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This is it. After 41 years at KMBC, much longer in the news biz, is my last day as a regular reporter. Will continue to help on political coverage. E-mail & phone stay the same. Thank you for letting me tell our stories.
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The chief of Children’s Mercy Hospital’s infectious disease division, Dr Angela Myers on MO AG claim masks “flies in the face of science”. Myers: “That rock has been looked under. We know the data is there. We know masks work. Let’s put it back down and let’s move on”.
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BREAKING NEWS: Kansas City Main Street streetcar extension gets $174 million federal transit award. Half of the total cost KC streetcar cost. Officials say this means they have 100% of the money for the project. Very likely full project proceeds.
#KCStreetcar
#KMBC
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Killing an open secret. I am retiring from day-day reporting December 17th. I’ll continue be associated with KMBC News helping out on political coverage in 2022. My e-mail & phone remains the same. A hell of a ride and it’s not over but as Zimmy says “things have changed”
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An astonishing number of kind words today on my last day as a regular reporter. We’re wrapped up. Thanks you. I am humbled and honored. I love Kansas City.
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KMBC News is reporting NFL Hall of Fame quarterback and former KMBC sportscaster Len Dawson is now in hospice care. He’s 87. Had a 19 year pro football career, primarily with the KC Chiefs. Started anchoring sportscasts on KMBC in 1966, while still an active player.
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I am astonished and quite humbled to be honored at KC City Hall today for my work at KMBC. That’s my pal Dave Helling (left), Councilman Kevin O’Neill, my wife Linda and another great friend, Kris Ketz who were at the Hall today. Thank you City Council.
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Congresswoman-elect Sharice Davids expresses an interest in being on House Transportation Committee
#ShariceDavids
#Election2018
#KsLeg
#Ks03
#kmbc
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@Fiona1020_
@CallaWalsh
It’s an exercise in critical thinking. Don’t interpret as anything else. High school debate teams often get an “unpopular” propositions. The good students not only explain the rationale behind the issue, but can effectively learn how to advocate it. It’s looking at both sides.
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Ivanka Trump meets with kids at Pre-K. Ctr. at the Penn Valley campus. Trump in KC for child care conference
#IvankaTrumpKC
#childcare
#KMBC
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Missouri St. Rep Ian Mackey will be a guest on MSNBC’s ‘The Sunday Show’. Mackey’s MoLeg floor speech on growing up gay in a small Missouri town has been viewed by millions on Twitter
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KS-03 Dem Sharice Davids’ response to news KS-03 Rep. Kevin Yoder approved transferring $10 Million from FEMA funds to ICE for detention facilities
#KS03
#ShariceDavids
#KevinYoder
#FEMAtransfer
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It just happened again. WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows just said on ABC News’ ’This Week’ the fed’s ‘Operation Legend’ is taking place in Kansas, not Kansas City. I get it, but it gets old.
#MarkMeadows
#KansasvsKC
#ABCNews
#KMBC
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BREAKING: Rolling blackouts to start this afternoon in Evergy service area. Blackouts of 30-60minutes will start at 2:15 pm. This is not a joke. This is an energy conservation move authorized by the Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
#Evergy
#coldweather
#Rollingblackouts
#KMBC
#SPP
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KC Mayor Quinton Lucas says the fact that virtually all of Missouri is linked with other low vaccination states and considered a COVID hotspot is a “sign of great embarrassment, I think, for the people of Missouri”.
@kmbc
@QuintonLucasKC
#MoCOVID
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@ProjectLincoln
@HawleyMO
The Lincoln Project has been saying they are now focusing on Hawley’s role in the election challenges.
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At a very small KC news conference a group called ‘Protect Our Care ‘ called for Mo. AG & GOP Sen candidate Josh Hawley to pull Missouri out of lawsuit challenging pre-existing condition protection in Obamacare.
#MOSEN
#Hawley
#PreExistingConditions
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A sincere thanks to NLBM Dir Bob Kendrick. Took time to visit the the Millard U-9 Stealth baseball team (Omaha) in KC for a tournament weekend. Team toured NLMB Sunday afternoon. Bob went out of his way to visit with the kids & parents. What a guy.
