COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Requests for more money for public safety lead the ballot in Boone and Cole counties, while school funding and other issues appear elsewhere in Mid-Missouri this November. Below is a roundup of local issues on the ballot in each county. Boone County Voters throughout Boone County have a tough question to answer
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missourians will see five statewide issues — not counting judicial retention questions — on their ballots this November. Those questions range from outlawing abortion and gender transition treatments for minors to limiting the General Assembly’s ability to undo policy approved by a statewide vote of the people. Another would create a sovereign
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The Third Congressional District spans from the heart of Mid-Missouri all the way to the St. Louis suburbs and the Illinois border. Incumbent Republican Rep. Bob Onder faces a challenge from Democrat Bethany Mann and Libertarian Jim Higgins in the November election. The district includes roughly the southern half of Boone County, including southern Columbia.
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The Fourth Congressional District encompasses much of Mid-Missouri, including the northern half of Columbia and Boone County. Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Raymore is seeking reelection to the seat he first won in 2022. Heather Shelton of Belton and Scott Vincent Vera of Kansas City also filed in the Republican primary. Seven Democrats filed for
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The Fifth Congressional District will have vastly different boundaries than it did in the August primary. The Fifth was at the center of a Republican push to redraw the state’s congressional districts mid-decade to gain an advantage in the House of Representatives. The map that was redrawn by the majority-Republican General Assembly broke up Kansas
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The Sixth Congressional District covers a swatch of land across Missouri’s northern half, including the Mid-Missouri counties of Chariton and Macon. Incumbent Republican Rep. Sam Graves is retiring from Congress at the end of his term, leaving the seat open. Republican Chris Stigall won his party’s nomination in August. He will face Democrat Josh Smead
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri has been ordered to use the 2022 congressional map for the November election after a Supreme Court decision on Friday, but a ballot question could change congressional districts after the election. Missouri voters will see Proposition A on the ballot and will be asked if they approve of the 2025 “Missouri
Continue Reading Missouri voters will see Amendment 6 on the ballot this November, after the group Respect Missouri Voters fought legal battles to place it there. If approved, it reserves citizens’ right to initiative petitions and referendums in the Missouri Constitution.
Respect Missouri Voters collected signatures for Amendment 6, which started as an initiative petition, but Secretary of State Denny Hoskins rejected it in early August. He claimed the ballot title, which he approved, violated the single-subject rule. However, the Missouri Supreme Court decided it was sufficient.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri voters will see Amendment 7 on the November ballot, and they’ll have to decide whether to create a permanent public endowment that will grow until it reaches an amount sufficient to eliminate all state-imposed taxes. How much the fund would need to eliminate taxes and how long it could take are
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Jefferson City businessman Jake Vogel is the GOP nominee for Missouri’s Sixth Senate District. Six Republican hopefuls sought Missourians’ vote for the chance to advance from Tuesday’s primary race to the November general election. Republican Mike Bernskoetter has represented Camden, Cole, Miller, Moniteau and Morgan counties in the Missouri State Capitol
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) President Donald Trump has given his nod of approval to a candidate in the District 5 U.S. House Republican primary. Trump on Monday gave an endorsement of state Sen. Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonville) on his social media site Truth Social. “Rick Brattin has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Representative
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s newly drawn Fifth Congressional District will be a close watch as it could decide control of the U.S. House in November. The so-called “Missouri First Map” was signed into law by Gov. Mike Kehoe in September 2025 after passing during a special legislative session. Since then, the map has survived court
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Six Republicans are competing in the August primary for the Fifth Congressional District seat. Taylor Burks, Rick Brattin, Brett Hueffmeier, Micah Beebe, Berton Knox and Brad Patty are all challenging incumbent Democrat Emanuel Cleaver, who has held the seat since 2005. Congressional districts were redrawn in 2025 during a special session aimed at giving Republicans
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Six republicans are competing in the August primary for the Fifth Congressional District seat. Taylor Burks, Rick Brattin, Brett Hueffmeier, Micah Beebe, Berton Knox and Brad Patty are all challenging incumbent Democrat Emanuel Cleaver, who has held the seat since 2005. Congressional districts were redrawn in 2025 during a special session aimed at giving Republicans
Continue Reading Six Republicans are competing in the August primary for the Fifth Congressional District seat. Taylor Burks, Rick Brattin, Brett Hueffmeier, Micah Beebe, Berton Knox and Brad Patty are all challenging incumbent Emanuel Cleaver, who has held the seat since 2005. Congressional districts were redrawn in 2025 during a special session aimed at giving Republicans an
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Six Republicans are competing in the August primary for the Fifth Congressional District seat. Taylor Burks, Rick Brattin, Brett Hueffmeier, Micah Beebe, Berton Knox and Brad Patty are all challenging incumbent Emanuel Cleaver, who has held the seat since 2005. Congressional districts were redrawn in 2025 during a special session aimed at giving republicans an
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Six Republicans are competing in the August primary for the Fifth Congressional District seat. Taylor Burks, Rick Brattin, Brett Hueffmeier, Micah Beebe, Berton Knox and Brad Patty are all challenging incumbent Emanuel Cleaver, who has held the seat since 2005. Congressional districts were redrawn in 2025 during a special session aimed at
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Amber Buckles of Macks Creek is one of six Republicans seeking their party’s nomination for the Senate District 6 seat being vacated by state Sen. Mike Bernskoetter. Buckles declined an interview with ABC 17 News, but sent in the following statement: I want to get politics back to working for the
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Former Jefferson City Councilman and owner of PMI hotels, Derrick Spicer, says he’s not a career politician, but no one will fight for Mid-Missourians like he will.
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Psychiatrist and former member of the Missouri House of Representatives, Lisa Thomas, wants to return to the Capitol Building in January.
She believes her experience serving from 2021 to 2025 and her background in health will help get important issues addressed in the Senate for Mid-Missourians.
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