourinet:
Galloway: Lawsuits, settlements against state have cost $115
million
JCNT:
Galloway: State's legal expense fund fails to ID costs X
The
Missouri Times: Clean Line asks for rehearing from Missouri PSC
KWMU:
As harvest season begins, farmers worry how dicamba herbicide could
affect next year's crop
P-D
editorial: Mayhem is not a plan. Protesters need to outline their
goals.
SNL
editorial: Greitens must answer on education board moves X
KC
Star op-ed: Lessons from DeVos' visit to a KC school with
gender-bender bathrooms, farm-to-table lunches
SNL
letter: Mountain View sexagenarian couple dislikes Jason Smith's
fiscal ideology, says incumbent - re-elected by fifty-one (51) point
margin - should be booted next year X
St.
Joseph News-Press letter: St. Joseph man wants legislators to
raise taxes to pay for smorgasboard of programs X
KC
Star letter: Independence man perturbed by St. Louis urbanites
rioting over dope-dealer death
P-D
letter: Ballwin man wonders why angry black pastor doesn't
encourage constructive behavior
P-D
letter: St. Louis man wonders why protesters don't stop tantruming
P-D
letter: Florissant man suggests that illegal protest actions be
treated like the crimes they are
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Monday, September 18
P-D: St. Louis Riots of 2017, Day 3: Urban
terrorists continue property-destruction spree; More than 80
arrested
KWMU: Riot coverage, Day 3: Mob trespasses on
SLU's campus, destroys property downtown
AP:
Rioters engage in third day of destruction
Belleville News-Democrat: Headed to downtown St. Louis
today? Expect to deal with protesters disrupting people who work for a
living.
KMOV: Police chief: "We're in control, this is
our city and we will protect it."
KMOV: Rioters throw chemicals on police officers
KMOV: Mob surrounds police vehicle after arrests
Rosenbaum: For Greitens and Krewson, riots put
campaign promises to the test
P-D: St. Louis City pastor celebrates impact of mayhem
with catchphrases: "You kill our kids, we'll kill your economy"
and "Resistance closes businesses, closes streets, closes malls."
KWMU: Delmar Loop businesses clean up after riot mob's
destruction
P-D: Greitens: 'You break a window, you're going
to be behind bars.'
P-D: Legal experts: Stockley verdict not a
surprise
P-D: Dept. of Justice won't prosecute Stockley for
civil rights violation
KC Star: As McCaskill touts record on seniors, donor
and family friend runs troubled homes
This Week in Missouri Politics: AFL-CIO's Mike
Louis; Panel of Rep. Kirk Mathews (R-Pacific), Jim Lembke, JP
Johnson, and NAACP's Jimmy Loomis talk Chappelle-Nadal and Warren Love,
Stockley verdict (pre-riots), 'right to work,' more
Columbia Missourian: Retired MU political science prof
David Webber debuts play to encourage citizens to 'Practice Democracy'
St. Joseph News-Press: Locals walk state of Missouri
to raise money for veterans X
P-D: Missouri schools may be losing out in flawed
Lottery contract
St. Joseph News-Press: MoDOT encourages Missourians to
complete 10-minute online survey X
CDT: Changes proposed to improve water quality of
Missouri lakes X
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri State Highway Patrol
troopers to carry Narcan X
Columbia Missourian: Politifact check: NAACP
complaint about traffic stops rated "Half True"
P-D editorial: Greitens' task force overlooks
immigrant entrepreneurs at its own peril
P-D letter: Ian Mackey, Democratic candidate for
Stacey Newman's seat, criticizes Republicans for in-home care cuts
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Sunday, September 17
P-D:
St. Louis Riots of 2017, Day 2: Urban terrorists break windows,
assault police in Delmar Loop
P-D:
Photo gallery: Protesters throw paint on police; Squat
woman throws trash can through window, gets tear-gassed; Adults
take out anger on Delmar trash cans, storefront windows; More
P-D:
Video: Police attempt to corral pack of protesters; Pastor
tries using logic to convince rioters to stop destroying
property; View of vandalized storefronts
P-D:
Metro shuts down service to Delmar Loop after riots
KTVI:
Rioters breaks windows, throw paint at police officers
KTVI:
Protesters to reconvene today for another round of "peaceful"
demonstrations
KMOV:
Mob of protesters vandalize businesses, assault police in Delmar Loop
KMOV:
Photos: Stores heavily damaged after protesters clash with police
in Delmar Loop
KSDK:
Rioters damage 23 businesses in Delmar Loop
AP:
Rioters enjoy second night of destroying others' property, assaulting
police
KWMU:
Second day of riots brings more assaults on police officers, more
businesses damaged
KWMU:
Rioters convince U2, Ed Sheeran and St. Louis Symphony to cancel shows
P-D:
Analysis: A breakdown of the judge's ruling in Jason Stockley
murder case
KC
Star: Celebration of life for longtime Democratic consultant
Steve Glorioso set for Sept. 20
The
Missouri Times: Rep. John McCaherty (R-High Ridge) resigns his
seat, shifts focus to Jefferson County exec race
P-D:
McCaherty resigns, focuses on county exec race
SNL:
'Abortion is violence' display coming to MSU
Columbia
Missourian: Q&A with Ken Burton: Columbia police chief
talks AG's "profiling" numbers, futility of attempting to reason with
race agitators, more
P-D
editorial: Destroying public libraries, other uncivilized
behavior undermines protesters' objectives
Washington
Missourian editorial: Legislators should prioritize the funding
of in-home care next session
P-D
editorial briefs: Chappelle-Nadal's well-deserved
punishment; Rappelling stunt is classic Greitens grandstanding
and hotdogging
P-D
letter: Festus man appreciates Post-Dispatch's criticism of black
clergy agitation
SNL
letter: Area sexagenarian dislikes the way Trump talks about
liberal media
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Saturday, September 16
P-D: Rioters terrorize St. Louis City after Stockley
ruling; Photo of mob burning American flag, more
P-D: Rioters injure 9 police officers, break windows
at mayor's home
KWMU: Riot updates: Mob breaks windows at city
public library, restaurants
KSDK's Casey Nolen: Rioters take aim at St. Louis City
public library
P-D: Video: Mob surrounds TV reporter, throws
water on him; Vociferous mob member unironically eschews media
coverage: "Get da f@ck out of my movement, mothaf@cker! And I'm
<unintelligible> in yo mothaf@ckin' face!" (0:50)
