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Proposed changes to the Head Start program are worrying local families and the organizations that offer it, prompting concerns about class sizes, dual-language instruction and funding.
Welcome to Monday’s Washington Secrets. Today we catch up with Roger Marshall, who is fighting for his political life in Kansas. He believes he can win and, like many Republicans, he says his private polling looks very different to the public numbers. So we also dive into some of the surveys, and some of the […]
This story was updated at 10:21 a.m. Wednesday to include comments from Ben Hobert and Greg Mitchell. Johnson County voters appear to prefer to keep incumbent officers on the county commission, according to unofficial final results posted by the Johnson County Election Office on Tuesday night. If results hold, Commission...
Missouri voters shot down Proposition A that would have made the 2025 congressional district map permanent.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the first time in nearly a decade, the city of Prairie Village will have a new mayor. Running to take over the role of Mayor Eric Mikkelson after his second term is up were city councilmembers Cole Robinson and Inga Selders. On Tuesday, Prairie...
Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota wants the whole four-count federal bribery case against him tossed out, saying he doesn’t dispute the facts — but they weren’t a crime. The indictment, handed down in August, accused LeVota of offering a $165,000 county job to county legislator DaRon McGee...
Across the metro from Wyandotte to Jackson County, voters share what brought them out to the polls this Election Day.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mike Kelly has been elected at the next Johnson County commissioner chairman. The incumbent chairman, Kelly was running against Karen Crnkovich, who ran for the U.S. House to represent Kansas' 3rd Congressional District in 2024. Kelly attended Rockhurst High School in Kansas City, Missouri, and...
Kansas City has plenty of places that claim deep roots, but only one corner spot can say it sits inside what many call the oldest building in town. Long before the rooftop crowds, the weekend DJ sets, and the late-night lines, this address was already part of the Westport story.
Johnson County voters played a critical role in helping Democrats break the Republican supermajority in the Kansas House on Tuesday night. According to final unofficial vote totals reported by the Kansas Secretary of State and Johnson County Election Office, Democrats are poised to flip up to 11 House seats in Johnson County from red to blue.
The op-ed below does not necessarily reflect the views of the University Daily Kansan and its members. Among all the races taking place today nationwide, Kansas holds one of the most high-stakes midterm elections in state history. For many college students, the default assumption is that voting in our hometowns via mail-in ballot is our only option. This isn’t true. Despite being a Missourian with hot-button issues on the ballot back home, I am currently registered to vote in Kansas instead of my home state.
Like most Kansans, Carrie Schmidt enthusiastically supported President Donald Trump in past elections. “I voted for him,” she told Scripps News in an interview Wednesday. “I was very, like, loud.”. But her views on the president have soured in recent months — and she says there’s one main...
LINWOOD, Kan. (KCTV) - Election Day got off to a frustrating start for voters in southern Leavenworth County on Tuesday after a polling location ran out of specific ballots, leaving dozens of people waiting in line for more than an hour. The shortage occurred at the Linwood Community Building, located...
Democrat Amy Diediker takes the open Kansas State Board of Education seat for District 3, with nearly 55% of the vote. She beat out Republican Jim McMullen for the seat, which flips to the Democrats with Diediker’s election. Four other seats on the board were up for grabs this year, all filled by Republicans.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) - Overland Park voters will weigh in on whether or not to approve a parks and recreation sales tax next spring. Monday night, Overland Park’s City Council voted to hold a mail-in ballot election in March 2027. If voters approve the tax in March, the...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas voters have decided who they want to represent them in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the 3rd Congressional District, Democrat Rep. Sharice Davids won her fifth term in Congress after battling Republican Eric Jenkins, a former Shawnee City Council member who spent more than 20 years on the city’s planning commission.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - DJs at the Polls is in Wyandotte County for the first time this Election Day, with local DJs playing neighborhood favorites outside 18 Kansas City, Kansas, polling places. The sites include Oak Ridge Missionary Baptist Church and Quindaro Community Center. People dance at Oak Ridge...
Jackson County municipalities asked voters to renew or implement a handful of new government programs and taxes. Not all of them passed. The post Jackson County voters pass COMBAT anti-crime tax. See results for other local questions appeared first on The Beacon .
PARKVILLE, Mo. (KCTV) - Steady, purposeful turnout defined Election Day at Parkville Presbyterian Church on Tuesday, where Platte County voters filed in continuously from dawn until the final rush before polls closed at 7 p.m. Poll workers reported an early surge of residents casting ballots before work, followed by a...
