Just as Chicago, New Orleans and other cities have major arts festivals that draw thousands, so Kansas City Mayor Sly James would like to see the city host a festival next September to showcase and promote local talent in all sorts of artistic mediums.
The Senate voted Wednesday 97-1 and the House 348-77 to override President Barack Obama’s veto of legislation that would allow the families of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But that is only the beginning of what will be an exceedingly complicated legal strategy to prove that the Arab country, from which 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers came, bears responsibility for what took place.
Averting an election-year crisis, Congress late Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a bill to keep the government operating through Dec. 9 and provide $1.1 billion in long-delayed funding to battle the Zika virus.
Donald Trump lashed out wildly on Tuesday in the aftermath of the first presidential candidate debate with Hillary Clinton, scolding the moderator, criticizing a beauty pageant winner for her physique and raising the prospect of an all-out attack on Bill Clinton’s marital infidelities in the final stretch of the campaign.
One of County Executive Frank White’s top assistants has been working behind the scenes to rewrite the county’s pension plan to benefit a single county legislator.
A Cole County judge postponed until February the trial of Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who is accused of age and gender discrimination. By then, Nixon will have left office. Meanwhile, two other lawsuits have come to light that make similar allegations of discrimination against Nixon’s administration.
The Kansas City downtown Marriott and Muehlebach hotel complex wants to use a Community Improvement District sales tax to help finance a proposed $32.8 million renovation. The hotel also proposes that the city would pay for half of the work.
In a new ruling, a Shawnee County judge ordered that 17,500 voters should have their full ballots counted until he makes a final ruling. That means they’ll likely be able to cast a full ballot on Nov. 8.
The Kansas City park board on Tuesday approved a resolution to locate a new animal shelter on about seven acres within Swope Park, at Gregory Boulevard and Elmwood Avenue.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has decided against proposing across-the-board cuts in state spending next year after his budget director asked agencies to propose 5 percent reductions and found some of the recommendations "harmful" to services.
Kansas City is considering higher property taxes for public works projects. Johnson Countians face a similar decision in November, Dave Helling writes, but they’re asked to raise a very different tax levy to pay for the projects.
Democrats on Tuesday rejected a stopgap funding bill proposed by Republicans that included funds to combat Zika. They complained that the bill provided money to flood victims in Louisiana and other states but nothing to help residents plagued by lead-tainted water in Flint, Michigan. Senate Republicans accused Democrats of edging the country toward a government shutdown in order to paint the GOP-led Congress as ineffective.
Gov. Chris Christie was told about the epic 2013 traffic jam at the George Washington Bridge while it was underway, seemed happy about it and joked sarcastically that there was nothing political going on, a former loyalist testified Tuesday in the scandal that helped destroy Christie's White House ambitions.
The White House Tuesday nominated Jeffrey DeLaurentis, who has been the chief of the U.S. Embassy in Havana since it reopened in July 2015, as the “first U.S. ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years.”
Monday’s first presidential debate of the season had highs and lows for both candidates. Trump’s best moment involved NATO; Clinton shone when attacking Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns.
Mayor Sly James outlined his vision for a signature Kansas City arts festival at the City Council's Finance and Governance Committee meeting at City Hall Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016.
Jill ToyoshibaThe Kansas City Star
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