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Entries Tagged as 'Kansas City'

KCMO Podcast: The Monday Morning Match Up

August 17th, 2010 · No Comments

The Monday Morning Matchup featuring Republican Jeff Roe and Democrat Phil Levota.
Chris Stigall asks Jeff & Phil about the Obama Mosque Speech, the recant and how it will affect Robin Carnahan. Chris also asks both sides of the parties about the new anti-Blunt ad that Carnahan endorses. It got kinda […]

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Tags: Kansas City · Jeff Roe

Leave it to Cleaver: ‘I Can’t Legislate and Agitate at the Same Time’

July 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Wouldn’t claiming that you were spat on while walking to to the capitol to pass Obama’s unpopular healthcare bill be considered “legislating and agitating at the same time?” But we digress. Cleaver is angry that his $200 million Green Impact Zone earmark project is not hiring enough African Americans.
Kansas City Star:
[Cleaver] explained that he […]

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Tags: Rep. Emmanel Cleaver · Kansas City · Picture/Quote of the Day

Picture of the Day: Who’s Watching?

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments

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The Missouri Tenth: CCTV in Kansas City – Who’s watching

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Tags: Kansas City · Picture/Quote of the Day · Matthew Silber's Editorial Cartoons

LeVota Fined $15,500 for Ethics Violations: “I Don’t Know That I Had Any More Problems Than Anyone Else”

July 6th, 2010 · 5 Comments

 
picture credit: plevota.tripod.com/levotacom
“I don’t know that I had any more problems than anyone else.”
Phil LeVota, current member of the Missouri State Democratic Committee, has been hit with a $15,500 fine for a string of ethics violations stemming from his 2008 run for a municipal judgeship in Lee’s Summit. He will only have to pay […]

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Tags: MO Legislature · Kansas City

Former Kansas AG Hires Grave’s for Disciplinary Hearing

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves has been hired to defend former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline in a disciplinary hearing before the Kansas Supreme Court. In an earlier case, Graves’ firm successfully defended then Johnson County District Attorney Kline, from an attempt by Planned Parenthood and the Kansas Attorney General to make him turn over […]

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Tags: Kansas City · Rep. Sam Graves

Video: Kansas City MO Earnings Tax RD109 Pt. 1

April 8th, 2010 · No Comments

Hat tip:EarningsTax

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Missouri Matters: SJR29 passes out of committee: heads up, media!

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Tags: Kansas City · Videos