Whether it’s called “Clean Missouri” or an outright attempt to control redistricting, there’s a lot to dig into with Amendment 1. Find out more about the proposed constitutional amendment by revisiting this story by KCUR’s Lisa Rodriguez.Įthics/redistricting changes (aka Amendment 1) It’s popular among pretty much every state official. Now, Missouri finds itself again asking residents whether to gradually raise the gas tax by 10 cents over four years. Lawmakers have failed to increase the tax, and voters rejected a transportation-funding ballot measure in 2016.
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Missouri last raised its gas tax in 1996, when Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” permeated pop radio, Johnny Damon played his first full MLB season and the U.S.
The increase would be gradual and the effect widespread, as KCUR’s Andrea Tudhope found out. Louis) from raising their own minimum wages beyond the state’s baseline of $7.85 an hour, voters will have a say on whether to bump it up to $12 by 2023. 6 election.Ī year after Missouri instituted a law that stopped cities (including Kansas City and St. KCUR 89.3 file photo Wilson Vance, who works for Raise Up Missouri, canvasses ahead of the Nov. And the candidates’ only debate was chippy, at best, including name-calling. Galloway’s challenger is Republican Saundra McDowell, a lawyer and former state employee whose personal finances and characterization of her state employment have come under question (read KCUR, The Kansas City Star and the St. This is the first time Galloway, an attorney, has gone up for a statewide vote, and she’s one of only two Democrats to hold statewide seats. KCUR’s Samuel King looked at their legislative records and asked all of them about their effectiveness in Washington, D.C.ĭemocrat Nicole Galloway has been in the job since she was appointed in 2015 by then-Gov. Emanuel Cleaver (a Democrat who covers Kansas City as well as Lafayette and Ray counties), Sam Graves (a Republican who covers northern Missouri from east to west) and Vicky Hartzler (a Republican whose district encompasses the southern Kansas City suburbs, rural farmland and Mizzou) have been in office for at least two terms - Graves since 2001.Īll of them face nominal challengers in their re-election bids. Hawley’s rallies skew more populist and skewer McCaskill’s out-of-state fundraising prowess (which KCUR broke down recently), as well as taking on the federal health care law. She’s looking for her third term in the Senate, and again striking a centrist tone by using the campaign trail to focus on the effects of President Trump’s tariffs, among other things. Hawley is a contest with major implications when it comes to the control of the chamber. Claire McCaskill (right) are locked in a tough battle for her seat. Louis Public Radio Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley (left) and Democratic U.S.
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