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Brief: MO Rejects 182k Greitens’ Legal Bills, Parson’s KC surprise, police shootings and hirings

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Missouri denies invoices of $118,000 and $64,000 from Eric Greitens’ lawyers.
Office of Administration Commissioner Sarah Steelman said Thursday that it appears the primary beneficiary of their work was Greitens individually and that the attorneys weren’t needed for the governor’s office itself.

 

Developing story:

Authorities say one sheriff’s deputy is dead and another is critically wounded after they were overcome by an inmate while driving a transport vehicle near the Wyandotte County courthouse in Kansas City, Kansas.

 

KC Star on police shootings Thursday:

He said it was unusual to have two deadly force incidents in such a short time span. Kansas City police typically count between two and five fatal officer-involved shootings over the course of a year.

“I just wanted people in this city to know our officers are dedicated to go out here and protect the citizens of this city. Both incidents unfolded protecting other citizens,” Smith said.

 

New cops for St. Joe.

 

KC Star reports Governor Mike Parson’s said “I do think it’s important for Kansas City, and I do think it’s a good investment for the state of Missouri.” He was talking about  a UMKC downtown art campus.

It was a startling moment — an unexpected declaration of support for a $100 million project that had been the city’s centerpiece proposal in the 2017 legislative session.

Gov. Eric Greitens had vetoed it out of hand after a herculean effort to get the measure to his desk. Along the way, Greitens heaped scorn on “dancers and art students.”

 

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

Dangerous Heat, Take Precautions

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Heat Advisory in effect through 8:00 Sunday Night.

 

 

 

 

 

Brief: McCaskill’s RV, New Kansas Accent, Measles and World Cup in KC

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KC Star reports on Claire McCaskill’s RV tour of Missouri.

 

A study points to Kansas City as a hotspot for measles. KC Health Department Director Rex Archer told KC Star some people cite religious exemptions because they think vaccines are dangerous.

Archer said he’s not against religious exemptions, but he thinks most people aren’t actually exercising them for religious reasons because few mainstream faith groups oppose vaccination.

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“Unfortunately, a researcher who was dishonest 20 years ago published a study that was sensational and tried to link certain conditions with vaccines,” Archer said. “And that’s been universally rejected by every major medical body since then.”

 

KCUR reports on issues with Medicaid work requirement in Kansas.

“If they actually work enough to meet the requirement they’ll be over the Kansas income limit and they’ll still lose their coverage.”

 

KC Star headline:

Greitens, Parson blocked people on social media. Parson says he’s stopping now.

 

World Cup events could occur in Kansas City.

Arrowhead has experience with Major League Soccer events, having hosted the Kansas City Wizards — now known as Sporting Kansas City — for 12 years and the U.S. Open Cup Final in 2004. The stadium has also hosted World Cup qualifying games in the past. If it’s selected, Kansas City would host quarter-final games and possibly the third-place game.

 

KMUW reports minority populations drive population growth in Kansas.

“The urban areas of our state have seen some increase in the white population,” says Steve Coen, head of the Kansas Health Foundation, which commissioned the report. “Every county in the state has seen an increase in diverse populations, people of color. Every single county.”

On a related note, KCUR reports on a new accent in southwest Kansas due to immigration.

 

The brief is a regular roundup of stories from St. Joe Post and around the web. Kansas News Service contributed to this report.

Brief: Sweat, a Whole Lotta Ag, and Greitens’ 150k Legal Bill

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Hot streak:

 

Missouri’s new Governor appeared in Saint Joe yesterday.

 

The KC Star has Parson on whether the state is obligated to pay Eric Greitens’ $150,000 legal bill. His new general counsel joins the administration tomorrow.

“Right off the bat… We’ll make a decision shortly after that. I want my general counsel to take a look at that.”

 

Developments on the Farm Bill:

McCaskill on dairy tariffs: Canada imports more dairy than it exports.

 

Finally, a bunch of potatoes spilled on I-70 in Kansas.


The brief is a regular roundup of stories from St. Joe Post and around the web.

Brief: New Gov meets lawmakers, lawmakers react, tweet. Roberts on Farm Bill

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KY3 shares the transcript from Missouri Governor Mike Parson’s address to the State Assembly.

And one hundred years from now, long after each of us has departed from this earth, these seats will continue to exist, held by men and women whose grandparents have not even been born.

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This does not mean disregarding our beliefs or moderating our positions. It means debating with respect. It means conducting ourselves with integrity.

Here’s a link to the video.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch with a report on Parson meeting with lawmakers, including US Senator Claire McCaskill:

“I don’t think that Gov. Greitens saw this as a team effort,” McCaskill said after the meeting. “I think he saw it as that he could always go it alone and that he was wanting to fight everybody. This governor appears that he wants to work with everybody instead of fight everybody.”

