November 2024 general election

Springfield's 3/4-cent sales tax has a long history, going back well before Mayor Ken McClure and the current City Council were elected. It was initially approved by city voters in November 2009 to bail out the city's retirement pension fund for police and firefighters — which faced a $200 million shortfall during the Great Recession era.

Locations are the Library Center and the Greene County Elections Center.

As Missouri’s first day of no-excuse absentee voting wrapped up on Monday, southwest Missouri Democrats turned out for a dinnertime rally dubbed “Together We Rise.”

The Midwest Newsroom is an investigative and enterprise journalism collaboration that includes Iowa Public Radio, KCUR, Nebraska Public Media, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR. We run many of their stories here on Ozarks Public Radio. Holly Edgell is managing editor, and on October 18 she joined KSMU's Gregory Holman to discuss a recent poll of 4,000 voters across Midwest Newsroom's four-state coverage area.

The voter's guide offers information on a variety of candidates and gives an overview of what's on the ballot.

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley hammered his opponent and greeted supporters in Missouri's third-largest city — a deeply Republican part of the state.