MOScout Sunday6: Note to Staffer - COVID Grid - "The Unwilling" - Bipartisan Election Reform - What Airplane Tix Say and more...

1. Note to staffer: when the indicted state legislator steps up for a photo-op with the boss, your job is to throw a block.

2. Paper ballot backups are one of the few areas of bipartisan agreement.  A few House bills this session (HB 842 and HB 925) would require use of paper ballots.

Source: Pew Research

3. COVID grid shows us in the top left quadrant.  Not a good as lower left, but better than top right (looking at you, NY).

Source: Hamilton Place Strategies

4. Morning Consult reports that 24% of Missourians are “unwilling” to get a COVID vaccination.

Source: Morning Consult

5. Airplane ticket prices indicate folks will be back to traveling by late summer.

Source: NYTimes

6. Over a quarter of Missouri auto deaths involve alcohol.

Source: Reddit.

7. Oscars tonight.  You probably won’t be watching…

Source: Statista