Low turnout continues for early voting in Johnson County Ahead of early voting expanding next week, a Johnson County election official says voter turnout has been lower than expected. 04/18/2024 - 8:28 am | View Link
County election offices mailing out early voting ballots for Primary Election County election offices have begun sending out early voting ballots for the May 14, 2024, statewide primary to voters who completed early voting applications and fulfilled the new voter ID ... 04/18/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Election Updates: The sister of a slain Michigan woman contradicts Trump, saying he never contacted the family. Voters in Wisconsin approved adding language to the State Constitution on Tuesday that will forbid officials from accepting donations of money or staffing to help run elections, The Associated Press ... 04/3/2024 - 9:01 am | View Link
Voter turnout light on Tuesday Voter turnout was slow on a chilly, rainy Tuesday at the Donald E. Clark Justice Center. Joplin residents went to the polls to decide City Council and school board candidates and a 12-year renewal of ... 04/2/2024 - 3:00 pm | View Link
Republicans pushing to embrace mail-in voting encounter widespread resistance Trump's repeated attacks on mail-in voting have made it tougher for Republicans who see a desperate need for the GOP to encourage more ways to cast ballots. 04/2/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
Young voters and students frustrated with US foreign policy have been resistant to support President Joe Biden in the 2024 election. CNN's Jeff Zeleny spoke to college students about their concerns over the Israel-Gaza war.
First lady Jill Biden plans to stop in Aurora this weekend to promote the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research.
First lady Jill Biden speaks next to Colorado Gov. Jared Polis at the Colorado Capitol on April 3, 2023, in Denver during a stop to highlight workforce training investments. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Biden is set to land at Denver International Airport on Friday night.
A bill that would have significantly grown taxes for thousands of short-term rentals in the state was killed in its first committee hearing late Tuesday even after the sponsor attempted to make changes to the legislation.
In its original form, Senate Bill 33 would have required any property used as a short-term rental for more than 90 days per year to pay the state’s lodging tax.
NEW YORK — Two jurors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial were dismissed Thursday, one after expressing doubt about her ability to be fair and impartial and the other over concerns that some of his answers in court may not have been accurate.
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The dismissals reduced to five the number of jurors who have been seated for the first-ever criminal trial of a former president.
The setbacks in the selection process emerged during a frenetic morning in which prosecutors also asked for Trump to held in contempt over a series of social media posts this week, while the judge in the case barred reporters from identifying jurors’ employers after expressing privacy concerns.
The seating of the full jury — whenever it comes — will be a seminal moment in the case, setting the stage for a trial that will place the former president’s legal jeopardy at the heart of the campaign against Democrat Joe Biden and for weeks of testimony about Trump’s private life before he became president.
The jury selection process picked up momentum Tuesday with the selection of seven jurors.
Assuming the story is true (the district is currently denying it), the fact that it could easily be true reminds us that no school district, no matter how conservative the region, is safe.