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Beacon Backroom: Sheriff Jim Murphy (D-St. Louis)
joins those taking aim at Carnahan's pro cap-and-trade vote
Rosenbaum: GOP aims at Skelton
KY3 Political Notebook: NRCC targeting Skelton on cap
and trade
Beacon Backroom: Loudon, Akin join business groups
opposing "card check"
P-D Political Fix: Missouri Republicans continue to
question Obama citizenship
Beacon Backroom: St. Charles County lawmakers may
support inquiry into Obama's citizenship
KC
Star Prime Buzz: In Jeff City, Orly Taitz questions Obama's
citizenship; receives support from 5 state lawmakers
KRCG: Churchill Memorial declared a national site
KC
Star Prime Buzz: Justice "swift" in Gephardt campaign finance
violations
KY3 Political Notebook: St. John's fears public option
could hurt access; Comments from Blunt
KY3 Political Notebook: DSCC unveils new anti-Blunt
"Suits" site; Blunt raises more than $1M this quarter
P-D Political Fix: Roy Blunt touts his insider
support; Democrats do, too
Beacon Backroom: Inconvenient truths plague latest
round of partisan attacks against Nixon, Blunt
KY3 Political Notebook: Amid criticism, Nixon signs
license office reform
P-D Political Fix: Gov. Jay Nixon signs fee office
law; takes dig at detractors
KC
Star: Nixon signs into law bills ending practice of awarding fee
offices based on patronage
Messenger: Positions on bond proposal shift in the
swirling political winds
KC
Star Prime Buzz: Ron Richard clarifies comments opposing Nixon
bond proposal
AP: Nixon to sign veterans legislation
KRCG: Drunk driving highway signs approved
P-D Political Fix: Icet and Schweich camps talking
about auditor's race
SNL: Susan Montee to speak at Democrat picnic July 14
Missourinet: Chief Justice is chief defender of
Missouri Plan
Fulton Sun: Flaws make profiling data mean little for
local law enforcement
KMOX:
Clemons case to see new investigation
St. Louis American: New evidence will be heard in
Clemons case
CDT: State grants parole in '77 murder case
AP: Missouri man freed 4 years after being granted
clemency
AP: Nixon OKs naming highway after rabbi
P-D: Hazelwood School District Superintendent Chris
Wright is new state schools chief
AP: I-64 work in St. Louis ahead of schedule
AP: KC police: Red light cameras working too well
Columbia Missourian letter: Luetkemeyer opts for
partisanship over health care reform
Columbia Missourian letter: 'Puppy mill' term
offensive to responsible breeders
KC Star letters: Reaction to paper's call for
moratorium on executions
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St. Louis Beacon: In University City hearing,
McCaskill raises questions about reverse mortgages
St. Louis Beacon: U. City residents, leaders appeal to
Sen. McCaskill for help with flooding
SNL: Sen. Bond to speak at community health center
opening
Missourinet: Skelton calls move in Iraq "a turning
point"
KRCG: Luetkemeyer hopes Senate will kill energy bill
WSJ: Wal-Mart backs drive to make companies pay for
health coverage; Comments from Roy Blunt
KMOX: Federal grant to be used for improvements
throughout Missouri
AP: St. Louis-based Veterans for Peace, other groups
urge release of detainee abuse photos
KY3 Political Notebook: 7th District power
rankings: Jack Goodman, Gary Nodler, others
KY3 Political Notebook: Nodler talks about money,
staff, his own likability
Rosenbaum: KBIA commentary: Nixon's play-it-safe
approach to Ellis Fischel and other budget items
Columbia Missourian: Nixon endorses common core of
