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Amendment 4 affects local funding and state oversight for Kansas City police. Supporters say "adequate funding is needed" to keep this big-city community safe, but the mayor of Kansas City since 2019, Quinton Lucas, opposes the proposed amendment because it "takes power" from local officials. KSMU’s Gregory Holman has this interview.
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Meeting members of the Springfield Mayor’s Commission for Children on Tuesday morning, Democratic State Rep. Crystal Quade and Republican State Sen. Lincoln Hough recapped the latest lawmaking session in Jefferson City. Amid the conversation, they covered what legislators accomplished this year — and what they didn’t.
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Voters in Willard and Fair Grove will cast ballots on June 18.
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A 30-member Citizens Commission on Community Investment was appointed by Springfield City Council earlier this week. Commissioners will soon start work. Their task is deciding whether to ask voters to renew a key sales tax passed during the Great Recession — and how to spend the money.
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Greene County Clerk Shane Schoeller explains what his office will be doing the rest of the week.
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Susan Provance, Danielle Kincaid and Maryam Mohammadkhani won the highest vote totals in a seven-way race for three seats on the Springfield school board.
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Amendments to the City Charter will be on the ballot in Republic, with Board of Education seats up for election in Nixa and Ozark and municipal recreational marijuana sales taxes on that ballot in Republic and Nixa.
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Questions of election integrity have sometimes dominated political discourse in recent years, often featuring false claims made by former President Donald Trump. Ozarks Public Radio checked in with the Springfield-area elections chief on what Greene County and Missouri voters can expect in 2024.
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The 2024 election cycle is upon us. Greene County Clerk Shane Schoeller called a news conference this week to go over how Republicans and Democrats can throw their hats into the ring for the August 4 primary election.
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In 2022, the Missouri General Assembly passed House Bill 1878 eliminating state funds for a presidential preference primary election. Now, it is up to party leaders to conduct their own primary or caucus.