City Council race winner points to homelessness and empty homes and businesses as areas needing attention Bridget McCandless will join the Independence City Council, filling an at-large seat that has been open most of this year. McCandless, a physician and then health non-profit executive by trade, won Tuesday’s special election for the at-large council seat left open by Karen DeLuccie’s death in April.
Jackson County voters overwhelmingly voted to renew and increase the children’s services tax, which funds programs ranging from crisis intervention and counseling to temporary sheltering and transitional housing.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Reach out to people you like to work alongside and make a proposal that’s too good to turn down. A plan and a core group will give you the confidence to forge ahead and bring about positive change.
Today’s sports broadcast highlights THURSDAY’S TELEVISION • Tennis: Next Gen ATP Finals/Billie Jean King Cup, 5 a.m., Tennis (Comcast 277) • Golf: LPGA Pelican Women’s Championship, 9 a.m., GOLF (27) • Horse racing: America’s Day at the Races, 11 a.m., FS2 (740) • Golf: PGA Cadence Bank Houston Open, noon, GOLF (27) • Golf: Champions Tour Charles Schwab Cup Championship, 3 p.m., GOLF (27) • College basketball: Lehigh at Virginia Tech, 5 p.m., ACCN (283) • College basketball: Charleston Southern at Ohio State, 5:30 p.m., BTN (255) • Women’s soccer: U.S. vs.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans were closing in Wednesday on a narrow House majority while control of the Senate hinged on a series of tight races in a midterm election that defied expectations of sweeping conservative victories driven by frustration over inflation and President Joe Biden’s leadership.
Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter last Friday, barely a week after he acquired the company, should serve as an all-but-literal announcement: Whatever assurances he offers to the contrary, he may in fact plan to open the content floodgates to the worst in hate speech and toxic disinformation. Why else would the layoffs include gutting the very personnel whose jobs were to weed out the worst offenders?
Lee’s Summit North grad Kaylie Rock is leading scorer for NCAA-bound Bearcats Northwest Missouri State soccer entered the MIAA Tournament as the No. 3 seed, beating Washburn 3-0 on Nov.
O’Toole, Mizzou ranked fourth heading into 2022-23 season; Tigers feature pair of EJC grads IOWA CITY, Iowa — The focus of Iowa’s Spencer Lee is so narrow, he doesn’t even risk driving over the speed limit. Lee, who missed almost all of last season after having surgeries on both knees, is back for a sixth year to chase a fourth NCAA national title, a feat no one has accomplished in the history of the Hawkeyes’ tradition-rich program.
Heading into the third winter since COVID-19 emerged in the U.S., public health leaders have an abundance of information about the deadly virus. How it spreads and how to stop it. What they haven’t yet figured out is how to communicate this information effectively.
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