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Capitol Perspectives: Divisive ideological fights in Missouri’s legislature • Missouri Independent
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Missouri’s legislature enters its remaining days of the 2022 legislative session dealing with an unusually massive pile of partisan and ideological divisive points.
In an election yr, it’s not uncommon that some legislators search to focus on points that may encourage their celebration’s loyalists to vote.
This yr’s partisan points embody requiring a photograph ID to vote together with different voting restrictions, limiting the length unemployment compensation advantages and on the prime of the checklist is a Republican-sponsored $1 billion greenback tax credit score because of federal financial restoration funds that Democrats argue could possibly be used to enhance state providers.
What’s hanging in regards to the dominating partisan points this yr is the big variety of Republican conservative ideological proposals.
They embody limiting abortion, limiting Medicaid funds for Deliberate Parenthood, increasing rights to hold hid weapons, giving the legislature energy to dam voter-approved Medicaid enlargement, making it harder for initiative petition constitutional amendments, imposing restrictions on public college programs and limiting gender reassignment for minors.
Then in fact, there are the proposals to ban authorities and companies from imposing COVID-19 vaccination necessities and permitting an worker to sue an employer for adversarial results from a required vaccination.
There’s even a measure to limit medical licensing boards from taking disciplinary motion towards health-care suppliers who prescribe or administer the anti-malaria drug Donald Trump promoted as remedy for COVID-19.
Many of those points are what political observers describe as “wedge points” which are designed to drive a wedge amongst voters with points, that for some, are extra essential than some other problem.
However many of those ideological points don’t symbolize conventional main GOP points. Because of this, a few of these points have break up Republicans, successfully being an inner celebration wedge.
The obvious are Republican proposals to limit companies from requiring vaccinations of their workers and to let an worker sue an employer for any adversarial consequence from a required vaccination.
A number of the strongest opposition in committee hearings to a few of these proposals got here from representatives of enterprise organizations that many Republicans depend on for help.
One other apparent wedge problem for Republicans includes interference with an traditionally sturdy GOP precept of native management over public colleges.
The general public college points embody prohibiting “important race idea” educating, limiting dialogue of public coverage points and blocking a male scholar who transitioned to a feminine from taking part in a female-only public college athletic group.
The potential for the transgender problem to divide the GOP was demonstrated when the Home debated the problem. It prompted an modification by Rep. Shamed Dogan, R-St. Louis County, to ban public college discrimination based mostly on sexual orientation or gender id.
That modification break up Home Republicans with 20 voting for the modification and 76 towards.
One other divisive problem for Republicans is the motor gas tax improve handed in 2021.
Expanded funding for sustaining and increasing state highways historically has been a Republican problem, partially due to enterprise help to facilitate supply of their merchandise and provides.
The Senate’s prime Republican chief, Senate President Professional Tem Dave Schatz, sponsored the tax improve and Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed it into regulation.
However the 2021 tax measure deeply break up Republicans. It gained a razor skinny majority of Home GOP members and required Democrat votes to cross the Senate.
This yr an modification for repeal barely gained approval from Home Republicans (50-41), however the modification failed due to Democratic opposition and a lot of members merely not voting on the repeal modification.
However something is feasible within the legislature’s hectic closing days when legislators frantically attempt to add their stalled proposals onto fully unrelated payments.
The potential of inner celebration divisions over these kind of wedge points was not a shock.
Some legislators looking for larger workplace are dealing with challenges of their celebration primaries only a few months after the session adjourns.
The closing days of a legislative session affords a platform for candidates to model themselves for major voters.
Blocking a legislative management precedence or pushing an ideological wedge problem within the remaining days is a positive technique to get information protection and voter consideration.
Simply bear in mind how Senate GOP conservative caucus members stalled motion on congressional redistricting previous the deadline for candidate submitting.
All of it portends an interesting conclusion for Missouri’s 2022 common legislative session.
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U.S. Open Qualifier Jadeon Carter (2025) Sends Verbal Commitment to Missouri
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Jadeon Carter from Lincoln, Nebraska, has made a verbal commitment to the University of Missouri for the 2025-26 school year and beyond.
“I chose Missouri because of the academic resources and the athletic resources they provide. The team culture makes it feel like home and all of the staff and swimmers are very supportive of me.”
Carter is a rising senior at Lincoln East High School. He swims year-round with Lincoln Select Swimming and is a Winter U.S. Open qualifier in the 200 backstroke. In high school swimming, he is the reigning Nebraska state champion in the 200 free (1:41.20) and 500 free (4:35.12). He holds school records in the 200 fre, 500 free, and 200 free relay, and he made the Academic All-Conference and Athletic All-Conference state teams.
In club swimming, Carter holds the Midwestern Swimming LSC record in the boys’ 13-14 500 free. This summer, he clocked a handful of LCM best times at Columbia Sectionals, placing 13th in the 200 free (1:58.08, PB), 13th in the 400 free (4:11.33), 7th in the 800 free (8:36.40), 16th in the 100 back (59.76 in prelims, PB), 6th in the 200 back (2:06.44, PB), and 12th in the 200 IM (2:12.90, PB). Two weeks later he competed at Midwestern Swimming Long Course Championships, where he won the 200/400/1500 free, 200 back, and 200 IM, and was runner-up in the 100 back. He picked up new times in the 100 free (55.39), 1500 free (16:47.07), and (50 back (29.33).
Best SCY times:
- 200 free – 1:41.20
- 500 free – 4:34.01
- 1000 free – 9:38.10
- 200 back – 1:50.43
- 100 back – 52.41
Carter will join the Tigers’ class of 2029 with fellow verbal commits Drew Ploof, Ben Madson, and Sebastian Gonzalez Barboza. Mizzou finished 8th out of 10 teams in the men’s meet at the 2024 SEC Championships.
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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