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Sunday, September 29,
2019
KC Star: Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel supports Sen.
Josh Hawley, President Donald Trump, others X
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri's levees and pumps
dealing with consistent flooding X
P-D: The floodwater is gone, but problems persist in
river towns like Clarksville X
KCUR: Judge blocks Missouri from enforcing its ban on
Down syndrome-based abortions
P-D: Parson appoints special victims prosecutor
Brittney Smith as judge in St. Charles County
X
CDT's Rudi Keller: Time for Missouri to regulate
vaping like smoking X
P-D letter: Wentzville woman says state must ban
hunting feral hogs to solve problem X
SNL letter: Springfield septuagenarian opposes
execution of rapist/murderer Russell Bucklew
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Saturday, September 28, 2019
AP: Blunt predicts House Democrats will move forward
on Trump impeachment regardless of facts
KC Star: Blunt, Hawley react to House Dems'
impeachment campaign X
AP: Graves announces federal funding for moveable
flood wall in Clarksville
Brownfield Ag News: USDA's "top up" payments won't
make farmers whole, Missouri Corn Growers Association's Mark Scott says
SNL: Cybersecurity expert applauds Greene County Clerk
Shane Schoeller's efforts to secure elections
X
The Missouri Times: New batch of automatic voter
registration initiative petitions approved to circulate
KWMU/Corporation for Public Broadcasting "Sharing America"
racism reporter Andrea Henderson: Institutional racism oppresses
black voters in Missouri: Staircases at polling places,
slow-moving poll workers among hurdles suppressing black vote
CDT: Sen. Caleb Rowden (R-Columbia) kicks off
re-election as Dems weigh options X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of September 23, 2019
The Missouri Times: Federal judge reverses previous
ruling preventing abortions based on Down syndrome diagnosis
AP: Federal judge blocks Missouri ban on Down
syndrome-based abortions
JCNT: State panel finalizing details for Hyperloop
report X
P-D editorial: Missouri won't track opioids or
restrict guns. Death rates surge accordingly.
X
JCNT editorial: Missouri's adult high schools seeing
positive results X
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Friday, September 27,
2019
Missourinet: Blunt, Gov. Parson, Ag Director Chris
Chinn react to U.S. and Japan reaching initial trade deal
Brownfield Ag News: Japan deal puts Missouri farmers
on level playing field, Missouri Corn Growers Association's Mark Scott
says
Columbia Missourian: UM President Mun Choi stands by
China's Confucius Institute despite Sen. Josh Hawley's opposition
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson receives endorsement
of Missouri Right to Life
St. Joseph News-Press: Rep. Jim Neely (R-Cameron) says
he'll run against Gov. Parson in GOP primary
X
SNL: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe makes campaign stop in
Springfield, talks 2020 election bid X
The Missouri Times: Rep. Tommie Pierson, Jr. (D-St.
Louis) launches Senate campaign for North St. Louis County district
KWMU: State hopes local courts agree to electronic
monitoring to cut costs
Missourinet: Missouri Supreme Court hears complex
rural Missouri CAFO and Clean Water Commission case
P-D: Hearing next month to focus on gaming machines X
Columbia Missourian: Local lawmakers weigh in on
efforts to curb urban homicides, modify criminal mentality
Missourinet: Death penalty opponents want Gov. Parson
to block Missouri inmate's execution
AP: Anti-death-penalty protest draws 20 to Capitol
KWMU: Russell Bucklew scheduled to be executed Tuesday
P-D editorial: On urban violence, St. Louis County man
wonders why "Black Lives Matters" activists save agitation for
officer-involved shootings and not daily street behavior X
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Thursday, September
26, 2019
The Missouri Times: Mike Kelley's Show Me Victories
says Biden has commanding lead over other 2020 Democrats in Missouri
KWMU: As impeachment talk intensifies, Missouri
lawmakers split along party lines
St. Joseph News-Press: Reaction to impeachment probe
falls across party lines X
SNL: Hawley, Long weigh in on Dems' impeachment efforts X
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Event promo for
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri's "Justice Speaks" fundraiser;
NPR's Nina Totenberg complains about Trump's success in appointing
conservative judges
KWMU: Local UAW members continue GM strike;
Woman in her 50s laments not having saved enough money to pay two (2)
months of household bills
Detroit Metro News: UAW workers demand to regain
concessions; Union capo Vance Pearson, a St. Charles resident,
spent member dues on "personal luxuries"
The Missouri Times: Flotron & McIntosh adds John
Gaskin III to lobbying team
Missourinet: Speaker of the House Elijah Haahr says
Medicaid expansion would have negative impact on Missouri education
The Missouri Times: Who has applied for Missouri's
new, "nonpartisan" state demographer position?
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rep. Ian
Mackey (D-Richmond Heights) on Dem presidential primary, gun control,
more
SE
Missourian: Heidi Hall, former Southeast Missourian managing
editor, dies at 49 +
AP: Parson signs bill to save car tax break
P-D: Missouri Supreme Court hears arguments over Clean
Water Commission appointments X
Columbia Missourian's Kira Lovell: Missouri attorney
general warns of new phone scam targeting the elderly; No mention
of AG's name (Eric Schmitt) or political party (Republican)
JCNT: Some activists unhappy with attorney general's
clergy abuse report X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: September 24, 2019
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri Department of
Conservation to host free program on bats X
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Empower Missouri
promotes "#MOSNAPChallenge" sympathy game
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: The Army Corps'
rewriting of history on floods X
KC Star editorial: Rep. Sam Graves, put down your
burger and straw and look at the realities of climate change X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's Eric
Bohl: Missouri farmland prices steady despite tough economy
Priddy:
Should the state of Missouri take over Jefferson City?
