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Brief: Dark Money to Replace Schaaf, Independent vs McCaskill and Hawley, Infant Opioid Addiction

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Dark money in the race to replace St. Joe’s Rob Schaaf…

On one side of the primary is Tony Luetkemeyer, a lawyer from Parkville and first-time candidate for public office.

On the other is Harry Roberts, an insurance salesman from St. Joseph who is Buchanan County’s presiding commissioner.

The two are facing off for the GOP nomination in a district represented for the last eight years by Republican Sen. Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph, who will be forced from office in January because of term limits.

An independent candidate could change the direction of the U.S. Senate race in Missouri.

Independent candidate Craig O’Dear’s campaign says it has submitted more than enough signatures to get on the November ballot in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Missouri.

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, a Republican, is trying to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill in a state President Donald Trump won by nearly 19 points. It remains to be seen what effect of the addition of an independent candidate will have in that close contest.

 

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports two cases of neuroinvasive West Nile virus disease in individuals who reside in Johnson County. Four regions of the state remain under a high-risk warning for WNV, including north central, south central, northwest, and southwest Kansas. Northeast and southeast regions are at moderate risk for WNV infections.

WNV can be spread to people through mosquito bites, but it is not spread from person to person. About one in five people who are infected develop a fever and other symptoms. Roughly one out of 150 infected people develop the more severe version of the disease, neuroinvasive disease, which includes swelling of the brain or brain tissue and, in some cases, death.

In other medical news…

“When you are in withdrawal, you feel your baby that’s in withdrawal too,” Worden says. “You feel your baby uncomfortable inside of you, and you know that. And then you use and then the baby’s not, and that’s a really awful, vulgar thought, but it’s true. That’s how it is. It’s terrible.”

 

Universities continue reforms to Greek life:

“I don’t think I’m embellishing if I said to you that there are more changes being proposed in this report than probably have happened in 50 years or more for fraternity and sorority life on this campus,” Jeffrey Zeilenga, Mizzou’s dean of students, told The Star.

Meanwhile, at the University of Kansas…

Speaking of drinking, the Westport entertainment district remains a destination, but is it in trouble?

This year’s list contains at-risk closed schools, historic churches, and apartment buildings as well as sites such as baseball legend Buck O’Neil’s home, the Epperson House on the UMKC campus, and the Aladdin Theater in the historic Northeast.

 

Back to school tax holiday weekend starts Friday. Teachers are already back-to-schooling themselves.

 

The Brief is a daily roundup from St. Joe Post and around the web. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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