@nlbmprez
@NLBMuseumKC
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BREAKING NEWS. A Jackson County Judge has ruled against KC Mayor Quinton Lucas and the City for re-directing $42 million in police funding. Developing.
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This moving van is now backing up the drive to the Governor’s mansion in Jefferson City
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KC City Council member Katheryn Shields refused to sign a Council thank you letter to KCPD. Says after hearing hours of testimony about police abuse at the recent protests, says it is “not appropriate” to turn around and praise police.
#KCProtest
#KatherynShields
#KCPD
#KMBC
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This is a big deal. POTUS sign bill usingAm Rescue Plan money to provide $36 billion for the strapped Central States Pension Fund. Was run into the ground by its trustees. Will help save pensions for 27K Missourians, (350K pensioners total in the fund).
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Missouri Scout poll 9/30-10/1 (post debate). Remington Research survey.
Trump: 51%
Biden: 46%
Undecided: 3%
980 likely voters. MOE: 3%. Weighted for expected 2020 Mo. turnout.
#Campaign2020
#MissouriScout
#DonaldTrump
#JoeBiden
#RemingtonResearch
#KMBC
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A sincere and very humble thank you to the NAACP chapter of Olathe, Overland Park and Leawood for this award at their ML King dinner Monday night.
#NAACP
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That’s the Kansas City director of the metro’s bus service, Robbie Mankinen, who blind, being escorted by President Biden during Biden’s KC Wednesday’s infrastructure event. Event was on bus service grounds.
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Kansas Dems will push for a statewide vote on 3 constitutional amendments in 2022: Expanding Medicaid, legalizing medical marijuana, legalizing recreational marijuana.
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BREAKING: A judge is freeing former convicted murderer Kevin Strickland. Judge James Welsh, “the court’s confidence in Strickland’s conviction is so undermined it cannot stand”.
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Former NBC anchor Tom Browkaw’s advice to East & West a coast journos: “Take some of the people who are only in Washington and send them to Salt Lake City or Kansas City, or St. Louis for that matter,” he said in an interview with The AP
#TomBrokaw
#KMBC
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BREAKING: White House officials say President Biden will visit Kansas City Wednesday for an infrastructure related event. More details coming soon. PHOTO: from March 2020 Biden KC campaign stop.
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POLITICO quotes KC’s Emanuel Cleaver in story on Dems growing cautious confidence in Biden victory, “Every time I get too happy I slap myself and stick my hand over a fire.”
#EmanuelCleaver
#POLITICO
#Biden
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Democrat Lauren Arthur has won the Clay County Special State Senate election. Latest results
#MoLeg
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KC Congressman Emanuel Cleaver thinks there’s 99% Chance he’ll be named the new chair of the Housing & Insurance Sub-Cmte on Financial Services Cmte. “It’s the only committee I’ve ever wanted to chair.” Oversees HUD.
#EmanuealCleaver
#HUD
#housing
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@politico
Tonight’s Hawley vid in the 1/6 hearing will not harm him politically in Missouri one bit. Not one bit.
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A long line has already formed before 9 am outside the Topeka Expocentre for the Trump rally this evening.
#TrumpinTopeka
#Ksleg
#Kobach
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What many forget is that HOFer Ted Williams used his 1966 induction speech to advocate that Satchel Paige & Josh Gibson be inducted. In 1971, Paige & Gibson made it. Buck O’Neil made it a cause to get more NLer’s in the Hall. A statue outside is not enough.
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The Ship, a Kansas City live music venue and bar, joins the list of places in KC requiring proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID test to enter. May be others soon.
@kmbc
#MoVaccine
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KC Congressman Emanuel Cleaver joins other Democrats introducing a bill to work around states that have not expanded Medicaid (Ks & Mo.). Would allow federal M’care & M’caid to work with local Gov’ts on expansion
#EmanuelCleaver
#Medicaidexpansion
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The Missouri Secretary of State’s Office (SOS) says they have set a record for voter registration. More than 4.3 Missourians are now signed up to vote. Old record was 4.2 million from 2008.
