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A call for retired cops to help St. Louis out of its reckless driving epidemic. ... Missouri Governor Mike Parson, a self-proclaimed "mega" Kansas City Chiefs fan, is receiving backlash after pardoning the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. The coach's son, Britt Reid, was drunk and speeding when he crashed into multiple cars on an Interstate 435 ramp near Arrowhead Stadium in 2021, which left 5-year-old Ariel Young with traumatic brain injury. Reid was sentenced to three years in prison in 2022. Parson commuted the rest of his sentence to house arrest after just 16 months. Republicans and Democrats are blasting the governor over this. He's offered deepest sympathy to Young's family but said Reid has already served more time than others convicted of similar offenses. ... Are Democrats fired up after President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address? Critics claim the speech was more appropriate for a campaign rally, with President Biden repeatedly blasting former President Donald Trump without ever naming him and instead referring to him as his predecessor. Though Biden struggled with words at times, he avoided any major gaffes, and displayed passion, wit, and stamina in the nearly 70-minute speech. ... Amid all of the accolades from Democrats for the president’s State of the Union performance comes a challenge from Trump, to see how Biden holds up in a debate.  

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A FOX 2 New interview with a St. Louis alderwoman about the city’s reckless driving crisis is interrupted by blatant reckless driving: motorcyclists doing wheelies, running a red light, driving on the wrong side the road and circling cars waiting for the light to change. Alderwoman Cara Spencer is calling for booting the wheels of reckless drivers. The mayor and aldermanic president want to bring back red-light cameras, which would put citations in the mail for offenders, tickets offenders will likely be ignored, knowing they face no threat of jail time. ...

Missouri Governor Mike Parson sends Missouri National Guardsmen and state highway patrol troopers to help with the border crisis in Texas, just as the crisis shifts to California. ...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker calls for nearly $900 million in tax hikes to help cover the cost of processing more than 35,000 migrants who’ve crossed the southern U.S. border and are now flooding the sanctuary city of Chicago. ...

Republican Congressman Mike Bost, who represents a large portion of the St. Louis area in Illinois, agrees with President Joe Biden on something. He says Congress should be in session instead of taking a two-week winter break with pressing issues like the border crisis and military aid for Ukraine and Israel demanding action. ...

Former President Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential primary in South Carolina in a landslide over former S.C. Governor Nikki Haley in her home state.

Missouri Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, who is running for governor, creates a stir by saying military veterans should not get special treatment like discounts. "I don't think we ought to say if you're in the military, we'll give you this discount, but everybody else has to pay twice as much,” he said. “If it's good for veterans, it's good to do it for everyone." ...

The Alabama Supreme Court rules that frozen embryos in fertility clinics are human children. ...

Our Quote of the Week was from Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, who said Governor Parson’s use of the word “thugs” to describe the suspects in the deadly mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade/rally was a racist dog whistle.

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St. Louis City’s reckless driving crisis claims the lives of two visitors from Chicago after they attended a concert downtown. It comes a year of a teenage girl visiting from Tennessee lost her legs in a reckless driving crash. She was hit by a vehicle while walking downtown. Instead of addressing the glaring lack of enforcement of traffic laws, Mayor Tishaura Jones calls out the Board of Aldermen for stalling her plan for street safety improvements. ...

Republicans and Democrats in the Missouri Legislature back Valentine’s Law, which would enact mandatory prison time for those knowingly fleeing police in a vehicle. It is named for St. Louis County Police Detective Tony Valentine who was killed by a fleeing driver in 2021. ...

Missouri Senate Democrats filibuster initiative petition reform at the state capitol. Reform measures aim to make it more difficult to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. ...

Democrat St. Louis Congresswoman Cori Bush lashes out at Republicans for Missouri’s lax gun laws in the wake of the mass shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade and rally, even though Kansas City and St. Louis have laws making it illegal for juveniles to carry weapons. Twenty-two people were shot and a woman was killed in what authorities say was an exchange of gunfire among juveniles. ...

