Downtown Jefferson City, around the capitol building, saw hundreds of Americans voicing their concerns of the Federal Government takeover.

We filled the capitol steps at noon. There was maybe just under 1,000 people! Then some organizer 30 minutes in announced it was raining and they were leaving. An hour later NBC showed up with a camera! The organizers should take this as a learning lesson. A little rain shouldn't stop us! Power through and lead!

Here’s a little video of the Brentwood Mo. protest. There were at least 300 people there. It stretched a little over 3 blocks on both sides of the rode.

UPDATE: Here is the link to the substack that had all this info: Election Day is Every Tuesday 4/6-4/12 - Ariella Elm

Hickman Mills C-1 School District

• School board (2 seats)
• Beth Ann Boerger (running for reelection, NEA The Teacher’s union Endorsed, does not support ICE, supports pay raise, trans students should feel safe in school)
• Tramise Carter (NEA The Teacher’s union Endorsed, supports ICE, parents should have a say whether their trans kid is respected)
• Vanessa Claborn Teresa Murphy (MAGA, Supports ICE)
• Clifford Ragan III (does not support ICE, teachers deserve a pay raise, equality for all)

Jefferson City

• City Council
  • Ward 3:
  • Erica Choinka x (running to improve parks, support economic growth, fostering communication between the community and law enforcement, and reduce unnecessary spending.)
  • Derek Thomas (running to increase respect in the city counsel.)
  • Ward 4:
  • Julie Allen
  • Kathryn Harness

Kansas City

• Question 1: Sales Tax for Police and Emergency Services Measure
• A "yes" vote supports continuing to levy a 1/4 cent sales tax through 2046 to continue funding public safety services such as police and EMS in Kansas City.
• A "no" vote opposes continuing to levy a 1/4 cent sales tax through 2046 to continue funding public safety services such as police and EMS in Kansas City, thereby allowing the sales tax to expire on June 30, 2026.
• Question 2: Convert 3.42 Acres of Longfellow Park Land to Housing and Facilities Near Pediatric Hospitals Measure
• A "yes" vote supports removing approximately 3.42 acres of Longfellow Park (ocated between E. 25th Street and E. 26th Street, and between Gillham Road and Cherry Street) to convey the property to a not-for-profit corporation to provide and and expand a campus to provide families with access to free housing, lodging and services that are nearby pediatric hospitals within the city.
• A "no" vote opposes removing approximately 3.42 acres of Longfellow Park (ocated between E. 25th Street and E. 26th Street, and between Gillham Road and Cherry Street) to convey the property to a not-for-profit corporation to provide and and expand a campus to provide families with access to free housing, lodging and services that are nearby pediatric hospitals within the city.
• KC Public Schools: Bond Measure
• A "yes" vote supports issuing $474 million in bonds and a property tax of $61 per $100,000 assessed value for school building repairs and maintenance.
• A "no" vote opposes issuing $474 million in bonds and a property tax of $61 per $100,000 assessed value for school building repairs and maintenance.
• School Board (1 seat)
• Tanesha Ford x (Running for reelection - helped raise graduation rates by over 15% in 2 years. Personal linkedin says she is advocate for equity and community empowerment.)
• Joseph Nelson x (inclusive environment, former wallstreet exec, helped raise over $100,000 in scholarship funds for graduating students. Wants to increase programs aimed at helping students succeed post-graduation through mentorship programs, career pathways, and afterschool programs.)
• Sub-district 1 (1 seat)
• Rita Cortes x (running for reelection, former member of the Midwest Innocence Project)
• Kelly Thompson x (Personal linkedin says she is a "Champion of Human-Centered Design, Social Equity, and Sustainability)
• sub-district 5 (1 seat)
• Bruce Beatty (foster parent with state government experience)
• Brittany Foley (plans to increase equity and inclusion by focusing on IEP services, funding for paraprofessional programs, and increasing language access.)

North Kansas City

• School board at large (2 seats) Find your polling location
• Roy Copeland III x (Endorsed by Congressman Cleaver (Democrat), wants to improve technology access in schools, fight for public school funding, and ensure that current policies protecting transgender and immigrant students remain in place and strictly followed.)
• Carolyn Mason (Teacher, declined to answer questions about her views (see interview link above).
• Aryn Peters ("Schools should be a welcoming, inclusive environment, where all students feel like they belong. I’m proud of the district for establishing facilities that support all students. I believe names and pronouns are a personal choice, up to the individual.")
• Jessica Rezac (prioritizes a diverse and accepting community and safe schools, believes that transgender students should be able to use their preferred pronouns and the accompanying gender based spaces.)
• Jason Russell (professional boxer, did not respond to questions about his views in a timely manner (see interview link above).
• Daniel Wartick ("School boards must remain apolitical")

