Host: Kevin Smith Dives into the weekly news most impactful to the Heartland
HEADLINES
- Missouri House advances restrictions on gender-affirming health care and transgender athletes
- STL Public Radio - https://news.stlpublicradio.org/government-politics-issues/2023-04-11/missouri-house-advances-restrictions-on-gender-affirming-health-care-and-transgender-athletes
- Missouri House Republicans vote to defund libraries
- Heartland Signal - https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/11/missouri-house-republicans-vote-to-defund-libraries/
LIGHTNING ROUND
Texas,
- A small Texas county is weighing whether to shut down its public library system.
- NBC - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/llano-county-texas-weighs-closing-local-library-federal-judge-orders-b-rcna79173
- An Austin woman and her husband flee to Colorado for medically necessary Abortion
- Fox News - https://www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-abortion-austin-couple-travel-out-of-state-medically-necessary
- A Texas Republican groomer
- Vice - https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjv8dq/texas-bryan-slaton-intern
South Dakota
- More Republican groomer news
- Argus Leader - https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/11/joel-koskan-pleads-guilty-to-2-counts-of-felony-incest/70099177007/
Colorado
- The more than 700,000 Coloradans with medical debt may soon have that debt removed from their credit scores
- Colorado Politics - https://www.coloradopolitics.com/legislature/colorado-remove-medical-debt-credit-score/article_0382a16c-d241-11ed-ae3b-d3d130976491.html
Missouri
- Missouri AG doesn’t want the public to know he’s pushing wild legal theories in abortion cases
- Missouri Independent - https://missouriindependent.com/2023/04/07/missouri-ag-doesnt-want-the-public-to-know-hes-pushing-wild-legal-theories-in-abortion-cases/
- Sen. Andrew Koenig, seeker of fixing things that ain’t broke, focuses on Parents' Bill of Rights
- Missouri Independent - https://missouriindependent.com/2023/04/12/missouri-house-hearing-on-parents-bill-of-rights-centers-diversity-education/
North Carolina
- Church buys forgives $3 million in medical debt
- The Dispatch - https://www.the-dispatch.com/news/local/church-forgives-3-million-in-medical-debt-for-davidson-county-residents/article_94ee0e4d-3255-5cb1-9661-ce13b4b85425.html
- RIP Medical Debt - https://ripmedicaldebt.org/
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