Voting

Ozarks voters passed several key ballot measures including a sales tax aimed at providing more law enforcement staffing in Greene County. Greene County's 1/8-cent sales tax passed nearly two to one for the 11% of voters that went to the polls. County...

Two city council members on different sides of the issue expect Springfield city council to vote to turn red light cameras back on. Council members were supposed to vote Monday night but tabled the issue. They made the decision after Council Member Tom...

The deadline to place a ¼ cent law enforcement sales tax on the November ballot is set to expire. The tax recommended by the Safety & Justice Roundtable will likely not be on the November ballot in Greene County. It was supposed to go toward...

A possible Greene County law enforcement tax is pitting top government officials against one another. At issue, whether to place ¼ cent law enforcement tax on an upcoming ballot. “Every, I'm sorry, ‘thug’ in this county knows if they...

As much as Berks County's two party chiefs hope all of the county's nearly 250,000 registered voters cast their ballots Tuesday, they realize most won't. "Folks don't turn out for off-year election primaries," said Tom Herman, chairman of the Berks...

Schuylkill County voters will be greeted with sunny skies and warm temperatures Tuesday as they cast their ballots for the municipal Primary Election. "Probably more people will go out because it's going to be a nice day," Frannie Brennan, Schuylkill...

Retired Methodist minister Vernon Tyson of Raleigh was among the 200 demonstrators at the Legislative Building last week for the weekly Moral Monday demonstration, protesting new initiatives from the GOP-led General Assembly. Many of the demonstrators...