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Saturday, May 18
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P-D: McCaskill shines light on bonuses paid to top
federal employees
KC Star: Despite sequester, high-level federal
executives slated to get bonuses
KMOX: McCaskill calls for firing all involved in IRS
targeting scandal
P-D: KMOV, Larry Conners to meet Monday over IRS flap
Missourinet: Clay to give medal to black veteran in
St. Louis
KC Star: Profile: Despite what some lawmakers
suggest, Gov. Jay Nixon is busy behind the scenes
KSMU: Hospitals brace for impact of federal cuts, as
lawmakers wrap up session without Medicaid expansion
KC Star: Missouri General Assembly wraps up 'historic'
session
St. Louis Beacon: Session in review: Internal
GOP splits and guns dominated Missouri's legislative session
Missourinet: Nixon praises legislature for work on
budget, mental services, education; says it 'fell flat' on
Medicaid, tax credit reform
St. Louis Beacon: During final hours of session,
Missouri Senate kills tax credit, transportation tax proposals
P-D: Tax credit bill, sales tax hike fail as Missouri
legislators adjourn
Missourinet: Economic development bill major failure
on last day
Kraske: No tolls, no gas tax, no sales tax, so
... no new funding for roads
AP: Missouri lawmakers give mixed results on business
aid
AP: Lawmakers pass budget patch for kids' program
P-D: Senate advances gay rights bill for first time
ever
AP: Bill closes child abuse report loophole
KSMU: President Smart: A good legislative year
for Missouri State University
AP: Lawmakers approve election law change in event of
lt. gov. resignation
P-D: Liquor bill blocked at session's end
P-D: Legislature passes homebrewed beer bill
Drebes:
Former Dem fundraiser Vince Currao is back, lining up clients for 2014
cycle
Washington Missourian: Amtrak expects to keep route
between St. Louis and Kansas City
St. Louis Beacon: Shearwater charter school closing
its doors
P-D: One St. Louis charter school to close, another in
trouble
P-D: Koster's office to prosecute killer of Washington
Co. deputy
Joplin Globe: Koster files suit against California
contractor who scammed Joplin tornado victims
P-D editorial: Nixon should veto corporate welfare
tax-cut bill ASAP
JCNT editorial: A plane example of
micro-management: Legislature's transparent push to show Highway
Patrol who's in charge
KC Star editorial: Failure and inertia in Jefferson
City: Wrap-up list of Missouri GOP transgressions, including
Medicaid, taxes, campaign finance, guns
Messenger: Tim Jones gets it right on Second Injury
Fund; Robin Wright-Jones hardly an outlier with campaign-cash
shenanigans
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P-D: McCaskill tackling 'ghosts of earmarks past'
MSNBC: Video: McCaskill on sexual
assaults: It's time to "hold perpetrators accountable"
P-D: IRS abuses bring energy to Tea Party
movement; Comments from MOGOP chief Ed Martin
KMOX: KMOV-TV's Larry Conners on break after IRS
comments
P-D: Larry Conners off the air until further notice
after IRS flap
P-D: Sweeping federal rule changes could affect
hundreds of Missouri day cares
WGEM: McCaskill nominates local young man to West Point
SE
Missourian: Mark Mix talks right-to-work with Pachyderm
club; National leader says he doesn't want a statewide ballot
initiative on the issue
Shelly: Who needs legislators in the Do-It-Yourself
State? Legislators should take stand on issues like
transportation tax, not punt tough decisions to voters
KMOX: Labor protesters return to Soulard Jimmy
John's; No Jimmy John's employees join protesters
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates on House action,
every hour on the hour
The Missouri Times: Hourly updates on Senate action,
every hour on the hour
St. Louis Beacon: As clock ticks down, Missouri
General Assembly scrambles to pass - or kill - bills
P-D: Several issues left for Missouri Legislature on
final day of session
St. Louis Beacon: Photo essay: Pictures at a
legislative session
The Missouri Times: Speaker Tim Jones gives outlook on
final days of session
Missourinet: Funding for developmentally disabled,
blind still in question on final morning of session
St. Louis Beacon: After years of failure, Missouri
General Assembly fixes Second Injury Fund
Missourinet: Legislature overwhelmingly approves fix
to workplace injury issues
The Missouri Times: Transportation tax gets 100 votes
in House, then a Senate filibuster
AP: House passes new tax credit plan
Missourinet: Legislature shifts CCW permiting to
sheriffs
AP: Bill to let sheriffs print gun permits is sent to
Nixon
AP: Bill to curb welfare fraud sent to Nixon
SE
Missourian: United Way speaker seeks to debunk myths about
poverty; Donna Beegle says stereotype of poor as unmotivated
isn't necessarily true
The Missouri Times: Progress Missouri's vigil for
Medicaid
The Missouri Times: DNR omnibus bill with
punitive-damage caps goes to Nixon
AP: Bill lets state-school police write speeding
tickets
The Missouri Times: Fate of homebrew bill remains
unknown
AP: Low-performing KC charter school to close
Riverfront Times: Rep. Sue Allen (R-Town and Country)
discusses her anti-bullying bill, reacts to requests for specific
protections for LGBTQA kids
Riverfront Times: Marijuana decriminalization bill
finally gets hearing on last day of Missouri session
Riverfront Times: Prankster places dummy atop class
ceiling of Missouri House
AP: Koster seeks closer monitoring of ex-Mamtek CEO
P-D editorial: Want to judge the legislative
session? Ask the kids.
