On Monday, the League of Women Voters of Kansas City/Jackson County, is presenting a free online program with information about Missouri’s Sunshine Law, the law that gives citizens access to governmental documents and records.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas abortion providers on Friday conceded a final blow to their best hope of stopping the nation’s most restrictive abortion law after a new ruling ended what little path forward the U.S. Supreme Court had left for clinics.
Will Rogers once said that no man’s property is safe while the legislature is in session. If he were alive today, he might be tempted to say that no man (or woman) is safe when the legislature is in session.
Blue Springs Mayor Carson Ross said he is still deciding about who to fill the city administrator post, more than six months after the City Council voted to ended longtime administrator Eric Johnson’s contract.
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the author of a new book about Harry Truman’s presidency will be the feature guests when the Truman Library Institute hosts the 23rd annual Wild About Harry fundraiser the evening April 28 at the Muehlebach Hotel in downtown Kansas City.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — For all their angst about the possibility of former Gov. Eric Greitens winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Missouri, GOP leaders haven’t coalesced behind an alternative.
From The Examiner during the week of March 6-11, 1972: • “SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS CALL OF ‘PROTESTS’” – Independence school children have continued to ride Pace buses to and from school this week in spite of a threat by a few local drivers to leave their passengers stranded at a number of schools throughout the city. The Examiner learned that at least four drivers and possibly nine would stage a protest Thursday afternoon because of allegedly not being paid on the Saturdays school was in session.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Even though winter doesn’t slip away until next weekend, time has its marching orders. In the United States, it’s time to “spring” forward.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration enforcement arrests within the U.S. fell sharply over the past year as the Biden administration shifted its enforcement priorities to focus on people in the country without legal status who have committed serious crimes, officials said Friday.