 

Other politicians react via Twitter:

And the Governor’s reaction via Twitter:

 

 

Kansas Senator Pat Roberts contributes an opinion piece to The Hill.

We will not get a perfect bill. We will not meet the demands of those who want to slash the SNAP program. We will not make radical spending cuts within our farm programs. But, we will make progress, and that is more than our producers have seen in years.

 

The brief is a regular roundup of stories from St. Joe Post and around the web.

Brief: Greitens resignation behind the scenes, Parson MO assembly address, Net Neutrality ends

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KC Star takes a deep dive behind the scenes of Eric Greitens’ resignation, including a timeline of events.

“It was a surreal moment,” said Rep. Greg Razer, D-Kansas City, a member of the investigative committee. “There were no cheers, no celebrating. … No one saw it coming.”

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“I know there were people in our caucus who were beginning to waiver,” said Rep. Jean Evans, R-St. Louis County. “And there was concern that the longer it dragged out, the more divided the caucus might become.”

On the day Greitens resigned, St. Joe’s State Senator tweeted:

New Missouri Governor Mike Parson will address the Missouri General Assembly tonight at 5. Here’s the link to the live stream.

 

Net Neutrality rules no longer exist as of today.

The Verge reports on how the end of Net Neutrality will affect your experience on the net.

KCUR reports on how Net Neutrality affects rural internet users in Kansas.

“I’m … using the Wi-Fi,” Leal says with a laugh.
Her home internet was so slow, she came to the library parking lot. Cars often idle there in the evening while their drivers tap into a plodding, but treasured, link to the internet.

 

The brief is a regular roundup of stories from St. Joe Post and around the web.

Brief: Parson profile, Senators’ tweets, KC Soccer vs the World

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The Kansas City Star profiles Missouri Governor Mike Parson.

She remembers when Parson was the man who pumped gas in her car, just as he did for a lot of people in Bolivar. Many people in the southwest Missouri town of 10,000 knew Parson long before his political career began.

Missouri Senator Roy Blunt tweeted his support of Parson.

 

In yesterday’s brief, we shared a report on a 45 percent increase in suicides in Kansas over the past 17 years. Missouri up 36.4 The national average increased 25.4 percent.

Today, Kansas Senator Jerry Moran tweeted the original story with his own comment.

 

KCUR reports on Kansas City’s role in United States Men’s Soccer.

There happens to be a coach in Kansas City who knows about building and rebuilding: Sporting KC coach Peter Vermes, whose team is atop Major League Soccer’s Western Conference and whose name has circulated in the soccer world as a possible coaching candidate.

 

The brief is a regular roundup of stories from St. Joe Post and around the web.

Brief: Greitens’ deal, suicides, and a change election in KC North

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The KC Star reports Eric Greitens admitted that prosecutors had enough evidence to go to trial on computer-tampering charges.

Greitens agreed to resign as part of the agreement negotiated late last month with St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner. Her office released the unredacted agreement late Wednesday.

The Wichita Eagle reports a 45 percent increase in suicides in Kansas over the past 17 years. Missouri up 36.4 The national average increased 25.4 percent.

The KC Star reports on a dramatic political shift in Kansas City’s Northland:

Democratic Rep. Lauren Arthur’s 19-point victory in a special election for a previously GOP-held Missouri Senate seat provides lessons for both political parties ahead of November.

Republican Ryan Silvey had won the seat by more than 22 points only a year and half ago.

The brief is a regular roundup of stories from St. Joe Post and around the web.

Brief: Lobbyist money, new political parties, tariffs

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A roundup of stories from St. Joe Post and around the web.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says he’s keeping his predecessor Eric Greitens’ ban on lobbyist gifts to executive staffers.

The KC Star reports Parson was the only statewide official to take gifts in 2017:

During his six years in the Missouri Senate, Parson and his staff accepted more than $30,000 worth of lobbyist gifts.

A group of Kansans fail to get enough signatures to establish a new centrist political party in time to for the upcoming general election. The group says it hopes to get the rest of the signatures needed to formally register the party by later this summer, and then focus on recruiting candidates for 2020.

“That unserved, untapped market of people who are lost without a party is just massive,” he said.

The Wall Street Journal reports on Mexican and Canadian tariffs:

Casey Guernsey, a Missouri-based cattleman, said he has fielded questions from a business partner in China over what might come next from Washington on trade.

“It shows a level of angst with our good trade partners,” he said.

The Associated Press and Kansas News Service contributed to this report.

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