state education standards
AP: Nixon to sign license office measure
KY3 Political Notebook: Kinder calls Nixon bonding
plan "another bailout"
P-D Political Fix: Kinder to Nixon: Bond issue
plan won't help Missouri economy
P-D Political Fix: Ron Richard changes tune on
Missouri bonding initiative
KC
Star: Kinder, Richard criticize Nixon's bonding proposal;
Richard supported $700M bond in April
Rosenbaum: Kinder pans bonding plan
AP: Eminent domain limit language struck down
Beacon Backroom: Area legislators expected at
gathering of Obama birth-certificate critics
ArchCityChronicle.com:
Rep. Mike Corcoran releases ad for state Senate race; Images of
Rep. Jill Schupp, others with candidate
ArchCityChronicle.com:
HRCC, HDCC bits
AP: Audit faults former Gov. Blunt for record-keeping
AP: Audit suggests firm device policy needed for
attorney general office
St. Louis Beacon: Audits uncover theft, city streets
department to change some policies
P-D: State audit results in allegations of theft
against St. Louis city employee
KMOX: Audit findings lead to criminal charges
KMOX: Audit: Montee discusses how her audit
uncovered theft
AP: Montee staff auditing Missouri State
SNL: Routine audit now under way at MSU
Joplin Globe: Missouri officials outline efforts
against unlicensed dog breeders
AP: Clemons case gets special investigator
P-D: Missouri Department of Social Services worker
gets a year for bribery scheme
KWMU: Interlock device law takes effect in Missouri
St. Joseph News-Press: Ignition interlock law meant to
save lives
KC
Star: By-the-mile road tax could replace by-the-gallon federal
fuel tax; Comments from MoDOT's Pete Rahn
CDT: MU Health takes reins of Mid-Mo
Missourinet: Injured Missourians finally get payments
from state
St. Louis Beacon: AmerenUE shows off its re-tooled
Taum Sauk reservoir
P-D: State task force aims to control pests in schools
with less pesticide
P-D editorial: Gov. Nixon should support St. Louis
Public Schools' stability
St. Louis Beacon op-ed: What does the earnings tax
cost St. Louis and Kansas City?
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Star Prime Buzz: McCaskill wary about cap and trade, wants to
"fix" bill
St. Joseph News-Press: Graves, audience speak out
against tax policy
Beacon Backroom: ACORN heads back to the streets to
protest mortgage practices
P-D: McCaskill urges reform on reverse mortgages
KC Star: Lawmakers looks at rising scams for reverse
mortgages
Missourinet: GAO reveals reverse mortgage report at
Missouri hearing
Missourinet: Reverse mortgage spokesman defends
industry
SE
Missourian: McCaskill provides tips on federal grants at workshop
in Cape Girardeau
KC
Star Prime Buzz: Another McCaskill aide moves on - and up;
Peggy Gustafson to be inspector general for SBA
KC Star: Doubt clouds construction of proposed GSA
office building
KC Star: St. Louis strives to create an air freight
hub to China
P-D: U.S. Supreme Court backs St. Louis' stand on
firefighter test
KMOX: Slay reacts to high court ruling on race and
tests
AP: U.S. Supreme Court rejects Missouri appeal on
funeral protest law
KC
Star: For now, pickets can march at funerals
KMOX: Koster vows to fight against military funeral
protests
Beacon Backroom: Blunt unveils more GOP backers, as
fundraising deadline looms
P-D Political Fix: Roy Blunt pulls in key Republican
support in Senate race
KY3 Political Notebook: NRSC backs Blunt
AP: Blunt touts GOP endorsement in 2010 Missouri
Senate bid
Rosenbaum: NRSC: Blunt's biggest catch?
