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.
Democrats on Tuesday rejected a stop-gap 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.
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.
The presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump looked different through the country’s many political prisms, Democratic, Republican, liberal, conservative and snark.
Longtime Hillary Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal, according a former editor in McClatchy’s Washington bureau in 2008, encouraged the news organization to look into Obama’s roots. Blumenthal denies that. McClatchy last week reported that there is no direct proof that Blumenthal shared the birther rumor. It is one person’s word against another.
Donald Trump’s habit of peddling hype and fabrication emerged unabated in the first presidential debate while Hillary Clinton played it cautiously in her statements, though not without error.
Documents released by the Kansas Board of Regents show the University of Kansas could be forced to cut more than $12 million per the Brownback administration’s request for state agencies and universities to look at a possible budget cuts for the next two fiscal years. KU Medical Center would need to cut around $10.4 million.
Judge Julie Robinson scheduled the hearing after the American Civil Liberties Union last week contended Secretary of State Kris Kobach has failed to comply with the judge’s May order to register about 18,000 people who registered to vote at the DMV but did not provide proof of citizenship.
Hillary Clinton loses ground in the debate with Donald Trump. Four of 21 North Carolina voters interviewed in a focus group by McClatchy and The Charlotte Observer had been considering supporting her, but after the debate they move into the undecided camp or lean toward other candidates.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump came to their first debate armed with a full arsenal of facts, provocations and precooked one-liners. She tried to show her middle-class sensibilities; he went on the attack on her political career.
The SolSmart program, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, recognized Kansas City as one of 14 cities nationally making it faster, easier and cheaper to use solar energy. Other Missouri cities honored were Gladstone and Columbia.
The first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may be among the most-watched programs in history. Here’s a guide on what to expect — and what both candidates will try to accomplish.
Kansas City is trying to move forward with development of the former Citadel Plaza site, where a previous development plan fell apart as the result of a financial and environmental debacle.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is mad that Roy Blunt isn’t returning his phone calls. In a brief but vicious letter to the Republican senator from Missouri, Reid lectures Blunt on what it means “to be a gentleman” and says he should be embarrassed not to call another senator back.
A bill introduced by three Democratic senators on Monday would expand protections for employees who raise health and safety concerns at America’s nuclear weapons facilities. A recent audit found the Department of Energy had repeatedly failed to protect whistleblowers from retaliation and intimidation by its contractors. Since the agency “won’t make the changes necessary to increase accountability and protect folks who raise concerns — we’re going to have to legislate those changes ourselves,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, one of the bill’s sponsors.
Questions about gender run throughout the general-election presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the first ever between man and a woman.
