St. Louis Morning Brief: Fatal Road Rage on I-64, Governor Kehoe's $500 Million Budget Veto, and St. Louis Public Schools in Free Fall

The St. Louis Morning Brief brings a string of local stories that hit close to home. A 35-year-old man is dead after a road rage confrontation on the Wing Haven Boulevard ramp off I-64 in O'Fallon — and Marc Cox and Kim St. Onge turn it into a real talk moment about why you never escalate behind the wheel, sharing their own terrifying close calls with road rage truckers. Then Governor Mike Kehoe drops the budget axe — nearly $500 million in vetoes, including a police training facility in O'Fallon, a St. Louis County communications center, $190 million less for schools, and no across-the-board raises for state employees. Marc reminds the education lobby not to blame Kehoe when they already gambled their windfall on online gaming revenue that never materialized. And St. Louis Public Schools announces it's closing 20 buildings and gutting magnet programs — the latest chapter in a dysfunction story Marc's been watching since 1993. Plus the Festus data center controversy shrinks from a 12-building monster to a 4-building compromise after massive community pushback and a council recall fight that's now headed to court. Hashtags: #MarcCoxMorningShow #StLouisMorningBrief #RoadRage #OFallonMO #I64 #GovernorKehoe #MissouriBudget #BudgetVetoes #StLouisPublicSchools #SchoolClosings #MissouriEducation #FestusDataCenter #MissouriPolitics #StLouisLocal #ConservativeMissouri #StLouis