Missourians rejected Amendment 3 in Tuesday’s midterm elections, doubling down on their 2024 vote to add a right to reproductive freedom to the state constitution and preserving access to abortion statewide. Voters rejected Amendment 3, with 55% voting against the measure, according to preliminary results. View the rest of Tuesday’s results. Amendment 3 would have […]
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Wyandotte County voters reject investment in city parks, services for homeless residents
See how voters in Kansas City, Kansas, and Wyandotte County voted on sales tax items tied to key public services
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Follow live Missouri and Kansas election results for the Nov. 3 midterm
Voters from across Missouri and Kansas went to the polls today for the 2026 midterm elections. Statewide, Missourians voted on five ballot questions, U.S. House representatives and state auditor. Big items on the Kansas side of the state line were governor, U.S Senate, U.S House representatives and State Board of Education members. Below you’ll find […]
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KCK thinks citywide tax could keep last public pool from closing, transform neglected neighborhoods
To replace the pool within its own footprint, meaning exactly where it is now, would cost the local government between $5 million and $6 million.
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Wyandotte County has an unusual number of ‘abandoned’ cemeteries. Neighbors pitch in to maintain them
“We don’t even have enough funds to have dignity for those who we’ve lost,” Unified Government Mayor Christal Watson said at a commission meeting in August, “and that’s a tragedy to me.”
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KCK backs down in Chiefs stadium legal battle, but will it keep local protections?
Ever since the Kansas City Chiefs and Gov. Laura Kelly announced plans to build a professional football stadium in western Wyandotte County — plans that local officials said they hadn’t heard about until days before — residents have been asking their local government to stick up for them in the deal. County commissioners took notice, […]
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Children’s Mercy ACA spat shows how patients get caught in crossfire of business deals, federal policies
In January, about 400 Kansas City kids are set to lose access to Children’s Mercy Hospital and its affiliated pediatric practices. Emmalyn Case’s three children, ages 9, 6 and 4, will be among them. “It’s really scary,” she said last week after hearing the news that the hospital would not be in the network of […]
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Voter guide: Should property taxes help repair Independence’s Vaile Mansion and historic buildings?
How is this different from last year’s historic buildings bond question? What happens if it fails? Do Independence taxpayers get any benefit?
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KC’s temporary ‘World Cup’ jail to become permanent solution as city scraps plans for new building
Kansas City’s latest changeup in a yearslong effort to build a permanent municipal jail involves a $120 million retrofit of its new, temporary modular one: the so-called World Cup jail that didn’t open for the World Cup, and still hasn’t opened. This latest pivot on the city’s part, from an all-new $201 million permanent jail […]
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27,000 Kansans are getting medical debt forgiven. Some worry it’s not a real fix
This week thousands of Kansans will get a Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes-style surprise. But instead of a knock on the door and a giant check, they’ll find a letter in the mail informing them that some past hospital or doctor bill has been paid off. Somos Votantes Education Fund, a nonpartisan civic engagement organization focused […]