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Courtesy City of SpringfieldJason Gage — who as city manager is the top city staffer reporting directly to elected officials on the City Council — is resigning, effective January 11. -
Gregory Holman/KSMUIn the 2010s, the homeownership rate in Missouri’s third-largest city collapsed by 17 percentage points. Today, Springfield homeownership has recovered a bit, but it still doesn’t form a majority of city residents — as it once did. Now, the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity is breaking ground on a project to address housing.
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Missouri voters could reverse the first near-total abortion ban to come after the fall of Roe v. Wade in 2022. -
The Midwest Newsroom and its partners found that homeless students eligible for enrollment, transportation and academic support in most rural school districts are not getting these services because the districts are undercounting students without stable housing and not applying for available funds. -
The health care nonprofit also will shutter a location in southwest Missouri. Officials at the organization say the changes better reflect what current patients want. -
More than 1,000 registered voters were polled in each of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska about political, social and economic issues, in the first ever Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College Polling Center survey. -
Missouri voters will decide on Nov. 5 if sports betting will be legal in the state. -
Developers are hoping Missourians approve a constitutional amendment to allow them to build a new casino along the Osage River at the Lake of the Ozarks. -
Anyone can register online at the Missouri Secretary of State's website. -
Supporters of ranked-choice voting argue that it would make politics less polarized. This Missouri amendment would ban it. -
The Community Leadership visit in September included 80 delegates from the Springfield area. -
"About three of every five home fire deaths occur in residences without working smoke alarms,” said State Fire Marshal Tim Bean.