KWMU's Rachel Lippmann: Despite a violent summer for
St. Louis children, Missouri lawmakers continue to loosen gun
restrictions
P-D op-ed: Anti-death-penalty activist Elyse
Max: Spare Russell Bucklew - he was addicted to opioids X
P-D letter: Glendale sexagenarian outraged by Ann
Wagner's position on guns, threatens to run against her X
P-D letter: St. Peters sexagenarian says Schatz's
action on urban gun violence is "horse hockey"
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Wednesday, September
25, 2019
Brownfield Ag News: Gov. Parson says China trade war
is for the greater good
Joplin Globe: FEMA officials tour safe rooms in
Joplin, Webb City X
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Farm Bureau President
Blake Hurst says historic flooding a tragedy
SE
Missourian: Cape Pride founder Amber Moyers seeks to fill
Democratic ballot slot for Kathy Swan's safe Republican seat +
The Missouri Times: Missouri Ethics Commission slaps
former Rep. Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson) with more than $77k in fines
P-D: Former Rep. Courtney Curtis nabbed for spending
campaign cash on himself X
Missourinet: Gov. Parson visits aging southwest
Missouri bridge to tout bridge bonding
The Missouri Times: Metrc, the company tracking
Missouri marijuana from seed to sale, sues state to charge industry for
tags
P-D: With big bucks at stake, Missouri officials sued
over medical pot contract
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air promo: Rep. Mary
Elizabeth Coleman (R-Arnold) to discuss her experience playing Empower
Missouri's "#MOSNAPChallenge" sympathy game
SNL: Rep. Steve Helms (R-Springfield) not giving up
fight to allow judges to suspend scofflaws' drivers' licenses X
Missourinet: Missouri teachers using new standards in
two subjects
KC Star: National "Freedom From Religion Foundation"
threatens action against Kansas City area district for allowing
prayer; At teacher-administrator barbecue, one attendee said
grace before meal was served, and other microaggressions X
KC Star: Discrimination case against Missouri
Department of Corrections gets underway in Jackson County; Ana
Barrios says second-hand telling of hot dog joke caused her an upset
tummy and other psychosomatic trauma X
P-D: Missouri rapist/murderer set to assume room
temperature next week deserves mercy, attorneys say X
AP: Attorneys for Russell Bucklew claim client faces
"grotesque" execution
P-D editorial: Legalization of medical marijuana could
open the door to prescription abuse X
SE
Missourian op-ed: Great River Habitat Alliance's David
Stokes: Recurring floods show it's time for a different approach +
P-D's David Nicklaus: Farm sector holds down
second-quarter income growth in Missouri X
P-D's David Nicklaus: Outdoor recreation accounts for
2.2 percent of Missouri economy X
P-D letter: St. Louis County woman says state
legislators should support online sales tax X
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Tuesday, September 24,
2019
P-D: Biden at Richmond Heights fundraiser:
Democrats must defeat Trump to restore "soul of the country" X
The Missouri Times: With primary more than 10 months
away, Missouri Dems' exec director promises racially-diverse,
majority-female statewide ticket
JCNT: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe announces candidacy for same
position in 2020 election X
The Missouri Times: Kehoe launches campaign for full
term as lieutenant governor
Missourinet: Kehoe focuses on Missouri transportation
and agriculture in 2020 race
Columbia Missourian: Kehoe announces 2020 campaign bid
for lieutenant governor
KC Star: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe seeks full four-year term X
P-D: Kehoe to seek full, four-year term X
The Missouri Times: Bishop Davidson enters HD 130
race, setting up primary for Jeff Messenger's open seat
AP: Special legislative session cost less than $72,000
KWMU: Gov. Parson to appoint one person to 19-member
Board of Freeholders
P-D: Missouri cultivates 'don't ask, don't tell' tax
policy for flood of CBD sales X
CDT: Grow-your-own conference offers tips for medical
marijuana cultivators X
P-D: Not counting: Missouri doesn't track how
many medical pot certifications doctors write
X
KCUR: Missourians on Medicare use more opioids than
the national average
Columbia Missourian: Federal opioid response money in
Missouri: What is it doing in Columbia and across the state?
