Erik Murray, a 43-year-old Democrat, describes the development projects he’s led across the Kansas City metro over the last 20 years as a demonstration of his commitment to communities he believes in. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has fired senior members of its LLC’s leadership team and denounced a $30 million ICE contract it landed. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The winner of the Democratic primary will likely face a Republican nominee with high name recognition and powerful financial backing. amp.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The prison company’s decision to re-apply for a zoning permit comes after months of arguing in court that it shouldn’t have to. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Top Republican lawmakers don’t plan to let the redistricting software they purchased before the failed special session go to waste. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Kansas spent thousands on a redistricting tool before the special session was ultimately rejected. Here's a Reality Check via @bymatthewkelly.bsky.social www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Notably, after the ruling, CoreCivic suggested for the first time in months that it may actually follow local zoning law and apply for a special use permit to operate as an ICE detention center. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Officials from Kansas and Missouri are sharing voter registration information. Is this a common practice? Read more via @kacen.bsky.social and @bymatthewkelly.bsky.social www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Missouri wants to seize assets owned by China to collect a historic $24B judgment, an extraordinary move aimed at holding the country accountable for COVID-19. But legal experts have cast doubt on Missouri’s ability to collect anything. #moleg #mogov www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

KC Royals to Overland Park? Suburbia seethes over prospect of JoCo stadium www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The threat of financial penalties came amid a dizzying week of legal battles over whether food aid could be released during the shutdown. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

“If you want to bully people —particularly the free press — if you want to bully them, there’s a price to pay. And that price is going to be in the millions,” said Eric Meyer, owner and editor of the Marion County Record. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Jose “Joe” Ceballo is a legal permanent resident of the U.S. with Mexican citizenship. Criminal charges came a day after he won re-election. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

5 years & 2 rejections later, Kansas town approves new high school sports complex www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

“We’re going to have some fun in D.C.,” Penn said in May. “We’re going to break a few eggs, make a few omelettes. Make a couple (of) people cry, and that’s what we look forward to doing because America has to change.” www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Kansas Republicans fail to muster votes for redistricting special session. A story via @bymatthewkelly.bsky.social www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Longtime Johnson County lawmaker Rob Olson says there’s nothing questionable about the $260,000 he paid out. Some see ethical red flags. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

“I joined this lawsuit to protect Kansans because the federal government has a legal and moral responsibility to fund this program, not to take food out of the mouths of Kansas children,” Kelly said in a press release. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

This is the former lawmaker who once told me she couldn’t answer my questions because she needed to check on the dog that she left in her car during a two-hour event on a 90-degree day. amp.kansas.com/news/local/e...

The interruption to food assistance next month would be one of the most consequential impacts yet of a government shutdown that has now stretched into its fourth week. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Throngs of KC-area residents took their outrage and fear to the streets, along with their signs and costumes, for “No Kings” events. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

Scenes from No Kings 2.0 protests in Kansas City this afternoon

Missouri says 100K signatures to repeal voting map aren’t valid. That’s not all. Here’s the latest via @kacen.bsky.social www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

GOP officials are facing tough questions about their connections to staffers associated with hateful messages revealed this week. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Kansas Young Republicans disbanded after leak of hateful, racist messages. The latest via @bymatthewkelly.bsky.social www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Kansas officials mum on ousted museum director, sword: ‘Doubt President Trump knew’ www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The Missouri Attorney General’s office has subpoenaed patient medical records and “adverse event documentation” from Planned Parenthood. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

A 911 call-taker coached the Sigma Alpha Epsilon men to perform CPR on an unconscious chapter member. www.kansascity.com/news/local/e...

Dawn Wheeler said it’s unnerving to know that her future ability to keep up with chemotherapy expenses could hinge on whether lawmakers can reach an agreement to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits. It’s terrifying for someone like me,” she said. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

In a letter to colleagues, Kansas’ top GOP lawmakers said AG Kris Kobach believes this issue is “even more important than redistricting.” www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

After a two-year ban, trans Kansans will be allowed to change the gender markers on their driver’s licenses and state ID cards. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Gov. Laura Kelly called Attorney General Kris Kobach’s lawsuit against her “low-rent political theater” and a waste of taxpayer money. A judge just threw it out. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Christy Davis believes she knows rural Kansas better than Roger Marshall. The former USDA official is challenging him as a Democrat in 2026. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The court ruled that a Leawood rehabilitation center was wrong for denying a prospective employee a religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine requirement. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

This high-stakes Johnson County trial could reshape abortion access in Kansas. My colleague @bymatthewkelly.bsky.social lays out the details. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Two Overland Park abortion clinics — Hodes & Nauser and Planned Parenthood Great Plains — are challenging a bevy of Kansas abortion laws that they claim are designed to scare and shame women out of terminating pregnancies. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Sen. Roger Marshall, who spent decades as a practicing OB-GYN, said he believes “using Tylenol short-term” during pregnancies is “OK.” www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Katie Allen accused KSDE of “bowing to the vigilante clamoring” by terminating her employment after she called Kirk’s death “well deserved" in a Facebook comment she quickly deleted. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The DOJ filed a statement of interest in federal court on Tuesday, characterizing the city’s resistance as an illegal effort to undermine the federal government’s immigration enforcement. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Kansas missed another deadline for complying with the Trump administration’s demand to turn over SNAP beneficiaries’ personal information. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

“He had just come to get accolades from people that liked him — thought that he was going to be praised.” www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Carving up Johnson County to dilute its voting power mid-decade would likely be unpopular and legally tenuous, lawmakers told The Star. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The Trump administration has threatened to withhold at least $10 million for Kansas’ food assistance program if officials don’t comply. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The suit derides the “bizarre giraffe-neck appendage” of a new congressional district that splits Kansas City along its historic racial dividing line. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Senior party leaders have placed several calls to prominent Missouri Democrats in recent days, asking them to consider running for Congress. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Speaking at St. James Church, pastors described it as a moral imperative for Missourians to reject Gov. Mike Kehoe’s redistricting plan, which would divide Kansas City into three separate congressional districts. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The veto referendum process has been used as recently as 2017 to block unpopular legislation from becoming law in Missouri. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

The complaint says law enforcement told New York Times reporter Kevin Draper “the device was likely planted by parties concerned about the reporting that he was doing.” www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Doing so would require a massive overhaul of the state’s congressional maps to break up Johnson County’s voting power. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Cleaver, 80, said he plans to run for reelection next year, even if Missouri Republicans’ redrawn congressional maps manage to withstand legal challenges. www.kansascity.com/news/politic...