President Biden blasts Russian President Vladmir Putin over the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison. Navalny had been poisoned and jailed after leading protests against Putin and the Kremlin. President Biden also called out former President Donald Trump for saying he would not protect NATO allies from invasion by Putin and Russia if those allies fail to pay their fair share toward mutual defense. ...

A New York judge levied a $364 million judgement against Donald Trump and his family’s businesses in a civil business fraud trial. ...

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the witness stand and admitted hiring her lover as a special prosecutor in an election fraud case against Donald Trump. Attorneys for one of Mr. Trump’s co-defendants are seeking to have Willis removed from the case and possibly the entire case thrown out of court. ...

Our Quote of the Week was from Cardinals pitcher Matthew Liberatore, as the team reports to Jupiter, Florida, for spring training.

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The chief of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department heads to Jefferson City to fight a state takeover of his department. ...

There's another viral video of another Missouri Republican breaking out a flamethrower. ...

Both Republicans and Democrats lament our do-nothing Congress, from border security to aid for Israel and Ukraine to impeaching a cabinet secretary. ...

In our quote of the week, a local congresswoman calls into question President Joe Biden’s memory and also calls for his resignation. ...

There's a new Democratic candidate for Congress from St. Louis. ...

On this Super Bowl Sunday, St. Louis Aldermanic President Megan Green says the people have spoken: they want to spend NFL settlement money on city pay raises, among other things. ...

Should Missouri and Illinois follow Michigan's lead in sending parents to prison for crimes their children commit? 

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Democrat St. Louis Congresswoman Cori Bush is the subject of a U.S. Department of Justice grand jury investigation of her massive spending on personal security. ...

Missouri Governor Mike Parson heads to the southern U.S. border in Texas, saying Missouri has a role to play in the migrant crisis. ...

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey appears in St. Louis with former NCAAA swimmer Riley Gaines. Gaines is leading a national campaign against transgender athletes in women’s sports. ...

Missouri Senator Josh Hawley calls out Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg during a committee hearing on regulating social media companies. ...

President Joe Biden orders air strikes in response to Iran-backed attacks on U.S. assets in the Middle East after one of the attacks killed three U.S. Army soldiers in Jordan and injured more than 40 others. The president has notably avoided air strikes on Iranian soil. ...

The state election board in Illinois decides against removing former President Donald Trump’s name from the state primary ballot. ...

Republicans are taking issue with mega-singing star Taylor Swift and her romance with Kansas City Chief’s star Travis Kelce. ...

Our Quote the Week was from the late Jean Carnahan, former Missouri first lady and U.S. Senator, the first female senator in Missouri history. Carnahan died Tuesday at the age of 90.

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Extreme infighting among Republicans in the Missouri Senate leads to senators being stripped of leadership positions and their preferred Capitol parking spots! One senator mockingly comes up with a resolution to allow senators to settle disputes by duel! …

St. Louis County Executive Sam Page is pushing a small property tax increase to pay for a new or renovated St. Louis County headquarters building at a time when the county faces yearly budget deficits of nearly $40 million. …

Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib comes to town to launch the reelection campaign of St. Louis Congresswoman Cori Bush. The two progressive Democrats are members of the so-called progressive Squad in the U.S. House of Representatives. Both women have received heavy criticism for their responses to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Tlaib has been censured by the House. …

Missouri’s U.S. Senators come out against a deal with the White House to strengthen security at the U.S. border. …

Vice President Kamala Harris takes a more high-profile role in the reelection campaign of President Joe Biden as the two shift their focus to the abortion issue. …

Former President Trump wins the New Hampshire Primary but is incensed with candidate Nikki Haley, who refuses to end her campaign after two small-state contests. Trump threatens to cut ties with anyone who donates to Haley’s campaign. He also faces an $83.3 million defamation judgement in a case brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll. She has already won a judgement against him for sexual abuse. …

Former Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has a prominent role with the No Labels political organization, which is considering placing a centrist, bipartisan presidential ticket on the November 2024 ballot. …

Our Quote of the Week regards the latest attempts to legalize sports gaming in Missouri.

