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Investigative reporter for the Kansas City Star. Areas of interest: Business, politics, accountability. DM me. On Signal. Tips? Send 'em: svockrodt@kcstar.com

Kansas City, MO
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Joined February 2010
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 14

    Here's the thing: Newspapers are going to publish things you agree with, and they're also going to publish things that challenge your way of thinking. That's okay. It's even good for you.

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  2. Retweeted
    10 hours ago

    Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting

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  3. Dec 25

    I really enjoy most of the literature that the Beat Generation produced, but "On The Road" is turgid and ponderous.

    Give me your spiciest, maddest, most sacrilegious Book Opinion.
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  4. Dec 25

    Two teenagers are up on murder charges after one told police he set up a drug deal as a premise to rob a would-be buyer, a mess of a situation that ended up with one man dead.

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  5. Dec 25

    Happy holidays and merry Christmas, Kansas City! I'm the day side reporter at the Kansas City Star today. If you see me today, there's a good chance you're having a lousy Christmas. Stay safe and keep warm out there.

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  6. Retweeted
    Dec 23

    If there’s anything that makes millennials feel more secure, it’s when the nation’s top economic officials assure us that THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE ECONOMY ARE STRONG.

    Today I convened individual calls with the CEOs of the nation's six largest banks. See attached statement.
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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 23

    Thank you and

    You can blame the media: Sam , and the tweet that saved some Kansas teens’ Christmas
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  8. Dec 23

    The Hartford Whalers were my first love.

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  9. Retweeted
    Dec 23

    You can blame the media: Sam , and the tweet that saved some Kansas teens’ Christmas

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  10. Retweeted
    Dec 22

    In November Senator-elect told me a report about political consultants directing his AG office is “...one of the most absurdly, false stories that I've ever read” showing the data that proves it.

    ICYMI: Nov. 2 Josh Hawley told a TV reporter that a KC Star story about how political operatives steered the AG's office was false, while avoiding me as I waited outside his campaign bus. But records from his office make it clear the story was all too true
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  11. Dec 22

    ICYMI: Nov. 2 Josh Hawley told a TV reporter that a KC Star story about how political operatives steered the AG's office was false, while avoiding me as I waited outside his campaign bus. But records from his office make it clear the story was all too true

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  12. Dec 22

    Sen. Pat Roberts gives the New York Times his Jim Mora "Playoffs?! Playoffs?!" moment.

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  13. Dec 21

    I paid $5.50 tonight for a Miller High Life in Kansas City. Ouch!

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  14. Retweeted
    Dec 21

    Hawley's office releases a treasure trove of emails that confirm 's earlier reporting which he attacked about communications between his political consultants and state workers

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  15. Dec 21

    Josh Hawley told voters in 2016 that he wasn't looking to use one political office to seek another, but records show weeks after he was sworn in as attorney general, political consultants who would later guide is Senate race were directing office staff.

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    Dec 21

    Worth noting that is still awaiting responses to numerous open records requests related to our original report

    NEW: 85 pages of records released by ⁦⁩’s office confirm reporting by in October that Hawley’s attorney general staff frequently used private email in its communications w/outside political consultants Gail Gitcho & Timmy Teepell
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    Dec 21

    NEW: 85 pages of records released by ⁦⁩’s office confirm reporting by in October that Hawley’s attorney general staff frequently used private email in its communications w/outside political consultants Gail Gitcho & Timmy Teepell

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  18. Dec 21

    Josh Hawley's office released records today that showed political operatives directed attorney general staff (Hawley said no one ran the office but him) and that staff used private emails for public business (he didn't like it when Hillary Clinton did it).

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  19. Dec 21

    Nothing bad happened a decade ago, right?

    U.S. stocks suffer worst week in a decade
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  20. Dec 21

    🤔 "Does anybody seriously argue that if a church catches on fire, we should not send the publicly-funded fire department to put the fire out? The school districts have said over and over that they spend money on private entities ... but for them, it’s not a voucher."

    Interview with about his pre-K sales tax plan: ‘This is the only funding mechanism that works,’ he tells
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  21. Dec 21

    I was wondering if any congressional Democrats were going to remind everyone that Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall.

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    I have some thoughts about this looming shutdown...
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