KC Star letter: Blunt and NRA
Washington Missourian letter: Missouri Budget
Project's Traci Gleason: Budget cuts are painful
SE
Missourian letter: ISRS as an investment
P-D letter: Local union boss disagrees with Speaker
Jones on unions
P-D letter: Supreme Court might have ruled 9-0 in
favor of patent rights in Monsanto case, but God will strike down with
great vengeance
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St. Louis Beacon: Senate-passed water resources bill
includes Mississippi River navigation study
Joplin Globe: Water coalition members recap trip
St. Louis Beacon: Blunt seeks groups directly affected
by IRS scrutiny
Roll Call: McCaskill mobilizing campaign supporters
against military sexual abuse
St. Louis Beacon: McCaskill wants 'systemic' changes,
criteria for military on sexual violence
Politico: Sexual assault scandal becomes a Pentagon
test
SE
Missourian: Steve Hodges endorsed by Jay Nixon; Jason Smith
endorsed by Sarah Palin
St. Louis Beacon: General Assembly scorecard:
What has passed, and what is yet to come
The Missouri Times: Update on House action:
Updated on the hour, every hour while House is in session
The Missouri Times: Update on Senate action:
Updated on the hour, every hour while Senate is in session
P-D: Senate advances compromise proposal to fund
threatened programs
Missourinet: House Republicans: Nixon switched
positions on new state office building
KC Business Journal: Missouri prevailing wage
legislation faces uncertain future (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
KC Star: I-70 upgrade in Missouri may take scenic
route to ballot
Washington Missourian: House approves transportation
sales tax bill
St. Louis Beacon: None for the road: Lamping
makes splash with filibuster against transportation sales tax
FOX4KC: Sister of dead MoDOT worker frustrated that
trial is taking so long (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
AP: Bill would stop scanning of personal documents
KWMU: Lawmakers send bill to Nixon that bans DOR from
scanning driver's license documents
Missourinet: Legislators move to reign in big buys by
Highway Patrol
KC Star: School district takeover bill goes to Nixon
AP: Lawmakers say criminal code overhaul must wait
P-D: Limit on lead contamination suit clears Missouri
Legislature
AP: Bill would limit lawsuits over lead contamination
Missourinet: Lawmakers give protection to Doe Run
AP: Bill allows for return of Blue Book, to be sold by
nonprofit organization
The Missouri Times: Senate hears bill with franchise
liquor language attached, lays bill over
St. Louis Beacon: Slay leads St. Louis entourage
making one last pitch in state Capitol for tax credits, Major Brands
Mahoney: Nixon signs bill blocking North Kansas City
Hospital sale
Missourinet: Right to farm amendment goes to the people
Riverfront Times: HSUS says Missouri legislation will
block anti-cruelty efforts; Bill one of last for Rep. Jason Smith
before moving on to Congress
Riverfront Times: Rep. Stacey Newman (D), "Coalition
for a Secure Driver's License" say GOP position on guns and IDs makes
state vulnerable to terrorism
The Missouri Times: Chuck Gatschenberger to run for
state Senate
TonysKansasCity.com: More on Rizzo-Royster fight and
KC Star coverage
The Missouri Times: Photo gallery: Agriculture
barbecue
The Missouri Times: Reps. Ron Hicks, Shawn Rhoads,
Crissy Sommer and Mark Parkinson have Jeff City dwelling broken into
P-D: Ethics violations could cost ex-state Sen. Robin
Wright Jones (D-St. Louis City) $217K; Senator purchased 'campaign
clothing,' wine, made 43 trips to Schnucks
St. Louis Beacon: Jefferson Bank demonstrations:
a civil disobedience movement like no other in St. Louis area
TonysKansasCity.com: Community counts on Rep. Emanuel
Cleaver to lead upcoming KC Council district change
Riverfront Times: Lee Enterprises, parent company of
Post-Dispatch, lays off 20 at Suburban Journals; "It's just
really sad," says casualty of corporate profit-chasing
Joplin Globe editorial: Big Brother looms large;
Blunt is right - Obama should ask for IRS chief's resignation
JCNT editorial: Lawmakers improve lives with foster
care provision
KC Star's Sanchez: Missouri can shoulder some blame
for reassessment mess
SE
Missourian letter: Rep. Kathy Swan, right to work and organized
labor's "minions"
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St. Louis Beacon: Blunt's Missouri "hold" fits wider
GOP strategy to block EPA nominee
St. Joseph News-Press: McCaskill wants more scrutiny
of water project backlog
Missourinet: Blunt, McCaskill call for firings in wake
of IRS scandal
Riverfront Times: KMOV-TV's Larry Conners says IRS
might have targeted him after 2012 Obama interview
KMOV: Video: Larry Conners addresses his
Facebook post on IRS and Obama
P-D: Larry Conners backs off IRS 'hammering' charge
KSMU: Springfield receives $400,000 grant from EPA for
brownfields cleanup, development
St. Louis Beacon/KWMU: "Politically Speaking"
podcast: Mannies & Rosenbaum on McCaskill's reaction to IRS
bias, MO legislative session, campaign finance
KSGF: Audio: Americans for Prosperity's Patrick
Werner shares thoughts on Missouri Republicans' performance in
legislative session, Nixon's efforts, more
AP: Missouri jobless rate falls to 6.6 percent;
state reports payrolls expand by 12K jobs
Missourinet: Rep. Chris Kelly (D) welcomed back to
House following heart attack
Missourinet: Kinder: Gun manufacturers, Missouri
welcomes you
AP: Missouri Medicaid director out of a job; Ian
McCaslin leaves as director of MO HealthNet, won't say whether he was
fired or if he resigned
KSMU: After rallying support for First Steps, Nixon
vetoes repeal of elderly/disabled tax break
KC Star: Nixon urges full funding for First Steps
Missourinet: Nixon vetoes repeal of senior renters tax
credit
KWMU: Nixon vetoes bill that would eliminate tax break
for elderly renters
P-D: Nixon vetoes repeal of renters tax credit
AP: Nixon vetoes repeal of senior, disabled tax break
Priddy: A compendium of the most annoying,
nails-on-a-chalkboard cliches used by Missouri legislators, 1997 vs.
