Area Reps Vote On Health Law Repeal
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Missouri's fifth district representative Emanuel Cleaver says he doesn't think yesterday's passage of a bill to repeal the federal health care law poses a real threat, but he is...
View ArticleSocial Change Advocate At SOTU
One of Kansas City's early advocates for children living in poverty will be in the audience tonight watching the President's State of the Union Address, combining the invitation with an opportunity to...
View ArticleSteve Kraske From The Democratic National Convention
If there's news to be had at this week's 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, Steve Kraske is there to report it.
View ArticleKCP&L's Big Battery Aims To Help Spark Midtown Resurgence
KCP&L’s new “Smartgrid Innovation Park” is parked between the back wall of a pretty downtrodden, urban core grocery store, and an old humming electric substation. A fancy new brick and rot iron...
View ArticleIncumbents Dominate Missouri Congressional Races
The incumbent Congressmen in the local area easily held on to their seats: Vicky Hartzler, Emanuel Cleaver and Sam Graves. We have the complete results for those races and the rest of Missouri.
View ArticleU.S. Representatives Emanuel Cleaver & Kevin Yoder
With only five weeks left in the 112th Congress, Representatives and Senators are under pressure to find common ground among themselves and with the President to avoid the fiscal cliff.Listen
View ArticleGreat War Memorial Plan Inches Forward
Kansas City’s Congressman won’t guarantee passage of a bill that would make Liberty Memorial the nation’s official World War One Museum and Memorial.
View ArticleRep. Cleaver On 'Plan B' And The Fiscal Cliff
The U.S. House of Representatives is likely to vote Thursday on a proposal advanced by Speaker John Boehner to avoid the "fiscal cliff."
View ArticleSizzling Summer, Hot Issues: Congressmen Cleaver & Yoder
The weather isn’t the only think that’s still got some heat behind it. Although Congress is in recess, hot-button topics such as immigration and sequestration cuts are still in the news.In the first...
View ArticleShutdown: What Does It Mean For You?
When the country woke up Tuesday morning, it found a partially-shutdown federal government That meant 800,000 workers furloughed, services curtailed, national parks closed, the EPA virtually shuttered...
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