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It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. Republican consultant John Hancock and Democratic consultant Michael Kelley discuss the following topics: …

St. Louis County drops $90,000 on a new logo and branding as the county executive calls for tax hikes. …

St. Louis City’s highly-paid but rarely seen police chief issues a report card after his first year on the job. …

Surviving Iowa: the first 2024 presidential election contest is now just hours away. Which candidates will be left in the Republican primary? …

How can Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin be off work and in a hospital for days but not tell the president? Did Austin go AWOL? It's our quote of the week. …

We'll also get into efforts to eliminate St. Louis’ city income tax, Hunter Biden's surprise visit to Congress, and trouble for the district attorney who's prosecuting Donald Trump in Georgia.  

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It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley for Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024. 

Republican consultant John Hancock and Democratic consultant Michael Kelley discussed the following topics:

The City of St. Louis is reporting major drops in crime, but critics don’t trust the numbers. …

Missouri Governor Mike Parson issues an executive order banning foreign adversaries from owning Missouri farmland within 10 miles of military installations. Fellow Republicans say it’s too little, too late. …

There are growing calls for Governor Parson and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services to take action against the owner of Northview Village nursing home in St. Louis. The home was closed with little warning and without full accounting for the 175 residents. One resident with schizophrenia has been living on the street since without his medication since Dec. 15. …

Longtime Republican Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer makes a surprising announcement with his party clinging to a slim majority in the House of Representatives: he is not running for reelection. He represents Missouri’s 3rd Congressional District, which stretches from Jefferson and St. Charles counties to Jefferson City and the Lake of the Ozarks. …

As the nation marks the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, President Biden makes the riots the top issue of his reelection campaign, jettisoning his focus on “Bidenomics.” …

The U.S. Supreme Court will review the removal of former President Donald Trump from primary election ballots in Colorado. This comes as a new effort is launched to remove Mr. Trump from the primary ballot in Illinois. …

Big names turn up on unsealed court documents in a lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned accomplice of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. … 

Our quote of the week was from St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones, who undid a mask mandate for city employees just hours after it was issued. “Upon further review…” she said masking was recommended but no longer “mandated.” …

Remember, if It’s Sunday in St. Louis, it’s Hancock and Kelley on FOX 2. We hope to see you next Sunday morning at 8:30.

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Happy New Year’s Eve and welcome to a special edition of Hancock and Kelley on FOX 2. Political analysts John Hancock and Michael Kelley discuss the following topics on this week’s episode: ...

Our 2023 political winners and losers, from St. Louis to Washington. ...

We'll peer into the crystal ball for the big year ahead and the 2024 elections. ...

John and Michael make their new year's resolutions; not for themselves, but for each other!

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It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley, Sunday, December 10, 2023. John Hancock, Republican consultant, on the right and Michael Kelley, Democratic consultant, on the left, took on the following topics:

• St. Louis enacts an open carry ‘trigger’ law to take effect immediately if/when state lawmakers allow cities to enact certain gun control measures. The new city ordinance is inspired by Missouri’s abortion ‘trigger’ law that banned abortion when the United States Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade decision. St. Louis may have an ally in Kansas City which has surpassed St. Louis by far in the number of homicides for 2023.
• St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore, says he will seek a full term in 2024, after restoring criminal prosecutions in the wake of the resignation of troubled former Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner.
• Missouri Senator Josh Hawley unleashes fury toward fellow Republicans after the House stripped aid to victims of radiation exposure from nuclear waste dating to World War II and the United States atomic weapons program.
• Our quote of the week was from Harvard University President Claudine Gay, as she and executives from other elite universities appeared before Congress to face criticism for their handling of a rise in antisemitism on their campuses. The University of Pennsylvania President, Liz Magill, resigned Saturday under mounting pressure from donors and alumni.
• President Biden makes a rare national address from the Oval Office, pushing for tens of billions of dollars in more aid for Ukraine as it fends off an ongoing invasion from Russia.
• President Biden’s son, Hunter, has been indicted on nine counts of alleged federal tax crimes as Republicans move forward in the impeachment inquiry of the President.
• Former President Trump quips that if he’s elected president again, he would act as a dictator, but only for one day, as Democrats warn of Mr. Trump’s past threats of retribution against his political enemies.
• News Nation hosted the 4th Republican Presidential debate, which Donald Trump once again skipped. There were only 4 candidates on stage this time: who stepped up and who stepped back?