2013
The Missouri Times: Update on House action: Page
updated on the hour, every hour while House is in session
The Missouri Times: Update on Senate action:
Page updated on the hour, every hour while Senate is in session
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Senate at the center of
final-week debates, including highway tax, liquor and First Steps
Missourinet: The fix is in for Second Injury
Fund; Bill passes Senate overnight, could be passed by House today
AP: Senate passes bill aimed at injured workers
KWMU: Final version of workers' comp/Second Injury
Fund fix passes Missouri Senate, heads to House
AP: Missouri House endorses transportation sales tax
Missourinet: Transportation sales tax pushed to
shoulder in Senate; Kehoe believes it still has a chance of
passage
KMWU: Group of Republicans block 1-cent transportation
sales tax
St. Louis Beacon: Gun fight continues in Missouri
House, which votes to restrict state-federal cooperation
AP: Missouri House OKs quicker intervention in failing
school districts
KC Star: School takeover bill may come too late for KC
TonysKansasCity.com: Show-Me a tardy takeover attempt
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri moving to test current
teachers, screen future ones
KSPR: Lawmakers consider bill to change foster care
for teens
The Missouri Times: MATA, Doe Run could clash on
punitive damages
P-D: Doe Run seeks limit on civil lawsuits for lead
contamination
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri's urban-rural fight over
animals headed once again to the ballot
KWMU: Missouri General Assembly approves right to farm
and ranch with 'modern methods,' will go on Missouri ballot
P-D: Legislature sends 'right to farm' to Missouri
voters
AP: Legislature approves bill to tighten criteria for
election recounts
KWMU: Liquor franchise legislation stalls in Missouri
Senate
P-D: Senators block liquor legislation
The Missouri Times: Brother-in-law of Sen. Scott Rupp
passes away unexpectedly
The Missouri Times: From the projects to the
Capitol: Jamilah Nasheed profile, part two
The Missouri Times: Legislator profile: Caleb
Jones
Drebes:
Lembke says he was called to lobby as if it were a ministry
Riverfront Times: Koster, Bridgeton landfill company
come to terms on plan to eliminate odor
KWMU: Agreement reached on Bridgeton landfill, but
questions still remain
P-D: Company, Koster agree on plans to fix landfill
KY3: MO DNR issues violation against Halfway
Packing; countless dead animals exposed to stormwater
Riverfront Times: HSUS: Missouri still has
nation's worst puppy mills
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Large cell towers
require scrutiny; Nixon should side with cities and veto bill
JCNT editorial: Nixon's inaction stalls Missouri State
Penitentiary redevelopment project
The Missouri Times op-ed: Sen. Claire McCaskill:
Missouri creates a new national standard in sexual assault prevention
in the military
Politico op-ed: McCaskill and Sen. Rob Portman
(R-OH): In support of tariff reform
P-D op-ed: MATA's Scott Wilson: Second Injury
Fund: Legislature, Missouri businesses are deadbeats to disabled
workers
Columbia Missourian's J. Karl Miller: Phantom
roadblocks to acquiring a Missouri photo ID
KC Star letter: Nurse supports Medicaid expansion
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St. Louis Beacon: McCaskill issues scathing rebuke of
IRS' scrutiny of conservative groups, weighs in on Benghazi
KWMU: McCaskill: IRS officials should be fired
for targeting conservative groups
P-D: McCaskill: 'Someone should be fired' over
IRS harassment
KMOX: McCaskill calls for firings in wake of IRS
scandal
SE
Missourian: Jason Smith earns NRA endorsement ahead of June 4
election
KY3: Ozarks woman who claims she was sexually
assaulted in the military 30 years ago is encouraged by calls for
change; McCaskill leads effort
AP: 6 marshals honored for bravery; McCaskill
presents Congressional Badge
Messenger: Time for new Nixon to unleash old Nixon,
take a stand for Missouri
KOLR:
Nixon to push for "First Steps" funding during Springfield visit
KSHB: Missouri budget creates tough choice between
children, seniors (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
KC Star: Uncle of Rep. John Rizzo (D-Kansas City)
pleads guilty in KC vote fraud case
Shelly: Yes, the Rizzo-Royster race turned on vote
fraud
TonysKansasCity.com: KC Star's "reporting" in
Rizzo-Royster case is more like blogging: Fact-checking the
dead-tree coverage
TonysKansasCity.com: More fact-checking of the
Rizzo-Royster converage, including exclusive quote from Rizzo
AP: Budget surpluses spur tension in some GOP states
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri legislators shift from
state budget to other issues for final week
P-D: Senators work on back-up plan ahead of Nixon's
anticipated veto
The Missouri Times: Hourly recap of House
action:
Check back every hour, on the hour, for updates
The Missouri Times: Hourly recap of Senate
action: Check back every hour, on the hour, for updates
AP: Missouri bill would require worker consent for
union fee collections
P-D: Legislation would require annual consent for
public employees' union dues deductions
Missourinet: 'Paycheck protection' legislation sent to
governor
AP: Missouri Senate Dems block vote on prevailing wage
bill
AP: Local lawmakers look to reinstate local tax for
vehicles
The Missouri Times: Observations on last week's
education-vote drama: Nasheed vs. Keith English (D), Barnes (R)
on Marshall (R), Jones' perceived reaction
SE
Missourian: Commond Core opponents form group to educate public
Suburban Journal: Out with MAP, in with Smarter
Balanced test; New rubric in pilot program now, will replace MAP
in 2014-15 school year
The Missouri Times: Homebuilder incentive awaits third
Senate hearing
Riverfront Times: Sen. Kurt Schaefer (R-Columbia) on
gun-control laws and Missouri's efforts to block feds
Missourinet: Criminal code revision dies
AP: Missouri lawmakers approve tougher abortion drug
rules
Missourinet: Legislature sends 'webcam abortion' ban
to the Governor
The Missouri Times: Senate leadership expects to hear
SB114, with franchise liquor amendment, during the session's final week
AP: Bill limits lawsuits by uninsured drivers
AP: Missouri Senate defeats study of death-penalty
costs
AP: Bill lets foster-care kids re-enter system
AP: Bill would let veterans get in-state tuition
AP: Lawmakers approve disaster fund
P-D: Koster expected to announce progress in resolving
Bridgeton landfill issue
Joplin Globe op-ed: Rep. Bill White (R-Joplin):
More about tax-credit amendment
Joplin Globe op-ed: Rep. Billy Long wrong on federal
sequester; Missouri GOP wrong on health care
P-D op-ed: Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce (D-St.
Louis): To give victims certainty, lawmakers must act, define
range of punishment for juvenile criminals
P-D letter: GOP gambit on seniors vs. children is
blackmail
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The Maneater: Ten protesters congregate at bus stop,
ask McCaskill and Blunt to close Guantanamo Bay
Rosenbaum: Senate Democrats hold their fire on
foreclosure mediation legislation; Chappelle-Nadal discusses
communications "disconnect" between Dems and Nixon
The Missouri Times: The week in the Missouri
Senate: May 5-9
The Missouri Times: The week in the Missouri
House: May 5-9
Missourinet: The end is near, as legislators wrap up
session; Audio from Dempsey's media avail
Missourinet: Democrats rail on proposal of new state
office building
SE
Missourian: Kathy Swan stands behind support of school
administrators evaluation bill
The Missouri Times: Association Profile: Chris
Marsh and the Missouri Physical Therapy Association
SE
Missourian: Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work Fund,
to speak to Southeast Missouri Pachyderms in Dexter on Thursday
KC Star: Commuters want rail service, but Amtrak route
to St. Louis is in jeopardy
TonysKansasCity.com: Even the media notices:
Rail transit in Missouri burns up an endless amount of cash without any
payoff
KMOX: Koster's Bridgeton Landfill lawsuit begins today
St. Louis Beacon: St. Charles County Republican
Central Committee votes to oppose all smoking bans
P-D editorial: Institutions protect themselves in
sexual abuse cases; McCaskill "emerging as a hero"
JCNT editorial: State services, employees hit in
crossfire of spite-based budgeting
P-D letter: Blunt, visa waivers and Israel
SE
Missourian letter: Missouri GOP legislators and the Supremacy
Clause
P-D letter: Staffer's attempted hacking shows Speaker
Jones' hypocrisy
JCNT letter: Luetkemeyer's support for sequester cuts
hurts programs that help kids
SE
Missourian letter: Assistant Cape Superintendent Sherry
Copeland: Common Core standards are a common-sense approach
SE
Missourian letter: Jackson School Board member Alaina
Hinze: Common Core brings more concerns than suggested benefits
JCNT letter: State sells its soul by accepting Common
Core
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P-D: Report: Boeing to employ 600 at St. Louis
IT 'center of excellence'
AP: Many issues left for Legislature in final week
AP: Summary of session's major bills
P-D: Tax credit dispute at top of agenda for Missouri
Legislature's last week
Washington Missourian: Transportation tax has good
chance, says Rep. Dave Schatz (R-Sullivan)
Joplin Globe: Two legislative proposals could provide
millions for state parks, colleges
P-D: Backlash of new education standards is rooted in
suspicion of federal government
P-D: Liquor fight pits local distributor against
industry giants
TonysKansasCity.com: Rep. Brandon Ellington (D-Kansas
City) to host Capitol birthday party for Malcolm X
P-D: Lee Enterprises lays off 20 employees as it
ceases publication of Suburban Journal West and Suburban Journal South
P-D op-ed: EPA regional administrator: EPA legal
threat against MSD keeps sewage at bay - and is done for the kids
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KWMU: Missouri towers slated to close due to sequester
to stay open, for now
AP: IRS apologizes for targeting Tea Party
groups; Comments from Blunt, Hartzler
St. Louis Beacon: McCaskill vows to probe
administration's interference in inspector's work
KOLR:
Secretary of the Army visits Fort Leonard Wood, talks sexual assaults
St. Louis Beacon: At Webster University, David Axelrod
blasts political 'snipers on rooftops' attacking health-care law
KWMU: Former Obama adviser David Axelrod calls out
'snipers' for not implementing Obamacare
St. Louis Beacon: National small business conference
for veterans will be held in St. Louis; Obama appointee Tommy
Sowers visits St. Louis
P-D: Veterans small business conference coming to St.