P-D Political Fix: Stimulus committee looks to help
Missouri grab federal cash
P-D Political Fix: Missouri GOP criticizes Nixon over
fee office award
KY3 Political Notebook: Another Nixon donor wins a fee
office
KC
Star: Debate heats up over who runs state license fee office
Missourinet: Invest in Missouri becomes law, state to
reap benefits
AP: New law expands investments for Missouri treasurer
KC
Star Prime Buzz: Nixon signs bank deposit bill, remains undecided
on three others
St. Joseph News-Press: Program seeks to changes
state's 'puppy mill' reputation
AP: Missouri to prosecute unlicensed dog breeders
SE
Missourian: Unlicensed dog breeders targeted by Missouri
initiative
Columbia Missourian: Operation Bark Alert expands
efforts to subdue unlicensed breeders
KOMU: Operation Bark Alert takes a bite out of puppy
mills
Hannibal Courier-Post: New Missouri law aimed at
keeping drunks off road
P-D: AmerenUE banking on rebirth of Taum Sauk reservoir
SNL: Missouri Center for Safe Schools eliminated
KC
Star: Court ruling on state aid favors charter schools
P-D The Grade: Charter school funding OK, judge says
KC
Star: Court temporarily halts termination of three administrative
judges
Missourinet: Missouri State Water Patrol's "Operation
Dry Water" nets 17 arrests
St. Louis Beacon: Beacon's Jo Mannies, Katie Sutin win
national reporting awards
Washington Missourian editorial: Missouri's budget
situation: It could be worse
P-D editorial: Diversity depends on leadership, not
lawsuits
SNL op-ed: Highway renaming plan a success - even if
no signs go up
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KY3 Political Notebook: Week 24: Nixon's
grade: A-
AP: Nixon's spending, budget cuts are nearly balanced
Missourinet: Gov. Nixon considering special session
for bond package
AP: Nixon, Zweifel to hold bill signing today in St.
Louis, Kansas City
AP: Missouri's minimum teacher salaries rising
KSDK: Missouri DWI law in effect July 1
CDT: DNR awards another $100,720 for Hinkson Creek
watershed
Rolla Daily News: DHSS Director Margaret Donnelly
attends Presbyterian Manor ceremony
Missourinet: McCaskill holds Senate hearing on reverse
mortgages in University City
P-D: St. Louis County to get $4.6 million from AT&T
KC
Star: Record numbers seek permits to carry concealed weapons
KMOX: Slay awaits U.S. Supreme Court ruling on
firefighter tests
JCNT editorial: State budget-balancing act will
inflict some pain
P-D editorial: No-helmet bill veto countdown: 15
days and counting
KC
Star editorial: Moratorium on Missouri executions makes sense
P-D editorial: We can't legislate away
abandoned-building problem
CDT editorial: The wild web: Keeping commenters
honest
St. Joseph News-Press' Booher: MoDOT's Pete Rahn
should stick to what he does best
Columbia Missourian's Steinmetz: Highway renaming has
potential drawbacks; Lampe's case a good example
SNL op-ed: Rep. Cynthia Davis: Program
circumvents parents' provider role
SNL op-ed: Hunger wrong way to motivate children
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KY3 Political Notebook: Skelton promises hearings on
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
SE
Missourian: Missouri Republicans gather for pig roast, discuss
2010 election; Blunt talks about Carnahan
Pulaski County Daily: Democrats rally in Dixon;
Ag Director Jon Hagler touts Nixon's "positive adult leadership"
SNL: Dozens rally for health care reform
Columbia Missourian: Former state budget director
paints bleak picture of Missouri's finances
SNL: Kleinsmith fights state for funds;
Long-running suit on school funding now in high court
P-D: Rep. Rachel Storch honored for efforts to reform
Missouri child care safety standards
SNL: Repeat DWI offenders 'slip through cracks'
P-D's Horrigan: Missouri's way behind the curve on
political scandals
P-D's McClellan: Country clubs love a little
socialism; Public, private golf courses taxed differently
KC
Star op-ed: Sen. Kit Bond: America's efforts in Iraq are
far from over
SNL op-ed: Tom Sullivan: Metro squanders
millions of tax dollars
P-D letter: Nixon, legislature give Missouri education
reform
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KMOX: Bond wants North Korean ship stopped and searched
P-D Political Fix: Kit Bond urges action against North
Korea
P-D Political Fix: McCaskill pushes for more F/A-18s
KC