#Missourivoting
#SOS
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Josh Hawley’s statement to The Hill on the Orlando Loew’s hotel decision to cancel a Hawley fundraiser set for February
#JoshHawley
#Hawleyfundraisers
#LowesHotel
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The late Colin Powell spent part of his career at Ft Leavenworth, Ks. Attended the Command College. Returned as a 1-Star General. Helped erected the Post’s Buffalo Soldier monument. His bust is near monument
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Johnson Co. Commission votes 4-3 to continue mask mandate. Vote comes after hours of public testimony, most of it opposed to continuing the mandate.
#JoCoMaskmandate
#masks
#COVID
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Trump rally line continues to grow for the POTUS event tonight. Some slept here overnight despite a chilly rain
#TrumpinTopeka
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KMBC says the Stadium tax is going down to defeat. Latest KMBC total:
No: 58%
Yes: 42%
#stadiumtax
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Former Kansas Attorney General, Republican Carla Stovall (below) endorses Dem. Laura Kelly’s re-election. Says GOP candidate, current AG Derek Schmidt, has pursued a political agenda in office that does not reflect the views of most Kansans.
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A look at the font & back of the 3 commemorative Negro Leagues Baseball Museum coins being issued in 2022 by the US mint. After production costs,proceeds will go the the NL Museum. They estimate they could raise $6 million.
@NLBMuseumKC
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@VideoStevie
@nut_history
For 4 years (1959-62) MLB had 2 All-Star Games each season.
The 2nd ASG of each year was intended to build up the player’s pension fund.
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Thank you to the Martin City St Patrick’s Day Parade. I was honored to be the Grand Marshal. I met so many old and new friends today.
#StPatricksDay
#MartinCity
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Jackson County judge rules against Rae’s Cafe challenge to county mask mandate. Orders restaurant closed as a public or private establishment
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Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg will tour KC’s Veterans Community Project with Jason Kander and Mayor Sly James Wednesday morning. All 3 men are vets
#PeteButtigieg
#JasonKander
#SlyJames
#VeteransCommunityProject
#KMBC
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Kansas Sec. Of State’s office says more Democrats voted early mail-in ballots than Republicans.
(Returned ballots)
Dem: 48,938
GOP: 39,764
Unaffiliated: 12,917
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After hearing of the poll showing 41% of KCMO Northlanders support seceding from KCMO, Mayor Quinton Lucas says, “I think there is a zero percent chance that the Northland is not part of Kansas City, Missouri 10 years from now.”
@kmbc
@QuintonLucasKC
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BREAKING: Johnson Co. Chairman Mike Jones says Shawnee GOP Committeeman Mike Kalny will resign after making insulting remarks about Ks-03 Democratic candidate Sharice Davids’ Native America heritage and the fact she is gay.
#Ks03
#ShariceDavids
#KsLeg
#kmbc
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Kansas City’s Truman Medical Center will now require all workers to be vaccinated by 9/20. TMC says it’s the 1st medical center in the region to require vaccination
@kmbc
@TrumanMedKC
#MoCOVID
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BREAKING: Ks Gov Laura Kelly proposes paying for Medicaid expansion by authorizing medical marijuana.
#LauraKelly
#medicalmarijuana
#KMBC
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Awful news. More cuts at the Star. KCUR’s list: Kraske, Horsley, Rizzo, Montgomery, Robertson, Mark Davis, Matt Campbell, photog John Sleezer. Journalists we have relied upon for years. Journalists who make our city better. Good Luck.
#KCStarcuts
#KCUR
#KMBC
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@missmiafaith
Used to play ball in a friend’s back yard. His dog was always on the field and was regarded as a fielder for both teams. Barky hustled on every play.
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A portion of the statement from KC Mayor Quinton Lucas on a KCPD officer searching thru police records for info on him without permission
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Former Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice “Chip” Robertson enters the Kevin Strickland case on behalf of Jackson Co. Prosecutors. They want Strickland released. Say he’s innocent of 1978 murder. Robertson now leads appellate division for a major KC law firm.
