As part of our ongoing Urban Go-team: Inside Politics program, we are helping students find news related to political races and issues that are of interest to them. Each week we will be posting a number of news articles, videos, and graphics that help explain what’s going in Campaign 2016. Some of them will be local to St. Louis, some of them will be focused nationally.
This week, Bobbi Clemons is helping scour the internet for interesting things to read. (In future weeks we hope to have Go-Team members contribute! If you are interested in contributing links, please email [email protected])
Thursday:
- All 5 candidates have come out supporting gun rights: Missouri candidates for governor stick to (talking about) guns (STL Public Radio)
- Ties in great with what we learned from Maine Citizens for Clean Elections: Jimmy Carter calls for return to publicly financed elections (Washington Post)
- Gun control vs gun shop: Here’s How America Googled “Gun Control” After Orlando (Mother Jones)
- Trump hates dialing for dollars. (Something I can agree with him on): Donald Trump Apparently Has A Serious Fundraising Problem (TPM)
Wednesday:
- Great list of which Missouri politicians get money from the NRA: Blunt top NRA campaign donation recipient in Congress (STL Post Dispatch)
- Most of us were thinking this, but it’s nice having data to back it up: Media Coverage of the Primaries Was Awful, Harvard Study Confirms (U.S. Uncut)
- The idea that we have to fact check presidential candidates is rather depressing: Fact-checking Trump and Clinton on combating terrorism in the U.S. (PBS)
Tuesday: (Today we’re going on a gun info theme)
- Interesting choice of words (and visual) as British paper calls gun violence in U.S. “gun crisis”: 1,000 mass shootings in 1,260 days: this is what America’s gun crisis looks like (The Guardian)
- More charts/stats like the fact the U.S. has 5% of the world’s population and 31% of all public mass shootings: US home to nearly a third of world’s mass shootings (CNN)
- Conservative news is worried the “government will take our guns away”: White House Spox Won’t ‘Rule Out’ Executive Order to Enact Gun Control (The Blaze)
- Samantha Bee wants to take your guns away:
- Lastly, something funny and local: STL Up Late Reveals What Eric Greitens Was Shooting at in That Campaign Ad (RFT)
Monday:
- Great info about who drops big donor $$$ in Missouri: Mega donors spending big in race for Missouri governor (Kansas City Star)
- Maria spoke with Go-Team this year: Clay boosts new Ferguson Starbucks while challenger Chappelle-Nadal points to district’s ‘decay’ (Post Dispatch)
- Orlando Shooting: Why some politicians emphasize homophobia and gun control, while others focus on Islamic extremism: The Politics of Mass Murder (CityLab)
- Another Go-Team speaker, Scott Ogilvie, has been busy with ethics reform & lobbying limits: Proposed city ethics commission could see its duties expand (STL Public Radio)
- Dark money in Missouri pays for tv ads: You can’t find out who paid for new attack ads on Missouri TV. Laws keep them secret. (STL Public Radio)