Louis
KC Star: Nixon hints veto of Missouri tax cuts in
border war with Kansas
P-D: Nixon expresses 'serious concerns' over tax cut
plan, hints at veto
KWMU: Nixon criticizes tax cut bill, 8-month DMV
funding
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon expresses 'serious concerns'
over tax cut plan, criticizes budget bills
AP: Nixon likely to veto Missouri income tax cut plan
AP: Nixon signs bill letting kids work on family farms
KOLR:
West Plains man offers land to lure gunmakers to Missouri;
Kinder, Sen. Mike Cunningham (R) support effort
TonysKansasCity.com: KC Public Schools students
protest as youth fights with school janitor
Drebes:
Missouri House Democratic Campaign Committee searching for someone to
take executive director job
Riverfront Times: Verizon Amphitheater denies Show-Me
Cannabis booth space at Pointfest
KC Star: Jackson County gets new judge; Nixon
appoints Mary F. Weir (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
SE
Missourian: Casino visitors, revenue down in April
P-D: Lumiere jackpots highlight montly casino reports
KMOV: Local school district wants pause in Bridgeton
landfill project
KMOX: Raw sewage leaking into Fee Fee creek, though no
threat present to any drinking water; MO DNR has been contacted
Washington Missourian editorial: Military sexual
assaults: Obama mimics McCaskill's concern on the issue, but
needs to follow through
Washington Missourian editorial: GOP Reps. Dave
Schatz, Dave Hinson set good example: Be bold, put sales tax for
transportation on the ballot
Joplin Globe editorial: Keep tax credits for gun and
ammunition manufacturers holstered
KC Star editorial: Weekly list of Missouri GOP
transgressions: Tax cuts, spending cuts, gun/Sharia/Agenda 21
bills
P-D editorial: Fast food and the future of the working
class
Messenger: Sen. Ryan Silvey (R) discovers a distaste
for using the disabled as political leverage
JCNT letter: Yes on ISRS
JCNT letter: Ameren employee supports ISRS
JCNT letter: No on ISRS
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AP: Blunt continues hold on EPA nominee, uses leverage
to speed up work on St. Johns Bayou/New Madrid Floodway
AP: Rain causes worst drought area to move
westward; Missouri sees notable improvements in drought condition
this week
AP: EPA, other agencies expand urban waters
effort; Big River and Meramec River near St. Louis added to list
Missourinet: Kinder honors senior volunteers for their
service
St. Louis Beacon/KWMU: Politically Speaking
(audio): Mannies & Rosenbaum discuss threatened DMV layoffs,
tax cuts, fast food strike
St. Louis Beacon: Efforts to extend
anti-discrimination protections to gays gain big-name backers in state
Capitol
KC Star: Missouri lawmakers pass previously-abandoned
bills on guns, Islamic law and U.N. resolution
KCUR: Shape of debate in Missouri: Tinfoil hats
and toy helicopters (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
97.1FM (St. Louis): Audio: Dana Loesch talks to
Tim Jones about Tony Messenger, Post-Dispatch editorial on DOR flap
KC Business Journal: Todd Graves' firm lands business
serving as counsel for DOR investigation; Graves: "We've
become the go-to Republican firm" (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
St. Louis Beacon: Legislature passes budget with
provisions raising Nixon's ire; Lawmakers sound off on Nixon
layoff threat
KWMU: Scaled-back tax cut legislation sent to Nixon
P-D: Missouri Legislature sends governor difficult
choice in budget
P-D: Lawmakers send tax cuts to Nixon's desk
AP: Missouri budget creates choice between seniors,
kids
Missourinet: For positioning low-income tax breaks vs.
