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Tweet A losing candidate in April’s Roeland Park mayoral election has asked the council to censure one of its own members, Megan England, over a campaign flyer circulated last month. Linda Mau lost the mayor’s race in April to Joel Marquardt by a wide margin. Her focus Monday night, though, was on England, whom she [...]
Tweet If you like politics and you like beer – and who could object to that combination – then there is a local podcast made just for you. Let’s qualify that. The beer is craft beer and the politics is “center to progressive.” Zach Luea, a Democratic candidate for Kansas state representative who lost last [...]
Tweet Voters all across the Shawnee Mission School District will have at least one contested race to bring them to the polls in April. Mark Read of Overland Park is challenging incumbent Cindy Neighbor for the at-large seat that is up for election this year. In the other two spots the incumbents are unchallenged with [...]
Tweet By Mary Jo Draper, MidtownKCPost.com Just following what some call a particularly nasty political season, a Kansas City nonprofit has handed out its first annual awards for civility. And here’s a surprise – the award in the government category goes, jointly, to Democratic U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver of Kansas City, and Republican U.S. Representative Kevin Yoder, who [...]
Tweet The cheering crowds have faded away. The long days of walking door-to-door are over. The adrenaline rush of the campaign is gone — and you lost. What now? That’s the question Democrats in northeast Johnson County are facing after a sweep of the state legislative offices by Republicans in Tuesday’s election. For state [...]
Tweet We conclude our series of answers to our 2012 general electioncandidate questionnaire today with the topic that topped the list of issues important to our readers: the state’s school funding formula: Shawnee Mission Superintendent Gene Johnson recently said he felt the coming legislative session might offer the best chance to allow local districts to [...]
Tweet We’re continuing with the candidates’ answers to the questionnaire we developed with input from PVPost.com readers earlier this month. Tomorrow we’ll publish our final set of questionnaire responses. Today’s topic: the governor’s task force on school efficiency: Governor Sam Brownback in September appointed a 10-person task force to search for ways to “make public schools [...]
Tweet We’re continuing with the candidates’ answers to the questionnaire we developed with input from PVPost.com readers earlier this month. We’ll be posting the answers to one questionnaire item per day through Friday. Today’s topic: the governor’s tax cutting plan. Gov. Brownback has spearheaded an aggressive tax reduction plan he says will increase employment and spur [...]
Tweet We try to focus almost exclusively on local issues round this part of the Interweb, but every now and again it’s interesting to gauge local reaction to national events. That said, we’re going to start this lovely Wednesday off with a poll assessing how northeast Johnson Countians viewed last night’s debate. So, NEJCers, who [...]
Tweet Although the battle between evolution and creationism have caused a stir at the Kansas State Board of Education in recent years, the candidates vying to represent northeast Johnson County on the board don’t appear interested in causing further tumult. Both candidates for the state board of education seat in district 2, Cindy Neighbor and [...]
Tweet Seven months after work began, and more than two years after the Prairie Village City Council approved the Community Improvement District that made the project possible, Corinth Square owner LANE4 is ready to celebrate the (near) completion of its work on the shopping center. This Thursday, LANE4 and the Corinth merchants will be hosting [...]
Tweet Put Saturday morning, October 20, on your calendar for the first PVPost.com Candidate Forum. All of the candidates for State Senate District 7 and State Representative Districts 21, 25 and 19 have accepted the invitation to participate. The event will be held in Friendship Hall at Village Presbyterian Church, 6641 Mission Road. Coffee will [...]
Tweet Per our usual routine, we’ll be posing five questions to candidates for local statehouse offices and letting them use the platform that is PVPost.com to edify our readers about the issues that matter to them most. Not surprisingly, our call for input about what questions we should ask the candidates elicited a tsunami of [...]
Tweet I’m going to go out on a limb here and give the Obama-Biden ticket precisely a 0.00 percent chance of taking Kansas in the November elections. But in the vast sea of intractable red that is Kansas, northeast Johnson County must be a relatively purple area, because Obama for America has chosen Prairie Village [...]
Tweet The MainStream Coalition has announced that two northeast Johnson County public figures will be the recipients of this year’s Robert H. Meneilly Awards. State Rep. Barbara Bollier (R-Mission Hills) and retired Rev. George Tormohlen of Colonial Christian Church will be presented with their awards at the organization’s annual Stand Up, Speak Out program in [...]
Tweet Stirred by her deep feelings about the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, a Prairie Village clinical social worker has become a leader in the local movement to overturn the decision. Mary Lindsay, who has had her clinical practice at Corinth for more than 20 years, is a central organizer for the Kansas City affiliate of [...]
Tweet U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, whose district includes all of northeast Johnson County, is attracting quite a bit of national media attention today — but not the kind the freshman congressman typically seeks. News broke yesterday that the FBI has been looking into Yoder’s behavior during a fact-finding mission to the Holy Land last August. After [...]
Tweet Bucking a trend across the rest of the state, a trio of moderate Republicans prevailed in northeast Johnson County legislative primaries Tuesday. Rep. Kay Wolf, who received the support of moderate former Kansas governor Bill Graves, fended off an often acidic challenge from conservative David Harvey to win the District 7 Senate primary. Wolf’s [...]
Tweet Today, the candidates in the local statehouse primaries polish off our questionnaire by answering the following: What is the biggest issue facing the state today, and what specific steps would you take to address it in Topeka if elected? Senate District 7 David Harvey (R) The biggest issue facing the State of Kansas is [...]
Tweet Today the statehouse candidates share their thoughts on the second item in the questionnaire developed with input from our readers: Over the past five years, Kansas has provided roughly half a billion in tax breaks and other incentives to lure business here or keep them from moving across the state line. Do you support [...]
Tweet Today the statehouse candidates share their thoughts on the second item in the questionnaire developed with input from our readers: 3.) Do you think the state has a responsibility to ensure that all residents have access to adequate health care? Do you support the state creating a health care exchange under the Affordable Care [...]
Tweet Today the statehouse candidates share their thoughts on the second item in the questionnaire developed with input from our readers: 2.) State fiscal analysts project the tax bill signed by Gov. Sam Brownback in May could produce deficits reaching $2.5 billion by 2018. What specific government programs or services would you cut to balance [...]
Tweet Today we publish the first answers to the questionnaire our readers helped develop for candidates in local statehouse races. 1) In 2011, Kansas cut the amount of basic aid it provides to public schools by close to 6 percent. Where do you stand on public school funding? Is the current amount of aid sufficient? [...]
Tweet As the August 7 primary elections near, a request from the American Civil Liberties Union has prompted Mission Hills administrators to temporarily push pause on enforcement of a city ordinance limiting the number of signs homeowners can display in their yards. City Administrator Courtney Christensen said she’s contacted members of the city council to [...]
Tweet Two candidates vying for spots on opposite sides of November’s District 25 state house ballot have at least one thing in common: They were more than a little surprised to see the list of election recommendations put out by the Kansas City Star last week. The reason, say Republican Bill Griffith and Democrat Scott [...]
