Fertilizer spill kills 750,000 fish | Missouri GOP wants to eliminate corporate income tax | Kansas Man Sues Tennessee GOP Congressman | Missouri legislature defunding STL? | Texas Immigration Law Back On ICE | Alabama Election Blowout Win… for a Democrat? | Missouri AG gets slammed On this episode of The Heartland POD for Friday, March 29, 2024 - a Flyover Friday including: Fertilizer spill kills hundreds of thousands of fishMissouri GOP cuts taxes… for corporationsKansas Man Sues Tennessee law makerMissouri legislature defunding STL?Texas Immigration Law Back On ICEAlabama Election Blowout Win… for a Democrat?Missouri AG gets slammedArizona state senator’s personal abortion appealMissouri GOP members tripping over each other to file for… Secretary of State?SOURCES: Missouri Independent; Lawdork.com; Kansas City Star; 1819 news; Democracy Now, associated press; St. Louis posRevisiting A story From last week: 750,000 fish have died in the fertilizer spillhttps://missouriindependent.com/2024/03/28/fertilizer-killed-more-than-750000-fish-iowa-missouri/A fertilizer spill this month in southwest Iowa killed nearly all the fish in a 60-mile stretch of river with an estimated death toll of more than 750,000, according to Iowa and Missouri conservation officers.That is the biggest fish kill in Iowa in at least a decade and the fifth-largest on record, according to state data.And it could have been worse: Fish populations were likely smaller than normal when the spill happened because of cold water temperatures and low river flows.“Thank goodness, in a way, it happened when it did,” said Joe Larscheid, chief of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ fisheries bureau. “But this is a big one. It’s a lot of river miles that have been impacted.”Missouri GOP Tax Cuts To Phase Out Corporate Taxeshttps://missouriindependent.com/briefs/missouri-house-again-votes-to-cut-corporate-income-taxes/The bill sponsored by state Rep. Travis Smith of Dora would cut the tax rate, currently 4%, to 3% on Jan. 1 and make another one percentage point cut each year until the tax is eliminated in 2028.“When you reduce the corporate income tax you are helping workers more than anything else because the corporation is not going to be paying those taxes,” Smith said. “They’re putting it back in improving their facilities and paying wages.”The corporate income tax is paid by larger companies with many stockholders. A fiscal note for the bill estimates it would reduce state revenues by at least $884 million when fully implemented. The state collected $13.2 billion in general revenue in the fiscal year that ended June 30.The bill passed on a 100-50 vote with Republicans voting for it and Democrats opposed. “We are one of the lowest corporate income tax states in the nation,” said state Rep. Joe Adams, a University City Democrat.Legally, Adams noted, corporations are people with many of the same rights as humans.“As people they should pay part of the freight for the operation of the government of this state,” Adams said.Texas Immigration Law On ICEhttps://www.lawdork.com/p/fifth-circuit-texas-sb4-stay-denialTexas’s new immigration law creating Texas crimes of “illegal entry” and “reentry” and setting forth a process for removal of people convicted of those state laws will remain blocked for now, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Tuesday night in a decision holding that Texas’s S.B. 4 is likely preempted by federal law on multiple grounds.“The Texas laws at issue permit state authorities to prosecute an individual for being unlawfully present and remove individuals who are unlawfully present or removable, without any consultation or cooperation with the Attorney General of the United States,” Chief Judge Priscilla Richman, a George W. Bush appointee, wrote for the court’s 2-1 majority keeping S.B. 4 on hold.it is the first ruling of substance analyzing S.B. 4 from an appeals court, which is good whenever courts take actions — but particularly