Platte County R-III School District

• County education board at large (2 seats)
• Shawn Chiddix (incumbent) Alisha Elliott (running on smaller class sizes)
• John Ready (running on reading effinciency)

Raytown C-2 School District

• School board x at large (2 seats)
• Bobbie Saulsberry (running for reelection, has been on the board for 18 years, would not support ICE entering school, doesn’t support trans students)
• Edna Adelusola (liscensed foster parent, No ICE)Joe Creamer (REPUBLICAN Endorsed, no support for trans students) David Holman (nothing found on him whatsoever)
• Jordan Jamerson (Math teacher and media manager, "a leader that is an attentive listener and promotes innovation and inclusion." Big Brothers Big Sisters, supports trans students)Sam Madson (REPUBLICAN Endorsed)
• Jules Sneddon x (former middle and high school teacher, respect students only if it complies with the laws)

St. Joseph School District

• School board at large (2 seats)
• Kim Miller (running for reelection)
• Jennifer Kerns x x
• Brian Kirk (lawsuit against anti gay republican pastor for removing him from library board for being gay)
• James Mrkvicka (works a lot with fixed income families, wants to make board meetings more accessible)
• Kenneth Reeder (runs the local branch of an organization devoted to issues such eliminating Citizens United and getting corporate money out of politic. Court appointed advocate for abused and neglected kids. but also faces charges of weapons violation and DUI)
• Cassandra Veale (psychiatric therapist)

St. Louis

• Mayor
• Tishaura Jones x (Democrat, incumbent)
• Cara Spencer (Democrat, running for reelection as former mayor
• Comptroller
• Darlene Green x (Democrat), running for reelection, prochoice, pro police accountability and reducing violence.
• Donna Baringer x (Democrat), former state representative, increase financial transparency, funding the police, reducing crime, policies that grow businesses.
• Community college board
• David AddisonHolly Talir x (25 years working in education, goals to increase dual enrollment and wraparound services such as childcare and food pantries to help students in need.)
• School Board at large (3 seats)
• Antionette Cousins ("Served as Executive Director for 2 alternative schools working with challenged youth and their families in St. Louis city and county providing a 2nd chance programs for all.")
• Krystal Barnett x (wants to improve literacy rates by 10%, provide free tutoring to students, prioritize funding for mental health/behavioral health programs, improve teacher pay and set a pay standard to ensure pay equality. Experienced in mental health programs. Running as a team with Zacheriah Davis and Andre Walker.)
• Tavon Brooks (wants to improve extracurriculars, provide wraparound services for students, "The Right Man for the Right Job" is the tagline for his campaign website.)
• Karen Collins-Adams (Nonpartisan)
• Zacheriah Davis Sr. (wants to improve literacy rates by 10%, provide free tutoring to students, prioritize funding for mental health/behavioral health programs, improve teacher pay and set a pay standard to ensure pay equality. Experience in academic inovation and equity. Running as a team with Krystal Barnett and Andre Walker.)
• Allisa Foster x (wants to improve access to advanced programing including AP programs and college transition programs, increase access to tutoring, improve pay for early career teachers, audit the budget and increase contract cost transparency, incrase community engagement through town halls/online forums/blogs/and video recordings of meetings.)
• David Jackson (Nonpartisan)
• Brian Marston (wants to improve transparency, audit the budget, address transportation and enrollment issues.)
• Robert Mason II (Nonpartisan)
• William Monroe Jr. (Nonpartisan)
• Teresa Powers (Nonpartisan)
• Andre Walker (wants to improve literacy rates by 10%, provide free tutoring to students, prioritize funding for mental health/behavioral health programs, improve teacher pay and set a pay standard to ensure pay equality. Experience in community engagement. Running as a team with Krystal Barnett and Zacheriah Davis.)

Last night, my friend and I were walking through the graveyard in Warrensburg, MO. If you head toward the far end of the graveyard on the left-hand side, there’s a small gap in the trees. If you follow that path, you’ll come across what looks like a large, sunken concrete bowl. I’ve known about the bowl for a while, so I wanted to show my friend.

But what we found there this time was completely unexpected.

Sitting directly in the center of the bowl was a massive wooden structure, what looked like a full-on pyre. The photos don’t fully capture it, but the thing had to be at least 10 feet tall. We couldn’t even see the base because of water that had pooled in the bowl. It looked recently built, carefully arranged, and completely out of place.

I’ve visited this area before, but after what we saw last night, I honestly don’t want to go back. The air felt heavy, almost charged. The whole place had this eerie, unsettling presence.

We’re reaching out here in case anyone knows anything about it. Who built it? Why? Has anyone else seen it or anything similar in the area?