P-D: DHSS report shows Missouri life expectancy drops X
SE
Missourian: Saint Francis Healthcare System wins $3 million grant
to study maternal, infant health +
SNL: Report from Lending Tree corporation claims
Missouri has eighth-worst roads in the nation
X
KC Star's Melinda Henneberger: U.S. Rep. Emanuel
Cleaver now ready to impeach Trump: "I want history to know where
I stood" X
P-D letter: Ladue octogenarian wants Missouri
lawmakers to allow payments to college athletes X
P-D letter: Wildwood man notes that unlike urbanites,
Missouri's rural residents manage to handle firearms in a civilized
manner X
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Monday, September 23,
2019
KWMU/Corporation for Public Broadcasting racism reporter
Andrea Henderson: Trip to Arizona shows local organization why
border wall, enforcing immigration laws is wrong
SNL: Activists hold "climate strike" event on
Springfield square; Overfed Indian woman warns of consuming too
many resources; Signs express desire to "End capitalism," other
fantasies X
JCNT: Jefferson City Veterans Council thanks veterans,
remembers those who did not return from war X
This Week in Missouri Politics: Panel of Carl Bearden,
Missouri Dems' Lauren Gepford, Jake Silverman, Rep. Gretchen Bangert
(D-Florissant) talk Trump's popularity, Dems' inability to find
opponent for Ann Wagner, Gov. Parson's re-election, much more;
Gepford says Dems will fill majority of statewide slots with women
candidates
P-D: Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe set to kick off campaign today
Missourinet: DESE proposes $6.3 billion budget for
next fiscal year
Missourinet: October hearing on illegal slot machines
expected to draw crowd to Missouri Capitol
P-D: Local officials weigh what they can - and cannot
- regulate in medical marijuana business X
Brownfield Ag News: Ag Director Chris Chinn says Asian
Swine Flu training crucial across states
P-D letter: St. Louis County septuagenarian says
Hawley must stop supporting President Trump, says she feels "frustrated
and trapped" X
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Sunday, September 22,
2019
SNL: Independent PACs help candidates take their
message to Missouri voters; Nicole Galloway, Gov. Parson, Speaker
Elijah Haahr, Sen. Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield) among those following
the law
X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of September 16, 2019
The Missouri Times: DHSS working on reviewing medical
marijuana facility applications
JCNT: Missouri First Ladies gather for preservation
fundraiser X
St. Joseph News-Press: MoDOT still using contractor
associated with tar incidents X
JCNT: MoDOT: U.S. 54 safety updates considered X
Washington Missourian editorial: Managing Missouri's
CWD threat X
SNL op-ed: Phill Brooks: Harry Truman's
statehouse legacy X
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Gov. Parson should halt
execution of Russell Bucklew; Lethal injection could cause
rapist/murder discomfort
P-D letter: Ballwin man says Missouri's "medical"
marijuana farce essentially legalizes recreational use X
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Saturday, September
21, 2019
KWMU: Activists congregate downtown to complain about
climate change; Student who skipped school to wave sign demands
leaders act "before it's to [sic]
late"
P-D: Climate activists march downtown; Overfed
blue-haired humanoid holds sign advocating "Eat the Rich" X
KC Star: Kansas City youths join global "Climate
Strike"; Self-identified socialist urges proletariat to "Yeet the
Rich" X
CDT: Activists gather at MU for climate strike;
Mizzou coed uses pet bird as prop during speech; Local
sexagenarian predicts humans will be extinct in 10 years X
Joplin Globe: Local residents rally against climate
change; Teenager says skipping school will teach "CEOs and
politicians" what's what X
St. Joseph News-Press: Local food bank hosts
congressional staffers, state legislators X
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Missourian: VA set to construct new health center in Cape,
completion set for 2022 +
JCNT: Army Corps of Engineers: Flood control has
been our focus X
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson creates task forces,
dedicates $2M for victims to combat violent crime in St. Louis
P-D: Senior officials in former AG Chris Koster's
office failed to disclose evidence in policeman's self-defense
shooting, report claims X
SNL op-ed: SLU research center director: How
Missouri's new school calendar will affect students X
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Friday, September 20, 2019
KC Star: Emanuel Cleaver endorses Joe Biden in 2020
Democratic presidential race X
KC Star: Hawley presses Facebook's Zuckerberg to sell
Instagram in name of privacy X
Missourinet: Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright speaks in Fulton, criticizes Trump
Fulton Sun: Albright bashes Trump at Fulton appearance X
CDT: Albright: Trump too cozy with dictators X
Columbia Missourian: Albright visits Fulton, slams
"isolationism"
Columbia Missourian: Fact check: Galloway's
watchdog-bragging claim "Mostly True," but omits important context
P-D: No baloney: Gov. Parson cuts taxpayers'
food bill in half X
KWMU: Gov. Parson pledges state troopers, victim
support in plan to curb violent crime in St. Louis region
Missourinet: Gov. Parson lays out plan for state to
help St. Louis region fight crime
P-D: Gov. Parson says state will put 'boots on the
ground' Oct. 1 to help St. Louis police deal with criminals X
KC Star: Steps toward border war ceasefire continue
with KC plan to cap some local incentives X
The Missouri Times: Missouri abortion law blocked by
federal judge again
KCUR: Federal judge denies Missouri's request to let
abortion ban take effect
St. Joseph News-Press: Missouri school safety task
force presents findings; Comments from Missouri School Boards'
Association's Melissa Randol, others X
St. Joseph News-Press: State representatives honor St.
Joseph School District coordinator of counseling X
KWMU: Missouri opioid prescribing rate went up 10% in
2018, county program finds
The Missouri Times: Missouri officials confirm first
vaping-related death in state
AP:
Missouri health officials say the state has recorded its first
vaping-related death
Missourinet: Members of House Democratic superminority
to make appearance at GM picket line in Kansas this morning
Joplin Globe: Oklahoma newspaperman Dale Brendel named
new publisher of Joplin Globe X
KC Star editorial: Gov. Parson makes third trip to St.
Louis to tackle urban violence. Has he heard of Kansas City? X
Washington Missourian editorial: Missouri cases show
the dangers of vaping X
Priddy: Missouri casinos are making too much money
P-D letter: St. Louis woman suggests shooting of white
suburban children might get state lawmakers' attention X
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Thursday, September
19, 2019
KC Star: Blunt resists House Democrats' effort to
spend taxpayer money on gun-control studies, says National Institutes
of Health already has ability to fund research X
St. Joseph News-Press: Hawley continues to apply heat
to Big Tech companies X
SNL: Missouri Farm Bureau cheers WOTUS repeal;
Environmental activists outraged X
P-D: St. Louis UAW official embezzled funds, feds
say; Vance Pearson used member dues to buy champagne, steak
dinners, new outfits, spa treatments X
The Missouri Times: Missouri NEA files six proposed
ballot measurers with secretary of state's office
The Missouri Times: Missouri Ethics Commission takes
no further action on late campaign finance reports from Rep. Wiley
Price IV (D-St. Louis City)
The Missouri Times: Missouri sees slight job growth in
August as unemployment remains lower than federal rate
KWMU: Thousands of Missourians are still waiting for
tax refunds
AP: Judge denies Missouri request to allow 20-week
abortion ban
KC Star: Federal judge denies Missouri request to
unblock 20-week abortion ban X
AP: Gov. Parson to unveil plan aimed at reducing St.