First Steps, some lawmakers unhappy with Schaefer and Stream; Silvey
filibusters budget bill
AP: Lawmakers approve income tax cut
AP: Bullet points on tax-cut legislation
AP: House roll call on income tax vote; 3 Dems
(Hodges, Roorda, Schieffer) vote yes; 3 Rs (Fowler, Gannon,
Hampton) vote no
AP: Lawmakers vote to repeal renters tax break
AP: House roll call on repeal of renters tax
break; Dems stick to party line, 17 Republicans join them to vote
no
Missourinet: House debates funding cut to Division of
Motor Services
KMOX: Audio: Sen. Eric Schmitt on GOP tax
cuts; Jones talks tax cuts, targets Tony Messenger; Jobs
With Justice's Martin Rafanan on fast-food protest
AP: Lawmakers send capital-projects bill to Nixon
Riverfront Times: Gun control Dems find no humor in
Rep. Caleb Jones' joke about armed sheriffs watching House
Missourinet: Right to Farm bill righted; debate
next week
Riverfront Times: "Seersucker Caucus" continues to do
its thing
P-D: Highway spending plan has money to ease Highway
141 backups; St. Louis area will see many improvements
Kirksville Daily Express: MoDOT leaving Adair
behind; Five-year plan includes few local projects, no mention of
Corridor to Capitols
TonysKansasCity.com: Westside residents rage as MoDOT
turns downtown neighborhood into dumping ground; Pics of piled-up
debris
KWMU: Missouri Department of Revenue posts more air
sampling results from Bridgeton Landfill but still won't discuss them
P-D: Hundreds protest for higher wages at fast-food
restaurants; Protests "appeared to have little impact on
lunchtime rush"
KSDK: Videos: Fast food workers organize
walkouts to demand higher wages
Olivette Patch: Union push to organize fast-food
workers hits St. Louis
University City Patch: Fast-food rally takes to the
streets in the Delmar Loop
KMOX: Audio: Charlie Brennan talks to Tom
Schweich about Brentwood audit
TonysKansasCity.com: Car trouble for Mayor Sly and son
foreshadows future police local control conflict
P-D editorial: Missouri House wins the triple crown of
right-wing porn: Hardcore action on guns, Sharia, Agenda 21
Shelly: Shooting blanks at a trumped-up Missouri
concealed carry records flap
Joplin Globe op-ed: Pros and cons of Common Core
SE
Missourian letter: At Common Core meetings, DESE seeks to limit
audience participation
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Missourinet: Blunt, McCaskill comment on Benghazi
attacks
St. Louis Beacon: McCaskill on the offense in debate
on sexual assault in military
Missourinet: McCaskill continues to take a hard-line
stance against sexual assault in the military
KOLR:
McCaskill pushes for answers about military sexual assaults
SE Missourian: 8th District campaign hits TV
P-D: Rep. Jason Smith launches first TV commercial in
8th District race
AP: President Clinton stops by KC to pick up Truman
award
KC Star: Clinton talks of togetherness in receiving
Truman award at KC luncheon
P-D: St. Louis to host CPAC political convention in
September
Politico: Missouri nixes Medicaid expansion
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon says he'll order layoffs over
partial funding for Division of Motor Vehicles
P-D: Nixon threatens layoffs over partial budget for
driver's licenses
Priddy: A stoney silence: Schaefer takes 14
questions, answers them all; Nixon would accept none.
AP: Bill would nullify federal gun control laws
KC Star: Missouri Senate passes tax cut bill
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Senate advances tax cut
legislation; Cuts curtailed if state income drops
P-D: Missouri income tax cut moves closer to passage
AP: Senate advances income tax cut to counter Kansas
AP: Roll call vote on tax cut
The Missouri Times: Missouri set to renew New Markets,
first reformed tax credit program
P-D: House speaker loses again in bid to overhaul
educator evaluations
The Missouri Times: Education reform bill backed by
Jones loses after close, tense vote
AP: Missouri House defeats evaluations for principals
Missourinet: A second attempt at education reform
fails in the House
The Missouri Times: House passes franchise liquor
language as an amendment
St. Louis Beacon: Liquor issue moves to state Senate,
after House strongly backs Major Brands
P-D: Missouri lawmakers advance liquor, homebrewed
beer legislation
KC Star: Missouri House passes bill protecting state
liquor wholesalers
Missourinet: Right to Farm is wrong approach, say
critics
AP: Bill to mandate newborn heart screening
Riverfront Times: Planned Parenthood says GOP bill
would make it harder to access "abortion pill"
P-D: Legislature sends bills barring Agenda 21, Sharia
Law to governor
AP: Bill targeting "Agenda 21" heads to Nixon
AP: Bill from Nieves prohibits foreign laws
Riverfront Times: Rep. Rick Stream defends anti-Islam
e-mail, says not his words, but is "interesting"
The Missouri Times: Photo gallery: The
Seersucker Caucus
Riverfront Times: Another pic from last week's
legislative softball game; "Military Mafia" t-shirt depicted a
rifle
AP: Missouri prosecutors gain new legal protections if
they lie
The Nation: Fast-food workers strike in St. Louis,
want $15/hr.; Comments from Jobs With Justice's Lara Granich
P-D: Video: Organizers say St. Louis fast food
strike to spread; Rasheen Aldridge on working for hourly
wages: "It's almost like new-day slavery"
St. Louis Beacon: Two-day protests at area fast-food
restaurants part of national labor push; Comments from Shermale
Humphrey, Alexius Mason, others
KTVI: Video: Fast food workers demand change,
walk out on jobs; Comments from Sharmale [sic?] Humphrey, Mahogany Roberts,
others
KMOX: Hundreds of fast food workers strike; Jobs
With Justice's Martin Rafanan suggests consumers wouldn't mind paying
additional $.25 per sandwich
KMOV: More than 20 fast food restaurants around St.
Louis expected to strike today; Comments from Jobs With Justice,
Rasheen Aldridge, others
Drebes:
Stenger campaign finance report shows polling for county exec race
KC Star editorial: McCaskill leads the charge against
military sexual assaults
Sanchez: We can hold Missouri teachers accountable
without help from politicians
KC Star letter: Income taxes and revenue; Blunt
supports NRA and Missouri-based Monsanto
SE
Missourian letter: Common Core "will indoctrinate our children
into leftist ideology"
Washington Missourian letter: Legislators who support
vouchers are hurting public schools
P-D letter: Lines of credit at Missouri casinos
JCNT letter: ISRS good for Missouri
JCNT letter: ISRS bad for Missouri
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St. Louis Beacon: Senate approves Internet tax
bill; McCaskill and Blunt vote yes, Clay and Wagner yet to
disclose their position
KMBC: Local businesses talking about what Internet
sales tax bill would mean for them (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
KC Star: Medicare fraud targets seniors;
McCaskill takes on unscrupulous companies profiting from Medicare
programs
KC Star: Medicare anti-fraud effort has Missouri
roots; St. Louis doctor learned of equipment fraud, sent letter
to HHS and McCaskill
KWMU: McCaskill holds hearing on 'kafkaesque' credit
report system
St. Louis Beacon: McCaskill bashes credit reporting
firms for errors hurting consumers
