QUESTION OF THE DAY: Which issue will be a bigger factor in the midterm elections?
Many Republicans are hoping voters will choose candidates based on the economy and continued rise in prices for items such as food and fuel.
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Will requiring photo ID make Missouri elections more secure?
Gov. Mike Parson signed a bill Wednesday that will make changes to Missouri election law. Among them is a requirement that voters show a valid government photo ID.
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Parson signs bills that include changes to election laws
Gov. Mike Parson signed several bills in a ceremony in the governor’s office Wednesday afternoon, including one that makes changes to Missouri’s elections.
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John Wood, former January 6 committee investigator, launches independent Senate bid in Missouri
By Alex Rogers and Sara Murray, CNN John Wood, a former senior investigator for the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, launched on Wednesday a Senate campaign in Missouri as an independent, calling for a “commonsense alternative” to the field of Republican and Democratic candidates. “Missouri voters deserve better
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Will the Jan. 6 hearings influence the midterm elections?
Democrats are hoping the Jan. 6 committee hearings will help convince voters to turn away from Republicans in the midterm elections.
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Greitens defends heavily criticized ‘RINO-hunting’ ad
Former Missouri governor and U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens defended a campaign ad that sparked harsh backlash in a radio appearance Tuesday morning.
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Did Eric Greitens ‘RINO-hunting’ campaign ad go too far?
A Missouri candidate for the U.S. Senate made national headlines Monday for an online ad in which he totes a shotgun.
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Facebook: Greitens’ ‘RINO-hunting’ video violates standards
Eric Greitens, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, posted a campaign video ad on social media on Monday that shows him brandishing a shotgun and declaring that he’s hunting RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only.
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Schmitt campaign photo draws ire of Missouri Supreme Court
The Missouri Supreme Court says judges are “disappointed” that Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s U.S. Senate campaign used a photo of Schmitt and three judges in a campaign mailer — without the judges’ consent.
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Prominent PACs endorse Fourth Congressional District candidates
Prominent Missouri political organizations are throwing their support behind candidates in the Republican race for the Fourth Congressional District.
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High court won’t hear appeal over McCloskeys’ law licenses
By JIM SALTER Associated Press The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the husband-and-wife attorneys whose law licenses were placed on probation for pointing guns at racial injustice protesters outside their St. Louis mansion in 2020. Mark McCloskey, who is seeking the Republican nomination for one
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New Missouri congressional district map signed into law
Merely days before the deadline for local election clerks to create ballots for the August primary election, Gov. Mike Parson signed the bill creating Missouri’s new congressional districts Wednesday.
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Boone County Commission to review use tax Thursday afternoon
The Boone County Commission is set to meet Thursday at 1:30 p.m., as the newly approved use tax for Boone County is set to go through its first reading.
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Columbia Third Ward race remains tied
Bipartisan judges Beverly Braun and Rodney Davis began Monday’s certification process by counting provisional ballots
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QUESTION OF THE DAY: Will Columbia’s Third Ward race remain tied?
Certification of Boone County’s vote tally takes place Monday.
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Certification process to take place Monday for local elections; next steps discussed for Third Ward tie
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) After Tuesday’s election, clerk’s offices around the area released results, but at this point results are unofficial until the certification process is complete. On Monday, a team of bipartisan election judges will look at any of the remaining ballots, including provisional ballots, and do a hand-count audit of the ballets for 5%
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City of Columbia explains next steps after a tie between two candidates for the Third Ward seat
The fight continues to fill Columbia’s Third Ward city council seat, after a tie between two candidates.
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Foster wins Fourth Ward seat; Third Ward candidates currently in a tie
Tonight two seats will be filled on the Columbia City Council for the Third and Fourth Wards.
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Columbia voters pass $80 million school bond issue by a landslide
17,724 voters in Columbia voted in favor of an $80 million bond issue to fund the construction of a new $25 million elementary school in south Columbia.
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Waters and Willoughby win the seats on the Columbia Board of Education
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Suzette Waters and incumbent Blake Willoughby have won seats on the Columbia Board of Education with 100% of precincts reporting. Waters received 12,547 votes and Willoughby got 11,277 votes. Third place, Andrea Lisenby, got 9,493 votes. Waters and Willoughby will each serve three-year terms. Blake Willoughby Blake Willoughby is the only one of
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