KTVI: Mob threatens Caucasoid male reporter, female
videographer
KMOV: Video: Mob surrounds Krewson's home,
throws rocks and red paint
P-D: Judge's ruling in Stockley case (pdf)
P-D: A breakdown of the judge's ruling in the Stockley
case
P-D: Acquitted officer Stockley: "Everyone wants
someone to blame, but I'm just not the guy"
The Missouri Times: Elected officials' communications
staffers pen statements on Stockley case
KWMU: Collection of elected officials' Stockley/riot
statements written by communications staffers
Missourinet: Father of police assailant Michael Brown
weighs in on Stockley ruling
Columbia Missourian: Black students congregate to
complain about justice system; "Social inequalities" prof, others
unhappy that administration didn't protest verdict
JCNT: Area law enforcement don't anticipate Stockley
riots locally
KC Star: At Betsy DeVos visit, school offered students
"safe room" to hide in if they felt intimidated by Republican woman's
presence
SNL: Greitens' Board of Education nominee Missy Gelner
says governor no longer wanted her to serve, says she was pressured to
make "rash leadership decisions"
The Missouri Times: Kehoe, Hoskins lead effort to ask
for Chappelle-Nadal resignation
CDT: Federal appeals court blocks order to license
Missouri abortion clinics
The Missouri Times: Office of Public Counsel alleges
Empire Electric lost $100 million due to risky practices
The Missouri Times: Judge blocks activists from
returning to West Lake Landfill
P-D editorial: Reasonable doubt set Stockley free.
Reasonable outrage is the result.
KC Star editorial: Is your doctor struggling with
addiction? Missouri should do more to answer that question
Helling: Political consultant Steve Glorioso was the
essential Kansas Citian
Phill Brooks: An unusual summer for the Missouri
Legislature
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: At DeVos visit, students'
passive-aggressive signs make a big difference
P-D letter: Peace Economy Project's Jason
Sibert: Missouri GOP congressional delegation should stop
supporting defense spending
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Friday, September 15 Stockley
verdict in: Not guilty
KC Star: Longtime political consultant Steve Glorioso
dies at 70
TonysKansasCity.com: Local pols remember Steve
Glorioso; Collection of local media coverage, reflections
TonysKansasCity.com: Top contenders to 'take the
crown' of Steve Glorioso
Kraske: Ethics complaint could derail Platte County
Prosecutor Eric Zahnd's career - and potential appointment as U.S.
Attorney
Reuters: McCaskill, other senators criticize fraud in
'Obamaphone' program
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating: Blunt's
statements on rural broadband rated "True"
Columbia Missourian: Politifact rating: Lacy
Clay's legal assessment of Maria Chappelle-Nadal's assassination
comment rated "Half True"
KC Star: Antifa vs. pro-America activists: A
look at open-carry laws and enforcement at protests
P-D: Judge decries 'gamesmanship' among Phyllis
Schlafly's warring children, denies restraining order
Drebes:
Lobbyists hold annual meeting, elect AT Strategies' Shannon Hawk as
president
Missourinet: Hawley: Missouri recovers more than
$2.6 million in Medicaid fraud payments
JCNT: State retirement package faces changes X
The Missouri Times: Security measures and governor's
PDMP called into question in House Budget Committee
AP:
Greitens, lawmakers clash on money for prescription program
P-D: Lawmakers urge Greitens to rein in budget changes
Missourinet: Fitzpatrick: Lawmakers to seek
solution to in-home care funding
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Tim Remole (R-Excello) talks
House effort to restore in-home care funding
P-D: State audit of effort to keep Rams in St. Louis
in limbo; Fitzpatrick says Galloway dropped the ball
The Missouri Times: Rep. Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis
City) critical of Greitens' riot prep, claims governor got handsy at
clergy-placation meeting
KWMU: St. Louis City prepares for riots in wake of
Stockley verdict; Greitens activates National Guard, widow urges
protesters to behave in civilized manner
P-D: St. Louis region braces for rioters' behavior
after court ruling
P-D: Catholic schools in St. Louis City cancel classes
today to protect children from possible street savagery
Missourinet: Greitens moves to protect property,
law-abiding Missourians from potential hooliganism
KSDK: Station's coverage pledge: Cover trial
fallout while keeping its employees safe from rioters' violence
The Missouri Times: U.S. Chamber ratings give Missouri
low marks for legal climate; Assessment does not include new laws
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri Supreme
Court: Week of September 11, 2017
Washington Missourian: Washington High School students
top Missouri ACT average; Principal commends kids, teachers for
working hard X
SNL: MSU overtakes Mizzou as No. 1 choice among
Missouri ACT test-takers X
P-D: Northwest Missouri State University hops on
free-tuition-for-poor-kids bandwagon
SE
Missourian: Missouri Dept. of Conservation agents help fight
fires in western U.S. +
SNL editorial: Roy Blunt is right: National
Guard spending is wise investment X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: State Treasurer Eric
Schmitt is correct to warn about state pension crisis X
KC Star editorial: Mizzou's struggles could spell
opportunity for UMKC
P-D editorial: Black clergy who tacitly encourage
violence are not true leaders
Washington Missourian's Bill Miller: Hazardous waste
storage; Feds, state demand notification of potential issues but
don't offer same courtesy to local governments
X
Waters: Finally, more abortion-shopping choices in
Missouri; Voters should start terminating pro-life legislators at
the ballot box X
Columbia Missourian's George Kennedy: MU's climate is
challenged, but changing
SE
Missourian letter: Cape Girardeau septuagenarian uphappy with
Jason Smith's vote on Harvey disaster aid +
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Thursday, September 14
Columbia Missourian: Graduate students hold DACA
protest
Columbia Missourian: Photo: Man with college
degree calls GOP congressional offices to complain about DACA, thinks
it matters
KC Star: Unions, anti-Trump groups to protest Betsy
DeVos appearance in KC
The Missouri Times: Dan Wibracht, who ran in
