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Voters in Prairie Village will have the chance to vote for a slate of candidates backed by a group that wants to prevent the city’s affordable housing plan and cut the size of the council.

Voters on both sides of the Kansas City area will head to the polls on November 7 to decide local races and ballot questions. This is our guide to help make that process a little easier.

“If you want a diversified area with multiple kinds of housing options, that’s great,” said a local mortgage banker. “Those options are available. Go live there.” | Opinion

Supermajorities in the House and Senate mean Republicans have greater opportunity to block or impose laws on taxation, abortion, education, budgets, guns, medical or recreational marijuana and health care, including Kelly’s quest to expand eligibility for Medicaid.

Republicans preserved a two-thirds supermajority in the Kansas House to mirror the GOP-dominated Kansas Senate and keep in place this substantial legislative barrier in a second term for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.

Preliminary results of 2022 election: Kansas House and Senate will hold two-thirds GOP majorities capable of blunting Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's agenda.

Supermajorities in the House and Senate mean Republicans have greater opportunity to block or impose laws on taxation, abortion, education, budgets, guns, medical or recreational marijuana and health care, including Kelly’s quest to expand eligibility for Medicaid.