Louis homicidal behavior
Washington Missourian: Four proposed medical marijuana
dispensaries in Washington apply for state permits X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: Week of September 18, 2019
Joplin Globe: Missouri Department of Conservation
plans first Monarch Festival to increase awareness of butterfly in
Joplin X
SE
Missourian: Catholic bishops ask Gov. Parson to halt execution,
spare murderer's life +
KC Star editorial: Why won't Missouri lawmakers allow
a weapons ban at KC's Plaza Art Fair? X
Columbia Missourian's Steve Spellman: Missouri's new
child care safety law should be changed next year
P-D letter: Town and Country woman wants Blunt,
Hawley, Parson to support gun control X
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Wednesday, September
18, 2019
KC Star: Former Kansas City Mayor Sly James endorses
Pete Buttigieg for president X
KWMU: Audio: Sen. John Rizzo (D-Independence)
talks Medicaid expansion, gun control, more
SNL: Missouri NEA preps ballot initiative
petitions; Comments from MNEA's Mark Jones, Americans for
Prosperity's Jeremy Cady X
The Missouri Times: Dave Gragg seeks to fill
Democratic ballot slot in safe Republican House District 130
The Missouri Times: St. Louis City Election Board
quietly changes requirements for deputy Democratic director, drops
college-degree requirement
AP: Missouri law governing CAFOs now in effect
Missourinet: Galloway audit shows new western Missouri
fire station is still a ghost town
KRCG: Missouri Dept. of Conservation offers free CWD
testing as deer hunting season begins
Missourinet: Rep. Richard Brown (D-Kansas City) talks
urban homicides
P-D editorial: Missouri's stilted probe of clergy
abuse must not be the last word on the issue
X
KC Star editorial: Predator priests: When will
Missouri scrap statute of limitation for sex crimes? X
KC Star letter: Kansas man says Missouri's A+
scholarship program should maintain high standards and not become
another entitlement program X
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Columbia Missourian: Fact check: Blunt's
statement about USMCA benefits rated "True" X
The Missouri Times: GM workers strike: What it
means for Missouri, Wentzville plant
P-D: Sen. Josh Hawley's open-records lawsuit against
Steve Stenger appears headed toward resolution
X
St. Joseph News-Press: Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft
praises farmers at bureau's meeting X
The Missouri Times: Former state Rep. Vicki Englund
(D) to run for state treasurer
P-D: Vicki Englund poised to announce bid for Missouri
treasurer X
Missourinet: Gov. Parson warns about police officer
shortage; 'Back the Blue' plates unveiled
Brownfield Ag News: Gov. Parson explores ag tech and
more in California
Missourinet: Gov. Parson goes to California to find
more business for Missouri
CDT: David Steelman among those applying for medical
marijuana permits X
KWMU: Missouri CAFO law goes into effect
SNL: Record number of Missouri school districts adopt
4-day weeks X
JCNT: Local journalist Bob Watson recognized by
Jefferson City X
JCNT editorial: 'Back the Blue' not just another
specialty license plate X
Helling: Sen. Josh Hawley's attack on Facebook is just
one part of his radical agenda X
Columbia Missourian's Ken Midkiff: "Big Ag," MU
conspire on CAFOs X
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Monday, September 16, 2019
JCNT: Residents pray to end abortion as part of
national event X
KRES/KWIX (Moberly): Luetkemeyer wants vote on USMCA
Missourinet: Largest U.S. nail manufacturer hires 120
workers at Missouri plant
KC Star: Some state tax-incentive deals, in the works
before Missouri-Kansas 'ceasefire,' still to be announced;
Waddell & Reed headed to Missouri
St. Joseph News-Press: Local labor unions insistent
upon their relevance, prep for election year
This Week in Missouri Politics: Nicole Galloway
consultant Patrick Lynn and David Barklage talk Gov. Parson vs.
