Politics
WA Supreme Court analysis finds progressive domination of donations, decisions(The Center Square) – A Ballotpedia analysis of Washington state Supreme Court candidate campaign finance and court case outcomes between 2013 and 2022 shows that… Read More
Elections, Kansas City
KC mayor’s attorney using police images in campaign materials, despite the mayor questioning a state legislator’s legality for doing sameAfter the Kansas City mayor questioned the legality of a legislator doing so, his attorney is using images of police officers in her campaign for Jackson County prosecutor. Read More
Opinion
Don’t recoil from an increasingly dark world; it needs each of us to flood it with the light of a single candleHistory has tides all its own that seem, like the ocean’s, to lap at our feet utterly uncontrolled by humankind. War. Revolution. Tyranny. Acrimony. Out-of-control animus. Hatred and conflict,… Read More
Crime, Kansas City
‘Drowning in crime’: Beleaguered Kansas City CEO speaks out about downtown crime, homelessnessExploding crime and homelessness has at least one Kansas City CEO eyeing a move to the suburbs – and issuing a cry for help – even as the Royals… Read More
Public Safety
Petition helps mount clemency drive for former Kansas City Det. Eric DeValkenaere in 2019 shootingMore than 1,200 citizens have already asked the Missouri governor to grant clemency to former Kansas City police detective Eric DeValkenaere, now serving six years in prison in a… Read More