Republican nominee for governor Kenny Hulshof plans to hold a news conference Monday morning to discuss his plan for “urban” education — what to do with the struggling school districts in Kansas City and St. Louis.

According to a release, Hulshof will…

Actor Don Cheadle, a Kansas City native, will become the latest Hollywood star to stump for Barack Obama here when he visits Missouri tomorrow.

Cheadle, whose credits include socially-concious flicks such as Crash and Hotel Rwanda, will be at University of Missouri-St. Louis…

It’s no wonder U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is considered a super-surrogate for the Barack Obama campaign: She’ll even press her mom into service.

Betty Ann McCaskill, 80, will host an Obama-sponsored  social security and health care roundtable a little later this afternoon…

Sure, a host of states in the rust belt corridor love to fancy themselves bellwethers — Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania — but Missouri might actually be able to boast genuine battleground status.

Just look at all of the attention we’re…

DENVER — Earlier, we introduced you to the state’s youngest delegate, and talked some with the head of Young Democrats of Missouri.

Who needs youth, though, when you’ve got experience?

Dutch Newman, 88, of Kansas City is the oldest delegate from Missouri.

Newman…

DENVER — U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s career as a super delegate was conflicted.

During the primary, he pledged his support to Hillary Clinton, who he knew from his days as mayor of Kansas City.

But, as a pastor involved in the fight for…

DENVER — Meet Rex Ryan, 18, from Wellington, Mo., a student who is the state’s youngest delegate at the Democratic Convention.

Ryan attends William Jewell College near Kansas City and is an alternate representing the Fourth Congressional district.

He got hooked on…

Barack Obama’s geographical mix-up last night — St. Louis or Kansas City? — may have been enough on its own for the Missouri GOP to snipe at the fanfare in Denver.

But that Democrats also placed the Missouri Delegation way in the…

Barack Obama is not in Denver tonight, but he did show-up on a monitor in the convention hall that indicated he was appearing live from Kansas City.

Too bad nobody reminded the candidate.

In a Show-Me slip that he may have to make…

DENVER — There are no bitter Hillary Cilnton supporters, says Democratic delegate Aimee Gromowsky — just a media-perpetuated myth.

Gromowsky, an alternate delegate from Kansas City, says its the press that is “trying to drive home this message that we are a divided…