Kansas City
Kansas City Mayor Lucas denies auditing KC Star’s coverage of his administrationKansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is alleged to have ordered an audit of the local daily newspaper’s coverage of his administration, though he denies the charge in the face of emails suggesting he… Read More
Kansas City
KC Mayor Quinton Lucas ruling out run for Congress, with poll showing negative view toward himKansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas Monday ruled out running for Congress this year in a highly politically charged social media video that foreshadows a future run for office. Despite… Read More
Kansas City
Kansas City mayor’s indifference to dangers of all-gender bathrooms draws firestorm of ridiculeKansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has drawn national scorn this week for his view that the city’s airport doesn’t need gender-specific bathrooms – even after up to 66 women… Read More
Kansas City
Kansas City mayor pro tem, husband under FBI probe; mayor claims not to knowKansas City’s mayor pro tem is under federal investigation over allegations her city-employee husband solicited contributions for her prior mayoral campaign from people seeking permits from the city,… Read More
President Donald Trump
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas claims longtime Democrat mayors, not Trump, cut crime to record lows last yearHours before the State of the Union address Tuesday, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas noted “the homicide rate in major U.S. cities is at a 125-year low” and… Read More
Kansas City
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas cheers Supreme Court’s tariffs ruling. It doesn’t go well for himKansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas took to X Friday to herald President Trump’s tariffs loss at the Supreme Court as a case… Read More
Kansas City, Local Government
Kansas City mayor’s new budget promises wage increase for officers, inclusivity for those ‘fleeing bigotry’The Kansas City mayor introduced an increased budget for the coming year in his annual State of the City Address last week. … Read More
Missouri
Missouri governor calls up National Guard for anti-ICE protests; KC mayor says Guard makes citizens ‘less safe’Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has called up the National Guard in case anti-ICE protests here turn violent as with the Los Angeles riots. Kansas City Mayor… Read More
Kansas City
KC mayor sees KCPD funding passage he opposed as a win for ‘local control’ – the numbers say otherwiseIn something of a Jedi mind trick, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas sounded victorious talking about his defeat at the hands of Missouri voters… Read More
Illegal Immigration
‘We are not New York City’: Clay, Platte County commissioners rebuff KC mayor’s plan to import immigrant labor forcePresiding commissioners for Clay and Platte Counties in Missouri have issued a joint statement urging Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas to scrap plans for importing immigrant labor. Read More
Israel, Kansas City
UPDATE: Kansas City Mayor Lucas withdraws nominee for zoning board who called Israel ‘a regime with genocidal intentions.’UPDATE: Mayor Quinton Lucas Tuesday withdrew the nomination of Emerson “Jaz” Hays to the city’s Board of Zoning Adjustment, sources at City Hall say. A Kansas City man… Read More