Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has extended the city’s state of emergency and updated its restrictions and safety guidelines. The Covid state of emergency will now continue until May 1. The news ...
Read More »Kansas City getting new city manager
Decisions made by the city of Kansas City, Mo., affect the entire metropolitan area, as this year’s COVID-19 regulations and protest policies have shown. After a 13-month search, the Kansas City Council ...
Read More »Mayor Quinton Lucas announces yet another approach to fight rising violent crime
Kansas City is on pace to shatter its homicide record this year, with 146 murders recorded so far. Mayor Quinton Lucas earlier this week introduced another new crime prevention initiative directed at ...
Read More »225 federal agents coming to KC to tackle huge spike in murders
With the Kansas City murder rate having doubled from 2018 levels, more than 200 federal agents soon will arrive to investigate unsolved homicides. The city has reached at least 102 homicides so ...
Read More »Gov. Mike Parson plans to call special session to target violent crime
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson plans to call a special legislative session later this year to address violent crime in the state, Missourinet reported. “I think I’ve talked to most of the mayors ...
Read More »County may reduce church restrictions as KC backtracks on businesses, restaurants
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas and Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. have faced strong push back against their policies for reopening churches and businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. As reported in ...
Read More »Kansas City policy requires churches keep ‘lists’ of those entering
A Kansas City phased reopening guideline requiring churches to keep “lists” of attendees, has alarmed many who see it as an infringement on religious liberty and privacy. In the policy issued by ...
Read More »Kansas City mayor proposes adding police to fight crime
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas proposes to put more police officers on the streets to address the high crime rate. “We owe it to the victims, to their families, to our own ...
Read More »Kansas City files lawsuit over what it calls illegal firearms trafficking
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has made reducing violent crime his top priority for 2020. He and the city council this week announced a lawsuit against a gun manufacturer for ignoring what ...
Read More »KC Mayor seeks bipartisan effort to combat violence
Quinton Lucas says the hardest part of being the Mayor of Kansas City is dealing with the increasing violence in Missouri’s largest city. Kansas City saw at least three homicides in 24 ...
Read More »Conservatives boost candidacy of Quintin Lucas for mayor
The election for Kansas City’s new mayor doesn’t offer conservatives much of a choice. Instead of a race between a Democrat and Republican, the Tuesday, June 18 contest is a battle between ...
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