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Brandon Azim

Reporter · US

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Brandon Azim

    Jackson County won't hike property tax rates after vetoes by interim county executive (opens the original)

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    Interim Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota announced Tuesday that he vetoed two ordinances that would have increased residents’ property taxes. One set the 2026 property tax levy, and the second set the 2026 merchants’ and manufacturers' inventory replacement tax levy. LeVota asked the Jackson County Legislature to instead keep the levy rates the same as last year. “I can’t in good conscience work so hard to get tax credits and then increase levies on the other side,” LeVota wrote in a news re

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Brandon Azim

    Kansas City nonprofit offers Black youth goal-setting advice: 'You have access to the whole world’ (opens the original)

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    Remington Warthen, an attentive, clean-cut 12-year-old wearing a black tie and dress shirt, is a seventh grader at Delta Woods Middle School in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. He says life isn’t easy as a Black pre-teen. He feels that people in authority are quick to judge him. He believes it is often because of the color of his skin. “Sometimes people are out here just to try and get you in trouble," he said. "Like recently at school, I got blamed for something I didn't even do, and I got in trouble fo

  3. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Brandon Azim

    A Lee's Summit bridge got demolished, one of many MoDOT projects reshaping Kansas City (opens the original)

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    The Missouri Department of Transportation was out with excavators and bulldozers as they brought down the bridge over U.S. Route 50 on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. Replacing the bridge and improving the surrounding interchange is estimated to cost $25 million, with funding from a statewide cost-sharing program and Tax Increment Financing (TIF) from the city of Lee’s Summit, Missouri. When it’s all said and done, the new bridge is designed to improve traffic flow at the Route 291 North Junction. Crew

  4. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Brandon Azim

    Independence officials cancel SantaCaliGon festival but keep carnival rides going after storms (opens the original)

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    For the past three years, 30-year-old Josiah Bell and his family have had a Labor Day tradition — SantiCaliGon in Independence, Missouri. Waking up, he expected to find the usual wide variety of vendors from parking space to parking space along Lexington Avenue. When he arrived Monday morning, he found nothing but U-Haul trucks and those same vendors breaking down their booths. “We were excited. It's kind of like our Labor Day tradition and walking around was kind of sad,” said Bell. “It’s kind

  5. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Brandon Azim

    One of Kansas City's oldest neighborhoods gets money to help homeowners make repairs (opens the original)

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    It’s a quiet afternoon in Kansas City’s Santa Fe neighborhood and 58-year-old Anthony Wilson has just finished his shift as a railroad conductor with the Union Pacific. His red brick and stone house are at 29th and Lockridge Street, Kansas City, Missouri, not too far from where Wilson grew up at 29th and Olive Street. He has fond memories. “Everyone had kids, so, you know, we formed our own little neighborhood team, you know, and we played against Olive, against Wabash," he says. "I mean … it wa

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