Star: House passes climate bill; Comments from KCP&L's
Chuck Caisley, others
KY3 Political Notebook: MRP strikes Ike over
energy-climate bill
P-D Political Fix: Judge to McCaskill: You can't
impeach me - I quit
SE
Missourian: Congress considers $700K for SEMO forensics lab
Platte
County Landmark's Foley: Blunt stops by Landmark's offices to chat
Beacon Backroom: St. Louis to get a Democratic
blitz: McCaskill, Nixon, Koster
Beacon Backroom: Kinder claims he's getting the silent
treatment from Jay Nixon
AP: Nixon uses veto power to retaliate against MoDOT
St. Louis Beacon: Health-care status quo hurts insured
as well as uninsured, says Sebelius
AP: Nixon signs health care taxes measure
KMBC:
Nixon cuts funds from Lee's Summit plant; Kokam America proposes
to build electric car batteries in new plant
CDT: Budget dilemma led to tough cuts; Forsee
expresses disappointment
SE
Missourian: Nixon veto halts funding for Southeast's business
incubator
Neosho Daily News: State cuts may affect Crowder
KWMU: Reactions to Nixon budget cuts
KY3 Political Notebook: Missouri Republican Party
knocks Nixon for dodge on office cuts
P-D: Nixon signs on to national school standards
KOMU: Nixon supports state standards initiative
Beacon Backroom: FEC clears Sam Page in case of
$10,000 campaign donation tied to foreign company
St. Louis Business Journal: Koster: FedEx
dodging payroll taxes, worker protections
KMOX: Aldermen speak out on state audit;
Democrat Conway doesn't think Montee "has a clue" about kids' right to
health care
P-D Political Fix: Legislature's stimulus panel to
hold first meeting in St. Louis
St. Joseph News-Press: Sen. Charlie Shields:
State needs strategic plan
AP:
Missouri judge strikes down affirmative action measure
St. Louis Business Journal: AT&T to pay $65M to
Missouri cities
KOMU: Ameren's nuclear power plant under investigation
Missourinet: Nuclear Regulatory Commission conducting
inspection at Callaway
Joplin Globe: Developer: State would own part of
building
KC
Star: Welcome pack for Missouri State students draws parental
complaints; University says advertising was sold by Springfield
News-Leader
Independence Examiner editorial: Paying for
power: Missouri braces for changes brought on by energy bill
KC
Star editorial: Missouri Housing Development Commission should
clean up its act
P-D editorial: A turn for the nurse: Montee's
audit, private schools and health care
P-D The Platform: Davis named worst person in the world
SNL letter: MoDOT paves way to progress
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KY3 Political Notebook: White House: Missouri
has tapped 72% of highway stimulus
Missourinet: Missouri ahead of timetable for using
federal recovery funds
P-D Political Fix: Bond to be honored for support of
utility aid
KMOX: Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer talks cap and trade
Columbia Missourian: Bond, McCaskill, Luetkemeyer
weigh in on proposed federal consumption tax
St. Louis Business Journal: Rep. Carnahan announces
$23M in stimulus money for green projects in Missouri
SNL: Demonstration draws tiny turnout; U.S.
Senate candidate Midge Potts organizes four-person event
Daily
Dunklin Democrat: Carnahan, Montee, Ag Director Jon Hagler to
appear at SEMO Democrat rally tomorrow
KY3 Political Notebook: Washington Examiner corrects
Blunt characterization
St. Joseph News-Press: Bills crowding governor's desk
Rosenbaum: Video: Nixon swings budget ax
KC
Star: Nixon slashes state spending by $430 million
JCNT: 200 state jobs in jeopardy
St. Louis Beacon: Nixon details $105 million in cuts
and another $325 million in spending restrictions
P-D: $430 million frozen or cut in Missouri
SNL: Nixon meets budget with withholds, vetoes
AP: Nixon targets $430 million in spending
CDT: Nixon pares state budget
St. Louis Business Journal: Nixon cuts $105 million,
200 state jobs from budget
Missourinet: Nixon vetoes $105 million as he signs $23
billion state budget
Joplin Globe: Governor signs budget, makes cuts
KWMU: Nixon signs Missouri budget and makes cuts
SNL: Colleges face state cuts to funding
Rosenbaum: Forsee rips Nixon withholds
Rosenbaum: Ellis Fischel funding in limbo
Columbia Missourian: Lawmakers divided over Nixon
withholding Ellis Fischel funding
KOMU: Nixon restricts Ellis Fischel funds
KY3 Political Notebook: Nixon explains vetoes,
acknowledges toughest cut