Democratic primary against Courtney Curtis, to run again in different
district
JCNT: Rep. Sara Walsh (R-Ashland) takes House oath X
The Missouri Times: Senate censures Chappelle-Nadal,
but leaves door open for later expulsion
SNL: Chappele-Nadal, Love dodge explusion for Facebook
posts, but will face more scrutiny X
KWMU: Chappelle-Nadal's punishment: A written
reprimand
AP:
Chappelle-Nadal censured over Trump assassination post
Missourinet: Additional attempts expected to oust
Chappelle-Nadal, restore elderly budget cuts
Missourinet: Matter of Warren Love's Facebook post
referred to House Ethics Committee; Comments from House
Superminority Leader Gail McCann Beatty (D-Kansas City)
P-D: Veto session: Chappelle-Nadal censure vote,
in-home care cuts debate
The Missouri Times: House votes to not override HCB3
veto
The Missouri Times: Republican leadership to look for
solution to in-home care cuts
Missourinet: Another attempt underway to restore cuts
to Missouri's seniors and disabled
AP:
GOP lawmakers pledge to find way to restore in-home care cuts
SNL: Legislators allow nursing-care cuts to stand X
SNL: Video: Dem, GOP legislators talk in-home
care cuts X
SNL: Rep. Crystal Quade (D-Springfield) given "vice
chair" title in Democratic superminority caucus X
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers back to drawing board
in funding in-home health care
The Missouri Times: Committee approves application to
name bridge, 3 roadways
Missourinet: Schmitt: State pension system fails
to meet funding estimates by $5.2 billion
AP:
Schmitt says pensions underfunded by $5 billion
KC Star: Satanists lead the fight on behalf of Planned
Parenthood in Missouri
Missourinet: Clean energy industry says jobs are on
the rise in Missouri; Comments from Environment Entrepreneurs'
spokesman Tony Wyche
KC Star: #1 college choice for Missouri high school
grads? Missouri State, not Mizzou
KC Star editorial: State should hold more panel
meetings, spend more money on olds
KC Star editorial: Have you paid a traffic ticket in
Missouri? The state could end up owing you money
P-D letter: Florissant man says state, MoDOT are
always begging for more taxpayer money
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Wednesday, September 13
The Missouri Times: Al Franken to headline Missouri
Democrats' annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, rebranded "Truman Dinner"
KWMU: Area liberals unhappy with Trump's focus on
voter fraud; Comments from Denise Lieberman, et al.
Missourinet: State Treasurer Eric Schmitt pens piece
in support of Trump tax cuts
The Missouri Times: New poll sees Greitens' approval
rate slip from 53 percent to 49 percent
SNL: Unions pour big bucks into "CLEAN Missouri"
ballot initiative campaign X
The Missouri Times: Caleb Arthur pulls out of GOP
primary for Bob Dixon's Senate seat
The Missouri Times: Lincoln Hough jumps into GOP
primary for Bob Dixon's Senate seat
SNL: Hough shifts focus to different Senate race X
The Missouri Times: Republicans pick Rep. Elijah Haahr
(R-Springfield) to be next Speaker of the House
SNL: Elijah Haahr is GOP colleagues' pick to be next
Speaker of the House X
P-D: Republicans select Elijah Haahr as next Speaker
of the House
AP:
Missouri Republicans choose Haahr to be next House Speaker
KWMU: Elijah Haahr to be Speaker of the House
beginning in 2019
KWMU: House Democratic superminority members Joe Adams
(D-University City) and Stacey Newman (D-Richmond Heights) say GOP
won't call special session or override any of Greitens' vetoes
The Missouri Times: Galloway's office announces audit
of Rams after two-year wait
SNL: MOSERS buyout plan calls for half of eligible
members to take offer, saving $100 million X
The Missouri Times: Planned Parenthood expansion
efforts face opposition after court ruling
AP:
Planned Parenthood to begin terminating pregnancies in Kansas City,
Columbia
SE
Missourian: Summit at Show-Me Center focuses on opioid
crisis; Comments from DHSS' Randall Williams, others +
Missourinet: Senate Economic Development Committee
Chair Jay Wasson (R-Nixa) bullish on Amazon
KC Star: Pros and cons for Amazon choosing Kansas
City, and why the dream could backfire
CDT: Survey: University of Missouri staff do not
feel valued X
Columbia Missourian: Campus climate survey shows MU
community isn't as comfortable as national average
KC Star: UMKC to host "Know Your Rights Day" for
youth; Organizer says, "We don't want there to be a Ferguson in
KC;" Lessons to include how to not assault police officers
SNL: Lawmakers mull statewide charter school expansion X
Drebes: St. Louis Regional Chamber event champions
early education; Speakers include former reporter Nancy Cambria,
whose job was eliminated by Post-Dispatch this year
Missourinet:
Missouri Supreme Court reverses awards given in Workers' Compensation
case over grisly experiences
Missourinet: Bill from Rep. Nick Schroer (R-O'Fallon)
would raise age of juvenile court jurisdiction
JCNT: Advocates push raising age of juveniles in court
system X
AP:
Missouri public defender disciplined for neglecting clients;
Columbia's Karl Hinkebein blamed heavy workload, unnamed illness for
his choices
KWMU: Greitens names panel to examine new DNA evidence
in Marcellus Williams' stabbing/throat-slashing murder case
SNL: Veteran blogger Randy Turner says man knocked on
his door, then punched him in the face X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Clean Line Energy's
limited options X
SNL letter: Springfield man responds to SNL's DACA
coverage, says McCaskill and Blunt should support real Americans and
not illegals X
KC Star letter: Raytown woman with handicapped mom
opposes cuts to in-home care
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Tuesday, September 12
KMOX: McCaskill, Blunt communications staff pen
bosses' emotional reflections on 9/11
KWMU: DACA advocacy/illegal-immigrant profile:
St. Louis City high school girl who snuck into the U.S. from Honduras
Missourinet: Federal agency holding conference in
Kansas City on homelessness in region
Missourinet: Former state Rep. Mike "Coach" Lair's
funeral is today in Jefferson City
Faughn: Rocky Miller chose his business over politics,
and we should all thank him; Thoughts on how keeping
Chappelle-Nadal around helps Republicans, and more
The Missouri Times: If Todd Richardson isn't taking on
Nicole Galloway for state auditor, then which Republican will?
