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The latest Missouri 2024 election results: Live updates
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Kansas 2024 election results: Live updates
Find live election results from the Nov. 5 Kansas general election. Looking for Missouri results? Head over to this page. Get notified as election results come in – and stay tuned for what happens next in Kansas and Missouri Local election results from The Beacon and our partners: These live results come from the Associated […]
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Kansas Supreme Court will decide what’s just an arcade game, and what’s a gambling device
Chad Thompson once won $1,500 from the game Dragon’s Ascent, and it only cost him 10 cents to play. The game looks like something from an arcade. Players work a joystick and a button to shoot at the dragons swarming the screen. The bigger the dragon, the bigger the payout for a kill. Thompson, from […]
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The growing stakes in the Kansas City rent strike as it passes 30 days
Buckets of brown sink water, overflowing roach traps and photographs of clogged bathtubs lined the entrance to the leasing office at Quality Hill Towers. At their most recent rally, tenants brought their frustrations straight to management’s door. George Pacheco carried two-gallon jugs of murky water from his apartment. “I gave my daughter a glass of […]
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Sharice Davids challenged by Republican Dr. Prasanth Reddy in Kansas 3rd District
In 2018, Sharice Davids tapped moderate views and flipped the Kansas 3rd Congressional District into Democratic hands. Davids, a mixed martial artist and first-generation college student, defeated incumbent U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder. In doing so, she became the first LGBTQ Native American elected to Congress. Now she’s running for a fourth term against Lenexa oncologist […]
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National marijuana companies recruit Missourians to land licenses meant for people harmed by weed prohibition
This story originally indicated that Mike Halow declined comment. A public relations firm representing him later said that was his father, who has the same name. Aimee Gromowsky was puzzled when she found a flier in her mailbox asking her to apply for a cannabis dispensary license. In bold letters on one side, it read: “ONCE […]
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Kansas City wants to follow Grandview’s footsteps and open its own city-run DMV
Kansas City has two driver’s license offices serving more than 500,000 residents.
Mayor Pro Tem Ryana Parks-Shaw thinks that’s a problem.
“If there’s someone who has a regular 8-to-5 job, they have to take off work to go and get their license renewed,” she said. “It’s, many times, long waits, long lines.”
Now the Kansas City Council is trying to open and run its own publicly owned DMV office. The council approved a resolution on Oct. 10 directing City Manager Brian Platt to look at the process, estimate any costs and recommend a possible location.
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Platte County voters to decide fate of sales tax to fund children’s mental health services
Platte County will vote on a new sales tax Nov. 5 to help fund mental health services for children. Backers of the quarter-cent tax include mental health service providers, who argue the money is needed to meet the growing needs in Platte County. The tax dollars would support mental well-being for children up to 19 […]
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What’s in your weed? A Missouri state lab to check industry claims
Missouri plans to spend millions from state marijuana taxes on a laboratory to help regulators keep tabs on the safety and potency of more than $1 billion of joints, edibles and other cannabis products sold annually across the state. Health experts and consumer groups applauded the added regulatory check, outlined in an Oct. 11 report […]
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Johnson County could be key to breaking the GOP’s supermajority in Kansas
A few moderate Republicans are the only reason transgender minors can still get gender-affirming care in Kansas. The GOP’s legislative supermajority tried to ban the practice until age 18. But conservatives fell two votes short of overriding Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto — thanks to those Republicans. Kansas Republicans have a veto-proof majority in both the […]