President Trump has been pressuring Gov. Mike Kehoe to call a special session for mid-decade redistricting. Republican lawmakers hope to gerrymander congressional lines around Kansas City.
Savannah Hawley-Bates
As KCUR's local government reporter, I’ll hold our leaders accountable and show how their decisions about development, transit and the economy shape your life. I meet with people at city council meetings, on the picket lines and in their community to break down how power and inequities change our community.
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Kansas City cared more about branding than public transparency. A new audit urges an overhaul
The audit into the city’s communications department investigated issues with transparency. The department was consolidated and controlled by former City Manager Brian Platt, who was fired in March.
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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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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.
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Missouri minimum wage election results: Proposition A passes to impose higher pay and more sick leave
Missouri voters appear to have approved a statewide ballot initiative to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour and require private employers to provide paid sick leave. Proposition A held approximately 58% of the vote, as of 12:30 a.m., according to a preliminary vote count by the Associated Press. Proponents of the measure […]
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Kansas City’s new Ferris wheel didn’t get tax breaks — but the surrounding entertainment district might
Seemingly overnight, residents and drivers on Interstate 35 awoke to a new addition to the Kansas City skyline: a Ferris wheel. The 150-foot wheel is how many people found out about the Pennway Point development that’s being constructed on the eastern edge of the Westside — a project that’s been in the works for years but […]