The Missouri Times: St. Louis, Kansas City expected to
be among cities competing for Amazon headquarters project
KWMU: Greitens meets with clergy as St. Louis region
awaits Stockley verdict
P-D: Greitens meets with clergy as wait for Stockley
verdict continues
AP:
Greitens: Rights of peaceful protesters will be protected
KC Star: Video: Greitens attends PBR event in
Springfield, basks in spotlight whilst rappelling onto arena floor
SNL: Veto session preview: Activists gather to
complain about in-home cuts, swap tales of woe; legislators
contemplate Chappelle-Nadal and Warren Love; More X
P-D: Lawmakers set to meet for first time since social
media controversies, health care cuts
SE
Missourian: Wallingford: Expulsion unlikely for
Chappelle-Nadal +
P-D: If Chappelle-Nadal resigns, she would keep her
state pension; if not, she may lose it
The Missouri Times: Questions about Capitol security
appropriation could be answered in upcoming Budget Committee hearing
KWMU: Greitens' 'NoMoRedTape.com" crowdsources policy
ideas
KWMU: State, federal agencies can help stem gun
violence, but St. Louis City bears responsibility
KWMU: Planned Parenthood to offer abortions in KC,
Columbia
Drebes:
Eddy Justice jumping in with both feet to his new role on State Board
of Education
Missourinet: Charter school expansion arguments to
return to Missouri Capitol today
P-D: Wash U., SLU move up in U.S. News rankings, while
state schools drop down
KC Star: UMKC gets poor marks in diversity
study; Employees unhappy about low salary, perceived
discrimination, etc.
CDT: Committee will consider renaming Columbia's Lee
Elementary; Diversity Awareness Partnership regional manager says
she tries to "protect" daughter from U.S. X
KWMU: Federal grant to help 3 St. Louis-area districts
try to teach Engligh to foreigners; Ritenour School District has
highest percentage of non-English-speaking students
SE
Missourian: Ameren Missouri workers sent to Florida to help ease
power outages +
KC Star editorial: Shame on Missouri Republicans for
voting against Harvey relief bill
Washington Missourian editorial: Greitens should call
for a special session X
P-D letter: Sen. Jill Schupp (D-Creve Coeur):
Best path to restore in-home cuts is to override Greitens' veto
P-D letter: Rock Hill man says black clergy's threats
of violence are reprehensible
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Monday, September 11
Missourinet: McCaskill emphasizes importance of Fort
Leonard Wood hospital and airline service
CDT: DACA supporters rally against Trump's "racist
ideology;" Thoughts from Mexican woman who snuck across the
border as a young chica X
Columbial Missourian: Illegal aliens, supporters rally
at courthouse; Leaders tell crowd that contacting state and local
elected officials will influence federal immigration policy
The Missouri Times: #moleg Podcast: Scott
Charton talks with hosts Scott Faughn and Becky Lohmann about media vs.
