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Friday News Flyover Dec 22, 2023 - STL Police crash controversy - KS Gov Laura Kelly fights for good and much more
Friday News Flyover Dec 22, 2023 - STL Police crash controversy - KS Gov Laura Kelly fights for good and much more
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Dec 22, 2023
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Flyover Friday, December 22, 2023SEAN START HERE: On this episode of The Heartland POD for Friday, December 23rd, 2023 - OUR LAST NEW EPISODE OF 2023! A flyover from this weeks top heartland stories including:A St. Louis shaggy dog story | Losers gonna lose | Biden | Plocker | Medicaid | VouchersWelcome to The Heartland POD for a Flyover Friday, this is Sean Diller in Denver, Colorado. We have the crew here today, Rachel Parker and Adam SommerWe’re glad to have you with us. If you’re new to our shows make sure you subscribe and leave a 5 star rating wherever you listen. You can also find Heartland POD content on Youtube and on social media with @ THE heartland pod, and learn more at thehearltandcollective.com RACHEL: Speaking of… if you have not visited over there (blah blah) last call shows, articlesADAM: And I want folks to sign up for two reasons: 1. Every dollar you provide in support is going to pay for web hosting, show production, the costs for not just this show but our whole universe to exist and we need that support to keep this not only functioning but growing as we get into another election cycle - AND 2. FOLKS We have 2 tickets for Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at Shrine Mosque in springfield MO, for January 17th. And to sweeten the pot, I will be there as well and happy to buy you a beer or soda or apple juice, whatever your speed is. Every member $5 and up is in the contest. 1 entry per $5 of your level. I’ll put all the entries into a database for a random drawing and announce it on January 5th so plenty of time to get signed up SEAN: Sign up now theheartlandcollective.com click the button. Alright! Let’s get into the storiesSOURCES: The Heartland Collective, Wisconsin Examiner, Missouri Independent, River Front Times, Kansas Reflector The saga of a STL bar owner and police crash continueshttps://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/st-louis-police-didnt-do-toxicology-test-after-bar-pm-crash-41488321From article: The St. Louis police officer behind the wheel of the SUV that smashed into Bar:PM in the early hours of Monday morning had no toxicology test done on him in the wake of the incident.At their weekly briefing, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Colonel Renee Kriesmann said that no such test was conducted on the officer because the police only do those tests when there is a "reasonable suspicion" of drug or alcohol use, which police didn't feel was the case following the crash.The fact that police crashed their vehicle into the LGBTQ bar and then arrested one of its co-owners, Chad Morris, made news nationwide and drew condemnation from city leaders. President of the Board of Aldermen Megan Green wrote on twitter that the "incident demonstrates the need for greater oversight of law enforcement — citizen oversight in particular."Missouri GOP loses again, in Courthttps://theheartlandcollective.com/2023/12/19/missouri-gop-loses-in-court-again/From Article: This past January, a law went into effect that the degenerate GOP Missouri lawmakers passed into law in 2022. Said (and now overturned, we’ll get to that in a sec) law criminalized sleeping on state-owned land, making that a Class C misdemeanor. Cities, per this ridiculous travesty of a law, could have been penalized by our unelected attorney general if the law wasn’t enforced.Advocates for unhoused people took immediate action, filing suit against the state. In a unanimous decision, the Missouri Supreme Court struck down the law. This is a win for the Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, a Springfield homeless shelter, and Public Citizen Litigation Group. Because the bill was passed as an amendment to another piece of legislation, the court found that it violated a constitutional mandate for legislation to have a “single subject and clear purpose.”In the unanimous opinion, Judge Paul C. Wilson wrote: “It takes an extraordinary showing to convince this court to engage in judicial surgery to save a bill infected with the otherwise fatal constitutional disea
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Dec 22, 2023
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