"Sales taxes are the most regressive form of taxation, because poor people feel the burden more than the rich. But so far, that’s the only publicly financing option the team has put forward to underwrite a possible new Royals ballpark." @KCStar https://t.co/239nnTVlR7
Some sad news: The MR340, the world's longest nonstop river race, had to end early because of awful storms along the route.
@savannahhawley reports that it's the first time this has ever happened. https://t.co/qvEUgyF4Zm
New Zealand has already pulled off an upset win in the Women's World Cup & there's so much to come leading up to USA's match Friday night. #FIFAWWC#KCBABY#SportingKC
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Mayor Quinton Lucas and his office are seeking to revoke the business licenses and shut down the business of an illegal after-hours club, where a shooting took the lives of three people last month.
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“I am not a pro-lifer. I am an abolitionist.”
— Activist Kevan Myers to @rosebconlon, who reports on a faction of the anti-abortion movement that favors “charging women who have abortions with murder,” and in some cases giving “the death penalty.”
NEW: @JacksonCountyMO legislators today passed a resolution saying they want to have another vote next November to tear down Andrew Jackson statues at the downtown and Independence courthouses. They'll have to approve an ordinance to actually do that. #kcmo
NEW: @JacksonCountyMO Board of Equalization will meet in a special session today to consider extending the deadline for people to file reassessment appeals. The BOE has extended the deadline in the past.
Kansas will revert the gender on drivers' licenses and birth certificates for transgender residents who legally had them changed. https://t.co/qiLsRsxR9V
Here are my unofficial totals of the unofficial results from all three voting jurisdictions (Platte, Clay and KC Election Board [Jackson]): Quinton Lucas is reelected mayor, 80% to 20% over Clay Chastain (who lives in Virginia). 1/x
It’s Election Day in Kansas City and the polls are now CLOSED. I’ll be monitoring election results all night. Hopefully in a few hours we’ll be able to say who will make up our 12-member city council for the next four years.
Follow this thread for updates 🧵