SNL: Nixon touts increase in funds for schools
SNL: Text of Nixon's speech on budget (pdf)
KY3 Political Notebook: Nixon: I remain in
constant contact with my staff
Beacon Backroom: Thomas Schweich says he's preparing
to soon announce state auditor bid
KC
Star: Missouri agrees to pay $450,000 to ACORN to help settle
voter registration suit
Beacon Backroom: Missouri social-service agency and
voting rights group resolve court fight
P-D: Missouri DSS agrees to reforms of voter
registration practices
KWMU: Missouri state agency settles voter registration
suit
P-D Political Fix: Olbermann, Dems pile on criticism
of Cynthia Davis
Independence Examiner: Jeanie Lauer to run for 54th
District seat; Blue Springs council member seeks to replace
Dusenberg
P-D: PSC investigating voltage in Jefferson County lake
AP: Group gives Missouri "C" for financial disclosure
laws
KOMU: Missouri Department of Conservation offering
cheaper youth hunting permits
P-D editorial: Boeing's Future Combat Systems:
Too much, too soon
KC
Star editorial: Missouri National Guard fights terrorism by
helping Afghan farmers
CDT editorial: Golden moment for bonds: Time for
public borrowing
St. Joseph News-Press editorial: Missouri's new
drunken driving law no longer lenient
SE
Missourian letter: State needs cancer funding
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Beacon Backroom: Bond, Blunt say their opposing votes
don't signal a split over Boeing planes
KY3 Political Notebook: McCaskill to chair committee
that will hold impeachment trial for federal judge
KY3 Political Notebook: Emerson, Blunt react to
Sanford saga
SE
Missourian: Blunt, Kinder to appear at Cape Girardeau GOP event
Saturday
P-D: Susan Montee criticizes state housing commission
for potential conflicts
CDT: Audit flags spending by commission; Look at
housing panel is critical
KC
Star: State audit faults Missouri housing agency
AP: Audit scrutinizes Missouri Housing Development
Commission
KY3 Political Notebook: Montee audit questions
campaign contributions to MHDC
KRCG: State audit raises concerns over conflicts of
interest
KWMU: Montee releases audit of Missouri Housing
Development Commission
P-D Political Fix: Video: Montee deals with
Green Party activists at her news conference
P-D Political Fix: Glenn Campbell leaves Russ
Carnahan's office to work for auditor
Beacon Backroom: Nixon sued for eliminating jobs of
five administrative law judges
KC
Star: Three judges sue Nixon, top aide over plans to lay them off
KSMU:
Rabbi's daughter speaks out against renaming highway
KY3 Political Notebook: School board member Michael
Hoeman considers run for Champion's seat
SNL: Rep. Cynthia Davis responds to criticism of her
hunger comments
P-D Political Fix: After Olbermann swipe, Davis
defends stance on food program
KC
Star: New law affecting repeat drunken drivers takes effect next
Wednesday in Missouri
Rolla Daily News: Missouri Supreme Court hears school
funding case
CDT: Missouri resistant to national trend, but federal
education rules near acceptance
SNL: Activist OK'd tax, lobbyist Burcham says
Joplin Globe: Developer opposes state bid to move
offices
AP: Open-government coalition finds difficulty getting
local budgets
AP: Jobless benefits available because of local storms
St. Louis Beacon: Metro gets $7 million in federal
money to restore service
P-D: Metro gets help from feds
Columbia Missourian: Stimulus funds help expand
Columbia Builds Youth program
SE
Missourian: Southeast Missouri State University using stimulus
dollars to start accelerated nursing program
AP: Wash U. labs get funding for biodefense research
St. Louis Beacon: Proposals call for balancing
preservation, recreation on the crowded Ozark National Scenic Riverways
Columbia Missourian: Two members of Grass Roots
Organizing travel to D.C. to lobby for health care reform
Peterson: Jonathan Block, former assistant press
secretary to Laura Bush, back in town
Independence Examiner editorial: Balancing act:
States, feds spend, spend, spend - for now
St. Louis Beacon letter: AFL-CIO's Hugh McVey:
Fairness for Boeing
P-D letter: Congressional delegation should support
home health care
CDT letter: Roy Blunt favors care for business, not
people
Columbia Missourian letter: Cutting funds for Ellis
Fischel doesn't make sense
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