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A Republican Missouri state representative calls for a ban on Palestinian refugees fleeing Gaza and the Israel-Hamas war resettling in Missouri. …

St. Louis Congresswoman Cori Bush stands with hunger strikers outside the White House in support of a permanent cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war, as we learn that Israeli intelligence knew of detailed Hamas plans to attack Israel long before the October 7 terrorist strike. …

Bush is not alone in facing a primary election challenge. Defeated Republican candidate for Illinois Governor Darren Bailey is now taking aim at five-term Republican Congressman Mike Bost, who represents the largest share of the St. Louis area in Illinois. …

The former Workhouse jail in the City of St. Louis has become an eyesore and a public safety hazard just 1.5 years after being shut down by Mayor Tishaura Jones. She has trumpeted the closure as a hallmark of her first term. …

Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis squared off against California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom in a debate on Fox News. …

The U.S. House of Representatives expels Republican Congressman George Santos. …

Our Quote of the Week was from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on the passing of former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to ever serve on the court. Hancock and Kelley also shared their thoughts on the passing of former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

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 It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley, Sunday, November 19, 2023.   

John Hancock, Republican consultant, on the right and Michael Kelley, Democratic consultant, on the left took on the following topics:  

• A Republican U.S. Senator and the Teamsters President nearly come to blows during a Senate Committee Hearing.    
• Our Quote of the Week from Republican candidate for Missouri Governor, State Sen. Bill Eigel, says outgoing GOP Governor, Mike Parson, is too soft on Democrats …    
• The St. Charles County Council is considering a resolution in support of keeping illegal immigrants out of the county.
• Missouri Attorney General, Andrew Bailey, releases a scathing report on former St. Louis Circuit Attorney, Kim Gardner, and pushes the state to ban people who resign from office from running for that office again.       
• GOP and Democrat congressional leaders stand holding hands raised high along with tens of the thousands of demonstrators in the nation’s capital in support of Israel.
• Trending on Tik-Tok, young Americans sympathizing with Osama Bin Laden and his 20 year old “Letter to America” seeking to justify the mass murder of nearly 3,000 Americans by flying hijacked airplanes into buildings on September 11, 2001.         
• President Biden tells a roomful of world economic leaders at the APEC summit in San Francisco that Democrat California Governor, Gavin Newsom, could probably take President Biden’s job if Newsom so desires. 
• GOP Presidential Candidate, Nikki Haley, is rising above the field of candidates hoping to challenge runway frontrunner, former President Donald Trump. 

Remember, if It’s Sunday in St. Louis, it’s Hancock and Kelley on Fox 2.  We hope to see you next Sunday morning at 8:30

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 It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley, Sunday, November 5, 2023. John Hancock, a Republican consultant, on the right and Michael Kelley, a Democrat consultant, on the left, took on the following topics:

• Democrat St. Louis County Prosecutor, Wesley Bell, dropped his U.S. Senate bid to run in the House (1st Congressional St. Louis) against incumbent Democrat, St. Louis Congresswoman, Cori Bush. Her repeated accusations that Israel is guilty of genocide and ethnic cleansing in its response to the October 7th Hamas terror attacks are a key factor in his decision. He says fellow Democrats statewide have urged him to switch races.
• A deep dive on Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the U.S. and around the world, plus the rise of anti-Semitism from U.S. college campuses to a Russian airport.
• Missouri’s Republican Secretary of State, Jay Ashcroft, who is running for governor, loses at the Missouri Court of Appeals in his effort to defeat a ballot issue on whether to legalize abortion by allegedly rigging the ballot with biased language.
• Lawless violence continues in St. Louis without a peep from Mayor Tishaura Jones or high paid Police Chief, Robert Tracy, whom she appointed 10 months ago. Soccer fans staying at a hotel near downtown’s new gem, CityPark soccer stadium, had a bullet go through their 9th floor hotel room window and wall, with bullet fragments landing in their bed, after they watched City SC’s first ever home playoff match. The police response was extremely slow with dispatchers citing a shortage of available officers at a peak time for visitors to downtown St. Louis.
• President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden traveled to Maine to mourn the victims of the recent massacre there by an Army reservist with a history of mental illness. He legally possessed rifles designed to inflict mass casualties even though the Army banned him from handling weapons on duty.
• House Republicans, led by the new Speaker of the House, play political games with aid to Israel. They pass a $14.5 billion package by tie to cut in IRS funding.
• Efforts to keep Former President Donald Trump’s name off election ballots in Colorado and Minnesota under the 14th Amendment move forward.

Our quote of the week: Former Democrat candidate for President, Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s, switch to an independent run may take more votes away from Donald Trump than Joe Biden.

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As St. Louis marks one year since a high school mass shooting, a mass shooting in Maine rocks America yet again. When will elected leaders do something to stop massacres of the innocent? ... Also on the show this week: ...There's a new push in St. Louis to take in migrants—potentially thousands—who've recently crossed the southern U.S. border. ... After three weeks of flailing and failure, Republicans finally picked a new Speaker of the House. ... St. Louis spends big money to secure a beloved downtown building, but then must unsecure it the next day. ... The fight over ballot language has Missouri voters considering legalizing abortion. ... Our quote of the week sees a judge hit former President Donald Trump with fines. Does that actually work in Trump's favor?

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On this show this week, we’re taking a deep dive into the Hamas-Israeli war.

President Joe Biden addressed the nation this past week, saying America stands with Israel. He's calling for more than $100 billion in aid for Israel in its war with Hamas and Ukraine in its war with the invading Russia and Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile, St. Louis Congresswoman Cori Bush has accused Israel of war crimes for its response to terror attacks.

Also on the show this week:

Congress is still without a House Speaker and the GOP is a complete mess. Can they fix things”?

We have two big surprises in Missouri's two big elections in 2024: the races for governor and the U.S. Senate.

The U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on Missouri's controversial gun law, the so-called Second Amendment Preservation Act.

Our quote of the week is a single word from Sidney Powell, a former attorney for Donald Trump now turned witness for the prosecution against the former president.

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It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. ...

Republican consultant John Hancock and Democrat consultant Michael Kelley took on the following topics: ...

Vice President Kamala Harris stopped in St. Louis and revved up Democrat supporters at the Democratic National Committee’s fall meeting. Why do so many, including Democrats, consider her to be such a weak potential presidential candidate? ...

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones boots a homeless camp for the City Hall lawn as Aldermanic President Megan Green pushes for a homeless bill of rights to ban actions like the mayor took and allow unhoused persons to urinate and defecate in public. ...

Calls grow louder for the mayor to fire the head of the troubled city jail. ...

The proposed $3 billion makeover of the outdated St. Louis Lambert Airport takes a huge $331 million step forward. ...

Eight Republicans side with House Democrats to oust Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy less than 10 months after he took the gavel. ...

Hamas attacks Israel. Israel responds with overwhelming force. What is and should be the role of the United States? ...

Former President Donald Trump erupts outside a New York courtroom during his civil trial for alleged business fraud. ...

Our quote of the week was from President Biden in 2020, when he pledged “not another foot” of wall would be built at the U.S.-Mexico border while he was in the White House. His administration has just waived 26 federal laws to allow about 20 miles of additional wall in Texas.

