Candidates want to see teachers paid more, but are split on nearly every other issue.
Q&A: These Raytown school board candidates want your vote April 8
Posted inKansas City
Kansas City will lose nearly half its bus routes under transit agency’s drastic cost-cutting plan
According to documents obtained by KCUR, the agency plans to cut nearly half of its routes, drastically reduce weekend service and pare down its operating hours. It will also lay off about 170 workers.
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Voter guide: Candidates for the Hickman Mills school board explain their priorities
Candidates answer questions about high-profile education issues and how they think the board can improve.
Posted inState Government
A surge in mental health care needs for uninsured Kansans could lead to cuts in services
Community health centers have to take patients regardless of ability to pay. More patients are coming in and many don’t have insurance that can cover the cost of care.
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Where North Kansas City school board candidates stand on the issues
The candidates answered questions about immigration enforcement, technology and transgender students.
Posted inState Government
It is illegal to try certain experimental medications in Kansas. Terminally ill Kansans might soon have options.
New medicines are being developed for individual treatments based on someone’s DNA. Those would be allowed under a proposed bill.
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These candidates want to be on the Lee’s Summit school board for the next 3 years
All candidates responded to questions about teacher pay, immigration enforcement in schools and the bond issue on the April 8 ballot.
Posted inEducation
Meet the Kansas City Public Schools board candidates for the April 2025 election
All seven candidates support the district’s bond issue, but they have differing views on how well the district tackles sensitive topics in the classroom.
Posted inRural
New mobile clinic in Buchanan County aims to test more women for cervical and breast cancer
A new partnership in Buchanan County is hitting the road to provide breast and cervical cancer screenings to women in the area. Studies show that for these two forms of cancer, early detection can be lifesaving.
Posted inLocal Government
Kansas City manager Brian Platt suspended with pay
Mayor Quinton Lucas released a letter Thursday night announcing Brian Platt had been suspended from his position.