Attorney and former city councilmember Eric Mikkelson will return to the Prairie Village governing body in January as the 12th mayor in city history.
Mikkelson finished with the widest margin of victory among all the races in the Shawnee Mission...
Voters in Prairie Village on Tuesday will select a leader to replace outgoing Mayor Laura Wassmer in January.
Ward 2 councilmember Serena Schermoly and former Ward 3 councilmember Eric Mikkelson emerged from the primary field, which included current Ward 3...
In a letter being hung on Prairie Village residents’ doors in the closing days of the race to become the city’s next mayor, Serena Schermoly puts her marriage and family front and center.
“I am currently a City Council Member,...
City councilman Andrew Wang, who fell 271 votes short of securing a slot on the November general election ballot, has endorsed Serena Schermoly in the race for Prairie Village mayor.
Schermoly is facing former city councilman Eric Mikkelson, who took...
The MainStream Coalition's political action committee decided to reopen consideration of endorsements in the race for Prairie Village mayor last week after it realized one of the candidates had never received the survey it uses to gauge alignment with...
We continue this morning with the Prairie Village mayoral candidates' responses to our questionnaire, which was developed last month with reader input.
Here's today's question:
What’s your view of the role of a mayor in a city like Prairie Village? Should...
In a city where the impact of new home construction projects on neighborhoods has become a hot-button issue, the appearance of campaign signs next to homebuilders' signs in the yards of teardown projects sparked a wave of debate on...
Three candidates are vying to replace outgoing Mayor Laura Wassmer as Prairie Village's top elected leader.
And this Wednesday, Prairie Village voters will have the chance to hear the candidates address some of the biggest issues facing the city in...
Today we continue with the Overland Park mayoral candidates' responses to our general election questionnaire. Here's the fourth item:
) What’s one amenity you’d like to see in Overland Park that does not currently exist?
Charlotte O'Hara
Asphalt streets rather than chip...
Ron Shaffer’s election to the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday will not only bring to an end the longest mayoral tenure in Prairie Village history, it will also set off a string of events that will...
Politics is local, it is said, but that does not mean most people participate. For instance, just more than 26 percent of registered voters in Mission took the time to vote last week in a mayoral election that offered...
Tuesday’s voting presumably settled the question of who will be the mayor of Mission for the next four years, but the counting is not quite done. Thirty-four provisional ballots were cast in the election, according to the Johnson County...