Galloway
matchup; Panel of
St. Louis Labor Council's Pat White and Reps. Donna Baringer, Jim
Murphy and Rasheen Aldridge
Missourinet: Gov. Parson: Meeting with local
leaders on urban violence was about 'boots on the ground'
Washington Missourian: Local state reps react to Dems'
calls for gun control X
KC Star editorial: Why is Missouri giving college aid
to affluent families - and not the neediest students? X
P-D letter: Kirkwood septuagenarian calls GOP state
legislators bigots X
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Sunday, September 15,
2019
Missouri Farmer Today: Missouri rural health care
limited by tech, doctor shortage; Comments from Missouri Hospital
Association's Dave Dillon, Missouri Farm Bureau's Spencer Tuma
KWMU: Fort Leonard Wood takes a new approach to
suicide prevention
SNL: Here's who's putting big money behind Missouri
Medicaid expansion X
P-D: Gov candidate Nicole Galloway (D) makes
appearance at gun-control march X
SNL: Speaker Haahr says Republicans are considering
legislative approach to urban violence X
Washington Missourian: Pot businesses apply for
permits - to sell, grow, infuse medical marijuana X
St. Joseph News-Press: City sees intense interest for
marijuana licenses X
KWMU: DHSS confirms two cases of illness related to
vaping
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri's House
Democrats have a grandiose view of controlling street savagery - just
look at how well gun control worked for Chicago X
Washington Missourian editorial: No solution in sight
for urban homicides X
P-D letter: Webster Groves sexagenarian says Missouri
Republicans are to blame for shortage of rural hospitals X
P-D letter: Kirkwood septuagenarian says Gov. Parson
and lawmakers would care more about homicides if the violence took
place in Jefferson City X
SNL letters: Springfield sexangenarian woman wants
Gov. Parson to flip-flop on gun control; Springfield sexagenarian
man says Jesus Christ disagrees with Gov. Parson's fiscal policies X
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Saturday, September 14, 2019
KWMU: Missouri Farm Bureau says Waters of the U.S. was
one of the worst laws to come from D.C.; Environmental activists
unhappy with repeal
Headline update: Rep. Mike McGirl (R-Potosi) endorses
Parson for governor, but Post-Dispatch fails to update piece X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of Sept. 9, 2019
The Missouri Times: Beverly Cain, longtime Capitol
employee, retires after 30 years of service
KWMU: Car sales tax passes, Gov. Parson to sign
P-D: Senate President Pro Tem Dave Schatz (R-Sullivan)
convenes working group to discuss potential efficacy of an urban
violence committee X
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Missourian: High Street and more: State releases locations
of medical marijuana applications +
Missourinet: Schmitt seeks prosecution for 12 former
Catholic clergy after statewide investigation
KWMU: Schmitt to refer 12 clergy sex-abuse cases to
prosecutors
AP:
12 ex-clergy could face prosecution
P-D: Missouri AG to refer 12 cases of Catholic clergy
sex abuse to local prosecutors X
KC Star: The Hyperloop pod arrives in Kansas
City: 'When people see this, it's believing' X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: September 11, 2019
The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Farm Bureau's Blake
Hurst: Frivolous lawsuit over CAFO bill won't silence farmers
KC Star letter: NetChoice CEO disagrees with Josh
Hawley on technology regulations X
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Friday, September 13, 2019
P-D: Mexican illegal sentenced in St. Louis for
transporting aliens; Rene Flores-Calderon caught after packing 13
aliens into SUV X
Reuters: Senior union official from St. Charles
charged in federal corruption probe; Prosecutors say UAW capo
Vance Pearson and pals embezzled money to purchase lavish vacations,
Cristal champagne
Brownfield Ag News: Gov. Parson pleased Waters of the
U.S. rule repealed
The Missouri Times: Missouri Farm Bureau, ag groups
endorse Gov. Parson's 2020 gubernatorial bid
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri commodity groups turn out
for Gov. Parson
P-D's Jack Suntrup: Only 13 GOP state representatives
yet to formally endorse Gov. Parson; List includes "Rep. Mike
McGirl" X
JCNT: Missouri Senate committee advances sales tax
proposal X
Missourinet: AG Eric Schmitt to release report today
about clergy abuse in Missouri's Roman Catholic church
AP: Schmitt to release report on Roman Catholic sex
crimes
P-D: Area activist criticizes Schmitt's report on
Roman Catholic sex crimes - before report is released X
Columbia Missourian: Speaker of the House Elijah Haahr
(R-Springfield) talks improved economy and Medicaid enrollment
Columbia Missourian: Nearly 70 apply to open medical
marijuana businesses in Boone County
P-D: DHSS reports nine suspected vaping-related
illnesses in Missouri, two hospitalized at St. Louis Children's Hospital X
KWMU: Missouri colleges are trying to convince future
students that teaching is a good job
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Dept. of Ag says number
of complaints about misuse of dicamba herbicide down sharply this year
Joplin Globe editorial: New software - and recipient
notifications that look like junk mail - to blame for drop in Medicaid
recipients X
Joplin Globe op-ed: Family physician Dr. Charles
Bentlage: Missourians should vote to expand Medicaid X
P-D letter: St. Charles County man suggests Ann Wagner
seeks to hurt clients of financial services industry X
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Thursday, September 12, 2019
The Missouri Times: President Donald Trump endorses
Gov. Mike Parson
SNL: President Donald Trump endorses Missouri Gov.
