1+ week, 2+ day ago   (659+ words) The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday morning denied a request from Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to pause its order requiring the Nov. 3 congressional election to be conducted using the districts in place for the 2024 election. Hoskins asked for a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (272+ words) Republican Candidate for Missouri House District 161, Thomas Ross, was arrested Wednesday. According to a statement from the office of the United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, R. Matthew Price, Ross has been charged with “conspiring to distribute a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (194+ words) Our weekly program, Making Democracy Work, is a collaboration between KSMU Radio and the League of Women Voters of Southwest Missouri. It's hosted and produced by volunteers from the LWV, and it airs each Monday morning at 9:45 on KSMU. In…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1709+ words) CAMDENTON — Polls had been open a few hours on primary day in August 2022 when Sophia Shore called her dad with a problem. She’d spent the summer running a long-shot campaign for Jill Carter, a family friend challenging an incumbent Republican…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (304+ words) KSMU 4 amendments to Springfield City Charter will be on the November 3 ballot City Council approved placing the amendments on the ballot at its August 10 meeting. Springfield voters will decide four amendments to city charter on November 3. According to an ordinance…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1073+ words) The Missouri Constitution’s provisions allowing a referendum on “any act” of the Legislature do not extend that power to laws establishing congressional districts, Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green ruled Wednesday afternoon. Delivering his decision just a few hours after…...