P-D: McCaskill blocks astronaut's promotion in drive
to curb sexual assaults
Washington Post: Obama delivers blunt message on
sexual assaults in military; Comments from McCaskill
Helling: McCaskill becomes a lead voice on sexual
assault in the military
AP: U.S. Dept. of Labor seeks to protect ag workers in
Missouri; Intent is to safeguard against violation of
migrant-worker, visa, sanitation laws
AP:
Wet spring brings troubling start to corn planting
SE
Missourian: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's public comment
period on cave-dwelling fish opens
SE
Missourian: Author speaks on modern U.S. politics to SEMO
Pachyderm Club; Former congressional candidate Bill Federer draws
50 in Cape
Drebes:
Shakeup at Hancock's new firm; Recently-acquired employees fired
after confronting Rex Elsass about personal behavior, financial
stability of firm
Mahoney: Todd Graves named counsel to Jones'
data-scanning panel
KC Star: Todd Graves to serve as special counsel to
panel looking into gun-permit controversy
KOAM: Missouri Speaker Tim Jones says committee is
investigating governor's office
AP: Missouri bill would require notification if data
breach
Missourinet: House-Senate committee proposes one-third
cut to Revenue Department
P-D: Missouri lawmakers advance budget proposal
AP: Senate poised to pass income tax cut plan
The Missouri Times: Senators talk tax credits, reform
The Missouri Times: Physical therapy accessibility and
co-pay legislation sent to the governor
P-D: Casino industry loses bid to extend credit
AP: Missouri Senate panel mulls criminal code overhaul
AP: Senate passes abortion drug restrictions
Missourinet: Lawmakers: 'Right to farm'
legislation not likely to pass
St. Louis Beacon/KWMU: Audio: Mannies discusses
budget surplus, "alcohol wars"
The Missouri Times: Staff profile: Caroline
Lynch, legislative assistant to Rep. Donna Pfautsch (R-Lee's Summit)
Joplin Globe: Nixon visits Jasper High School, touts
A+ program
Suburban Journals: Common Core meeting draws skeptical
audience; Behavior at Lindbergh meeting devolves to shouting,
allegations of Obamacare
St. Louis Beacon: State audit finds a flood of
financial issues in city of Brentwood
P-D: Schweich confident Brentwood can rectify problems
cited in audit
KMOV: State audit gives Brentwood a "poor" rating
P-D: Bridgeton residents get offer to move to hotels
because of landfill stench; MO DNR comments on factors affecting
odiferous emanations
P-D editorial: Speaker must be held accountable for
House hacking; Jones won't give up name of his staffer
JCNT editorial: Legislature should approve 'priority'
public safety measure: Extend closure of security plans for
public buildings
SE
Missourian editorial: A+ program good for students
McClellan: Want the St. Louis area to be
smarter? Fix health care; Sinquefield could make a
difference, if he wanted
Joplin Globe op-ed: Phill Brooks: Egg bill an
example of legislative tactics
Columbia Missourian's David Rosman: Speaker Tim Jones'
staffer, computer hacking and plausible deniability
P-D op-ed: Obscure Missouri Supreme Court ruling
allows for reunification of St. Louis City and St. Louis County
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AP:
Rising river again causing concern in Southeast Missouri
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Missourian: Corps of Engineers awaits Indiana bat habitat survey
to begin dredging drainage channels; Local officials appeal to
McCaskill, Blunt
Washington Post: McCaskill blocks general's
promotion; Lt. Gen. Susan J. Helms dismissed a sexual-assault
verdict
P-D: Audit points to $337,000 in improper St. Louis
Head Start expenditures
Riverfront Times: Gun-control group accuses Roy Blunt
of siding with NRA on gun issues
St. Louis Beacon: Bipartisan panel to look into
controversy over scanning of gun permits
KWMU: Jones unveils new committee, says attempt to
access CCW list was part of House investigation
KFVS: Video: Speaker Tim Jones announces special
committee; Comments from Jones, Stoddard County Prosecuting
Attorney Russ Oliver
KY3: House committee formed to investigate MO DOR
The Missouri Times: Tim Jones announces committee to
investigate DOR scandal
Missouri Digital News: Speaker Tim Jones forms
committee to probe revenue department scandal
SE
Missourian: Special committee to look into document scanning
decision
Missourinet: Committee will investigate document
scans, retention
AP:
Speaker Tim Jones defends staffer's repeated attempts to access gun list
KMOX: Audio: Jones speaks to Hancock &
Kelley about DOR scandal, says bipartisan committee will eliminate
distractions for final two weeks of session
AP: Missouri prevailing wage overhaul sent to governor
St. Louis Beacon: Second Injury Fund among key
business issues as General Assembly heads into last two weeks
The Missouri Times: ISRS legislation stalls in Senate
The Missouri Times: Gas ISRS could face tougher time
in House than Senate
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri Senate deals big blow to
local foreclosure mediation ordinances
AP: Bill would end foreclosure mediations
Missourinet: New House tax deduction hits wall in
Senate
The Missouri Times: Education bill stalls despite
backing from Jones
St. Louis Beacon: Western Governors U. gets warm
welcome in Missouri - mostly
Missourinet: Missouri Kids First won't support bill
that makes changes to sex offender registry
Riverfront Times: Liquor wars at the Legislature
intensify
AP: Missouri lawmakers approve naming bridge for Musial
Suburban Journals profile: Julie Eckstein: St.
Charles County's new health director returns to her roots
The Missouri Times: From the projects to the
Capitol: Jamilah Nasheed profile, part one of two
Rosenbaum: Bob Onder looking to replace Rupp in
Senate; GOP primary could also include Gatschenberger, Vicki
Schneider
AP: Missouri celebrates centennial of Capitol
construction
KWMU: MoDOT, others urge cyclist and pedestrians to
"be brave," advocate for safer roads
KMOX: No letup in Slay fundraising - even after big
win; Slay campaign holds victory celebration fundraiser in Forest
Park
P-D editorial: Paranoia about "Common Core" is a lousy
way to fix schools
SE
Missourian editorial: Optimist Youth in Government Day
SE
Missourian op-ed: Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder responds to Aycock op-ed
on right to work: Some facts on right to work states
Horrigan: Casino limits, Jamilah Nasheed, and Lil Wayne
P-D op-ed: Ladue doctor: The conservative case
for expanded Medicaid
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Missourian: 8th District profile: Libertarian Bill Slantz
SE
Missourian: Air quality education moves forward; Committee
presents "Plan Forward" document to EPA
AP: Joplin prepares to mark its own two-year tornado
anniversary
The Missouri Times: Legislature truly agrees on
HB315; Ten health care bills put into one omnibus package
receives final approval
AP: Lawmakers must finalize budget this week
AP: Analysis: Concerns remain on Missouri
vehicle sales tax
Missourinet: Pass a "scan ban" law, says Office of
Administration director
P-D: Bill would let Missouri casinos extend credit to
gamblers
KC Star: Missouri lawmakers face furious debate over
