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Kansas City, Kansas, let police exploit Black people, lawsuit says

Five Black women filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas. The suit contends that officials permitted an “open and notorious police protection racket” to victimize the Black community while detectives committed “regular acts of humiliation and exploitation.” Filed late Friday, the 138-page suit names four…

An open Unified Government seat draws two candidates in southern KCK

Kansans will cast votes in dozens of municipal races across the state on Nov. 7, including in Wyandotte County, where half of the Unified Government’s Board of Commissioners will be up for election.

In District 6, which covers the less densely populated areas in south central Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, incumbent Angela Markley…

Who’s running for the Unified Government in KCK’s District 3?

Wyandotte County voters will cast votes on Nov. 7 in an election that will decide half of the Unified Government’s Board of Commissioners.  This board is the chief governing body for Kansas City, Kansas, and the rest of Wyandotte County, making decisions related to development, the police department and the budget. The candidates elected this…

On the KCMO ballot: Keep a sales tax or cut 30% of bus funding?

For 20 years, people in Kansas City have paid an extra 3/8-cents sales tax on every purchase they made, to subsidize bus service.

On Nov. 7, voters get to decide whether to continue that tax, which hits poorest families the hardest, or whether to effectively cut nearly a third of the bus service that working-class…

Kansas City’s new Ferris wheel didn’t get tax breaks — but the surrounding entertainment district might

Seemingly overnight, residents and drivers on Interstate 35 awoke to a new addition to the Kansas City skyline: a Ferris wheel. The 150-foot wheel is how many people found out about the Pennway Point development that’s being constructed on the eastern edge of the Westside — a project that’s been in the works for years but…

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