KCMO mayoral candidate Clay Chastain
By Edie R. Lambert Transportation activist Clay Chastain is making his fourth and, by his own admission, final run for mayor of Kansas City. In an on-air March 31 interview on PBS’s Kansas City Week in Review with Nick Haines, Chastain ruled out running again. Because of his age, it’s now or never, he said. […]
KCMO Mayor Lucas’s re-election bid
By Edie R. Lambert Incumbent Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas has a challenger in his re-election bid. For the second time, he’s facing transit activist Clay Chastain. Both were on the crowded April 2 primary ballot in 2019.Chastain has been openly critical of Lucas’s administration. The homicide rate is higher than ever; the crisis of […]
4th District At-Large Candidate Crispin Rea
By Edie R. Lambert If elected to represent Kansas City’s 4th District At-Large on the city council, Crispin Rea would be the city’s first Hispanic councilman since 1994.Rea, a Jackson County prosecutor came in first in the April 4 primary election ahead of four other candidates, including a Latina, Grace Cabrera. He’s vying with Justin […]
Mayoral candidate shares vision for KCMO
By Angie Bal Clay Chastain is throwing his hat back into the political ring in Kansas City, Missouri. For the fourth time, Chastain is running for mayor of “The City of Fountains.” He unsuccessfully ran in 1999, 2015 and 2019. This time, he’s running against incumbent Quinton Lucas, who’s seeking his second term. With the […]
4th District At-Large Candidate Justin Short
By Edie R. Lambert Driven by love for his hometown, Kansas City native Jason M. Short decided two years ago to run for city council. He spent the next six months earnestly listening to residents in neighborhoods citywide and creating a message. Confident that he had a handle on public sentiment and was well-positioned to […]
Race for KC’s 4th District At-Large
By Edie R. LambertTwo candidates are vying for the 4th District At-Large council seat being vacated by the term-limited Councilwoman Katheryn Shields. Crispin Rea and Justin Short bested three other candidates in the April 4 primary to advance to Kansas City’s June 20 General Municipal Election. (Dos Mundos is publishing candidate profiles.)Council candidates appear at […]
Missourians to vote on constitutional convention
On Nov. 8, voters in Missouri will decide whether to hold another constitutional convention to draft a new state constitution or propose amendments to the current 208-page constitution. The ballot question, which reads: “Shall there be a convention to revise and amend the (state) Constitution?” appears on the ballot every 20 years as required by […]
Kansas votes to protect abortion rights, plus other election results
By Roberta Pardo The right to an abortion will remain in the Kansas Constitution after voters overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment that would have opened the door for state lawmakers to further restrict or ban abortions across the state. In the first ballot test of abortion rights in a post-Roe America, Kansas voters turned out […]
In my view (Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of Dos Mundos or Reyes Media Group).
By Edie R. Lambert Outlawing abortion will only end safe medical procedures. It’ll exponentially multiply numbers of unwanted kids and inflict the cruelest harm on poor women. And it disenfranchises half the population by depriving females of personal autonomy. These profane caveats compel me to vote against the Kansas constitutional amendment in the Aug. 2 […]
Cabrera to run for Kansas House seat
By Tere Siqueira Jose “Pepe” Cabrera has announced his candidacy for Kansas House District 34, located in Wyandotte County.Cabrera – who grew up in the heart of the district near Interstate Highway 635 and Parallel Avenue, according to a news release – has a background as both an entrepreneur and a retired veteran with 21-plus […]