alcohol regulation
St. Louis Beacon: New university for Missouri -
Western Governors University - gets big backing
AP: Lawsuit filed over education initiative petition
Drebes:
Kander's office approves petition initiative for circulation dealing
with teacher evaluation
The Missouri Times: Lobbyist profile: Lea Crusey
of Michelle Rhee's "Students First"
The Missouri Times: Fee agents create new association
The Missouri Times: Association profile:
Missouri Farm Bureau
P-D editorial: For Legislature's final two
weeks: 1.) Limit speeding cameras; 2.) Stop bad utility
bill; 3.) Pass bond issue for jobs
KC Star's Sanchez: Notes from Cleaver's immigration
forum
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Jane Cunningham:
Three cheers for Speaker Tim Jones' leadership on education
St. Louis Beacon op-ed: Common Coredom:
Missourians should work together to say "down with Big Curriculum, Big
Testing and Big Data"
JCNT letter: Retiree responds to anti-Luetkemeyer
letter
JCNT letter: State revenues raise exuberance for
capital improvements
JCNT letter: Response to Schweich's criticism of Nixon
disaster travel
P-D letter: Nixon should call special session for
Medicaid expansion
JCNT letter: Hospital execs support Medicaid expansion
JCNT letter: CCW list, DMV funding and legislative
vindictiveness
P-D letter: Mid-East Area Agency on Aging opposes cuts
to its meals-on-wheels program
JCNT letter: Common Core standards
P-D letter: Motorcycle helmets and cost of head-trauma
care
JCNT letter: Missourians for Fair Competition's Ed
Rhode on liquor-franchise legislation
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AP:
Midwest rivers will rise again, just not as high
TonysKansasCity.com: Cleaver's KC town hall on
comprehensive immigration reform tackles the issue of black and Latino
unity
Missourinet: Criminal code rewrite still has a chance
Joplin Globe: Common Core standards draw supporters,
critics
St. Joseph News-Press: Controversial education bill
still alive
Drebes:
Children's Education Alliance publishes A-to-F list of public schools'
grades
P-D: Normandy High: The most dangerous school in
the area
AP: Missouri lawmakers mull transportation legislation
AP: Lawmakers consider changes to commercial drivers'
licenses
P-D: Motorcycle checkpoints targeted in legislature
AP: Moberly dismissed from Mamtek investor lawsuit
SE
Missourian: At Cape County Republican Women's Club, Christopher
Limbaugh speaks on workload of prosecuting attorney, crime rate
P-D: Missouri coroners question practices of forensics
company operator
SE
Missourian editorial: Obamacare mandate forces hospitals to
assess area's health - and the results aren't good
JCNT editorial: Retain helmet restrictions
KC Star letter: Teacher dislikes proposal to tie her
evaluation to student success
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KWMU: No relief for swollen rivers with four inches of
rain forecast for the weekend
TonysKansasCity.com: Ike Skelton hospitalized in France
Columbia Missourian: Local Head Start program to
accept fewer students after budget cuts
KWMU: Case workers plea for federal funds; City
resident contracts AIDS, wants medical treatment and food stamps
AP: House computer sought access to gun permit holders
KCTV: Plan to eliminate "circuit breaker" tax
credit; Comments from Sen. Tom Dempsey (R), Nixon's Scott Holste
(link via TonysKansasCity.com)
Washington Missourian: Groups at odds over proposed
Ameren surcharge; Comments from Scott Charton, Chris Roepe
St. Louis Beacon: Common Core, common complaints mark
state school meetings
St. Louis Beacon: Educators follow suit against ballot
proposal that does away with tenure, mandates evaluations
Missourinet: House proposes making drug sales near
daycares a crime
Independence Examiner: Bill would update 911 funding
(link via TonysKansasCity.com)
Missourinet: House bill would allow motorcycling
without helmets for riders 21 and up
Missourinet: Dept. of Insurance returns more than $6
million in claim payments to consumers
P-D: Patriot Coal, employees face grim future without
agreeement
KC Star editorial: Weekly list of Missouri GOP
transgressions: Editorial board acknowledges its list is weekly,
gives update on Missouri DOR/CCW flap
Joplin Globe editorial: Seersucker stunt from Sen.
Ryan McKenna (D-Crystal City) is a waste of time
KC Star letter: Blunt, 2nd Amendment and self-defense
P-D letter: Med-mal caps
P-D letter: Med-mal caps
Washington Missourian letter: Yes on ISRS
JCNT letter Right to Farm legislation
P-D letter: MU grad tells tale of a fateful Jeff City
trip: Man visits Capitol to lobby, meets an actual lobbyist,
becomes "fused with melancholy"
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P-D: McCaskill launches anti-scam site to study fraud
KSMU: Nixon, Springfield welcome home Missouri
National Guard battalion
KOLR:
Video: Missouri Guard unit returns to Ozarks from yearlong
mission in Kuwait
Missourinet: Ford plant in Claycomo adding 2,000 new
jobs
The Missouri Times: Summary of the week's House action
The Missouri Times: Summary of the week's Senate action
KC Star: Missouri GOP prepares a new tax-cut proposal
St. Louis Beacon: More money into state coffers
ignites bipartisan deal for one-time spending spree
P-D: Nixon, lawmakers propose funding for capital
improvements
AP: Missouri officials add money for construction plans
Missourinet: House Medicaid reform sponsor settles for
'mini-Medicaid' proposal
AP: Missouri House OKs bill focused on injured worker
fund
P-D: Missouri Senate opponents squelch electric
utility surcharge bill
Washington Missourian: Rep. Dave Schatz (R-Sullivan)
wants permanent concealed-carry permits
AP: Missouri Senate OKs guns-in-school bill
SE
Missourian: Common Core standards discussed and questioned;
Public meeting draws 125
P-D: Critics question Common Core education standards
at St. Louis County meeting
P-D: Sinquefield quits investment company board under
union attack
KC Star: Details of LP's plight emerge: MO DSS
finally releases records of little girl locked in closet
KCTV: Police declined to investigate, social workers
didn't follow up on closet girl's mom (link via TonysKansasCity.com)
SE
Missourian: SEMO Pachyderms to host Bill Federer
Washington Missourian: Jim McHugh - former campaign
manager for Walkin' Joe Teasdale - and his family building share a
colorful history in Pacific
KY3: MoDOT postpones property auction because of
environmental concerns
St. Louis Beacon: Rob Koenig's picks for top 5 Beacon
highlights: Quotes from Bond on experience, McCaskill on
contracting, Blunt on Missouri's political composition
P-D: Post-Dispatch names new publisher: Ray
Farris
Washington Missourian editorial: A matter of
convenience: Removing Dept. of Revenue from concealed-carry
permit process makes sense
KC Star editorial: Missouri lawmakers hard at work for
the gun lobby
Joplin Globe editorial: Go slow with tax-credit caps
Washington Post op-ed: Sen. Roy Blunt: President
Obama's sequester sleight of hand
SE
Missourian's Joe Sullivan: Missouri GOP legislators' anti-fed
actions based on paranoia
Helling: Congress faints at sight of budget
cuts; Rep. Billy Long (R) only MO delegation member who didn't