Mike Parson X
The Missouri Times: Nicole Galloway blasts Eric
Greitens' spending, takes aim at "ambiguous and contradictory" expense
laws for governor
AP:
Galloway issues audit on former Gov. Eric Greitens
SNL: Galloway lambastes Greitens' spending X
P-D: Greitens repeated predecessors' spending habits,
audit finds X
KC Star: Galloway audit takes aim at Greitens and
Confide app X
P-D: Galloway's office begins accepting applications
for "nonpartisan" demographer X
The Missouri Times: Herzog Contracting donates $250k
to Parson PAC
Missourinet: Federal data shows Missouri's uninsured
rate slightly increases
The Missouri Times: Dept. of Corrections inmates earn
nearly $12,000 for flood preparation work
Missourinet: 20 House Democrats vote for vehicle sales
tax bill pushed by Gov. Mike Parson
Columbia Missourian: Vehicle sales tax bill passes
with bipartisan support
SNL: Missouri House approves fix for sales tax issue X
AP:
Missouri lawmakers advance measure on sales tax break for vehicle
trade-ins
KWMU: Car tax legislation passes House, heads to Senate
JCNT: Missouri House passes bill rectifying sales tax
uncertainty X
The Missouri Times: House sends vehicle sales bill to
Senate
The Missouri Times: General Assembly declines to
override 2019 vetoes
Missourinet: No overrides at Missouri legislative veto
session
P-D: Speaker of the House Elijah Haahr (R-Springfield)
hopes to have gun violence proposal ready for debate by January X
The Missouri Times: Democratic Sens. Jamilah Nasheed,
Shalonn "Kiki" Curls lament urban violence as "public health crisis"
during veto session
CDT: Boone County sees 61 medical marijuana license
applications X
Columbia Missourian: Mystery medical costs, high drug
prices targeted by state lawmakers; Committee hears from James
Harris, Show-Me Institute's Patrick Ishmael
JCNT: Court order lifted, CAFO law takes effect X
SE
Missourian: Southeast Missouri hepatitis A outbreak winding down
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KC Star editorial: President Donald Trump's
endorsement of Gov. Mike Parson shouldn't matter to Missouri voters X
P-D editorial: A rural Missouri company reflects the
burden caused by Trump's folly X
Washington Missourian editorial: Missourians might
vote on Medicaid expansion X
JCNT editorial: Legislative fix needed for new child
care law X
Messenger: The governor comes to St. Louis City to
talk crime and leaves the black prosecutors behind X
P-D letter: Clayton sexagenarian says President Donald
Trump is an illiterate racist, and Missouri's GOP congressional
delegation should stop supporting him X
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Wednesday, September
11, 2019
JCNT: Local first responders, veterans, legislators
remain committed to remember 9/11 X
AP: Missouri asking federal government to add counties
to disaster declaration
KWMU: Sen. Lincoln Hough (R-Springfield) talks with
Rosenbaum about appropriations, EcoDevo, Medicaid, more
P-D: Gov. Parson travels to St. Louis City to meet
with local leaders, law enforcement about urban violence X
P-D: Video: Gov. Parson travels to St. Louis
City to address urban violence X
P-D: Photo gallery: Gov. Parson at
urban-violence meeting X
Missourinet: Gov. Parson meets with St. Louis-area
leaders
AP: Gov. Parson travels to St. Louis to address
homicides
KWMU: Gov. Parson, St. Louis-area leaders meet to
discuss containing, minimizing urban violence
SNL: Special session gets going in earnest X
Columbia Missourian: Bill restoring tax break for
vehicle trade-ins moves to Missouri House
JCNT: Tax-credit bill works through Missouri
Legislature X
Missourinet: Speaker of the House Elijah Haahr
(R-Springfield) expects no overrides in veto session
JCNT: Missouri's 'Back the Blue' license plate unveiled X
SNL: Who wants to own a marijuana dispensary in
Springfield? New state records show locations
X
Joplin Globe: Dozens of applications filed in
southwest Missouri for medical marijuana operations X
P-D: State records on marijuana dispensary
applications show nearly 400 would-be pot shops in St. Louis area X
P-D editorial: Candidates for Missouri governor should
forego the bogeyman, stick to real issues X
P-D letter: Lake Saint Louis sexagenarian urges
Missourians to sign Medicaid-expansion petition X
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
KWMU: St. Louis on the Air: Event promo:
Wash U. Med School to host anti-Trump speaker; Jane Elliott
regurgitates Charlottesville hoax, other "racism" tropes
KWMU: Eric Schmitt joins state attorneys general
investigating Google
The Missouri Times: Rep. Holly Rehder (R-Sikeston)
launches campaign for SD 27: "We need to to be helping people
become self-sufficient"
The Missouri Times: Show Me Districts series:
Rep. Mike Stephens' (R-Bolivar) House District 128
The Missouri Times: Special session kicks off with
Wallingford introducing vehicle sales tax bill
AP: Missouri lawmakers take up sales tax break for car
trade-ins
P-D: House Democratic superminority to hold press
conference today to complain about special session, bemoan urban
criminals' homicidal behavior X
KWMU: It sounds like science fiction, but hyperloop in
Missouri could be reality in just 7 years
KWMU: CAFO issue still a hot topic among some in rural
Missouri
KC Star: Legal Aid of Western Missouri unhappy with
its success rate in Medicaid disability benefits cases X
Missourinet: Missouri State Penitentiary tours in
Jefferson City to resume, following May tornado
Fox News op-ed: U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler: The
U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is a deal Congress should support
P-D op-ed: Local environmental activist wants Ann
Wagner to support carbon fees X
Messenger: New report highlights failure of Missouri
to fund public defenders X
KC Star's Mara Rose Williams: Missouri's unfair
college aid system discriminates against urban students X
P-D letter: Clayton coed wants Blunt and Hawley to
support bill on education "gender gap" X
P-D letter: Chesterfield woman says Missouri
pro-choice activists are a militant minority
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Monday, September 9, 2019
Sedalia Democrat: Illegal alien Alejandro Alcala-Avala
charged with statutory rape, statutory sodomy and sexual molestation in
Pettis County
Columbia Missourian: Task Force 1 returns home after
aiding with relief in wake of Hurricane Dorian
The Missouri Times: Gov. Parson goes home to Bolivar
for gubernatorial campaign announcement: 'Now is the time to get
to work'
SNL: Gov. Parson announces run for full term for
governor X
SNL: Photo gallery: Gov. Parson on stage with
family; Supporters say Pledge of Allegiance; Former Gov.