Trump and how social media has changed political interactions
This Week in Missouri Politics: Reps. Alan Green,
Crystal Quade, Becky Ruth, John Wiemann talk state auditor's race, veto
session, Maria Chappelle-Nadal and Warren Love, more
Drebes:
Missouri Chamber of Commerce hires Justin Arnold as new general counsel
Missourinet: Perpetual Medicaid debate to continue
into 2018 legislative session
KWMU: Satanic Temple challenges 72-hour abortion
waiting period
KC Star: Planned Parenthood to resume abortion
services at midtown Kansas City clinic
Sikeston Standard Democrat: Infant death rate in
Bootheel is cause for concern; September declared Infant
Mortality Awareness Month +
P-D: MoDOT: Getting better gas mileage could
result in paying more for license plates
Missourinet: State agency wants public defender
disciplined; Man blames poor performance on caseload, unnamed
illness
P-D editorial: State legislators - from the mid-1990s
to the present - to blame for black students' poor peformance;
Spending more money on in-school health care will totally make a
difference
Messenger: Missouri should enact former State
Treasurer Clint Zweifel's "Missouri Promise" for free college
P-D letter: Obamacare recipient unhappy about Anthem's
decision to withdraw from marketplace
P-D letter: Mid-East Area Agency on Aging's Mary
Schaefer: State can preserve vital services for senior citizens
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Sunday, September 10
KC Star: KC police disarm Antifa, other groups at
Washington Square rally
Tony's Kansas City: KC socialists outnumbered by
police at protest
Tony's Kansas City: Roundup of KC alt-left socialist
protest photos, news coverage
SNL: DACA supporters hold signs near Battlefield Mall X
St. Joseph News-Press: DACA decision could have
consequences for local aliens
Drebes:
Mizzou prof Aaron Hedlund, contemplating bid for GOP U.S. Senate
primary bid, pens tax-overhaul piece for National Review
P-D: Greitens touts job training, larger innovation
fund as economic strategy comes into focus
P-D: Report: Missouri sees strong growth in
'clean energy' jobs
CDT: Planned Parenthood could soon perform abortions
in Columbia, Kansas City X
SNL editorial: McCaskill, Blunt must stand up for
local aliens who want DACA X
KC Star editorial: McCaskill correct to try to stop
Betsy DeVos's Title IX efforts
Washington Missourian editorial: Greitens is right -
illegal aliens who served in the U.S. military should be given
citizenship X
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: McCaskill trying to stem the
opioid epidemic
P-D's David Nicklaus: Missouri innovation fund would
be big, bold bet on entrepreneurs
P-D's Kevin Horrigan: In the age of Unenlightenment,
most Republicans think colleges - including Mizzou - are bad for the
country
Joplin Globe's Crystal Thomas: State health care cuts
hammer area residents, businesses X
CDT Managing Editor Charles Westmoreland: For regional
newspapers, local content is all that matters; Paid subscribers
who complain about lack of comic strips or other old-timey features are
do-nothing dunderheads X
SNL letter: Ozark sexagenarian applauds McCaskill's
opposition to gun proposal X
P-D letter: St. Ann woman responds to Dave Roland's
op-ed, wants both Maria Chappelle-Nadal and Warren Love gone
P-D letter: St. Louis County woman suggests urban
protesters turn their attention to drug dealers
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Saturday, September 9
KC Star: Several streets near park to close
today; rally "slated to involve numerous groups and hundreds of
people from across the political and ideological spectrum"
Tonys Kansas City: KCPD top cop: Police prepared
to keep the peace between Antifa and Trump supporters today
SNL: MSU students send message to Trump by skipping
class; MSU spokesman says school has fewer than ten (10) illegal
aliens X
KC Star: Trump's influence figures in potential
McCaskill-Hawley matchup; Comments from James Harris, others
Dunklin
Democrat: Delta Center Field Day draws top state, federal
speakers: Blunt, Jason Smith, Greitens, MO Dept of Ag's Garrett
Hawkins; McCaskill speaks after late arrival +
The Missouri Times: Missouri Legislature mourns loss
of Mike Lair: educator, reader, friend
Drebes:
Gov. Jay Nixon re-emerges on Twitter
The Missouri Times: W. Brent Powell formally joins the
Missouri Supreme Court
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
Senate: Week of September 2, 2017
KWMU: Despite calls for expulsion, Chappelle-Nadal may
stay in the Missouri Senate after all
KWMU: Behind the Headlines: Rosenbaum previews
upcoming chapters in the Chappelle-Nadal and Warren Love sagas
Columbia Missourian: Fact check: Dem
superminority members' claim about in-home care cuts rated "Mostly
False"
Columbia Missourian: Fact check: Greitens' claim
of improving business climate rated "Half True"
KWMU: Regional leaders discuss what it would take to
bring Amazon's 2nd headquarters to St. Louis
Lake Expo: Mountain lions in Missouri: Dept. of
Conservation webcast will help sort fact from fiction about black
panthers, other wild animals
P-D: Black clergy to judge: 'The blood will be
on your hands' if activists riot, loot, kill after court verdict
KC Star editorial: Missouri lawmakers should help the
disabled - and punish two misguided colleagues
KC Star's Mary Sanchez: KC school brainstorms ways to
make Betsy DeVos uncomfortable, mock her during visit next week
KWMU's Willis Ryder Arnold: Black transsexual's death
shows police disregard for trans/people of color/gender non-conforming
people
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Friday, September 8
SE
Missourian: Peter Kinder sworn in as head of Delta Regional
Authority
SNL: Blunt: Federal health budget benefits
Missouri
Missourinet: MSU activists to prove a point on DACA by
skipping class today
St. Joseph News-Press: Northwest Missouri State
University college prep program secures $1.77 million in federal funding
Drebes:
New Missouri Ethics Commission opinions
The Missouri Times: Todd Richardson forgoes Auditor's
race, intends to focus on role as Speaker
Clayton Times: David Wasinger to announce his bid for
state auditor
The Missouri Times: Palmyra Mayor Loren Graham to run
for Lindell Shumake's open House seat
The Missouri Times: Parson calls for special session
to oust Chappelle-Nadal and restore in-home care budget cuts
AP:
Missouri special session possible to address in-home budget cuts
Missourinet: Parson urges lawmakers to call special
session
P-D: Momentum builds for session on explusion,
reversing cuts
KWMU: Despite calls for expulsion, Maria
Chappelle-Nadal may stay in the Missouri Senate after all
KC Star: KC will make 'aggressive' bid for Amazon's
second headquarters, and its 50,000 jobs
KWMU: St. Louis City putting together proposal to
bring Amazon to town; Comments from MO Dept. of Economic
