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Kansas regulators give Evergy a smaller electrical rate hike than it asked for

Takeaways:  Kansas regulators dialed back electric rate hikes that Evergy wanted to impose on its customers. Electric rates will now go up slightly for former Westar customers in the central part of Kansas and tick down for customers who used to get their kilowatts from Kansas City Power & Light. Evergy says, on average, its…

Suburbs braced to use the legislature to block a south Kansas City landfill

Takeaways: Subdivisions, restaurants and retail shops pop up around Lee’s Summit and Raymore amid rising property values as single-family homes spread across what was farmland just a few years ago. But residents say a proposed 430-acre landfill could threaten that growth. And they’ve rallied together to block it — raising money and deploying lobbyists to…

The pandemic put Missouri mothers at greater violence risk, even homicide — especially if they were Black 

Social isolation during the pandemic put Missouri’s Black moms in greater danger that their partner would kill them.  A report from the state’s maternal mortality review board found that from 2018 to 2020, homicide was the third-leading cause of death for Missouri moms. Black women made up 75% of those deaths. Among those homicides, guns…

Missouri groups look for the strongest abortion rights that voters would back

Update (Nov. 22, 2023): After two losses in lower state courts, the Missouri Supreme Court on Nov. 20 denied hearing Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s appeal, effectively ending the court battles over language for a set of initiative petitions aimed at restoring access to abortion in Missouri.  The fight over the Missouri abortion ban begins…

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