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Kansas City’s Steamboat Arbabia Museum says Florence ‘Flo’ Hawley has died. Museum says Flo Hawley was part of the dig team that found the steamboat Arabia in the late 1980’s. She was 93. Ran the gift shop and greeted visitors for 30 years.
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Mo. Sen Claire McCaskill asks Air Force brass about the future of the Whitman AFB as home to new generation of bombers to replace the B-2. Is told, “if you’re flying bombers today, you’ll be flying bombers in the future”
#B
-2
#WhitemanAFB
#McCaskill
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KCMO, Sen. Roy Blunt & Rep Emanuel Cleaver announce plan to build a deck over the I-670 south loop downtown. Estimated cost: $160 M. Plan includes using local, state & federal funds plus private donations. Park like space would connect DT w/ Crossroads.
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Battleground Connect poll for Jake LaTurner shows Dem Michelle De La Isla defeating GOP incumbent Steve Watkins 49.6-37.4. 13% Undecided.
#Ks02
#JakeLaturner
#SteveWatkins
#MichelleDeLaIsla
#KMBC
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Dr. Jill Biden, candidate’s wife, says she was impressed by the Vets Community Project “tiny homes” village for homeless vets. She was escorted by VCP’s Jason Kander, who is not endorsing in primary.
#JillBiden
#Missouriprimary
#JasonKander
#KMBC
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KC Mayor Quinton Lucas says KC’s $195 million from the just-passed COVID stimulus bill is a “game changer” for city’s ability to recover from pandemic & recession. Money to KCMO. Will not have to wait for Co. as in previous CARES funding
#AmericaRescuePlan
#QuintonLucas
#KMBC
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Some students removed from Jay Nixon appearance KC school for silent "hands up" protest at Lincoln Prep.
#Ferguson
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the dedication of Kansas City’s Liberty Memorial. It erected to honor the victors in World War I
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Ks Dem Sharice Davids has signed to support the main Democratic resolution to impeach Pres. Trump for a 2nd time.
#ShariceDavids
#impeachment
#KMBC
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Ks-03 Democrat Sharice Davids, “I would say I could been more articulate. I’m being as clear as I can now, that I don’t support abolishing ICE.”
#KS03
#ShariceDavids
#ICE
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An emotional KCPD Chief Rick Smith on the day 2 KC cops were shot. One of them is in serious condition with a head wound. He says this should prove to everyone the cops are dedicated to Kansas City.
#KCcopshot
#ChiefRickSmith
#KCPD
#KMBC
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Former HHS Sec Kathleen Sebelius calls out GOP on Healthcare. “Don’t buy the line my record is not my record. My votes are not my votes”
#Healthcare
#KathleenSebelius
#kmbc
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@FWC26KansasCity
@KansasCity
@FIFAWorldCup
Getting a quarterfinal match in KC is exceptional.
It’s another indicator of how highly regarded the tournament selection committee considered the KC bid.
@FIFAWWC
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Mo Dem candidate for Gov Nicole Galloway starts fall campaign blasting Gov Mike Parson’s handling of the COVID crisis. Says Parson will try to slow or block Medicaid expansion.
#MoGov
#NicoleGalloway
#MikeParson
#KMBC
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A bad Irish temper is something to cherish.
Got a call from a reporter from Tampa Times. Wanted my thoughts on if the Buccaneers should hold a parade. Why would I even care. Tell Tom Brady to take his Trump lovin ass to mar-a-lago for his parade.
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Prairie Village woman Laura Robeson and her son Danny will be guests of Sharice Davids at Tuesday’s SOTU. Laura will be in House Gallery for the speech. She says she’s representing Davids commitment to health care access.
#SOTU
#LauraRobeson
#ShariceDavids
#KMBC
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ABC News is calling the Ks-03 for Democrat Sharice Davids. Dems have picked up 7 of 23 seats needed to flip House.
#ShariceDavids
#Ks03
#kmbc
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Shapiro’s ‘Cyprus Avenue’ show was named after a Van Morrison song. In my opinion, it was THE MOST intelligent radio program in America on popular music. Hands down. Thanks Bill. RIP
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