John Ashcroft speaks; Protester who chooses to be obese holds
sign about health care; More X
KSMU: From his hometown, Gov. Parson announces bid for
second term
AP:
Gov. Parson announces 2020 bid to keep his job
P-D: Gov. Mike Parson, a cattle-raising former
sheriff, announces bid for 4-year term X
Missourinet: Preview: This week's special
legislative session
KWMU: House Democratic superminority plans to take
symbolic actions during special session, suggest legislation unrelated
to task at hand
CDT's Rudi Keller: State's low cigarette tax promotes
death from smoking X
SNL letter: Former Ozarks Greenways leader disagrees
with U.S. Rep. Billy Long on climate change X
P-D letter: Chesterfield septuagenarian alarmed by
HRCC's Casey Wheat's statement on campaign spending X
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Sunday, September 8,
2019
AP: Gov. Mike Parson to launch re-election bid today
AP: A look at recent pro-life laws across the
country; Comments from Campaign Life Missouri's Sam Lee
JCNT: Local lawmakers: Special session won't be
taxing X
JCNT: Missouri National Guard leadership transfers
during Saturday ceremony X
Washington Missourian editorial: Statewide
Medicaid-expansion proposal X
JCNT editorial: Gov. Parson should heed legal opinion
on Sunshine Law X
KC Star editorial: Gov. Mike Parson wants to reduce
gun violence without actually doing anything about guns X
P-D editorial: Gov. Parson should lead, not follow, in
response to St. Louis City's gun-violence crisis X
P-D's David Nicklaus: Higher tariffs put a squeeze on
Missouri cap company X
Waters: Since state lawmakers won't do the right
thing, it's up to Missouri voters to expand Medicaid X
CDT op-ed: Owner of "Namaste Health Clinic":
Rural Missouri needs Medicaid expansion X
KC Star op-ed: Rep. Sarah Unsicker (D-St. Louis
County): Federal judge's action on Missouri's eight-week abortion
ban a cause for celebration X
KC Star's Jason Hancock and Crystal Thomas: As Gov.
Parson kicks off re-election, voters should examine his campaign
contributions from Steve Tilley X
Joplin Globe op-ed: Missing moments with dear friend
Carol Stark X
P-D letter: Santa Cruz, Calif. septuagenarian
disagrees with Blunt on climate change X
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Saturday, September 7,
2019
KWMU: Sen. Blunt calls for more job training,
increased trade outside China
KWMU: Former right-hand-man to St. Louis County
Executive Steve Stenger (D) gets 15 months in prison for role in
pay-to-play scheme
AP: Former Stenger chief of staff sentenced to 15
months
P-D: Stenger's former chief of staff sentenced to 15
months in federal prison X
The Missouri Times: Kirkwood Democrat Kim Linhares to
run for Deb Lavender's House seat: "Because we are such a
superminority, this is when we need people to step up"
The Missouri Times: Profile: Women's
Foundation's Wendy Doyle
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of September 2, 2019
P-D: Preview: Next week's special legislative
session X
The Missouri Times: Missouri Lottery Commission faults
unregulated machines as detrimental to education funding
Brownfield Ag News: Judge overturns restraining order
on CAFO law
Missourinet: Missouri is giving away nine bridges for
free - with a catch
JCNT: Missouri State Penitentiary tours to resume in
October X
SNL: DHSS offering free mass vaccination event in
Ava; Restaurant employee had hepatitis A
X
P-D: Post-Dispatch building developer seeks tax
credits, subsidies to cover half of $70 million project X
SNL: Former News-Leader Editor David Stoeffler honored
for leaving 'lasting legacy for our children'
X
P-D: Man gets 30 days in jail, probation for throwing
bricks and tire iron at officers in Ferguson protest X
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Fog of
inaction: Missouri lawmakers - now stuck with unelected
'nonpartisan' demographer - can avoid further bad luck by taking stand
on marijuana X
JCNT editorial: Gov. Mike Parson, black lawmakers
working together on urban violence X
Messenger: Speaker of the House Elijah Haahr helps
constituents navigate Medicaid bureaucracy; After Springfield
family failed to provide state with basic paperwork, Haahr stepped in
to help X
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Friday, September 6, 2019
The Missouri Times: Federal government announces $1.8
billion grant to combat opioids: What this means for Missouri
The Missouri Times: Galloway accepting applications
for 'nonpartisan' state demographer
KC Star: Conservative Leadership PAC raking in big
bucks; Jim Lembke says group will help elect more conservatives
to state Senate X
P-D: St. Louis City Alderman Megan Green raising funds
to run in Democratic primary for Jamilah Nasheed's state Senate seat X
SNL: Preview: Next week's special legislative
session X
Columbia Missourian: Gov. Parson's financial aid
program gives education opportunities to Missouri adults
Missourinet: New Missouri law aims to shrink the
number of offenders locked up
Missourinet: Missouri Lottery Executive Director May
Scheve Reardon: I-44 corridor highlights problem with illegal
slot machines
P-D: Missouri Lottery says gas station gaming machines
taking toll on ticket sales
SNL: New rules from Missouri Department of
Conservation would broaden use of night-vision, thermal scopes to
control wild animal populations X
KWMU: Missouri clergy leaders believe Gov. Parson will
work to reduce gun violence
AP:
Gov. Parson, St. Louis City leaders meet to discuss urban violence
P-D: Gov. Parson pledges even more state resources to
help reduce urban violence X
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Missouri
PSC: September 4, 2019
KC Star editorial: Missouri lawmakers don't have sense
enough to expand Medicaid. Let voters decide.
X
P-D's David Nicklaus: With both fairness and revenue
at stake, Missouri lags in collecting online sales tax X
P-D op-ed: Former DPS Director Gregg Favre: Gov.