Development's Rob Dixon
P-D: St. Louis will put together a 'very competitive'
bid for new Amazon HQ, local officials say
AP:
St. Louis, Kansas City plan to bid for Amazon headquarters
KWMU: "Clean energy" sector jobs in Missouri are rising
Missourinet: Asians dominate Caucasoids in ACT scores,
with average of 23 vs. 20.8; Hispanics at 18.8, blacks at 16.5
The Missouri Times: Politics come to life as students
gather for annual Constitution Project
Columbia Missourian: MU student lobbying group pushing
modified mental health bill
AP:
Missouri public defender blames caseload, unnamed "chronic illness" for
poor performance
Washington Missourian editorial: Both Chappelle-Nadal,
Warren Love should go
P-D editorial: Hazardous waste illegally deposited in
Franklin County requires quick attention
CDT Managing Editor Charles Westmoreland: Changes at
paper: Summer layoffs, no more "Arrests and Summonses" section,
more
SNL's Steve Pokin: Warren Love calls to correct
misstatements in column
P-D letter: Pasasdena Hills sexagenarian dislikes
Messenger's take on Trump, Maria Chappelle-Nadal and Warren Love
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Thursday, September 7
SNL: In the Ozarks, young illegals live in
'overwhelming fear' X
AP:
Greitens: Immigrants in military should get citizenship
Sedalia Democrat: Secretary of the Air Force talks
future of Whiteman Air Force Base
P-D: Trump taps St. Louis native Emily Murphy to head
federal agency
P-D: McCaskill says one opioid maker lacked policies
to prevent overuse of dangerous painkiller
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Danforth continues
promoting anti-Trump campaign, speaking appearances
SE
Missourian: Former U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson's papers to be added
to Southeast archive; Celebration planned +
SE
Missourian: Jackson woman heads to D.C. to push for cancer
research funding +
Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune: Mike Lair - former
teacher and legislator - passes away
Missourinet: Former Speaker Tim Jones remembers Mike
Lair
Drebes:
David Martin to run as Republican for Randy Dunn's open House seat
SNL: Police: Ozark man aimed gun at woman whose
political bumper stickers he found 'stupid' X
The Missouri Times: Greitens appoints Jason Crowell to
Missouri Housing Development Commission
AP:
Jason Crowell appointed to Missouri housing commission
KWMU: Greitens prepared to call in National Guard if
protests follow Stockley verdict; Activists have suggested mayhem
will ensue if court decision doesn't go their way
Missourinet: Greitens considers using National Guard
if activists riot over court ruling
P-D: Greitens may activate National Guard to contain
damage caused by rioters, looters
AP:
Greitens: Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Warren Love should leave office
SNL: With no precedent for possible Chappelle-Nadal
expulsion, Missouri Senate holds the power X
AP:
Missouri state employee pension program offers some buyouts
P-D: Missouri offering lump-sum pension payouts to
former workers
Missourinet: Three Missouri companies to add 800+ jobs
KC Star: Greitens warns about job-killing impact of
$15/hr. minimum wage; Counterpoint by McDonalds chef/freelance
macroeconomic analyst Douglesha Nicholson
Clayton Times: Greitens' Innovation Task Force
releases report, identifies ways to help entrepreneurs in Missouri
AP:
Missouri panel advises revamping investments to spur economy
P-D: Chappelle-Nadal, health care cuts could be on
agenda if Missouri Legislature meets in special session
AP:
Parson wants fix for senior cuts
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch
(R-Hallsville) talks Medicaid entitlement mentality, says government
isn't supposed "to do all and be all"
The Missouri Times: More unanswered questions on
Capitol metal detectors
P-D: Missouri lawmakers prepare to spar again over
charter school expansion
P-D: Missouri ranks below average in ACT scores, but
tested all its graduates
KC Star: School-discipline study: Boys 75
percent more likely to be disciplined than girls; Activists
complain about racial disparities
The Missouri Times: ATXI receives approvals for Mark
Twain Transmission Project, final route selected
AP:
Ameren to try again for Missouri approval of new power line
P-D: New route for Ameren's northeast Missouri
transmission line gains local approval
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Week of September 6, 2017
The Missouri Times: CenturyLink to expand broadband in
rural Missouri homes
P-D letter: Kirkwood septuagenarian, former editor of
Labor Tribune, disagrees with Trump and Josh Hawley on tax cuts
P-D letter: Kirkwood social worker opposes death
penalty for murderer
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Wednesday, September 6
KWMU: Illegal immigrants unhappy about Trump and
DACA; Comments from McCaskill, Blunt, Mexican man who snuck
across the border as a young alien
KMOX: Immigrant rally draws 100; Mexican co-ed
lands speaking gig, says she aspires to become "Face of DACA"
Messenger: Alien profile: Mexico-ed Areli
Munoz-Reyes
KC Star: Protesters congregate to protest Trump;
Mexican alien who snuck across the border as a teen says he'll spend
the next six months protesting
Columbia Missourian: UM System releases statement
supporting DACA students
SNL: Springfield-area police glad Trump reversed
Obama's ban on military surplus program X
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air preview: Former Sen.
John Danforth to provide uncontested criticism of President Donald
Trump, other complaints
Missourinet: Blunt wants hurricane relief paid in
multiple installments
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Luetkemeyer talks possible tax
code revisions
KC Star: Jeanne Patterson, wife of Cerner CEO Neal
Patterson, dies at 59
Missourinet's Brian Hauswirth: Former Rep. Mike Lair
(R-Chillicothe) passes away
SE
Missourian: Laura Bush to speak in Cape as part of Speakers Series +
The Missouri Times: Aaron Baker: 2018 could be
the year of the preacher for the Missouri Legislature
The Missouri Times: Rep. Dan Stacy (R-Blue Springs)
gets a Dem challenger: Travis Hagewood
SNL: Springfield marijuana proponent resigns position
after comparing police and the KKK X
Clayton Times: State releases August 2017 general
revenue report
AP:
Missouri revenues up 6 percent
The Missouri Times: Governor's Innovation Task Force
releases report, identifies ways to help entrepreneurs in Missouri
P-D: Canadian leader talks with Greitens about Boeing
jobs
Missourinet: State Treasurer Eric Schmitt activates
Harmed-Area Emergency Loan Program (HELP) for Kansas City region after
flash flooding
Missourinet: Low-income nursing care to take spotlight
during Missouri lawmakers' veto session
P-D: When two St. Louis City cops were ambushed by
urban criminals, no Blue Alert was issued. Why not?