vote for airport fix
Shelly: The study that's all of a sudden got Medicaid
opponents caring about people's health
P-D op-ed: Former Post-Dispatch reporter Fred
Lindecke: Breaking down the ever-climbing sales taxes
JCNT letter: DOR, tax revenue and Missouri GOP
legislators' misplaced priorities
P-D letter: Barry Aycock's op-ed was spot-on:
Missouri will not survive as a right-to-work state
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KSMU: McCaskill launches medical-equipment scam
reporting tool
KOLR:
Video: McCaskill unveils scam reporting tool at Springfield stop
KY3: McCaskill stops in Springfield to promote
crackdown on scams
KTTS:
McCaskill targeting consumer fraud
SE
Missourian: Blunt visits breach locations, locals
Mahoney: Hartzler warns Army: Don't run out on
Fort Leonard Wood
SE
Missourian: Smith, Hodges endorsed by their party's statewide
officials; Smith also gets Farm Bureau, Corn Growers, Cattlemen,
MO Right to Life
KWMU: Running tally of Missouri lobbyist gifts:
$45K; Silvey (R) overtakes Nasheed (D) as legislator who has
received the most
The Missouri Times: House Democrats rebut
Post-Dispatch editorial board's criticism on mortgage mediation
bill; English, Hubbard wish they had been called
AP: Ford adding 2,000 workers to Missouri plant
KC Star: Ford Motor Co. to add 900 jobs at its
Claycomo plant
AP: Missouri bill would make it harder to get
unemployment
The Missouri Times: DOR begins promulgating process,
Schmitt releases letter from Homeland Security
St. Louis Beacon: Senate panel, House speaker accuse
Nixon of secretly complying with federal Real ID law
AP: Feds: Missouri concealed gun permit list
never analyzed; Nixon administration denies knowledge of letter
thanking him for efforts to comply with Real ID
The Missouri Times: Memo from former DOR director to
Nixon's office cites Napolitano letter
KWMU: Fed investigator testifies before Missouri
Senate committee on receiving concealed carry list
The Missouri Times: Social Security agent that
requested CCW information testifies before appropriations committee
P-D: Federal agent tells lawmakers he wanted concealed
gun list to find fraud
97.1FM (St. Louis): Kinder, Stoddard County
Prosecuting Attorney Russ Oliver talk with Dana Loesch about Napolitano
letter, Nixon's alleged violation of MO state statutes
KCUR: Missouri Senate votes to defund DMV (link via
TonysKansasCity.com)
KC Star: Some in Missouri hesitate on planned gun
amendment
Riverfront Times: Rep. Casey Guernsey (R-Bethany)
talks about his Second Amendment Preservation Act
AP: Missouri to hold meetings on new Common Core
standards
KWMU: ISRS legislation stalls in Missouri Senate
Missourinet: House and Senate to confer on revamp of
vetoed auto use tax bill
AP: Lawmakers renew efforts on local vehicle taxes
KSPR: Motorcycle helmets could become optional;
Comments from biker, trauma surgeon
P-D: Illinois politicians causing trouble for Stan
Musial bridge designation
Berger: STL County NAACP President Esther Haywood
one-ups city rivals - national NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous in
town for her event next week
St. Louis Beacon: Rosenbaum's picks for top 5 Beacon
highlights: Jason Crowell profile, Power Players series, Akin's
"legitimate rape" controversy
The Missouri Times: Photo gallery: Legislative
softball tournament
KSPR: Hickory County residents put up roadblocks to
MoDOT's plans; Engineers want to shut down bridge for more than a
month
KSMU: MO Dept. of Conservation says Ozark Hellbenders
are indicator of river health; MSU biologist urges Missourians to
not urinate in waterways
P-D editorial: In medical malpractice, saying "sorry"
isn't enough
JCNT editorial: Dipping into an anti-bullying strategy
P-D op-ed: Jobs With Justice's Jack Schuler: St.
Joseph reminds us that workers deserve justice
Columbia Missourian op-ed: Resist MoDOT's campaign for
higher taxes
Priddy: Team Seersucker's captain and mascot,
illustrated: Eric Schmitt and Matt "Kool-Aid" Michelson
P-D letter: Sales tax increase hurts low-income
Missourians
KC Star letter: Paycheck protection/paycheck deception
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St. Louis Beacon: Senators decry disability claim
delays in Missouri, Illinois
KOLR:
McCaskill in Springfield today to discuss consumer protection;
Blunt in Rolla yesterday for Brewer Science groundbreaking
KMIZ: Brewer Science bringing new high-tech facility
to Vichy, will create 65 new high-tech jobs; Comments from
Luetkemeyer
St. Louis Business Journal: Brewer Science breaking
ground on new high-tech manufacturing facility in Rolla
KSMU: Billy Long: Reducing flight delays bill
unnecessary
AP: Midwest, Plains economic survey index dips
AP: Lawmakers taking testimony on license records
Missourinet: "Sky's the limit" after medical
malpractice bill sidelined
AP: Debate stalls on Missouri liability limits
legislation
P-D: Missouri Senate, House ready to try again on tax
credit reform
St. Louis Beacon: In Jefferson City, behind-the-scenes
battle over alcohol is biggest-spending game in town
Missouri Wonk's Linda Rallo: Everything you need to
know about the liquor franchise laws: Part Two
Drebes: Liquor franchise bill may stall this
session; Major Brands creates its own PACs for 2014
SE
Missourian: A+ Schools program expands; Nixon visits Scott
City High School
The Missouri Times: Teacher evaluation bill causes
committee shakeup
The Missouri Times: Common Core standards could face
hurdles
The Missouri Times: Rep. Steve Cookson stalls
additional school hours bill until committee can agree to his school
start-date bill
Joplin Globe: Budget work under way at MSSU;
Administrators keeping eyes on funding formula
St. Louis Beacon: Missouri House seeks to expand gun
rights, approves tax credits to attract gun manufacturers
AP: House approves tax break for gun manufacturers
AP: House passes bill to allow sheriffs to issue
weapons permits
KMOX: Conceal carry legislation to include 19-year-olds
The Missouri Times: Payday loan bills could restrict
practices, implement caps
AP: Bill allows adults to forgo motorcycle helmets
Missourinet: House sends 911 funding plan to Senate
KMOX: Gamblers could get loans for chips at casinos
The Missouri Times: Lobbyist profile: Burton
& Liese Government Relations
P-D: Missouri Supreme Court hears cases of two St.
Louis juveniles sentenced to life without parole; Comments from
Koster's office, ACLU
SE
Missourian editorial: Common Core standards: Valid
questions must be answered
P-D editorial: Want blood? Get a warrant;
U.S. Supreme Court hears Missouri case
Priddy: If it's Wednesday, it must be Seersucker Day
P-D op-ed: 8th District Democrat and AgXplore
International CEO Barry Aycock: Right-to-work legislation will
weaken Missouri's economy
Helling: Rex shoots and misses: Op-ed written
for Sinquefield predicted Sacramento Kings would leave for Seattle due
to taxes
Columbia Missourian's Rosman: Schaefer wrong about a
wide variety of things, plus he's "selfish and childish"
KC Star letters: Medicaid, tax cuts, guns
JCNT letter: Reader submits third part of trilogy on
voter ID, explains her intended story arc, conflict and resolution
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