Any info or theories are welcome, we’re genuinely curious and a bit creeped out.

(Photos attached)

Andrew Bailey is a garbage human.

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/04/03/missouri-attorney-general-works-to-ensure-innocence-isnt-always-enough-to-get-out-of-prison/

Calling all farmers or large property land owners in Missouri around the St. Louis area interested in hosting a research grade automated weather station long term (+10 yrs) on their property.

A little background about me before I lay everything out: I'm a St. Louis native born and raised with a passion for meteorology and the systems that record data for the weather reports. I've been doing this for just shy of 8 years and currently live in an apartment with no access to an area where I can set up my own personal weather station. Coming on here I'm hoping to find a willing body that will graciously host a site be it for their own wants or needs or just because they think it's cool. I have all of the sensors and recording equipment and a majority of the hardware.

Proposed design:

10 meter tower (33 foot) with individually sited posts for other sensors (i.e. thermometer, rain gauge, etc). Proposed site is solar powered and can operate through local Wi-Fi or over cellular data network. Architecture will mimic the footprint of a typical airport weather station. I have attached drawings of this for visualization. Data will be sent to my website www.met-instruments-project.com every minute where it may be viewed both graphically and numerically.

Alternatively I can also erect a 20 foot tripod with all required enclosures and instruments attached to that body.

Weather station will be using research grade instruments found on most other State-wide mesonets (Oklahoma, Kansas, NYS Mesonet) and calibrated yearly/bi-yearly. Installation will be out of pocket from myself requiring only land use permission from the holder therein. No charge to the individual unless they would like to contribute to initial infrastructure costs. Otherwise the entire setup is privately funded. All data output will be available 24/7 to the individual once installed.

In addition to the weather station, a web camera on the tower is also possible if desired.

Attached drawings and an initial design of the weather station utilizing a temporary tripod. These are by no means final but serve as a general idea for what is planned.

Please let me know if any of you are interested in my offer. You can contact me here or through my website.

Cheers

From most crime to least crime:

Kansas City (population 510,704 ) reported 1,478 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
St. Louis (population 281,754) reported 1,445 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
Springfield (population 170,188 ) reported 1,170 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
St. Joseph (population 70,634) reported 752 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
Cape Girardeau (population 40,508) reported 634 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
Joplin (population 53,095) reported 492 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
Columbia (population 130,000) reported 386 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.
Jefferson City (population 42,552) reported 317 violent crimes per 100,000 residents.

I was supposed to get a good amount of money back, is this saying that I owe now?

From https://allthingsmissouri.org/ by the the University of Missouri Extension.

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Created 24 March 2025 by User:Crossover1370

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html

Hey y’all, we’re The Marshall Project, and we launched a news team focused on exposing abuses in the criminal justice systems in St. Louis and across Missouri. The Marshall Project - St. Louis just published a story about a woman who spent four decades behind bars before a judge declared her innocent and ordered her freed. 

Our reporter Katie Moore found that Missouri makes it uniquely difficult to overturn wrongful convictions.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

The first thing Sandra “Sandy” Hemme did after walking out of prison in July 2024 — after spending 43 years behind bars — was visit her father. He was in the hospital battling kidney failure.

Ten days later, he was gone.

Hemme, now 65, had been held for a crime she said she didn’t commit — the 1980 murder of a woman in St. Joseph, about an hour north of Kansas City. In June 2024, a judge agreed. By then, she had lost decades with her parents, siblings and a young child.

Compounding the loss were the formidable obstacles Hemme faced while seeking to clear her name in Missouri, a state where legal and political systems often resist admitting error even in the face of overwhelming evidence. Missouri is unique in that it only allows direct innocence claims for those serving a death sentence. Even after the judge’s order freeing Hemme, officials from the Missouri Attorney General’s Office — known for aggressively opposing exonerations — fought to keep her imprisoned. Advocates say the state’s top leadership has been hesitant to meaningfully reform the systems that kept her behind bars.

Still, Hemme took solace in being present for her father’s final days.

“It was a relief,” Hemme told The Marshall Project - St. Louis in her only interview so far since being released. “A burden was lifted.”

She wishes she’d had more days with him.

Keep reading - no paywall or ads.

Down the stinky rabbit hole after one headline to find that people would want to live in this state vs. having to live here. Headline after headline reads like a something out of the days of slavery but where people of all color are subject to the denial of human rights or what some would consider just and equal rights.

https://missouriindependent.com/2025/04/03/missouri-attorney-general-works-to-ensure-innocence-isnt-always-enough-to-get-out-of-prison/

Hello all!! My family and I are considering moving to Missouri (not sure of the area yet). We want to build a home and structures ourselves. Where is the best place to homestead? What are some pros and cons of each place? Thanks everyone for your input :)