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Carolina Hidalgo/St. Louis Public RadioThe former governor, who's currently running for U.S. Senate, is a named defendant in a lawsuit stemming from the early months of his administration. -
Carlos Moreno/KCUR 89.3An advisory commission recommends a horizontal split that would divide the Northland into two council districts based on socioeconomic status. The split is designed to give voters in less affluent neighborhoods more political access and representation.
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Missouri Attorney General sues Springfield schools in quest to find 'critical race theory' documentsAttorney General Eric Schmitt requested that Springfield Public Schools provide records of where it incorporated elements of critical race theory in its training and class work. The district says Schmitt is using the courts “to attack public education." -
State Sen. Dave Schatz, R-Sullivan, is the sixth major candidate to enter the GOP contest to replace U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt.
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Candidates have from Dec. 7 through Dec. 28 to file for offices like city council and school board in Missouri.
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The social security numbers of approximately 620,000 teachers were potentially exposed by a flaw in a state website. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has vowed prosecution of the reporter who informed the state of the issue, drawing criticism from lawmakers and cybersecurity experts.
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Supporters contended the OSHA rule will hold up in court and help stem the tide of COVID-19.
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The lawsuit from the gun-control nonprofit Giffords claims the NRA used shell companies to funnel millions "in unlawful, excessive, and unreported in-kind campaign contributions" to GOP candidates, including Sen. Josh Hawley.
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Skoog, who has been on the Overland Park city council for 16 years and is currently council president. He will replace longtime incumbent Carl Gerlach, who did not run for re-election.
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First-time candidate Tyrone Garner defeated one-term incumbent David Alvey to win election as mayor of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas.
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The case resulted from a 2019 challenge to a state law that says local elected officials can’t spend public money to campaign for or against ballot measures or candidates.
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Johnson County District Judge James Phelan agreed to release Coleman from the Johnson County jail on a $1,000 personal recognizance bond.
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As of the end of September, the state had awarded only 18% of the $323.7 million it received as part of the COVID-relief package Congress approved in December.
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Missouri state officials failed to meet the Springfield region’s needs as the more-contagious delta variant caused a record number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
Government
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As the Strickland evidentiary hearing continues at the Jackson County Courthouse, Mayor Lucas remains critical of Strickland's continued imprisonment.
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The former Republican U.S. senator from Missouri talks about President Biden, the Jan. 6 insurrection, Donald Trump and Josh Hawley.
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The Gilded Age saw an America much like today. Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett examine how the country recovered then and how it can do so again.
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Republicans are pushing Gov. Kelly to eliminate the $300 additional weekly unemployment payments because they say the money makes it harder to fill open jobs.
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Heating bills for school districts spiked during the cold snap earlier this year, leaving some districts unable to pay.
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Gov. Mike Parson and four statewide officials took their oaths of offices on Monday — ushering in four more years of near total Republican rule over Missouri.
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An ordinance introduced by Mayor Quinton Lucas would force some taxpayer-funded organizations to pay employees at least $15 an hour by 2022.
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The officer is charged with using excessive force against the teenager, who pleaded ‘I can’t breathe.’
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Kansas City officials are deliberating who will become the next city manager, overseeing everything from snow removal to the annual budget.
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Federal authorities say the effort led to over 500 arrests in Kansas City, but that included arrests under other operations. Civil rights leaders were highly critical of it, calling it "undue civilian terror."
Elections
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In a pair of predominantly Hispanic southwest Kansas communities, two women try to become the first Latinas voted into local office. Elections earlier this month show both how far Latina candidates have come and how many barriers they still face.
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Blunt was the sole Missouri Republican to vote for the infrastructure bill, but has objections to other ideas Biden is proposing.
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Kansans went to the polls on Tuesday to decide a number of critical races, including the next mayors of Overland Park and Kansas City, Kansas. Hear about the results of those elections, plus a number of school board races that became battlegrounds for controversial national issues.
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In Johnson County, the normally nonpartisan school board races were more contentious than years past. Only Shawnee Mission voters selected moderate candidates to their school board.
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It's Election Day in Kansas, and the most contentious races may actually be for your local school board — which have become battlegrounds for issues like face masks and "critical race theory." Also, experts say Missouri's lack of mental health coverage may be causing physicians to over-prescribe anti-anxiety meds.
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People running for local office in Kansas find themselves in increasingly partisan-like contests settled by an ever more polarized electorate.
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A group of conservative residents have put a recall vote for Mayor Brian Steele on the November 2 ballot, even though the city's mask mandate has long since expired.
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The former local news anchor says he no longer wants to use his conservative voice on air, but in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Early voting began this weekend across Kansas. In the Kansas City area, two cities are voting on high-stakes mayoral elections: Overland Park and Kansas City, Kansas.
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Mayor David Alvey seeks a second term and says he has guided the Unified Government responsibly during the pandemic. Challenger Tyrone Garner says the community demands tax relief, help for neglected neighborhoods and more engaged leadership.
