Mike Hendricks

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Mike Hendricks

Kansas City will consider outside candidates to replace fired City Manager Brian Platt on a permanent basis, The Star has learned. But the City Council but will not hire a consultant to conduct a time-consuming nationwide search, as it did when Platt was hired in 2020. The process will take weeks, not months as it has in the past. Some members of the City Council had wanted to limit the list of applicants to current city staffers.

2 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Mike Hendricks

Rather than seek an abortion, parents who want or need to give their newborns up for adoption anonymously could surrender their babies at climate-controlled boxes installed at Kansas City fire stations under a proposal introduced Thursday by 1st District Councilman Nathan Willett. Willett's resolution would instruct the city manager to study what it would take to begin a "Safe Haven Baby Boxes" program.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Mike Hendricks

Rather than seek an abortion, parents who want or need to give their newborns up for adoption anonymously could surrender their babies at climate-controlled boxes installed at Kansas City fire stations under a proposal introduced Thursday by 1st District Councilman Nathan Willett. Willett’s resolution would instruct the city manager to study what it would take to begin a “Safe Haven Baby Boxes” program.

3 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Mike Hendricks

Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. and First District Legislator Manny Abarca don't get along and haven't for much of the two years that Abarca has been a member of the Jackson County Legislature. That long-running feud, at least according to Abarca, is the underlying reason why White is now investigating Abarca's behavior in office.

3 weeks ago | kansascity.com | Mike Hendricks

Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. speaks at a press conference following the Missouri State Tax Commission's order for the county to rollback property assessments. Assessment director Gail McCann Beatty and deputy county assessor Maureen Monaghan stand behind him. Mike Hendricks Jackson County has lost the lawsuit it filed challenging a State Tax Commission order to reduce property values on most parcels that saw double-digit increases in their 2023 reassessments.