Parson and state departments can help stop urban violence X
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Thursday, September 5, 2019
Missourinet: Blunt, Graves question FEMA's handling of
flood aid
Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Ag Director Chris Chinn
says state's levee system, trade remain top priorities
Columbia Missourian: USDA data shows 'food insecurity'
down in Missouri
P-D: University of Missouri gets $5 million in federal
funds to address primary care doctor shortage
X
KWMU: Medicaid-expansion advocates seek signatures for
ballot initiative
The Missouri Times: Medicaid-expansion advocates seek
to get issue on 2020 ballot
SNL: Advocates for Medicaid expansion launch 2020
campaign X
AP: Advocates push to get Medicaid expansion on 2020
ballot
KC Star: Group launches petition campaign to put
Medicaid expansion on 2020 ballot X
The Missouri Times: Democrat Ryan Myers launches bid
for Kiki Curls' Senate seat
The Missouri Times: Republican Alex Riley looks to
replace term-limited Speaker Elijah Haahr
The Missouri Times: United for Missouri sues Office of
Administration over public records request
SNL: Medical pot: 'Exceptionally large number'
of applicants want a Missouri dispensary license X
The Missouri Times: Missouri Board of Pharmacy opens
applications for new drug take-back program to combat opioid crisis
The Missouri Times: Rep. Michael O'Donnell
(R-Oakville) joins parent group advocating for Boy Scouts
KWMU: Ameren Missouri proposes solar energy farms for
three rural cities
Columbia Missourian: Search begins for Governor's
Mansion Christmas tree
Missourinet: Missouri Dept. of Agriculture reports
significant drop in number of herbicide-drift complaints
Daily Journal: Feral hog trap demo; Experts from
MO Dept. of Conservation, USDA discuss managing population of
destructive animals
KWMU: Politically Speaking podcast: Rosenbaum,
staff journalists, "Sharing America" racism reporter discuss St. Louis
City's impressive homicide tally
P-D editorial: Video gamers claim it isn't gambling.
That's for Missouri regulators to decide. X
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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Missourinet: Hawley vows to be 'bulldog' about new
veterans' clinic opening delay
JCNT: Callaway County awaits FEMA assistance X
P-D: Stenger's chief of staff says Rochelle Walton
Gray had been bribed on mall redevelopment, document reveals;
Former state rep would be given "shops or something," and Democratic
campaign consultant Elbert Walton handed a "consulting" contract X
The Missouri Times: Sen. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis
City) fined for campaign finance bookkeeping errors
KWMU: St. Louis County voters to mostly use paper
ballots
Missourinet: Nestle Purina investing $115 million in
southeast Missouri plant; 30 new jobs coming
P-D: After complaints, Missouri accepts 119 marijuana
applications after deadline, rejects 20 X
Missourinet: First Family moves out of Governor's
Mansion for a major remodel
Missourinet: Parson and Missouri Legislative Black
Caucus discuss urban gun violence, agree to future meetings
KWMU: Black Caucus leaders get meeting with governor,
complain to reporters afterward
AP: Black Caucus gets meeting with Parson on urban gun
violence
P-D: After Nasheed asks, Senate President Pro Tem Dave
Schatz (R-Sullivan) says he'll consider panel on gun violence X
P-D: Ameren seeks to add three 'solar-plus-storage'
facilities in Missouri X
CDT: Gatehouse hires new state editor; Jim Van
Nostrand was previously editor of paper in Astoria, Oregon X
KC Star editorial: Gov. Parson is ignoring the AG and
withholding government records X
P-D letter: St. Louis County man uses sarcasm to
express anger at Parson over special session and urban gun violence X
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Tuesday, September 3, 2019
KWMU: Missouri secures another $21 million in federal
funding to replace rural bridges
Missourinet: Missouri Task Force One, Red Cross
volunteers deployed to help with Hurricane Dorian response
P-D: Missouri first responders head to Florida in
preparation for Hurricane Dorian X
KWMU: Dept. of Homeland Security to test 'smart
cities' emergency system with St. Louis City
Missourinet: Parson predicts improved economic results
for Missouri following state government reorganization
KWMU: New abortion restrictions take effect in
Missouri, minus 8-week ban
KC Star: Overview: Issues that led to next
week's special session on vehicle taxes X
KWMU: State program will subsidize hearing aids
KWMU: DHSS issues advisory for possible e-cigarette
health issues
Joplin Globe editorial: Heed MDC's warnings and
prepare for black bear safety X
P-D op-ed: BroadbandNow's Kendra Chamberlain:
Missouri's battleground for community broadband X
P-D letter: St. Louis City man disagrees with Parson
on gun control X
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Monday, September 2,
2019 Labor Day
Columbia
Missourian: Missouri's Task Force One, utility crews head to
Florida in advance of Hurricane Dorian
Washington
Post Magazine: Conservative Josh Hawley's crusade against Big Tech
The Arrow
(SEMO): Sen. Roy Blunt visits Southeast's drone program
Marshall
Democrat News: Blunt's Hannah Cleeton addresses Saline County
InterAgency Council
Columbia
Missourian: Labor Day 2019 finds historic local workforce,
jobless rates
St.
Joseph News-Press: GOP state Sens. Tony Luetkemeyer, Dan Hegeman
place wagers on upcoming local college football games X
P-D
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St. Joseph News-Press: Blunt discusses broadband
access in rural areas X
The Missouri Times: Profile: St. Louis Labor
Council's Pat White
The Missouri Times: This Week in the Governor's
Office: Week of August 26
The Missouri Times: Show-Me Institute sues Office of
Administration
St. Joseph News-Press: New state law to result in
early release of prisoners X
Columbia Missourian: Some local day care providers
complain about new state standards
JCNT: State researchers look to find out more about
chronic wasting disease X
JCNT editorial: Should the state own Missouri State
Penitentiary? X
The Missouri Times op-ed: Donna Lichtenegger:
Government benchmarking betrays free market
P-D letter: St. Louis County woman says NRA controls
Blunt, suggests senator's family might get caught in crossfire X
P-D letter: Chesterfield man says Post-Dispatch's
anti-police bias fans racial flames X
P-D letter: St. Louis County man says Post-Dispatch's
blatant bias puts it in the category of National Enquirer X
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