Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, the Democratic vice presidential nominee and Rockhurst High School graduate, came to Kansas City to raise money on Wednesday and make another stop in what marked the first appearance of a member of either major party’s ticket in town since their summer nominating conventions.
Three of Kansas City’s early parks and seven of its boulevards are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The system was a model of the City Beautiful movement.
Cuts were made to KanCare, the Medicaid program in Kansas, earlier this year to help fill holes in the state’s budget. Public meetings were scheduled for next week to explain the changes, but those meetings were canceled this week. On Wednesday, Gov. Sam Brownback said he supports restoring a portion of the cuts.
The leaders of the Catholic Church in Missouri are calling on lawmakers to uphold Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a bill that would eliminate the requirement to seek training and obtain a permit in order to carry a concealed gun.
The Kansas City Council’s planning and zoning committee wrestled for hours with the three projects. Neighbors spoke against them as being too tall, too dense or too dismissive of existing parking and traffic problems. Developers countered that zoning should be flexible and that the time is right to move forward with economic development projects that make sense for the area.
Hy-Vee was set to open a bar and grill inside a Kansas City, North, store. But it ran headlong into the city’s liquor code restrictions. Now the City Council is considering relaxing the rule to allow such grocery restaurants within city limits as well.
Twenty-two Missouri clergy members could face up to six months behind bars after being convicted Wednesday on trespassing charges and acquitted of other counts in connection with a peaceful 2014 protest over Medicaid expansion at the state Capitol.
“When your opponent is committing suicide, you don’t have to commit homicide,” Hari Sevugan, a Democratic communications consultant and former campaign spokesman for President Barack Obama, said when asked about Clinton’s strategy of laying relatively low.
Hillary Clinton shrugged off Donald Trump's latest campaign shakeup Wednesday, saying he's the "same man" who would cut taxes for rich people while she would force the super-wealthy to pay more.
In an effort to increase healthy eating options for underprivileged Americans, Congress voted to increase the number and variety of foods required for sale at stores authorized to accept food stamps. But critics warn the way the U.S. Department of Agriculture is implementing the law could force tens of thousands of small convenience stores to stop accepting food stamps.
Donald Trump on Tuesday accused rival Hillary Clinton of "bigotry" and being "against the police," claiming that she and other Democrats have "betrayed the African American community" and pandered for votes.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed plans to make an announcement amid reports that Turner Field, the stadium built for the 1996 Olympic Games and later converted into a baseball stadium for the Atlanta Braves, will be renovated for use by Georgia State University.
Hillary Clinton is poised to meet Thursday with a group of top law enforcement leaders, including the retiring New York City police commissioner who recently said Donald Trump's presidential candidacy scared him.
Weary Republican leaders are accepting Donald Trump's latest staff shake-up, hopeful that a new leadership team can reverse the New York businessman's struggles even as some worry it's too little too late.