AP:
Missouri Lottery: Someone is holding $1 million ticket
KC Star 2018 endorsement: Yes on The Clean Missouri
Initiative
KC Star editorial: Missouri congressional delegation
should support illegals through DACA compromise
P-D editorial: Missouri lawmakers should hold a
special session to help elderly and disabled
Joplin Globe editorial: Warren Love should resign
SNL's Steve Pokin: Comparing and contrasting Maria
Chappelle-Nadal and Warren Love: What Chappelle-Nadal said was
way more specific and way more dangerous X
P-D op-ed: Freedom Center of Missouri's Dave
Roland: Legislature should not expel members for offensive remarks
KC Star letters: Area liberals want Blunt to oppose
Trump tax cuts
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Tuesday, September 5
KMOV (St. Louis): Minimum-wage group uses Labor Day
rally to bemoan Trump, Greitens, "nativism, racism, state violence,
Islamophobia, sexism, transphobia," etc.
KC Star: Cleaver, Democratic state legislators speak
at union Labor Day rally; Gals swap sad stories of health
maladies, budgeting woes
SNL: Unions, Democrats keep up optimistic appearance
at Labor Day picnic; Attendees include state legislative
candidates, man who seeks to fill Dem ballot slot in Billy Long's
re-election, others X
St. Joseph News-Press: Activists prepare for battle
over 'right to work' X
Missourinet: Graves: Trump's tax plan will give
all Missourians a raise
P-D: Feds: Millions of pounds of hazardous waste
illegally trucked to Missouri and stored on Franklin County floodplain
SNL: Rep. Sonya Anderson (R-Springfield) to run for
state Senate X
Drebes:
Former state Rep. Connie Johnson (D-St. Louis City) returns to town to
work for City Treasurer Tishaura Jones
Missourinet: University of Missouri study:
Tweeting during debates increases political knowledge
Missourinet: Rep. Joshua Peters (D-St. Louis) explains
difference between Chappelle-Nadal assassination threat and Warren
Love's free speech; Wash U. academic bemoans term limits
SNL: New state law: If tax hike fails, county
will have to wait two years before trying again X
Columbia Missourian: Profile: Area handicapped
man unhappy about in-home service cuts
P-D: Profile: UM System President Mun Choi
KWMU: Where the Internet ends; Connections slow
or nonexistent for rural Missouri schoolkids
P-D: Adult education classes teach reading and math to
thousands for free - including adults with diplomas
AP: Some Missouri school districts to pay for ACT
KWMU: New Missouri high school will help teens
struggling with with addiction avoid temptations
KWMU: Catholics, fleeing St. Louis City and North
County for safer areas, leave some schools struggling; Principal
in Normandy district copes with "socioeconomically and spiritually
diverse" crowd
KWMU: Missouri Supreme Court to consider how losing
parental rights in the past should impact the future
KWMU: With new website, Missouri legislative leaders
more confident that interns are safer from harassment
SNL op-ed: Area liberal unhappy with Billy Long's
support of Trump, expresses outrage over indignity of calling district
office and getting voice mail X
P-D op-ed: National Right to Work Committee's Mark
Mix: Missouri union bosses double down on forced union dues
SE
Missourian letter: Sen. Wayne Wallingford (R-Cape
Girardeau): Natural gas, oil industry has economic benefit to
Missouri +
KC Star letters: Blue Springs nonagenarian disapproves
of Trump's visit to Springfield; KC sexagenarian defends
McCaskill, says Trump's actions are fueled by Obama's jokes at 2011
White House Correspondents' Dinner
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Monday, September
4 Labor Day
NBC News: Transcript of Blunt's appearance on "Meet
the Press": North Korea, debt ceiling, reaction to Danforth's
anti-Trump comments, more
Washington Post's Stephanie McCrummen: Liberal KC
coed, visiting her hometown in Clark County, is forced to interact at
County Fair with unenlightened and unsophisticated Trump supporters -
and somehow survives
Missourinet: All available Missouri state troopers
will be on the roads and waterways today
St. Joseph News-Press: Law changes punishment for hate
offenses X
SNL: Mizzou signs pact to cover tuition for low-income
students X
P-D: Missouri's sexually violent predator treatment
program eludes federal scrutiny
KC Star editorial: Legislature should raise the gas tax
P-D editorial: Mizzou's focus on helping low-income
students should help boost enrollment
Messenger: Imagining Maria Chappelle-Nadal and Warren
Love in the Hall of Famous Missourians
Waters: Pro-marijuana legislators too timid to support
legalization should at least support a ballot initiative X
Columbia Missourian's Ken Midkiff: MO Dept. of Natural
Resources was clueless under Nixon, and will get even worse under
Greitens
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Sunday, September 3
SNL: Springfield Chamber of Commerce, Missouri
economists size up Trump's tax overhaul outline X
SE
Missourian: Thanks to Trump, local police agencies again can
acquire surplus military equipment +
AP:
No shields for whistleblowing state workers in Missouri law
Columbia Missourian: Enrollment the prize for MU,
Missouri State
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Legislators should
show restraint before tossing out Chappelle-Nadal and/or Warren Love X
Washington Missourian editorial: Jay Nixon deserves
credit for resurgence of state parks system, and Greitens should
continue building on that momentum
KC Star editorial: The Kansas City Star is changing
headquarters, but the mission stays the same
The Guardian (UK): John Naughton: With her
leadership on sex-trafficking issue, McCaskill strikes fear into the
Internet's big boys
Waters: MSU vs. MU: Reaction to Ashley Jost's
Post-Dispatch piece X