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ST. LOUIS – It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley on Sunday, Sept. 24.

Republican consultant John Hancock and Democratic consultant Michael Kelley discuss the following topics:

• A viral video with tens of millions of views around the world shows two Republican State Senators from St. Charles County using flamethrowers to burn cardboard boxes at a GOP fundraiser. Democrats are peddling a false claim that the senators were burning books.
• Parents in St. Charles County are calling for the removal of two sexually explicit books, including one titled “Bang Like a Porn Star,” from the public library’s collection.
• The mayor of St. Louis wants to bring back red light cameras, eight years after the Missouri Supreme Court ruled they were unconstitutional.
• Greater St. Louis Inc. has launched a new effort to reverse St. Louis’ population decline. Progressive Democrats think rent control laws may help. John and Michael say it all starts with public safety and addressing rampant lawlessness in the city.
• Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is in the political crosshairs—not from Democrats but from members of his own party—as he tries to forestall a government shutdown at the end of this week.
• Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits President Biden and congressional leaders in Washington, seeking billions of dollars in additional aid to fend Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
• Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer relaxes the Senate dress code to allow Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman to wear a hoodie on the Senate floor.
• Our quote of the week was from a sportsbook in Canada with a few surprising trends in betting odds for President of the United States in 2024: Democrat Gavin Newsom is moving up, along with former President Trump, while President Biden and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis are sliding.

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It was another Sunday morning of sometimes heated but always civil political debate on Hancock and Kelley for Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023.    

John Hancock, Republican consultant, and Michael Kelley, Democrat consultant, discussed the following topics:  

St. Louis County is encouraging a return to masking in crowded areas with COVID cases on the rise, as a new medical study shows there’s no evidence masking slowed the pandemic. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci is walking back his past stances on the benefits of masking.          

A new poll shows Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate from Missouri, Lucas Kunce, narrowly trailing Republican incumbent Josh Hawley, 44%-43%. The poll was commissioned by the Kunce campaign but provided only positive background information about the two candidates prior to asking voters which man they would support.      

The City of St. Louis bucks up to extend the much-hyped Cure Violence program, which has failed to deliver the promised results. The program will run for a fourth year, with total cost over those four years nearing $10 million.     

U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona pays a visit to St. Louis and says Missouri school districts going to a four-day school week are not meeting the needs of students or the nation’s future. He seemed to sidestep the issue of parental involvement in school curriculum after uproar over issues like critical race theory and gender identity being taught in schools.  

New polling shows an overwhelming majority (77%) of voters think President Joe Biden cannot handle a second term, and 69% of Democrats in the poll feel Mr. Biden is too old. Famed Democrat strategist James Carville says he cannot deny the poll is alarming.    

At age 83, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces she’s running for another term in Congress, extending her 36-year run as the Congresswoman representing San Francisco, California.   

President Biden’s son, Hunter, will likely be indicted on a weapons charge before the end of the month by the same prosecutor who engineered the so-called sweetheart plea deal that would have let Biden off with a misdemeanor. A federal judge rejected that plea deal.     

Our quote of the week was from Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who says she’s very interested in being Donald Trump’s running mate in 2024. She endorsed Trump on Friday night.

Remember, if It’s Sunday in St. Louis, it’s Hancock and Kelley on Fox 2. We hope to see you next Sunday morning at 8:30!    

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From cracking down on temp tag abuse to solving the 911 crisis, is St. Charles the anti-St. Louis—actually coming up with solutions to problems?

Also on the show this week:

• One of President Joe Biden’s aliases on emails sent while he was vice president could spell trouble.
• Former President Donald Trump is on a major legal losing streak.
• In our quote of the week, a top St. Louis restaurant disses Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
• Missouri Democrats agree to lower the voting age to 17 for the 2024 Democratic primary for people who will turn 18 before the November general election. Can they do that?

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