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Lawmakers are hoping to complete congressional redistricting before candidate filing begins in February.
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Every January, the federal government requires communities to survey their homeless populations. Known as the Point in Time count, it’s widely known to be inaccurate. Kansas City hopes new technology will lead to a better count — and more helpful use of resources.
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Some lawmakers in Missouri want to craft a congressional map that makes the Kansas City area more winnable for Republicans. Plus, Kansas City leaders have a plan for how to keep unhoused people safe from the dangerous cold this winter.
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Republicans could craft a congressional map that gives them a shot to win seven out of Missouri’s eight congressional seats. But they may spare Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.
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President Joe Biden toured the Kansas City Area Transit Authority on Wednesday and spoke about the $1 trillion infrastructure plan that he signed last month.
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Cleaver and his fellow Democrats' continued internal debate is stalling President Biden's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and his Build Back Better legislation.
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Kyle Wilkens, an agriculture policy expert in U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s office in Higginsville, Missouri, has already helped evacuate 30 people from Afghanistan. Among them is Zamzama Safi, who escaped execution by the Taliban but whose family remains at risk.
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Ernest Johnson is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Advocates, Missouri lawmakers and even Pope Francis had urged Parson to grant him clemency.
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The increasingly desperate scramble to get Afghans who worked with U.S. troops out of their country is stretching the abilities of people from Kabul to Washington to a small farm outside Higginsville, Missouri.
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In "American Coup," Cleaver imagines the United States in the not-too-distant future with a president who has some familiar characteristics.
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Exclusion of affordable housing from President Biden's plan has the Missouri congressman unable to commit his support, one Kansas City nonprofit is improving health outcomes for Black LGBTQ residents, and a festival featuring only female directors calls North Kansas City home.
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Local housing advocacy groups on Wednesday demanded accountability from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which they said is funding "notorious slumlords" in Kansas City.