SNL letter: Springfield Mayor Ken McClure thanks
citizens for civilized behavior during Trump visit X
KC Star letter: Lee's Summit septuagenarian dislikes
Trump, applauds McCaskill
P-D letter: Area environmentalist wants McCaskill,
Blunt to fight Trump on EPA funding, climate change
SNL letter: Pierce City woman wants Greitens to show
stronger support of state parks X
P-D letter: St. Louis septuagenarian opposes state
legislators' tort-overhaul campaign
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Saturday, September 2
SNL: Blunt prefers updating DACA program rather than
ending it
X
KWMU: Aliens fear Trump will end DACA; Thoughts
from Mexican coed whose parents snuck her across the border
Faughn: Dear Mr. Danforth, your self-righeous turkey
call politics are their own brand of divisive
SNL: Woman describes almost ending up in Trump
motorcade X
Washington Post: Blunt to appear on NBC's "Meet the
Press" tomorrow morning
Dunklin
Democrat: Congressman Smith visits Senath farm +
SNL: Anthem dials back Obamacare commitment in Missouri X
Columbia Missourian: Boone County left with no
Obamacare providers next year
P-D: Insurers seek steep rate increases on the
Missouri Obamacare exchange
KC Star: On Obamacare in Missouri and want to stay
with Cigna? A 42 percent premium increase is coming
CDT: Bernie Sanders to appear in Fulton where
Churchill, Gorbachev, Reagan spoke X
Columbia Missourian: Sanders to advocate "progressive
American foreign policy" at Westminster lecture
P-D: Bernie Sanders to speak at Westminster
Missourinet: Bernie Sanders to speak at Westminster
College later this month
KC Star: Bernie Sanders to speak at Westminster
Drebes:
Former Post-Dispatch reporter Nick Pistor registers to lobby
Missourinet: Rep. Kip Kendrick (D-Columbia) says
Chappelle-Nadal should leave office
The Missouri Times: Union advocates organize to repeal
2017 labor bills
JCNT: Liberals hold press conference to promote
Empower Missouri conference X
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Doug
Beck (D-Affton) on labor's campaign against 'right to work,' competing
with other liberal ballot initiatives, Greitens' cuts to in-home
services, more
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of August 28, 2017
St. Joseph News-Press: Clean Line continues to seek
power project X
Columbia Missourian's George Kennedy: Mizzou vs.
MSU: Reaction to Ashley Jost's Post-Dispatch piece
KC Star letter: Stockton's Kalena Bruce, who leads
American Farm Bureau's Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee, prays for
Trump tax cuts
P-D letter: Fenton sexagenarian wants Chappelle-Nadal
removed from office
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Friday, September 1
September
2016 Missouri political news headlines
September
2015 Missouri political news headlines
SNL: If President Trump ends DACA, fewer than 4,000
Missouri illegals would be affected; Alien invaders in state make
up less than one-half (1/2) percent of "Dreamer" population nationwide X
SNL: Car careened toward Presidential motorcade on
Wednesday X
Hartmann: "St. Jack" Danforth's impotent criticism of
Trump won't amount to much; A look at aged Republican's
posturing, Josh Hawley vs. Ann Wagner tension, more
SNL: Oliver North speaks, Roy Blunt recognized at
Vitae Foundation event in Springfield X
KWMU: Ann Wagner includes transportation operations in
fight against sex trafficking
Clayton Times: Q&A with Bill Haas; Colorfly
gadfly seeks to fill Democratic ballot slot for Ann Wagner's 2018
re-election
Drebes:
Democrats fantasize about a competitive 30th Senate District race
Riverfront Times: St. Louis Post-Dispatch facing more
departures
SNL: Lawmakers weigh expelling Maria Chappelle-Nadal
and Warren Love X
The Missouri Times: Love calls for vandals to be
'found and hung from a tall tree'
Missourinet: Greitens says Chappelle-Nadal and Love
should face same fate, but Parson doesn't go that far
AP:
Missouri legislator's suggestion that criminals be hanged draws
condemnation
P-D: Legislators, Democratic party leaders line up to
criticize Love
St. Joseph News-Press: Schaaf on veto session:
"We really need to help the seniors that the governor threw under the
bus"
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Rep. Chuck Basye (R-Rocheport)
says fuel tax increase could be key to better Missouri roads
KC Star: State workers knew Adrian Jones was being
abused yet didn't help him, lawsuit says; Father and stepmom beat
boy, then fed dead body to pigs
SNL: Local prescription drug monitoring program begins
data collection X
AP:
Credit report suggests University of Missouri System is on track to
maintain status quo
KWMU: Missouri throws out results of two statewide
high school exams
P-D: EPA updates public on cleanup plans for West Lake
Landfill; Activists unhappy
Columbia Missourian: Changes in Missouri waterfowl
hunting seasons begin this year
Missourinet: Activist groups unhappy about jury
selection process; Comments from NAACP's Nimrod Chapel, others
JCNT: At Empower Missouri event, NAACP's Nimrod Chapel
takes aim at Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson X
Washington Missourian editorial: Analyzing MOScout of
the Internet's statewide poll linked here on Sunday X
KC Star editorial: Warren Love should join Maria
Chappelle-Nadal in resigning
SNL's Steve Pokin: A conversation with Springfield
radio host Nick Reed about the Trump visit, Soros' paid protesters, more X
KWMU's Rachel Lippmann: Guns are to blame for harming
four Missouri criminals' lives
P-D letter: St. Louis County liberal says Missouri
Chamber's Dan Mehan, other pro-business voices are hypocritical on
government mandates
KC Star letters: KC sexagenarian says Danforth's
diatribe didn't go far enough; Kearney septuagenarian wants
Chappelle-Nadal gone
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